Do you want to see my hand bag?

I just couldn't recist this handbag I found in a shop in Copenhagen some weeks ago. It reminded me of a flower with the petal shaped sides, and it's surely one of a kind. Now, all I need is an excise to use it - as I work on construction sites, and for a period have the site I'm on so close I can go by bike, a handbag is not what I use every day *lol*

This layout was made with this great sketch I found on the MME blog. I pulled out some really old papers from the said manufactorer, a line called Magnolia. Does anyone remember this? This is one of the lines I still have some left from, and NO WAY I'm giving it away - I still love the happy colors and fun patterns.

So I have had some fun making the embellies myself - pleated flowers and trims. The big flowers are cut outs from the same collection. Title and tiny flowers are rubons from Magnolia, too.

So tell me, are you a hand bag fan, or do like I usually do, just put your stuff in the pockets?

Thank you for stopping by!

I have a sketch for you!

I am a sketch junkie - I love the way a sketch can bring me ideas and get my mojo flowing. If'm stuck and don't know how to start a layout, I look for sketches and will always find something.to start me.

When I satrted scrapping five years ago, I sometimes found it difficult to use sketches, as I had the feeling I needed to follow the skethch to the very end: If there was a flower on the sketch, I used flower. I would place the photos as they were placed, and the title would be in the same spot as on the sketch. But over the years I have learned to care less and trasmit sketches to fit my style.

While I was waiting for MyScrapbooknook August kit to arrive, I drew this sketch:

When the kit arrived there were no small items to fit the flowers on the sketch, but I found a few other objects that would fit the sketch perfectly. I have a class on how to do it, and about my thinking process, over at the Nook Forum, you are welcome to have a look.

If you like my sketch, feel free to use it. If you use it, please give me a link to your blog or gallery so I can leave you some love. Or even better: upload to the Nook Gallery for even more praise and love :-)


Thank you for stopping by, and have a great week!

Read all about it, read all about it!

Read all about it, read all about it! Right here!

A MyScrapbooknook Virtual Crop! Coming soon to the computer just in front of you!
Honestly, you don't want to miss this one: Nook VC has a reputation of having awesome, fun challenges and prizes involved. And the forum is as always friendly, supportive and a great place for inspiration.

Do we see you there?

Summer should get a speeding ticket

Why is it that I have a feeling this summer passes at warp speed? That it's gone before it has really started? May be because the start was really grey and that it's just the last week we have had nice summer weather...

Last week I met my old Danish pen pal in Copenhagen and she asked me if I still was making cards. She also hinted that if I had too many piling up, I could send her a batch. And then a neighbour did the same thing this week. Cool, I now have an excuse to make feminin cards again! Boy themed cards are easily given away in this house, but not so many femin cards.

So when I saw the cool Card Sketch #126 at Card Patterns, I decided to make a feminin card. And the sentiment was given *lol* I'm giving this card to my neighbour on Saturday - she'll be housing all the abandonned mums here on Saturday night (hubby and the other dads around are going on their annual camping trip on one of the islands in the fjord, take the kids with them and leave us poor women all alone Friday - Sunday. How sad is that *lol*).

Anyway, here is the card she is getting, with a bunch of other cards to send, made with old feminin supplies I had laying around.

Thank you for taking time to stop by!

A purrfect day

One who knows how to enjoy the summer days is our cat Ponky:

For her "The purrfect day is to have a full belly, summer and sun. What more can she ask for?" as the title/journaling goes on this layout.

This layout is made with the great August 1st sketch at Once Upon A Sketch. The journaling criteria for this challenge is: Finish this line "A PERFECT DAY IS....." . Your journalling has to be at least 2 lines long, and with the theme of a whatever a perfect day for you is or a perfect day that you have had already e.g.  a birthday, a holiday, a childhood memory, a wedding day, graduation day etc.

OK, I have stretched the title a bit, and it's more about my cat than me, but as long as she is happy, I am happy, so I guess I have covered it all *lol*

One of my favourite color combos right now is grey + orange. I found it in My ScrapbookNook's Agust kit, and this was how I picked colors for this layout. I ended up pulling out lots of old stuff, including the background paper from BG (very, very old), and fun Sunloving rubon from MME (not that old, but still old) etc etc. I got my hands the old Ever After collection from Cosmo Cricket a while ago, and some of the papers have the same color combo - I'm just waiting for the purrfect moment to start cutting!


Did you notice the fun lollipop embellishments on my layout, like this one?

They are handmade by Charm' Creation, and I'm stalking the postman right now as I have ordered some more in different colors and shapes - I just love them.


So tell me, because I'm curious, what is your favourite color combo and embellishment right now?


PS, thank you for taking time to stop by!

Totally fun!

Two weeks ago we took a short trip to Copenhagen, Denmark. We traveled by boat from Oslo, so it was a kind of a mini cruise, and then spent two nights in the lovely capital of Denmark.

In the middle of Copenhagen there is this old amusement park called Tivoli. It's a beautiful park with old trees, lots of restaurants and of course attractions like merry go rounds, roller coasters etc. And I met my pen pal from loooong time ago, Danish Hanne - in fact, we have been pen pals for 35 years!

We are going back, you bet. Copenhagen is a beautiful city with lots of stuff to do and see. Here is a photo of the entire family, riding one of the roller coasters. Imagine, this attraction was built in 1914 and is still going strong.

All materials from My ScrapbookNook , except white CS and brads.



Here is a few things you may concider if you want some fun:


Buy yourself a MyScrapbooknook kit:

Apply for the DT at the said kit club. I don't know any place the members have so much fun together as at the forum. Read about the details here.


Take a class about journaling at MyScrapbooknook - learning new stuff is always fun!

Keep tuned - there is a virtual crop coming at the Nook - I'll let you know the details in a later post

A winner, a new kit and a new "Cool" layout

How typical - I have my first day at work today after a three week long vacation - and the nice summer weather hit us on Thursday! It was totally good seeing the sun again, and I even hve had a swim in the sea, but we have had some great weeks despite the lack of sun. And I can live long on those photos taken during the vacation - theay have to be scrapped, right?

On my desk I have the MyScrapbookNook August kit. I had so much fun with the July kit, be prepared for some projects on this blog the upcoming weeks, and the August kit seems to be just as fun - I just love the bright, happy colors!

We have a winner for my $25 GC at the MyScrapbookNook Shop. It's Laurence! Could you please e-mail me your addy again (se right hand bar for my e.mail adress)? Congrats on winning again!


So what have I made with the August kit so far? I'm not going to show you all today, but here is one, the title means "Cool"

Journaling: "At the Hankoe Taverna they serve octopus shaped sausages. Cool!" DS8

So how has your summer been so far? Or maybe there is winter where you live?