Nook Card Challenges

Every Monday and Wednesday we have card challenges at MyScrapbbookNook and the DT do a marvellous job with giving examples for each challenge.

You may have heard the sad news about the Nook closing from the end of September, but the activities will go on through the entire month. I'll be hosting the Monday Card Challenges, so stay tuned to get ideas what you can do with the September kit!


I have played along in August as well and here are the cards I made for the two last challenges:


August 22nd - Pinspo Challenge

Pinspo:


My card:

All materials from the August Kit


August 27th - Sketch Challenge

Sketch

My card

All materials from the August kit except twine

Please head over to our card forum to get even more inspiration from our DT and to see how you can earn a $15.00 paypal prize!

Poor Kitty!

Our kitty (well, actually she's not a kitten any more at 3YO, but she still acts like one) had been into a cat fight some weeks ago. She had gotten some bites, and they became infected (cat bites are the worse). There was no other solution that taking her to the vet to have her infections cleaned up, stitced and to put her on heavy atibiotics and pain killers).

I have never seen any cat beeing so sorry for her self.

All materials from My Scrapbooknook August Kit featuring Carta Bella papers and stickers, except twine, buttons and sprouts.

Detalj showing details of layers on sprouts

Journaling and other details

At first we put on her this super cute PJ to prevent her from biting her stitches, but that didn't work at all. She refused to take a single step with it on, so we had to remove it and out on her this acrylich screen instead. And she wasn't happy at all.

But after a week of recovery, and indoor grounding she is as good as new and ready for new adventure.
And I am broke!


This layout is made for the August Member Inspo Sketch Challenge at MyScrapbooknook. Please visit the challenge forum to see the sketch DT member Nicole Nowosad made from one of our members original layout.

Do you want to give it a try?

CSI file #33 - Annual Trip To Sletter Islands

Every year, on the first weekend of August, the dads in our neigbourhood take the kids out camping on one of the islands in the fjord. No mums are allowed, and the kids really enjoy these low stress getaways.

A few of the things they do every year is to take the boat and go icecream shopping in a small coastal village. This year they chose to go to a place further away, and that is what the journaling is about on my layout.



DS12 to the right, the buddy Tobias to the left




I have played with modelling paste again :-)



Materials from here and there: A little Webster Pages, some Crate paper and
some findings from my drawer :-)

CSI Case file #33 had the perfect colors and ideas for my photo:

Here is how I solved the case:

The Scheme:
-All colors used, the light blue is just below the upper journaling strip

Evidence (You have to pick at least two):
- Liquid medium (Modelling paste)
-Wood/woodgrains (wooden buttons and "ornaments")
-White background (oh yes!)
-Bricks/metal (the light house charm, metal buttons)
-Nautical elements (Lighthouse, chipboard buttons, metal buttons with anchors)

Testimony
-Journaling about the coastal village Engelsviken
-Journaling strips


Thank you for stopping by!
I have planned to blog about every second day the upcoming week, so please come back!

16th Anniverary (and a card kit winner)

Two weeks ago my hubby and I celebrated our 16th anniversary. 16 years! And before we married we were partners for a few years, so if I sum up we have been together for about.... 18 years. Wow, that's a long time!!!

He bought me beautiful flowers on anniversary day and I made this layout where I wrote a few lines about how our marriage has been so far - just nice words, as it has been a nice time :-)

All materials from MyScrapbook Nook August kit, featuring Carta Bella papers and stickers.

A detail photo



The Petaloo flowers are colored with good old fashioned chalk


Have you ever scrapped a photo from an anniversary day?

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Last week I had a blog post where I bragged about my new DT spot at Cardabilities. And in that post I had a giveaway, a card kit. DS9 has played Mr Random and he picked Teresa as the winner.

Congrats Teresa! Would you please send me an e-mail to the adress in the right hand bar, and I'll send you the prize right away!

Cut it!

Today I'm having a Tecnique Class at Myscrapbooknook where I am I focus on cutting papers and making your own embellies - hence the title of this post.


I'm a paper junkie, I admit it, and I just love cutting.
Most parts of the embellies on this layout are hand cut from paper.

All materials from the Nook August kit featuring Carta Bella Beautiful Moments Collection

Do you want to know which paper I cut them from (one paper, three different embellies)? Please visit the Nook forum or Nook blog to see my ideas.

Happy cutting!

CSI file #32: Beaches in Corfu

Hello!

One good thing about beeing on vacation and out of the daily loop, is that we take lots of photos: it's something about doing and seeing stuff we usually not do or see, so it's easier to take photos. And I get lots to scrap *lol*

The Greek island Corfu has lots of lovely beaches as well other points of interest and an interesting history. When we visited the island two weeks ago, the weather was lovely, it was hot and the sea water had temperatures high enough even for me. So we did a lot of bathing and swimming - and we have tons of photos to proof it!

When I saw the challenge in CSI file #32 I knew how I would scrap and tell about the lovely beaches of  Corfu. Here is the challenge:

The color scheme and testimony challenge was just perfect for my photos. So here is my take on the challenge:

Some close up photos:

Journaling on tag in vellum envelope

One thing I really like about CSI is that they provide the readers with printable "Coordinates":

So if you don't have the perfect papers or embellies in your stash, print out the coordinates and use them.
If you look at my page you will find several of the elements on it. My background "papers" is from this set, printed on acetat, as well as starfishes and some other items.

If you want to know which parts of "Evidence" and "Testimony" in the challenge I used, here they are:


EVIDENCE (CHOOSE AT LEAST 2 ELEMENTS)
■stars - starfishes
■something translucent - background patternes printed on acetat
■wet medium - mist, modelling paste
■vellum - pocket for tag
■mesh, burlap, gauze, or similar element - gauze

TESTIMONY (CHOOSE AT LEAST 1 ELEMENT)
■Document a beach trip (or other vacation if you've never been to the sea) - my journaling is about the differnt types of beaches you can find in the area we visited
■Create a translucent pocket or envelope for your journaling - vellum pocket



Just for fun - here is a photo of my work in progress, after the modelling paste, gauze and mist was added, but before the photos and embellishments went up

The acetat backgrounds are more visible in this photo :-)

Thank you CSI for giving me the idea and necessities I needed to make this page. I know I will come back to you to find more inspiration and ideas!

Family Portrait

Hi!

Have you ever been on vacation (or somewhere else) when somebody sticks up a camera in your face, to sell the photo to you later on? It happened to us outside our hotel in Corfu - as so many places before that.

It's very, very rare my family get to take family portraits, so I grabbed the opportunity when I saw the photo was of a decent quality (ok, not of a very hig standard, but good enough). But I became a bit surpriced when the photographer printed out such a large photo. Hello, I haven't scrapped large photos in ages!

Anyway, here we are, the family:

Somebody should tell DS9 he gets double cheeks when he smiles like that!

I got the idea for this layout when I saw this week's sketch at the Basic Grey blog. Originally the sketch was designed as a two pager, but I chose to use only the left part of it.

Do you, like me, have collections you love so much that you refuse to toss out the scraps, or never get tired of it? I do, and one of them is the Basic Grey (BG) Hello Luscious. I just love the happy colors which shouts Summer! at me. I have used this collection on this page, and added some rubons from BG Origin, one of my other favourites.

PS, One wich the photographer would you use a better flash. See how much darker we adults become because we are further away from it? Not that I mind having a dark tan, but it looks a kind of weird...


Are you good at having family portraits taken?