My first published layout

Here is my first published layout. It´s was published in the swedish magazine "Scrabbooking.mm" and it´s about a day my life.

Journaling:
05.21 Goodmorning
05.30 Shower
05.45 Breakfast
06.30 Get Signe dressed
07.00: Droep Signe off
07.30: At work
12.45: Pick Signe up after school
15.30: Relaxing
16.34: take the doog for a walk
19.00: House cleaning
19.30: Dinner outdoors
21.00: wachting movie
00.13: Goodnight

This weekend I did scrap a layout for a competition on a swedish blog...but I can´t show it yet.

I Created this using the sketch provided by Di Hickman on her blog. The layout can be seen on Di Hickmans blog dated april 21










It´s some very old photos of my sweet daughter. The photos are not very good but I don´t have many photos from her baby age so this are valuable to me.

Titel: bag thief

Journaling: Signe love when she can get a unobserved change to exploring moms bag. You never know if you find something good.

Thanks for looking.

Flowers

The other day my sweet friend Solvej send me an email ,where she told me to have my credit card ready, because she was going to biding for some flowers on Ebay…….and this are what she ended up with.

Those flowers are just so awesome and I can’t wait to play with them.

Well yesterday I received a packet …….yes guess what it was some flowers I order.

I created this layout for Di Hickman’s sketches blog using her sketch #3

Journaling goes like this:

Ever since I was a little girl I have been crazy with roses. I remember clearly that my daddy spending hours in the garden to take care of the roses.I often join him in the garden and used to tell my stories about the roses. The best part of it was that I sometime was allowed to pick some of the roses and put them in a vase in my own room.

.....................If you didn´t know before....well i must say I´m a flowergirl.......Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a great day.

Cybrcrop

Today there was a cypercrop at Scrapshop from 10.00 am to 17.00 pm. It´s was so funny and I did participate in two challenges.

The first one was to make a layout where you only was allowed to use one colours of cardstock.I made this.



















I used white cardstock and watercolor penciels and made a little doodling.

The second one was to make a personal bookmark with name and 3 words about the person the mark was made for. It had to be 15 x 6 cm.


I made this one for myself.








Journaling: curious , crazy, creative.








I’m finally don with my layout for challenge #2 at the design like a start at Scrapbook Chalet. It´s a sketch challenge. I think this one was very hard to make because I never don a round layout before….but I`m very satisfied with the way it turn out.




















Journaling:
A warm summer day we took a trip to Sofiero together with grandma and granddad
The Rhododendrons were unfortunately finished flowering, but we still had a great day in the beautiful park.

I just decided to make it to a db. page

Have a great weekend

What a day

As some of you know I work as pedagogue in a day nursery. When I came at work today, the first work day after a weeks Easter Holliday, half the staff were sick…..so we were two adult to 14 kids between 1 – 3 years old.
That’s hard work , but as that wasn’t enough we also didn’t have any water. The plumber turn off the water very early in the morning without telling us, so we had no chance to prepare us for this. Try to imagine how to change diapers on 14 kids without any water………well we had to go to the neighbour day care centre for water…….can you understand why I was very tired when I got home after 7 hours work.

I started creating some layouts for Di Hickman`s sketches blog using some of her own and Lucy Chesna's sketches - beautiful inspirational layouts and cards - both paper and digi - check out her blog where you can find the sketches I used.

http://dihickman.blogspot.com/

I made this from 9 April sketch . The skecht was for a single page but I had to many photos , so I made a db. page





















By the way i finally got my RAk from Laura at Scrapbook Chalet. It is 2 very cute square canvas, and a red and green MM paint. I am so excited to use these. Thanks Laura!

Over at Scrapbook Chalet my second home there are a big contest going on Designing like a Star with weekly challenge.

Challenge # 1:
create a layout all about you! I would like to see at least 1 photo, and a lot of journaling ~ letting me know all about you! Your favorite colors, songs, likes, dislikes etc.. You're able to use any products you want, it's all up to you!

I made this one for the challenge

Did you know this about me:

I’m mom to Signe. My favourite food is grilled rib roast in pickle.I love flowers especially roses and tulips. I can be serious when the situations demands it. Addicted to scrapbooking. I love chocolate and I could eat it day and night. I get very furious when somebody accuse me for something I haven’t done.At McDonalds I always order a Big tasty menu.I hate to cook but I love to bake.I like to listening to Rock and 80´s music.I´m temperamental.I am often grumpy in the morningMy favourite colors are pink, red and orange.I’m- beside myself with joy when my daughter tell that she love me - Charming when I have had enough of sleep.- happily married to Anders- Tired when the alarm clock ring.- Generally crazzy

go check it out at www.scrapbookchalet.com

A big AGHHHH and a little YESSSSSS

My dear friend Anette aka netti is has just left my home after staying here the last couple of days. We have spent a great time together.
We have been to Dreampapers, Dyrehavsbakken a amusement park, the castle Kronborg and a little trip to Sweden to visit Scraproom. We have made a egg hunt in my garden for ours girls and we actually got time to scrap.
Here is Anette in deep concentration.

I made these lovely door sign.....one for my daughter and one for my scraproom

I also made one for my husband tiny little mucis corner in my scraproom

As I wrote in January I submitted to a big contest in the Swedish “magazine Scrapbooking- mm” where I had to make seven different layouts : One with focus on journaling, one with focus on the photos, one of my best layouts, one most be creative, on which show a new trend, one about seasons and which show your favourites techniques and products.

I finally got a answer and I was unfortunately not pick to be among the 25 finalist………but they did love my layouts a lot and they want to publish 3 of the 7 layouts in their magazine…….so that great news.

Here are 4 of the layouts I made for the contest.

This on was to show a new trend....I choose doodling.

This one was made for a creative layout.

I made flower of buttons and ribbons with photos in the middel.

the small flowers are made of scrapper floss and and brads. I also did some sewing

This one was to show my favourite products and techniques.

I just love Crate papers ,flowers and ribbons.

I used sanding on the photos and did some sewing.

I made a dobbel page for to show a season......summer.

Thanks for looking and happe Easter to everyone.

12 years anniversary

Today it´s 12 years since my husban and I got married and no it´s not a April fool ;O)
I’m still in love with him as you can see on the photos

We are not doing something extraordinary about the day because we are going to have a birthday party tonight for my sweet husband. He has birthday on Tuesday, but we don’t have time to celebrate it there, because we are going to have visitor staying from Wednesday to Sunday. It´s my beloved friend Anette aka Netti and her family there are coming. I looking forward to this and I’m sure we are going to have a blast while she is her.
We are going to a scrap night Wednesday at DreamPapers. It´s my gift from last dream crop where I won a 3 hours scrap night for 8 persons.
Saturday we are going to Sweden and visit a big scrap shop called Scraproom……and I think we are going to do a little bit of shopping and scrapping while she is her.

I haven´t been scrapping so much the last week.......but I did make these two.

This one was for a product challange at Scrapbook chalet.....we had to use at least 3 buttons, 4 brads and do some sewing.

This one was made to another ad challange at scrapbook chalet.

you are going to use the photo as inspiration for a card or layout. I used it to do this layout about our trip to Knutherborg Safaripark back in 1998.

thanks for stoping by and I hope you all have a great Palm Sunday.

What a week

It’s been a great week. I don’t know were to begin…well I cancel my appointment with the physiotherapist because I haven’t had any problems with my lumbar the last week. That is just great to be able to walk normally again without any pain.

My layout of Signe making “Faces in the snow” has been selected to appear in Bacisgrey on-line gallery. It´s the first time I have been sending layout to them and then they picked it, so I´m very happy. Take a look http://www.basicgrey.com/catalog/idea_gallery.php?designer_id=12108&osCsid=ee8f085c556dc11bd6ce52f64919c626


My layout “my secret love” was selected to layout of the day over at Scrapbook Chalet and I was so luck to win the weekly poll. I’m totally surprised and so curious to see what I have won. The gift should be here next week.

I have also don a little bit of scrapping this week. I have made this on to a ad-challenge at Scrapbook Chalet. The challenge was to get inspired by this old coke photo.



















I got inspired by the grate division in the Coke photo and I have tried to bring it into the layout in the journaling.It’s to difficult to translate the hole journaling but it’s about the stressfully days before my daughter was born. I went “over time” and at a routine scanning the doctor discovered that she was laying the wrong way, with her feet first. The doctor advised me to try to give birth to her normally…which isn’t normally in Denmark when you are having a baby for the first time. You normally get a Caesarian section. Well I believed in the doctor and where transferred to another hospital where thy could do a breech presentation. At the other hospital the doctor advised me to have a Caesarian section. I told him what the other doctor had told me and he didn’t understand it because I was first time pregnant. So a last I decided to listen to the last doctor and wanted a Caesarian section. Then I had to be transferred back to the first hospital because I was originally there’s patient…….all this happen in 3 days and the end of the story is that I got a Caesarian section Monday the 23.12 1996 and got a very sweet daughter


I just made another layout about the same day and with the same journaling. This page is for my daughters album.



















I got a packet with the mail this week. It was chipboards from Orin design. I was so luck to leave a comment at the http://www.oriondesign.blogspot.com/ at the right time, and that why I got this awesome chipboards.




















Yesterday I went to the Scrapbooking & Stamp convention in Helsingborg in Sweden, where I have been before. My mother went with me and we had a great time looking at scrapbooking stuff . I didn’t buy so much as I thought I would…..yep I actually had money left when we walked home. I did buy some of the new prima flowers…..as you probably know I’m a flower girl ;O)Take a look at my new stuff

Saving photos

Last Tuesday I went to a physiotherapist because I have had some problems with my lumbar. Well I have been eating rheumatism medicine and therefore the physiotherapist couldn’t tell me what’s was wrong…..so now I have to come again next week and I ´m not allow to eat any medicine. I just hope it’s over soon.

Today I have been scrapping a lot. I decided to use some of my “saving” photos. I will explain what I mean with “saving” photos, to those there don’t know my scrapping background.
When I started to scrap back in 1997… well I wouldn’t call it scrapbooking as we know it today. I didn’t have a digi camera. I didn’t know what scrapbooking was all about, so I made some albums (size A4) for my daughter where I cut the photos in all kind of shapes…..like teddy bears, ice-cream, start an so on. The product I used were cardstocks, stickers and pens, but they were not acid and linen free. The worst part of it are that I have throw all the negatives away, I didn’t know better …..well today I know better so when I talk about “saving” photos then it’s all that old photos that I’m trying to scrap all over again and save.

These two are from my daughter 3 rd birthdays party. I didn´t have so many photos from that day but I’m glad I managed to make two layouts and I think they turn out okay

This one I made for a challange on a american website....which also is my new home. They girls over there are just so sweet and hospitable....go check it out http://www.scrapbookchalet.com/

For this challange you should make a layout with the colors pink, yellow and green.

I used some old photos from a weekend at my parents in Sweeden.

new layouts

Well this is just a quick opdate .......I´m to tied for a long post, so here are the lastest layout I have made.





Why a book of me

The journaling goes like this:

because my story is just as importen as my familys- because I´m the only one how can tell it from the inside.














Shorvetide
Journaling goes like this:

This year Signe fortunately just wanted to dress up like a Chinese. That was quick don because we alredy had the kimono. The hair was put into a clod with chopsticks and then she was ready.

Relaxing

Today I sleept late because I didn´t go to bed before 02.00 am .....I just had to se American idol on the video when I came home from crop last night.


I had a awesome time at the crop yesterday. We were only about 13 scrappers , so I had plenty of time to talk to everybody and especially my dear friend Charlotte.

There were two different competitions...one where you should use at least 3 kind of ribbons, least 6 brads and least 9 flowers and only one photo...........and guess what I won with this layout





Baked with love:


Is about how my daughter came home from school with muffins. It was the first time she ever baked and she had saved some for her sweet mother. She tool me, that they teasted great and she had baked them with love.



The prize was a mini tote in pink, but I was permit to change it to a green one so it match my big tote.

I also made 3 other layouts at the crop.....take a look

Finally pierced!
Journaling goes like this:
The first time you tool me, that you wanted to get your ears pierced was when you where six years old. I thought you were to young. You might be frighten when it hurt and besides that I also had some bad memories from my own childhood. I said no but you continued to pester, so at last I said when you would turn teen is would be alright. Well you wouldn’t satisfied with that answer so after many discussions the agreement was, when you turn eight years. Finally the day came and you turn eight and what happened…….no mom I don’t need to get my ears pierced right away. The courage failed the big girl.Then one day I October 2006 after many conversations with your friends about getting ears pierced you got the courage to do it and you didn’t even cry. You was so proud of yourself and so was I.





Homework
The journalling goes like this:
It´s has cost blod, sweat and tears to be where we are today, where you just sit down and read your homework (alomost) without any complains.I don´t think that you ever learn to read fast, but you read with 99% correctness and that is all that matters. I´m so proud that you have come so far in only 5 years and without any interest for reading.








New clothes
Journaling goes like this:
One evening Signe sat down and read in a cloth catalogue for the first time in her life. It was a catalogue from H&M which she study carefully and a lot of marks were placed so I could see what she wanted to buy. She read in the catalogue for over half an hour......that just another indication that me little girl is growing big!








Well i didn´t buy a lot of stuff this time , bur there where a few thing I coulden´t live without..........guess what they had got some of the new flowers from prima ;O)


Today I´m just going to do nothing and just relax with my new flowers........thanks for stopping by and have a great sunday.

I´m sick again

Jep I´m sick again. I`m so tired of this, it´s my lumbar there is hurting me. It hurt so much that I almost can`t walk or sit . Last week I had to stay home one day and this week I have been home since Tueday. My doctor say it`s either a `squeeze nerve or a slipped disc. I have got a appointment with a physiotherapist next week and until then I have to take painkillers and some rheumatism medicine.......I`m getting better every day and I do hope I`m abel to go to work on Monday and this Sauterday there is Disco Dreamcrop at DreamPapers and I would be very sad to miss it.

Well enough illness

I had a very great time last Sauterday at the convention. I think we were about 140 scrappers, talking, shopping, laughing and of course scrapping.

My day started very well because when I arrived at Anettes ( we should drive together) place I got a big surprise......Else was going to join us and when she arrived she got my very good friend Charlotte with her. That was a lovely surprice that made my day even better.

We had so much fun in the car on the way to the convention. At the convention me lovely and sweet friend Netti join us and we had a great time.

I didn´t made so much only a singel page, because I had to teach in doodling twice and I went to a distress workshop together with Netti and Else.

Charlotte and I participate in a sing a long contest. Well it didn´t sound very good because we can´t sing, but we had a lot of fun....take a look.

I also got time to spent some money and I think I got some great stuff. I really like my new plastic box from Cropper Hoppe. It`s perfect for all my ribbons

I`m so excited

Tomorrow I´m going to a convention on Funen together with some of my best scrapbooking friends. There will be about 120 scrappers and a lot of shops. I shall teach in two worksshop about doodling and best off all I´m going to spent a hole day with my dear friend Anette aka Netti. I haven`t seen her since November last year and I`m so excited. It´s going to be a great day with a lot of scrapping and shopping.
I hope you all have a great weekend ;O)

This is what I have made the laste coupel off days
This one is a scraplift made to a scrapliftcompetition on a Norwegian forum. It about why I love scrapbooking and the journaling goes like this:

I love scrapbooking because it gives me the possibility to document the history/ story of me and my family. it gives me the possibility to be creativ and to relax.
It gives me a way to use some of all the photos I take in a funny and personal way.
Through scrapbooking I have meet a lot of people and got some new friends.



"My Secret love"
A page to my BOM . It´s about my secret love for teddy bears. A love there goes all the way back to when I was a little girl and didn´t have many teddy bears