01 July 2009

july collab at PS = blog train + freebie w/coupon

July 1th arrived at my place with sunny, warm & beautiful weather. Got to love summer (no matter how hot it turn - at least here at our place with the long cold winter it's highly appreciated!!) - and now our bathing season have started. To celebrate that I've scrapped the second bath of the season (10 days ago - it was still pretty cold).


credits: template by Molly Schneider; alpha from 365 February Kit by Crystal Wilkerson; all else from Drama King; collab kit July from Pretty Scrappy
journal:
Finally the summer days are here again and the water is getting warmer each day. We love it and go swimming as often as we can - here MT’s is on his second bath. Still so cold that he doesn’t dip his whole body in it.

Pretty Scrappy is out with a new collab (I used it on the LO above) - DRAMA KING - and a few of us got to take part in the train of freebies. Yippee. Here is mine (click image) - thank you for downloading! Please let me know if anything is wrong and leave me a link to your version if you upload it to any galleries - as always I love to see it!!


freebie download link store link kit link

Included in the zip file are one 4x6 QP with the word summer and one without.... there is also a coupon to save a little in the store. (collect all the coupons by downloading all the freebies). Let me know if something is wrong with the download.

Here is what I scrapped with it:

Credits: template by chililime design {me} (coming freebie of July...); papers and elements from Drama King by Pretty Scrappy designers (July collab.); date stamp from Date Me no. 2 by Paislee Press

You're next station on the blog train is:

Here are all the stations - in case you slept through some of them ;) :

Lynn - Mara - Kathy - Wendy - Tanya - Helen - Jewel - Manda

- You are here!! - Suzan - Gail

Happy journey - and don't forget to say thanks!!

27 June 2009

stuff+pages


A little reminder
: I haven't seen any responses to my template challenge. If you have made a LO and just forgot to tell me please place a comment in this post. In a couple of days the template will not be available, so download now if you like it. :) (You can download the template by clicking the image two posts below.....)
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We've had such great warm summer weather lately. I love it :) Right now I'm blogging to you from our veranda - with the bugs zooming around me and the neighbor cutting grass on the field. Nice!! I wanted to show you a few of my latest scrap pages and some other stuff too. So here we go.

1. CT-stuff; Pretty Scrappy

- a new collab kit is soon in the store, look out for blog train freebies on July 1st.

- June assignment
I have done three out of four LOs this month (the last one i coming soon - just didn't turn out like I wanted at first so I had to start from scratch....)

The Ferry Ride - I love this photo of my nephew and niece. Glad I finally got to scrap it!!


credits: papers and elements from lazy summer by double dutch design; alpha foam stamp alpha - sorbet by sahlin studio
journal:
It was so exciting! My FAVORITE nephew and niece were visiting me at my home by the fjord. We were FERRY RIDING for their first time. They loved it - although it was a new feeling - and I LOVED having them there with me showing them everything that
was my everyday life.
s.a.f.e - I love this gorgeous eye! Can't wait to see all of her in our vacation in July (and her sisters too!) ;)


credits: paper and element from unconditional love by late night scraps

I promised my self to make more faith scraps (like Jess of Scrapbook Ideas do). It's about time I made some!! The scripture is from Psalm 17:8. I hope to do some more soon!!

2. The Spraground

I've been a fan of Jessica Sprague for a while and did a great FREE class with her last fall. This week she's celebrating 2 years in business with freebies and challenges.

So far I've only got time to enter one challenge - but for that I made 2 scraps(!) The above shown faith scrap and this strawberry one below. It took me some time to get it together, but I love the result. Come back for updates on this one; hopefully I get to scrap about him actually EATING the strawberries too ;)

Bloom On


credits: page from sprung by creashens; elements from strawberry hill by ellie lash; quotes from foam stamp alpha - sorbet by shalin studio; heart stamp from make it count by fei-fei's stuff; wordart from bloom + grow by ali edwards (songbird's april kit)
journal:
Strawberries are MT’s favorite berries. In the garden we have a few plants planted by the previous owner.I was thinking about removing them, but MT wanted them to stay and to care for them. This spring he has gone to look at them almost everyday. Some days he even remembered to give them some water. Although, the last weeks he seems to have forgotten them completely. I told him to go look today - and he was so surprised.

wow. they have gotten so big!! when can I eat them??!! I reckon there will be a some days before they are big enough.I'm only glad to see something in my garden are eatable...
Jessica is hosting a new FREE class in July - as long as you sign on by midninght Sunday EST. Click image below to join.



3. An apple layout

I found this kit called apple apple by luck browsing through the after 5 store. I love it and it has a lot of apples in it ;) Here is my first go scrapping with it. From our everyday life.


credits: paper and elements from apple apple by emiko designs
journal:
MT is enjoying a mouthful of delicious apple. 12. mai 2009
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Kiddo have been telling me to finish this up and come join him for a bike ride - for a while. So I'll better go on a little journey with him before he'll head to bed. Tomorrow the plan is to go swimming somewhere. Summer life is good!! (I'll try to come back later and add a few more designer links in the credits...) DONE!

Wishing you all a nice and blessed weekend. Thanks for reading!!

20 June 2009

recent LO's + reminder


A little reminder
: only one day left of the template challenge. If you haven't already, jump to this post, download the template and join in the challenge. There will be a price of $3 for the winning layout!! :) (You can download the template by clicking the image two posts below.....)
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Just a couple of recent layouts to show you. I try to scrap one LO each day, but this week I haven't been much productive. But I made this from MT's first bath of the season. It was so cold - but he was super happy for it still; what is it with children and water?!? ;)

Anyhow it was made for the Copycat challenge at Oscraps - the challenge runs to the end of the month, so lots of time for you to join in on the fun ;)


For credits, journal and a chance to leave me some love: click the image!

Then there is this simple, but heart felt LO, I made last week with photo from our trip to North Norway a couple of weeks ago (we had such a great time there will be several layouts with photos from that short vacation - in the last post I used a few in the LO's of Tuesday and Saturday). This is also in answer to a challenge, this time at Catscrap.


For credits and a chance to leave me some love: click the image!

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Thanks for looking - now go and join in my challenge and get that template scrapped in your unique way!! I look forward to see what you'll make! :D

19 June 2009

simply perfect + reminder


A little reminder
: only a couple of days left of the template challenge. If you haven't already, jump to this post, download the template and join in the challenge. There will be a price of $3 for the winning layout!! :)
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I wanted to show the layouts I made last week joining in on the Sue Cummings spotlight challenge Simply Perfect at Oscraps. It was so much fun - and so many talented scrappers attending - and I'm so happy for being able to make a new LO for 6 of the 7 days the challenge lasted. I got nominated for layout of the day on 5 of the 6 LO's and on Sunday I won the price. I was so happy and proud and couldn't believe how lucky I was - and now I have $25 to use in Sue's shop. Yay!!

Here are the LO's:
for credits, journaling - and to leave me some love please click the images.

Tuesday - perfect spring day at the beach




Wednesday - cup o' coffee




Thursday - in a Pink Cadillac




Friday - the PERFECT new bike





Saturday - perfect SMILE





Sunday - the most PERFECT day





It was a PERFECT week
:)
I've joined in on a few of these spotlights at Oscarps and they are always fun. This week I had so little time for the challenge (and even less time to dig out some older photos - even though it would be fun) - but hoping to attend next week / spotlight. Come join me?! ;)

17 June 2009

project 365 - february month scrapped

Yay!! I got another month scrapped, I'm so proud of my self :)

Here is Project 365 for the month of February:

Credits: elements, wordart, alpha and paper from Photogenic by Paislee Press and Audacious designs; element from Honeybee by Paislee Press designs; wordart from Make it Count by Fei-Fei's stuff: template by me {chililime design} - for the freebie and challenge read previous post (!!)

15 June 2009

template challenge and a feebie

Okay, guys, here it is the a-month-full-of-photos template that I spoke about in the last post. Thanks for the comments there, glad you wanted to try out the template too. Here it is available for download. (But only for a short while, so get your copy now.)

---> And don't forget to join in on the challenge!!!


Do you have a few months of project 365 photos laying there on your computer not being scrapped??! I had. It made me sad. So I made a template. A month-full-of-photos kind of template. I've made it into a freebie for you - and a challenge! Come join me in getting those great photos scrapped by following the 5 steps below:

1. Download the template
2. Add your photos and whatever else you like
3. Upload to you gallery of choice
4. Leave a link in the comments of this post by June 21th
5. You can be the one winning $3 giftcard to a scrapping store of you choice

Can’t wait to see what you’ll come up with!!
A larger preview:



I hope to get February scrapped really soon - looking forward to see how you find uses for the template so please show me if you want to participate in the challenge or not.....

13 June 2009

project 365 - january month scrapped

I got a bit frustrated with me not being able to get the project-365 photos edited and scrapped. So I made a template for a whole month full of photos. That did the trick. I got inspired again. And I LOVE how the month of January came out:


Credits: elements and papers from Photogenic by Paislee Press and Audacious designs; template by me

My plan is to use the same kit (I love this kit, perfect for project 365 and so beautiful!!) for all the months - as well as the template I made - only to use different background pages and move the month name around a bit.... We'll see how it works ;)

If you want the template - let me know! :D
I'm thinking of making it a freebie.....