Today scraps and a sweet deal

Cara of Sweet Tomato designs (she has a freebie template out today, so jump over) is out with a new kit called Today. The kit is filled with colors and elements suited for a whole range of scraps; from the everyday to the holiday kind. I had a lot of fun with it, and LOVE the deep brown and reds combined with the sky blue and lime green.

You can get the kit at Pretty Scrappy only for the month of November, and there is a sweet deal and a challenge. Buy the first part of the kit, make something with it and the load that into the appropriate gallery to receive the second part of the kit for free. What a sweet deal :) Here is a look at the mini-kits:


I've made a few layouts with them already.

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everything from Sweet Tomato designs, click image for journaling

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template by Janet Phillips all else from Sweet Tomato designs, click images for journaling.

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all from Sweet Tomato designs; just a little part of the last LO, all of it will be uploaded to galleries on Dec. 1st.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND, AND HAPPY INTERNATIONAL digital SCRAPBOOKING DAY!!

Spooks - LO's and a blog train

I've been doing a bit of scrapping lately - but sadly not much blogging (at least not here). But now I'm back to show you what I did with Spooks, the new kit from Sweet Tomato designs.

If you want some freebies I also have links to a blog train at the bottom of this post. Yay! And this week the kit is 25% off at both Pretty Scrappy and Designs in Digital - go grab some godies for Halloween ;)

Since I live in Norway we don't celebrate Halloween that much, so I based my LO on my thoughts about the season instead of showing what we (don't) do...

Anyway, here it is - I can't tell you how much I love the colors Cara used in this kit - and that spider is just too cute:


credits: template by me (lime); papers and elements from Spooks by Sweet Tomato designs

journal: I have never carved a pumpkin...
Growing up in Norway in the 70th (and 80th), I didn’t know much about the tradition and celebrations of Halloween. It was first in my teens that I started to learn a few things about it, mostly from watching American sit Com's and dramas on TV. I didn’t pay much attention to it, though, the series mostly aired on the wrong time of the year anyway. So most years the fall went by without much thoughts about the season celebrated in other countries. Our stores wasn't filled with pumpkin and scary crows to remind me about it either. Now I know more about the day and how it is celebrated, I also know a bit about the days origin. It's still not a part of my years of celebration, but now we can find scary masks and plastic pumpkin in stores here as well.
Lately I’ve seen Halloween emerge as a celebrated day in our country as well, even small and mostly among the young school kids. I know my kid have started to pick up on it; there might be some trick or treating coming from him in a few years (and a question for some fun and scary costumes). I guess it’s manly the commercial side of it all, that is the background for the emerge of new traditions here. I’m not sure I like that very much; If you asked me I’d rather have Thanksgiving. We live in one of the worlds riches countries, we should set of one day of the year to give thanks and to acknowledge the gift of living in a safe country.
I've registered that there are some different opinions among the churches wheter to celebrate this day or not; knowing a bit about the history I understand why even though I haven't given it much thought myself since this isn't much celebrated here. That being said there isn’t just bad associated with the season; I love the colors, the candy and the overall fun and happy thing about it. And if anyone where to come visiting us on the last day of October, I surely would go in search of any kind of candy or sweets to give them :D

I also made a more spooky LO with MT and his grandpa:


credits: template by Janet Phillips (moderated); elements and papers from Spooks by Sweet Tomato designs

journal: September evenings are dark and never long enough. My dad usually works on the field till he can't distinguish the grains from the grass – and then he have a few many things to take care off ion the farm; in the darkness. MT helped him hold the light one of these fall nights- and he had so much fun making scary faces and spooking around with the flash light. Safe in the darkness, with his Grandpa right by his side.

As you can see - I had some fun making these!!

Now, are you ready for some blog hopping?! The train are already set in motion and here are the stations. Behind all of these links are a freebie from one of my talented friends of the Sweet Tomato designs CT-team and we're starting with Cara the Sweet Tomato herself:

Sweet Tomato Designs
Michele
Fleur
Sherry
Janet
Aimee
Glenda

Happy hunting :D

I'm a new CT for Sweet Tomato Designs :)

Cara of Sweet Tomato Designs have given me a place on her CT team. I'm so happy and can't wait to start creating with her designs. As a CT for Pretty Scrappy (the store) I've already scrapped with two her kits, the Darjeeling Kit and Autumn Bliss



I love her deep, rich colors; the yellow in both of these kits are making me feel light and warm :D This is what I have made before (click images for credits and journaling):





And this one I made yesterday (with an old photo I've been waiting to scrap forever):



I only wish I knew when this photo was captured, but the cell phone ¨photo file doesn't tell me that. My guess is 2-3 or something years ago. I know for a fact that it's taken when we lived in the western part of Norway, but that is all (at least for now). :)

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We got our first snow of the season today. I was planning moving to our new house, but I'm not driving on snowy roads with my summer tires - so now I'm blogging instead :D

Better go and pack a few more boxes, this snow is bound to go away in a few hours and then we'll see if we are in the mood for moving like planned - or if we rather stay here a little bit more (having fun surfing on our broad band, hehe). In that case we are going to the store because we are out of a few essentials...... Anyhow, see you around!!

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this is a cross-post from limeblog.net

some pretty scrappy stuff ;)

My creative work had to be set away for a couple days this week. My real life needed some attention there for a while since my Grandma died Wednesday night . It's sad and I will miss her terribly, but it's also what was expected since she was 98.5 years old and we already had her with us on over-time (or how to put it). I'm so thankful for all the years we had her with us.

Anyhow, last night I finished up my assignment for July at Pretty Scrappy and got started on some for August as well ;)

#3 LO for July:


A double paged faith scrap.

I used the fun and funky Sunset Funk from Inkin' Creation for this one. I love the colors in this kit and that gorgeous see-through sun ;)


Here is my double paged go (the individual sides are below the credits):


credits: template by Ali Edwards; papers and elements from Sunset Funk by Inkin' Creations; strawberry from Strawberry Hill by Studio Ellie; camera stamp from Photogenic by Paislee Press

scripture (Ecclesiastes 3:9-13) :
What do people really get for all their hard work? I have seen the burden God has placed on us all. Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end. So I concluded there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy ourselves as long as we can. And people should eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor, for these are gifts from God.

Left side:


Right side:



Color Challenge in August:


This month's challenge is posted in the forum. Please head over and join in on the challenge!

Collab kit LO:

In the month of August the kit is called Drama Queen. Look out for freebies and a blog train starting here at Crystal's blog (it's not stopping at Lime station this month). Here is a preview of the kit; available now at Pretty Scrappy.

Here is where it took me:


credits: template from Blocking Templates and word tag from Snipettes: Life's a Beach both by Sahlin Studio; hanging clip from Monstrosity by Britt-ish Design; staples from Drama King and papers and elements from Drama Queen both by Pretty Scrappy Designer Team

journal:
Nothing like spending time with great friends and jumping on the trampoline together!

meeting mr. king crab

We spent a week in North Norway in May/June, visiting some good friends. Every morning we walked from the guest house and to our friends home; from one side to the other of the little town. One day we saw that the fishermen where loading crabs of a boat. And we had to get closer and have a look. It was amazing to see these huge crabs up close, MT got a little bit scared of their long legs, though....

So whit this I give you the LO (mentioned below) I was supposed to finish in a few vacation nights.... I got it finished today a couple of weeks after I got it started:


credits: template, journal and day tag from The 365 Challenge {May} kit by Crystal Wilkerson; papers, alpha and element from Ocean Dreams by Chris Greiser

journal:
It was so fun and special looking at these huge crabs while the fishermen loaded them of the boat. Will you hold one? the fisherman asked MT. NO! MT screamed. The crabs were just too big and too alive!

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This was the second of my CT-assignment for the month of July. I worked on the kit Ocean Dreams by Chris Greiser (image linked to shop; right now on sale for $3)

summer scrapping thoughts and a LO

Brought my laptop with me on vacation expected to do some scrapping in the evening and night. But didn't do much more than read email, update facebook and twitter + read favorite blogs (scrapping one as well as family and friends). One of the first evenings I got started on a LO, but I have still to finish it (will do tonight, though - look for a new post later).

We got home Thursday morning after driving all night. After some sleep and a not so much productive day I've slowly gotten my LO and projects together. I've still a few things to fix before work starts on Tuesday - but I'm planning to get there....tomorrow I'm off to buy some more ink to my printer and a few more heavy weight card stock to get my December Daily album ready (EARLY!!) - can't wait to fill it with photos and words. Thanks to Janet and The Daily Digi for inspiring me :D

But for this post I wanted to show you my first page of Summer Highlights (I'm planning to make the second in September adding the late summer photos - it will be a super two page spread with a quick look on what happened the summer of 2009):


Credits: template from SUMMER 8x8 mini album by Janet Phillips; papers and elements from Splish Splash by Casey Krause; wordart from Summer Sorbet by Zoe Pearn (part of The Digi Files 6; available only the month of July 2009)

Journal:
This summer we have been having fun with friends & family, seen our new house, enjoyed nature, taking baths in both cold and warm water, eaten dinner outside, been at home and on travel, ride the ferry, laughed, eaten ice cream and enjoyed the sunshine.

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This LO is one of my CT-assignment at Pretty Scrappy here is the preview of the Splish Splash kit by Casey Krause (image is linked to store right now you can get the kit for only $1).

May CT layouts

I've been busy with work, vacation and scrapping lately. My house is suffering, but in a couple of weeks my summer vacation will start - so then I have all day to clean. LOL. I guess I'm going to scrap and take photos all day long.... Ahem. Anyway.

I want to show off the last two LO's I did as a CT at Pretty Scrappy (May assignment):

The first one I did with creations by Rachael's kit My Little Artist. I love the feel of this kit and the alpha is one of my favorites.

I used my own template (I'm still in a boxy mood) and photos I've been dying to scrap for so long.


Click image for credits :)


From Scrappy Shannon I got a Christmas kit to work on; Let us Adore Him.

Although it's not in season at the moment it's a cute and sweet kit. I especially loved all the manger images (or how to put it in English).

I have a bunch of photos from past Christmases to scrap, but I opted for the tree (once again). I love how it shines and for me it's hard to celebrate the season without it (not impossible, though). I guess it has something to do with the time of year where it's so little light during the day, we go out of the door while it's still dark outside and when we are back home it's dark again.....


Click the image for credits.

And then I'll better start working on the assignment for June!!! :D

If you love to scrap and would like to be a CT I believe that there still is an opening at Pretty Scrappy, just follow this link and see if there is room for one more.

speed scrapping again

Super fun with Speed Scraps at Scrapmatters two days in a row :D
Almost pulled a scrapping muscle there, but I dragged my self over the finish line. And this is what I made:

Yesterday:

credits:
elements and papers from Troublemaker by Flergs; alpha from After School by Lynne-Marie; template by me

journal:
Last summer we went in several stores looking for a small skate board for MT. But everyone was sold out. In the end we gave up and I think MT forgot that he wanted it sooooo badly. The snow board he got for Christmas helped probably... But when I looked for a small extra gift for his birthday I found it: a skate board in his size. He was so happy and have been trying it ever since. Like everything else it's not as easy to jump and ...... as he thinks so right now he's a bit upset with it. But I'm sure he's going to pick it up again soon - practice makes master!

Today:

Credit:
papers and elements from In the Neighborhood by Casey Krause; string and staple by Britt-ish design; template by me

Journal: I love watching how spring takes over and chasing the winter away. This year it came early.

This last one was one of my ct-assignment at Pretty Scrappy this month. Orginally I fell for the bold colors and the drawings, but in the end I used a couple of white papers and very few elements... ooops. The alpha is gorgeous, though.

2 new M-boys; CT scrap

Saturday I finally finished my CT-assignment for last week, I think I tried this in three different ways before I got the look I wanted.... I used the soft and light kit called Baby's First Christmas by Stacey Crossley Designs available at Pretty Scrappy (preview to the right).

I love this photo of MT hugging little M while Great Grandma is holding the baby. Love the expression of carefulness on MT's face. He was so scared of hugging little M too hard :D


Credits:
template by Alamama, Scrapmatters; paper and elements from Baby's first Christmas by Stacey Crossley Designs; heart element from Love and Kisses - February collab kit from Pretty Scrappy; alpha by Britt-ish design, scrapmatters

journal: I love how MT gives little M a hug, ever so carefully..

In October of 2005 I adopted my boy and brought him home, in December of the same year my cousin became father to his little boy. Here they are with their great grandma on her 95th birthday party. Both boys was new to our family, one baby and one 2,5 years old. They both got the same name as their Great Grandpa had. Great Grandma couldn’t be more proud.

Speed Scrapping for Rachael B :D

I finally got to speed scrap again tonight, it's been SO long ago and I missed it terribly. It was a rush, as always, but so fun with a scrap page finished in two hours. And I actually like it!!!! What is better than that?! ;)

As you can see of my title; I used this speed scrap to scrap with a kit I just downloaded a few hours ago: Winter Wonderland by Creations by B.

It's one of my February assignment as a CT at Pretty Scrappy. And it's gorgeous (look up, click image to go to the store), I'm sure to use something form this kit for other winter photos!!

This was my first try ever to use a grid (or storyboard), and I will for sure use that again. It was fun and a super way to get more photos into the LO without crowding it too much :)

My kid is good at skiing, at least for his age - but he desperately wants to do like the big boys. So he tries and tries until he gets there. That's ENDURANCE in my book. Way to go kiddo!


Credits:
grid by Mushy (Michelle Filo); alpha by Britt-ish design; papers and elements from Winter Wonderland by Creation by Rachael B.

Journal:

I AM SO PROUD of you for hanging in there and NOT GIVING UP, even though you fell more times than you stood. But at last you made it over the little jump; just because you tried ONE MORE TIME!

It's late here, better go to bed. I'll add a few links later. Night!!

Love and Kisses blog train

The blog train is moving again.
Welcome to station LIME in the winter wonderland of Norway. (I'm a bit early since I'm away from the computer tomorrow, Feb. 1th, when most of the other stations are opening their doors - and that's when you find the kit in the store as well!)

Anyway, the February Collab from Pretty Scrappy is on it's way:

Love and Kisses

As creative team member I got to scrap with it this week - and made these two Brag Book pages:




Credits (for both):
paper and elements (and alpha on the brown LO) from Love and Kisses, the February collab kit from Pretty Scrappy. Some recoloring is done by me.

I made you some freebie QP as well, click the image below to download. Hope you like them, I'd love a comment as a thank you - and please let me know if anything is wrong; this is my first try with 4shared.



Here are links to other QP freebies, made with the Love and Kisses kit:

Anne http://limescrapped.blogspot.com/ <---- you are here!
Baby Yaks http://babyyaks.blogspot.com/
Barb http://barbknits.blogspot.com/
Brittney Ferguson Designs http://brittneycreations.blogspot.com/
Creations By Rachael http://creationsbyrachael.blogspot.com/
Designs By Angel http://scrappingwithangel.blogspot.com/
Designs By Mel http://designsbymel.blogspot.com
Dorothy's Creations http://dorothyscreationss.blogspot.com/
Inspired Mommie Designs http://inspiredmommiedesigns.blogspot.com/
Just Passin Thru http://justpassinthru.wordpress.com/
Lady V DeZine http://ladyvdzine.com/
Late Night Scraps http://latenightscraps.blogspot.com
Lynn http://themathematiciansassistant.com/
Neissa http://myscrapsofus.blogspot.com
Pretty Scrappy http://prettyscrappy.blogspot.com/
Sarah http://iamsimplysarah.blogspot.com/
Scrappy Shannon http://scrappyshannon.blogspot.com/
Share Joy http://scrappysolano.blogspot.com/
Share Your Moments http://shareyourmoments.typepad.com/

Have a sweet February!!

Thanks for stopping by, have a safe journey - hope to see you again some other time :D

The Love of Lime

The very first time MT tasted lemons - he hated it. It was too sour he told me!

But recently he have developed a love for the LIME taste. And his mother couldn't be happier ;)

For my CT-assignment week 4 at Pretty Scrappy I had to scrap about this event; having Dorothy's beautiful papers to scrap with made it as bright, light and happy as I imagined.

There is some blending of papers going on there in the background and I changed some colors and added an overlay by Vera Lim to get the feel I was after.

And here it is; The Love of Lime:


Credits:
Template by Pressed Petals/Alamama; papers, elements and alpha from Oh, happy day by Dorothy's Creations; Overlay by Vera Lim.

Journal:

He used to find sour fruits something to avoid, he loves sweets. But then he got a second taste, of LIME, and he changed his mind. Now sour is GOOD!!

REAL LOVE

Jess Gordon is out with another Valentine's kit: REAL LOVE. This one a mini kit with lots of stuff in it(!) Right now it's for sale at her store. To the right is a preview of the kit - gorgeous! Looove the brown and white papers, and the words from the Bible she used as inspiration and also to decorate some of the papers:

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” 1 Corinthians 13:1-8a (NIV)

I am one of the lucky few that got to scrap with it before it was in the store and this was my first try (I was so busy at work, so it came together in a hurry, if I should do it again I would clip the brown paper with a proper mask because I kind of like that idea):


I looove brown paper and I soooo wanted to use it, but I couldn't quite get it to fit with the photos and the overall idea for the page (I was so tired, couldn't get my brain to think it up again.. LOL). Because of that I wasn't too happy with it so I worked on it again last night - and this is the final result (Jepp! It got different from the first!):


Credit (for both LO's):
elements, paper and alpha from Real Love by Jess Gordon

So what are you waiting for? Run over to Jess's store - or jump over to her blog and get inspired with her writing, freebies and great tips & tricks.

sweet

I've had this LO in my photo shop (elements) tray for over a week. It almost drove me crazy because I couldn't get the photos to stand out like I wanted. Then I learned how to ink my edges, and I did it on the photo frames with a darker color of blue and pink - and whooola - my photos popped like I wanted :D

And here is finally the finished result:


Credits:
template (pocket full of templates #2) and hanging clip from Brittney of Britt-ish design; paper, element and alpha from So Flirty by Jess Gordon

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We have almost a meter of snow now, it's been snowing a lot the last couple of days. I don't mind, but I wish I had some time to shovel some snow off my drive way (and some larger muscles...but I guess I'll get that after??!!??!)

I've now drifted into January 20th better get me some sleep if I ever shall get up in the morning! Night :D

January Blog Train

Welcome to station Lime scrapped on your January blog train journey. Now you've gotten far north - to Norway - and I got a BB QP for you to grab! But first a few things.....


Pretty Scrappy is out with another collab kit; Rough and Tumble. This is perfect for scrapping the boys in the house as well as about all the mess the kids make. Colors are brown, green, blue and orange. Above is a preview of the kit. Click the image to jump over to the store if you like.

Yesterday I made this LO with it:

Credit:
All papers and elements from Rough and Tumble collab kit from Pretty Scrappy store.

I love how it all came together; simple - but perfectly making the photo stand out :D

So there, enough talk, over to the brag book quick page download :D This is my second attemt at making a freebie, so be nice - I love a comment as a thank you if you download.


Click image to download. Enjoy!


This is what I did with it:

Credit:
All papers and elements from Rough and Tumble collab kit from Pretty Scrappy store.

The train is moving on, hop on board - next stop is Baby Yaks.
Have a safe journey, hope to see you again another time!

Here is the full list in case you missed some:
Allison http://on-allisons-time.blogspot.com/
Anne http://limescrapped.blogspot.com/ <-- you are here!!
Baby Yaks http://babyyaks.blogspot.com/
Barb http://barbknits.blogspot.com/
Caroline http://www.kennasdesigns.blogspot.com/
Creations By Rachael http://creationsbyrachael.blogspot.com/
Designs By Angel and Elizabethhttp://scrappingwithangel.blogspot.com/
Designs By Mel http://designsbymel.blogspot.com
Dorothy's Creations http://dorothyscreationss.blogspot.com/
Inspired Mommie Designs http://inspiredmommiedesigns.blogspot.com/
Just Passin Thru http://justpassinthru.wordpress.com/
Late Night Scraps http://latenightscraps.blogspot.com/
Lynn http://themathematiciansassistant.com
Neissa http://myscrapsofus.blogspot.com/
Pretty Scrappy http://prettyscrappy.blogspot.com/
Sarah http://iamsimplysarah.blogspot.com
Scrappy Shannon http://scrappyshannon.blogspot.com/
Share Joy http://scrappysolano.blogspot.com/
Share Your Moments http://shareyourmoments.typepad.com/
Stacey Crossley http://nicoalgoesdigiscrapping.blogspot.com
Teri http://teristhingomyjigs.blogspot.com