Cybercrop at Mollys

It's December, Christmas has passed, we're on a break, and FINALLY I feel like I have a few moments to spare for scrapbooking! So I scrap, and lucky for me, there are two cybercrops going on in this country of mine at the same time. That's very good for the mojo.

First up, I'd like to show you a thing I made for a challenge at Mollys Scrapbooking. It's an altered matchbox, with texture-paste snow and mini-mini bookpage trees.

So, what do you think of pink as a Christmas color? It has been sneaking itself into my home these past couple of years, for instance in the shape of this pinkish Lisbeth Dahl ornament that I bought in Denmark last year. I used pink letter stickers and mini rhinestones for my altered matchbox, so it would fit into this new color scheme for Christmas.

Here's a clseup of the smallest tree. It's only an inch high, and made from a few pages from an old dictionary.

I've finished a few more challenges for both crops already, and I hope to be able to blog them all over the next few days, along with a couple of DT-assignments, but I do have to fight the rest of the family for access to the one laptop where I'm able to upload and process my photos, and since they are three to one, I don't get lucky that often.

See ya!

Altered dictionary part 2

Remember my mission to find as many ways as possible to alter a dictionary? Well, here's another one I made as one of my monthly assignments for Graphic 45. I've always wanted to make a little "secret box" out of a book, and here it is. I have used the most wonderful papers from A Proper Gentleman, a Zutter Perfect Closure and some Gadget Gears, cut out with my Tim Holtz die. A little Tim Holtz key managed to find its way on there too.
So, here's the inside. It took a while to cut out the hole in all of those pages, but I really like how this box turned out, so it was well worth the effort. I used quite a lot of Glimmer mist and ink to give the the book a worn, shabby look. My son got this box, and he is now using it to store
Pokemon cards :)

So, I hope you all have a great spring Saturday. Here, it's raining heavily right now, but I'm hoping for better weather later today

Altered dictionary part 1

I've foud some old dictionaries in thrift shops, antique book stores and I even found a couple of old busted ones at work. You can make all these marvellous flowers and stuff from the papers, but there are so many things you can do with what is left over! I made this garden out of one of my dictionaries and the April kit from My Scrapbook Nook. These papers are so adorable, and perfect for a project like this.

It was actually my dear son who had the idea of an open book and things kind of growing out of it. Like the old Disney film, with a fairy tale landscape coming out of open books. So I decided to give it a try.
I need to have a gate, of course, and the Maya Road pins from the kit make perfect decorations for the gate posts.

They are also perfect to tie one end of a banner to. Because I just had to have a banner here.

And a mailbox.

I have a few more dictionary projects in the making, one of which my dear son is pretty upset about. It's a thing he ordered, and that he wants done like yesterday. Unfortunately, it's way down on my priority list at the moment.

So, have a great weekend, dear blog readers :)