STM Germany #13

Here's the second layout I made as a guest designer for Scrapping the Music Germany. The title of the song is "Die Stadt schläft" (The city is asleep) by Thomas D, and thus the dark cityscape and the photo of my sleeping son. It's been a pleasure playing along at STMG these weeks. Thank's for having me, girls!

About purple and yellow

I was fortunate enough to win a contest I entered a little while ago at MiMa's Scrapbooking, and I got this fabulous package of Maja Design papers and embellishments. And do you know what was so fabulous about it? The papers were yellow and purple, but in a really soft shade. I have like a huge stash of purple flowers and chrystal brads and stuff, don't know why, but they're always on discount for som reason, so I buy and hide them away in my stash. I've had quite a lot of trouble finding matching papers, and here they finally were. So I made two quick layouts and had a blast!

The first one is with photos of the kids occupied with cleaning out the treehouse.
And this is my little Easter witch, all dressed up for an Easter party at her daycare. Isn't she too cute? And I hope nobody notices that she has little batmans all over her scarf *lol*. I couldn't find a decent one, so we had to borrow one from big brother.

And MiMas are hosting an online crop this weekend. You know how it is, when you plan on participating in such an event, time never seems to last, but I will at least try to do so.

Time flies!

Right now, time flies by so fast that it seems like the weeks consist only of Mondays and Fridays. The rest is just a blur. You blink once, it's Monday, you blink again, and its Friday.

This weekend, I've actually found both the inspiration and the time to scrap a little for the challenges over at Magdas' online crop. But before I show you the results of that, I must show you what I did for my first week as a GDT at STM Germany. I just love this picture of Agnes. I took it the other day out in the garden. I wanted her to look into the camera, but she wasn't all that interested in cooperating, so eventually I asked her: "Agnes, where's the camera?" And then she pointed in my direction and shouted: "There!!!" And that's when I got this picture.

Here's a layout using stuff from the April kit from the Nook. It's full of Pink Paislee goodies, and I love it!

Here's another Pink Paislee layout. And I must tell you the story here. I had printed the photo for this one and put it on the desk together with the papers I was going to use, thinking of making a layout with the story about when Agnes had chickenpox. And then I went to make dinner. Suddenly I heard Agnes crying from inside my scraproom, saying over and over again: "What have I done? What have I done?" I ran in there, thinking the worst, that she had rubbed an inkpad over the desk, or turned a jar of flowers upside down or something like that, but she just sat on my chair with the photo in her hand, crying. Poor thing, she thought she looked horrible. So we explained to her that she had been sick and that's why she was full of spots. Oh, man, she really was sick at that time. She caught it really bad. She had spots everywhere, even on the inside of her eyelids. It's a good thing she can't remember. Anyway, I knew I had to tell that little story on the layout instead.

Here's Albin, at the place he loves the most; curled up in bed with his huge teddybear and a good book. He's an avid reader, even though he's such a little guy. He has taught himself to read, and that makes me so proud. That's my boy!

And the last one for today - about our Lisa, and the things she does. Isn't she the cutest?

So, that's all I have to share today. Thanks for stopping by.

Happy day!

The sun is shining, it's really warm, and there's just one week left before the Easter holiday! And more, this makes me happy today too.

(And for those of you who, like me, don't know many words of the German language, I'm really really proud to be this month's guest designer for Scrapping the Music Germany.)

Finally...

It's been a long time, I know. And I'm sorry about that. My mojo has been MIA for a while, and there's been a whole lot of other things going on lately. Life got in the way, so to speak. This weekend, however, I've actually managed to do something scrappy! Yay! There's a contest going on at a Swedish store, Magdas, right now, and so far I've managed to do three of their challenges. This one is supposed to be a vintage layout. I don't know if I managed to do that style justice, but I gave it a try, at least.
This one was supposed to be inspired by a book cover. There was a ribbon with some knots and bows, and roses, and that's what I chose to have on this layout.

And for this one, we were supposed to draw inspiration from the glamorous 20's. I took out some gorgeous G45 papers... I'll never fall out of love with those papers, for sure, and luckily there were a few of them in the contest kit, so I just had to use them for this. The yellow fringe is from an old curtain my MIL hung in our bedroom when we bought this house, just so that it would look inhabited, even though we redecorated and didn't live here at the moment. The curtain was hideous, and I took it down ASAP, but last year I found it again in the attic, and rescued the fringe before I threw it away. And the colour is so perfect with the Fashionista line.

And speaking of G45... they just opened up a new community, which I of course couldn't help myself from joining, and I think you should too if you like their papers, because there's tons and tons of inspiration! You can find it here.

Thank's for stopping by, and thanks for leaving a comment before you go ;-)

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A little something to share today

The kids and I spent Friday night at my friend Jeanette's house and we actaully managed to get some scrapping done! Two layouts is what I finished, and then I also got started with a Zutter project. The first layout is of Albin, taking a bubble bath at auntie Anna's place. We don't have a bathtub, so he takes every chance he gets to hop into one when he finds one.
I didn't remember to bring a whole lot of photos, but luckily, Jeanette is as crazy about photographing as I am, and many of her photos have my kids in them, so I got this one with her Emilia and my Agnes dancing dressed up as princesses.

There's not much scrapping going on otherwise at the moment. My mind's far too preoccupied with other things right now, so I can't seem to find the inspiration I need so badly. Anyway, thanks for stopping by, and thank you so much for your sweet comments on my work. They mean a lot to me, especially right now.

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Another altered frame

I have tons of journaling spots lying in a basket. I needed a place to store some of them where I can see them, because otherwise, I won't use them. So I took a photo prame, painted it with white acrylic and sanded it lightly to make it look old and worn. Then I used some cord to hang the journaling spots from. The backside of the frame is covered with pages from an old dictionary, and then I've decorated it with one of Prima's petite fleur vines ♥ and some tulle bows.I made the frame for a challenge, where you were supposed to fasten things in at least ten different ways, except glue, glue dots, tape etc. I've used for instance cord, Zutter rivets, pins, different clips and a safety pin to fasten the tags, spots and my decorations.

Have a great saturday night, all of you. We'll be spending it in front of the TV, watching the finals of the Swedish song contest to see who we'll be sending to the Eurovision song contest. All of the finalists are GREAT, in their own little special ways, but Albin and I are placing our votes on magnificent Sarah Dawn Finer. Her song Moving on went straight into my heart.