Words to live by

Hi!

I'm just stopping in for a short post today, showing you a little mini book in a box that I made for Riddersholm Design. I really love the teals and browns of this collection, Turqoise Hill's.

I've printed out quotes that I think are really worth thinking about, and put them into the mini that is in the box.

That's it for now. I'd better get back to my project for the day - sorting out some of the mess in my scraproom, and at least get all of my embellishments in some kind of order... It's not the funniest thing to do on a summer day, but the good thing about it is that I keep finding pretty things I had totally forgot that I had, and that's great.

Have a nice day, all of you!

Petaloo Color Me Crazy challenge

Petaloo are having a challenge where you can win a fabulous prize - $100 of Petaloo products! Now, who wouldn't want that prize? Of course, I had to enter, and here is my altered project entry - a wall hanging for my craft room.

I've used Distress ink to color the Petaloo flowers - for the all purple ones I mixed some ink with water and used a mini mister to spray the paint onto the flowers. While the flowers were still wet, I used a soft paintbrush to paint the petal edges darker with ink.
The white flowers, I just sprayed with water and then painted the edges of the petals the same way I did the purple ones.

So, the thing that inspired me to make this was the mini wooden spools from Maya Road that were in the June kit from My Scrapbook Nook (along with most things I've used for this project) It just had to be sewing themed!

Creative Scrappers sketch #163

Of course, I had to do something out of this week's sketch at Creative Scrappers:

Time to brag a little...

I'm thrilled! I've won the first challenge at Challenge Me Happy!!!


Also, I've won Challenge #9 at Get Picky!

And I just thought I'd do some challenges just for the fun of it, and getting my creativity started, I never expected to win any. So I'm one happy little scrapper right now!

My maniacs

Here's yet another layout for a challenge, this time for Once Upon a ...Sketch. Can you believe how many great challenge blogs there are out there? It's perfect, if you suddenly feel the need to kickstart your creativity after a longer period of not scrapping, for one reason or another.

This layout is made with a photo of my kids. The journaling criteria was to write who the person on the photo is and at least one fact about them. These are my kids, and I've written about how much they fight and argue all the time, and the only thing that can bring them together and make them agree is when it's goofing around time, or being up to some sort of mischief.

Challenge Me Happy #2

I decided to play along with challenge #2 at Challenge Me Happy, even though the color combination made me really confused at first. I mean, how do you get orange to fit into the rest of this combo?
Anyway, I managed to squeeze in some orange with it, and this is how my layout turned out in the end, a mishmash of Lily Bee, Echo Park and Maja Design papers. And guess what? I sorta like it!

Creative Scrappers #162

I often find myself turning to the Creative Scrappers blog for inspiration, but I'm not sure I've ever participated in any challenges so far, as in actually uploading a layout I've made after one of their sketches and linking to it. Well, there's a first for everything, isn't it? And now that I'm not working for a few weeks, and thus have the time to scrap a little more than just for my deadlines, Creative Scrappers was one of my first stops when searching for challenges online.

So, here's my take on their sketch #162. Once again I've used some fabulous papers from Inkido's Forever Summer collection, this time in purple shades, which is perfect for my little girl, who suddenly grew out of the pink age and is now mad about purple instead!