A double pager...

I've made a double pager layout. I never make double pagers. Never. Well, I have made, lets see, three of them before. And I've been a scrapbooker for almost four years. Now, that's how often I make double pagers.

This time I had to make one. I'm participating in a cybercrop at JP Hobby, and one of the challenges is to make a double pager out of a certain colourful (EEEK) kit, and to add some 3D effect to the layouts. Considering how uncomfortable I am with double pagers, and the colorfulnes of the kit, the conditions to get started on this one weren't the best. There was nothing even remotely similar to vintage in the kit, and the colours... well, they were a little too much for me, to be honest. But this is what I came up with, and, well, it's OK, I guess. At least I love the photos that are on it. And the colour scheme is perfect for them.
Here's my 3D effect - some of the letters are mounted on foam scuares to make them higher than the others. I outlined them with a thin black pen to add to the impression that they are floating a little bit above the layout.

Here's what I did from another one of the Cybercrop kits. Now, this is more of what I like. You can't go wrong with pink, can you? And this reminds me of how long ago it was since the last time I used pink. I bought a bunch of pink flowers a while back, and I also won a big bag of pink roses, and I haven't touched any of them. That's probably because there's nothing pink in the new G45 collections, which is what I have been using the most lately.

This is a booklet of Friday tickets, for my kids. I have Friday afternoons off, most of the time, and through these tickets, they can choose what they want to do these afternoons.

And, incredible, no ink, no sanded edges and no edge distresser anywhere on this one. That feels a bit weird, actually.

So, it's Sunday afternoon, it's raining, and I'm going to get busy in my scrap room, finishing up another cybercrop challenge - altering an empty toilet roll. Last time I did that, it turned into a mushroom, this time I don't know what it's supposed to resemble, really. It's just some weird thingy derived from a toilet roll. Yeah, I'll show you when it's done, if I'm not too embarrased to post it.

Have a nice Sunday evening.

The Witches Hat

I don't know when it was the last time this happened - two posts in one day. Yay! It has happened, but it was a long time ago... Well, this time I wanted to show you this hat I made from the Pink Paislee Twilight collection.
I almost got the Slice overheated working on this one. *LOL* I cut, and I cut, and then I cut a little more! You see, I haven't used my Slice much lately, because it's been so darn slow! Cutting a somewhat intricate shape took like forever, and you have to sit there and hold on to the little thingy all the time, because otherwise it will wander away and cut all over the place. But with the new design cards it's possible to increase the Slice's speed, so now it's really really fast, and cuts all the shapes in notime. It's a lot more fun to use it now.

The top pin is covered in Glossy Accents, and then I just poured glitter from a green Pink Paislee Pixee Stix. I love it! I have to get some more Pixee Stix, they are so great!

Yeah, that's definitely the last post for today. Have a nice Saturday night!

Spooky...

As we are getting further into October, and Halloween is almost around the corner, let's take a break from all the Christmas things on this blog and get into the Halloween mood instead. We don't celebrate it much over here, unfortunately, because I kind of need something that keeps me going during these dark, dreary months. I need something to plan for and look forward to, so I prepare for Halloween. Agnes and I bought a couple of pumpkins yesterday, which we will carv lanterns from later, and I have been making some decorative items for the house. We also tried on Agnes Halloween costume last week. Isn't this the cutest little which ever? She is trying to look dangerous and wicked, but I think she just lookes cute.

The papers are from the GORGEOUS Twilight line from Pink Paislee, and I've used my Slice a little here too.
Here's an invitation card. I wonder if anyone would come?

A little gift box with some spooky content, perhaps.

And another card, this time with an older Making Memories paper and a few things from the slice.

All of these were made for the cybercrop at JP Hobby.

I'll be back later with some more Halloween stuff.

G45 Christmas Past Mobile

If you want to se how I made this mobile, hop over to the Graphic 45 blog and download the full tutorial from there.
Have a great Wednesday!

It is up!

Yupp, it's up, the new Zutter/Bind-It-All design team. And I'm happy. There's a Swede on it. Congrats, sweet Kamilla.

So, here's what it looks like:

2009-2010 Design Team Members
Fleur Smith, BC, Cananda
Sophie Sim, Australia
Linda Elbourne, UK
Pam Sandy, Michigan, USA
Shelley Haganman, Iowa, USA
Camilla Isaksson, Sweden
Sarah de Guzman, California, USA
Lynne Forsythe, New Hampshire, USA

And here's another reason why I'm happy. My time with the Zutter/Bind-It-All desing team isnt over! The returning members, or "Vintage Zisters", are now called the OZZ - Original Zutter Zisters. Nope, there was no way we could leave this fab group.

OZZ Zutter Zisters
Annette West – Saudi Arabia
Emeline Seet – Singapore
Jennifer Priest – California, USA
Jenny Svensson – Sweden
Julie Ann Kelley – Massachusetts, USA
Lea Millora Sanders – Virginia, USA
Tish Treadaway – North Carolina, USA
Vicki Flinchum – Texas, USA

Now, how cool is that?

Christmas is early this year...

In my package from Graphic 45 I got the Christmas Past paper pack, which is, of course, DIVINE. I love every single sheet of paper there, and it is exactly the kind of patterns and colours that bring back memories from Christmases a long time ago. I could easily use photos from when I was little, and celebrated Christmas at the farm, with Grandma and Granddad, only, I don't have any here.

Anyway, I have wanted to make a tree like this, and these papers were too pretty not to use. I cut out a semi-circle, using a kitchen plate as a template, and glued the edges together to create a cone. I cut the pattern papers into stripes of 2X1/2", and folded them over a knitting pin, glueing the ends together. You can see on the second photo what they are supposed to look like. Then I glued them onto the cone, starting from the bottom and working my way up. I adhered the cone to a knotty branch I found in my garden, using a hot glue gun, and decorated it with a few buttons here and there.
These alphas are just darling, aren't they? They are from Tattered Angels, and are in a pack with butterfly framed letters. I will show you more later with those butterflies. Here I have only used the letters, sprayed them with Glimmer mist Brick, and covered them with Glossy Accents.

I made an ornament hanger too, by accident, really. The ornaments are pre-made ones from Panduro Hobby, which I bought at their outlet store in Malmö last time I was there. They were a bargain, and I bought three of each. So of course I had to alter some of them with these papers. And then I started thinking about how to display them while photographing them. It's not like it's time to take in the Christmas tree any time soon, and get one to use only as props... no. I came up with this solution - a hanger for tea-light lanterns which I got a while ago. One of the lanterns broke, and I've had the hanger in a closet since. So I decorated it a little, and it turned out fairly OK.

Here's a closeup on one of the ornaments:

If you want to see more of what I made, keep an eye on the G45 blog, for lots of other projects, and a tutorial too, eventually.

Have a nice weekend, dear blog readers.

Finally the time has come...

for me to be guest designer for Graphic 45! YAY! My first projects are up at the blog today, so check it out!