Scrapfit #50 is all about being inspired by a book, and this is the cover of that book! I just love this picture, the vintage feel, the cityscape, the lamp post... I decided to go with those things, and add some musings over how we feel about city life in our family.
And here's my layout. We're counryside folks, always have been and most likely always will be. Especially P. He is like more rooted in the Swedish countryside soil than the largest oak in Blekinge... Myself, I grew up on a farm, and that's who I am. I like cities, I love to visit them, and stay there for a while, but I'm really happy to have a place at the countryside to call my home.
And I know my kids, no matter how much they love life on the countryside, are really hoping to go to a big, big city far, far away in a not too distant future. They have two very special reasons for that. I would love to take them, so we'll just have to see if we can make that happen.
I just love the look of weathered wood!
When I was on a trip to the island of Visingsö with the family, we came across these gorgeous old barns, near the castle ruins of Näs. I had to take a few shots.
The sketch I've used is from Sketchabilities.
The flowers are also from my Petaloo prize pack, and I have stamped and misted them. I'm having so much fun with these flowers!
I got an honorable mention at the Petaloo Color me Crazy challenge, and the other day I found my very generous prize pack in the mailbox. So I've been coloring flowes, and my kids have been coloring flowes and we've had a blast. Of course I had to put some of them on this layout.
When I edited the photo of the layout and was going to save it on the computer it turned out that I already had 2(!) more layouts with this title in my layout file. And then I have't even looked though my DT files, because I have a faint memory thet I've made at least one more layout with this title, and that it most likely can be found in there somewhere. Nevertheless, it's a great title, and most likely it will be put on a few more layouts in the future. I have so many perect days to scrap about!
I have based this layout on a sketch from Once Upon A... Sketch.
Hi Y'all!
How are you? Long time no see... Yeah, I'm here, Im alive, I'm scrapping, but I've been in over my head with things to do lately - clearing out my scraproom, purging, taking care of the daily business, getting things ready for school/daycare/work to start again next week - you know, nothing more than ordinary stuff.
Here is a layout I made last week for Scraplagret. You see, Emma at Scraplagret, she knows what I like really well, so she sent me this package of Echo Park Victoria Gardens, and on the crop I attended that same evening, I made two layouts and four cards from this kit ♥. I just love it so much! And the best thing - I just bought that same paper line a couple of weeks ago, so I have plenty of it left to play with! Which, by the way, is supposed to be for a so far very secret project for a thing that I'm very proud of.
I based my layout on Challenge 4 at Challenge me Happy - to scraplift a very pretty layout by a very talented scrapper - Piradee Talvanna. Here's my take:
And while I'm at it, here's a card, also made with Victoria Gardens and some matching cardstock from Core'dinations.
I found a beautiful sketch at Skissedilla, a challenge blog from our dear country Norway. And we certainly were reminded of just how dear Norway and all of its people are to us with the horrible events that took place there. There are just so many bonds. My own children are part Norwegian, for instance. My heart goes out to all of those who were affected in any way by what took place. I still have a hard time even imagining how one person can cause so much harm. Anyway, at times like this, one really gets aware of how fragile one's life is, and that you really must enjoy every day to its fullest. And that is exactly what my son does in this photo :)
There's no secret to it - I love banners. They are certainly the perfect way to embellish any kind of page, and I tend to put banners just abbout everywhere nowadays. I'm so happy this is a trend that is lasting, and not not likely will be going away any time soon. The new challenge up at ScrapFIT couldn't be better for me. So, I made this layout this morning and put a banner on it :)
Here's my take on Sketch 248 at Pencillines. I really do like their sketches, and I often go there for inspiration, but I rarely ever participate in the actual challenges. Well, it's never to late to start, is it?
Here's my gorgeous boy again. He has developed far more attitude lately than ever before, and it's a struggle sometimes. But I guess it's an age thing. Thankfully, I can still tickle it out of him. LOL.
And here's my layout. We're counryside folks, always have been and most likely always will be. Especially P. He is like more rooted in the Swedish countryside soil than the largest oak in Blekinge... Myself, I grew up on a farm, and that's who I am. I like cities, I love to visit them, and stay there for a while, but I'm really happy to have a place at the countryside to call my home.
And I know my kids, no matter how much they love life on the countryside, are really hoping to go to a big, big city far, far away in a not too distant future. They have two very special reasons for that. I would love to take them, so we'll just have to see if we can make that happen.
