Guest Designer at White with 1

Hello Nomad friends.   I was invited to guest design over at White With 1 today after they selected my May layout as the admin's choice!!!  I play along on their fb group where they have fun monthly challenges and quarterly cyber crops and games.  The moodboard for July is shades of brown and add a tag.  There is also has an owl, so that inspired me to use the Rubber Dance Carved Fox and Owl stamp set. I used Rubber Dance's lovely Organic 1 stencil in the background to give a beautiful horizontal flow to the layout.

 

The July White with 1 moodboard

 

Here's a picture of my layout ephemera.  I stamped the owl and the 'wild at heart' from the same set with brown archival ink on white card. I fussy cut the owl and used a die to make the wild at heart into a tag to use as my title. I cut a tag from kraft card and I used a hole die and then threaded through the brown and gold twine. The star net die is from Dixi Crafts 

 

 

I arranged everything in a pleasing manner, adding the 'home is not a place, it's a feeling' from the Happy Place stamp set. I used more of the brown and gold twine to suspend my Wild at Heart tag. The picture is me watching sunset over the fjord.  I should do that more often.

 

Thanks for dropping by.  I hope you enjoyed my layout.  Do hop over to White with 1 and check out the layout fun.  If you are creating anything with Rubber Dance stamps this month, whatever your inspiration, please share in our FB fan group, or on instagram using #rubberdancemoodboard and tag us @rubberdance in your post, cos someone is going to win €10 to spend in the Rubber Dance store!   Don’t forget…. You gotta be in it to win it! You don’t have to use the Rubber Dance July moodboard, any new project featuring Rubber Dance products is eligible for the prize.

HUGZ

Peeps!!!

Hello Nomad Friends.  Well, that was April.  Mine was crazy busy.  How about you??  Here's another project life layout featuring hens.  Bound to be animals or gardens with me!  This is Henriette with her brood.  She used to like to jump up on my lap or shoulder if she got the chance.

The 15 x 15 card in the top left is actually a dictionary I started making and failed!!  I have about 6 letters completed and H is for Hen was one of them.  When I saw Monica's moodboard sandy steps reminded me of the colours of my hens, and I thought the green stripey paper looked like the pages of the closed book, if you squint maybe LOL, and there's a bird on the moodboard as well.........  The blue circle behind the cut out hen is actually a piece of fabric.  I used a journal card and an acetate overlay with awesome printed on it.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Project Life i Norge - Hipp Hipp Hurra
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Heart Melter

Hello Nomad friends.  One more PL layout for this evening and it's an orphan lamb I took home in 2011.  This was the first day home with us and he learnt really fast to follow me around.  What a cutie!!

Oh my, he was so sweet.  I used Pebbles journalling cards and some chipboard pieces from PL Here and There kit.  The pink heart is an acetate overlay from PL Clear set.  This layout was inspired by Elisabeth's moodboard - hearts, pink, flowers and love.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Project Life i Norge - Hipp Hipp Hurra
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday - Pet Project
Crafteezee April Challenge - Add Chipboard  the blue arrow and the round black sentiment 'so happy together' on the first photo are chipboard

Hurrah for Pizza Boxes

Hello.  Welcome.  I have been doing some more PL layouts.  Here's one of some chicks my hen Lillemor hatched back in 2014.  This is their first day outside.  

I used cardstock stickers and printed acetate pieces from a Nine&Co. collection pack and some PL cards from the This and That set.  Peeps are so cute!!  I was inspired by Emma's moodboard - greens, flowers, hearts and nature.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Project Life i Norge - Hipp Hipp Hurra
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday - Pet Project 

A Day In May

Hello Nomad friends.  Today I am trying something a bit different for me.  I have been following the Project Life Norge blog for a while, even made a title card or two!  They are celebrating their 5th Anniversary and the PL Norge ladies have made 10 moodboards that really inspired me.  But just in case, I popped over to my Muse and said, wanna do some PL pages?  Once I actually explained what a PL page was my Muse was amazingly enthusiastic, so together we made our first pages.  Here's mine.....

It's a new challenge for the photographer as well!!  Trying to get a good picture through the plastic sleeve.  I've gone with spring flowers.  I love my garden and my spring display is always one that makes my soul sing.  These are pictures from a day in May last year.  I am still waiting to see that glorious lily, but the Hellebores are looking lovely now and the tulips have started to bloom.  I used a couple of preprinted 4 x 6 journal cards.  The first one says forget the laundry spring is here.  The second one I cut in half and added either side of the tulips.  Everything is amazing!  I also used a printed acetate heart from a PL kit which I backed with silver glitter card and added it to the lily picture.  

  

I took my inspiration from Gunilla's moodboard.  Loved the bold lettering, the pale turquoise, the flowers and the heart.  

Thanks for dropping by.  I'm off to enjoy the sunshine and my spring flowers.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Project Life i Norge - Hipp Hipp Hurra
Allsorts Challenge Week 515/516 - Blossoms/Butterflies/Bugs
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Beautiful Blooms

You Got To Start Somewhere

Hello.  Welcome.  Project Life.  Great LO's, never quite understood it.  Then Ett Trykk set a challenge to make a 4x6 layout.  No, probably not going to do that.  Then I found three photo's that seemed to go together and Prima Free Spirit 4x6 ATC cards and well........  It's my first attempt.  Not much in the way of embellishments.  But you got to start somewhere right??  Be gentle with me.....

This was me, trying out skating on the frozen fjord, a few years ago. 

Adventure.  Yeah, right

She looks very skeptical.  

This seems like the best idea.  I used STAMPlorations bubbles stencil and Stormy Sky distress ink on this music print card.  The journalling was computer generated.  Sea ice does sing you know.  

Joining the fun at
Ett Trykk Vi Jubilerer Utfordring 3
Scribble and Scrap Crafts Challenge 40 - Anything Goes 
Country View Challenge - Anything Goes 
Papertake Weekly - Happy Anything 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

A Very Special Lamb

Hello, hello, blog followers and friends.  Yesterday I got happy mail which worked fabulously with a layout I was putting together for the Imaginisce Challenge.  

This is the sketch for the July challenge.  

This is what I came up with.  I remember this day quite vividly.  The sheep and I were up the mountain.  I was working.  He was enjoying himself.  I always got the impression he was on holiday which was why the Imaginisce Travel Stacker Stickers seemed perfect for this layout.  It was a lovely sunny day, late May, hot and hazy.  I remember seeing this view and asking him to jump on this rock, which he did, and then asking him to stay there while I walked far enough away to photo this glorious scene.  Amazingly he did stay put.  I think he knew home was down the hill and since I was going up the hill to take my photo he knew I would be coming back.

I used Imaginisce Animal Crackers Step Right Up double sided paper as my base 002798.  I was kicking myself a bit cos the other side is full with circus themed tickets, which was why I bought it, but this side was perfect for the layout.  I thought the little triangles looked like a pine forest.  The main picture is the one I took which I had made into postcards.  The image is printed in black and white on the reverse side and I thought it was nice to use the repeat image under the colour one.  It also gives me my Sibbe at Work May 2011 caption.  

I used Imaginisce Travel Stacker stickers 003387, the postcard, the tourist first class tag, cos he was a first class tourist, and the customs declaration, which was a great place for my title and also a bit of journalling about Sibbe.  I added some twine to the tags.  

I really wanted to use my i-Top tool but didn't think brads would fit in.  Then I decided to use the 34mm brad punch for this great spiky shape and some of the packaging from other stacker stickers which had the same triangle design.  This gave me my arrows and I used some other elements from the stacker stickers to add some interest.  The trees are cut using Memorybox Frosted Christmas Tree die.  This was my happy mail!  It's one of their newly released dies that I was lucky enough to win as part of the Memorybox Holiday Release over at A Crear Se Dijo.  Fantastic die.  I cut and embossed some green card and then used DI Mowed Lawn to highlight the embossing.  They fitted perfectly to continue my Norwegian forest theme.  The flourish is Sizzix Flowers and Vine #3.  

For this layout, for my memories of this day and my Lamb in general these papers and embellishments couldn't have been more perfect.  I haven't done many layouts but I am really pleased how all the elements work together to give me a very special frozen moment.  I suppose that is what it's all about.......

Joining the fun at
Imaginisce - July Challenge
Country View Challenges - Summer Sizzler
Stamping Sensations July Challenge 

Thanks for dropping by.  Please leave a comment to let me know you passed this way.  Have a great day. 

Me and Lambchop

Good evening Blogland.  Hope you all had a lovely sunny weekend.  Did anyone have fun with National Scrapbook Day.  I must admit I am not really a scrapper but I have been gently venturing into some sketch challenges and I have decided to take the plunge.  Look, not even a profile picture and here I am putting myself in a LO.  Wonders never cease.  

My grandmother, gosh that's posh, usually she is just Nan, is 90 in a few weeks.  Wow, good going Nan.  So I will be taking a little trip to the UK for a visit.  I already have a couple of cards, well you know last minute change of mind, and I decided I would try and do a LO for her.  With yours truly in the frame, of course.  I have chosen a passingly fair photo of me taken last year in the garden with The Lamb.  No, his name wasn't really Lambchop, squeamish folk look away.  Luckily it wouldn't fit on the LO so I went with Sibbe, which was his name.  Except I called him Lamb most of the time.  And he called me Maaaaaaaaaammmmm.  

So here we are, me and my lamb.  Hi.  I am fairly sure he not so interested in me, more in that milk left in the flask.  This is probably about this time last year.  I can tell you the garden doesn't look anything like this this year!!  The grass is still mostly brown, no leaves on the trees, no sun, no lamb......

I have used a lovely sketch from over at Creative Craft World.  They wanted 4 photos but I was inspired by the LO from Sarah where she had cut her photo into 4.  I did slightly more irregular cuts but am quite pleased with the result.  I could get to like this scrapbooking lark!!  I have also combined the game of tic tac toe over at S.W.A.T.  I have used the diagonal 3 buttons, ribbon and chipboard.  

So I cut my photo and backed it with some pale green card.  The background sheet and the polka dot circle are both from DCWV Pet Stack.  I used a rectangle of music printed vellum behind.  Top right two chipboard leaves from Tando Mini Leaves 2 and a double tied bow.  

Him again.  Bottom right two more chipboard leaves and three wooden buttons.  I left the chipboards uncoloured, in fact tried to find the sooty ones!! and used wood buttons because I wanted to maintain a natural feel to the colours.  The date and title are cut from black card using Sizzix Ida Lou's Flower Box dies.  

Joining the fun over at
Creative Craft World Scrap Map Challenge - May
SWAT Drill 7 -Tic Tac Toe
Simon Says Stamp - What Are U Working On
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Inspired by 
Simon Says Stamps - Happy Mail if this doesn't make Nanny happy I'll eat my sheep.  Oh oops!  Sorry, couldn't resist.  Got to be wicked now and then. 

Hey, anybody out there got tips about sticking down vellum so the glue doesn't show??  Thanks for dropping by.  Stay safe, be crafty.....