Backwards sharing.

Do you ever feel like your blog shares your life in all the wrong order?
*grins*
I know I do. Stuff I create that can't be shared for one reason or another - and lots of things in qeue at times,while others bypass the line and jump straight to the front.

Then again, I never claimed that this blog was chronological. I actually never claimed it was ANY kind of logical. And just for that - here's Supertramp! (Pay not attention to the "video". Unless, you know, you want to...)

Anyhow - music aside, this LO was made using the Nook January kit + the Nook February kit and the latest Lily Bee sketch... and an image of my dad. By the way: that fluorescent colouring is mainly the result of a color enhancing Photoshop action. Promise. It's not like we were strolling around in the middle of a toxic nuclear wasteland or anything.
But the light sure was amazing!



Stamping hearts with a tp-roll-idea? Stolen from the AMAZING Anna Maria.
Thanks for always inspiring me, sweetie!

Papers from Lily Bee and October Afternoon
Stickers by Jenni Bowlin
Plus tons of random goodies...!

Hold it! I'm not done yet!

On the happy scrappy news-front: Soon-to-be-attended scrappening (also known as "get-together with my gals"). Incoming March Nook kit. My Inzpira-mail box being flooded with fab stuff and fantastic, fabolous & fun stuff being planned for issues to come. Upcoming Inzpira Scrapevent.
Fun, fun, fun!

But hey there - back that tape. Incoming MARCH Nook kit?

Wowzers! I'm not even close to finished with the February kit. Or the Limited edition Valentine's Kit. Or even the January kit!
...did I ever tell you: these kits are jam packed with fun stuff? Because they are - they last you ages!

Case in point - here's another LO I made with some pieces of the the January kit:



The cute lady following directions? That's Camilla. She rocks. :)

Papers: Lily Bee
Mini craft bag, washi tape and bling: You Do
Flowers: Petaloo
Stencil: Crafter's Workshop
Other stuff: bird+cage rubons by Kaisercraft, Facetten Lack by Viva/Creative Company, green alpha by American Crafts, swirl from "no-name" store, home made letter stickers... and paint & stuff!

Happy semmelday!

...and right about now, everyone who's not a Swede is frowning and thinking to themselves "what the heck is a 'semla'?!"

Let me employ my trusty (... ;)) Wikipedia-backup and enlighten you!
THIS is a semla!
My grandma (born 1920) grew up back when a semla/fastlagsbulle was nothing but a sweeter bun with a raisin on top - and maybe dunked in milk.
My dad prefers them with cinnamon and in a bowl of hot milk. (They have to be home made, though - because the store bought buns dissolve in milk in like 2,5 seconds and let me tell you: that porridge is no treat...)
I love mine with coffee and with some bitter almond-essence and roughly chopped regular almonds in the paste. Just the way my mom used to make'em. Oh - and they have to have regular, unswetened REAL whipped cream. None of that faux, air whipped, tasteless (or too sugary) blechness that they serve sometimes.

In other words, It's Shrove Tuesday, and when DH gets home we're gonna dive headfirst into the last few episodes of Lost Girl season 1 - and eat semlor. Luxurious, spoiled Tuesdays. My fave!

To illustrate my current mood - here's a card I made for one of my oldest, bestest, funniest, sweetest, loyalest and most beautifullest (Yup! The "est" is very important when speaking of this lady - thus the brand-spankin'-new word-versions!) friends, Sofia, using the adorable Wryn from Tiddly Inks:



Have a great Shrove Tuesday, everyone!
Have a bun with your coffee. You deserve it!
:)

Oh my goodness...!

It's me. Featured. At the ColorRoom!
First upload ever, and I get to be featured?

Made my WEEK!

Here's the LO in it's entirety:



I've used the October Afternoon "Sarsparilla" papers that came in the Nook's February kit, and added Petaloo flowers/leaves, You Do bling, some other bling, tons of paint and I used a Crafter's Workshop template. Oh, there's also a doily, some tags and random knick-knacks. :)

Thanks for popping by!

Ps. On demand, I am gonna try to NOT use word verification for a little while again. Fingers crossed that I don't get covered in spam again? (If I go back to the same 4 to 1 spam vs comment ratio, captchas go back on.)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Remember to love YOURSELF today.
...because you can't build a house unless you've first completed the ground works.

Speaking of completing. He completes me:



October Afternoon/Sasparilla papers courtesy of the February Nook kit
Flowers from Petaloo
Bling from You Do and... some "nameless" kind
Template from Crafter's Workshop
...plus tons of bits & bobs, including a tag from a pair of jeans from Lindex. ;)

Have a GOOD day!

Updating twice in one week?

And it's only Thursday!

Oh vey - what might become of this??! ;)

Using my Nook Valentine's Special Kit and the sketch from Studio Calico, paired up with this photo of my sister and I at the Sator concert on her birthday last August, I whipped up a little something.

And it goes something like this:



Papers: Crate
Bling: swirl by no-name-manufacturer and the iridiscent ones are from You Do
Stencil: Crafter's Workshop
Acrylic paint, distress inks, Glossy Accents, Crackle Accents, doilies, home made word-stickers

While I contemplate.

I have a ton of things on my mind. I feel like a complete bore: grumpy and distracted and just preoccupied most of the time. So while I think, I'll just show you this layout.

It's another one using the Nook kit (December-kit, actually) and it's for a challenge in the crop, to use ten or more words in your title. This is a part of a song I usually reserve for M and I - but that fit soooo well with this image.

"You put your arms around me and I'm home."



Papers: old and new Crate
Flowers: Petaloo hydrangea (four different sizes in one set)
Stencils: Crafter's Workshop and regular ol' punchinella
Bling: YouDo

Trio in cards!

Another fun challenge, found at The Nook's message board, was a card challenge by the amazing card-goddess Danni Reid who asked us to use four pieces of patterned paper and one piece of chipboard to make a card.
I don't usually "do" chipboard, but I decided to try - and these cards?
VERY inspired by Danni herself, so if you think I've channeled my inner Danni here, you are QUITE right. I just wish I had an ounce of her talent, buuuuut at least it was inspiring and you can't get everything you wish for, right?

(As the twin Chinese curses go: "May you live in interesting times" and "May you get what you wish for". I guess it's true! ...even if I STILL think having a bit of Danni's talent could never hurt! ...although I'd rather have the company and inspiration of the darling girl herself! :D)

Anyhow. I made three cards, but as you can see, only one has four pp's. The other two just joined the set for fun:



I've used the January Nook kit, again! Tons of cute Lily Bee paired with Petaloo flowers and Maya Road chippies.

Thanks for thwe inspo, Danni! ♥

Oh, how quickly a week passes!

I'm here! Promise!
I've just been busy. In my defense I've been creating, too.

For instance, I've made another LO for the Nook New Years Crop. The challenge? To use ten or more patterned papers on one LO.
Ten. Or. More.
Whoa. Pattern overload?
Yes, maybe. But I had fun, and you know what?
I actually love the outcome! (And by the way? These are twelve different patterned papers.)



The brown mist looks a bit off here, but I promise: it's light brown.
I've mostly used Lily Bee (loooove Lily Bee!) from the January Nook kit. Yeah, I'm aware that I seem to use it all the time - but you know what? It's because it's lovely! And you know what, part two? I still have TONS left! So you'd better buckle up and steel yourself, 'cause I don't see the Lily Bee-spree ending anytime soon!
(Not to mention that ALL my Mexico-LOs are Lily Bee. Hmmm... Maybe I should flirt with them and demand some VIP-special treatments?! *giggles*)

Hope your week is starting off wonderfully, and that it'll continue just as fab.

Scraplifting myself...

One of the New Years Crop-challenges over @ My Scrapbook Nook was lifting one of your own layouts. I picked this one: *click here to see it, since I'm too lazy to find the blogpost with it* ;)

It felt like a good choice, since it's from last year, which was suggested, and it was made before I started playing with more paints and less flowers. To pick one after would have felt like cheating a little - and not even close to as fun.

So here's what I made:



Most of these things are from the Nook January kit, featuring Lily Bee.
Bling are my faves, from YouDo. So are the stamp pads I've used.
Bird stamps and the stamped "coffee mug rings" are all from Hella Bella Designs - loooove them!
Also: Bazzill OP (my fave), distress inks refills, gesso, alphas from Basic Grey & Lily Bee, Facetten Lack (crackle medium), black pen and a heart shaped golden sticker (yes, golden. It look sblack but it's not.)

Colours are a bit off, as you can probably tell - sorry about that.
I really do long for spring and its more userfriendly kind of light! ;)

There's TONS of journaling there, too. Can't see it? No wonder. I just wrote down all my memories, thoughts and reflections, printed it all out and stuck it to the back of the layout. Yay for me! (I'm usually notoriously awful at journaling on my LOs but this way, I think, I might just get it to work out fine!!)

Thanks for popping by! Have a wonderful week!