a scrapbooking post finally

finally i have some scrapbooking pages to show you! i took them outside and hung thenm in a tree in the backyard to photograph them!

and for this first layout, it is very suiteable as it is about my ever growing love for gardening :)

i love that snail patterned paper (panduro) and i saw those dot effects somewhere online and thought it gave so much to the page. and simple; circle punch + glue dot!

and since i didn´t have an "O" to spell "love" i used a felt heart instead.

i know this is a poor excuse for a photo of a 2 pager, but it still is :) i tried to bind the 2 together by using the same green patterned papers for the circle accents.

i love the fact that you can use your blogposts and transfer them onto a scrapbook layout, but as i usually scrapbook in swedish i seldom do use my blogposts (as i always blog in english!), but this time i did. i used my writing from this blogpost earlier this week. i thought that it captured exactly what i wanted to say in both blog and layout.

ok, thats all from me today. but tomorrow or friday i have a wardrobe refashon post in store for you!

scrappy

i managed to get some scrapbooking done on sunday night. itis funny how i  long to sit down and create, but then almost have to force myself to acctually do it!

hehe! yes, these two had some good old hillbillie fun with the lawnmower from my husbands work! i instantly thought of the title when i saw and heard their laughter as they raced with the mower! i initially wanted to use buttons to make a banner, but i cannot remember where i have put all my buttons!!! so i used some butterflies instead :)

i seem to love these studio calico stamps all together, because this is the second time i have used them as a group! i took this photo during our first outside meal of this summer season!
i am not super happy with using that patterned paper as my background...

and i wanted to give you a peak of my newly done wall that i talked about in my last post. i hope to show you the whole shabang this week sometime!

here comes the sun and 11 years ago

ok, so shall we get started on that promised scrappy post?!

i made this layout after a warm day now in june. and it just marks the fact that we all love when summer and the sun gets here every year. the photo is of one of my daughters older drawings. i love these colors!

you know the other day i had a post about how to scrap your right now? well, this layout is the opposite from that. i have been looking hrough my daughters baby pictures and this one is one of my favorites. she is almost 2 months old, i am just 20. i have had this photo right infront of me for a while and it speaks to me. tells a story about a very young woman that really has no clue of what life is about. a young woman that has really just realized that she has a baby of her own and have just started a new kind of love. sometimes i ache to go back in time and record everything, to savor every single detail and moment. i can´t belive that this photo was taken almost 11 years ago...i am so happy that i got this down on paper!

i look so young!

i used the photo of our feet during a recent weekend getaway. for the journaling i used a piece of transperency, i almost never use that!

right now kinda scrapping

today is all about "right now" kinda scrapbooking. i love to record the things and events of our life that is happening right now. a time that will not ever come back.

the title and concept of this page is actually plain and simply " right now". i started with that frase and filled in things that are us in that moment. i urge you to do that too, it is kinda fun! on a different note, this is the first "familyshot" since new years eve last year! yikes, i need to be better at that!!!

here i used the same concept of beginning with at frase. this time it was "you are..." and filled in the blanks with things i think my daughter is.

don´t you love that patterned paper?! i do! it is from pink paislee ♥

how are you doing on recording your "right now"?

again

i have been ranting forever and ever  about making photo mosaics using the easy peasy tool over at bighugelabs and using them to scrapbook. and i still love it very very much! just to show you like the easiest scrapbook page i have ever done i have used 2 different mosiacs on this 2pager. i love how clean it is! and all i did was add the text in WORD and the flower accent by hand.

have you used photo mosaics in your scrapbooking? i´d love to see!

forced scrapbooking

i am sharing with you today the results of scrapbooking that i physically forced myself to do! i have been in such a rut, and i thought well i did the cleaning thing and thinking thing and doing nada thing. now i just did it. i sat down and did these (and some more) pages just to get something down on paper that included glue and pretty paper.

i took a bunch of photos of our cherry tree at different stages in the blooming process. i wanted to use them as a reminder of that spring comes bit by bit. this page is actually about A5 in size. i randomly cut the paper in my cutter and used it as my background. i wanted to use lots of flowers so i did kind of a grid thing.

during our trip to budapest, hungary earlier this year, my daughter kept doing this thing with her fingers on.every.photo! i drove me nuts!!! i knew i wanted to keep that memory. for the photos i did a mosaic over at bighugelabs.com and cut the individual photos out.

for a long time i have loved the lyrics to "beautiful" with james blunt. i especially love these words. so i took special photos and did a mosaic (again at big huge labs) and used them as my "photo". added the lyrics and voila a gentle reminder to myself!

this is the page where i record how much fun my photoshow was! i love these different patterned papers ♥

creative blocks

i have been having kind of a creative block lately. i am itching to do something, but then i never get to it. then when i do get to it, i am not feeling very creative. i have done all sorts of things to try to unblock me, i even cleaned of everything from my desk. everything. my husband came into my room and just stopped! haha he was impressed.

so, one of the things was to do nothing. i had a whole week when i didn´t do anything crafty. it was like being on detox for me. i could gather my thoughts, make some lists and plan some mindful crafts i want to do. i had a feeling of uselessness when it came to my crafts lately. you know, i want to try so many things, but when i finished them they were all just laying around and not being used for anything. and as i am trying to get rid of things i really don´t need, it added to my dilemma.

i also organized. i sorted my bits and pieces. did a big donation to the local school with tons of craft supplies that i don´t use anymore. i decided what i wanted to have at hand and boxed the rest. it is always easier to get started with something when i am organized and can find everything.

then i went through my scrapbook albums. that took a while :) i love to do that. i do that to rarely. as i am a fast scrapper, i do my layouts in a bunch and just put them into the albums. i don´t really give myself the time to enjoy them. i am going to make that into a new habit, to flip through my books more often.

and after that i decided to scraplift myself. as i looked through the albums alot of pages stood out and for now i chose this page.

the page is personal to me. it is all about how my body looks after my c-section and pregnancy. i have had a lot of feelings around this and i love that i did a scrapbook layout about it and that it is right in there between the others. i also love the actual lay-out (design) so i challenged myself to lift it in some way.

i am not in love with my result, but it did kind of unplug me from my block.

i on the other hand love the story. the title is what love looks like around here. i listed things like doggie kisses, small notes and hugs, to amuze me when i ask for photos, many i love yous and massages. it was fun to think of small everyday things that we all do in our family to show that we love eachother.

what does love look like at your house?

what do you do when crafting doesn´t come easy?

what crafts are you itching to try?

please share!

scrapbook sunday

this is just a photo page, where i wanted to save the photo in my album. i used erica hernandez wonky photo mask which is so much fun! and then i got inspired by the ever so awsesome jennifer johner with the paper strips!

i love this photo! my daughter was in the backseat begging me to take some photos of her making silly faces. i did. but i am most happy that i captured this one of her pure happiness ♥

for the background i used both transperencies and the doilysticker. i think it made for a sophisticated look. the whole thing is straight in real life!

yes, i did finally settle with a design for this layout! i cut the small photos into squares of 6cm. and spaced them in to a grid. the title is cut from a font called "just another font" that i printed onto some kraft paper. to get the2 pages together better i did my journalling on kraft paper aswell. then i added some odds and ends.

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help needed!

i don´t know if it is just a whole mojo thing or if its just with this project. i am so stuck with my "aday in the life" photos. i think i havechanged everything up like 5 times already. today i am going to work on the journalling instead to get some distance. i am also doing to do some garden work, that always inspires me! if you have any great ideas for me, please let me know!

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a day in the life

with all the delicious "week in the life" projects floating around the web, i was super inspired to do something like it. i already knew that i am not ready to make it a whole week, so i did a mini version with only one day.

i picked monday may 10th and i think i did do quite well. i had my camera and a notepad and a pen with me throughout the day. i jotted down small notes and times. what did i see? well...

* i dedicate quite some time to care for our dogs with several walks, petting and playing.

* i love my job (i already knew that though!)

* it was hard to remember to actually do document things that you do without thinking about it.

* that i tend to do lots of things at once (i need to work on mindfulness!)

* that i love the relaxed atmosphere that we have at home.

* i am happy that i chose a workday.

* i drove 2 times before 8 am in my pyamas :)

now i want to start doing some pages about this. and as i said before, there are a lot of inspiration all around the internet!

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there you have it, a page about the different technical supplies i use everyday! i made the journaling + the card here.

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scrapbook sunday

i went through my albums the other day and came upon a layout i did a few years ago where i had asked my girl a few of her favorites, you know music, food etc. i thought to myself that it was time to make another one of those "right-now" pages. so, once again i asked her the same questions and she answered. i knew i wanted the journaling to be as in a form that you´d fill out. so i first went on the computer and wrote the title (makemealpha) and the favorite categories (rough typewriter) and printed it out. then i just simply handjournaled her answers. for the photos i wanted a recent photo ofcourse and used danielle thompsons awesome carnvivale photobooth kit and added the same photo to the frames. printed it out and just cut it out. added this and that and...done!

i am not particulary happy with this page and wasn´t sure first if i would share it or not. but then i decided that i would, because i do have pages like that and they still make their place in my albums. they tll the story nontheless. this story is about how no one can be more snuggly and comfortable on the couch as dixon. he is so sweet when he holds that pillow near and just snuggle as it was his teddy or something :)

the title of this page is "lately..." and it is about how lately me and my husband has been even more comfortable with eachother and even more in love even though we celebrate our 10th year of being in love this year. isn´t it funny (and wonderful!) how love works...it does grow stronger each year and it is such an awesome feeling to have to catch my breath sometimes when i see him and feel the love from him...

that is all for me this scrapbook sunday!

and happy mothers day to all of you celebrating today!

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i was thinking...

from time to time it hits me that i have all these awesome layouts on my shelves. i mean, i always know that they are there because i see the albums everyday. but i am so bad at acctually flipping through them and see what i have kept as memories over the year. this time i was looking for a particular layout because i had a little journaling i wanted to add to the back of the layout. as i was flipping through the books, i found the album that has the layouts from may last year. i stopped and sat down to really look and read. it filled me with the most awesome feeling inside. these 2 below is 2 of the favorites, but there are so many more.

i love dandellions and was so excited when my daughter said ok to a quick photoshoot on our way home from school! i remember that it made me ridiculously happy to play among the flowers :)

i am so happy that i have started to include the fact that i am sick (cronical depression) into my layouts,since that is a big part of my and my families life everyday. this layout tells the story about how i have had some downs, but that my garden has helped me very much. that is still very true!

just wanted to share my thoughts today!

happy scrapbook day!

i will not be able to take part in any of the festivities around (inter)national scrapbook day because i am out of town. but i did make a few layouts this past week and wanted to share them with you!

this photo above makes me smile! can you believe that she made that hat herself?!! i was amazed when i say it!

while on holiday in budapest we walked by a flowershop on the street and she saw this feather boa. and i cannot believe how happy she was when she got it!!! these photos shows how she is nowadays, very glamourous! :)

also during our trip to budapest, we suddelny realized that the grass was green :) and snapped a photo ofcourse, beacause as you know i love to take photos of feet!

i can´t wait to go on my blog hop when i come back, and see what you all did on national scrapbookday!