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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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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scrapbook saturday - sharing

So, as i told you in my last post i have some new goodies to play with! yay! actually i did some paper + glue playing like 1 hour after the package arrived :)

i amazed myself with this one. i almost never use the color blue in my layouts. it is not that i don´t like the color, becuase i do and i can´t really say why i tend to walk away from it when i create. anyhow, i am loving how this turned out though!

the layout is about selfconfidence and the fact that it just hit me the other week that i always say i have such a low selfconfidence, and really i don´t. i am confident in so many ways and let me tell you how much of a burden has been lifted from my shoulders since i realized that!

i busted out my sewing machine for this one! i punched some circles from a few of the yummy papers i got. i first just sanded the edges and atached them to the patterned paper background, but then i just thought it needed something more. so a few stitches it was!

the story behind this page is that dixon tend to just pop into photos suddenly :) do you remember this? :) this time i was getting the camera ready for some self portraits and i guess he was curious about what i was doing :)

we has some serious snow this past winter and after tons of reports on roofs collapsing we decided to clear our roof from snow. we have never had to worry about this before, so it was an adventure :)

again with the blue! :)

scrapbook sunday ( day early )

i can´t remember if i have shared this one with you or not...anyway it is highly inspired by wilna which made an awesome page in february. i have printed a bighhugelabs mosaic of lovey dovey photos in my flickr favorites. i then added a little bigger black and white photo of my own.

i guess i am not the only one who gets super inspired by song lyrics, and sometimes those lyrics goes right into your heart and is perfectly describing what you feel. this was the case with this layout. my daughter is getting so big and i really do feel that time is "slipping through my fingers", so i printed the lyrics for the old abba song slipping through my fingers and then i added my photo (mat inspired from here) and embellishments. i also added short journaling in which i explain that sometimes my words are not enough and then i do use song lyrics.

ugh, this was my first ever try at mist and well, i have learned to accept it :) i really don´t have acctual mist, but watercolors that i attempted to squirt onto the paper :) i will do more of this though!

studio calico blog has had a few posts about misting among others this one.

hi, i am lisa and i am addicted to making layouts with photo mosaics.

:)

again with the help of bighugelabs :) for this one i used spring photos i had in my flickr stream.

signs of spring captured by me :)

a photo someone took of me and my daughter while on vacation. i love it!

i hope that we can go on an all girls trip very soon, just the 2 of us!

i used my new letter stickers from websterspages.com

while dog walking one day i took a photo of my husband, and then handed over the camera to him. it resulted in this layout where the quote : beauty is in the eye of the beholder is the whole point! i think he is, and he thinks i am beautiful and that is really all that matters, right?! i love making pages with odds and ends that are left on my table from previous projects!

that is all for now!

scrapbook sunday

i can´t tell you excited and nervous i am for the trip we are taking tomorrow! it is so strange, because i have been on my share of trips and travels before...

before i leave though, i wanted to share the 2 layouts that i managed to crank out this week.

i had to capture the delight and hard work of prepping for an photo exhibition. i have seen so many lovely layouts with white writing, so i had to give it another try.

i did make a few layouts before with the white pen i got from my very best mel ♥ they have worked really good.

dixon loves his water and he was thrilled to see that the lake had opened up from the ice. maybe this page is a little to simple?

i also made 2 birthday cards, one for my mom and one for my mother in law. i rarely make cards but these were actually quite fun to make!

ok, i´ll see you soon, maybe i can post from the trip?!

scrapbook sunday - yay

ok, here we go. a true sign of spring is when the kids are out on the trampoline. i love the laughter that comes from the back of the garden. this year the snow was still on the ground when the temps were up. i finally bought a butterfly punch :)

another layout where i celebrate the fact that spring really is here. i added text to the photo in Photoshop Elements easy peasy. the font is called rough typewriter and is a free font.

i love this one! i used sharilyns gracious free pattern download from february as the patterend paper part on this layout. isn´t is cute. the layout is about how impressed i am that my daughter actually has hold on to her intrest in horses and riding for a long time.

and she is good at it too!

some nintendo ds love :) during a ferry ride my daughter was sorting her games and i asked her to make a list of her favorites. i love when i can use her handwriting in projects! i am not loving the rub-on words on the to, but hey what do you do!

what have you been creating lately?

a proper scrapbook sunday - yay!

Ok, let´s just kick this started, right!

i am so thrilled that though i have had pretty much a rough week all around, that i still managed to scrapbook a little. it makes me happy! i guess a little like therapy, but the paper and glue kind. when i was sick another time i buried myself in my scrapbook room and i don´t thing i have created so many layouts ever in just one month. 53!

when i had taken this photo i had a week of "i will give dixon away and pay the people who take him"! hehe he can be a handful sometimes. but the truth is that i do love him so very much!

number 11 on my list is to simplify my wardrobe. so one day i made such a mess in my bedroom, but then it resulted in one giant bag to charity and a rainbow wardrobe for me ;)  

oh, and that red patterned paper is so beautiful, i bought it last week and it is bo bunny called love bandit bee mine ;) oh, and the journaling tag is from the download area over at the container store site which i printed on the same craft paper as my background.

edited: i cannot seem to find the download area anymore, but f you are interested i can email you a pdf!

as most of you know i live on an island in one of the biggest lakes in sweden. it is also a very deep lake which means that it freezes very rarely. but this year, as we have had a very cold winter, it freezed enough to be able to go out and fish on the lake and to take long, long walks on. you can see some more photos of my winter here.

the page is inspired my the lovely kristens photos here. i loved that she used paper and glue to make the photos pop even more! and i though that a yellow banner would be lovely on this page.

this is part of a 2 page layout, but i couldn´t stitch them together properly to show you. this layout started during a sick week home with my daughter. we did all sorts of arts and crafts (it is the best therapy after all!). among others we did handprints together. mine is the blue one and my 10 year old daughters is on the right...see anything strange? i know! how the heck did she get almost larger hands than me in 10 years!!!

i love the fact that we did them though and i know that i will cherish these handprints all my life!

ok, that is it from me today!

scrapbook sunday + shop news!

ok, so i didn´t have any time to do some scrapbooking myself this week. shocker i know :) but i did however find tons of great pages from other people. so, today i am going to share a few of the pages i have seen this week, floating around internet.

(from april foster)

i love pretty much everything on this page! i love the photo and the fact that it is divided into three, the scallopped edges and the map paper.

(from lisa dickinson)

the die cut shape ofcourse is one thing i love, but also the colors. i also like that she put the little frame on the larger photo. and i don´t even have to start on the banner, right!

(from cheryl ametewee)

this must be the first page ever to have had the hospital bracelets on it and still not in a odd way. i have wanted to do something with those bracelets, but have never ever seen such a classy and clever way!

(from steph w)

i am totally drawing inspiration from this theme! but i think i will do a renovation twist on it!

(from susan weinroth)

i love that susan used black and white photos for this layout! i need to do that more again. the colorful page makes the photos pop even more! i also love the little tag on the top!

(from this studiocalico member)

how i love the use of tape here! and circles and especially the little tape by the title!

(from susan dupre)

ok, i don´t have anything more to say about this layout than w.o.w!

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i also have a new item in my shop!

since Paris is one of my favorite places on earth i needed to make a set of the paris venue photos.  

so, may i present the paris amour polaroid print set!

thank you all for the response i have gotten about opening shop! now, i only have to make some sales ;)

to help that i am having a special offer:

if you buy a polaroid print set you also get to choose one more single print from the shop for free!

so, go see what you would like in the shop!