The spice of life

Grandchildren are the spice of life I believe. Or the sweet as a friend of me use to say. It is so special with these beautiful little children. I can say lots and lots about my dear grandchildren, but I`ll spare you now. But I have to tell you about this little one, the smallest one of my three grandchildren. I spendt a day together with him while the parents was at work. It was such a lovely time. And when I shold go back home, he ran to the fence and stood there lookin`at me and he didn`say anything. Just studying and it was so difficult for me to leave...

To ting på èn gang!

Framside -bagasjelapp.

Bakside - bagasjelapp.

Drømmeferien.

Er ikke vi flinke? Vi klarer to ting på èn gang! Og det er det sikkert flere som vil forsøke seg på også. Hos Art-Pieces tar vi det på strak arm, utfordringen i uke 28 er å lage en bagasjelapp (ATC-tag) der baksiden også kan dekoreres som på en vanlig bagasjelapp. Og endelig fikk jeg brukt stemplene fra Stampington & Co. Til bakgrunn brukte jeg alkoholblekk på glossypapir. Selve baksiden av tagen er et journaling-ark fra Jenni Bowlin.
Drømmeferien er utfordringen til uke 29. Jeg har laget en liten collage med bilder fra "VAGABOND" Det er ikke så mye annet å si om den tror jeg. Som regel har jeg det kjempefint uansett hvor jeg ferierer. Det er vel noe med forberedelser tenker jeg. Men jeg må innrømme at min drømmeferie inneholder en bit god og annerledes mat, en bit godt drikke, og ikke minst samvær med trivelige mennesker. Da må det bli drømmerferie! Og denne gangen er det selvfølgelig ekstra lang frist på disse. --------------------------------------------------------------- This time we have two challenges going on over at Art-Pieces. One of them is about making a luggage-tag and the other one is about your summerholiday. Not an ordinary vacation, but THE BEST VACATION EVER. Or as we call it in norwegian "dream-vacation" you can read all about this over at Art-Pieces. Of course you have more than a week now for these challenges. You have all the time until 21th of July.

Vintage - the challenge at Art-Pieces this week.

It seems that VINTAGE will always be a very popular theme among cardmakers and scrapbookers. And so it is with those of us who like to make ATC`s. Some artists might say my ATC doesn`t have the right old look to deserve to be called vintage. But I do belive this one goes well with that group.

Enough about that, go ahead and join the Art-Pieces challenge. If this is your first time making an ATC, then you will soon see how fun it is.

Hva er vel livet uten (en) Happy Hobby?

Sommer og nattscrapp, kan det bli bedre? Happy Hobby hadde sitt siste treff før ferien nå sist torsdag, vi holdt på helt til midnatt. Og som vanlig var det en stor gjeng med humørfylte og trivelige damer. Ikke minst vil jeg berømme damene bak disken hos Happy Hobby på Gjøvik. De vet å skape stemning og godt miljø. Man føler seg så velkommen og de er utrolig dyktige og hjelpsomme. Siden de startet for et drøyt år siden er det blitt en kjempefin gjeng som møtes regelmessig på treffene der. Jeg fikk ferdig en Lo som jeg startet med på Mjøstreffet, det er et høstmotiv med de to eldste barnebarna. Og på den andre LOen er aller minste-mann, mormors lille gullklump! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The children in these two lay-outs are as usual my grandchildren. They are my favourite models but the eldest are not so happy anymore when they sees the camera. Not as the little one, he think it is fun.

Lovely papers from Papirdesign, a norwegian producer

PAPIRDESIGN.

This week the DT at Art-Pieces got some beautiful papers from the norwegian producer Papirdesign We were asked to make a card and an ATC with these papers. But I love them so much, they are excellent in cardmaking so I could not stop that soon.. So I made two of each. They really are so nice, the green paper has the most wonderful poems written on them and the pink one has tiny little roses. It`s cute! The beige I`ve used with Ophelia-card is so elegant and the patterned papers you can see with the "Ophelia-ATC" is from Papirdesign too. It is from a "Love-paper" or maybe it is called Valentine-paper.

The magic Art-Pieces and Harry Potter.

The challenge this week at ART-PIECES is about magic. Is`nt that fun? There are lots of magic around us witches, faeries and many others. When I was little the most magic thing in my world was a glassbowl with a snowman inside. And when you turned it around it started to snow inside, I could spend a long time looking at the snowyweather in that bowl! And I`ve found that we still have lots of magic here. Like Harry Potter, fr.ex, the funniest, most magic books and movies. And would you belive, a few days ago I saw him in his Ford Anglia just above our chimney!

Frames and dots

This time we are asking for frames and dots over at ART-PIECES, the ATC-challengeblog. You really should give it a try. And have a look at my DT-colleagues lovely pieces too! The winner of the challenge will get some beautiful papers from the new collection at PAPIRDESIGN Thank you for looking!