

I just love my flowers in my garden. The best of it al is that I keep getting wonderful surprises, as it wasn´t me that planted the flowers.
I´ve used Primas gorgeous papers and I have cut the butterfly pattern partly from the paper so that I could fold up the wings. Gives the layout that little extra touch of dimension.
I´m not a card maker, I often say that, but even I have to admit that handmade cards are so much more fun to send then the ones you get in a boutique. Here is two very simple cards I made, one of them is to say thank you and the other one is a congrats card. Same idea and paper scraps used for the both of them.
Oh… and I do start to realize that this punch needs to be my next investment.
Inkido has just recently released this cute little mini album. It comes in two shapes, heart and star. I had the chance to play with the heart shape and I just loved it! It´s just enough pages to make a small and fairly quickly scraped album, a perfect gift for Christmas to granny… The real challenge here for me was to not make the pages as 3 dimensional as I usually do. And, it was a challenge, but a fun one
And if you are five and get to keep the paper scraps, you might want to make an airplane with propellers.
I´m just wondering, is there anyone who doesn´t love Primas stuff? I for one definitely adore them and these papers are just perfect to the photo of my beautiful nice. Her favorite color is purple.
Most of the material is from Skaparlusten but the little piece of aged paper is a stamp from Inkido, check out their blog to see how you can age your motives to become much more beautiful than mine.
This photo is one of our family treasures that my mother keeps in an old shoe box she dressed with flower patterned paper. I love these kind of photos on layouts, I keep thinking of the story they tell, but… I find it hard to tell the story cause it´s not my story. I don’t remember what happened on the photo, why it was taken, and most of al, it´s not even my family. In my family there is a little brother to, how ever so annoying he always has been…
I used BG:s clear stamps for the leaves that are cut out in black in the Prima flowers. They are so cute! And that big beautiful lace? Well… a scrapping friend of mine made that!!! It´s actually hand made, isn´t that amazing?
When I started scrapbooking I read a lot about how to match the pp and cs in order to lead the eyes to the photo, to use a photo matte and so on. Newbie as I was, I took al the advices and for a very long time I only matched the same colors and used or used the same paper line without daring to mix in other colors and lines.
Scraping paper from the same line is perfect for beginners when you just start out in the amazing word of patterned papers, and its also perfect for us lazy scrappers who prefer the actual scraping and embellishing rather then choosing the paper….
But still… the longer I keep scraping, the more I dare to do with the colors and I keep making the same observation over and over again, mixing papers from different lines and manufacturers tends to give your layouts a little more life. It´s actually not that difficult, the trick is to always let the colors appear in more than one place on the layout.
This is probably one of my less decorated layouts. Strangely this paper line from Inkodo suits just as well for the more clean and graphic layouts as for my own somewhat more… shabby style. I just adore these papers! I´ve used a stamp from Inkido for the border around the layout, and stamped both with fluid chalks (chestnut roan) and a regular inkpad. I´m just a beginner with my stamps so this is as advanced as I get.
Oh, I also used my paper crimpler I got one a while back and was certain I would use it al the time… Well… I used it… once before this. But it does give a nice dimension to the layouts, don´t you think?