Årstabroarna

Här kommer en layout jag har gjort för Creativicas

räkning; temat är "bryt mönstret" så denna layout

är gjord med sommarpapper (från maja Design) 

fast det är vintermotiv på fotona. 

För fler detaljer angående materialen, hoppa

gärna över till CREATIVICA och kolla!

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La Vikinga

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Project Life 2014 vecka 2

Week number two is done! I have continued

using Fridas titel page for the week and small

journaling cards for this spread. 

Decorations: washitape, stickers from Jillibean

Soup, little "eyes" from a store called TGR, 

a stamp with chevrons from Gummiapan, 

paper ribbon self adhesive in white and

the cool "like" stamp from Lagerhaus. 

So; square corners to the left, rounded corners to

the right, in order to continue having rounded 

corners on the next pages.  

New post again on Thursday; welcome back!

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La Vikinga

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Sunshine makes me happy!

SUNSHINE MAKES ME HAPPY!!!

Here's a layout I made about my best memory 

from 2013 for a challenge at Helihak craft store.

Pictures are from Pontikonissi outside the

capital of the Greek island of Corfu. Near the

airport there is a path between Pontikonissi, 

on one side of the bay and Kanoni on the other. 

This is the place parents would take their

 kids to take a closer look at airplanes  

taking off or landing.

Papers and Decorations are all from Echo Park

collection Hello Summer. I love them! And I love

sunshine!

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Thanks for visiting my blog today!

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La Vikinga 

Project Life 2014 Week 1

OOOPS I was not aware of the habit of

making a kind of "first page" for the entire year, 

so I just started doing Week 1 right away...

The papers are pieces of cardstock and the

designes journaling cards are made by a girl

called Frida and if you click her name you find

her blog! Only I managed to print cards out in

a smaller size and the page was all done before

I knew that these were not the ones to print...

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La Vikinga

Project Life week 52, Tenerife 2013

Another two pages for my first PL album 

are ready! Papers from Echo Park Today´s

Story, some washitape, a doily, minialphas

and a lot of pictures from Loro Parque! 

I'm still experimenting with everything; the

materials, how many pictures to use, how

much journaling and how much decorations? 

There will be more...

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La Vikinga

Project life week 52

Surprised to see PL here? I'm pretty surprised

myself but here I am trying out something new.

These are my third and fourth page ever so have

patience. I have practiced with papers from Echo

Park "Today's Story" and my pictures from week

52 last December when we were in Tenerife on

vacations. 

I had so many pictures (it was all so beautiful

in the Loro Parque (a zoo) so I didn't bother

to put much journaling in the pockets this time.

Other than paper I have used some washitape

and some self adhesive decoration lace. Do you

like it? What should I have done differently?

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La Vikinga

GRATTIS / CONGRATULATIONS

GRATTIS MARIANNE OCH JÖRN

SOM GIFTER SIG I ÅNGE IDAG!

I have made an easel card for a couple

getting married today. Both ribbons are

from Crafty Ribbons and the border 

punches from Martha Stewart.

Challenges:

* Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

#77 Anything Goes

* Craftitude #56: Anything Goes or

Ribbons and Pearls

* Delicious Doodles #71: Easel cards

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Thanks for visiting my blog!

La Vikinga

Woodland Winter

A double layout using a sketch from Creativica:

You can use any of them and the theme for this 

month and participate in the challenge for the 

month of January. I'm in the design team and 

made this double as an inspiration. Can you see

which one of the sketches I have used?

Pictures are from February 2012 when step-

daughter had been here only a month. She was

fascinated by the snow but felt heavy moving

with all the sweaters, thick jacket, scarf and 

gloves etc. But I took her out for a walk on the 

ice one sunny day! She couldn't believe she

was actually walking on water! Frozen, but still...

Papers used: Woodland Winter from Bo Bunny

For more information about all the decorations,

check THIS blog out at CREATIVICA. Maybe 

you'd even participate in the challenge?

I know there's a lot of flowers and snowflakes,

but you know I love decorations in clusters

sometimes... And it fitted well with this sketch.

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Thanks for visiting,

La Vikinga

Finally my first Project Life

I decided I would start trying Project Lift out too,

so I was inspired by Anki at Creativica who made

a page without any special PL products. I tried to

do the same, making this page for Creativica as

 a project for the Design Team. I have used a

Double Dot paper from Bo Bunny to match the

green foliage in Greece, and cardstock. 

Above I put some journaling written on the computer

and as for the name of the island "Korfu" I cut it out

from one of the brochures we got from the agency. 

Beneath you can see a piece cut out from an enve-

lope; the Attika hotel complex had their own letter

head and even has their address on it:

Small letters are from Papir Design from Norway.

What do you think of my first attempt to try PL?

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La Vikinga 

Easel cards

Past weekend I had a visitor. She's called Amanda

and is 9 years old. She very much likes to make 

cards and other crafts so this time we agreed I'd

teach her to do an easel card. So she made this

one she has in her hand before trying to cut out

some dies in the Cuttlebug to make the other card.

Myself I made these cards to accompany her to 

show step by step how to do. "Tack" means 

"thank you". The papers are from my scraps.

Thanks for visiting again,

La Vikinga

Cupcakes!!

Did you know Crafty Ribbons also have 

digital stamps for sale? I like these ones

with cupcakes a lot and today I'll show

you an easel card:

The blue ribbons with small cupcakes

can be found in the store right HERE.

Buttons, both small black and bigger

white ones, are from Crafty Ribbons

very handy button boxes. 

There are several cupcakes to choose

from and you can find them HERE. 

Challenges:

*613 Avenue Create #63:

Anything Goes with color of winter

* Challenges 4 Everybody #37:

Anything Goes

* Glitter and Sparkle Challenge Blog #66

Anything Goes

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Well, that's all for today folks!

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Thanks for visiting!

La Vikinga

PROJECT LIFE giveaway

Celine Navarro has an awesome giveaway!

This is what she writes on her blog:

"I've got 3 gorgeous prizes for my dear blog readers and followers!

Every single year, I've been so motivated to clean up my scraproom, organize, throw away, give to friends, recycle or set aside.

This year, I've made THREE awesome prizes to giveaway here, perfect to get started on Project Life. They are all different but contain the same amount and kind of products."

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Hop over to Celines blog HERE to read more!!

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Good luck!

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La Vikinga

Gefeliciteert - congratulations

GRATTIS!!

This card I made using a strange product for 

the first time; it's that material that is called 

cheese cloth. I have colored it with mist to 

match the other stuff on the card. 

Everything is in teal and white 

(except for the little wood veneer butterflies) 

and I have used Artisan chipboards from Pink 

Paislee, punches from Martha Stewart and 

different other products from my stash.

Challenges:

* A Gem of a Challenge #110: Something new

(in this case cheese cloth - new to me)

* Allsorts Challenge #240: Free and Easy

* A Creative Romance: Something new 

(cheese cloth)

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That's all for today; thanks

for visiting my blog and welcome back.

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La Vikinga

CREATING FOR CREATIVICA

Hello; I have great news to tell!

I have been asked to be a guest designer at

Swedish Scrap- and Hobby store called Creativica

for the first months in 2014! First I got a packet full

of papers and decorations and loved it at first sight:

So I made my first layout using some of the ideas

we got from Anna Dabrowska (aka Finnabair); 

cutting strips off the patterned paper, placing some

decorations or flowers between patterned paper and

the mat, using the strips on the layout etc. So here's

my result:

The title "Seeing well in Copenhagen" refers to 

my new sunglasses that are, in fact, prescription 

glasses so I could actually see with them...

Some details: I have used ribbon from Docraft

(see Creativica blogpost HERE for all the details)...

... flowers from YouDo (above) and below

you see one of the white die cut hearts I

covered with Liquitex Glass Beads and

some glimmer mist.

That's all folks! Thanks for popping in!

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La Vikinga