Brand new from Soval

Soval Designs just released this fantastic new kit at flower Scrap...it's called Black & White...

I used it to scrap my beautiful girl's photo from our third family day, on March 1 2007. She was 4 and had first come into my arms at 15 months, on March 1 2004. It's a day we'll never ever forget - and which we celebrate every year.

And just one more LOL - I've been busy!!!

It's my older one again - bein cheeky LOL I used Tracie Stroud's Boho Chic for this layout. It's available at The Scrap Orchard - and so is the template, by Susan Robinson. I did this layout for the September template challenge over at the Orchard.

One more...

Just one more to show my very focused daughter making sure her art project goes JUST right :) She believes art should be taken seriously!! This is in September 2007 and she was just 2 months short of 5 years old.
I used Tracie Stroud and Jennifer Fox' gorgeous collab, Bubblegum Beauty, available at The Scrap Orchard. The layout is linked for full credits :)

More new stuff...

Just some more layouts I wanted to show :)

My first and only ultrasound photos, showing my three year old at 19 weeks :) I used Penny Springman and MandaBean's collab, Anticipation to scrap these. And, if you buy this collab before October 2, you'll get a Breastfeeding Addon for free!!!

Thanksgiving 2004. We were visiting my brother and his wife in the States and my older daughter, who was almost 2 at the time, got to help my brother preparing the turkey. Well, the turkey was HUGE - bigger than she was, really LOL
I used mle card's gorgeous new kit Pumpkin Patch to do this layout, as well as a new template from Wild Dandelions. Both available at The Scrap Orchard.

My gorgeous little three year old. She had just recovered from the foulest mood by the sight of a chocolate buiscuit LOL Chocolate really does salvage the worst of moods :)
I used Edeline Marta's newest kit, Blue Sky, which is available at Funky Playground during her guest month there.

And here she is again - also in a bad mood LOL You could almost think she's always moody - but she's not. She really is the happiest child and smiles most of the time, but she also has a temper the size of the Empire State Building, so when she gets cross, she really gets CROSS!!! We have the hardest time talking her down from those temper tantrums - but thankfully, she's mostly a happily smiling and lauging child :)

The layouts are all linked for full credit - thank you for stopping by!!!

New stuff :)

There is a fabulous new freebie at Boutique-digiscrap!! It's called Bliksem...

I made a layout with it showing my three year old daughter outside in surprise rain at the middle of September. She was basically dressed as if it were summer - except with her fleece jacket - so she had nothing to shield her from the rain :) Her resolution was to borrow her dad's hat - then she would be fine LOL

Another layout with Phuong and Miki's fabulous Mediterranean Muse...I don't really know what she was doing LOL Meditating - or maybe she was rolling her eyes at something weird her little sister was doing :)

Mystique Designs just released a beautiful kit called Happy Ending. It's very dramatic in red, white and black...I call this layout Mood Swings, because that's what my almost 7 year old is all about sometimes LOL I can't believe how fast she goes from sulky - and the world is terrible - to happy - and the world is amazing!!!! I think she is entering teenagehood way too fast and WAY to early - although my mom sometimes snickers and asks me how it feels to raise myself LOL

I love PST Designs' newest kit, Legend. It's got amazing warm autumn colors and beautiful elements!!! I made this with it...This is my three year old last October - well she was two at the time :)

And Irene Alexeeva's newest kit is called Tom Thumb. Irene is going through fairy tales in her designs - and they are absolutely fantastic!!!

This is my little nephew in February 2008 - just before he turned 1. He is so amazingly cute - and now that he is 2,5 his fabulous humour is developing - and he always has a teasing twinkle in his eye!! He's just an amazing little boy :)

That's it for now. The layouts are all linked for full credit - thank you so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day :)

New from Phuong - and a freebie...

Phuong Ton and Miki Ferkul just released an amazing collab kit on Friday. It's called Mediterranean Muse - and it's huge!!!

Here's my first layout with this kit...This is my older daughter relaxing in one of the hot natural spas that we have here in Iceland. This one is in the north east - and I've got to tell you, there is nothing as relaxing as soaking in a natural blue lagoon :)

If you like this layout, I'm offering it as a freebie QP...so enjoy :)

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That's it today - thank you so much for stopping by!!

Dawn and Katrin

Dawn Inskip just released a fantastic new kit in her Digi Chick store. It's called Cabbage Patch and it's just a feast of doodles and watercolored papers!!!

I just love this kit - and I used it to scrap photos of my nephew from early September when he went with his family to visit his grandma in the country. I just love the look on his face when he's "driving" the tractor :)

And Katrin of Katrin's Designs just released this stunning fall kit, called Melody of Fall...

I used it to scrap this photo of Lovisa Lin from last September. I love this photo of her - but it is a bit blurry, so I hadn't really figured out what to do with it yet. That is until I saw Katrin's kit :)

That's it today :) The layouts are linked for full credit. Thank you so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!!

New kit from Soval

Soval Designs just released a gorgeous new kit called Natural Life - it's her debut kit in her new store at Sunflower Scrap...

You can get this kit at a discount until September 26, if you use the code 84d6d5aff0 at checkout.

Here's my layout with it...

This is my younger daughter in July 2007 (yes, I know - not quite springtime like it says in the title, but her bundled up little person looks more like springtime than summertime LOL). She was examining her soap bubble container after having spilled it all on the sidewalk :)

Thank you so much for looking - and have a wonderful day :)

New layouts

Got some new stuff today :)

My older daughter last year in September. She was 5 (almost 6) and had just started taking dance classes. She was very excited about it and here she is showing us what she learned in her dance class earlier that day :)I used Elo Designs' gorgeous new kit, Bug's Land - available at The French Frog

This is my gorgeous little nephew Ethan. He is so adorable and has the reddest head of hair I've seen in a long time :) His favorite color is orange, so when I saw this collab, As Good As It Gets, from Penny Springman and Eva Kipler, I just had to use it for his photos :)

This is my younger daughter in February. She was a bit sleepy - that's why she has a bit droopy eyes LOL But she's ALWAYS smiling!!!
I used Mystique Designs' newest kit, Catch Your Angel, to scrap this photo :)

Here she is again - this time just a few days ago. her older sister decided to teach her how to play Go Fish and she enjoyed it a lot. Mostly because it meant she got a lot of attention from her sister LOL I used Vera Lim's newest kit, My Sweetheart, to scrap these photos.

And here she is for the third time :) This time at only 10 days old. I can't believe how fast time flies - and how much children change from being tiny little babies to feisty little three year olds LOL I used another collab here, this one from Edeline Marta and Angela Hinksman. It's called Baby Soft and it's available at Scrap Artist.

That's it for today, all the layouts are linked for full credit. Thank you so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day :)

Tons of new layouts - and a freebie!!

New kit from Soval Designs, called Just a Little Girl, and it's available at The French Frog...

It's really gorgeous, soft and pink and it's got some really beautiful elements too!! I made a layout showing my little girl when she just 3 weeks short of 1 years old :)

I've got a few more layouts to show - and, my first ever freebie is at the bottom of the post if you last that long :)

My girls out on a walk. The weather was amazing and we decided to do a little photoshoot. Getting them to sit down next to each other was relatively easy - but getting them to sit still, look at the camera and smile, all at the same time, was nearly impossible LOL This, I think, is why scrapping is necessary - I would never put 4 similar looking (and not that great) photos in a regular photo album. However, you can scrap them and journal about them - and then they are perfect in an album!!
I used Edeline Marta's new template and her gorgeous kit Amore d'Chante to scrap the photos.

Lovisa Lin at the end of August while out picking berries. She took it rather seriously although most of the berries ended up in her mouth and not in the container.
I was playing with some of Vera Lim's new photo textures. They are really amazing and give the photos fabulous texture (of course) and an edge!

This is my husband - I love him to death :) I don't scrap the two of us nearly enough. When our girls go through my scrapbook pages in their old age, they are going to find hardly any photos of us - especially not of me. I really have to have more photos of us in there :)
I used Forever Yours by Penny Springman. I originally downloaded the kit to make a hybrid project for the team Hybrid Hump day this week However, I found out the hard way that scissors, glue and me go together like water and fire. Definately NOT my forté - but I'm going to keep trying!! One of these days I'll make a photogenic hybrid project LOL

Matthildur Inga enjoying a rainy fall day at the beginning of September - she really did NOT enjoy it much LOL she got cold and miserable really soon and demanded to be taken to the car!! But for the first few minutes she enjoyed the rain and chilly fall weather :)
I used Birgit Kerr's newest kit, Autumn Song. It's just been released at Scrapbook Graphics. I've been on Birgit's CT since January 2008 and for me, it's always a treat when she releases a new kit - they are always amazing!! She has a fabulous eye for details and colors and textures on papers!!

The Scrap Orchard's Fresh Fruit Friday is today, and I just scrapped with Faith True's newest release, Java Mama...

Now I LOVE my coffee - I really can't live without it, except for the few miserable months when I have been pregnant LOL Then the smell, sight - and even the thought - of coffee made me sick to my stomach in a very bad way :) When I saw this kit, I knew I had to use it - even though I hardly ever scrap like this. Coffee just means so much to me that I HAVE to scrap it LOL

My last layout for the day :) This is Lovisa Lin enjoying an icecream cone in June 2004. She was 18 months old - and REALLY enjoyed her icecream LOL
I used Irene Alexeeva's newest kit, Milk Shake. It's new in her Scrap Orchard store today :)

Ok, so you've made it this far - so you deserve a treat. This is my first ever freebie - a QP I made using Soval's Just a Little Girl kit...

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That's it for today - all the layouts are linked for full credit. Thank you so much for stopping by, and have a wonderful day!!

1 Euro Sale...

Soval has two of her gorgeous kits on sale for 1 euro each at The French Frog...

These are the kits...Happy Shopping :)

Layouts...

Cali is having a special promotion on a few of her kits. It's good until the 16th (tomorrow)!!!

Three of her kits at DigiScrapbooking.ch are only 1 Euro

and she also has a really cute CU pack for only 3Euros...

And I have some new layouts too :)

This is me, way back when LOL - the photo is from September 176, when I started 1. grade. There is also a photo of my old school :) I did this for the Remember When challenge over at Scrap Orchard. I'm hosting it this month - and it's my first challenge there!! The challenge is to scrap yourself on your own first day of school! I used lots of Orchard goodies for this layout :)

I'm REALLY happy with this layout. It's a bit different from what I've been doing since I've been scrapping one photo layouts. This is a whole days worth of photos - trying to get across the feeling you have when you feel spring finally arriving :) The photos are from April 30, 2009 and the journaling is about the first signs of spring.

I used a template from Kristin's ScrapDesign - and what I love about her templates is that they allow you to get a lot of photos on a layout without it looking all too crowded. I need this assitance with multi photo layouts - since I'm pretty hopeless when it comes to arranging them without help LOL

This is my little girl about 12 hours after she was born. The blended photo is the moment my daughters met each other for the first time :) I have scrapped that photo many times, I think it's my all time favorite photo - so I'll probably scrap it many more times too LOL

I got RAKd with Katrin Designs' fantastic kit, My Little Girl. It's really amazing, so soft and beautiful. THANK YOU KATRIN!!!

This is my older daughter in August 2008. We were out berry picking in amazing weather :) I used Mystique Designs' gorgeous new kit, Tik Tak...

That's it for today :) The layouts are all linked for full credit.

Thank you so much for stopping by - and have a wonderful day!!!

Photos - again :)

Much to my amazement, I've actually stuck to taking a photo a day for the past 2 weeks LOL I know, not so much of an accomplishment compared to those amazing individuals who have actually done this for the past 8,5 MONTHS - but an accomplishment for me :)

September 9

The sky was extra beautiful on Wednesday - I loved how it looked with the setting sun and the many different layers of clouds :)

September 10

When the cat wants to get away from my beautiful and amazing - but sometimes rough with the cat - girls, she crawls into the top bunk bed and sleeps there. She is not happy when she is interrupted up there LOL I apologize for the terrible shadows and lights - but it was a spur of the moment photo :)

September 11

Bad weather day on Friday - and it has only gotten worse!!! We saw this ferry sail by our living room window - it was on it's way to the southern part of the country where it will replace another bigger ferry for a time, while the big one is being renovated.

September 12

My girls getting comfy in front of the tv Saturday morning - in their pjs, sitting in their camping chairs with blankets and feet up on the trampoline. Can it be any more comfortable LOL

September 13

One of the things I love about fall and bad weather, is that it gets dark and it's very cozy at night to just draw the curtains, get comfy with a good book, a blanket and a cup of coffee - and light lots of candles!! That's what we did last night - it makes you forget the bad weather outside :)

September 14

See - the weather is not good LOL This is out my living room window at lunch time. There is a lot of fish in the bay right outside my town and I was trying to capture the birds diving down to catch them :) There is one on the left, right above the fence - but I don't know if it's visible to anyone but me because I know it's there LOL. I couldn't use maximum zoom because the birds were going so fast that I lost them if I did - so I used as much zoom as I possibly could!!

Fresh Fruit at the Orchard...

There is tons of new stuff at Scrap Orchard this week...

Irene Alexeeva released this fantastic and dreamy kit, called Petit Paris...It's really amazing!!! I used it to scrap my older daughter with one of her wonderful dreamy expressions...

And Jennifer Fox is guest designer at the Orchard this month!!! One of her releases this week is Dream On...a really fantastic slumber kit :)And here's my nephew last Christmas. Christmas is though on you when you're little - so much excitement and so much to do - and so little time to sleep LOL So you really have to grab all the catnaps you can, and grandma's couches are sometimes just perfect :)

The layouts are linked for full credits - thank you so much for looking and have a great day :)

New stuff...

I've got a few new layouts and kits to show today :)

First off, Cali Designs is having a sale!!! If you buy 3 products, one of them is FREE!!!

Dawn Inskip just released such a gorgeous new kit at the Digi Chick. It's called Spice Up Your Life...And here's my little three year old with her cheeky face :)

Soval Designs also released a new kit, it's a collab with Nath Designs and it's called Flowers of Time...available at The French Frog...

I used it to scrap my fabulous 6 year old playing dress up in her Seniorita costume :)

Mystique Designs released a fantastic new kit in her OScraps store on Tuesday, it's called Strawberry Fields...And here's my three year old, again :) This time she is exploring our beach in the middle of August...

Last but not least, a brand new gorgeous kit from Vera Lim, called Autumn Song...

And here Matthildur is again, this photo is from last Saturday, when we went to look at the rally cross competition.

That's it for today :) Thank you so much for looking - and have a fabulous day!!

365

Here are my 365 photos for this week :) The photos are totally unedited, so they will hopefully look better on a layout - however, it's the memory that counts, isn't it?

September 2

Our au-pair left on August 2, after having been with us for over 10 months. The girls miss her - and last Wednesday they got a card from her. It was very exciting for them and they have already "written" back and included a lot of drawings :) This is the card they got from their Zozo.

September 3

It rained cats and dogs almost the entire week last week. Everything was really wet - and this is our balcony, dripping with puddles everywhere!!

September 4

These are Lovisa's glasses. She got them last November and has hardly ever worn them. She hates them with a passion. And she hates going to the ophthalmologist even more because it means drops in her eyes. I have to physically hold her down kicking and screaming for the drops to go into her eyes. It's NOT fun!!! Last Friday we had an ophthalmologist appointment and she was dreading it - but was being quite heroic. She sat down in the big chair and the doctor started examining her eyes, asking questions about clarity of this versus clarity of that. Questions that Lovisa answered really decisively and well. Then the doctor tells her that she's been really good and she doesn't need glasses anymore!!! I've never seen a happier little girl than Lovisa was when she ran out of the doctor's office, no eyedrops and no glasses LOL

September 5

Saturday we had a rally cross competition close to our home so we went to take a look. It was fun to watch, but it RAINED a lot!!! Matthildur, my younger one, couldn't stand the rain and decided to wait in the car - but Lovisa stuck it out, wet and cold, and LOVED the speed and noise of the rally cars LOL

September 6

Sunday we saw the sun again after a long break :) The weather was so good that the girls played out on the balcony and Matthildur took her "baby" out for a stroll LOL Our balcony is huge so there is plenty of space for a nice little walk with the dolls!!

September 7

When I was reading to the girls Monday night before bed, my husband called. He went out on sea Saturday night so the girls were really starting to miss him. They both got to talk to him and this is Lovisa Lin, my phone loving 6,5 year old LOL She gets comfy when she's on the phone - like she's planning on chatting for a very long time!!! I wonder how she'll be when she really hits teenagehood!!!

September 8

And from last night :) They dressed us as senoritast and wanted me to take their photos before they started playing. They are just the cutest :)

That's it - thanks for looking and have a great day!!

Long post...

I've been so busy, that I've forgotten to post - so today, it'll be a very LONG and image heavy post :) Sorry - I hope you get through to the end anyway LOL

I've been also been busy scrapping and I love it!! I have so many fabulous CT kits to scrap from, I can't really believe my luck with my wonderful CTs!!!

First of all, Cali has a freebie kit for everyone from today until the 13th. It's called Vintage Mania...check it out in her Digiscrap Mania store!!

Here's my layout with it - it's a bit out of the box for me so I call it my Warhol moment LOL

It started out with this photo of my older daughter which I took this summer. I decided to use it because I felt she actually looked a bit "vintage" in it - if that makes sense LOL Then I started playing with layers and finally this was the outcome :)

Shabby Miss Jenn has a new kit out, called Soccer Time...it's fabulous!!!

This is my beautiful 5,5 year old nephew playing soccer. He was actually competing with my 6,5 year old daughter - and since he is very competitive and my daughter couldn't care less whether she lost or won - it was a soccer match made in heaven LOL They were both equally happy with the game, even though he scored a lot of goals and she only scored 2 :)

Penny Springman released a new kit this weekend at the Sweet Shoppe. It's called My Fair Lady, and it's just amazingly lush and rich and gorgeous!!

This is my three year old daughter showing off her beautiful face. The story behind the photos is that she just woke up from a surprise afternoon nap and she was VERY grumpy!! After having been teased a little bit - just to make her even more grumpy - her dad offered her a biscuit and chocolate milk. Now THAT made her life a whole lot easier and happier, and after a bit of contemplation, she decided to stop being grumpy and gave us her cute little smile :)

Kristin's ScrapDesign released a new set of templates in her store at Pickleberry Pop before the weekend. I love her templates, they just make it so easy to make your photos tell a story :)

These photos are from May 2008. We were in Reykjavik and decided to stop at the Pearl, which is a glass dome built on hot water tanks on a hilltop in the outskirts of the city. On the top floor there is a revolving restaurant (amazing to go there to eat on beautiful winter evenings + the food is good :). On the floor below the restaurant there is a café and from there you can go outside on a huge terrace encircling the whole dome. It's got gorgeous views. On the bottom floor there is a Viking museum - really interesting but not really for the faint hearted LOL
We sometimes take the girls there for fun and they always enjoy it. This time was no different. They get icecream at the café and then they get to run around on the terrace. This time we also took a walk outside to the little geyser which erupted while we were there - so this was quite the fun little visit.

The big photo is one we took in China on our adoption trip. We went to a small village outside of Nanning, which is the capital city of Guangxi in southern China. Our guide told us this would have been our daughter's life had she stayed in China - and that she should always remember that. She said it as if it was a negative thing if she had a life like that, but I always wonder. It's difficult to compare, our life is so much different than the lives of the people living in that village. But I don't know if we are any happier - they certainly looked happy enough. So I don't want her to remember this village only to be grateful that we "rescued" her from this life - I want her to remember this village as a place belonging in her history and her past. I am eternally grateful that we were allowed to adopt her - but we were definitely NOT rescuing her from a life subpar from what she has now.
Birgit Kerr just released this huge, gorgeous geneology kit. It's called Rooted in the Past - and while most people have a relatively known past. My beautiful girl's first 15 months of life are absolutely unknown to us, and it saddens me.

This is Lovisa Lin again, this time at the end of August while we were out on a walk. I used a fabulous kit by SherrieJD and Tangie Baxter, called Marie. It's a very elegant kit - nothing fall-y about it - but somehow I ended up with a fall layout that I really like a lot :)

This is another layout I did with Dawn Inskip's A Wild Adventure kit. I LOVE Dawn's doodles and her papers are always fantastic. I took this photo in July 2004 when Lovisa was only 19 months old. We were camping in southern Iceland and took a bit of a hike. She was a real trooper and hiked quite a ways up the mountain, but then she got tired and fell asleep in the pack on her dad's back. When she woke up we were nowhere near where we were when she fell asleep and she was a bit confused, trying to take this new place in. After awhile, though, she got oriented and loved it :)

This last one today is a photo of my little girl taking a bath. It's taken in February 2008. I used Soval Design's gorgeous kit, Natasa to scrap the photo.

Well, that's it for today :) I was going to share my 365 photos for September, but figured the post was already long enough LOL If you've already made it this far, I applaud you :)
All the layouts are linked for full credit - thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful week!!!

Sunset

Our days are getting shorter and even though it's still daylight when I get up in the morning I know it won't be long until it will be pitch dark most of the waking hours as well as the sleeping hours LOL We are still getting beautiful sunsets at night, though - and since I'm going to try and get back on the 365 wagon, as of September 1, this is my photo for yesterday...

This is sunset at 20:51 last night. Isn't it gorgeous? The girls had already fallen asleep, the house was clean, I had a strong cup of coffee - and just sat on my balcony watching the sunset while I was waiting for Bones to start on the TV :) Perfect night LOL

Anyways, news on the scrapping front...Dawn Inskip is having a sale in her Digi Chick store - it's 30% off storewide, so better check it out!!!

And of course, I have a few layouts - well quite a few actually, since I'm very scrapping motivated these days :)

Lovisa Lin, my older daughter walking home from Kindergarten in October 2006. She's just gorgeous and has the warmest, most beautiful smile. I'm not being at all biased LOL I used Soval Designs' A comme automne - just a very gorgeous fall kit with beautiful and warm colors.

Here she is again, almost 3 years later. She's 6,75 (six and three quarters - that's her favorite answer now that she's watching and reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone LOL) and is already losing a LOT of baby teeth. At one point she looked like a very old man, with only one baby tooth hanging lose in the middle of her top gum, but now bot teeth are coming down beautifully - and it looks like she'll even grow them out straight!!! I used Mystique Designs' gorgeous new kit, Orange Field, available at OScraps.

That's our cat, her name is Kung-Fu Rósalín. Rósalín because my younger daughter wanted to name her Rósa and because my older daughter wanted to name her Lína :) Kung-Fu because Kung Fu Panda was my daughters' favorite movie when we got the cat - and she bears a slight resemblence to the panda. The slight resemblence being that they are both black and white LOL Anyways, that cat behaves like a dog and follows us everywhere. Last Saturday, when I took this photo, she followed us on a walk and quite enjoyed exploring the lava fields where we went. But she was TIRED when we finally got back home!!! I used Vera Lim's newest kit, Life's an Adventure, available at Vera Lim Design and Shabby Pickle.

This is Matthildur Inga, my younger daughter on that walk with the cat :)
I used Edeline Marta's newest kit, Beyond Moments. Edeline is guesting at Funky Playground this month and this kit is exclusively there.

I have two more layouts - but I'll keep them for tomorrow LOL Thank you for stopping by, and if you want to see full credits for the layouts, please click them - they're linked :)