Little Corner of Ania

Cards + stamping

2013-05-12T19:31:00.001+02:00

Look at me, I can stamp!

Sort of.

:) Just sharing a couple cards made w/Craft Origine-stamps…love the wood mounted stamps – yields such gorg, crisp impressions! (oh and notice – I’m finally getting rid of my box of Heidi Swapp ghost stars! :D)

This stamp was also used on the 1st card btw – just inked & cut out the 1st banner sort of :)

Babyphotocards must have this onesie transparency cut out from Hambly! Also, hidden behind that is a gem studded heart trinket from Prima.

Btw, ColorConspiracy is soon coming out with a new release – Texturize 2.0. Loved the first one, love this one as well :)

Just one more goodnight kiss

2013-05-03T16:58:00.001+02:00

So.

Hi. I’ve been scrapping. In between.

Here’s a layout for ColorCOnspiracy.. w/photos of my sister and nephew…

I like the new papers from ColorConspiracy…they come w/patterns on the bottom tag or whatever it’s called. Yields more possibilities for the papers methinks :)

ColorConspiracy has cute die cuts as well, as seen above and below..

And the clouds were made by using the star punch (Martha Stewart everywhere on the page one) first then cutting out the cloud (w/the Fiskars cloud punch).

Well. I thought that looked somewhat nifty..

Right.
TGIF.

Have schoolstuff and scrapbookingstuff to catch up w!

Nathalie + Magne, part 3

2013-04-29T18:27:00.001+02:00

I did say more to come, didn’t I? :)

Yeah yeah. Somewhat (cough) overblown, I know..and darnit, I spot a..eh.. spot on my lens/image sensor… but still..slightly cool effect, no? Ahem.

The awesome bridal suite at Hotel Norge …

I really like this photo…everything is always about the bride, isn’t? :)

Now, considering the groom’s a chef, the brides brother’s a chef and well, a buncha friends at the wedding were chefs and stuff… it didn’t come as a surprise that the groom really wanted photos of the behind-the-scenes at the kitchen as well. Seeing as the brides brother were the kitchen's boss/co-owner it also meant allowance in there were no problem (despite how busy&hectic it was at times). Lovesit :)

The company’s Søtt+Salt, by the way. Amazing food, natch.

Sadly, as a wedding photographer I don’t drink at work. Darnit! I love me a nice glass of cognac =)

Ballroom dancing..

It was such a wonderful wedding, and I am happy I was chosen to be a part of it!

Wedding CD Card

2013-04-24T17:26:00.001+02:00

Alright, just dropping by to post my CD card for Nathalie + Magne (with their wedding photos, natch).

It’s a CD envelope created from one sheet of 12x12 paper, as shown here.

Papers and embellishments from Pink Paislee, Prima, Maya ROad, Elle’s Studio, Making Memories and Crate Paper.

The colors are inspired by this one:

Isn’t such a fresh, fun color palette?

I dare say I’ve managed to hit all the colors here =)

Nathale + Magne, part 2

2013-04-22T22:00:00.001+02:00

Just going through more photos, here’s some more faves that’s pre-approved..

Father of the bride….a liiiiittle stressed about the day, haha..:)

The little girl inside of me loves tiaras….

I dunno..pictures like this makes me happy…straightening out the underdress…

On with the belt..

And the shoes…

Love this photo of the little niece waiting for her auntie to walk the aisle…

Umbrella, tiara, shoes and veil…

Gorgeous flowers…

And a little I do…

*smile*

More tk…

I {heart} boxes

2013-04-16T20:35:00.001+02:00

Mkay. I love boxes. Plain & simple.

I'm not sure what it is, but when I get my hands on a sturdy, nicely sized cardboard box, like a perfume-box, it just feels wrong to throw it away (even though it'd go to the recycle/paper bin).

Take this box, previously holding 3.4 oz of lovely Eau De Parfum (She Wood..one of my faves along with Flowerbomb...but I digress).... I figured I'd put this box to good 2nd use, finding some matching patterned paper for the solid pink-peachy color of the cardboard, and a few Maya Road-embellishments to go...

Like creating a small but effective cluster next to a big heart covering almost the whole box. And oh, you can never go wrong with heart shaped linen! In this case a little bit of color was added by spraying some Maya Mist (dragonfruit pink & sunflower yellow washed out w/buttermilk cream).

The cluster started with a tucked in kraft snowflake behind the new Afternoon Tea blossoms in carnation... which in turn was embellished with a scrap of Scallop Chiffon & Tulle Trim and Antique Jeweled Pearl Pendant and a piece of celery green Twine Cording.

On the other side: The lucky number seven (which's this years big birthday number) labeled with the help of some trim adorning a bottle cap and a starburst of different slices of patterned papers...

I made this box for the Maya Road blog, which you can see here.

Right.

Not sure where to start. Had an amazing but really intensive educational week in Fredrikstad last week. Came straight back to work this past weekend, and I feel like I haven’t been able to catch my breath yet (how long since I actually did that?). So many things I need to check off – both workwise, freelancewise and personal. My main problem? I work too slow, too meticulous, too hung up in stupid unimportant details when I should be looking at the big picture, am too scatterbrained and take too many unnecessarily breaks in between, like now, writing this blogpost. Sigh.

Here’s to an extended upcoming weekend where I’ll do NOTHING (yeah right..how to make the brain stop turning the wheels when you’re supposed to just relax?)– as long as I survive this week…:)

Magne + Nathalie, part 1

2013-04-07T20:38:00.001+02:00

So. Had to share a few wedding favorites…

You see, I had the pleasure of shooting sweet Nathalie’s wedding last night.

I’ve known Nathalie since Fall 2009, when I started at the local newspaper where I work at now. She’s always full of laugher and really is such a sweet girl. So when she asked if I wanted to shoot her wedding – well, what else could I say but yes? (after asking uh really, you want me? You sure??)

This is so, so Nathalie. She’s wearing full makeup & hair almost done, it’s like one and half hour left until she’s supposed to be at the church – yet she insisted on doing the dishes in between so that they didn’t have to start the married life with old dishes. Haha.

Her mother did her wedding dress..I’m amazed at how well it’s done. Due to her being expecting, they had to wait with doing the finishing touches to the dress up until last minute.

Loved seeing how happy she was walking up the aisle…she laughed and smiled and greeted people along the walk…and look at the cute flower girls & boy!

I must say..my photobag sure steals the spotlight here..cough cough…

Sigh. The look.

The flower girl was being curious at who I might be..

Saying I do…

Yep. They did.

Oh yeah! Totally married now!

I’ll admit..Of all the photos I took this day..this one ranks so, so, so high up….dang..one of my favorites for sure!! Haha.

With the groom being a chef (and having worked at the hotel’s top restaurant), the staff added a lot of fun touches for them in the wedding suite.

Normally I dread when wedding clients insists that I do their formal portraits (I make sure to inform my clients I’m more of a photojournalist-photographer, not a portraitphotographer)..it’s so not my forté. I do feel I managed to get a few ok shots here though :)

Love this kind of portrait.

Looking dapper! And look, a bowtie! Bowties are so cool. Just ask Dr. Who!

Laidback groom.

Such a sweet couple, don’t you agree?

Now, no wedding speeches are complete without tears…

Or dance..

Or cake…

So pleased to be a part of this wedding!

Right. Time to get packed for this weeks trip! See ya around!

Just a few more babyphotos…

2013-04-02T20:06:00.001+02:00

Flipping through the finished babyphotos I couldn’t resist sharing just a few more photos.

Gosh. Hello, miss cuteness! Looking quite content today, are we?

Look at her left hand. Woulda been more impressive if she had her pinky + ring finger together, like Spock you know, but hey…still looks cute :)

Adore this moment w/daddy…

Sleepy baby is sleepy. All together now: Aww..!

Right! Just a few more days, and it’s Wedding Time! And the week after it’s time to get educated (aka hello 1st of four weeks this year at IJ).

Meet Miss S

2013-03-30T20:10:00.001+01:00

Did I mention I’ve got myself a new cam a couple weeks ago? Yeah..shooting a couple of weddings this year (Whee! The first one’s only a week away actually!), so I splurged on a much needed necessity – getting myself a 2nd body. One – in case (Heaven forbid) anything happens to my beloved D700. Two – so I don’t need to swap lenses all too often. So when I was asked to do a babysession I was all too happy to oblige (uhm hello, babies? Yes please!)…anything to put my new (ok, I got it used, but to me it’s new) D3s to the test!

So, meet Miss S. Sure. She’s smiling here.

Here too! But lemme tell ya. It was not easy getting her to give us the slightest hint of smile. She remained sceptical for a good long while, and got mommy & daddy to jump through quite a few hoops working it in hopes of a smile or two....

But it’ ok. She is quite adorable no matter what. Even when she kept wanting to gnaw on her own fist on about half the pictures I took. Haa..babies, I tell ya!

Being a supermodel is such exhausting work. Then again, she’s just as adorable when closing her eyes, causing me to sneak in a few more photos…(actually, personally I prefer the photos with her parents in, doing regular parenty stuff..it’s the photojournalist in me loving such situations methinks)

And my new camera? Love, love, love the high ISO-abilities. It’s amazing. Really. Just need to trust it more, I’m a bit too afraid of hi ISO..which’s silly, seeing as it’s one of the main reasons I wanted the D3s. Seem to be able to hit correct focus most of the time (the focus ratio seem to be consistent with my old cam, possibly missing slightly more), although it might be a little slow on locking the focus in low light/low contrast situations, but I suppose that’s to be expected…just need more patience (or learn to focus manually…but I don’t trust my own eyesight, hrm…)

Just some photos

2013-03-29T20:38:00.001+01:00

Staying home this Easter. Had a few kiddos visiting us a couple days. What’s it called…2nd cousins? They adored Amalie. She adored them.

Took the ferry once..

Went to see the Aquarium…

Returned with the same (noisy) ferry (yes I did snap a few obligatory photos of penguins and fish and the like)

More kiddo-love…

Tried to gather all the kids inside the same frame…ahwell..

Had better luck snapping them one by one I’ll admit..

Enjoy your Easter..

March Sketch

2013-03-27T15:43:00.001+01:00

Easter’s here…and tbh, to me that means precious days off!

Just wanted to share a little bit inspo for the Easter..like this chocolate box…

it’s based upon this monthly sketch from ColorConspiracy…:

I just flipped it upside down…

Pulled random bits and pieces from my desk…

And used papers from ColorConspiracy, ofcourse…partly from the older collections, and some from the newer ones, like the background paper used on the cover :)

Nothing’s like a decorated chocolate box to brighten up a friends day…

Even got to use the lovely star punch from Martha Stewart! Yay!

The cover + inside paper are from this collection btw:

Right.

Did you see that Maya Road are looking for guest designers by the way?

Do give it a shot. They’re generous with their product packs, and who in their right mind would want to say no to a such a variety of versatile embellishments to play with!?

Also – right now there’s a lot of wreath fun on the MR blog!

(yeah..I chickened outta this one..me & wreaths? Nuh-huh!)

Sweet love

2013-03-17T14:10:00.001+01:00

This months inspiration on ColorConspiracy is typography. I just did a simple take on that inspiration theme, I just mixed various sized letters in the title…but I know – it’s possible to do a much more clever play on typography, like the way Madga did in the CC inspiration post here.

Simple or not – I still like to add longer titles by using these small letters from Adornit (I have like, 8-10 more sheets of these, they were so cheap and so versatile…I dread the day I’m outta these letters)…plus normally I prefer letters the size of the purple thickers here…I like putting together long-ish titles and stuff…

Right. Sunday. Workday. Catchupday.

I got a new baby and am only 1/3rd into the manual (yes..I’m one of these suckers who actually read the manuals..at least when it comes to this) but I need to wrap up a few chores first.

Let’s go.

This one’s for you, grandma

2013-03-11T19:54:00.001+01:00

I’ve been wanting to do this mini for quite a while now..

I just haven’t dared…I mean..I knew I *had* to use the Sew Cute Mini Chipboard set from Maya Road – no doubt. Add in the measurement trim and stuff…perfect accessories to these photos:

Which is from 2006..when I visited my grandma with a pair of newly purchased pants, a tiny tad (cough) too long. No worries, grandma fixed them with her trusty, old Singer sewing machine.

At least, she helped preparing the sewing machine…
(and no, I do not think I stood there pantless taking photos of mom and grandma. I think I had the new pants in a bag when I arrived. If memory serves me right..cough..)

Nevertheless….the sewing machine worked swell..

With my mom behind, sewing…

Stamps and embellishments all from Maya Road – lovely papers from ColorCOnspiracy :) I wanted this mini to be as clean as possible, with focus on the photos inside..

As far as I am aware, grandma likes getting these little gifts from me. Well, mom keeps telling me so, urging me to send grandma more. And I wanted her to have this little album..I mean..she probably forgot about it by now, but I remember how nice it was having her old (supercool) sewing machine actually being used just for me sort of…how nice it was to be able to snap photos of her and my mom together, trying to solve this puzzle….I’m sure the sewing machine hadn’t been used for years….

Don’t you agree that these chipboards were simply just perfect for this theme? Love how coloring whitewashed chipboards makes the maya mist really shine – especially when adding glossy accent on top!

Oh, and I made the mini myself from scratch. Like. Hm. Yeah. Couldn't find a mini that fit how I wanted it so I just pulled together some papers, chipboards and adhesive…

Have a lovely week!

4+ photos? Yes please…

2013-03-07T17:55:00.001+01:00

Hey wait, where’s the three other photos, you may think. There’s only one visible here…

Mmm…see that bow? Open it..(oh, and by the way, see that good ol’ Love Elsie epoxy-sticker too? :) )

Like this…

And voila…more photos :)

I originally intended to have five photos on this layout..but I usually just print out photos w/o really checking their dimensions…just guessing this’ll do…well, this time I wasn’t really able to fit all of them on the layout in a way pleasing to my eyes..so instead of forcing it and/or have to re-print some of the photos, I decided to just make a little leaflet/booklet so I could get all of them on the same layout.

So..

this layout was created for the ColorConspiracy’s March challenge, which’s to use 4 or more photos on one layout (or if you chose to do projects – 4 or more of the same embellishment).

Right. papers and die cuts from ColorConspiracy ofc…..awesome black glittery stars and glassy flowers from Prima… letters from Websters and Pink Paislee…twine, transparency tickets and wooden butterfly from Maya Road…oh, even an arrow die-cut from Scenic Route..plus already mentioned epoxy stickers from Love, Elsie (KI Memories)…

right…

join along :)

I have a sketch for you

2013-03-02T15:09:00.001+01:00

Lo. And behold.

I made a sketch.

I won’t do this too often. It’s too much of a headache! But by all means – feel free to use it.

I made it for the monthly sketch challenge over at ColorConspiracy. Loved to see the other ladies take on it! Here’s mine, by the way.

As you can see I flipped the sketch and made two strips of photos…

Photos from our trip to Moustiers Sainte-Marie in Southern France. Provence I suppose…?
Love using French papers and embellishments for the French photos =)

The golden star was sort of a village symbol….there was a golden star hung up high above the village..

Speaking about ColorConspiracy…there’s two mini collections coming out soon, complete with stickers and die cuts – check out Mini Giant and Graphic Loop!

Hot damn!

2013-02-27T22:30:00.001+01:00

Apparently I have a twelve year old in the house now (strictly speaking, in one and half hour from like, right now while writing, but still).

I’m like, one year short from being a mother to a teenager. Holy crap! (yep, it’s all about me ofc)

Nevertheless…

Love ya, Adrian!

Happy 60th

2013-02-25T18:50:00.001+01:00

Made a few boxes for someone turning 60. I suppose I should just have done one big box, but…it sort of looked better like this.

Added lots of Maya Road embellishments to the yellow box…

Love playing with glitter…even though it gets a bit messy…still…can’t let go of using glitter every now and then! And adding clear distress crackled paint to wooden pieces yields a subtle yet lovely effect methinks.

The second box was decorated using papers from ColorConspiracy, stamp from Craft Origine and embellishments from Prima, Crate Paper (that cute brad) and Jenni Bowlin (the tickets).

Every box had room for four of these French macarons (recipe by Banglamarie, in Norwegian. Give it a trry. Makes a few quite yummy macarons :) ). Just ask my coworkers, they seemed to like my Valentines gift this year:

Nevertheless.

The third box was the simplest one of them all. Simple, but elegant, if I may say so myself. Stamp by Craft Origine, patterned paper by Basic Grey (anyone recall that collection? Like, 2006 or so :) ).

Nevertheless. Give handmade gifts a try. Just make a simple box like this:

Hmm. Can’t recall the exact measurements I used, but it seems to be like, 5,5x11 inches..the main point is: Trace around your gift(s) and build your box accordingly...

When you have the basic box, just wrap another piece of cardstock around – then decorate the boxes as you please. Sucky explaination and sucky photos, but still – you get the gist..the idea was just to let you know – this is quite simple really :)

Right! Off to watch Corpse Bride with Amalie…we watched The Nightmare before Christmas last night, and she got so fascinated she wanted to watch “more movies like that” today. So pleased she seem to appreciate Tim Burton on her own! :)

Prima product picks

2013-02-18T18:54:00.001+01:00

It’s one of my favorite challenges around these days…Prima product picks…I think it’s quite fun to create stuff based on a color palette :)

here’s my January & February PPP :)

Cheers y’all :)

Visiting Octavia

2013-02-04T18:34:00.001+01:00

So. Here’s another minialbum created for the Maya Road CHA-W booth…love the mix of different fabrics here – canvas, burlap and tulle! And ofc…lots and lots of trinket pins! :) Stamping on the fabric was hm, interesting…I still have to perfect that technique! Or maybe it’s just luck…?? Nevertheless…seems like the archival stamp pads are the best for such purposes (out of the ink pads I own)…anyone out there w/better ink pad suggestions or tip on stamping on fabric?

The fun part about making minibooks are that they usually turn out like this….even though I try to minimize the layers….can’t help it – it’s so fun adding bits and pieces and tbh, stuffed minibooks are sort of fun just for the heck of it…looks so…fun! (Now, count the times I’ve used the word “fun” in this sentence :p I’m oh, so eloquent, I know!)

I used papers from SODAlicious for my chipboard pages…oh, and see that white doily behind the crackled bird/dove? It’s the new doily stamp set from Maya Road. Loves!

The mini’s about mine and Amalies trip to DNS (the Norwegian theatre)…it’s one of our dearest traditions…to attend plays together once or twice a year. I usually ask my oldest son to come along as well, but he keeps saying naah, not interesting enough, and I don’t want to force him..it has to be something he actually feel like doing (and let’s face it…it’s darn expensive going to the theatre, so better not waste it on someone who doesn’t really want to…but once I find a play I think he’ll like…he’s so coming with! Although..to be fair… he’s been to Annie with us not so long ago.. :p)

Nevertheless…this time we went to see Octavia, the resident ghost of the theatre. She was an actress back when the theatre was new, and still roams the theatre… It was an interactive play where she showed the kids around the theatre, told about the different plays and characters she played when she was alive and showed the kids backstage and stuff…fun fun. Here we found a shoe in the stairs, and Amalie got to try it out..with help from Octavia..

Amalie thought it was hilarious when Octavia told them that the most boring character she ever played was Princess Vilikke (roughly translated to Dontwantto). She didn’t wanna do anything!

Notice the kraft butterfly? I stamped it with the peacock clear stamps in deep rose pigment ink (Maya Road).

Oy. Playing with homemade ombre & measurement ribbon!

I figured I’d add photos and kraft stuff to the chipboard-pages, and do a little more artsy stuff to the burlap-pages, btw.

More ombre…& popsicle blue maya mist…pwetty!

Fun coincidence: The play that was rehearsed on the stage while we wandered around was “Snow Queen” (Snødronningen, by H.C. Andersen)….which was the next play me and Amalie went to a few months later :)

Bye!

Oh, come on girls…

2013-01-30T17:38:00.001+01:00

Haha, loved when the girls used the gate-thingie to get some peace from poor little Kasper…

Love this polka dot background from October Afternoon, wanted a lil pop of red against it..the red measurement tape is perfect cause it’s about differences in sizes too, sorta :) Theyre using his little size against him :)

Maya Road has a lot of kraft pins out atm, among them this heart shaped one…I wanted to fold the hearts out & stamped it with vintage wallpaper stamp sheet in w/clear embossing :) Oh, and notice the wooden ruler/angle thingie in the upper edge of the photo…love it :)

More pop of red with the new tulle flower from Maya Road :) Also appreciate that Maya Road comes w/thinner wooden rulers now, I liked the original ones but often felt they were too thick for my purposes..

Made this layout for the CHA show by the way :)

18

2013-01-27T14:11:00.001+01:00

Playing with different styles…this one’s for the inspiration challenge over at ColorConspiracy, which can be seen here.

Love that graphic papers seem so perfect for cards for youths and stuff…

Which brings me to this: Happy birthday to my oldest nephew! :)

Seems like yesterday this little kid was so eager to show me the signs he had learned in kindergarten…awww! Later he and his little brother thought I looked like the Asian girl in Power Rangers….kick ass!

A complicated heart

2013-01-18T14:33:00.001+01:00

The heart is a complicated thing. Like, literally.

A colleague of mine recently had to undergo surgery because of her complicated heart. I immediately thought of the Maya Road canvas hearts and how it would be the perfect focal point for a dressed up chocolate gift for her (selfish, I know).

I put a lot of Maya Road goodies to good use here..like the measure ribbon, which I have grown to love (took me a while, though!) – it curls so perfect…

Add pleated satin ribbon….vivid mists on gessoed canvas….a tucked in vintage key…trinkets and other bits..

And ofcourse…the ornate vintage butterfly stamp – love it!

Right…atm busy renovating the kitchen…or rather..throwing away the old kitchen & getting in a brand new kitchen…am taking a few days off work to get stuff done….with no time for creative endeavours so far, cry….despite me having a lot of brand new papers I’m itching to use..….sigh…

Ahwell..will get right back to scrapping once the kitchen’s ready!

My very first ColorConspiracy-projects

2013-01-14T19:44:00.001+01:00

Soo…I mentioned in last post that I’m now part of the ColorConspiracy design team…and I’ve now played with their papers for real…love the subtle graphic patterns… most of them are my fave kind of patterned paper – monocromatic or duotones..I find such papers quite easy to use :)

And, since there’s CHA going on atm (you probably do not want to miss the sneak peeks & chances on giveaways on the Maya Road blog by the way) I usually drop by TwoPeas to join their CHA challenges…which I did this weekend as well, putting my ColorConspiracy papers to good use :)

First out is this layout of my lovely niece…

Love the cleaniness of this layout, if I may say so myself *smile*.

The challenge was to use five photos on one project… well, five photos – check :p

I find these photo-die cuts cute..comes in different colors…figured I’d use yellow here. Figured it needed a little extra dimension so I added this red brad from Pink Paislee :)

Love the clean, red letters too, by the way – I can’t recall the brand..Scenic Route mayhaps?

And this flair button from PaperPlay’s perfect here! Just the right hue of blue + added splash of red :)

And then I joined this challenge that’s about using seven kind of different patterned papers….figured it’d be a nice way to familiarize myself with ColorConspiracy’s papers ;)

Look, I even hand stitched that tag! Which by the way was dolled up by a Craft Origine-stamp, by the way. And the bright, yellow tulle flower is one of the new releases from Maya Road this CHA, by the way.

And although all the papers are double sided, I made sure to not cheat – I did use seven different patterned papers here.

The colors of these papers makes me happy :)

And here’s my presentation over at the ColorConspiracy blog :)

Random scrapping thoughts: Before I joined ColorConspiracy…I was asked…but you’re mainly a shabby chic-kind of scrapper…? Hum. I really don’t consider myself a shabby chic kind of scrapbooker..when I hear shabby/shabby chic I picture a totally different style than mine to be honest…and still… I’ve gotten these kind of comments before too, about my style.

I dunno..maybe it’s the projects that I create in that style that’s the most memorable? Personally I like to think my style depends on the papers and embellishments I’m using, and the theme..the same goes for what I picture will fit the recipient if it’s a card or altered gift.. most scrappers I know find it difficult explaining or deciding what ones style is…me included.. nevertheless…I haven’t really had that much graphic papers in my stash before, so I’m really excited to see how I’ll do with these papers…whether it’ll really be different from what people picture is “me”, or if it won’t matter..I’ll still create what others picture as shabby…? :)

ColorConspiracy

2013-01-10T19:21:00.001+01:00

Psst!

Seen the news?

I’m one of the new design team members over at ColorConspiracy!

*whee*!

Been admiring them from afar from the very beginning, but tbh wasn’t until last year they really caught my attention. So am so happy to be part of their DT! :D

Here’s the other in the design team in case you’re curious…:)

Now if you’ll excuse me..I just got sent their papers and embellishments…I’m gonna have a go at it this weekend! :)

Oh, Kasper!

2013-01-08T15:20:00.000+01:00

When we stayed in Oslo for Christmas, Amalie brought quite a few books over as well. Among them a book about Kasper and Lisa (Gaspard and Lisa), which she thought would be the perfect bedtime-story for her cousin named..Kasper! :)

I played around with mist, stencils, stamps and rub-ons on this layout, making them the main compartments here rather than patterned paper…I have to say I think it went quite well, no? It’s slightly messy but not that messy….? I used stamps from Craft Origine (a lot of them actually), stencils from Baltzer Designs and SODAlicious, rubons from Hambly and mist from Maya Road and Tattered Angels.

I also used both Rangers distress ink & pigment ink from Maya Road by the way…am trying to be better at not only using black & brown ink….oh, and the only patterned paper’s the one from Oh Baby! Boy from BAsic Grey. Oldie but goldie :)

So..hope you liked this layout.. I’m not into the art journal-ish stuff so I suppose this probably looks messy and weird for those who are in the know :p

Little Corner of Ania

~~ Cards + stamping ~~

~~ Just one more goodnight kiss ~~

~~ Nathalie + Magne, part 3 ~~

~~ Wedding CD Card ~~

~~ Nathale + Magne, part 2 ~~

~~ I {heart} boxes ~~

~~ Magne + Nathalie, part 1 ~~

~~ Just a few more babyphotos… ~~

~~ Meet Miss S ~~

~~ Just some photos ~~

~~ March Sketch ~~

~~ Sweet love ~~

~~ This one’s for you, grandma ~~

~~ 4+ photos? Yes please… ~~

~~ I have a sketch for you ~~

~~ Hot damn! ~~

~~ Happy 60th ~~

~~ Prima product picks ~~

~~ Visiting Octavia ~~