Imagine

I use my imagination to get over the ups and downs I can feel in the winter, we don't get much light during the wintertime so I dream of the vacations laying in front of me:-) Everything from the new Impressions of Imagination by the StudioGirls, coming January 1st to the shop.

Live your dream

Now when Christmas is kind of over, what is your next celebration? My youngest will turn 14 in January so that will be fun and we still have the New Year before that.

For the scraplift at SBG.
My oldest daughter came home for one week in october and of course my youngest had her operation just that week so we never had the time to sit down and talk but I manage to take a couple of pics of her:-)Background and frame from Franziska's Dusk Dew, flowers from Franziska's Sunken Garden, wordart from Natali's Playing with wordart 3 and finally lace from Manu's Lace Collection No. 04

Mimmi

My oldest cat Mimmi, she's 9 year and have a bad temper but is a sweetheart and we love her dearly.Background Special Times by Doris, elements from Feline fun by Alana and everything else is from Secret Garden by SussieM.

The list

This's for the Studio Starts challenge at SBG.

Some of my must do's:-) Background from Snow Drift and element from Dreams by Doris, birds, wordart and snowborder from Drifting Snow Dreams by Lorie, gifts under the tree Little pieces of joy by Bluebell and tree, alpha and leaves by Amy Hutchinson Rasberry Truffle kit

Gingerbread

My DD with our annual gingerbread making. It's so fun. Can't you just smell those cookies? I've used Doris Cosy home backgrounds and Cozy Home - Embellishments, wordart from Special Times, element from Dreams and miniflowers, heart from My Hearts Delight.

Freebie template

You can download the template here I've used Doris Castle's Snow Drift for my template. If you like it please leave some love.

It's a kind of magic

There's a scraplift challenge at SBG and this's how mine turned out:-) Of course I've used Doris fabulous kit Snow Drift, it's an amazing kit.
How are your Christmas going to be this year?

Wooohoooo I'm a CT on Doris team!!!

It's such an honor and Doris is a cutie. You can't imagine all the thing she does and she's mom to three girls too! Tonight it's snowing again and I for one love it:-) I'll stay out of snowfight's since I've a nasty cold and using a lot of meds at the moment. Are you longing for Christmas? I sure am, I love Christmas and everything around it. All my gift are done so no need for any stress there LOL. I've made some really nice calendar's that turned out great after printing.

Christmas Eve

Christmas eve 2006 we woke up to this wonderland outside. We was not supposed to get any snow and it was kind of warm weather so to wake up to this - magic!
I've used Doris Castle's wonderful kit Snow Drift it's such a fun kit to work with.

First Snow

It's always something very special with the first snow of the year, it's magic.
I've used Doris Castle's wonderful kit Snow Drift it's such a fun kit to work with.

Snowfight!!!1

I've used Doris Castle's wonderful kit Snow Drift it's such a fun kit to work with.
First snowfight of the year!!!

Through your eyes

There's a new shop at SBG and they're having a contest with one of their templates and it's an awesome template:-)
Credits:
Template by ONdesign from their blog
Several elements from ONdesign Kit no 5
Date element - ONdesign Calender
Background and texture - Meredith Lucky Seven Retro
Red flower - Jessica Home life
Brown button - Jessica In memory of Miles
Stitches - Jessica Spotential
Cardboard - Linda GB ScrapArtist

I'd so much fun using the template and since I'm sick at the moment it was nice to do something else than laying on the sofa and looking on the TV all the time:-)

New templates at my store!

Finally a new set with templates! I think they've a kind of summer theme but of course they'll work for everything. I hope you like them. You can find them at my site. In the last template I've used stitches too but it does not show that great in the preview. Now I need to get out and fix my garden before I get back to work tomorrow. First day after my vacation! Only a year to next summer LOL

August freebie!

I got in the mood by the London layout and though that you maybe need a template for a vacation layout. Click here to start your download, the file include PSD, png and tiff's. Please leave some love if you download it. Have fun!

London 2007

Catharina and her dad spent a week in London this summer and it was during the time with the bombs so I was biting my nails at home and ended up with a huge phonebill! At least they had fun:-)


Template - Gotta scrap now by Janet
Paper, alpha and texture - Big girls panties by Sausan and Trish
Stitches - Doodles borders by Sausan
Everything above at SBG
Cardboard by Linda GB at ScrapArtist

4 Cats

I'm on a roll today:-))) Check out the contest at Traci Reed for a free template and when you're there sign up for her newsletter. You'll get goodies!

Most is from Traci Reed's Reckless kit but background on the big pic is from Strappy Sandals by Traci Reed and the orange plaque is from her Boy Theory kit.
Font CAC Pinafore

Growing Up

You've to get the new huge kit from the designers at SBG
Anything on the layout is from there.

Many faces.....

I had this layout in my head for such a long time so when I got some time to make it was just how I imagined it. My baby is so goofy:-)))


Credits:
My Specialty Set No. 1 by Meredith
Covered Stamp Sheets by Meredith
Spontential by Jessica
Bohemian peddler by Jessica
All above at SBG
Cardboards by Linda GB at ScrapArtist

My Girl!

My gorgeous girl who always make me smile even if she's on her way to her teens LOLCredits:
Background - Urban art mods 1 by Sausan
Lace - Elements all stars by Sausan
Frame - Elements all stars vintage paper polas by Sausan
Swirls - Old print swirls and words by Sausan
Heart and flower - Urban Vintage by Traci Reed
All above at SBG
Cardboard by LindaGB from ScrapArtist

Week 3

Credits:
Savannah-Sophisticate Backgrounds by Carrie
Vivacious-Swirl by Carrie
Vivacious-Stitched flames by Carrie
Vivacious-Cross stitch by Carrie
Sparkle-flowers-Peach flower by Carrie
Template-April fools surprise by Janet
Legible Note Cards-Note card overlay by Meredith
Midnightmoon-Background by Sausan
Alteredartistry pressedflowers 5-white flower by Sausan
All stars altered twill and lace-lace by Sausan
Ornamental no1-Ornamental by Sausan
Grungecity solids-texture by Michelle

Everything from SBG.

Vote for me at Queen at the crop!

Journaling:

Sometimes I'm very scared
of the state in the world and how
it will affect my children and grandchildren.
Sometimes I'm so happy to be living just at this moment.
Once in awhile I feel like hiding for everybody.
Give me a book and I'll dream me a river.
I'm very open sometimes
but my inner self
I hide.

Background paper - Midnight moon by Sausan

Frame - Altered artistry by Sausan

Cardboard - Floralia by Sausan

Leaf - Almost autumn by Sausan

Scribblers - Maya

Quirky imagination by Maya

Quirky existence by Maya

Latin words - Quirktionary 3 by Michelle

Flowers - Whispers by Doris

Flowers - Pressed flowers by Sausan

Arrow - Foiled by Doris

New templates at my store!

They're with a kind of spring theme:-) You can find them here. I hope I'll have more time now when I'm almost finished in my new house. There're still boxes to un-pack but it looks better for every week. New furnitures will arrive on Tuesday and finally we will have two couches so we both can lay down when we're looking on a movie LOL

New freebie template!

Download here

The files are in both PSD and PNG. If you download please leave a comment:-)

What?

I couldn't resist Sylvie's contest for silly layouts:-))) This's one of my cats, Belle and she love to get in to the bread basket. She looks so silly but still cute LOL
Everything by Sausan.


Background - Funky Funky
Paisley ornament - Paisley Doodles
Alpha - Sing Spring
Ornamental - Ornamental no5
Heart - Schnippschnapp kidoki
Glitterswirl - Happy New Year freebie
Flower - Schnippschnapp flowers
Crown - Oh tannenbaum crowns

Birthday 2005

This's for the StudioStart Challenge at SBG called Can we build it.
Template - LaunchPads by Bree
Background - Willow by Carrie
Blue background - Marrakech by Sausan
Green background 2 - Clematis by Debbie
Green background 3 - Fly Away With Me by Traci
Staples - Fly Away With Me by Traci
Tags, beads and ribbons - Groupies II and IV by Doris
Wordart - Cherished Moments by Doris
Tags - DreamWords by Doris
Cardboard - PersonalTrash by Doris
Flower - Birthday kit by StudioGirls (Sausan)
Arrow - Birthday kit by StudioGirls (Carrie)
Everything from SBG

Shine from within

Finally Catharina got a haircut and I think she look cute but I guess she's missing her very long, long hair.

Paper - TrueLove by Doris from DST
Ribbons - TrueLove by Doris from DST
Pink leaves - TrueLove by Doris from DST
Cardboard - Personal Trash by Doris
Frame - Make me eclectic by Jessica
Stitches - Lipstick Chic by Taran
Feltflower - Golden moments by Sara
Flowerscroll - Golden moments by Sara
Pink flower - my own
Wordart - In the rough by Sara
Scribbled Vine - Delight in photo by Jessica
Button - Sweet Delights by Doris
True Love from the members kit at DST everything else from SBG

Beach 1997

Bree's templates are the best and I can't get over how unique they're:-) Thanks Bree.
These photo are taken at the beach in town where it's perfect for small children to be. The house you can on the photo below is used all year for people who want to take swim even in December:-) Have you seen the gorgeous textures in Traci's paper? Awesome kit.

Papers - Fly away with me by Traci
Flowers - Fly away with me by Traci
Photoframes - Fly away with me by Traci
Birds, cardboard, staple - Fly away with me by Traci
Alpha, numbers - Sing Spring by Sausan
Button - Make me eclectic by Jessica
Wordartframe - Doodleframes by Sara
Lace - Groupies IV by Doris
Everything available at SBG

Scraplifting Doris Castle

Jump over to SBG and scraplift one of Doris layout and you'll get a wonderful bonus from her:-)

Tons of gorgeous layouts to pick but I scraplifted this one Say Cheese

I've used lots of elements so here goes:-)

Background - Formally Your Flexipages by Doris
White frame - Make me eclectic by Jessica
Ornamental - Ornamental No 1 by Sausan
Cardboard - Trash to Treasures by Debbie
Tie - So Serious Elements by Meredith
Wordart 1 - Quirkyquotes Existence by Maya
Pink paper tear - Spunkalicious by Carrie
Stitched ribbon - Spunk-it-up by Carrie
Curly ribbon - Spunk-it-up by Carrie
Heart - A little nostalgic by Sausan
Metal ribbon - A little nostalgic by Sausan
Wordart 2 - Unmistakable by Carrie
Butterfly sprinkles - Unmistakable by Carrie
Brown frame - DDC Garden by Meredith
Grunge stamp - Not quite men by Jessica
Sandpaper - Dumpster diving by Maya
Everything available at SBG

Picture Perfect

Bree offer a free template at the forum at SBG, isn't a wonderful creative template? There's a new one up.

Template - Bree
Hearts - Hearttorn by Jessica
Papers - Not quite men by Jessica
Paper - Altered artistry raw by Sausan
Button - Make me eclectic by Jessica
Frame - Sweet cakes by Jessica
Grunge stamp - Not quite men by Jessica
Wordart - Picture by Carrie
Flower - Make me eclectic by Jessica
Cardboard - Floralia by Sausan
Everything available at SBG

Mr Darcy

Come over to SBG and enter a layout in the challenge My dear Mr Darcy:-)
I found this great photo of Colin Firth as Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The bookcover is from Amazon.com.
Background paper - Promise to write by Maya
Pen, beloved card and blank letter - Promise to write by Maya
Frame and texture - Old World by Maya
Rose - Original Diva by Doris
Ribbon - Gathering Heart by Doris
Emphera card - Passionate past sheet by Maya
Pink flowers - Alteredartistry pressedflowers 1 and 5 by Sausan
Ornament - Ornamental No 3
WordArt - Window of Time by Doris
Everything above available at SBG.
Font - Jane Austen by Pia Frauss
I love the book and think it's her best and the love story is just so lovely that a love story can be.

The two youngest

There's 15 years between my two youngest and my son was delighted when he shouldn't be the youngest anymore:-)

Paper and elements - Delight in Photographs, Part 2 by Jessica
Frame - Alteredartistry elements by Sausan
Ornament - Ornamental No 1 by Sausan
Cardboard - Trash to Treasures by Debbie
Flower - Floral Stamps 1 by Carrie
Everything available at SBG

1974

My first child in 1974. I was only 17 when I gave birth to Carola so it was really huge to care for this darling little girl but she turned out just fine along with her siblings:-)

GatheringHeart - Paper and element By Doris
ScrapDrawers Dictionary By Doris
Frame - Groupies By Doris
Tag and key - GroupiesII By Doris
Cardboard - PersonalTrash By Doris
Everything available at SBG

Dreaming of Spring

Couldn't resist these lovely blue colors in Sylvie's new Sing Spring collection. Awesome kit with tons of elements, just perfect:-) Can you tell I like it LOL

Sausan - Sing Spring kit
Sausan Frame - Little miss green
Sausan WordArt camera - Dslr challenge
WordArt Dream - Maya's Scribbles
Everything from SBG, they're truly the best girls in town:-)

Carola's Secret Pleasure

When she was a couple of years old she loved ginger cookies so much that I needed to hide them but she found them LOL

Background - Lipstic Chic By Taran
Half frame - Ornamental No 3 By Sausan
Heart - Valentino Valentina By Sausan
Flowers - Knittybitties By Mays
Sweet wordart - Scribblers By Maya
Wordart - Reminisce By Traci
Flowers 2 - Amelie By Sara
Stamp - Wonderful Creation By Carrie
Arrow - Unmistakable By Carrie
Everything available at SBG

Want to play?

Do you want these templates? Then head over to SBG and make an animal layout an upload it to the gallery at SBG.
This's my oldest cat Mimmi and I've used stuff from Maya, Jessica, Sausan and Doris at SBG.
Look at those cute flowers ny Maya!

My Girl!

I hope you all survived Christmas and the celebration of the New Year! The best way to start the new year is of course with a layout of the Princess in my life:-) She'll turn 12 on Thursday! Where do time flies?

Paper, frame, journalingpaper - JoDe at Alteredscrapping from House Coming and Autumn Cascade
Little flower - Sausan's Pressed Flower 4 at SBG
Big Flower - Debbie's Fabulos Fall at SBG
Lace 1, rubon - Tracis's Wisteria Lane at SBG
Lace 2 - Traci's Be Free at SBG
Twill - freebie by Katie Pertiet at DesignerDigitals
Ornament - Sausan's Ornamental No1 at SBG
Pen - Maya's Promise to write at SBG

Last Christmas

Last Christmas in this house! Next year it will be a fun little house to decorate:-) It's always scary to move and I've so much left to do. You've to check out all the goodies the girls at SBG have created lately!

Tag - Doris Groupies II
Paper - Sausan Il Barocco
Houses- Sausan Kritzel Houses
Leaf - Sausan Alteredartistry Pressedleaves 3
Frame - Sausan Freebie from the chat:-)
Lace - Sausan Il Barocco
Arrow - Sausan Doodle Arrows
Stitches - Sausan Floralia
Font Harting

Christmas Template

I wish you all a wonderful Christmas and that all your wishes will come through. Here's a little gift from me that I hope you can use.The files are in PSD, Tiff and PNG, if you download please leave a comment:-)
Download here

And here is layout to show how I used it. I've used stuff from Sausan, Ronna and Carrie all available at SBG

Dear Daughter

SBG always put up a good challenge and you really got to put your thinking hat on to make the layout's that fits but you do grow as a scrapper:-)
I'm so grateful that my oldest daughter always makes sure that I know what's going on in her life and she always makes sure that I get a CD with her photos from her travels around the world. It's a comfort when you don't talk to her every day that we can text each other and we try to talk once every week even if it cost a small fortune. Love e-mail but she can't always access a computer.

Paper, wordart, pin and tab from Jessica's Unamused kit
Paper, letters and paper for writing from Maya's Promise to write and Weathered Treasures kit and the deligt wordart is a freebie from Maya.
Wordart in the left corner from Designer Digitals, also a freebie.

Magical Christmas

We woke up Christmas morning 2004 to this snow and light and it was magic!

Tree, stars and frame from Maya's Magical Miracles
Background and ornament by Sausan
Stamp from Maya's Mystical Stamps
WordArt from Maya's Quirkyquotes Existence
Everything at SBG
Font Carpenter

I'm tagged

Christine tagged me and I better play along:-)))

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Hot Chocolate

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Wrapped

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? White lights

4. Do you hang mistletoe? No

5. When do you put up your decorations? 1:st Advent

6. What is your favorite holiday dish? Swedish herring and egg.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? Just to spend time with my grandparents.

8. When and how did you learn that Santa isn't real? I still believe in Santa!

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Of course since that is the big day here in Sweden.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? We've everything in gold and red and with some personal items that means a lot to us.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Love snow:-)

12. Can you ice skate? Of course:-)

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? Catharina even if she's born January 4th.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? To spend time with my family.

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Cheese and crackers.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? That we open one gift at the time:-) It can take a very long time to go through all the gifts and after that we play a boardgame.

I'll tag Sylvie:-)

My kids

I took this photo when my oldest daughter visited last time and I'm not spoiled with photos of all my kids in the same spot:-)

Paper Marrakech by Sausan
Book Ilbarocco by Sausan
Frame Ornamental No 4 by Sausan
Big heart Regiftable by Jessica
Flower FabulousFall-FlowerCluster2 by Debbie
Little Heart My hearts deligt by Doris
Burlap Cornfed by Jessica
Cardboard Floralia by Sausan
Wordart Quirkyquote gratitude by Maya
Swirl Secret Garden by Maya
Wordart 2 Regiftable by Jessica

Everything from SBG

Memory Lane and a scraplift

There's a challenge at SBG to make a scraplift of one of Sylvies's layouts and I picked this one
as inspiration and her's is so bright but my little princess is a bit gothlike at the moment:-)))
Most from Sausan
Floralia - Black Grunge Reloaded
Pressed Leaves 3
Il Barocco - Elements Pack
Decorative Stitching-Vol. 1 By Ronna
You'll find everything at SBG!
Sometimes you find a photo and the memories just floading through you, well that happened whit this old photo of Catharina from 1997. She got the big dog at her first xmas and it still sleeps in her bed:-) The dogs name is Tilda and when she got the dog it was almost as big as her LOL
Meredith's True Spirit, Seasonal kit, Just for fun, Antique Paper Shapes, Dude Elements. Just to be yours sampler. Also from SBG.

A litte Thank You freebie

I want to take this opportunity to thank all who visit me, making comments and sends e-mail. We don't celebrate ThanksGiving in Sweden but I think it's a great holiday when you say thanks for everything you're grateful for. I'm very grateful for those good friends I've got on the net and IRL but to get my addiction of creativity I really thank my online buddies and the ones that make kit that make my heart pump a little extra:-) Leave a little love if you download the template, the files are in PSD and PNG.Click here to download

Don't miss Maya's SALE at SBG

Starting on Friday November 17th @ Noon EST to Saturday November 18th @ Noon EST
Don't miss this chance to get some of Maya's fab stuff. Click on the graphics below and you'll be directed to her shop at SBG!

Friendship

I love JoDe's new kit Trash & Treasure at Altered Scrapping This's Catharina and her best friend:-)

Corner templates

These templates are a bit different but it's fun to use the corners:-) You can find them at my site, just click the picture and you'll be there LOL We've already have our first snow here and I'm thinking of something Christmas for new templates so look out for those in a couple of weeks. You can see how I've used one of them in the layout below.Paper by Doris - Dreams and Meredith - Misunderstood from SBG
All other papers and elements by Alteredscrapping and from the kit Autumn Cascade, check out those cute buttons!