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.