Remember the news about a new and improved Glue Glider Pro Cartridge? The handle is the same, but the cartridges carrying the adhesive has gotten even better!
I pointed you to a giveaway on the Glue Arts blog the other day, and well – if you didn’t win anything there – don’t worry – you now have a new chance here on this blog :)
So if there's anyone out there wanting to try your luck and get a chance to win one of the NEW cartridges AND a handle – well – feel free to drop a comment here on this post…I’ll leave this giveaway open for a week, til tuesday October 18th.
Ps – yes, it's the cartridges which's new – but it'll work with the old handle no problem..so don't worry if you have an old handle at home, you don't have to purchase a new one :)
Best of luck!
Ps2.
Hate posting without scrappy images. Here’s a layout I did a few months ago and keep forgetting to post about...
Don’t you just love kids and what they say? My daughter is so convinced she’s gonna marry her brother when she grows up…bwahaha…such a cutiepie.. =)
I have so many quotes saved both on the pc and the iphone which I really oughta scrap soon..sigh!
Enjoy your week!
~~ Tahdada…it’s a… giveaway! Roll on…! ~~
~~ Some Prima stuff.. ~~
The October BAP for Prima was posted yesterday – here’s my contribution..a layout with my mom (hi mom! *waves!*). Check out the sketch & the other ladies’ take on it here.
I also did this altered box for a Prima-blogpost back in September, you can find it here.
Lots of lovely CHA-S stuff went into this one – the papers are from Printery, the chipboard from Londonerry and the flowers and stuff are mixed stuff from the new releases.
I went for a simple top because I wanted the box to actually be useable…I love and adore over-the-top-decorated tops, but sometimes I do wonder if they actually can be used like, in an everyday manner? Depends on the purpose of the boxes I suppose – this one is filled with grinded coffee-beans :)
(Don’t get me wrong – one day I’ll decorate the heck of the top of one of these boxes too…but until I figure out how to actually do that in a neat and effortlessly way as I’ve seen the other girls do it, I’ll just hide behind the reason that I want my stuff to be useable sorta ;p)
~~ Craft Origine ~~
Here’s my proof that why yes, I can stamp!
Or something like that *wink* *wink*
My first layout for Craft Origine!
Which brings me to a nice reason for being on a stamp-DT: A non-paper DT means I’ll get an excuse to dig into my non-DT-manuf stuff more often! Because yes, I’ll freely admit that when you have obligations for this and that manuf you’ll use your older, beloved non-DT-stuff less and less (although I think I am pretty good at balancing this atm, having a number of non-paper-DTs already :) ). Stuff on my layouts include American Crafts, papers from Prima, Crate Paper, KaiserCraft and Pink Paislee), tags from Elle’s Studio, Pink Paislee, MME and yeah, random bits and pieces from here and there. 
So, I’ll freely admit I don’t have much experience with stamps, hence I’m probably easily impressed..which I’ll admit I became, using the Craft Origine-stamps. It took the ink (Archival Ink) so easily and yielded such crisp, detailed and rich impressions. I don’t think I really needed to push as much as I did (I do that when I’m afraid the stamp won’t stamp off easily sorta). 
Nice, aren’t they? (Yes, yes – I didn’t notice until it was too late that I didn’t make sure the duck-stamp had ink all over before I pressed it down. In fact I saw that just as it touched the paper…and when I redid the stamp, well, I didn’t hit exactly on the lines :p)
Nevertheless. The stamps I’ve used comes from Anniversaire (the numbers), Enfance (the duck, sentiment and rocking horse) and Recettes (the bunny!).
Alright. I’m excited and honored, and looking forward to see how I’ll solve this with “I’m-no-stamper”-thing combined with being on a stamp-DT =)
Feel free to check out the Craft Origine store, the Craft Origine blog (it’s in both English and French) and the other (French! I’m the only Norwegian there o.O) girls’ blogs: Céline Le Guay (Marianne), Gaëlle Fauglas and Karine Cazenave-Taipe.
~~ What the ... ~~
Sure, I realize not everybody likes words that’s like, close to swear words (I don’t really consider “heck” a real swear word, although it really is used like one, or in the place of one, sorta). Nevertheless. Some situations require such use of strong words (although I would have preferred WTF, which I would, but then again, this was also supposed to be a DT layout, so I decided against it in the end. Uhm. Right. Nuff babbling!)
But. Seriously. My niece. She’s grown so big and all adult and stuff. Sigh.
I created this one at a crop last Saturday where we were given a sketch, a direction (C&S) and like, one hour? Two hours? To complete it. Loved the sketch (and thanks for the crop, it’s been too long!) :) AND I loved the papers! Seriously! The Lemon Flower collection from DCWV is absolutely, absolutely GORGEOUS. Just look at the patterns and the colors…and it’s glitter too, but not in a glitter-all-over-way! Do drop by the Glue Arts blogpost which you’ll find here to read more about this layout and ofcourse the products I used :)
Hand cut the patterns..of is it called fussy cutting these days??
The bling comes from Websters Page – loved it!
And my gorgeous niece?
I think she’s fabulous..
A natural in front of the camera..
And she really makes me wonder….where the heck did time go!?!?? Crap :p
Srsly ><
~~ 3ndy news and a challenge! ~~
Every month we have a challenge going on over at 3ndypapir, and I’m the one responsible for the September-challenge. It’s 1. Use scraps (I have a long winded explanation as to why on the 3ndyblog – but basically – it’s because I need to purge stuff for the good news, see below :p), and 2. Use at least an old embellishment while you’re at it (mine: the übercool Hambly-rubons).
The prize? Well, it’s brand new papers from 3ndypapir. Yep, that’s right – Gudrun is soon coming out with new collections for 3ndypapir. Check out the peek for the first one, “Blue Sky”:
Such lovely, fun colors, eh? I’m certainly looking forward to this one! You’ll find the full images of every paper in this line in this post.
So. Scraps. I’m too good for my own good at keeping them *sigh*. Hence – thick, hard-to-close-folders loaded with scraps. Also, I’m good at cutting up things then realizing – uhm, I think I changed my mind. A bad trait, I know..Nevertheless…all the different 3ndypapir-lines sort of goes well together here, don’t you think? :)
And old embellishments – I’m trying to remember to use my rubons, as they’re the first to actually “go bad”….all the other stuff can be reglued sorta. Nevetheless. Love the Hambly-rubons and the cute & cool designs :)
Right, what are you waiting for? Have a tiny, little 3ndypapir-scrap lying around begging to be used? Well, GO ON THEN! ;)
~~ TA/Prima Hop: 2 for 1! ~~
Hi and welcome – did you know there’s a blog hop going on? No? Well, now you do ;)
Prima and Tattered Angels decided to do a giveawaythingy, and have a bloghop with inspiring projects from the design team while at it. Here’s my contributions.
You see, I originally made a layout (the 2nd one in this post), wasn’t entirely happy but thought ahwell, but then I got to see peeks of the other girls’ stuff and I was like. Oh. Crap. I need to up my efforts. And made this one instead. Then decided to share both, cause…well, some people might like layout #2 more than layout #1 and vice versa. So, there you go. 2 for the price of 1! Or something like that :p
I colored this Ruby Violet stamp w/Tattered Angels mist – Jazz Blue and Tattered Rose.
I cut a too long strip of this Prima rose-ribbon once, leaving one rose dry…figured I better put it to use on this one, I love the green color of it!
I can see myself using this particular stamp more than once! So cute! Haaa, I’m so funny ;p
Here, this was the original layout I made for this hop..
A sheet of paper from Pixie Glen (layout #2 contains leftover-scraps from this sheet of paper =) ), lots of alterable canvas pieces, my favorite new bling (this one is truly sparkly), romantic butterfly, amazing canvas letters (loves), cute miniflowers and hey, look at that lovely resinbird!
Jazz blue and patina must be my favourite colors from Tattered Angels, along with Iridescent Gold. Both are used here – the blue here is jazz blue (Patina is pretty close – I usually just grab whicever of these bottles which’s closest to me when I want that color), and the iridescent gold is used on the paper for a subtle golden shimmer. Bummer that it rarely shows on photos :(
I also attempted to paint the chest of this bird with jazz blue, I think it worked pretty well :)
Right.
Here’s what you can win from the Prima blog – here’s an excerpt from their text:
Included are:
- Prima Innocence alterable flowers-3 packs
- Prima Winter Roses
- Prima Royal Verbena Silver Flowers
- Prima Miss Sophie Lace Flowers
- Prima Sugar Plum Roses-Banana
- 3 styles of alterable Prima lace
- TA Glimmer Mist-Sunflower, Blackberry Cordial, Bronze and Timberline
- TA Glam-Nightfall & Dirty Martini
- TA Chalkboard-Cherry Cola & Monolith
For a chance to win the LOVELY prize above just visit some of the other blogs listed below and then come back here and let us know your favorite altered Prima product spotted on one of the blogs!
(Comments will close September 14th at midnight PST. One lucky winner will be chosen on September 15th.)
Here’s the Design Team links:
Prima Educator links:
Also: Tattered Angels also have their own Prima/TA giveaway!
~~Happy Go Lucky! ~~
Um, this collection from Pebbles Inc reminded me how happy a nice, graphic collection actually can make me! Look at the perfect combination of happy colors and stuff! It truly lived up to its name :) Love it when I can layer patterned papers like this without it being too messy (well, imo anyways – personal taste really is different, I know :) ).
Nevertheless – as you can see – we got to play with this Happy Go Lucky collection from Pebbles Inc – and my, were they generous sending us lots of embellishments in additions to the papers..lovesit! :)
Check out the post from Glue Arts where you can enter the giveaway – you really do want this collection (and to try out GA-adhesive if you haven’t yet! ;) ).
And by the way, don’t miss out on the Jillibean Soup & Maya Road blog swap..check out this awesome little house by Jennifer Beason…she’s simply awesome when it comes to thinking outside the box for altered stuff!
~~ How come, part 2 ~~
Remember my post about Tuva, my niece?
I had to scrap these photos, and did so whipping up the good old Scenic Route papers (loves..but..the paperpack they came in only had one of each pattern..sigh…I prefer paperpacks that have at least two of each patterned paper!)
Minipictures = loves.
Used lots of various chipboards from Maya Road, along with the lovely dragonfruit pink mist…one of my fave colors of the Maya Mists, methinks..
And I totally adore the clearstamps with lots of vintage cameras (say cheese).
I’m not sure on the chandelier-bling here….I really, really wanted to use it, it’s oh so pretty… but hm, maybe I should just have saved it for another page or project, it didn’t really fit in here now did it? Ahwell…it’s glued to the chipboard, so I can’t really remove it now, bleh.
Nevertheless, for more info on this layout and the process, check out my Maya Road-post here. :)
~~ My CHA-S Prima projects, part 2 ~~
This is my favorite layout of all the ones I made. The lovely Romantique-collection is simply perfect for such baby-layouts methinks! So cute, so darling…and yes, the colors might be bordering on feminine, but it’s ok when it’s a baby uh? Besides, I tried to balance it some by using blue hearts, the blue star burst-vine and some splotches of peacock-mist.
I think this sentiment fit so well with the photo..
And look at that banner =) I hope the curviness made it okay through the shipping to the CHA-booth…:p And again – the canvas-letters are the perfect size for my typical use! Loves!
Oh and did I mention? I have a new sewing machine! Hooray! One+ month without was the longest I could take…when learning I was to create stuff for CHA I was like…mmkay…this means..I truly need a sewing machine! So, say hello to Husquarna Viking H/Class! No idea what it means, but it looks sturdy, sews well and even have a little lamp – yay! I’m using an extra thick sewing thread atm and it causes some hiccups every now and then, but so far nothing serious…is there any tip for using extra thick sewing thread by the way? It’s like..demin-thread or something like that…should I ask the store for a larger sewing needle mayhaps?
Love this star vine by the way. Hated to have to use it, but hey, it’s a layout about my nephew, surely he’s worthy of this lovely vine…
Here’s the book I created using the Alla-Prima collection. It was fun creating it, and I can see myself doing this more for special occasions. Love the metal trinket, the resins, the flower vine and oh, if you look closer to the corner: the flocked rub-ons – love the feel and look of it!
Even more resins inside..
I can picture wrapped candies, money, smaller gifts to be hidden inside for the larger occasions in life…but for now – a papyrus with a “thank you” sentiment…
I’ve mentioned my love for minicanvases lots of times, here’s one of my absolute faves..created using flocked rub-ons and chipboards from the North Country-collection, Jazz Blue glimmer-mist, gems and buttons.
Oh and a flower too, sprayed w/gold glimmer mist =)
Oh and did I mention the buttons were covered with distress crackle paint? Love the extra weary look it gets :)
I made this one after I had sent off my CHA box, thus it didn’t end up in the booth. It’s made using the Printery-collection, while the text-strip is from the Pixie Glen-collection.
Hm. It just turned this way. Don’t ask :p
Notice however that this resin-birdbath got painted in the same colors as the waterfont (?) in the pictures (hmm..what’s the English name of the birtbath-thingie used when a child is baptised by affusion?)
Look! Mistable canvas-pieces! With crystal-hearts in between =)
Did I mention how much I love finally having a sewing machine? =)
There!
That’s it :)
Oh btw, I’m presented at the Prima blog today. Here’s the link :)
