~~ Final Halloween stuff for this year, I promise!!! ~~

Apart from the bats, none of the things used on this box really is Halloween-specific. All you need is to use stuff with the typical Halloween-colors all in one sorta.

The bats were pulled from a bat-vine from Prima, the vine with the pumpkin as well. The glitter cardstock is from Core’dinations, and the papers are from the printery-collection, with some flowers and flocked rubons and mirrorthingies mixed in.

The box reveals a little hat which immediately made me think of a friend of mine…

Pretty leaves..

Right!

Just wanted to share this last Halloween-thingie before the actual Halloween :)

Have a spooky night!

Psst. Check out the other Prima-girls’ Halloween-inspo! And here’s how the Glue Arts-girls celebrate their Halloween!

~~ 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)

~~ Couple cards.. ~~

Geez, I’m so pretty dense. What's the point of doing a bunch of blogpost-drafts when you actually forget to *schedule* them? *cough* Right. Couple cards coming up! =)

Over at the Glue Arts blog we have (ok, had) a Pinterest-week. We were to draw inspiration from images posted to Pinterest, and create something of our own. Well, I loved these Pebbles Inc -papers so much that I decided to create a card when I saw this image:

Source: iammommy.typepad.com via ania on Pinterest

Here’s a closeup of the card – created with stamps from Paper Smooches, skypunch from Fiskars and ofcourse, adhesive from Glue Arts. You can find the Glue Arts-post here.

The Prima BAP and PPP post is up (that’s – Build-A-Page and Prima-Product-Pick which’s actually a Palette aswell so it should actually be PPPP.. but I digress..)
Here’s my card for the BAP one..

And while I’m sharing cards, here’s one I did a few weeks ago but never got around to share (hmm, see a trend? Naa…no comments on age and dementia, please :p)…

The coworkers needed a babycard, so I dug into the Fancy Pants Designs papers of mine, found these then a really, really old rub-on from Jenni Bowlin (the bird – impressive how well it still was after so long)..the chipboardframe is from Crate paper, the button from American Crafts, small flowers from Kort & Godt, tulle and some hidden strips of die cut from Doodlebug….

And ofcourse, Hambly onesie-transparency..can’t create a babycard without these now, can I? :)
Sparkly gem from prima by the way..

Right. If you have any 3ndypapir-papers in your stash, head over here for *my* (flex! ;)) challenge for a chance to win brand new 3ndypapers! Good luck!

And for the Norwegians dropping by today: Godt valg!

~~ Tutorial: Gift box/hostess gift ~~

This is a box I made a few weeks ago, I think it was in the beginning of the Summer or something like that. Mom was visiting and needed a little hostess gift for a friend who invited her on dinner..

So I made this little box, which I’ve created a few times, and even done a tutorial on for the Norwegian challenge blog That’s Just So Cute back in July. Figured I’d share the tutorial here too, in English..hm? (the Norwegian version can be found here). Scroll down…

See…it holds such candies so well…I think it’s a nice treat and it’s pretty quick whipping up aswell – I only had half an hour creating and photographing this one before mom was off for that dinner of hers...all materials: Prima Marketing for the box above, and lots of Crate Paper for the box in the tutorial.

 

Right, the tutorial. First you have to find a small, open box, or create your own (see tutorial on how to fold the box itself here).

 

Find a thicker cardstock/cardboard for the top/bottom. I usually ask the LSS whenever I’m dropping by if they have any pieces they don’t mind giving me – they normally get such when they receive their papers. Place your box upon, and cut out two squares larger than your box.

 

Like this – one for the bottom and one for the top!

 

Dress up the bottom/tops..

Now, for the flap at top, cut out a strip of cardstock slightly wider than your box, and adhere it to the bottom between the bottom/box, fold/score, adhere to the back of the box..leave the top for now, we’ll decorate it first before attaching it to the flap..

Right! Decorate the top!

Then adhere it to the flap..feel free to add like, ribbon or something like that so it’ll be easier opening the box..(I know, I’m so wonderful at explaining…but the truth is, I usually just wing these kinda things so maybe it’s why I find it hard to put it into words, hmm! Nevertheless, I hope you got an idea of how to do these boxes..it’s just to get started then it’s pretty self-evident what to do sorta :) )

~~ 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:

Sharon

Trina

Hege

Anna-Maria

Trudi

Maiko

Stacey

Leslie

Karola

Steph

Emeline

Marie

Finnabair

 

Prima Educator links:

Janine Koczwara

Nathalie Kalbach

Cari Fennell

Birgit Koopsen

Jamie Dougherty

Marion Smith

Sharon Laakkonen

 

Also: Tattered Angels also have their own Prima/TA giveaway!

~~ 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 :)