My nephew – the camera freak….

 Hulvågbroen…

IMG_6180, originally uploaded by thelge2.

I stole this photo from Tor Helges flicre account. He has turned into a camera freak and I love that fact. One of this days he got to take his old aunt out on a photo safari. Maybe if I am paying enough…..

I made my card numero 19 today. Tena Spenger showed us how to make our own transparencies. A good thing to know. I bought a pack of sheets going in to this class, and I never would have thougt about doing this. I am in “the mood” to night and focused on kissing….

Jan and Linda – kissing during their first dance as husband and wife.

I have stayed out of the funny department  today, and I had a good day. I need to think more about this class before going in again. The weather is still bad and there is no summer to see out there.

 

Maybe it is time to give up….

…because I have no clue of what is going on over in my Have more Fun class. I just don`t get the connection of what Stacy Julian is saying and all the funny things going on all over the place.  I really do not like to give up on anything I have committed myself to do, but I am really close to give up. I wish things were different because I know there is a important lesson in there – somewhere.

To days technique in Tenas class was using alcohol ink. Never tried that and I did not succeed today. Something did not work out the way it should. Now I have three bottles of alcohol ink standing in front of me, laughing at me. So…lets see who laughs last. I am not giving up before I get it right. To night I just made a card to put in my stack.

I love my turkey stamp. I never knew it would come in so handy.:)

We still have bad weather. I felt so bad for my first customers this morning. They were so wet and cold after sleeping in the boat – on deck – in the rain and the wind. Not a happy sleepover. Or maybe it was. They were young and in love.

Last night I was depressed…

 

…my Have more FUN class was no fun, I had a cold and I lacked glaze medium. It was not a happy girl preparing for bed. Just before going to bed I stopped by the message board in my 52 card pick up class. One of the girls said she had used Mod Podge instead of glaze medium and that worked. So today it all worked out fine. (And my mood was better).

First I made my card using stickers and paint. What a great idea. I am so happy for learning to do this.

Then it was all about acrylic paint and glaze medium:

And in the end I turned to the chalk. I was worried about that. I had no idea how that would work.

I also made a slide show from the wedding. I am going to upload that in a moment.

About wrecking this journal….

…I can’t believe I am playing. Before I knew what was happening I had reach page eleven. Now I have taped it up and it is ready to go in the mail, addressed back to me. This is crazy. Tormod and Kjellaug have been here today, installing the drawers for my desk. That should help me get more organized. I sure hope so. I am still working on ordering prints from the wedding – it sure takes time.

I found this cute photo of Linda looking in on the partying Friday night. Both the bride and the groom where busy writing songs this last night, always something left to do.

So, I was thinking; what was she thinking this last night?

I also took the time to make a new card for my 52 card pick up class. Still don’t have the clear distress ink or an image stamp, but I used what I had. I had no idea we could use bleach to create this effect. It was like I could not stop bleaching, as you can see; I should have stopped sooner.

Now, I better get to work. Still have some ordering to do before a new week start. To bad the weather turned today. When I woke up today the fog had reached the shore. That is not good for the Molde Jazz Festival going on right now.

I made my first…

…12×12 layout this evening, and I am so proud of myself. I have never been able to do this size before. Margie Romney-Aslett`s layout “Laugh Out Loud” inspired me. It might not be the best page I ever saw, but I am still proud of it.

Photo; Baby Elin, August 2007.

And I made my 12Th card in my 52 Pick up class. Today we were supposed to use glaze pens. I did order my pens on-line, but the on-line shop was sold out and sent me something completely different. I just used a gel roller and moved forward.

Linda and Jan at the wedding Saturday:

Learning something new…

…every day.

When I got my list for supplies from Big Picture scrapbooking for the 52 Pick Up classes it said: get a brayer. I had no clue what a brayer was or how to use it. As the good girl I am I bought one online, but after seeing Tenas video on how to use a brayer it became clear that mine was BIG….It worked great for glueing the photos. I never thought of that. Now I don’t have put my fingerprints all over the photo. I did my card anyway. Used some paint, the mask from Heidi Swapp I never knew I had and some stamps. Since I mostly thinking about weddings these days I made it all about love.

With all the cute photos I found last night I just had to make one more layout of Elin and her great grandmother. They are so cute together. I am so looking forward seeing them again this weekend. This is from last summer and I made this with white space which was one of the challenges at Scrapping.no. Now there are only two left to do of those ten layouts.

 

I never heard my wake up call today, so I better get into bed. My boss is coming for a round of inspection tomorrow. Maybe I just tell him I am to busy with my scrapping?

It has been a good day…

…and for once I had a very productiv day at work. The summer is still on hold, but it still looks good for the weekend. Darci gave us a “the how to do” layout number 12 today. I didn`t get why a bakers dozen involves 13 eggs, but I am enjoying myself so I don`t care. So, here it is Egg number 12:

Elin and Kristian with their great grandparents Karen and Ansgar. I was looking around for a photo and found all these great pictures from last summer. I had forgot all about them.

In Tena`s  class we learned how to make transparencies. That was fun. Never knew I could make them myself. i will do this again sometime.

 

Just a few words…

…before going to bed. I am trying to get more sleep, but it is not easy going to bed when the creativity wakes up late in the evening. Having daylight at midnight do not help. And every morning I am struggling to get out of bed. Not so much scrapping tonight. I am trying to make a card for the wedding but I have lost the inspiration for that. I spent hours looking at Bibbi`s beautiful creations, but I am still not getting started.  Instead I spent two hours talking with BM on the phone.

At least I made my card number five – and today we used clear buttons. Thanks to a gift from one of my on-line stores I had 6 clear buttons. They were small and they were not flat, but I got the point. Now I have to hunt for more clear buttons, because this was fun.

I met an old friend today…

….paying for my can of soup, the customer behind my said; Elin…

 I have been thinking a lot about her lately. Digging through all those old photos brings out all kind of memories. She have daughters  my age and we only knew each-other for three years, but you could say she made an impact on me. She had a saying;” I only drink on days with the letter R in the spelling - so come on, it`s MoRnday…”  We were living next to the church and I never forget the Sunday morning she and the hubby banged on my door, bringing a silver plate with breakfast and two bottles of Vodka. They were dressed to the neck and had walked all the way in the line to church carrying two bottles of Vodka on a silver platter. Of course I remember her, 22 years since I saw her last…

I eat a can of soup today so I could do Kolette`s last assignment …. and I love the fact that it is saying ;             U-can…

I got my embossing-gun in the mail today. I could hardly wait to try. Never did this before. I did not know how to do it, maybe I would set the house on fire or something. We were supposed to use clear embossing ink. One of those things I don`t have in my stash so I just used ink…

                                             It was fun.

Today Tena inspired us to take care of the words that we often find behind old pictures.  A good tip.

If anyone is peeking in on my rambling here, you have to go and see Krogen`s last uploads in Flicre. He just visited Bud  and you have to see his beautiful photos of Bud. I will never be able to show you how great this place is, but he is. So go see Krogens great photos of Bud.

 

I have moved…

…out of my apartment and settled in my new scrap-room….

It is so good to finally get all the dust and the stuff out of my living room and the kitchen. I have not had time to get everything in order in here. OK, let me be honest. Getting in order has not been my priority. To busy scrapbooking. I finished the pages I have been working on the last days. Darci gave us this great sketch the other day that was just right for me. I have some really horrible photos that has been moving around with me for a lot of years. Not knowing what to do with them, and unable to get them out of the house.

In 1991 I visited USA. I came home with a lot of pictures of hotel rooms and some really bad party pics. I have no idea who the people are and where they are taken. (Those were the days). Now I have made those pages and the rest is out of the house.

Los Angeles…

Las Vegas…

New York…

I had fun making my third card today. I really enjoy this class.

Now, before going to bed I will do a little update on the wedding page.