I won!

with my LO Coffee Break (scroll down to see it) at KT Crafts Forum Crop Challenge last weekend!

*doing the happy dance*

See the other winners here:
http://ktcrafts.8.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=799

And the Ad Challenge was won by my daughter Jessica (wintermoon)!

It runs in the family...

Vintage photos

This LO was eligeble for two challenges, the What can you do with brown and blue at Crop-a-Latte and the Stop collecting Prima Flowers challenge at ScrapAttack.

The picture shows my great great great uncle and his wife. I love scrapping these old sepia toned photos!

Letter box

I bought this letter box (or two... hrrrmmm...) a very long time ago and they have been undressed ever since. Now this first one is all dressed up and ready to rock!

I have used CS: Bazzill, PP: Daisy D's, Flowers: Bazzill and Prima, Brads: MM, Die-cuts: QK, satin flowers and beadcaps.

All Boy

At KTCrafts forum I found this challenge, to be inspired by an ad. I have used CS from Bazzill, PP from Urban Lily and some bling-bling.

Flammentanz - a true red rose

This LO was made for the "What's all black and white and red all over" contest at Crop-a-Latte. I have used Bazzill in black, white and red, Daisy Days from Dream Street Papers, vellum, brads from Accent Depot, Pearl Touch and Acrylic Drops. I have no idea where the papers with the black and white roses comes from.

Coffee Break

For the "Naked Layout Challenge" at http://www.ktcrafts.com I created this LO. It's all about coffee...
Bazzill "Java" cardstock, handwritten text on handmade coffee paper and journaling on handmade cotton paper from http://www.svartvikpaper.com, the picture is a napkin, QuicKutz flourishes, Prima flowers, Heidi Swapp brads. Once the thinking was done (which took four cups of coffee), the layout was made "during a coffee break"!

Rock On!

Is the title of this LO, created for the Eight is Enough challenge at KTCrafts forum. Following products have been used:

CS and buttons: Bazzill

PP: HOTP

Brads: MM

Chipboard: Ellison tag die-cut

Flowers: Panduro

Rub-ons: MME Magnolia

Eyelets, ribbons, fiber, photocorners, bead floss, letter stickers of unknown brand.

I'll be on a crop

this long weekend, July 25-29. Join us at http://www.cropalattecafe.com/forums/ !

I will post my entries here as well.

A close-up on the Really Big Photocorners

Aren't they lovely? Measures 8x6 cm and can be used both as photo corners and as page corners!

Vintage photos - inspiration

My mother handed over a bag full of old photos! What a treasure! A lot of photos of me and my brother as kids, but also older photos of our relatives. Of course I am planning to do a heritage album, but will have to do the LO's one by one during a longer time. This is one of the first I did, me and my brother back in 1963. The papers are Junkitz Collectionz Earth, the photo mats are handmade paper with wood grain from http://www.svartvikpaper.com/

Would you like to scrap-lift my LO? Do so, and post a link to it in comments! I would love to see what you create.

Journaling

is one of my weak sides. I have found that it is easier if I watch the photo again and again, and write the journaling in Word, so I can add and change as I come to think of things. This is an LO where the journaling was easy.

The text is printed on handmade paper with Spanish Moss from http://www.svartvikpaper.com/

Altered Telephone Book

Once upon a time there was a black telephone book. Then it met some papers, Prima flowers and other fancy stuff. It decided it needed a re-do, so I took the job! Here is the result of it.

And some more of the 3Bugs!

Here are a few more made with 3Bugs In A Rug-papers:

Who says I like 3BUgs?

Well, it could have been just anyone who has seen my LO's... Here are a few:

Altered Lunch Pail - photo storage

Some time ago I bought a Lunch Pail, but not until recently I got started on it! I decided I needed someplace to store the photos I had picked out to be scrapped, and here it is:

I have no idea at all which manufacturers the papers come from - they are from my pile of unmarked papers. Flowers from Prima and Bazzill, laces and buttons bought at a garage sale, ribbons from Åhléns and Creative Company. I have printed photos in index size and glued onto QK Tags. Chipboards from MM and Heidi Swapp.

I really like this - it brings a certain feeling to my heart everytime I look at it.

Really Big Photo Corners

Can be used not only as photo corners, but also as page corners!





These - and the paper with raw edges are manufactured by http://www.svartvikpaper.com/

Oh, I forgot to tell you

that I am a hand paper maker, making paper following old traditions! Take a tour at my job, http://www.svartvikpaper.com

Some jewelry, too

Some of my early LO's

from my first months as a scrapper

To start with

my paper clips box made in September 2006

A little more than a year ago

I was going to a crop in Umeå. At that time I didn't scrapbook, and no, I was not going to start. I was quite satisfied with making jewelry and make cards. I went together with my daughter, Jessica.

But during that weekend something happened... I suddenly realized this was another way for me to use my creativity! This was on May, 13. On May, 14 I signed my first LO!

Thank you, all the girls at the crop, for letting me in your wonderful community of scrapbooking!

This is where I start...

... my first blog ever!

Elisabeth, that's me. On the net more known as chinapainter on several forums.

Yes, I paint china, too. And scraps. I like to make cards as well. Every now and then I make jewelry.