Fall!

Fall is here. And I love it! Can't wait until I get the fall paper collections I ordered in the mail. I scrapped this one last night. Baby Junie in the pic. PP from Graphic 45. I love the leaves from Prima! Got to get more of those. =)

Get picky sketch

Hi there! I hope you all are having a great day. Here in northern Sweden fall has arrived. I love fall! Cool fresh air and gorgeous colors! I've had a bunch of photo shoots to get nice pics for all my awsome fall paper collections that will arrive in my mail box this week. But my youngest kids isn't that cooperative. Baby Junie is often half way out of the pic or turns her head just as I click... I'll have to bribe my older children to join me for another shoot. I need those pics! =)

Get Picky's September sketch challenge is up!
Here's the sketch:

And here's my take:

I used Crate Paper's Portrait collection. TFL! =)

Long time no see..

I'm so happy I finally got to meet my dear uncle again. It was 18 (!!) years since the last time. I'll make sure it doesn't take that long until next time. =)

Cupcakes for dummies. ;-)

I've been asked to make a tutorial about how to make those cupcakes with paper roses. I had to wait for more roses and more inspiration, but now here it is:

You need:
1 piece  3" styrolit ball (I hope it's called the same in English... )
1 strip of patterned paper
1 piece of cardstock
Paper roses in 2 sizes and 2 colors (about 16 pieces of almost 1" (2-2,5cm) and about 45 pieces of  ½" (1-1,5cm)
Glue
Hot glue gun
Fluid chalk ink pad
Scoring board
Edger punch
2 pieces of 14" (ca 36cm) lace
Ribbon + decorations of your choice

Cut a 2"x12" (5cm x 30,5cm) paper strip of patterned paper. Punch one side with an edger punch. I used Martha Stewart's Doily Lace. Put the strip of paper on your scoring board and score every 1/4 inch (ca 0,5cm).  

Fold the paper strip.

Ink the folds and the top of the paper strip.

Glue the ends together. I used Glossy accents.

Gently squeeze the ball down into the paper circle, until it reaches the table. 

Then find something round that matches the size of the bottom of the cupcake. It's better if it's a little too big, than a little too small. I used this glass.

Take the glass (or whatever you found) and trace on a piece of cardstock, then cut out, glue around the edges and add some lace around it.

Put glue at the inner edge of the lace. Measure with your cupcake first so you know more exactly where to put the glue.

Put the paper circle on the glue and keep a gentle pressure on for a while until it sticks.

Then use the hot glue gun to glue the ball to the bottom. I also put a little glue at the inside, but not to close to the top.

I glue a not so wide lace just inside the edge.

Then it's time to add the roses. I start with one circle of the bigger ones. Make sure you glue them tight together to avoid the ball to shine through.

After I complete the circle with the larger roses, I move on to the smaller ones. I keep adding them, tightly together, one circle at a time until there's just a little space left on top. Then I add a "cherry" or a bigger rose as in this case. Then decorate with what you like. I used ribbons, a pin, a punched out butterfly, half pearls and stamped a little message that I glued to a little wooden stick. Voilá! =) 

Occational visits by Mr Mojo.

Aloha all scrappers. =)

It's been a hectic time. Both happy and sad. My stepfather and my husband's sister and oldest brother all died within a period of 3 weeks. My stepfather's been battleing cancer for many years and the last 6 months he rapidly got much weaker. So it was expected, but it happened sooner than we thought. My husband's siblings deaths came sort of right of the blue. A chock for us all, especially for my DH ofcourse. Since we live thousands of kilometers from them and their families and can't go there, it's tough.

Well, in the middle of all this, there were/are happy times too. Thank God! I've showed you some pics from our beach wedding. It was so beautiful and romantic! Just perfect. A nice moment to cherish for the rest of our lives. The second thing is that our oldest daughter will give birth to her second son, our second grand child, any day now. Can't wait to snuggle with him! =)

I haven't had much time or inspiration to scrap at all, but I get occational visits by Mr Mojo. Today I'll show you a layout I actually did for a challenge at the midsummer crop at MyScrapbookNook, but I didn't have the energy to take a pic and upload. I used a photo of our beautiful daughter Ida, taken when she was a bridesmade at a friend's wedding.

TFL!

Hugs & Blessings,

Annika

Pictures from our wedding.

Love is in the air!

Yes it is! DH and I was married 22 years ago, but not in church, so we decided to go ahead and get the blessing from above too. The date is 27th of August and it will be outside on our favourite beach. =) Pray for nice weather, I refuse to have a plan B. LOL

Here's a layout I scrapped the other day. It's my fav photo of my hubby! Surprising title to a photo like that, huh? Not if you read the journaling:

"I love this photo of you! It portrays true masculinity at it's best. A proud father, taking care of/protecting his child is the sexiest thing there is!"

Don't you agree? ;)

TFL!

Take care and be blessed! 

Precious moments

Aloha scrappers! Yes, I'm alive. ;) My mojo just took a vacation, but now it's back.

This photo is my favourite one from this summer. Baby Junie at the beach. It speaks volumes to me. It's one of those precious moments when you wished you could stop time. Summer, sun, beach, sea, happy playing children, pure joy and thankfulness! There's so much in life to be thankful for. And how easy it is to miss those moments, if you don't "stop and smell the flowers".

So push the stop button, open your eyes and enjoy the little things, the everyday golden moments. If you capture it on camera, why not enter this challenge at Scrapping Everyday Miracles.

Blessings!

p.s. I used Pagemaps October 2010 for the design. d.s.

Cupcake #2

My daughter Camilla wanted a cupcake too, so I made another one. This one is a bit smaller and with no card inside. TFL!

Cupcake

My oldest daughter turned 26 yesterday and I made her a cupcake. I found this great tutorial by Bella Mio, you can find it here: http://youtu.be/-5OrxUYDwk4

Here's the one I did:

It was easy to make, and lots of fun! But now I have to buy more paper roses! =)

Hugs & blessings!

/Annika