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Tricks have been making all these neat and almost edible bracelets lately, they really remind me of the candy bracelets you could get as a kid (and you’d walk around all day with them around your wrist and eat the little sugar beads once in a while, at the end of the day you’d bee all high on candy and have sticky wrists).
We decided to take a few shots of Tricks in her bracelets, which is easier said than done during winter season. We didn’t have a lot of extra lighting, so we had to use the flash, which meant that the shadows got terribly sharp, but in the end a cheap lamp from Ikea got to play the part of a softener. Thank you Jed for that idea:
In the end a lot of the shots came out un-sharp, but we got a few good ones, so this is the end result. Here’s Tricks!
It was a lot of fun, I’m really getting more and more into photography, and am starting to love my digital camera. It helps having people around with the same interest!
Love!
I know a very stylish young lady named Louisa, who loves Hello Kitty (she can also play winkle Twinkle Little Star on piano!). Well, I found the perfect hair clips for her last year, and wanted to send them to her, and it just happened to be close to Christmas, so there you go. I realised I haven’t posted the pics here, so since I’m all into the Christmas cards right now, I thought I’d add it now.
I found a motif to match the hair clips, which I printed out and attached to a piece of chipboard to make it more sturdy. The eyes and whiskers on the picture were glazed to make them stand out a bit. The different background papers were raised up in different levels with adhesive foam dots, so that there was room to snap the hair clips directly on to the card.
I can say with no doubt that this is the most girly Christmas card I have ever made… or will ever make… unless someone challenges me to make another one ;)
Molly’s Scrapbooking is a Swedish web shop that sells nice little scrapbooking kits, and they’ve just had a great challenge with the theme “Weekend in Paris”. One of the challenges (#6) was to scraplift a card, and that suited me the best (see the original card by Cath here). As the season is getting nearer I decided to go with a christmas card. I made a resolution not to buy any new christmas papers this year, since I had some many left from last year, but I didn’t feel like any of them suited my layout. So i made the background pattern from scratch with embossed snow flakes and distress inks. Here is the result:
http://mollysscrapbooking.blogspot.com/2010/10/nr-6-scraplift-kort.html
For Tricks birthday last year (one of the big ones) I did a bit of planning for once, figuring out b-day gifts and packaging and cards ahead of time. Which was lucky, because the b-day card took me almost an entire day to make, since I wanted it just right. Tricks had sent me a picture of a very nifty yellow Totoro hand bag a few weeks before, and I couldn’t get hold of that, but I used it as inspiration for the card.
I wanted to make something in greens and yellows/orange, something blingy and festive and in any layers. This was the result! I am very pleased with the tree-like figures, the mix of colours, and the tiny festive lights:
   
Ma’ Clay Buttons needed somewhere to live so I decided to alter this tin. It used to contain some nice dark chocolate Jonny gave me but now when that’s gone (how, oh how?). This is my first “real” altered object, I’m rather pleased. I just l love those dots!
I had a few friends over for beer and Rockband this weekend, such a great evening! That game is so much fun, it really makes you feel like somewhat of a rock star, and it’s something you do together with your friends, big plus!
Tricks brought this gorgeous bouquet of roses, and she had altered it! Getting fresh flowers is such a treat, and when someone also has spent the time to scrap something for it it’s just lovely :) She’d made these awesome guitars with cords and buttons and everything, totally neat. Also she’d glazed them so they’re all shiny. I just have to post some pictures! Thank you, Tricks :)
 Beautiful roses and rockin' guitars  Perfect replica ;)  I love the bling bling for the buttons!
Tricks made a set of incredibly creative tags for her sisters x-mas tree, and posted a couple pictures a while back. Thank you, Tricks! I was so curious about those tags, you’d told me about them but i didn’t get a chance to see them before the big day. I love how you do the unexpected, how you can get cheerful clouds and pink swirls and a trumpet-playing rabbit to be so x-massy :)
I’ve made sort-of-tags for my x-mas gifts before, I rather do something hand-made (even though it looks like it was made like a 3-year-old) when I wrap my gifts. This year though, since my stash of scrapbook goodies has grown in a very satisfactory way during 2008, Tricks idea of making real tags inspired me to do some for my gifts. Some extra inspiration courtesy of Tim Holtz and his beautiful 12 tags of Christmas, although I don’t think I could ever make something remotely as pretty as his!
Aaaanyways, here are my rather blurry photos of some of my tags, enjoy!
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