Hi there, I'm Gine a Norwegian native living here in sunny South Florida. I'm a mom of 3 with a passion for photography, paper and everything else you can cut, adhere or alter. Well ehhh maybe it's more an obsession... but it keeps me sane and happy !!!
I have wanted to do a more masculine kit for a long time, and this month I finally did
It can still be used for other layouts (like my first one) but even that one has a little masculine touch
Here is my work with this kit, Sorry the pictures are not the best, I was kind of rushing and the projects are at the store so I can't get new pictures before I return from my little vacation
Love love love the Crafters Workshop mask in the kit
A quick page made from different leftover pieces from Prima, American craft Thickers, BG ribbon, MM alphas and Zva. I have also used Chalkboard mist, Glimmer glaze, Copic marker (Y32), Tim Holtz stamp and Bazzill craft
This beautiful kit from The Paper Niche is filled with papers from Fancy Pants, 7Gypsy, PinkPaislee and Creative Imaginations. Embellishments from Kaiser. Fancy Pants, Pink Paislee, Prima and BoBunny, Thickers, sticky back canvas ATC's, Fancy Pants Filter papers, Pink Paislee tissue paper, Kaiser stamps, 7 Gypsy tags, lots of ribbon from May Art and Prima and more. The kit is perfect for vacation, summer and other fun pictures and projects
A close up of the flowers I made from the Fancy Pants Filter Papers
I colored them with Glimmer mist. The filter papers was so much fun to play with. Happy I have more of them because I have some more ideas for what to do =)
Made the yellow flower from the Pink Paislees tissue paper....so easy and so cute. I used the Tim Holtz Tattered flower die
Mini book is from Maya Road and is not included in the kit.
Last weekend ACOT had a 3 day crop, I did not get to much on-line time (as usual) but at least I get 2 challenges done. Friday night I worked a crop at The Paper Niche which is always a lot of fun, I'm a very slow and easily distracted scrapper., but at least I got one page started during the crop
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On this first page I used papers from The Girls Paperie, Prima and Zva flowers. BG and MM alphas, Glimmermist and Distressing ink. The picture is of my 2 nieces Oda and Sara
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Here I have used papers from MME, LYB, 7 Gypsy and Bazzill
LYB stickers and AC thickers
The picture is of my oldest son Erik ...just a few years and inches ago
Thanks for taking the time to look, Have a wonderful weekend everyone =)
Hmm it's been a little while since I updated here. I have been very busy scrapping, just cant show it off quite yet, it's a secret LOL or the pages is at least for a couple of more days . I just finished some pages for A Cherry On Top where I'm the guest designer in June YIPPI ... My LO ''Always Gorgeous'' was also picked for May Creative Team Spotlight at ACOT. I'm so happy (it is the third month in a row)...Thank you creative team.
Right now I'm working on the Paper Niche June kit... It is totally GORGEOUS,,watch up for sneak peeks this Friday. I have also done a sketch and page for the PN blog coming later this week.
Yesterday Krista and I made few more tutorials.... Got to love my job <3... but please Krista...next time call me before I leave home so I can do my hair LOL
This is the scraplifts for the two last months at Scrapbook Express
This first one is a lift of Line76 you can see her LO right here Line won the DT challenge in March
This page is a lift of Synnes LO that you can see right here She was winner of the April challenge
Both girls are awesome scrappers and it was a lot of fun to borrow their LO's..Thanks to both of you.
Here is the Glimmer mist tutorial we did yesterday...just a basic one for you who never tried it before
Notice my dirty hands...this was the last one we did LOL
Wow did we have a great time. It was awesome but busy, and my shoulders are hurting from carrying bags and bags with catalogs..There is so much yummy stuff coming and we are bringing tons of it in to the Niche.. Here is some pictures from the show
7 Gypsies
Beautiful new products
Leah, Rhonda and Tammy
Graphic45
yummy yummy
Tim Holtz and Ranger
Lots of new awesome products
Tim making a tag for The Paper Niche, His new heating tool is awesome and will be in the store soon =)
Marah Johnson Her new sports line is to die for..cant wait to use it
Jenni Bowlin AWESOME new products as always
Nikki SivilsWhat a sweet lady.. and I just LOVE LOVE her products we have 5 of her yummy paper lines coming to the store soon
Leah Krista and me in the Tattered Angels/Graphic45 class
Did this page for the store using Graphic 45 papers and Tattered Angels stamps, mask and glimmer mist. The picture is of Sean at the cruise last year.
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This page I made for the crop last week as a "mini class" using the beautiful papers from Rouge deGarance. The theme at the crop was PJ party, the picture here is from one of Amanda's sleep over parties.
I finally got some real scrapping time here in my room today and got this page done after a challenge from Ruffa ... Thank you so much I really needed that one =) I have a couple of more pages in the works and hope to finish them up tomorrow
Sweet Summer Memories:
I have used Papers from Crate Paper Glimmer Mist (Copper, Tuscan Sun & Riptide) Sizzix Shadow box alphas Dymo & dymotape Creative Imagination rubon word Senic Route rubon quote K&co overlay Creative Imagination paper clip Prima bling swirl Black Diamond Stickles Autumn leaves & Close to my heart clear stamps Autumn Leaves stiches rubon WRMK eyelet LYB Fabric border Heidi Swapp acrylic paint Brilliance ink GlueDots
So much are going on and my scrapping and blogging is what suffers Hope to get more time for both once school is out this week
I have 2 new pages to post(some more are coming later this week)
This first page I did for the store(Paper Niche) using papers from Pink Paislee, Thickers, stamp, mask and Glimmer mist from Tattered Angels, Bling star from Kaiser Craft and of course my favorite adhesive Glue dots and lots of GluePopUp Dots
Time Flies
This other page is my inspiration page for Scrapbook Expresses monthly DT challenge, where we want to see playful pages using masks and buttons. I have used Tim Holts new compass mini mask, glimmer mist and distressing ink. The papers are from October Afternoon and Webster. Stamps from Close to my heart, SR chipboard letters and miscellaneous stickers
2. Got my hands on this set of stamps yesterday (YES at Paper Niche)
Tim Holtz "Slight Alterations"
3. This is one of my favorite pictures of the boys. The picture was taken at Ana Maria Island in the summer of 2000 . I found it yesterday in one of the old albums that I'm rescrapping and made this page with it last night using one of my sketches 4. AT&T U-Verse We had this installed last week and we all LOVE it. We ended up whit the largest package 450 and have now more TV and radio Channel's then we will ever watch. The internet is super fast and it includes free calling within the US https://uverse1.att.com/un/launchAMSS.do
5. I always make my own Alfredo sauce, but someone told me to try out the Classico Sun-dried Tomato Alfredo sauce. Served with pasta, chicken and garlic brad it is a great and fast dinner..OK I admit I add some whipping cream and some Parmesan/Romano cheese to it myself ..It makes it really yummy.
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I also updated my sketch blog with 3 new sketches this week =)
Where to get your Norwegian and Scandinavian food here in the US
Scandinavian Food Store ... Willy's Products....The very best of Norwegian and Scandinavian gourmet food here in the US. Order on-line @ http://scandinavianfoodstore.com/ or click on the picture above. You can also stop by the warehouse if you live or are visiting the FT. Lauderdale area
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Leah, Rhonda and Tammy
What a sweet lady.. and I just LOVE LOVE her products
Michelle Van 
