Travel: A Cruise to Norway (or two)
In 2010 we went on a mini cruise to Oslo/ Norway. This week we booked the same cruise again, right after the cruise company had published a coupon code in the internet: a three-day cruise for two people for 0€!!!
You can't beat that!
Turned out later that the publication was a mistake and the code was actually intended to be used by employees only, but since the company had already confirmed our booking we were allowed to go.
So, here we go:
You can't beat that!
Turned out later that the publication was a mistake and the code was actually intended to be used by employees only, but since the company had already confirmed our booking we were allowed to go.
So, here we go:
Our Wedding Album - The Cover
Our wedding album is almost finished and i can finally start sharing some photos.
To match the style of our wedding, I kept the design clean and simple on most pages, moreover i did not want to end up with an ultra-fat album, so i tried to avoid adding too much dimensional stuff, such as stickers and embellishments.
The album base is made from used packaging material such as cereal boxes and similar, and for every page i share i will try to give credit to the paper designers, as far as i remember.
So, let's start with the album cover:
Entirely created from Melissa Frances "Fifth Avenue" as well as a DIY clay starfish, Baker's Twine from The Twinery, Divine Twine from Whisker Graphics, and jute twine.
To match the style of our wedding, I kept the design clean and simple on most pages, moreover i did not want to end up with an ultra-fat album, so i tried to avoid adding too much dimensional stuff, such as stickers and embellishments.
The album base is made from used packaging material such as cereal boxes and similar, and for every page i share i will try to give credit to the paper designers, as far as i remember.
So, let's start with the album cover:
Entirely created from Melissa Frances "Fifth Avenue" as well as a DIY clay starfish, Baker's Twine from The Twinery, Divine Twine from Whisker Graphics, and jute twine.
Halloween 2012
So far i am not really in the mood for Halloween for three reasons:
1. I am desperately trying to declutter my huge stash of craft supplies
2. I am desperately working on my wedding album to get it finished before it's time to decorate for christmas
3. My job sucks and i am desperately trying to find a new one. I mean, the people there are really nice and it is not the worst job in the world, but it is drop dead boring and the mental challenge tends towards zero. People keep telling me that this is normal, every job is boring, that's life, bla bla bla. But it is NOT normal, and this is definitely not the way i want to live my life. I absolutely loved my previous job and miss it terribly, and now i am trying to find a position that i might love equally, preferably in a creative surrounding.
Anyway, back to the Halloween decoration. Due to my lack of motivation this one was done in less than 20 minutes. Its just a few pieces of black window tulle, spiderwebs, my black straw wreath and Spoo-Key banner from last year and some bats that i cut with my Silhouette Cameo.
The template was this free shape of the week.
Editing photos for Halloween seems to be trendy right now, however i simply covered the glass of the frames with transparency foil and used sharpies to make us look like vampires/ zombies. Not fabulous, but funny.
The blood bottle is actually a bottle of strawberry wine and i think the shape fits the Halloween theme perfectly.
That's all. The rest of the decoration is still in its box, and will probably stay there until next year.
Sketch Challenge: Ocean Drive
The November Challenge of Scrap365 is based on a sketch by Tiff Firth:
And this is my interpretation:
For this layout i chose a photo of Miami's Ocean Drive, taken during our vacation in 2008.
When i think of South Beach, the colors turquoise, pink, green and yellow immediately come to my mind's eye, so i wanted to include those colors in my design. However, i used gold instead of yellow, 1. because yellow is a sunny daytime color and my photo was taken a night and 2. because gold better represents the chic glam of South Beach.
Materials used:
- plain white paper
- one sheet of mint green paper from a Recollections® travel-themed kit
- acrylic paint thinned with water ( for a watercolor effect)
- glitter glue in pink and blue
- gold spray
- palm tree glitter stickers from Target
- a used dryer sheet dyed with acrylic paint
- a bottle cap as a stamp
- pink and aqua ink
- Mod Podge
- Baker's Twine
- Washi Tape
- pink cardstock
- my Silhouette Cameo
And this is my interpretation:
For this layout i chose a photo of Miami's Ocean Drive, taken during our vacation in 2008.
When i think of South Beach, the colors turquoise, pink, green and yellow immediately come to my mind's eye, so i wanted to include those colors in my design. However, i used gold instead of yellow, 1. because yellow is a sunny daytime color and my photo was taken a night and 2. because gold better represents the chic glam of South Beach.
Materials used:
- plain white paper
- one sheet of mint green paper from a Recollections® travel-themed kit
- acrylic paint thinned with water ( for a watercolor effect)
- glitter glue in pink and blue
- gold spray
- palm tree glitter stickers from Target
- a used dryer sheet dyed with acrylic paint
- a bottle cap as a stamp
- pink and aqua ink
- Mod Podge
- Baker's Twine
- Washi Tape
- pink cardstock
- my Silhouette Cameo
Quick and Simple Fall Decoration
This is my fall decoration this year:
A small pumpkin, wicker balls in different sizes, chestnuts in a vase, a burlap rose bouquet, dried leaves and sunflowers from my birthday bouquet and this adorable little paper ornament by madewithlovebyhannah.com
A city tour and our love lock
Today i wanted to share a few photos from our city tour some weeks ago. The operative word is "wanted", because the moment i pushed my camera's shutter for the first time, it said " no memory card". Whaaaat????
Yeah, that stupid, brainless, idiotic blogger forgot to remove the camera's memory card from her laptop.
The camera does not have an internal memory, and we had both left our mobile phones at home. So no photos of the only city tour we ever made after having lived here for more than seven years. A tour that costs 20€ per person. No photos of the only time we ever crossed the "bridge of fear" ( as we call it).
Man, we had luxury seats in the front row of the uper deck of a double decker. BAWL!
I was devastated for a few minutes, but then decided to let go and simply enjoy the day with my sweeto.
This is a photo of the map of the tour we made:
You can see the bridge in the lower left corner. There were so many great new things to discover and so many amazing photo opportunities. Bawl again!
By the way, we did not pay for the tour as we still had a 50€ tourist voucher from our electricity provider. We spent the remaining 10€ for an umbrella. You can never have enough of those in this rainy city!
Anyway, back in April on our first anniversary we hung a love lock. You can read more about it here and here. During the city tour we noticed that the bridge railing had been removed. I know i'm repeating myself, but whaaaat???
Our lock, what happend to our lock??? I did a quick research and it turned out that the railing needs to be restored and all the locks have been...wait for it....not been thrown away but been given to a museum!
A museum!! How fab is that??? You can read more about it in this article. It is written is in german, but it basically says that all the locks will be displayed in the museum's foyer during the month of September to give the owners the chance to collect their lock. I think this is such a nice gesture.
So, that's what we did in September. Collect our lock.
The museum had put together a really sweet program for all the lock-owners, with artists and a variety of tours. We decided to join the "fan" group and learned how handheld fans were used as a non-verbal kind of communication in the past centuries.
Here are a few impressions from the day we picked up our lock and a wonderful evening at the museum:
So, the lock is back home with us now. Can you guess what we are going to do with it on our 2nd anniversary? :)
Yeah, that stupid, brainless, idiotic blogger forgot to remove the camera's memory card from her laptop.
The camera does not have an internal memory, and we had both left our mobile phones at home. So no photos of the only city tour we ever made after having lived here for more than seven years. A tour that costs 20€ per person. No photos of the only time we ever crossed the "bridge of fear" ( as we call it).
Man, we had luxury seats in the front row of the uper deck of a double decker. BAWL!
I was devastated for a few minutes, but then decided to let go and simply enjoy the day with my sweeto.
This is a photo of the map of the tour we made:
You can see the bridge in the lower left corner. There were so many great new things to discover and so many amazing photo opportunities. Bawl again!
By the way, we did not pay for the tour as we still had a 50€ tourist voucher from our electricity provider. We spent the remaining 10€ for an umbrella. You can never have enough of those in this rainy city!
Anyway, back in April on our first anniversary we hung a love lock. You can read more about it here and here. During the city tour we noticed that the bridge railing had been removed. I know i'm repeating myself, but whaaaat???
Our lock, what happend to our lock??? I did a quick research and it turned out that the railing needs to be restored and all the locks have been...wait for it....not been thrown away but been given to a museum!
A museum!! How fab is that??? You can read more about it in this article. It is written is in german, but it basically says that all the locks will be displayed in the museum's foyer during the month of September to give the owners the chance to collect their lock. I think this is such a nice gesture.
So, that's what we did in September. Collect our lock.
The museum had put together a really sweet program for all the lock-owners, with artists and a variety of tours. We decided to join the "fan" group and learned how handheld fans were used as a non-verbal kind of communication in the past centuries.
Here are a few impressions from the day we picked up our lock and a wonderful evening at the museum:
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| How adorable is this wedding dress?? |
So, the lock is back home with us now. Can you guess what we are going to do with it on our 2nd anniversary? :)
Pinned & Done: DIY Driftwood Photo Frame
This pin:
My version:
Total time: 10 minutes
Total costs: 0€.
I already had all the materials for this project ( Baker's Twine, mini clothespins, a wedding photo and a few pieces of driftwood from our trip to the beach)
Instead of drilling holes, i simply wrapped and knotted the twine around the driftwood.
Thanks for this beautiful inspiration, Erlend!
This project is linked up to the "The Dog Days of Winter" party at Design, Dining + Diapers
My version:
Total time: 10 minutes
Total costs: 0€.
I already had all the materials for this project ( Baker's Twine, mini clothespins, a wedding photo and a few pieces of driftwood from our trip to the beach)
Instead of drilling holes, i simply wrapped and knotted the twine around the driftwood.
Thanks for this beautiful inspiration, Erlend!
This project is linked up to the "The Dog Days of Winter" party at Design, Dining + Diapers
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