A new designer..

Here are some scrapping news...we have a new designer over @ CatScrap! Our very own CT member Peppermint has shifted side, she is now a CatScrap Designer "One Little Bird" and her stuff is just beautiful! Here is one layout I did with her "In the moment" kit, this is for our CT Spotlight this month...we are lifting the very talanted Crystalbella77...so if you feel like it, please come and join!

FruitLoOp Sally has a new kit out as well, "Milk and Honey"...this is a very soft and beautiful kit and was so fun to play with, here are two pages I made:

And Dawn Inskip have a collab with Kaye Winiecki, "Zodiac", fun fun fun!!

And Creashens has a very pink kit called "Razzle", and if you want to you can head over to After 5 Designs and get K Studios Dazzle, and voila...you have RazzleDazzle!!


This is my scrapping news for now. On another note I have joined the 365project, but since I know myself I am doing it weekly...so that it may not be a picture a day but it sure is pictures from that week! And I am soo lucky to have got a new camera...a Canon 450D..with EF-S 18-55/3,5-5,6 IS and EF-S 55-250/4-5,6 IS and a Speedlite 270 EX...my gosh....I hardly dare to touch it! I soo need to learn how this works so I can start shoting some gorgeous photos!!

Hope you all are having a great weekend!

C ya soon!

Hugs

A

A new year and a...

new blog. Had to do some refreshing after seeing my sisters new and oh so cute blog! The new year has started out cold! Its been a long time since it was this cold in a winter in our parts of sweden.

Just thought that I should show you some photos of Bella from Christmas eve, she has a new look...her tounge is out as soon as she see the camera!

And the new year started the same...with her tounge out! LOL! Oh well...I am not to happy about having my picture taken either so I understand her!

But she can be quite cute when she doesnt notice that I have my camera on.

Since its been so cold we had to find stuff to do inside, she has given me a show with her hand puppets...nothing wrong with her imagination!

But of course, we have been outside playing in the snow as well, she loves it!

We had to take care of our little birds in the garden as well...they are really trying hard to find something to eat and was so so happy when we gave them some food...think we got some friends for life!

I have been doing some scrapping and here are some of my pages:

Hope you all had a wonderful christmas and new year and that you all are feeling just fine. I have seen that many of you are doing the Project 365 and it is so fun to see all your beautiful photos, I think I will do the Project 52 instead...lol...feels more like I am going to be able to finish that one!

Have a great week, "talk" to you soon!

Hugs

A

Its Christmas time!

Ok I sooo know I haven´t been updating my blog for ages but the days have been flying away and I have been working on the weekends to, so there just havent been time to do all that I want to do.

But I just wanted to take this oppertunity to say that I am sooo blessed to have gotten to know so many of you this past year. its been a pleasure! And I am so sorry that I haven´t been doing a lot of commenting on your gorgeous pages or your blogs. I will try to do better next year!

I wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Here are some of the christmasy pages I have managed to made this season:

This is Bella baking Gingerbread this year...

and this is her last year! :)

Here are some pages for my songbook that I am making:

Have a wonderful time during the holidays and take care of each other! See you here again next year!

XOXOXO

Annika

Bella is 3!

Wow..can you belive it...Bella is 3 years old!! Her birthday was November 12th and the morning started by us singing for her to wake her up, we had a little cake and all (her dad and me) and lets just say...naaa...she did NOT like to wake up like that, maybe it was our singing or just the fact that all the attention was on her! She is a bit shy right now.

Then we took her to her room and there we had put all the presents on the floor, but she had absolutely no intrest in opening them so she went down the stairs to watch some telly instead, what a bummer, I was sooo curious about what she was gonna say when she open them.
After a while she agreed to go upstairs again and start open her presents. And when she finally started then it went quick!


This is what she got from us, her parents, and furniture to, and she really really loved it!!

So ever since, we have to play with the dollhouse every day..and actually..I am just as excited as she is...so we have lots of fun!

Then came Saturday and we had a party for her with all of her family...she got her purple cake as she wanted...

and grandma even got her to blow out the candles, wich she did not want to do at first.

and of course she got lots and lots of presents, and this one is definetly one of her favorites...a lion costume from her cousins in Oman...Freya (who had a 3rd birthday the 16th...Congrats to you to sweetie) and Kian...how cute is she??

I could problaby just fill this post up with pics from her birthday but I wont...so here are some scrapping news as well:

We have got a new fab templatedesigner at CatScrap...Fizzy Pop Designs...her templates are just gorgeous! And look at this kit, wich is a freebie from Peppermint..did not know that she was designing...love it!

Joyce Paul has released two new kits, and this one is a collab with Edeline Marta...called "Curiosity"

FruitLoOp Sally has some frosty bits for you...I just love her kits...you dont need a photo! Here is another page for that songbook I am putting together...this is a swedish wintersong. (click on the images for full credits)

Creashens has teamed up with K Studio to create this gorgeous kit called "Count on me". This page a did for the Right Accent Challenge over at the CatScrap Blog and I got a GSO for it YAY!

and now we have another challenge for you...Do a SEARCH...it a fun challenge so head over to the CatScrap Blog and join us!! This is what I found when I did a search:

And over at Oscraps...well...me and my sis Maria is in the spotlight...look here...just browse through our gallerys and lift a page and you can win some fab prizes!! It is such an honor and the pages that is created are sooooooo gorgeous...I am in total awe!!! Thank you all!! xoxo

Besides that...Nina has a fab kit out again...called ".sisters."...I wish I had some great photos of sis and me but I dont so I scrapped anyway...these WA are TDF!! Stunning kit!!

I know...that was a lot, but I dont have time to blog as often no more...just wanted to give you all a little update! Take care...talk to you soon!

xoxo

Annika

My confession...and Bellas new room!

Ok guys...I have a confession to make...here it is:


The journaling says: "Hi, my name is Annika...Im an addict.. scrappingaddict! And right now I am going through withdraw cuz I have gotten my self a job and can no longer sit in front of my laptop all day or when ever I feel like it. Now I need to find some time and then I need to have my mojo with me, unfortunatly that is not always the case!

You know when you have that little time left inbetween cooking dinner, washing dishes and having some special playtime with your child and your mojo doesnt show up...it drives me nuts!! You just sitand stare at the blank page and nothing shows up, you go through your photos..but naaaaAfter work I am to tired, in the weekends my SO doesnt want me to sit by the computer..nor does my dd...and all I can think about is my next LO.. all the new fab designs that is showing up that you just would love to play with. All the challenges you would like tojoin, all the friends you have made all over the world that you would love to sit down andchat with....I MISS IT!!!

But hey...one day or another it will come back..you will have thetime, you will have the mojo and make lots of pages and take lots of new photos so youhave something to play with. And the fact is...I have gotten my self a job..I earn my ownmoney, I have got some new friends IRL and I have somekind of selfworth again...somaybe it aint that bad..maybe I just have to wait and it will come back or I will find myplace in this new world of mine and then also find some time for what I really love...digiscrapping...its my therapy.my way to relax! So yes...I am an addict...and I love it!"

And I want to welcome our new designer at CatScrap: Dawn Inskip, its her gorgeous kit I have used on that page! Click on it for full credits!

I have finally gotten my dds room finished...it has taken a while, but now its almost perfect, just want some paintings on the wall and other small stuff that needs to come up, but other then that it is done!!

Here are some before pictures:

And here are the after shoots (need I say that she LOOOOOVES it ;) ). She got to decide the color herself, and her favoritecolor is purple, so purple walls it is!! And she is getting a big dollhouse for her birthday November 12th...that is gonna be just right in that room...dont think she ever leave that room again (its hard to get her to kindergarten now let me tell you), and yes...mamma´s gonna love it to!! *lol*

Have a great day!

xoxo

A

Gorgeous autumn...

colors is what this Catwalk is all about...love the rich colors that makes you feel so cozy and warm! CatScrap has a Catwalk Autumn 2009 collection out and the kits are amazing...just check out the blog to see them all!

Here are a few pages I have made...this one is with Vinnies kit "Changes"

This one is with Joyce Pauls kit "Autumn Blend"

Here you have FruitLoOp Sallys "Apple Blossom"

Creashens kit is called... "Anne..(with an E)"

And as if that isnt enough...Shen (Creashens) also have a new spooky kit that I just loooove "Bugga Boo" ...so so cute. Those ghost was just perfect for this little conversation between me and Bella:

-Mamma, why dont we have any ghosts?

-But sweetie, we do...the whole house is full of them!

-Why cant I see them then?

-Ghosts are a bit shy, they wait untill you are asleep before they come out!

- STUPID STUPID GHOSTS!!!

Hope you all have a great week!! :)

Im in the spotlight...

Soooo sorry, I feel like I have to apologize to all of you my gorgeous friends...I feel aweful that Im not keeping up with your blogs, leaving comments on your pages and so on! I will try to do better...just have to get in to working again...and have some time to my family...and to renovate the house...and to scrap...and to blog *lol*...can someone fix some more hours in the day...pleeeease!!

This week I am in the spotlight over at the Rocking girls blog and I have a challenge for you, look here...so if you have the time..please feel free to join in :)

Nina has released a spooky kit, a collab with Ashalee Wall and I had to play with a picture of my sisters little boy..Kian...he just has the coolest facial expressions:


And TaylorMade Designs and fei-fei´s stuff has made a gorgeous collab...they really work magic when they get together, just look here:

Made some pages with it and this first one got a GSO and a GSO @ DST....YAY!!!! Thanks for that!

I know I am using old photos over and over again but haven´t got the time to take new ones...think I need to have a photosession with my dd some day soon!! But I thought of this picture as soon as I saw the blah blah wa...these two loves to sit and chat and laugh...how cute aren´t they?? :)

Hope you all have a great week! Its starting to get cold here now and I am a bit jelaous of my sis (who had a birthday yesterday btw...oct 13th...congrats!!!) they are having warm sunny weather....but I think she rather be home getting some fallweather...so maybe I just should embrace this weather and get some warmer clothes instead *lol*

Talk too you soon!!

Hugs!

A