National Cardmaking Day.

Hi there dear friends, / Hej kære venner,
Sorry it´s been so long, but my life hasn´t really been with me here for a while, so the blog has been pretty down priotized, and as todays entry is only for and about Scandinavians, I wount make the rest of it in English today, but I promisse, that I have new work to share one of the first days here, so hope, my English speaking friends will bare with me here today. Have a wonderful day dear freinds.

Undskyld det har taget så lang tid at få blogget her på det sidste, men mit liv har ikke været helt enig med mig i hvor meget, jeg skulle, så må indrømme min blog har været lidt nedprioriteret på det seneste, men jeg lover, at jeg her en af de næste dage har noget nyt arbejde lavet, som jeg vil vise jer, så jeg håber, at I alle vil bære lidt over med mig.
Dagens indlæg er kun for og om Skandinaver, hvorfor jeg kun vil skrive resten her på dansk også, da det ikke er relevant for mine engelsktalende venner.

Det skal nemlig handle om National Cardmaking Day, som er her den 4. oktober, og som vi vil fejre på The Paper Crafting her hele ugen op til.

Som I kan se af annoncen herover, starter vi allerede lørdag d. 27 september med at annoncere en præmie hver dag til og med fredag d. 3 oktober. Alle vinderne offentliggøres så på The Paper Crafting lørdag d. 4. oktober, som er National Cardmaking Day.

For at kunne deltage i lodtrækningerne, skal man være bosat i enten Danmark, Norge eller Sverige, og man skal så lægge en kommentar under de indlæg, hvor hver af præmierne offentliggøres.

Derudover kan du øge dine vinderchancer ved at dele links til indlæggene på din egen blog, eller på alle sociale medier, hvor du er, så som Face Book, Pinterest, Twitter, Google+ o.l. Du vil få ét ekstra lod for hvert sted du deler. Der bli´r trukket en vinder for hver præmie mellem dem, som har kommenteret under hvert indlæg inden midnat fredag d. 3 oktober, og så bli´r alle vinderne offentliggjort på The Paper Crafting på Cardmaking Day lørdag d. 4 oktober.

Derudover laver vi et online galleri hvor du kan få dit bedste kort publiceret på webmagasinet også. Som I kan se af ovenstående annonce her, så finder I det kort, som I selv mener, er det bedste, I har lavet, og sender et billede af det vedhæftet en mail til:  editor@thepapercrafting.com, hvorefter de så alle vil blive tilføjet vores åbne galleri der, så alle kan se, hvad I har lavet. 

Man kan dog max. deltage med 5 kort hver, men mon såå ikke også man kan få vist lidt godt af det, man går og laver, det tror jeg nok, man kan.

Del det med så mange venner som muligt, så vi kan få en rigtig festlig dag ud af det, med så mange deltagende som overhovedet muligt, for det er jo med det som med alt andet, at jo flere vi er, jo sjovere bli´r det som regel, så fortæl det til alle du kender derude, hvor det er, det sker okay?

Hav en rigtig god dag alle sammen, og lad os gøre Cardmaking Day til en fest for os alle sammen okay.

Til vi ses igen 

Knuuuuuuuuuuuuuuzer Maryann

Creative Blog Hop.

Hi there sweet friends,
Today I´m participating in a Creative Blog Hop, that I was invited to join from my Canadian blogfriend Beth Norman from Sunflowers & Dragonflies, who so sweetly invited me as one of her 3 friends to continue this hop here. She introduced me last monday August 4th here, so you can go there and see, what she had to say about me too. And while you´re there, please have a look around her blog and see some of her amazing work too, I promisse you, it´s worth it.
Grab a nice cup of coffee or tea, cause this is going to be a very long post.
This blog hop is a great chance for YOU to get to know a bit more about me, and be introduced to a lot of artistic and creative work of any kind from different creative people too. The hop goes on every monday, and today it´s my turn to answer a few questions here.
But first let me tell you a bit about Beth. She´s actually been a very dear friend, and we´ve been following each others blogs for many years now soon. She´s a very talented girl, Mostly a rubber stamper and designer, and she´s been designing for The Technique Junkie Newslwetter for years, and have made tutorials for them the last many years, and she has over 150 tutorials on her blog too, that she sooo sweetly shares with everyone there. And she actualy is a lot to blame for, that I in the first time got into making tutorials too, as she kept telling me, I could do it, when I didn´t think so myself, so thanks a lot for that Beth, and also a big thanks for the invite to join the hop here, I hope, we´ll still be friends, when we can´t even chew butter anymore ha ha.

What am I working on right now?
I´m actually not working on anything right now, as I´ve just had kids here the last 3 weeks and until late saturday night, when they all went home to start school here today

 So this bunch here has been invading my craftroom the last weeks here, and believe me, there´s no time for my things, when they´re around here, as they all want to create all they can get away with.

 Here they´re busy with modelling clay

 And some also made cards.

 Painted and decorated boxes

 Made big clothespins

A nice buquet Trine came and gave Gran when they left.

So I admit, I haven´t got much else done than the card I showed the other day in my last entry here. But as soon as I get all catched up here after the summer invasion, I´ve getting on with invites and tablesettings for my new grandsons baptism here later this year, so there´s lots of work waiting for me thoug.

How does my work differ from others in my genre?

That is really hard for me to answer, cause I´m not even sure, I have a genre at all?? I like to try out everything I ever see, and I´m really doing all kinds of craftings, and like to move around between many different things. I´m a true die addict, and I love to stamp and alter all kinds of different things, and I really love to make something out of things everybody else would throw out, and I like to work with felt and tubeknitting, and then I love to create 3D things too and homedecors, but I like to keep a lot of it a bit Shabbyvintage as I use to call it. But if it can be called a certain style, I´m not really sure ha ha ha. So I´ll just show some pictures of different things, that I´ve made over the years.

 All these above here are different cards.

 A bunch of mall notebooks I made for friends one year.

 A recycled card, where I used some small corkpads, that were sitting between some new windows, we got.

 Ninialbum made from coffeefilters

 A suitcase made all from cardstock

 Above 3D projects made for various occasions

 A clock made from old defect CD´s

 A minialbum sawed out of plywood and decorated

 A recycled bisquitcan

 A parchment card

 Mice made from felt for another baptism

 My own home made embellisments used here

 My fist attempt ever on pencilcoloring

 Tubeknitting made for christmas

 Inchie walldecor  A great way to get all these left over pieces of embellisments used, that we always get, cause here you can use anything you like.

 A little princess wagon made for my granddaughter years ago

 All the weddingdecor from my daughters wedding

 Small elves made of tubeknitting and the small furnitures made of wood

 A basket made of cardstock and paper

And finally some pretty big elves sewn out of fabric.

So as you can see, it´s ranging pretty wide, what I´m doing here, and I like to change among many things.

Why do I write/create what I do?

Hmmm it´s really some tuff questions I get here, why? I guess because I have to, because it gives me a huge satisfaction, when I´ve finished a project, and can look at it and think, I made this. And then it keeps me in sane after I unfortunately had to be retired after I broke my back 10 years ago. Even I had several big surgeries, they couldn´t make it work again, and as I wasn´t ready to just sit down and feel sorry for myself, I thought it could as well be a chance for me to do much more of what I´d always done, but never had enough time for, so here I am today, creating almost every day in some kind.

How does your writing/creative process work?(where do I get my inspiration)

I get my inspiration abasolutely everywhere. It can be a picture I see, or something some one says, or a piece of beautiful paper or somthing I see on TV, that suddenly puts an idea in my head, or the internet, other crafters blogs, a situation I face, some new products, that´s getting out, that makes me think of something. So it really can come from anything, as I said absolutely everywhere around us, we just need to open our eyes and ears, and it´ll flow against us everywhere. My biggest problem today is, to find time to bring all my ideas out in the open, because I always have soooo many ideas running in my head.

Now I was supposed to introduce you to 3 new bloggers for next monday, BUT I must unfortunately say, that it has been completely impossible for me to get 3 as it seems many of my blogger friends have already been asked by others, and some didn´t have the time to join and one unfortunately got sick , so I must admit, I can only introduce you to one new blogger, but it´s then not just any blogger, but a really fabulous lady, so I´ll like you to welcome:

 Kirsten Hyde from My craft and Garden Tale .

She´s one of the most amazing ladies, I´ve ever met, and she´s been a huge inspiration to me for many years now, and I really admire her stunning work, and her always sweet and kind personality. Always ready to help, if anyone need that and sharing her godgiven talent in making her own amazing templates for all kind of things always. So I can definitely recommend to give her blog a vist, that´s for sure. I know, you wount regret that.

Well like I said first, it has been a long post here today, but I hope, you´ve enjoyed it, and will give the other girls a visit too, as they really deserve it, and as always if any of you have any questions, just ask, and I´ll be happy to answer anything, and sorry to my Danish friends, that this is only in English, but it had to be kept this way, so most possible could read it and it was a bit much to write doubbled.

Have a wonderful day everyone and lots of crafty fun, I hope.

Until we meet again take good care.

Biig hugs Maryann

A male boxcard for once.

Hi there dear blogfriends/ Hej igen kære blogvenner,
Now I have finally got the last kids sent home here last night, as it´s time to go back to school again on monday here, so I finally have a day just for me  ha ha ha, There hasn´t been much peace and quiert here the last 3 weeks now, and the girls even brought more of their friends here too, so they´ve been here in teams of 3 at a time, so when one team left another would arrive LOL. So it´s been quite a lively house here at times LOL. So now I really need to catch up on a lot of things here over the next days, that´s for sure. Not that we haven´t been doing anything, but it´s not for me, it was all for the girls, but I´ll share some of that in a later posting here. Today I want to share an easel  boxcard, I was asked to make for a male 40th birthday. It should contain a bike ( he´driving a bike) a handyman ( he´s into renovating their house and has been for 2 years now) and it should de fun. As most of you probably know, these male cards, haven´t been my biggest strength, but I´m actually pretty satisfied with this one here, and think, it turnd out pretty okay, but see for your self here:

Så har jeg endellig fået de sidste unger sendt hjem her i aftes, da det er ved at være tid til, at de skal tilbage i skole igen nu på mandag her, så idag har jeg endelig en dag KUN for mig, og det er tiltrængt nu ha ha ha.Der har godt nok ikke været meget fred og ro her de sidste 3 uger nu, og pigerne bragte endda indtil flere af deres veninder med herud også denne gang, så de er dukket op i hold den ene efter den anden, så når et hold gik, kom et andet med det samme. Så det har godt nok til tider været et ret livligt hus her LOL. Ikke at vi ikke har fået lavet noget, for det har vi helt sikkert, men ikke for mig, kun for pigerne, men det vil jeg vise jer lidt af i en anden post senere.
I dag vil jeg gerne vise jer et easel bokskort, som jeg blev bestilt til at lave til en mands 40års føsdselsdag. Det skulle indeholde en motorcykel, (han kører motorcykel) og vise noget handymand, (han er ved at renovere hu, og har været de sidste 2 år)  Som de fleste af jer nok ved, så er herrekort ikke lige min stærkeste side, men jeg må indrømme, jeg er faktisk ret godt tilfreds med det her, og synes det faldt helt okay ud, men døm selv her:

 The front all folded /  Fronten foldet helt

 And here it´s sat up as an easelcard. I´ve used an image from a 3D sheet and some 3D tools too, I had in my stash, and then I used this tape mesurer of paper, that I found inside a roll of felt I bought some time ago and some metal roses. / Og her sat op som et easelkort. Jeg har brugt et billede fra et 3D ark og også nogle 3D værktøj, som jeg fandt i gemmerne, og så brugte jeg et målebånd af papir, som lå indeni en rulle filt, jeg købte for en tid siden og nogle metalroser.

 The inside all opened  Here I used some digistamps and filmstrips from TH and again some of those metalroses/ Indeni helt åbnet op. Her har jeg brugt nogle forskellige digistamps, lidt filmstrimler fra TH, og igen nogle metal roser.

 Here you can see the card set up and the drawer pulled out a bit/ Her kan I se kortet sat op og skuffen trukket lidt ud.

 And inside the drawer I sat a little verse, I found online a few years ago and used quite a few times. I think it´s sooo cute and fit almost anything. / Og indeni skuffen har jeg sat et lille vers, jeg fandt online for et par år siden og brugt en del gange. Synes det er såå sødt og passer til stort set enhver lejlighed.

 The lower inside a little closer. / Det nederste indeni lidt tættere på.

 The upper inside a little closer.  The digistamps just for the fun. The upper one is as far as I remember from TLC, while the lower one is from a cutting sheet I had in my stash too. /
Det øverste indeni lidt tættere på. Digistemplerne er bare for sjov. Det øverste er så vidt jeg husker fra TLC, mens det nederste er taget fra et klippeark, jeg havde i gemmerne

 And now some close ups here too. The blue mesh here I´ve used behind the bike is one I cut of a birdfood ball last winter, because I thought it could look nice, and I always love it, when I can reuse some things people normally throw out. The hook and the gears is from TH, and some I got in a candy I won earlier. /
Og nu til nogle mere tæt på også. Det blå net her, er noget, som jeg klippede af nogle fuglefoder bolde sidste vinter, fordi jeg tænkte det ville se godt ud og elsker når jeg kan bruge noget, andre ville smide ud. Hægten og tandhjulene er fra TH og nogle jeg vandt i en blogcandy tidligere.

 Here the tools, borders and tape measurer close up too./ Her alle værktøjerne , borterene og målebåndet tæt på.

And last the front of the boxdrawer, where I´ve used a TH brad as the handle here too. It was also in that candy.  Before they fave him this, they filled the drawer up with these small white pastils, to symbolize the pills from that gag /  Og her er så fronten af boksskuffen, hvor jeg har brugt en brad fra TH som håndtag. Den var også med i den candy fra før. Før de afleverede denne til modtageren, blev skuffen fyldt op med de der små hvide pastiller, til at symbolisere pillerne fra den tidligere gag.

I hope, you like, what I did here, but as I said, it´s not my strongest force, so if you have any ideas to how it can be done better or easier, I´ll be really happy to hear it, so I can improve on this. Thanks god the reciever loved it, that´s ofcause the main thing.
Jeg håber, I kan lide, hvad jeg har lavet, men som jeg sagde før, er herrekort ikke min stærkeste force, så hvis I har nogle ideer til, hvordan det kan blive gjort bedre eller nemmere, vil jeg rigtig gerne høre det, så jeg forhåbentlig også kan blive bedre. Heldigvis var modtageren vild med den, og det er selvfølgelig hovedsagen.

Have a wonderful week-end now dear friends and lots of great fun, and take good care./
Hav en pragtful week-end nu kære venner og masser af sjov og pas godt på jer selv.
Until we meet again / Til vi ses igen:
Biiiiiiiig warm hugs / Knuuuuuuuuuuuuuuzer
Maryann

Tutorial for my earlier minialbum.

Hello dear friends out there/ Hej kære venner derude,
First I must warn you, todays entry is really photo heavy, so I hope, you´ll hang in to the end here.
In May for the National Scrapbookingday, Marit our editor on The Paper Crafter made some really great images, she gave for free, to all who wanted them, and I used them for a sweet minialbum for my granddaughters confirmation, as I found they were just perfect for that, even I ofcause have found a lot more around on the internet. A lot of people has been asking me to make a tutorial for, how I made this album, so here it comes:
Først må jeg lige advare jer, indlægget idag er virkelig foto tungt, så jeg håber, I kan hænge på hele vejen.
I maj til Den Internationale Scrapbookingdag, lavede Marit, vores editor forThe Paper Crafter, nogle rigtig flotte billeder, som hun gav frit til dem, der havde lyst til dem, og jeg brugte dem til et rigtig sødt lille minialbum, jeg lavede til mit barnebarns konfirmation, da jeg syntes, de var perfekte dertil, selvfølgelig sammen med en del flere, som jeg havde fundet på nettet rundt omkring. En masse har spurgt mig, om jeg godt ville lave en tutorial for, hvordan jeg havde lavet det, så her kommer den nu:

 I used a piece of heavy cardboard for the covers / Jeg brugte en temmelig kraftigt pap for coverne

 As you can see here, it´s pretty thick, about 2½- 3 mm thick, so it´ll last a long time./
Som I kan se er det ret tykt, nok omkring 2½ - 3 mm tykt, så det kan holde længe.

 I cut 2 pieces of 12 x 16cm  for a front and back cover. I used my scrollsaw to cut it, as it´s very heavy and no papercutter can go through this./
Jeg skar 2 stykker ud på 12 x 16cm til for- og bagcover. Jeg brugte min scrollsav til at skære det, da ingen skæremaskine kan gå gennem det her.

 Next I cut the papers for the covers. I used papers from Pion Design for this, and cut the 2 pieces 2 cm wider on both sides, for the outside of the covers, and the other two was cut ½ cm smaller on each side for the inside of the covers/
Næst skar jeg de papirer, der skulle bruges til coverne. Jeg brugte Pion Design hertil, og skar 2 stykker, så de var 2 cm bredere på begge led til ydersiden, og så 2 stykker, som var ½ cm smallere på hver led til indersiden af coverne.

 I used VTR glue, which is a bookbinding glue, that is very strong, and almost impossible to rip apart, when  it´s all dry/
Jeg brugte VTR klæber, som er en bogbinderlim, som er virkelig stærk, og det er næsten umuligt at skille ad, når det først er helt tørt.

 Add a very thin layer to BOTH the paper and the cover, and let it dry just  a minute or so, before you then put them together, and make sure all airbobles are pressed out, before you leave it, and make sure, you´ve added nice of glue on the edges too/
Kom et meget tyndt lag lim på BÅDE papir og selve coveret, og lad det lige tørre et enkelt minut, før du limer dem sammen, og vær sikker på, at du får alle luftbobler presset helt ud under papiret, før du efterlader det, og vær sikker på, at du har kommet godt med lim over alle kanter også.

 Then you cut your corners of the papers about ½ cm from the cover, so it can fold nice./
Så skærer du hjørnerne af papiret, ca. ½ cm fra hjørnet på coveret, for at sikre, at det kan foldes pænt.

 Hurry before the glue dryes too much, and now turn all the edges over to the back of the covers, and make sure all edges are nice and straight on all 4 sides of the cover./
Skynd dig nu før limen blir for tør, at folde alle siderne over på bagsiden af coveret, og vær opmærksom på, at alle kanter er pæne og lige på alle 4 sider.

 Now add glue to the small papers and to the inside of the covers, /
Nu tilføjer du så lim til de små papirer og på bagsiden af coverne.

 And again after ca. 1 minute you add the paper to the inside and make sure, it sits nice and straight/
Og igen efter ca. 1 minut sætter du nu papiret på indersiden og sikrer dig at det sidder pænt glat og lige.

 Now you cut 2 pcs of paper in 30,5 x 14cm. You need 2 pcs to be able to get it long enough for the inside folder. I used Pion Design paper for this too. Just add one more strip, if you want more pages in your album/
Nu skærer du 2 stk papir i 30,5 x 14cm. Du er nødt til at lave 2 stk, for at få det langt nok til folderen indeni. Jeg har også brugt Pion Design papir her. Bare tilføj en længde mere her, hvis du vil have flere sider i albummet.

 You glue these 2 sheets together end to end, to make it long enough. Make an overlay so it´ll all be 60 cm /
Du limer de 2 stykker sammen endevis, for at få det langt nok. Lav et overlæg, så resten er ca 60 cm.

 Then you score this every 10cm, so it´ll make 6 pages. Fold dem harmonicastyle and crease all pages really well, so it´ll make the album pages stand nicely/
Så skorer du denne for hver 10 cm, så det danner 6 sider. Fold dem i harmonikastil, og klem kanterne rigtig godt, så album siderne bli´r stående fint.

 I inked all the edges and also the folded edges with this distress ink and an inking tool/
Jeg inkede alle kanter, også de foldede kanter med denne distress ink og et inking tool.

 I also cut all the corners of with a corner rounder, but that´s not nessecary ofcause, just my taste/
Jeg runded også alle hjørner på siderne med en hjørnepunch, men det er selvfølgelig ikke nødvendigt, blot min smag

 Now the inside folder looks like this on one side/ Nu ser den indvendige folder ud som her på den ene side

 And like this on the other side / og som her på den anden side

 Now you need to decide, which side you want most of, as the one of them you have to add tape to both ends like here, and on the same side to be able to close the album right /
Nu skal du beslutte, hvilken af siderne du helst vil há flest af, så du kan komme tape på begge ender  på den samme side af folderen, for at kunne lukke albummet rigtigt

 Then you cut 2 pcs of ribbon at ca. 30 cm lenght and 1 cm wide to make a closure/
Nu klipper du 2 stk bånd på ca. 30 cm længde og 1 cm bred til at lave lukningen med.

 Measure to the middle of the cover on the inside and add a piece of db. sided tape, like shown here/
Mål ud og find midten af coveret på indersiden, og sæt et stykke db sidet tape, som vist her.

 Remove the paper and tape the ribbon onto the cover inside, so both ends are ca  the same lengt. Now you pull the cover of the tape of the folder and add it on top of the ribbon here on the inside of the cover in both ends, so it sits nice and straight. You can now tie the ribbon in both sides to close the album, and else begin to decorate it as you like /
Fjern beskyttelses papiret og fæstn båndet på indersiden af coveret, så begge ender er ca. lige lange. Nu kan du så fjerne beskyttelses papiret fra tapen på enderne af folderen og lime det fast over båndet på coveret på indersiden i hver sin ende, så det sidder pænt og lige. Du kan nu binde båndet i begge sider for at lukke albummet, og er ellers klar til at dekorere det efter din egen smag.

Now the rest pictures here shows, how I decided to decorate mine for my granddaughter, but it´s ofcause just how I and especially she like it done, and not how it has to be done. But like I said in the beginning, I used some free images, I´d got from Marit, and I´ll show you which, when we get to them, so you can too go there and grab them, if you would like them too./
Nu viser de sidste billeder her, hvordan jeg har valgt at dekorere mit album til mit barnebarn, men det er jo selvfølgelig lavet efter hvad jeg og især hun kan lide, og ikke nødvendigvis, hvordan det skal gøres. Som jeg sagde i starten, brugte jeg nogle frie billeder, jeg fik fra Marit, og jeg vil vise jer hvilke, når vi når til dem, så kan du også gå derover og nappe dem, hvis du kunne tænke dig dem også.

 First the frontcover here with one of the freebie images/ Først frontcoveret her med et af de frie billeder

 And then the backcover too / Og så bagsiden også

 And here´s the one side of the unfolded album / Og her er den ene side af det helt udfoldede album

And here the other side of the unfolded album / Og her den anden side af det helt udfoldede album.

 And now the rest is all the single pages one by one. This is also one of the free images from Marit, and a sentiment cut with a Spellbinder die /
Og nu er resten så alle de enkelte sider en for en. Dette er også et af de frie billeder fra Marit, og så en tekst, som er skåret ud med en Spellbinder die.

 Here it´s a verse sticker with a greeting, I got in the UK some years ago, added to another diecut from a Spellbinder die, and last our signatures on a Spellbinder labedie cutout /
Her er det en verse sticker med en hilsen, jeg fik fra England for nogle år siden, som er sat på en anden diecut fra en Spellbinder die, og til sidst vores navne på en skåret Spellbinder labeldie.

 Here it´s an image, I´ve found on Pinterest, and again a sentiment on a Spellbinder diecut, and decorated with some crocheted flowers, a leave cut with a Marianne die and some bling /
Her et billede, som er fundet på Pinterest, og igen en tekst på en Spelllbinder diecut, og dekoreret med nogle kæklede blomster, et blad skåret med en Marianne die, og lidt bling.

 Here another of Marits free images, and decorated with a swirl cut with a Marianne die. Numbers made with peel-off´s and letters made with thickers and a wineglass from the stash /
Her et andet af Marits frie billeder, og dekoreret med en svirl skåret med en Marianne die. Tallen lavet med peel- offs og bogstaver fra et thicker ark, og et vinglas fra gemmerne.

 Another image with the text on, found as it is online somewhere, sorry can´t remember where. A sentiment just fuzzycut to fit the page here, and 2 leaves again cut with Marianne dies, and bling /
Et andet billede med tilhørende tekst, som jeg fandt online, husker desværre ikke hvor.En lille tekst, som er løseligt håndklippet til at passe til siden, og igen 2 blade skåret med Marianne dies og lidt bling.

 Again one of the free images from Marit here, decorated with a small sentiment fuzzycut and a leaf cut with a Marianne die and some fabric flowers and bling /
Igen et af Marits frie billeder her, dekoreret med en lille håndklippet tekstlabel og et blad skåret med en Marianne die og nogle stofblomster og lidt bling.

 Another free image from Marit and again decorated with a sentiment on a Spellbinder diecut and a couple of fabricflowers and bling /
Endnu et af Marits frie billeder, dekoreret med endnu en tekst på en Spellbinder diecut, et par stofblomster og lidt bling.

 Another image, that I found on Pinterest here and a sentiment cut with a Spellbinder die and decorated with threadflowers and some bling /
Endnu et billede fundet på Pinterest her, og en tekst skåret med en Spellbinder die og dekoreret med et par trådblomster og lidt bling.

 And last here another image found on Pinterest, and the small image at the bottom left corner is the last one of Marits free images. And a fuzzycut sentimentstamp in the upper corner, and a small part of a metallic swirl, I had in my stash here and ofcause bling /
Og sidst her et andet image fundet på Pinterest, og det lille billede i nederste venstre hjørne er det sidste af Marits frie billeder. Og så igen et håndklippet tekststemperl i det øverste hjørne, og en lille del af en metal swirl, som jeg fandt i mine gemmer, og selvfølgelig lidt bling.

 Here´s a close up on the closure on the album, and it´s ofcause the same in both sides /
Og så lige et nærbillede af lukningen på albummet her, og det er selvfølgelig det samme i begge sider.

And a final picture of the album all closed and completely finished and ready to go. The front also has one of the free images. Else it´s decorated with a rosette, I made myself from a leftover piece of pleaded ribbon, and a crocheted flower and a brad. Besides that there´s used a leftover piece of silver flowerribbon and there´s a grey butterfly, that I got from a dear freiend, who made it for me on her embroidery machine earlier. And last there´s used some bits and pieces from my stash, like the 2 small flowers and the small butterfly and the blue metallic roses and the blue silk leaf, and a bit of bling ofcause /
Og endelig et billede af albummet, helt lukket og færdig til at ryge afsted. Fronten har også et af de frie billeder fra Marit. Ellers er det dekoreret med en rosette, jeg selv lavede af en lille rest foldet bånd, en lille hæklet blomst og en brad. Foruden det, er der brugt et overskydende stykke sølv blomster bånd og en grå sommerfugl, som jeg fik af en rigtig god ven  som selv havde lavet den på sin broderi maskine til mig tidligere. Og endelig er brugt nogle stumper fra min stash som f.eks. de 2 små trådblomster, den lille sommerfugl, de blå metal roser og det blå silkeblad, og endelig selvfølgelig lidt bling.

 The last picture here is the inside of the frontcover, and this picture and sentiment is also found on Pinterest.  I thought this sentiment were very suitable for the occasion, we were about to begin, when she got this, her confirmation. Only decorated with the silver flower ribbon and a bit of bling /
Det sidste billede her er indersiden til frontcoveret, og dette billede og tekst er også fundet på Pinterest. Jeg syntes denne tekst passede så fint til lejligheden, som skulle lige til at begynde, nemlig hendes konfirmation. Kun dekoreret med et stykke sølv blomster bånd og lidt bling naturkligvis.

Sorry this has really turned out to be a long essay, and if you´re still hanging on here I really apreciate you a lot ha ha ha. I hope, you like this tutorial and can use it for something, and that it´s easy to understand? But if you see anything, you feel is not explained well enough, please ask all you need, and I promisse, I´ll answer as soon as possible. /
Undskyld det her er godt nok blevet til lidt af en lang stil, og hvis du stadig hænger på, tager jeg godt nok hatten af for dig. Jeg håber, du kunne lide denne tutorial og kan bruge den til noget, og at den er nem at forstå? Men hvis du ser noget som helst, som du føler, ikke er forklaret godt nok, så endelig spørg alt det, du har brug for, og jeg lover, at jeg vil svare så hurtigt som muligt.

That´s all from me now, I hope you´re all having a great time in the wonderful summer, we have these days, but hopefully you´ll also have a little time to be creative too now and then. Take good care and enjoy your  self out there. /
Det er alt fra mig her nu, jeg håber, at I alle har en pragtfuld tid i den vidunderlige sommer, vi har for øjeblikket, men også at I har lidt tid til at være kreative ind imellem. Pas godt på jer selv og mor jer godt derude.

Until we meet again: / Indtil vi ses igen:
Biig warm hugs / Knuuzer
Maryann