(Deck of Me #37)

So it's time to update with my latest card in the deck of me, and this week the prompt was "Draw something". Argh, I've always hated drawing, or at least since I started school and saw how all the others were better at drawing than me (in addition I never managed to make it look like I had imagined). The only thing I've been relatively pleased with drawing, i.e. thinking it didn't totally suck was houses, so I drew one today, in front of a couple of hills. I pondered for 5 nanoseconds about adding a sun, but I think that's stretching it a bit..... (or you can imagine it behind the ticked). Determined to use some of the scraps on my scrapping table (after clearing it...) I added some ribbon and a opener-thingie from a Coca Cola Light-can (can't think of a bette word than thingie :giggle:).
Anyhow here it is:

Thanks for looking :)

(Deck of me #35 and #36)

I've caught up again, this time the prompts were: My strength and Life is beautiful. First about my strenght, I needed some more space to write about my strenght. I am quite strong, and my friends and family has always been able to depend on me in though times. But my strenght might have a downside (I rationalise my feelings away).


Life is good... there is friends, family, music,dance, books, art.... in the world. I got some not so good news yesterday that I've written about and put in a coinholder on the back of the card. Thanks for looking

(Litt skryt - test)

Jeg tok en test - "Why are you a good friend", og jeg kom ut som at jeg er en god venn fordi jeg er lojal. Kan vel ikke være uenig i det vel...

You Are a Good Friend Because You're Loyal

You stick with your friends no matter what, even if you feel like they're doing the wrong thing. You believe in letting people figure out their own path in life. It's not your place to interfere. And part of your loyalty means that you'll do a lot for your friends. You definitely go the extra mile. You'll even do great things for friends without them asking. After all, that's what friendship is all about. You are truly a friend for life. And you have friends you've known since you were a kid. Your friends can count on you to do a favor, remember a birthday, or just be there to listen. Your friends need you most when: They can't turn to anyone else You really can't be friends with: Fickle people who change friends quickly Your friendship quote: "Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows."

What Makes You a Good Friend?

(Deck of me #34 - Laugh)

 
This weeks prompt was "Laugh ha ha", imediately I knew what just had to be the main motif on the card - 42 - taken from the funniest book I've ever read, Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - H2G2.
We were supposed to write about our laughs as well, mine is what I like to think of as hearty and rolling, never just a tiny giggle. And my sense of humour... it's on the dry side, (un)healthy doses of irony, sarcasm and satire blended well together with morbidity and black humour :D

The products I've used this time:
- Bazzill Kraft paper
- Ranger Acryllic dabbers
- Heidi Swapp ghostshapes (used as mask)
- Zig pen
- American Crafts Foam Thickers (I loooooove Thickers)

Thanks for looking :)

(Deck of Me #33 - 10 minutes)

Wow, I've done the challenge within 24 hours after it was given, that's a first for me (I think). We were supposed to use only 10 minutes on the card, and that I did (although I organised my scrapping space before I started (is that cheating?)). Amongst the songs I listened to whilst I made the card was The All Seeing Eye's "Walk like a Panther" (a thorougly cool song). When I first saw challenge #33 I immediately associated it with another song - 15 minutes by Nik Kershaw (I've been a fan since Human Racing). The song starts with "15 minutes, that's what you get, one quarter hour to get it all together"...
This time I've used papers from Cherry Arte (pink) and Rouge de Garache, Rub-ons from Basic Grey and an acrylic dabber from Ranger.


Thanks for looking :o)

(Deck og me 31&32)

Wow, I've already caught up, that hasn't happened in a while ;) These are my cards for #31 and 32 + the box I've decorated to store my Deck of Me. Thanks for looking
This is the one for week 31, No regrets - I do not regret always having been a good girl. There might not have been any rebellions in my past, but nevertheless, I'm not easy to push around.



This weeks prompt was Quiet, that reminded me of one of my favourite Bjørk songs:"It's oh so Quiet"...


And here's the box that I store my Deck of me in.

Thanks for looking :)

(Shakespears Sister - Dirty Mind)

Dette er en av de kuleste sangene jeg vet om, har vært hekta på den i mange år nå... Det skader jo ikke at videoen er ganske kul og da. Så i anleding dagen min, here you go:

(bloggeavhenging)

Jeg er visst litt avhengig av blogging:
62%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

Tampa Singles from Mingle²

(Deck of me - week 30)

Finally, here's this weeks challenge, Count your Blessings, and I think I have plenty :o)
1. My family who loves me
2. Wonderful friends
3. Great hobbies
4. My own appartment and car
5. Nice singing voice (though I might not practice much in public)
6. MUSIC
7. Harry Potter
8. Interesting job
9. Upcoming birthday (I love birthdays)
10. Chocolate
11. Passion
12. My masks
... just to name a few.

Thanks for looking :D

(Caught up - take 2 - DoM)

And here we go with the second batch:
Week 26 - Celebrating daughters
Now we are half way through the challenge, wow! This time it's about daughters and I am one, but I wanted to deal with the fact that I'd love to be a mother and have (at least) a daughter of my own. I've used an old photo of myself - about the only one where I'm a little apprehensive. (Websters Pages and Jenni Bowlin papers, 7gypsies stamp).
Week 27 - Junk mail
I really hate junkmail in the post so I'm rather glad that here in Norway we can just add a sticker to our mailbox saying "No adverticements/junk mail". You betcha I've got one on mine :) (Jenni Bowlin papers, Dymo and 7gypsies stamp).
Week 28 - Goal of the week
The goal of that week that we got that assignment was to lay parquet flooring on my kitchen floor. Now, that goal was achieved thanks to a lot of help from my dear mum and dad. At least I now know how to do it and can do it all alone the next time. (Materials, you guessed it, Jenni Bowlin papers...)
Week 29 - Define perfection
This is a tough one, I could have stolen the idea of this woman and do one on the Harry Potter books (particularly book 7). Could also have done one on the walls I build around myself to try to avoid getting hurt. But then I decided to deal with my fascination with music. I've always loved music and have been told that I danced before I could walk and sang from the moment I could articulate. There's just so much lovely, perfect music out there, like the compositions of JS Bach, Lv Beethoven, Gabriel Fauré and the songs of Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Imogen Heap, Siobhan Fahey and so on...
(Materials: Bazzill, Heidi Swapp foam stamp, Fluid chalk ink, 7gypsies stamp)

(caught up - again)

I've finally caught up with the deck of me challenges, after 9 weeks! (yikes). And now that the cards are scanned and all I realise I screwed up the labeling, ah well, I'll fix it ... later
Picasa obviously won't let me upload more than 4 pictures at a time, so I'll split the post in at least 2.
Here we go:

Week 22 - would like to learn: I've always wanted to learn to ride a motorcycle, for as long as I can remember. They are just so cool, and I imagine driving on one of them with the wind in my hair - that's freedom. And one day I WILL learn to ride one.
(Picture of a Kawasaki bike from the internet, 7gypsies journaling tag).

Week 23 - Right now: This was made when I was on my vacation, visiting my family - so naturally I just had to make a laid-back card (masking tape, distress ink, Magnolia stamp, Jenni Bowlin tag)


Week 24 - Remember when: This is for my friend Marianne about the day we were alone in London, having Cream Tea, being pampered at Stila, seeing Fame and having wonderful Indian food. It was a NICE day.
Week 25 - A photo that means something to me: This time I went with a photo of my late grandmother. It's my favourite because it really showes her character, she was one of the gentlest people I've ever known, so kind and with a healthy sense of humour. (Jenni Bowlin papers, 7gypsies stamp).

(Gratulerer med dagen Harry Potter)

I dag er det 31. juli og det er bursdagen til Harry Potter og "mamman hans", JK Rowling. Gratulerer med dagen begge to!

(Flinke tantebarnet mitt II)

Jeg er så stolt av det yngste tantebarnet mitt (de andre tantebarna også selvsagt), hun er (snart) 14 år og har lest Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows på engelsk! Det er imponerende synes jeg!

Long live Harry Potter!

(Flinke tantebarnet mitt)

Den nordnorske sommeren er ikke mye til å stole på, så som vanlig hadde jeg tatt med meg noen saker for å kunne lage kort. Nå var jeg svært heldig med været, så for min del ble det ikke lagd så fryktelig mange kort. MEN jeg fikk da tilbrakt en natt sammen med tantebarnet mitt da vi lagde kort. Her er bilder av de fine kortene tantebarnet mitt Nina lagde, er hun ikke flink? (Tanta er iallefall svært stolt av henne).

(Harry Potter-feber)

At ParentesFantomet er en Harry Potter-fan er ingen hemmelig, så at jeg stilte meg i kø for å kjøpe boka klokken 01.01 i natt er vel heller ingen bombe. Så natta ble selvsagt brukt til å lese boka - den var heeeelt fantastisk. Og det er alt jeg skal si om den saken, har ikke lyst til å spolere leseopplevelsen for noen og derfor, jo mindre som er sagt, jo bedre. Eller forresten - som da jeg leste Halfblood Prince gråt jeg litt da en spesiell person døde.
For alle som skal lese boka, på engelsk eller norsk: Gled dere :D

(Kort, kort og mere kort)

Da har jeg fått laget et slideshow med bilder av endel av kortene jeg har lagd den siste måneden. Det har vel blitt i overkant av 100 stykker, så dette er et utvalg, eller eksempler som viser typene kort som er lagd.

Takk for titten

(Ny musikkdille)

I helga fikk jeg helt dilla på Candyman av Christina Aguilera. Musikken er flott, teksten ganske "raunchy" og videoen er ganske så kul. Ta en titt/lytt selv da vel, Candyman.

(More DoM cards)

I've finally done the 19-21 cards of the Deck of me
#19 is about surprises - I'm not too into bad ones, only the good ones. Might be because I'm a bit of a control freak. (I realised after it was done that I messed up the title on the back, it should have been "Surprise, surprise, SURPRISE" - ah well)


#20 was supposed to be about how you handle changes - I'm not excellent on changes, not even very fond of rearranging furniture... But unless I'm willing to change I won't improve or grow, and I definately don't want to stagnate.

#21's supposed to be about my redeeming qualities - actually this wasn't very hard to do (modesty... not in sight). So far I've found I'm:
- generous
- take responsibility (and stick to it)
- handy & helpful
- there for my friends
- Snill (Norwegian word that means something like kind, kindhearted and nice)

Thanks for looking.

Sånn, da er jeg ajour med DoM kortene igjen, denne gang er det Overraskelser, Endring og Gode Egenskaper som dekkes.
Overraskelser - er ikke spesielt god på de, liker å gi overraskelser og å overraske andre. Er ikke mot gode/fine overraskelser, men de som ikke er fullt så bra, nei de liker jeg slettes ikke (er da kontrollfreak må skjønne).
Endring - Innser at jeg på endre meg for å kunne forbedre meg, men er nok ikke helt fan av de store endringene, iallefall ikke så ofte.
Gode Egenskaper - denne var litt lettere å lage /komme opp med noe lurt. Vil selv definere meg som: Generøs, Ansvarsfull (tar gjerne ansvar og stikker ikke av fra det), Praktisk og Hjelpsom (dronningen av Ikeamontering) og ikke minst er jeg Snill (det har jeg fått høre mange ganger.

Takk for at du titter (og legger igjen en liten kommentar ;)

(På tide med en oppdatering)

Det er kanskje på tide med en lite oppdatering, jeg har jo ikke akkurat vært flink blogger i det siste. Men har i stedet vært flittig kortmaker og boksdekorerer. Jeg har dekorert 2 bokser (Tilda sewingbox fra Panduro) og fyllt de med kort (inspirert av Mari og Stempelgal). Den en boksen skal jeg ha selv og den andre skal min kjære mamma få (den er stappfull med 60 forskjellige kort - da skulle det holde ei lita stund). Her er bildet av min boks:


Lørdag 12. mai var jeg på kurs hos Scrappejungelen - det var Stempelgal som holdt det og på kortkurset lagde vi disse to kortene:

Man kan trygt si at jeg ble inspirert av disse kortene, resultatet var visst en stor bunke kort (mon tro når jeg blir "kvitt" de?)
Denne LOen laget jeg på scrappekurset med Stempelgal. Temaet for kurset var stempling på LOer og her har jeg da brukt noen av de flotte Swirlene fra Autumn Leaves (jeg digger de).


Til slutt, her er noen av kortene jeg har laget i det siste - sterkt inspirert av Stempelgal
(må kanskje legge ut noen litt større bilder senere).

(4 nye DoM kort)

Da har jeg fått ut fingeren og lagd noen flere Deck of Me kort. Et av de satt laaangt inne, men her er de i det minste:
#15 om mine foreldre



#16 som en annen skulle lage - det ble min gode venninne A. som lagde det for meg - mon tro hva hun kunne mene med dette ...


#17 om soverommet - her har jeg tenkt mest på mitt framtidige soverom som gjerne skal gå i kremhvitt, svart og rødt, gjerne i indisk stil og forhåpentligvis med en "knekt"



#18 Natur - jeg er ikke noen naturfrik så min versjon er inspirert av Madonnas "Human nature" - I'm not sorry. Og jeg mener det er i menneskets natur å ønske å bli elsket og å kunne elske noen.
Takk for titten.



Finally caught up on the Deck of Me-challenge. The cards are about 15. my parents who've always been there for me. 16. was made by a good friend of mine. 17. about my future bedroom, in cream, black and red, and hopefully including a "Jack". 18 was a bit of a challenge, because I'm not much of a nature person. That's why I've taken my cue from Madonna - Human Nature. Thanks for looking

(Deck of me - 12, 13 and 14)

Ive finally got around to creating the cards from the last 3 weeks. Here are the images, the first one is number 12, with the prompt: " I believe". I'm no religious person (atheist to the core), but there are of course other things one can believe (in) and I believe Optimism is a necessity for happiness, ever the optimist. On the back I've included a couple other things I believe:
- music can be a remedy for healing
- it's going to be all right
- and I believe in me.
 
The prompt for #13 were "on my mind", and currently travel is on my mind, in just 11 days I'm going to Tallinn, Estonia with my mum, my best friend and her mum - one week in a SPA hotell in old town... This years summe vacation has been carefully planned, as well as the autumn holiday when I take my niece to Paris for a week. So you can probably see why tarvel is occupying some space in my mind. And the back of the card reflects that the words started a soundtrack in my head - Pet Shop Boys "You were always on my mind" :)
 

The 14th card of the deck were to deal with birds, now I've never been neighter fond of birds nor disliked them particularly. But hey, there's some birdshaped rub-ons in my collection from Basic Grey - this was a chance to use them.
 

Thanks for looking :)

(Deck of Me - 11)

So for once I'm actually early to make and post my Deck of Me card. This time it's about my initials, which are T and J. It's a bit important for me to hold on the to J as it reflects a part of my personality. The T is for Trude, a name that means strenght* (from the old German Gertrude), and I suppose that's the side of me I most often want to show. The J is for Julie, meaning Light if I don't remember wrong. It's also a kind of romantic name as in Romeo and Julie(t). That's a side of me I don't show too often (I think), but it's still part of who I am.
This time I painted one side white with acrylic paint, used American Crafts rub-ons and Heidi Swapp chipboard letters.
Thanks for looking.
*some claim that it can mean loved too...
For en gangsskyld er jeg relativt tidlig ute med å lage og poste kortet mitt. Denne gangen er det initialene som skal til pers. Mine er T og J, for Trude og Julie som visstnok skal bety styrke/elsket og lysende. Ja ja, de speiler sider av meg.
Takk for titten :)

(Jakten på påskeegget - del 1)

For tiden går det en konkurranse på Minneriket som jeg er med på (Go Bergeracs). I første runde skulle jeg scrappe en LO inspirert av et bilde av en påskekylling og noen egg. Fant fram et av de gamle bildene av meg hvor jeg har på meg en gul bobledress (ble brukt bl.a. ved skigåing) og fikk bare så gode ideer - det gikk så greit å scrappe den LOen og jeg ble veldig fornøyd med den.
Det skadet ikke at jeg vant den delkonkurransen med den (det er ikke helt pent å skryte av seg selv, men dette er første gang jeg har vunnet noe innen scrapping).

(Deck of Me - #7 to #10)

I've finally cought up with the cards for the deck of me.
Here's number 7, I miss... I miss the way I used to be - optimistic (almost to a fault) and always cheerful. I'm on my way "back" and hope it's not too long until I'm there again.


#8 My shoestory - is about the shoes I bought for my sisters wedding - 
they were so beautiful in the shop I just had to get them. Tried standing in them and they were great, too bad I didn't try walking in them... and that I didn't wear them until the wedding. They were murder to wear for more than 10 minutes. And walking? Forget about it.

 
# 9 Inspired Now - I'm so inspired by my friend Hanna - she's such a great scrapper and a wonderful person.


# 10 Note to self - it's a small reminder to myself to include my 14 year-old niece in the planning of our Autumn holiday to Paris this year. 
I love planning and arranging things and so I have to make sure I won't be dragging her along to things she won't like 
(but we'll just have to visit at least one art museum).

Thanks for looking at my cards!