Skissedilla #52

Story to follow, must post to reach deadline!

First Passport

Finally got something to show again :) Haven't scrapped much lately, been doing a few small projects, but things have either not been finished, or I haven't been happy with them and thrown them away... But now! ;) Another page for our son't baby album! It was made following sketch no 42 from Skissedilla

According to new laws all Norwegian citizens going abroad need passports, small children are no exception. Before flying to Berlin in late Novembre our little boy needed to get his photo taken for his passport. I thought it would be a fun thing to keep in his baby album along with the story of how he got it, why he needed it and the reaction we got at the hotel in Germany when we showed the passport (according to them, Germans don't need personal passports until they're 16...)

Anyway, it's good to be back and I hope to have a new layout out later this week :)

Some inspiration at least...

Sorry for few uploads lately. The Christmas season is always a time of many doings! Well, some time back I searched the net for ideas for cards, and I came up with quite a list! As I don’t have anything better to post (the cards given to my parents were sent without being photographed, so I’m awaiting photos from my dad…) I’ll at least see if I can give you some inspiration…

http://www.kreativesider.no/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=420&Itemid=1
http://www.kreativesider.no/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=567&Itemid=1
http://www.kreativesider.no/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=527&Itemid=1
http://www.scraphaugen.no/designsider/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=158&Itemid=29
http://inkingaddict.blogspot.com/2008/11/backpack-tutorial.html
http://www.scraphaugen.no/designsider/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41&Itemid=29
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/backpackbox/

http://kreativhobby.no/page_info.asp?CategoryId=5374
http://www.kreativhobby.no/page_info.asp?CategoryId=5369
http://www.kreativhobby.no/page_info.asp?CategoryId=5366
http://bodilsscrappeverden.blogspot.com/2009/03/tft-konvoluttkort.html
http://www.kreativhobby.no/page_info.asp?CategoryId=5360
http://www.kreativesider.no/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=427&Itemid=2
http://www.kreativesider.no/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=408&Itemid=2
http://www.kreativesider.no/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=385&Itemid=2
http://www.kreativesider.no/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=394&Itemid=2
http://www.kreativesider.no/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=393&Itemid=2
http://www.kreativesider.no/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=371&Itemid=2
http://www.kreativesider.no/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=87&Itemid=2
http://min-hobbyblogg.blogspot.com/2009/09/tutorial-box-with-4-drawers.html

I’ve only tried a few of these myself but hopefully some day I’ll work my way through the list!

Father's Day

Father's Day is celebrated on the second sunday in November here in Norway, and it being my husband's very first father's day I had to make him a proper card. I've started a monthly crop with a few friends. They're all new to scrapbooking and wanted me to make some cards for them to lift for father's day. I googled a bit and found some folding cards that looked interesting, and not too difficult and set out. My mom's birthday is on the 7th of November, so, with the card for my husband, my mom and of course also one to my father I had three different cards to make. Using new techniques is always fun but also time consuming. I had all my cards done for the crop, all I had left was to decorate them, but two of them still aren't done.. :S

Well, here's the one I made for my hubby. (I haven't seen my parents yet and thus haven't either had an opportunity to give them the cards... and no, they can't be mailed :P) And the rest will soon be added :)

Rumble in the Jungle (skissedilla #31)

I've started working on Arthur's baby book and his "jungle" deserves a page. My father bought this when Arthur was only a few days old, and he loved the blinking lights and the sounds. Now some months later he couldn't care less about the lights, but all the animals are grabbed and pulled at and of course, put in his mouth. I'd like to make the baby book pages clean and simple, and have here managed to use nothing but paper and scissors! :O

The papers are "wild things" from imaginisce (where I've cut the animals from) and "little sprout" by fancy pants.

The font is "african" found at urbanfonts.com and were cut with my lovely little CraftRobo :)

Hubby turned 26

Not much to say about this. I made a card for my husband when he turned 26 earlier this month. I found a sketch for a card somewhere online (a quick google search for card sketches) and took a picture of it with my phone. Have no idea where I found it, but it inspired this:

Not quite how we imagined..

Ok, the story I promised... 
I realised after I had posted the layout the first time that the title of it (not the title of the post, the two lines picked from the song) can make it seem like a very depressing layout, but it does have a happy ending.
Two days after my baby boy was born was diagnosed with appendicitis and had to have my appendix removed. Only day after giving birth (normally with any complications – except for losing a bit too much blood) I got a fever, started throwing up and had severe stomach pains. 

Two days after, one day before we were supposed to go home, I was “readmitted”. Sondre had to go home and our little baby boy was sent to a different ward. As I lay in bed that night awaiting surgery, all alone, only two days after becoming a mum; I texted Sondre two lines from a well known Norwegian song. Loosely translated it means ‘this isn’t how we pictured this would be’. I knew that one should never expect anything giving birth for the first time, and it will never be anywhere near how you imagine it to be, but this, well, I never imagined it would end up that way.

I soon started thinking about a therapeutic scrapbook layout I would create as soon as I started scrapping again. Some weeks ago Scrapping the music – In Norwegian had the song, that those two lines were from, as their challenge for this month. I knew I had to get this layout done and submit it. And here it is :) The paper roll on the left side holds the story of what happened and how we managed to cope with the following weeks (as my husband left for work – offshore – only a week after I was back home..)
Well, thanks for reading