Meet Anita aka Neeta :)

I'm very happy to introduce you to the oh-so-talented Anita:)
I must admit that I find it a bit hard to write this, as I just don't know where to start...
This started out wanting to write about her scrapbooking, but looking through Anita's blog I got fascinated by her cards and then I descovered her art journaling - wow!

I think I'll start with her beautiful layouts:)
Anita has a way to capture an emotion in her photo and use papers and embellishments to make the emotion stronger.

She often makes her own backgrounds, or put details to readymade ones to make them better. It's so clever how she has used glimmermist (?) on this one to make it look like she have used two different papers for her background:


OK - this is not a good thing, but I have to admit that I don't pay much attention to card makers.
It's not that I think less of them, it's more that I don't find it that intersting. But after seeing Anita's work I think I have to change my mind. Her cards is artwork!

This is a Christmas card you should frame and put up every Christmas - it's a small present in itself.

I also have the little giraffe stamp, but the way Anita colour it makes it look totally different from mine. Anita is a master in colouring her stamped items!!!
In her blog you can find a step-by-step tutorial how to use distress ink to give life to stamped items.

This Valentine card is just sooo cute! I wonder if it's possible to get my husband to make one of these ;)


After looking through Anita's blog, and seeing her wonderful art journal I have tried to start my own art journal. I find so much inspiration in her pages - just look:


It's a shame to have these in a book, they should have been framed and put in a gallery!








And, as usual, my favourites:)
I had to pick two this time, one layout and one page for art journaling.

I just LOVE the way Anita has made her own background here.
It's so playful, and just so beautiful!


This art journaling page really captured my eye.
I love the effect of the photo with the letters behind, and the butterflies are so beautiful!


Thank you so much Anita for all the inspiration you give us!
Make sure to visit her blog and leave some nice comments:)

Meet the amazing Anne Kristine

I'm so happy to show off one of my favourite scrapbookers, please meet Anne Kristine from Norway, also known as aksh :) Anne Kristine has been featured here once before with her amazing Christmas card in 2008, but she really deserves a bigger place here!

I have now been looking in her blog for days, and everytime I visit I find some work that captures my heart. I'm waiting for a rainyday now, with no work or husband at home, just to spend hours and hours studying her work. She is just amazing!

Anne Kristine makes beautiful cards, just look at these - wouldn't you love to recieve one of these in the mail?


Isn't this card made for her grandson fun? It's so cool how she has included all the little things he like in the card, and still made a little art piece out of it:)




As I'm pretty content making a nice front of a card, she even makes small artwork inside:

The cards are lovely - but so are also her LO's.
I'm not quite sure how I would describe her style, but I guess it would be hybrid between vintage and clean and simple. This is what I think makes Anne Kristine's work so special. In a time when vintage and lots of layers is very popular in Norway she kind of restrains her self, and only make the small hints of layers and vintage. And it just works so beautifuly:

Don't you just love the effect of the note paper peeking through the background paper, the little lace by the photo and her beautiful flowers?

This one just speaks for it self:
This page about Anne Kristine's granddaughter who want so learn to read is just so great!
Doesn't it seem like you are reading a book?
It's just so cleaver!
This is also an good example of the vintage style meeting a simplier style:
The way she has included the old fabric with the lace in a LO with more bright colours is so cool. I loooove the effect!

Anne Krisine is really good at including old pieces of fabric. Looking at her pages makes me regret all the fabric I have trown away over the years, and makes me long for fleamarkets...
Even if Anne Kristine mostly scrapbook in delicate colours, she also have some LOs with more color. This one is just way too cute:

Though delicat colours, Anne Kristine has lots of colours in her details.
And her details - wow! They are small pieces of art in them self!

I just love the effect with the dollie that she has painted with gesso, and the papercup (that you use while baking cupcakes)





In my head Anne Kristine must have a really beautiful home!
I'm imagening it as her scrapbooking, simple but with lots of vintage effects and some spots of bright colors. And her walls are decorated with beautiful wallhangings, made by herself of course:) I never make wallhangings of my own, but I sure will try after seeing her work:


And this calendar is just way too lovely to just last for one year:



As usual I'd like to show you my favourites of her work, but this time it was so hard so choose, so I have to show you two.

The first is this home decor project.

Anne Kristine has used an old jar (of a kind that is very common in Norway) and inside is a picture of her beautiful granddaughter. She has made her into a fairy by adding wings made of old book pages - pretty smart!

My other fav is this layout of her daughter in New York:
The way she has made her background almost makes me feel how cold it must be.
And I love the way she has made it so simple, but still very funky in way - perfect for a picture of a girl that age!

Make sure you have lots of time when you go and visit her blog, and you can just as well add her to your bloglist, as this is one scrapbooker you don't want to forget!
Rembember to leave her some kind words and give her the credit she really deserves:)

Meet Hannapanna:)

I have just come across this oh-so-talented Norwegian scrapbooker, Hanna, who calles her self Hannapanna.
She's not the girl who post many, many layouts in her blog, but when you are so talented as her, just a few will do to give you lots of inspiration:)


This is one of her newest work. Look at the little details like the one in the top right corner, and the black stripes around the pattern paper - just brilliant!

This is a different style for Hanna, as she mostly scrapbook in a kind of vintage layered style or in a quite colorful layered style. I hope we will se more of the simple style though, as she masters it SO well.

Hanna just won one of the challenges at the blog Scrapping the Music Norway with this layout.
What just capture my heart in this is the way she has taken the closeness between the persons in the photo and emphasizes it through the torn paper across the photo and the flowers. It's just beautiful!


Hanna is very good at finding good colours to create feelings at those who look at her layouts.
Like this one, from her bachelorettparty. Doesn't the colours just make you feel the happiness and love from her girlfriends?

The lace and roses makes the layout very feminine, and that's what a bachelorettparty can be - after all it is a girls night out:)

In Norway our national costumes are kind of sacred, and treated with lot of respect for their history and their beauty. In this layout Hanna shows off one of the costumes from the west cost.
Her choice of colours and embellishments makes an ancient feel about it.

I also love the little detail with the eyelets and flipped paper (just below the title) as this reminds me of how many of our national costums actually looks like (see photo below...)


Hanna has a beautiful daughter, and she makes bright and fun layouts with her.
This green and red one really catched my eye:


This one of her daughter in a crocodile costume is just way too funny!
The photo is just sooo fun, and the embellishments kind of make me think about toys - very clever!


She also make more delicate layouts.
I love this one!



And this is possible my favourite layout:


I just love the picture of her daughter sticking two fingers up her nose.
Haven't we all seen a kid do this? And the title says: "Are you digging for gold?"
It's just too funny:)

So all of you - go and visit sweet Hanna. Enjoy her work and give her the credit she deserves:)