CSI no #260

Hi, ready for one more CSI challenge no 260 (see link). 
This is my LO:

And this is the mood board that inspired me:

I followed the traditional CSI challenge and solved this:  

colors:all

evidence: Solid white background (some part), floral pattern (Maja design), stripes, spiral notebook paper, anchor, flowers, leaves, watercolor, gold, string, labels, glitter

Some closer views of my evidence:

Evidence: anchor, gold, flower, label, spiral note book, leaves

Evidence: string, label, anchor, gold, glitter

Evidence: flower pattern, stripes, gold, watercolor

Evidence: glitter flower

testimony: I used the inspiration word bloom, that is important in midsummer eve that we celebrated here, and my flowers I used in the hair as a Swedish tradition

Journaling: I wrote about our yearly tradition to celebrate midsummer eve at either my family or my sisters family, this year 2017 we were at my sisters house. I also told about what we did and always use to do at this day, most eating and talking. And then I talked about the tradition we have in Sweden to have a wreath of flower in the hair, but I just used some few flowers in fabric into my hair. Then I also wrote about the strange thing; that the weather this day use to be rainy or cold in Sweden, but this day was rather sunny - and we enjoyed it so much - this is important as we always force us self to sit outside to eat on midsummer eve (although the weather is bad!) and this is also a Swedish tradition.  

Some background paper are from Maja design, that I won from CSI challenge last year. The other papers I don't remember for the moments, the stamps I bought recently from someone who sold them privately.

Thanks for watching and welcome to instagram: gunilla_pysslar

Gunilla

CSI challenge #259

Hi and time for a new CSI challenge, no 259 (see link):

Here is my LO :

And here is the mood board with colors and elements:

I chosed the traditional way to follow the CSI challenge, and at the same time I did a challenge from the Ali Edwards craft the story- community : to use emballishment I didn't use before. I chosed the speech bubbles and that was perfect in this CSI case.

Testimony: 

Because one of the testimony was: put journaling in speech bubbles (from Ali Edwards). And another testimony was to write about a trip. My journaling was about how we took a train trip to Alicante to celebrate my husbands birthday 5 July. I also wrote about my son that felt lonely (as his brothers with friends just went home to Sweden). 

Evidence:

Solid white background, map pattern, speech bubbles, transportation, travel-themed elements, food elements, stamping, cursive font, design your layout as a map

Some closer views: 

travel-themed element, cursive font, map pattern, layout as a map: you see the map sign for railway track : the black line crossed with a lot of small, horizontal lines that goes through all my photos.

food element (Ali Edwards)

stamping, a part of the map symbol for the rail way track

Colors: I used all colors. 

Welcome to my instagram: gunilla_pysslar

Thanks for watching! /Gunilla R

CSI challenge #258

Hi, more scrapping - a paus in the hot summer.

I have scrapped a LO for CSI challenge 258 (see link). 

Here is my LO: 

And here is how I solved the case, see the inspiration picture:

Colors: All colors included

Evidence:

Stripes, Beach/nautical elements, lobster, glasses, circles, wet medium, elements from the scene: ice cream, shell, beach ball, towel

Testimony:

Add journaling on stripes

Here some more pictures with a closer view of my evidence:

Above: lobster, circles, wet medium when I used the nice stencil I won from "Scrapmatts", see the link to the same stencil.

Above: Circle, stripes, nautic elements on paper

Above: Beach element, circles, ice cream

Above: Nautic element, a piece of a shell (left down corner)

Above: My testimony on stripes and here are the translation:

"I'm so happy when I manage to collect my 4 boys, 

yes Billy is also counted in as well! (a dog)

It's not so easy to attract the sons to come

to summer house, but ONE thing attract them: the boat!

I mean Joel's own renovated boat. So surprised we became

when suddenly Joel, Raheb and Markus appeared

an early morning by car - the were going to take a boat trip!"

Thanks for watching, 

and have a look in my instagram account: gunilla_pysslar

/Gunilla R

CSI #257

Swedish summer - I love it (if it's not too cold)!

I scrapped a LO in the form of PL as the CSI 257 had this design in the mood board. See link:

Here is my ”PL-LO” :

I chosed to follow the traditional way of CSI.

The sheme: almost all colors are included, but the pink is more cerise

Evidence: Floral pattern, stripes, wood, flowers, leaves, pineapple, lemon, banner, clouds, glasses, quadrant design, black & white pattern, string, tiny brads

Testimony: documenting summer (see end of blog)

Some closer looks of my evidence and testimony (in the end):

Above you see: cloud, banner, lime

Above you see: string, cloud, wood,  flower, tiny brads (in the middle of the black & white flowers) black & white pattern, flower

Above you see: wood, leaves, flowers, banner, string

Above you see: pineapple, leave, part of my quadrant layout of my photos and journaling.

Finally the testimony:

My testimony was written on lemon- paper with more pineapples, wood and string in the top left corner + stripes on a paper behind.

The journaling translated from Swedish to English says:

"SUMMER WEEKEND

A sucessful Swedish summer includes both sun and rain, as this weekend. But also small, spontaneous excursions and the summer house, boat fix, nature, be together with family. Thanks to the boat we have, our sons visited us. Water skiing was attracting them to come. But, we missed the visit to my parents summer house in middle of Sweden (Jämtland), I didn't have anyone who wanted to join me. "

Thanks for watching! 

Welcome to my instagram gunilla_pysslar

Gunilla R

Veckans Skiss #201

Hej, jag har gjort ett studentkort med inspiration från Veckans Skiss (se länk).

Så här såg skissen ut:

Och så här såg min tolkning ut: 

Tack för titten, och välkommen in på mitt instagram: gunilla_pysslar

Gunilla R

CSI challenge #253

The lovely weather in cold Sweden has made me be outside more than inside, scrapping. But of course I wanted to participate in CSI challenge 253 (see link)  because I wanted to write the story about howI started to do scrapbooking.

So here is my LO:

And I chosed to follow the traditional way of CSI challenge. 

Here is the inspiration picture:

Colors: I used all

Evidence: Solid cardstock, die cuts, handcutting (turquose flowers), washi tape, leaves, paint, cirkles, metal

Testimony: Documented about my creative hobby, handwriting, word: beginnings

And som closer views with clues.

Evidence: Handcutted flowers, leaves, washi tape, 

Evidence: Paint, circles, metal, 

I like to do layers.

The testimony was handwritten and was about how I started scrapbooking. I first met a girl on a smaller stamp exhibition who invited me and a friend to a scrap meeting. I was creating cards by that time 2003, but really liked the scrap album idea and started after that. The same girl that invited me, I met later when I started to join scrap training for this girl (Therese). And I have participated in many! The only thing I found less good was that I could just use ONE photo per page, I wanted more. So when the Project Life came to my knowledge, I felt really "home" so I combine that with scrap book layouts. And nowadays I write more stories around the photo/photos. 

I also love scrap meetings, and these photos are from a scrap meeting where we made mini albums at "Sirap-i-Paris", that unfortunately had to close their webshop/business just recently (in May 2018). The best event every year is the biggest scrap meeting in Sweden (1-2000 participants) that also includes exhibition of scrap booking, planner, knitting, pearls. This is what I look forward to every year. 

Thanks for watching! 

(Welcome to my instagram site: gunilla_pysslar)

Gunilla 

Veckans skiss #194

Jag är med i CSI challenge för att dokumentera mitt hem, och passade på att följa skissen från "Veckans Skiss" se länk. 

Så här blev min LO till slut (och i förra inlägget har jag skrivit om CSI challenge som jag tävlar i, mest för att få inspiration). Det är en perfekt kombo med CSI challenge och Veckans skiss!

Jag har satsat på mycket dokumentation, för jag ska fylla på med fler hem-historier i ett album. 

Här är skissen som jag följt:

Två närbilder:

Tack för titten!

Gunilla R

(gunilla_pysslar på instagram)