.:August kit- Altered Gift box:.

Hi!
Katarina here witht his months altered inspiration :)

The Carta Bella-Beautiful Moments are a really romantic paperline, could as easily be a valentines kit, and I love the dark red together witht he pale green and pale yellow colours.
And today I´m going to share with you a small giftbox-drawer I´ve made for my little girl.

My daughter is 7 yrs old and a huge collector of pretty things, it can be seahells, stones, pieces of seaglass, and other glittery stuff.. and today I did a small treasurebox containing three small matchboxes for her to store those pretty things in...

To make this little pretty box I have used a Silhouette Studio Cutting files. All I had to do was to resize and cut it out with my Silhouette.

When the cut was done all I had to do was to mount all the parts together...

Materials used:
Carta Bella Paperline
Bazzill basics
Satin ribbon
Twine Maraschino red-The Twinery
brads-Indie Chic-from july kit

Hope you got some Ideas to try out yourself :)
If you dont have your own cutting file system you can always find templates at fex Mirkwood Designs.

Have fun!!
//Katarina

.:Celebrate Summer Challenge:.

Hi everyone!
I hope you haven´t missed the summer challenge in the Nook Messageboard.

There is still time to enter the challenges.. deadlines are tomorrow aug 12 at 11.59 PST

I have a challenge going on, please join in :) ...

"Picnic in the Park"

A multi photo challenge→ use more than one photo from a picnic/reunion or family dinner, also add at least one doily, 3 buttons and a pennant!

And this is some inspiration.....

Please post your creations in both the gallery and the challenge thread.
Deadline is Sunday, August 12 at 11:59 pm PST

//Katarina

.:July Colour Challenge:.

Hi there ladies!
How are you doing today?
Here its raining heavily, so all I really can do is scrap or perhaps cuddle with the kids watching a movie instead..

Today Im going to give you this months colour challenge... The colours are picked fron the beautiful July kit, feat, My Minds Eye.

The kit is gorgeous, with lush colours, and textures.

The challenge is to enjoy yourselves, and create your heart out with this colours... upload it to this thread in the messageboard, to inspire all of the lovely ladies on board.. and have fun!!

and this is the way I interpreted the colours in to a LO...

Enjoy and have loads of fun creating.. and dont forget to share your creations in the Messageboard.

//Katarina

.:Are You Keeping a Secret?:.

Well  do you??

When it comes to scrapping and sharing online, sometimes we don´t want to share everything in our page with the world. And then the hidden journaling comes to handy.

Today I´m going to share with you a simple but yet really genious way of making a lush page, and still have lots of room for journaling... have you ever made your own Tag Pocket XL?

If not tag along ;)

all you need is the beautiful paper from Nook June kit, Simple Stories-Summer Quilt.

Cut out a large Tag pocket shape and use a bonefolder to fold the sides

When the sides are done just glue it down on the page. I´ve used the gorgeous HoneyComb ledger pattern.

Now you have a large Tag Pocket to put lots of journaling or other ephemera in when making your precious pages.

Now add all your favourite scrap-stash and you have a fantastic page in no time at all.

Enjoy!!
//Katarina

Designer Showcase May 9th.

Hello everyone!

Katarina here with a very late edition of the the designer showcase post... I´m so sorry, I´ve been tangled up with the fun of May Movie Madness Crop.. And its so many beautiful creations to see in the Nook Gallery from the crop. Make shure you stop by and leave lots of love :)

Today I´m going to show you some beautiful work by our fantabulous designers.. using the absolutely gorgeous may kit and grab bag, feat. This & That by Echo Park... I hope you don´t miss out on this one bec its A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!

Just take a look at how versatile it is....

Hilde/scoobie
(May grab bag)

Carol

Lilith

Isn´t it gorgeous?? I just love it! If you want to purchase your own kit.. just swing by the Nook online store to get your own kit.. but don´t wait to long... Its a HOT kit :)

//Katarina

Friday Fave april 20- Nenne

Hi ladies!
It´s time for the Friday Fave again..

This time I have chosen a card in the Nook Gallery that really made me look twice, beautiful display and I love the clean style with beautiful texture..

The card is made by out sweet member Nenne. ..

And I love the hearts, the added twine, button and the colours... really yummy!
Thank you Nenne for uploading your creations in the gallery.

If you would love to be featured at the Nook blog as a friday fave... don´t forget to upload your creations in the Nook Gallery. Who knows, it might be you next time.

//Katarina

Friday Fave april 6th

Hi everyone!

How are you all doing? Celebrating easter and remembering the true meaning of the holiday?

Today Im going to share with you the friday fave..

a tradition here att he nook, showing of one of our members work...

today Im going to share this awesome LO made by our member Mette you can check out Mettes Nook Gallery here

Isn´t it absolutely gorgeous?

I love the colour palette of green, turqouise and brown, and that puppy.. isn´t he adorable?

I also love the use of white space, the stars and the stamps.. it´s an overall well made LO.

Thank you mette for sharing your gorgeous work with us at the Nook gallery..

and to all of our friends of the Nook.. remember to upload your work in the gallery.. next time it might be you being in the Nook lime light :)

//Katarina

Nook 1-pager class

Hi everyone!!

How are you all doing?
We all have times when the inspiration needs a small push.. or perhaps a big boot to get going..

So what do you do to get your Mojo flowing?

Well we all have our ways, perhaps you go to Pinterest, scrappy galleries, your favourite blog or perhaps you take out your sketchpad and makes a sketch to work from.

If you dont like to make sketches, perhaps using one from a sketch page works :)

At times I take my sketchpad and make sketches just for these times when the inspo is really low.

like this one Ive made...

For this page I´ve used this sketch as a base on this page.

On this page, using one of my sons schoolphotos I have used the Nook November kit, and used the patterned paper to cut stripes for the matting of the photo.

Ive also used lots of letterstickers besides my small wallet sized photo instead of a large photo.

I hope that you found some inspiration, and have a really great day!

//Katarina