About me

My name is Kirsten Hyde. I am from Norway, and live close to the capital, Oslo.

I have made albums, cards and 3D paper creations since I was a little girl. In 2006, I took my first layout class, and in 2007, I visited and entered the Norwegian scrapbooking championship. I started blogging in 2011. In 2013, I entered the European Scrap Battle, and came to the semi-finals in alter and to the finals in card making.

I love designing and creating 3D creations from paper. I also do Mixed Media, layouts, card making, altered art and Art Journaling (Mixed Media style).  I design 3D creations from paper/card (without manual or digital cutting devices) and in Silhouette studio. These items are sometimes miniatures, from a few centimeters tall, to larger items, up to 70 cm tall for display. Some of my templates are free, and can be found under the page "tutorials and templates". Some of my silhouette files are free. Info about these files can be found under the page "Silhouette files". 

I use a lot of different mediums and stencils in my work and continuously challenge myself, experiment and trying new techniques. I enjoy to use recycled elements in my work. I often dismantle old typewriters, computers and sewing machines, to get hold of elements for my projects. I like to add something extra in my larger projects. Therefore, some of my projects has miniature led lights mounted, paper gears that works or for instance a rubber band engine. I also use MDF/wood for some of my projects, and alter or create a lot of my projects from scratch. 

I am a qualified teacher, and travel to give art classes. I am currently on the design team for Hobbykunst (Norwegian craft shop), Ett trykk (Norwegian craft magazine - writer and designer for 2017), 

Design teams:

Current design teams:

Hobbykunst (Craft shop - Design Team leader) (Guest designer 2011 - 2012.  Designer 2013 - current)

TPC magazine - (Writer - November 2016 - Current)

Guest writer

Ett trykk (Norwegian craft magazine - paper version)

The papercrafting - (Scandinavian online craft magazine).

Past design teams:

LDRS creative - (January 2017 to January 2019)

Kaisercraft - (July 2015 to July 2017)

Nicecrane design (Guest designer): 

Scandinavia paper fun (Scandinavian challenge blog)

StampARTic (online craft magazine) 

Kort O Mania (a Norwegian Challenge blog) 

Past Guest designer and guest writer

Ett trykk (Norwegian craft magazine - paper version - 2015)

The papercrafting - (Scandinavian online craft magazine - guest writer January 2016).

Ett trykk - October 2013 (Norwegian papercraft magazine)

Nicecrane designs (Image site)

Alt om scrap - travel (Online magazine)

Alt om scrap - coffee (Online magazine)

Scrappaloss (Online magazine)

Crafty boots challenges (Challenge blog)

Online presence: 

Blog: My craft and garden tales - My Hyde Away

Pinterest: My Hyde Away - Pinterest

You - tube:  My Hyde Away - You tube

Instagram: Kirstenghyde

The Papercrafting TPC magazine

Articles in magazines:

List over articles in TPC magaxine 

Ett trykk - Featured inn all the 2015 issues.

Passion Scrapbooking Volume 52 - August 2014 (French Scrapbooking magazine)

Ett trykk (December 2013) Article with 12 tags of Christmas

Ett trykk (October 2013) (Guest designer - Norwegian papercraft magazine)

Alt om scrap, (online magazine) also see Articel about travel and Article about coffee

The Paper Crafting - Nordstjernen (online Scandinavian magazine))

StampARTic - writer and designer.

The Scandinavian Scrapbooker of the year 2016:

I was nominated to the semifinal of the Scandinavian Scrapbooker of the year. This nomination worked on voting from the public. You can read more about the nomination in this blogpost or in the online magazine The papercrafting.

The European Scrap Battle: 

I entered the European scrap battle in 2013. I came to the semi-finals i alter and to the finals in card. 

Alter contributions: 

Card contributions: