Happy Birthday to...

... Mandy!!! Hope you had a wonderful day!

Woohoo

I went to Almere yesterday, to see the new Dolls-shop... it was a very fun day. Very nice to meet all of those forum Dollies in person! Here are a few pics of the day:

Tammie and me. Loved (s)talkig to you girl!


make 'n takes:




I won two fabulous prizes at the lottery! And my good friend Boukje won the master prize, a beautiful leather suitcase full of scrapgoodies!




At the end of the day, this was the amount of stuff that had to go back to Friesland :)





And here a few pics of the goodies I bought in the store.
The new Scenic Route (love it!) and some other papers:



Stampin'stuff:


And some other nice goodies:



Now I have to find myself some scraptime... LOL

Thanks for visiting!

We are back...

... we had a wonderful vacation in Den Helder (my birth town). We had a great day at the beach, two wonderful days at the Swimming Pool (outside) and we also visit two markets and a kids theme parc... It was so much fun! Too bad it didn't last longer... so now off to do some washes and stuff...
Here are a few pics of our trip:

Watch the hair!

Check out the latest Dutch Dare! I guarantee you a big smile on your face! :) It's all about the hair, this time... here is my take on it:


I did some scrapping last week. I totally love to work with sketches... here are two of my layouts, inspired by PageMaps sketches:

Starting a new BOM

And here are the first two layouts to be put in it. I made it on 8,5"x11", really love that size! Sorry for the bad pictures, my new scanner gave up on me :S



I also made two cards (a few weeks ago). The first one is for my friend Fauve, who gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, Maxim (don't you just love that name?):


Second one is for a friend who gave birth to a baby girl: Sanne Marieke. I really love those Serendipity papers by Sassafras Lass!





Jeanet nominated me for Rockin'Girl Blogger... thanks girl! Now I have to nominate 5 other girls:

Daphne
Mirjam
MirandaW
MirandaF
Mandy

Dutch Dare #18

Check out the Dutch Dare blog for another challenge! It's all about relaxing this time... Here's my take, I used one of the latest sketches of PageMaps:


And, as promised, here's my layout I made at the cybercrop at the Scrapdelight Forum. I used a Hambly transparancy:

Two sneaks

The first is for the next Dutch Dare(wednesday). I had real fun doing this one!


And this one is made on a cybercrop at the Scrapdelight Forum. I will show the whole layout on wednesday:

Day full of scrapping!

Yesterday I went to Wendy's house for a fun day full of scrapping! I so love those days! I did a LOT in one day: I made a spread for a Circle Journal, two layouts for myself ;) ánd a card for Margot.
For this layout I used the Scenic Route papers which I finally gave myself as a present. I was inspired by the PERFECTLY CLEAR BOOK by Autumn Leaves. Love that book!!! :


For this layout, I was inspired by this sketch blog (sketch #5). I used some bling bling cardstock by Bazzill (love that stuff!) and more Scenic Route papers. Too bad the colors don't come out as in real life:


And finally, Margot's card. For this one I used those yummie papers by K&Company: Belle and a Bella Stamp. Hope she likes it!

MLS June challenge

This months MLS challenge was to make a 6"x12" layout. A real fun thing to do!


Last friday, a colleague got married. He is one of my favorite colleagues, so I decided to make him (and his wife) something special. It turned out to be this little project made of matchboxes. We collected some money with a couple of colleagues and in every drawer I put some money.


Don't forget to check out Memory Lane Scrapbooking for the new MOROCCO line by Cherry Arte and the new Basic Grey Infuse line!

Proud of Laut...

This weeks Dutch Dare is all about my sweetheart! This thursday his first exhibition will open at the Walls gallery on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam!

I am sooooo proud of him! If you wanna see more of his work, you can click HERE... and of course you are free to check out the exhibiotion when you're in Amsterdam! :)

Busy, busy, busy!

Boy, it's really a very very busy time here. We're almost at the end of the schoolyear and that means a lot of things to finish and ofcourse a LOT of meetings... :S Didn't do a lot of scrapping the last couple of weeks. But I will make it up when I'm free (7 weeks of vacation... did you hear me complaining? hehehe).

Today we had a special day at Julian's daycare. It was all about the Circus today. So I tried to give my little boy a clownsface. Very difficult to keep him from rubbing his nose/mouth/cheeks LOL. But he looked soooo cute! Here are a few shots of my little Bumba:





And here's a little sneak, can't show the whole project yet. But as soon as I can show it to you, I will post it here on my blog!



Have a very nice weekend!

Coaster album & Scrap! magazine

I made a coaster album about a visit to my sister with the latest Crate line: Samantha. I just love those beautiful papers ánd... it's the first time I used purple in my work. Usually I don't like purple, but with these papers, I couldn't resist using purple ink! I like the results, so maybe I will use this color more often... :)












As promised, here are the projects I made for Scrap! Magazine. The layouts are made with Making Memories Sydney. I love the look of this line... it really fits by those old family pictures. The mini-album is made with transparancy's and chipboard letters (the outlining) by Making Memories. So there are two sorts of pages: transparant and chipboard. I totally love the outcoming of this album! Can't wait to have it in my hands again!







Don't forget to check out this weeks Dutch Dare! The girls made wonderful projects again ánd we have a very special guest designer: Céline Navarro! Isn't that awesome?