Christmas was fun, New Years eve was at least as much fun, Ready to attack 2008! Happy New Year to all!

For tonight I'll just show you a couple of layouts I haven't published here yet, but one of my resolutions for 2008 is to blog more and better, so stay tuned, see you soon! I might actually WRITE something here ;-)

 Naomi and Alban and their "long teeth"

 Alban who is impatiently waiting for Santa (and when Santa finally came, he was soooo spoiled!!)

Alban who is playing soccer with Naomi watching him.

 Naomi. For this one I used paint on bubble wrap, stamps and crackle paint, quite experimental for me!!!

These were made in 2007. In my next post I'll show my 2008 creations! Good night!

I don’t blog enough… I intended to blog more often and about more different subjects but all I seem to do is show layouts on it ! Let’s change that… my very early new years’ resolution! So what happened since I last blogged…

I turned 35! Holy cow, that sounds old written down like that! I was spoiled for the occasion, love it! Richard offered me the Craft Robo, a wonderful cutting machine that I will mostly use for scrapping but that I can also use to create cards and maybe even other things! It took me almost 2 weeks to understand the beast, but I managed to cut with it! I’ll show you below. I also got storage boxes for my scrap, a ribbon jar, a book and a charm bracelet, spoiled me J

We have also celebrated the Dutch national party of St Nicholas, which is to be compared with Santa in the world (père noel!), the party involves mostly (only) presents and chocolate! Apart from that it is the perfect occasion to spend an evening with the family, in Holland, that I don’t see often enough. It was good fun.

Some drama yesterday… first I arrived way too early at the child “after school” care, Naomi was NOT happy that I arrived in the middle of a game they were playing. I was actually quite happy myself to leave work early, but from now on I’ll have to do over time, to keep the little miss happy J But the drama was after that, she told me that she has received an invitation for a birthday (nice!) but she forgot the card at school. Tears were flowing… I think she was afraid that she missed the party, but I somehow don’t think the party was last night! As she can’t read, she obviously doesn’t know when the party will happen, so I reminded her at least 5 times that she had to take the card from her drawer at school and put it in her bag. She might still forget…  

Here’s the layout with a word I cut with the Craft Robo, the word “Adore”, copied from a Heidi Swapp stamp (not by me, I’m not able to create cut files yet!). Besides that, I used paper and stickers from Rouge de Garance, letter stickers/chipboards from American Crafts and Gin-X and paint = the bubbles were scraplifted from a layout from Nathalie C. that was published in the magazine “Histoire de pages”. 

Thanks for reading my life and looking at my work!

Turning 35 tomorrow, ouch! BUT, looking forward to the presents! Never too old for presents!!

I have been quite busy with scrap these last days (weeks), I love it! I'm currently on sick leave from work, which leaves me some time to scrap, besides taking care of the children and the house! 


I finally had some inspiration to scrap the encounter with Santa Claus (december 2006). PP still My Minds Eye (love these papers and use them for everything right now!)


This one was made for a product challenge, we had to use a picture of someone older (my mother), patterned paperS from one manufacturer and hearts. These pictures were taken beginning of November and were perfect for the occasion!

And finally a layout about my friend Nienke, also for a product challenge. This time we had to use pictures of a friend, use circles (could you guess??!!) and have hidden journaling, which is on the tag behind the round picture! 
Thanks for looking and thank you for your comments!!

to update the blog! I have quite a lot of work to finish, because tonight, my 5 day weekend will start! Yay :-) We could all do with a good rest, because ever since wintertime started, our living alarmclock named Alban wakes us up veeeery early in the morning, if you can talk about morning at 5 am! 

First I want to show the early birthday present my sister in law gave me:
I'm just talking about the jar, the ribbons didn't come with it! I have 4 tiny jars for all this ribbon, so desperately needed a new, bigger one and this one looks soooo good! The clock you can just see next to it is also my b-day present from her, I will decorate this clock as soon as I find enough inspiration and ideas. Well, yes, lots of projects going on in my head :-)

I'm trying to do all challenges in a 13 week "3 product challenge" at classy coordinates, meaning that you have to use 3 given products in the layouts. Here are number 4 (use of squares, brads and journaling strips)
(PP and letters Basic Grey Pheobe collection)
and number 5 (use of starts, 3 photos and ink)

(PP Paper Trunk (I love it!), CS Bazzill, journaling card 7Gypsies.)

I'd better get back to work now, if I want to pick up the kids from the "Centre de Loisirs" before closing time! 
Thanks for stopping by!

Luckily for me, I don't have any reason to go outside, I'm sitting very comfortably on my couch with my computer on my lap in front of the tv showing  "Les Experts Miami" (CSTI Miami, I believe, in English). Let's just hope it stops raining before tomorrow morning, 'cause we have speech lessons, music school and sports to go to!

I have been scrapping quite a bit lately, for different challenges and for fun of course. I already told about this layout I made for a challenge at Scrapfreak, the challenge was to use white space (well, empty space, not necessarily white!) in the Layout and I decided to scrap the tulips that had been waiting in my "to print" file forever! 


In my previous post I have shown a layout that I scraplifted from a magazine, Esprit Scrapbooking. I have also made a layout based on a sketch from this magazine. Pp Fancy Pants:

And last but not least I have made a layout for the "3 products challenges" on Classycoordinates, I had to use metal embellishment(s), flower(s) and striped paper. I used Basic Grey paper:


That's it for today! I'm off on Thursday (but work on Friday), so I'm going into some kind of weekend right now. Feels good :-)
Thank you for visiting!