Marit's Paper World (blog)

Last week, I was at the Kreadoe, a huge arts and crafts supply fair.
(Caatje published photos of the Kreadoe fair on her blog if you want to
take a look and drool over supplies… I’m glad to say that on the day
I went it was not as crowded as on Caatje’s photos!)  I had no plans to
go at first but last minute I decided to go after all.

Visiting such a big supply fair means that it is impractible to keep
your money in your pocket. I did not really need supplies so I’m
proud to say that I managed to keep my findings to a minimum -
but still there can be done a lot with those ‘minimums’ – take a look.

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Do you have no idea what ‘Quirky Dutch
Summer’ is all about? Read this post first.
All the posts – newest at the top, oldest
down below – can be found here. There is a
flickr group for sharing right here.

Quirky Dutch Summer is an event that
wil run from June 12 – August 14. 2012.
You will find an inspiring blogpost up on
this blog every Tuesday during the Summer.

If you use the given inspiration as a jumpstart for your artwork and you have
blogged about it, or shared your work in the flickr group, please leave a link in
a comment with the relevant post on this blog.

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Heb je geen idee waar ‘Quirky Dutch Summer’ (Grillige, Hollandse zomer)
over gaat? Lees dan eerst deze post. Alle ‘Quirky posts’ kun je hier op een
rijtje vinden (de laatste post staat altijd bovenaan.) Quirky Dutch Summer
heeft ook een eigen flickr groep, die vind je hier.

Quirky Dutch Summer is een online inspiratie blog-event waarbij 10 weken
lang (van 12 juni t/m 14 augustus) elke dinsdag een inspirerende post op dit
blog zal verschijnen. Heb je iets gemaakt n.a.v. één van de inspiratie-posts,
zet je werk dan in de flickr groep en/of laat een link achter in een berichtje
bij de betreffende post op dit blog.

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Everyone who is interested in art journaling and searches the internet,
sooner or later will bump onto Kate Crane and her blog ‘ The Kathryn Wheel ‘.
Kate is a well-known art journaler and I’m very happy that she, despite her
undoubtedly busy schedule, was excited and found time to write a guest post.

Exclusive for the Quirky Dutch Summer Series she made a ‘ Summer journal ‘
and a tutorial to go with it. The result is a cheerful, bright and colourful (how
could it be otherwise … we’re talking Kate Crane here!) ‘Summer journal.’
I wish you lots of fun with this tutorial and am already looking forward to see
all your ‘ Summer journals ‘. And now, I let Kate take over my blog from here…
go ahead girl!

Iedereen die geïnteresseerd is in art journaling en zich op het internet
begeeft, zal vroeg of laat bij Kate Crane en haar blog ‘The Kathryn Wheel‘
belanden. Kate is een bekende art journaler en ik ben erg blij dat ze, ondanks
haar ongetwijfeld drukke schema, enthousiast reageerde en tijd vond om
een gastpost te schrijven.

Speciaal voor de Quirky Dutch Summer serie maakte ze een ‘Summer journal’
én een tutorial. Het resultaat is een vrolijk, helder en kleurig (hoe kan het ook
anders… Kate zou anders Kate niet meer zijn!) zomer boekje waar je alle kanten
mee op kunt. Ik wens jullie heel veel plezier en ben nu al benieuwd naar al jullie
‘Summer journals’.  Ik geef nu alle ruimte aan Kate… go ahead girl!

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Good morning friends.
Good morning computer.
Good morning Internet.
Good morning blog!

Last week – Friday evening – the computer went black.
Dead.
Over and out….

My beloved tested everything and anything – but the poor thing
had to go to the specialist. (the computer that is, not my beloved)
It took days… days in which I managed to get the guest post for Quirky
Dutch Summer online via our ‘emergency computer’ which has a very
small screen, a MOUSE (- eeeckkk – I always work with a tablet and pen)
and no access to my photos, my stuff whatsoever.

That’s why I was not able to visit my haiku friends last week.
That’s why I was awfully quiet on the Internet.
I was forced to take a vacation from the world wide web!

The computer is fixed but my beloved took the opportunity to use
our ‘forced vacation’ for cleaning our office space. It’s not done yet so -
although I do have access to the web again – I will have to stay out of
this room for the next days.

I use this one hour I have on the computer to p0st photos I made last days.
(Oh, and I even wrote a haiku!)

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I’m hooked…

I bought this olive green
paint last week and since
then all my pages come
out green!

I used to be a yellow -
orange – red kinda person!

I don’t know what
happened but all of
a sudden I love this
colour so much.

Why analyse anyway…
I let go and make green pages!

A lot!
You are warned!

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Remember this?

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It’s the unfinished page
I made for A Year in
the Life of an Art Journal.

I wrote in this blogpost
how I struggled with the
prompt, and in the end
I left the page unfinished
and moved on…

… to come back to it
last weekend!

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