I played just for fun the last days and – inspired by all your
“Christmas layouts” – I made a “winter layout”…
I didn’t look at challenges until I finished it, but I had the idea
there might be challenges around that fitted my layout…

So after my layout was done, I surfed all challenge blogs to see
what challenges my layout would match – HA!!
I found a few even!!!

At The Next step they played with cheese cloth

The theme over at The Three Muses was: “Fun and Games”

And… well I’ll be damn….
Lotus Paperie had a challenge fitting my layout!
I did visit their blog last Friday, but it wasn’t on my mind
anymore… somehow, there must still be vibes from Lotus
coming my way – “Use foam stamps”

It was funny to discover challenges that matched my layout!
It is “playing the other way around” and I loved it for a change!

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Yes, you read that right… this will be my last Lotus Paperie layout
as a design team member! My term ends today…
I was in the team from June ’till now, and I loved to make a “Lotus layout”
every week. I didn’t submit for another term though, ’cause I find it only
fair to give other scrapbookers a change to get in the team too.
Also – as you know – I’m moving on and am exited to dive into a
new adventure called “online workshops”…

The new Lotus Paperie DT was presented yesterday. 
So here’s a big cheer for the new ladies: congratulations girls!
Go check the new DT out on the Lotus blog and leave them some love! 

 
This week,
the challenge is
to work with
this sketch.
I definitely
wanted to
make a
“goodbye layout”
and this
sketch was
just perfect
for it!

So here it is….
waving goodbye…

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Oh MAN… remember I re-organized all my scrap stuff?
(I wrote a post with photo’s on that over here)

And then I saw the new Lotus Paperie challenge this week….
“use the packaging from a scrapbooking product”
Eeeeeekkk! I just threw them all away!

 
I had to look
real hard but,
PFEW! I found
something…

Two little
cards that
came with
stamps…

It’s not much
but it saved
my ass!

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On my blogiversary last Wednesday (btw; if you haven’t seen my post on that
day, you can check it out here. I should if I were you – there are giveaways!!!)
I made the last photo’s of my “disintegration project” while it hung outside.
After that, I took it down and brought it inside to make some more photo’s
and let it dry… Keep on reading this post ’cause I show you the pictures,
and you will understand why I gave this blogpost the title “gorgeous paper”…

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Because my drivers license almost expired, I had to go to the
local government office to replace my old one for a new…
I postponed the trip a few times but with only one week of validity left,
I couldn’t ignore it anymore – so yesterday I hopped on my bike to get
an OFFICIAL PHOTO taken.

Eeeekkk, that “official photo” was the reason to postpone the whole thing
in the first place – and not just for any reason…
I don’t know how it is in other countries, but in the Netherlands the photo
on your passport or drivers licence has to comply with certain rules.

So with fear in my heart I cycled to the “official photographer”
(my son offered to take my picture and I’m sure I would have loved
his photo. But no way – it has to be “official”)

And yes, as if the angels were laughing with me, it started to rain
on my way over there…

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I feel like a rocket since a day or two…. it’s really going to happen!
I claimed my domain name yesterday, my beloved will put up the
basic community site (as soon as the log-in info comes in) and I
will start designing the whole thing, getting to know it and work
with it and learn all the “ins and outs” that go with such a site….
OH MY – it’s gonna be such an exiting adventure I’m diving into!

Since I put my little survey on line, lots of people filled it out!
I thought some would, but I had like 30 reactions in the first two hours…
now THAT’S a boost! Thank you all for filling it out.
You sure know how to make a girl smile!!!
The answers you all gave really help me with my thinking about which
way I want my workshops to go…

On to the regular now… ’cause Lotus Paperie came up with a new challenge.

Here’s the sketch
you have to work
with for this
week’s challenge.

I find it a very
inspirational and
challenging sketch
this time ’cause I
don’t use much
circles on my layouts.

Take a look
at my take…
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When I saw the new Lotus Paperie challenge # 147
I thought “OH, NO….”
“Use your ribbon scraps” it says…

Me and ribbons?
Not a good combination!
But hey, I’m a DT-member and I “keep my pecker up”
(that’s what my dictionary says to use in a situation like this –
I hope that’s right ’cause when I looked up “pecker” I got
other images in mind reading this line…)

OK, on to it.
Me and ribbons.
I pulled the ribbon box out of the closet
(it was way in the back!)
I cut pieces of ribbon.
Lots of them.
When I have to use it, I might as well overdo it!

And look what I ended up with…

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