WOYWW #442

There’s something odd on my desk today – something you haven’t seen in years…
can you spot it……?

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Yes, there’s a SCRAPBOOKING ALBUM laying to the left.

Early zero’s I started scrapbooking but when I discovered art journaling (in 2009) I discovered ‘my wings’ and didn’t scrapbook anymore… (There’s a guest blogpost from me – dated 2011 – about that topic on Julie Balzer’s blog, you can read it here)

Last Summer, my son and I flipped through the old albums and how fun it was to look back and see those photo-pages/layouts! Right then, I planned on creating a layout every now and then to use the photos and preserve the memories of the past years. In October I bought a new scrapbooking album on the “Paper Passion” fair and I started last week with creating a few ‘good old-fashioned scrap layouts’.

Marit – 1964

Scrapbooking is a whole other field of creativiness – art journaling is more my cup of tea – and I was a bit rusty, so I googled and found a sketch on My Creative Scrapbook

I used former sketch for the layout with photos of my atelier.

A Room of One’s Own

I got the hang of it, I was having fun so I created one last layout using a photo of me taken during a fashion show in 1986.

Wicked

I’m back to art journaling this week but I’m sure you guys will see a scrapbooking layout published on this blog every once in a while from now on… I selected photos already to bring to the print shop

WOYWW #379

No, you don’t see scrap-design paper nor photos on my blog – it’s back to art journaling! However, I intend to make a layout more often.

Last week, my BFF (since childhood) Lena and I planned a ‘girls day.’ Since I moved back to Zeeland and live near her we see each other more often. Most of those days we don’t do anything special: we hang out, drink coffee on a cafe terrace and talk a lot. And there’s giggles and smiles – a lot! Last week, when we came home from our ‘shopping trip’ (I only bought some brushes and Washi tape) to chill out at my home, we flipped through my old scrapbook albums. The last lay outs in the albums were created sometime in 2010 – and I found it a pity that there aren’t any recent photos in the albums…

…and all of a sudden, we decided to both make a scrap layout again! It had been years since I or she scrapped (Lena is a painter) and we both thought it would be fun to try and see if we ‘still have it in us’. So we made a series of selfies and challenged ourselves to create a scrap lay out using one or more of these photos.

There were 7 photos and I printed them all… one in a big size (the photo which I thought was the nicest) and six in smaller sizes. OK, now that was the easy part… now what?

I forgot how much choices you have to make when you start scrap-booking… decisions on the style you want to work in, background paper (design and colors,) embellishments etc. etc.

To make a long story short… here’s what I created. (I got rid of 2 photos as there was no room for it)

Last weekend, Lena finished her lay out too and we exchanged the photos.
Here’s what she made out of the same photo series.

Without deliberation we both choose the same photo as ‘the nicest’… but Lena printed it in black and white, which gives it a different feel.

It was so much fun to do and since I find it a shame that the album lay outs ‘stop’ in 2010, I decided to make a scrap lay out every now and then and keep it going.

And what are you up to these days?
I’ll check out your desks this week to find out.
Have a great week!

Wednesday… “Into the Studio” day… WOYWW day… here we go!

Here’s Wednesday’s golden oldie scrapbook layout – lifted from one of my old scrapbook albums.

(I don’t create ‘traditional scrapbook layouts’ anymore but every Wednesday I dive into my albums and lift a ‘golden oldie.’ The layouts I pick are random, YOU – blog readers – name the number of the album and layout to show. Let me know in a comment which album you want me to open next week – to avoid that you name layouts that have already been requested, you can find a list showing the ‘free’ numbers to choose on this page.)

This week’s request came from Anne from France – from Ink~a~Doodle~Do

This was Anne’s comment on June 26th…

Hahaaa… no Anne, Album 22 does not excist indeed… and what’s that with Album 7 – layout 7???
You must be the seventh person asking for that number 😉 (I showed that layout here – and to avoid doubles in the future, I published a list to choose from here)

So… what did I do???

I turned around the numbers of the first request… that way it became Album 3 – layout 22.
As you can see on the above photo album 3 only has 17 layouts BUT most of these layouts are spreads (= ‘double pages.’) Instead of counting the spreads, I counted the pages. I came to layout 12 in album 3 that way… so here’s for you Anne:

That’s me on the photo – taken in 2001 – and wowzah… do I look good there if I may say so myself.
(Makes me think… should I get a hair cut with bangs again?)

No index cards to show this week, but here’s my latest art journal spread

The Chronicles of Marit – Week 27

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And for all you WOYWW-watchers:

WOYWW #215

here’s what my desk looked like this morning

The journal that is in the make here is for a project with my neighbour. We both made a journal that we want to exchange from time to time to work on each other’s pages. I therefore call this journal “There and Back Again” (“Daarheen en Weer Terug.”) For the Tolkien lovers: yes, that’s also the name of Bilbo Baggin’s book. The title inspired me to come up with this special binding in the shape of an arrow (it goes the other way on the back cover.) I will show you good pictures of it when it’s finished.

However, this is not all that’s going on in the Studio…
Here’s a photo of the cabinet in the middle of the room (I put stuff there that needs to dry.)

I thought you might like the extra view of another area of the studio.

Do you have no idea what WOYWW stands for? Well, The WOYWW headquarters can be found over at The Stamping Ground from where the lovely lady Julia hosts the biggest weekly blog hop – and she explains everything about it in the side menu on her blog. Just click the link to find out.

It has been quite hot in the Netherlands the last week – today the sky is a bit ‘hazy’ which keeps the sun from shining too bright and temperatures are bearable in the office room. For a while now I have plans for changing the header on my facebook page – I might work on that today… but I could also sit in the garden and read. Nooo, I don’t feel guilty at all for not doing any housework… I had a “housekeeping day” yesterday and even did some extras like cleaning the windows and mopping the floor. So today is MINE to fool around on facebook or elsewhere… ha! Hope your day is great too. Do something fun… like come LIKE ME on Facebook 😉

Wednesday… WOYWW day… and I owe all woyww-participants an apology – I did not visit one of your blogs last week! I planned to blog-hop but the weather got very nice during the week, warm even and because of that temperatures raise real high in the office space. There are more ‘machines’ in that room and it gets really hot as they all work like little heaters! So I turned off my computer as soon as the necessarily work was done. I know a lot of you woyww-hoppers are from the UK – and you must have had the same weather on your isle – so I hope you understand and forgive me. I try to do better this week – I promise!

Here’s the Wednesday golden oldie scrapbook layout – lifted from one of my old scrapbook albums.

(I don’t create ‘traditional scrapbook layouts’ anymore but every Wednesday I dive into my albums and lift a ‘golden oldie.’ The layouts I pick are random, YOU – blog readers – name the number of the album and layout to show. Let me know in a comment which album you want me to open next week – find the list to choose ‘golden oldies’ from here)

NOTE: I have been doing this for a while now and I notice that the risk that you name layouts that have already been requested is high… therefore I made a list showing the ‘free’ numbers and the ones that have been requested/shown already.

This week’s request came from Margaret – from Glitter & Glue
Ali asked me to open album 3 and show layout #5

Here it is… BFFs {click on the image to enlarge}

This is me with my BFF Lena. We are friends since primary school so that is indeed ‘forever’ 😉
I think this photo was taken in 2005 (is that correct Lena?) and the layout must be created somewhere around 2007… I never dated my layouts and kinda regret that now! And EEECKKK… we’re both smoking there! Lena quit a long time ago (when?) and as you might remember, I stopped smoking last March (and – although I still miss smoking A LOT – I concider myself a non-smoker now.)

Anyway, Lena is a talented painter and her work can be viewed on her blog  Six Lilies Studio
(I tell ya – it’s worth a visit!)

Because of the heat ánd the “Tour de France” (I am watching the report of this big bicycle race on TV every afternoon) I didn’t spend much time in the studio last week, but here are my latest index cards. (submitting to ICAD and Glue it Tuesday.)

Good morning.

Good night.

Here’s how my desk looks like this morning… SUMMER INDEED!

WOYWW #214

The WOYWW headquarters can be found over at The Stamping Ground from where the lovely lady Julia hosts the biggest weekly blog hop. Thanks Julia.

Bright sunshine through the window shining on my little table (as a result, the big desk in the corner behind this table is standing in deep, dark shadow and invisible on the picture)

There’s not much going on here, but I want you to have a better look on the art that Jana from Tangled Pen send me.

For the WOYWW 4th anniversary swap I made some extra ATCs and Jana emailed me that she would love to swap my little card with work of hers. She told me it would take her a while before she would ‘answer’ my ATC but I didn’t mind that, and last weekend I received an envelope from Sweden. It was worth while the wait!!!

Jana is also creating on index card – she send this one to me.

If you know Jana, you know that she is a talented painter and I especially admire the way she paints birds! Jana knows I have blackbirds in my garden who wake me in the morning, singing in the pergola beneath my bedroom window, so she painted this blackbird for me. Isn’t that the most sweet and precious painting?

Thank you so much Jana!

The blackbirds (and jackdaws, we have a lot of those lads visiting our garden too!) had their beaks wide open from the heat over the last days but today it cooled down a bit. Just enough to call it a nice Summer day. A bearable one – yay!!! Hope you all have a great day too!

It’s simple…

On the photo you see my scrapbook albums… old and newer ones in random order on the shelf. The albums contain both spreads and ‘one page’ layouts – the number is stated on the photo.

Now YOU let me know which album I should open and which page I should post next week… I will review the layout on my blog, give my comments or explain the techniques, something like that.

It’s up to you now… make your pick and let me know in a comment!

See you all soon!