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…went by so quickly!
\nThe reactions to the launching of the FEATURING website<\/a> where
\noverwhelming and I received a bunch of email from people all over the
\nworld who wanted information about the submission process to apply for
\nthe writing-team!<\/p>\n

By day I wrote articles for the Dutch scrapbook magazine Creatief met
\nFoto’s<\/a> and the evenings were filled with answering emails. You can
\nimagine that I usually crashed on the couch after that. I didn’t hold a
\nbrush or marker in my hand all week!<\/p>\n

Now that I am over that first shock, things are settling down and life
\ngot pretty much normal again. Pfew. I even had some time \u00e1nd energy
\nto work on my weekly ‘Chronicles’ page in the weekend! I needed that!<\/p>\n

The Chronicles of Marit 2011 – Week 40<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(23 x 31 cm - 9.1 x 12.2 inch)\r\n\r\nUsed materials\/techniques: old encyclopedia pages, pages from an atlas,\r\ngesso, magazine images (eyes), Caran d'Ache watersoluble crayons, black\r\nsharpies, Ranger distress ink, clear embossing powder, alphabet stamps\r\n<\/pre>\n
The stamped words are clear embossed. While stamping the words,
\nI suddenly noticed that the ink wouldn’t dry properly on the background
\nlayer of gesso. While writing the black text, I smeared out the ink with my
\nhand. Luckely I saw it in time and I decided to ‘fixate’ it with embossing
\npowder. It gave a special touch to the page too, so I’m quite happy with
\nthis ‘accident’. (You can still see some stains\/smears in the right corner)<\/p>\n
The page I ripped out of an old encyclopedia showed an image of ‘The Scream’
\n(painting by Edvard Munch) and that gave me the inspiration to cut out heads.
\nI have that big atlas that I bought on a flea market and it looked perfect to me!
\nI cut out more heads then you see on this spread. I used them on another page
\nwhich isn’t finished yet.\u00a0 I’ll show you next time.<\/p>\n
The weather has completely changed in the Netherlands. The first days of
\nthis month were sunny and warm (with Summer temperatures on my birthday!
\nI don’t think I ever experienced that before!) but now it’s cold, grey and rainy.
\nIt makes me start to think of the winter… and I already start to look forward
\nto the music event ‘Top 2000’ on the radio \u00e1nd on my blog in the week after
\nChristmas! Some of you may remember the fun we had year?<\/p>\n
If you don’t have a clue what it is that I am talking about (or to get in the
\nmood?!) here’s the post<\/a> with the announcement from last year.<\/p>\n
Aaah… I know it’s a little early to talk about it yet, but I can’t help
\nbut smile when I think about this fun week filled with music and art!<\/p>\n
Two more things I wanted to say:<\/p>\n