Oct 16 2009

I’m BAAACCKKK!!!

OK, that was probably a bit light-headed (and with a hoarse voice,
followed by a huge coughing fit) but I’m soooo glad the virus I had
is decreasing. I have more energy every day!
I even dared to plan a trip to the scrapbook store in Heesch 
this Sunday to spend my birthday money.

 
On to business
’cause it’s
Friday and the
new Lotus Paperie
challenge #146
is up.
As you may
have noticed, 
the challenges
variate from 
random challenges
to sketches
every other week.

This week Vanessa
provided us with 
this sketch.

 
I don’t often scrap with a lot of photo’s, I’m not the “floral type” and
my head was fuzzy, but once I got the idea for the layout and started
working on it, I had a fun time!

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Oct 7 2009

The One Ring
on Sunday Morning…

I always have to giggle when I make up the titles for my posts!
It just happens so that if I place the titles of my layouts together,
nine out of ten times a new title is born.

Yes, I have two layouts to show you today.
Both made with Harlee Quinnz Designs papers (from two different lines.)

Here’s the first:

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Sep 30 2009

And as the seasons
come and go…

The past few days, it was all about Harlee Quinnz Degins!
We worked so hard, the Design Team made a lot of layouts with those
fantastic paperlines (as did I, but more about that in a minute)  and my
beloved and I helped their web mistress to put the shop and blog online.

The website itself will be updated too, but the shop is now online so
you can get those wonderful papers and stamps yourself… also, the
Harlee Quinnz Design Team blog is all set to go… some layouts are already
uploaded in the galleries and the posting will start soon.
Make sure you take a look, and come back for more every week! 

In between, I found time to create this little harmonica album…
(There will be a tutorial about how to make this on the
Harlee Quinnz Designs blog in the next couple of weeks,
I’ll keep you posted on that…)

 
It’s made with
Harlee Quinnz 
paper & stamps and
I wrapped one of
their fibers around
it to keep it closed.
The colours go
soooo well
with the paper,
don’t you think? 

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Sep 27 2009

The weirdest week!
(and the longest post!)

Sunday Morning, and I experienced the weirdest week…

But before I start telling (and showing) you, I want to give a little
“geographic lesson” ’cause many of you who saw my last layout
thought/asked if I live on an island…
I wrote about that figuratively – no, I don’t live on a real island.
I once did though, so let me show you where all that waves and
beaches in my head come from…


For all you Americans and
Asians (and Africans???)
this is a map of Europe.

I live in the Netherlands.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 This is a map of the Netherlands (or Holland, if you like)


As you can see
I spend my childhood 
right at the beach.
That province is called
“Zeeland” and it
exist of many islands
connected with each
other by dikes, dams
and bridges – so I lived
on a peninsula.
I don’t live there anymore
(my parents & best friend
still do though) but I love
that place and that’s why
waves roll through my
head, still!
I’m a “Zeeuw”…

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Sep 7 2009

Pause mode

I find myself in a “pause mode” the last few days…
I’m not very inspired to create something and I am reflecting and thinking over the art I made up ’till now. What I like, what I don’t like (anymore) and which way I want my art to go… but it’s not that I did nothing at all…

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Sep 2 2009

I’m an elf… a star…. a….

…of course, I’m just a woman.

But sometimes
a romantic woman…

…and when i saw
this image
I reacted
immediately
by thinking:
“deep inside,
that’s me
blowin’ bubbles!”

I found out this image is a stamp, and that stamp is sold by a new company
who’s lines (paper, stamps and lots more) I fell in love with right away… 
To start this fairy tale: that company was looking for a bunch of designers
to be the first ones to work with their paper lines….

… and to make a long story short (and fairy tales always end with
“and they live happily ever after” don’t they?)

I’m so proud to announce that as of today
I am a “Design Star” at:

A small company, only just begun selling their first crafting lines but
MY OH MY, do they have some marvelous stuff!!!
(Click on the logo to check it out!)

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