Sep 11 2009

There! I said it!

Maybe you remember what I wrote in a post a few days ago:

“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…

One of the things I was not happy with was the shallowness of my art lately.
Not the ideas behind the layouts were shallow, not at all, but in the back of
my mind I always knew “I keep something behind”. 
I don’t do that when it comes to scrapping “general matters” (like this layout)
but when it comes to personal, very personal journaling, I like to keep it
in general. I don’t speak my true mind easily – I’m always aware of the fact
that I put my works on the Internet and a lot of people can see and read it.
Although most people find me very open, there has always been some
reticence in the way I express myself…

Up ’till now that is, because I decided to (try to) let that go, and show
(more of) myself. To go a little further and be a bit more personal in doing that.

To prevent myself from chickening out at the last moment, I made this page
for the Lotus Paperie challenge. That way I would be forced to put it here
on my blog (after all, it is on the Lotus blog too!)

OK, no further delay… I opened up and spit something out.
Something to myself. Something I must tell myself more often.
Something I must face…

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Sep 9 2009

ATC and Give-away

I played around a bit with that tiny ATC size…
At first, I found it difficult to think that small / create that small,
so it took me quite some time to create this one.


Made this with
the theme from
“Think Monday
Think ATC”
which was
“Architecture”.

(The buildings
are hand drawn,
using a picture
of the Twin Towers
as an example)

 

 

 

 

Here’s the back.

That’s the new
stamp I bought
last month,
so I can properly
sign all my
ATC’s (to come)

 

 

 

 

 

I started a series of four new ATC’s – I’m beginning to like it – but they’re
not done yet. I have something else to show you though…

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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 4 2009

Childhood Summer days

Friday again, weeks go faster and faster it seems…
and Summer is almost over.
It’s Autumn (at least the weather is) overhere in the Netherlands –
dark clouds rush through the sky. There’s a strong wind blowing.
Sometimes the low sun shines through a hole in the clouds,
and shines on the trees in the park – the leaves still green
but it won’t take long until the park colours yellow, red and gold. 
I can already smell it in the air…
my favourite season is about to start! 


Why am I telling this?
Well, I always turn a bit
melancholic in the Fall,
and this Lotus sketch
inspired me to make
a melancholic layout…

(How does it
inspire you?
Play along at
Lotus Paperie
and show us!) 

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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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