…you were the loveliest thing that ever happened to us.
And you still are”
Ain’t this the sweetest words to hear when it’s your birthday?
My parents wrote this on the birthday card I got from them!
YESSSSS, I told you I would wear a birthday hat today!
So here I am!
Older.
Wiser.
Happy.
Spoiled…
So you were all waiting for the other half of my layout?
Good! Love that.
There’s nothing wrong with a little patience…
This week’s challenge over at Lotus Paperie is to use a piece of notepaper.
Feel it coming…?
(Vivian thought so – see her comment on Friday 18th – good thinking Viv!
And when Denise mentioned that she thought the first half of the layout was
“peaceful yet lonely” without even reading the message on todays other half,
I knew I’d succeeded in bringing the exact feeling onto the layout!)
So take a look, here it is… the other half (and the complete spread)
Sorry I haven’t blogged in almost a week but I was busy, busy, busy….
(With what??? I’ll write a post about that soon – with photo’s.)
But I did get some scrapping done and as of today, I’m back in business!
And because
it’s Friday,
I start with
the new
Lotus Paperie
challenge.
Vanessa made
this sketch
for you all
to work with…
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!)
I’m soooo happy with what I made last week!!!
I saw this tutorial a couple of weeks ago, and I new right away that I wanted
to work on that! My “Leonard Cohen Art Journal” still had no cover.
Well, that’s not true ’cause it HAD a cover – I tore down an old book and I
worked on the old pages, but that old fabric cover was still laying around
waiting for me to do something with it.
And now it screamed at me to be altered the way as shown in the tutorial!
Everything fell in place when I saw the Lotus Paperie challenge for this week:
“scrap anything that isn’t for an album (decor, altered things)”
And so I took
the old cover
out of the closet
and decided
that this was
THE MOMENT
to go work
on my
Leonard Cohen
Art Journal
Cover…
Here’s how it
looked like
at first.
I hope Lotus posted their challenge on time… otherwise I’m too early.
I can’t check because I prepared this post earlier and it will be posted
“automatically”… Yep, I’m not here right now!
I’m visiting my parents today, and maybe that’s why I scrapped these
beach photo’s, ’cause changes are that I’m right on that beach when you
read this!!! Wooohweee!
But first, let me show you the sketch for this week’s challenge.
I loved working
on this one!
I’m more the
“one pic type”
so it is good
for me to be
forced to scrap
more photo’s
on one layout
sometimes.
Just to step
outside the box
(my box)
I bet you all have been thinking “where’s that lay out she would made
for her post #100 – the one Angèle challenged her to do…?”
Remember that?
“I choose picture one. I think the photo was taken in early spring.
I see little yellow flowers. Or are they winter violets?
I choose this yellow to be the main colour for your scrap!”
Angèle is the only one who knew this: I had it finished more then a week ago!
I had fun working on it and – although it wasn’t my intention to
combine things – I used a technique that Lotus Paperie would come up with
for today’s challenge #137 – use watercolour paint/pencils.
So I e-mailed Angèle to tell her I finished the lay out, but that she could not
see it yet ’cause I would publish it not earlier then today… but that it would
be published on two blogs then – mine and Lotus Paperie!
And today is that day! So here it comes…
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