{"id":4589,"date":"2009-08-26T17:55:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T15:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/?p=4589"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:59:39","slug":"back-in-the-groove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/back-in-the-groove\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in the groove!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slowly, but steadily, I&#8217;m coming back in the groove.<br \/>\nFirst I finished a page for my &#8220;BOM&#8221; (Book of Me)<br \/>\nOn August 16 the prompt for a new page was about hidden talents.<\/p>\n<p>When I thought about it, I smiled.<br \/>\nYes, I do have a &#8220;hidden talent&#8221; and with this page I\u00a0throw it out in the open&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/01_hidden_talent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4591\" title=\"01_hidden_talent\" src=\"https:\/\/maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/01_hidden_talent.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Any idea yet?<br \/>\nWRONG! I can&#8217;t sing!!!<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll translate the (Dutch) journaling and you&#8217;ll know all about it&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">&#8220;Just turn on the radio on a station that plays old music (before 1990)<br \/>\n&#8211; in Holland &#8220;Arrow Classic Rock&#8221; or &#8220;The top 2000&#8243; &#8211;\u00a0<br \/>\nand right from the first tones I know the song including\u00a0the lyrics!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all in my head!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Played with my new spray inks here&#8230; I bought two kinds of blues last Sunday<br \/>\n(&#8220;Denim&#8221; and &#8220;Stream&#8221; colorwash &#8211; Ranger &#8211; Tim Holtz)<br \/>\nI used the &#8220;Top 2000 list&#8221; from an old morning paper as a background.<br \/>\nThe mask is also Tim Holtz and the music pages (left and right)\u00a0are from an<br \/>\nold book with nursery rhymes.<br \/>\nI cut the &#8220;radio&#8221; from Cosmo Cricket paper and the little notes (stickers)\u00a0<br \/>\ncome from my stash.<br \/>\nThe title is made with rub ons (same ones\u00a0as used on <a href=\"https:\/\/maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/?p=4525\">this layout<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I love messing around with my spray ink!<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re not familiar with using spray or (glimmer) mist, you should go to<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thenextstepchallenge.blogspot.com\/\">&#8220;The Next Step&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0<br \/>\nThis is a challenge blog\u00a0that highlights\u00a0a certain technique every Month\u00a0<br \/>\nshowing examples, tutorials etc.\u00a0 This Month is all about spraying and<br \/>\nmisting\u00a0and even though I know my way around with spray ink,\u00a0I find it<br \/>\nvery informative and inspiring!<\/p>\n<p>I had some trouble with this following card&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I told you about &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.getsketchy.blogspot.com\/\">Get Sketchy<\/a>&#8220;???<br \/>\nThe new Card\/challenge\/sketch blog my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/artsyfartsyscraproom.blogspot.com\/\">Bree<\/a> started?<br \/>\nThe one <a href=\"http:\/\/scrapmood.blogspot.com\/\">Ang\u00e8le<\/a> is a Design Team member???<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/02_sketch_getsketchy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4601\" title=\"02_sketch_getsketchy\" src=\"https:\/\/maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/02_sketch_getsketchy-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWell, Ang\u00e8le dared<br \/>\nme\u00a0to make a card&#8230;<br \/>\nand since a good<br \/>\nfriend of my mum<br \/>\nis ill, I thought of<br \/>\nmaking her a card\u00a0<br \/>\nusing this &#8220;Get<br \/>\nSketchy&#8221; sketch.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t know why, but whenever I start working on a card, I just &#8220;block&#8221;.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s weird, &#8217;cause when I work on a mini book with the same measurements,<br \/>\nI have no problems at all.<br \/>\nI\u00a0think I just have to accept that card-making is not my cup of tea&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/02_card.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4592\" title=\"02_card\" src=\"https:\/\/maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/02_card-287x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI started over<br \/>\n3 times!!!<br \/>\nReally!<br \/>\nThe first two<br \/>\nwere FAILURES!!!<br \/>\n(in capitals, yeah!)<\/p>\n<p>This one is kinda nice.<\/p>\n<p>Mwaaah&#8230; I think it&#8217;s<br \/>\ngood enough to show<br \/>\nyou, and send to that<br \/>\nill friend.<br \/>\nSo here it is Ang\u00e8le.<br \/>\nAnd please, will YOU<br \/>\nstay the card master!<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll stick to my layouts<br \/>\nand art journal!<\/p>\n<p>The word &#8220;Sterkte&#8221; means something like &#8220;hold on&#8221; or &#8220;be strong&#8221;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s something you put on a card to wish someone well.<br \/>\nI cut out handwritten alpha&#8217;s and used that as a mask to my\u00a0spray ink.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/03_card_detail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4593\" title=\"03_card_detail\" src=\"https:\/\/maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/03_card_detail-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe technique<br \/>\nI used for making<br \/>\nthis star is called<br \/>\n&#8220;paper casting&#8221;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s super easy<br \/>\nand gives a lovely<br \/>\nthree-dimensional<br \/>\nlook! Read a<br \/>\ntutorial about it<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/labeltulip.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/paper-casting-with-your-stamps.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I still have some prompts for\u00a0the &#8220;Book of Me&#8221; on my to do list.<br \/>\nI skipped a few (didn&#8217;t like those prompts) but there&#8217;s four more to make,<br \/>\nand there&#8217;s still one coming up every day until August 31, so I&#8217;m sure<br \/>\nyou will see more pages coming on my blog soon!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also\u00a0shifted my to do list &#8211; and put something else on top\u00a0&#8217;cause<br \/>\nyou guys (girls!) keep commenting on my blog (THANK YOU, THANK YOU,<br \/>\nTHANK YOU!!! LOVE IT!) and the one-thousand comment is approaching<br \/>\nrapidly!!! As you know,\u00a0if YOU are the lucky &#8220;1000 comment&#8221; you get<br \/>\nsomething from\u00a0me!<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t say which number we are\u00a0now\u00a0(but if you&#8217;re real curious, you could<br \/>\nstart counting\u00a0all the comments right\u00a0from the beginning&#8230;. pfew!<br \/>\nGood luck with that!)\u00a0but I guess the lucky one will be commenting on a post<br \/>\nsomewhere in September&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>OK. This was it for today. I&#8217;m off to cook some dinner now.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be back on Friday\u00a0to show you\u00a0something SPECTACULAR, FABULOUS,<br \/>\nMY ALL TIME FAVORITE &#8211; I&#8217;M SO HAPPY WITH THIS!!!!<br \/>\nSo visit me then to see\u00a0what it is that\u00a0I\u00a0created and am so enthusiastic about.<\/p>\n<p>Je t&#8217;embrasse!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/\">back to homepage<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slowly, but steadily, I&#8217;m coming back in the groove. First I finished a page for my &#8220;BOM&#8221; (Book of Me) On August 16 the prompt for a new page was about hidden talents. When I thought about it, I smiled. 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