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free spirit

2010-10-31T04:21:00.000-07:00

I love the brown color of that Basic Grey cappella background paper. The tree is cut out form a creative imaginations design paper (just love the way it feels!! :) ).

Add a little prima, stamps, ink bling et voila! A lay out! ;)

Hope you're having a wonderful weekend!

xo Merel

family

2010-10-29T04:33:00.001-07:00

Here's another one..

For this on eI used a pink paislee line called harvest hayride.The birds are kaiserkraft stamps, stamped with black puffy marker.
The flowers are from an old Rouge de Garance line. I traced over the flowers and used the puffy marker to emboss them..

Thanks for looking!

xo Merel

Love

2010-10-27T10:27:00.001-07:00

So here's the first lay out!

I found these (ancient) crate papers at my mons house. I did a lot opf distressing. and I used my new puffy marker, to stamp the bird and birdhouse (thanks Ingvild Bolme for the inspiration!).
The pin was a thriftshop find, that I also had waiting for a year now.. I painted the flowers with Glimmer glam. (I even stole a schilling from my sons piggybank!!)

The key is a sizzix die cut, I used a prima flower center to decorate it.

Thanks for looking!

xo Merel

Did you miss me.....did you..did you????

2010-10-26T10:54:00.000-07:00

Just a quick message, since I've been missing in action for a while now...

Life got so bussy that scrapping took a back seat for a little (well...long ) while.

But I'm glas to say that inspiration has struck me once again and I have been scrapping. Feels good again!!

Hopelfully I'll be able to upload tomorrow when daylight graces my work (gosh I miss long summer evenings already!)

Hugs Merel!

I still owed you these...

2010-01-10T00:46:00.000-08:00

Happy new year everybody!

I am soooo happy to be finished with my DDA!!!

I love how it came out (much thicker than I thought)and I think it'll be wonderfull to see how december 2009 was, a few years from now!

If I do one again next year, I will stop after the 26th though, those last 5 days were just too much..

Anyway... here are DDA day 29, 30 and 31... I'm not even going to attempt to turn the pictures...Blogger just won't let me...

Day 29..

Day 30..

Day 31..

So now I'm ready for some other projects! (that won't last a month!)

xx Merel

DDA 25, 26, 27 and 28 december

2009-12-29T04:25:00.000-08:00

(I noticed that Blogger has turned my images sideways again...)

So many pages to make sooo little time...

Christmas was so much fun, but as usual it went by so fast! I can't beleive we're almost in 2010!
Here's a look at my pages so far... I'm going to keep going untill december 31st..

December 25th, 1st Christmas day..

We had such a wonderful quiet morning, we ate breakfast together and in the afternoon we went over to my family to celebrate christmas...

December 26th..
We celebrated the 2nd day of christmas at my in-laws. We all made tapas and watched old slideshows.. And I got a new dress...

December 27th..
We had a layed back day... wanted to go ice skating but it was too cold and too busy, so we went out to lunch and then of to my parents... I wish that was our fireplace....

December 28th..
I've had my eye on this christmas deceoration in the store for a while... but it was soooo expensive... It was 40% off now, so I went ahead and got it.. When I got home I played with my camera to get a decent picture without a flash..

So as for the questions I've been receiving..

Where do I get my stuff.... from all over the place..especially for thsi album I've used stuff that I 've had laying around for three years! My fave scrapshop at the moment has to be Papers and Pictures in Doorn, they have everything!

I do print my own pictures (for this album).. I had the bigger part of the pages done down to the embellishments, because I knew it was the only way that I was going to be able to keep up.
It's a lot of work even when you've prepared everything ahead of time and you do want to be able to enjoy the month aswell! I'm loving the outcome of this album though, and I'm pretty sure that I will be participating next year aswell..

Thanks for looking (what a long post!!)

xx Merel

DDA 22, 23 and 24 and MERRY X_MAS!

2009-12-25T03:51:00.000-08:00

First of all a Merry Christmas to all!

We finsihed our Christmas brunch and I sneeked upstairs to finsih my pages untill today... Here they are..

Day 22, appelflappen and haircuts

The baking was so much fun and the boys really enjoyed it (much more than the haircuts I gave them later...)

Day 23...

Making a list....well a grocery list anyway... I hardly ever make a grocery list but christmas is the exception to the rule...

Day 24..

Christmas eve dinner... The boys got a wineglass with 7-up which was a BIG HIT!

xxx Merel

DDA day 19, 20 and 21

2009-12-22T03:21:00.000-08:00

We've been enjoying the snow over here, so I haven't had much time to put my pages on the net...

Day 19..

Today Max, my dad and myself went to a children's theater show from a dutch tv series called huis Anubis. It was a wonderful and scary show..
Today's page was an envelope so perfect to keep the tickets and journaling in..

Day 20..
Today was snow..snow...snow.. and more snow... We only left the house to throw a snowball, make snowangels and sled... (and take pictures..)

(for some reason blogger keeps rotating this picture..)

Day 21..
Miracles do happen around christmas time.... finally at 3,5 years my youngest started using the bathroom...It's early days but it looks promissing!

Now I'm off to do some baking with the boys!

Thanks for all the sweet comments, they're much appriciated!!!

xx Merel

DDA day 17 and 18

2009-12-19T02:53:00.000-08:00

Day 17....
The oldest boys celebrated christmas at school.
All the classes performed at church and then they walked through town with lights to school and they had their dinners in their classes.

I decided to use a picture of Wouter and his class performing in church..

Yesterday, Thomas celebrated x-mas at school, he played a little angel (not very convincing!!)
In the afternoon, we made a fire outside and roasted marshmellows..

Time is flying!!!! I'm more than half way done now!!

Off to the Theatre with my oldest, to see a show..

xx Merel

DDA day 15 and 16

2009-12-16T05:01:00.000-08:00

I'm on a role....

Day 15... Thomas loves the garden center (Intratuin) especially around christmas time...

Day 16
On Ali Edwards blog I saw a page with christmas decorations...

On the front of the page I put a picture of the latest ornament bought in Euro Disney (in 30 degrees) this summer... On the secondpage a few shots of the balls, tree, santa etc..

So I have the rest of the day off...to play with the kids.....

xx Merel

DDA Day 12, 13 and 14

2009-12-15T12:19:00.000-08:00

Bussy, bussy, bussy.. So I'll get on with it....
Day 12..

Day 13..

And day 14..

I'll be working on today and tomorrow...tomorrow (LOL)

Hoping for more time tomorrow....

Fala la la la la lalalalala! (coulnd't leave without some christmas cheer!)

xx Merel

Day 10 and 11

2009-12-13T09:37:00.000-08:00

On day ten I was out with a migraine, so I made a page for the boys with little tagnotes inside the envelope... I love this picture of the boys acting goofy and having fun!

Day eleven was the day of Anne's wedding (and Gideon and Savannah).. I love the pictures on the back of day 11.. We're doing our best to do a pretty pose, but we end up, laughing our heads of!

Ok Working on day 12 and 13 tonight and I will try to take the pictures tomorrow...
It's a BIG commitment, this DDA and it does take up a lot of time, but it'll be fun in a few years to have this journal...

xx Merel

DDA day 8 and 9

2009-12-11T01:22:00.000-08:00

I just had a three day migraine.... needless to say... I was a bit behind on my DDA... I will finish yesterday tomorrow... (I hope..)

But here are day 8 and 9..

Day 8 is about the teachers pressents I make each year for x-mas. This year I was inspired by the new book Scrapcards and gifts.. I loved the idea and made it Christmassy (is that even a real word???)

Day 9..

I love wintermornings, it's cold and dark outside... Unfortunately most mornings we have to hurry up and go to school, but in the weekends and vacation...it's snuggle time!

On to day 4, 10 and 11 Yikes!

xx Merel

DDA day six and seven

2009-12-07T06:49:00.000-08:00

Ok.. here's my two day up-date from my DDA...

So far I love working on it....

Day 6..
I have had the prima overlay for a long time now, I thought that it would fit the trimming the tree pics perfectly... I have one picture of each, hanging an ornament. And on the backside a rare moment... three boys in one picture and no one is crying!

Day 7...
That's today...
Our christmas card from this year.. We've been sending these for as long as I can remember... I think it's fun for everybody to see how the kids are growing up...

Page two...Having coffee with the girls has becomne a tradition by now.. every two months we get together and catch up... I made a little tag that fit's under the picture...

Thanks for looking!

xx Merel

DDA day 5

2009-12-06T03:30:00.000-08:00

DDA day four will have to wait untill I get the pictures of that day from school..

So onwards and upwards to day 5!

We celebrated Sinterklaas last night... I had a ton of pictures and such a small page to fit them all on...(or a selection)..

so I decided to make a little mini book on my page... I put pictures in the front and journaling on tha backside...

Here's how it came out...

OK..better get working on day 6!

xx Merel

DDA day 3

2009-12-04T06:03:00.000-08:00

Day three is a clear page (i'm not sure if you can see from the picture..) I placed 6 pictures 3 on each page, of little normal moments during the day...

I then made the tag "remember the moments" and added another stamp and stickles...

Day 4 may take a while as I have to wait to get pictures from school...

Thanks for looking!

xx Merel

DDA day one and two

2009-12-03T02:58:00.000-08:00

Yeay!!! Time to play with my DDA.

I just finished day two... I had something completely different in mind for day two, but due to a wonderful migraine, I had to change it up a bit. I decided ahead of time that I wasn't going to make it too difficult for my self, otherwise there's no way I'll keep it up untill the 31st!

Day one, page one... Here in Holland we celebrate Sinterklaas aswell as X-mas, these are pictures of the boys getting pressents in their shoes. They have to sing a song before bedtime and they awake to a pressent or candy in their shoe...

Day one page two... Every year we take a family picture that we use as our christmas card..'With three (read 4 ) boys, it's getting harder every year to get a decent picture.. This was our first try... it's not "the one" but it's the only one that the little one is not crying on..

Page two... I took this picture of Marcel and Thomas, I think it's such a sweet picture of the two of them.. The other side of this page will be finished when I get some pictures from school...

Just simple things from our daily december life!

Thanks for looking!

xx Merel

X-mas and a lot of sick boys....

2009-11-30T06:48:00.001-08:00

I haven't posted for a while... (again...)..the boys all had the mexican flue (swine flue) even the biggest boy!!.. It seems to have passed me by...thank goodness!!! But with all the TLC and cleaning that came with it, I barely had time to look ata piece of scrap paper...

I did manage to finish my X-mas teachers gifts... I got the idea from the new cards only book..

They are tea cups, with booklets that hold two teabags, chocolates, little boxes for more chocolates, sugar... I will add a card with a picture from the boys...

Here's how they came out...

I got to basic design for the tea bag book from nicole heady's blog..she's in my faves, should you want to visit her blog.

Well... tomorrow I get to take out my holy grale (a.k.a. my DDA) and I'm soo hoping that I'll keep it up throughout the month... I did get a new camera yesterday a canon 500D, so taking pics has become a day filling job!!

Thanks for looking and have a great week!

xx Merel

Once upon a time

2009-10-30T05:46:00.000-07:00

Yeay.... I finally used my cricut again.... I used it for the title and branches..

I love all of the pictures I took while we were down by this little river in France..

This one is of the youngest, playing with his branch ( he fell in the water two seconds after this shot was taken..)

I used 5 different pages of the Boxer line from Basic Grey (which I had laying around forever!!)

Thanks for stopping by...

xx Merel

All the pages...

2009-10-25T06:20:00.000-07:00

....of my DDA... Ready for december...

Thanks for looking!

xx Merel

More christmas in october..

2009-10-25T06:06:00.000-07:00

I was looking around for some fun X-mas projects when I came across this beautiful banner... I just couldn't imagine my christmas without it!!

So with full credit to the spilling the beenz blog

Here's my (very look-a-like) version!

There's inking (lots of it), stamping, embossing, hand stitching...and loads of time looking for images on the net!

Thanks for looking!

xx Merel

I can't seem to put my baby away....

2009-10-07T05:04:00.000-07:00

Ok...I'm finding it hard to put the DDA away 'till december 1st... So I'm still adding here and there...
I want to be able to just grap my pics..write my jourmaling and be done with it when december comes..

So here's the inside of my outer page..

Thanks for all the sweet comments I've received from here and the forums! It's much appreciated!

xx Merel

DDA basics finished!

2009-10-06T05:37:00.000-07:00

What a labour of love....and I only finished the basics.....

Here's a peak though..

xx Merel

just for fun..

2009-10-06T02:29:00.000-07:00

I'm working on my DDA and wanted to share my desk (ahum) with you...

Eventhough it looks like a tornado hit my room..I still know where everything is and it seems to help me scrap better... Whenever I clean up ( usualy after I finish a lay out or project)I always have a problem starting up again...untill my room looks like the huge mess which it is now!

Almost finished with my basic pages for the DDA 1 through 31 st...

Thanks for looking..

xx Merel

Fa la la la la...

2009-10-05T05:56:00.000-07:00

I think that any season is the season to get Jolly....

I'm all x-massed up already... I decided that this year I wanted to make a DDA (december daily album) I came across a few of them last year, but it was too late to get started...

So this year I'm early! It's so much fun too... I will try to post the Ali Edwards link, because it's totaly her idea..not mine at all... (the labour is though!)

My supplies (although the pile got bigger as I'm getting along!) en first inside page...

xx Merel

down by the river

2009-09-30T10:04:00.000-07:00

I've had these papers for ever !! I finally put them to (good) use..

This picture was taken in France during our summer vacation. The boys went fishing in this little streaming river.. (they caught NO fish)..

Have a great rest of the week!

xx Merel

Lay out and workshop sneak peak

2009-09-24T01:43:00.000-07:00

I've been comming back in to the swing of things...

My oldest ds had just lost his front tooth and wouldn't let me take a "normal" picture of him, showing his gap... I tried to stay masculine in this lay out, but I couldn't resist using flowers and a butterfly.

Anne and I also made a new workshop for Scrapangels, it's a appointmentbook for 2010.
Got to love those Kaisercraft papers!

So here's a sneakpeak..

Thanks for looking!

Have a great day..

xx Merel

It's been a long while..again

2009-09-18T08:26:00.001-07:00

And there it was...summer! We had such lovely weather here that I haven't scrapped all summer...nothing..nada..zip...

Then my friend Anne came with the wonderful news about her up comming wedding plans, and she asked me to make her a box for her envelope gifts ;).
I ended up stealing a birdhouse idea... My ds made one of wood last year as a school project, so I stole the meassurements and made it out of 3 mm cardboard..

Voila... here's the result...she's already seen it so no surprise there...

Thanks for looking and hopefully I'll have something to show you soon..

xx Merel

Back again..

2009-06-15T09:19:00.000-07:00

Missed me?????

I've been so bussy the last month, that I actually didn't scrap at all for at least four weeks.. I didn't even feel like it....

I've been wanting to do a Beghunna sketch for a while now.. I just love her sketches, this is my take on her sketch.

I used the wonderful webster's pages for this lay out..also some items from Beate's price... Thanks so much for that wonderful price...

Thanks so much for looking!

xx Merel

Blogcandy...and the winner is.....(drumrole) Sanne

2009-05-03T06:53:00.000-07:00

I'm giving away this blogcandy to one lucky winner! I've hit over 5000 hits on my visitor list and this is my way of saying thanks for all the visits and wonderful comments!

And the winner is Sanne...Please email me your adress and I will send you the candy!

What do you have to do.....
1. well just leave a comment on this post
2. and become a follower to my blog.. That's it! You have until May 5th to enter..

Good luck to you!

xx Merel

Staralbum Mothersday gift

2009-05-02T03:11:00.001-07:00

I always wanted to make a staralbum but somehow never did. Upcomming mothersday seemed like a wonderful excuse to make one.

Since I was going to use old pictures of my mom, I decided to go vintage... So I used a lot of ink, embossing powder (love that gold UTE).

On the final page I wrote a little mothersday rime that we used to recite as kids (still do every year!)

I hope she won't check out my blog for the next week, but I think that's pretty safe!

Thanks for looking!

Merel

Memories

2009-04-19T00:52:00.000-07:00

I finally landed back on earth yesterday evening after a 8 day migraine!!!! I was bloghopping a bit when I came across this wonderful new blog A vintage affair . Here's my take on the april challenge.. I used (read stole) an old picture of my mom when she was a little girl..

I used webster's pages design paper on this lay out... Some prima flowers and dried branch thingie.. The pearls are by melissa francis, quote mme, thickers alphabet. clock by little yellow bicycle, key by tim holz, I added some crackle accents on the title and butterfly.

Thanks for a great challenge Ruth!

Have a great weekend!

Merel

Clip it up and a cute box

2009-04-15T02:01:00.000-07:00

I finaly got around to making my own clip it up... Done in 5 minutes and it's so easy... I just hung up the new stuff now and will add more later on...

I also came across this cute little box on the country heart and home blog.. I couldn't resist making it...

Thanks for looking!

xx Merel

I've been bad!!!

2009-04-05T05:10:00.000-07:00

Anne and I went to the re-opening of a dutch scrapbook store today, papers and pictures in Doorn.

There were a ton of people..and sooooo many goodies... The Prima section was amazing!!! I finally found my graphic 45 papers, prima flowers, bling and I got a can of prima flowers for free (which means that I spend way too much money!)

Take a look...

enough to play with for a while!

Have a great rest of the weekend!

xx Merel

Is mommy a paparazi?

2009-04-01T02:22:00.000-07:00

My youngest ds is sooo sick of me taking his picture.. I swear he thinks I'm the paparazi!

Every now and then I manage to get in a good shot of him though... I love the naughty look in his eye....

For this lay out I used papertrunk designpapers, the Batik line, the branch is from prima, flowers are from prima (thank you Ingvilld) The border punch is a storebrand, key by tim Holz, the bird os from sizzic and embossed three times to give it an aged look, cinnamon stickles from ranger, Prima swirl stamp, UTEE gold ebosspowder, ranger brown distress powder, ranger black sparkle distress powder..

Thanks for looking....

Merel

WHOOHOOO!

2009-03-24T07:57:00.000-07:00

Look at the wonderful price Ingvild send me.... she called it "a little something" I call it a truckload of supplies!!! LOL!

Make sure you check out Ingvild's Blog...

Merel

Stunten

2009-03-22T05:27:00.000-07:00

My six year old, showing off his moves on his bike!

For this lay out I used the beautiful green and black "sublime" line from Kaiserkraft.

The handstitching took a while to finish but I love how it came out!

Thanks for looking!

Merel

Blog candy from Altered Geisha

2009-03-08T01:12:00.000-08:00

Altered Geisha (a.k.a Ruth) is giving away a beautiful blogcandy! Be sure to check out her blog!

Have a fabulous sunday!

Merel

Villa volta

2009-03-05T07:03:00.000-08:00

I had a little time to scrap today during nap time...

If you've ever been to the Efteling you probably know this guy! Villa Volta..scares me everytime!!
For people who don't know the Efteling.. The Efteling is an amusement parc in the Netherlands and Villa Volta is a ride that makes you think that you're upside down..when you're not!

On this particular trip I went with my friend Irene from Norway.. She's the loves the Efteling as much as I do, so we've been quite a few times!!

For this lay out I used graphic45 papers, the letters are by thickers, the bird is from sizzix, all the felt shapes are from prima. I used crackle accents on the watch and lettering..

Thanks for looking!

Hip Hip Hooray.. or Joepie de poepie

2009-02-23T10:56:00.000-08:00

I just got an email from Basic Grey that my familie lay out has been selected for their galley!

Just wanted to share my happiness!

Merel

good times

2009-02-22T07:22:00.000-08:00

It's another sketchy sunday on de Scrappers anonimous forum.

I used three different basic grey lines for this one.. wassail, bittersweet and marrakech. They just seemed the match together.. I used a whole sheet of rub ons from Daisy bucket, the tree (branches) and bird are from maya road. I cut a piece of one branche and glued it to another, creating a tree. The littel bling flowers are a storebrand and I gave them a little cinnamon stickle centre.
I have no idea who makes the letters... but I stickled them too...

Thanks for looking,

Merel

Familie

2009-02-21T07:50:00.000-08:00

It's been a while since I used Basic Grey papers... I just haven't really liked their new lines... untill Marrakech! I luuvvvee the little elephants!!!!

Anyway... here it is....

Thanks for looking..

Merel

Girl's night out

2009-02-17T05:17:00.000-08:00

This picture was taken a while ago, when my friend and I went to the musical Tarzan.

We're enjoying a bit of champagne before the show started! :)..

Thanks for looking..

Merel

sketchy sunday

2009-02-15T03:51:00.000-08:00

It's sketchy sunday on the scrappers anonimous blog...

Here's my take.. made with the beautiful Kaiser kraft papers.. The picture is a little crooked..cóuldn't get it straight..

Thanks for looking,

Merel

Birdhouse

2009-02-13T00:22:00.000-08:00

I just love Nicole Heady's blog, she always has wonderful ideas on her blog.

She has a template for this cute little birdhouse on her blog.. this is what I made of it...

A lot of people have been asking me for a link... here it is http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/files/birdhouse_template.pdf

Check out Nicole's blog, you can find it in my faves...

Thanks for looking!

Merel

altered match box and spring

2009-02-12T07:14:00.000-08:00

And back again with another post..

I just wanted to share my little piece of spring..... (I'm so sick of winter.. I just want to sit outside in my yard with the sun on my face...)

And while cleaning out my closets this morning I found the little matchbox with max's teeth in it.. (I knew it had to be in there somewhere..)
I decided to alter it a bit with some left-overs. I think it came out so cute... I love it... A little itty bitty mini lo...

Thanks for looking and commenting..

Merel

sweet boy

2009-02-12T05:38:00.000-08:00

It's been a while since my last post!

The boys are taking up all my energy at the moment. The youngest keeps me on my toes.. Turns out he takes after his mom and has a creative side.... I now own a beautiful piece of art work... crayons in all colors on my wall upstairs...

This lay out was made from a sketch on teh scrappers anonimous blog (sketchy sunday, feb 8th)..

Thanks for looking!

Merel

12,5 wedding anniversary

2009-02-02T09:28:00.000-08:00

We enjoyed a little mini vacation over the weekend. Some friends of ours were married for 12 1/2 years and they threw a big party in th eeastern part of the country... We decided to make a weekend and of it.

I made them a little mini album, so that they can put their party shots in it.

and here it is..

When we came back from our little trip, we found out that our neighbours got robbed... You can understand that it took me a long time to go to sleep.. I kept checking the window... listening for sounds... blèh... I hope they stay away...

And now I'm off to do some work... we're teaching a workshop this weekend and I still have a ton of cutting to do....

Thanks for looking..

Merel

Frosty fun

2009-01-24T02:18:00.000-08:00

We had some wonderful frosty weather a few weeks ago. For the first time since we've been living here (9 years) we could ice skate in front of our house.

The boys had a ton of fun (and so did the big boys...)!

I made this page for the january/february contest on the scrappers anonimous forum.
We were only allowed to use blues and whites and here's the result..

Supplies: pp by my minds eye and prima, embossing powder by hein designs, flowers by prima and dutch moments, chipboard by maya road and 7 gypsies, alleene's real snow (you need that on a frosty lay out), key by tim holz, letters storebrand (zeeman)

Thanks for looking!

Merel

Such a fun list..

2009-01-19T08:51:00.000-08:00

I saw this list on a few blogs.... highlighted are teh items that apply to me... which ones apply to you?

1. started your own blog
2. slept under the stars
3. played in a band
4. visited Hawaii
5. watched a meteor shower
6. given more that you can afford to charity
7. been to Disneyland
8. held a praying mantis
9. climbed a mountain (nothing too high though)
10. sang a solo
11. bungee jumped (and never will)
12. visited Paris
13. watched a lightning storm at sea
14. taught yourself an art from scratch (does scrapbooking count)
15. adopted a child
16. had food poisoning
17. walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. grown your own vegetables
19. seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. slept on an overnight train
21. had a pillow fight
22. hitch hiked
23. taken a sick day when you're not ill
24. built a snow fort
25. held a lamb
26. gone skinny dipping
27. run a marathon
28. ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. seen a total eclipse
30. watched a sunrise or sunset
31. hit a home run
32. been on a cruise
33. seen Niagara Falls in person
34. visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. seen an Amish community
36. taught yourself a new language
37. had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. gone rock climbing
40. seen Michelangelo's David
41. sung karaoke
42. seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. visited Africa
45. walked on a beach by moonlight
46. been transported in an ambulance
47. had your portrait painted
48. gone deep sea fishing
49. seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. kissed in the rain
53. played in the mud
54. gone to a drive-in theater
55. been in a movie
56. visited the Great Wall of China
57. started a business
58. taken a martial arts class
59. visited Russia
60. served at a soup kitchen
61. sold Girl Scouts Cookies
62. gone whale watching
63. got flowers for no reason
64. donated blood, platelets of plasma
65. gone sky diving
66. visited a nazi concentration camp
67. bounced a check
68. flown in a helicopter
69. saved a favorite childhood toy
70. visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. eaten caviar
72. pieced a quilt
73. stood in Times Square
74. toured the Everglades
75. been fired from a job
76. seen the changing of the Guards in London
77. broken a bone
78. been on a speeding motorcycle
79. seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. published a book
81. visited the Vatican
82. bought a brand new car
83. walked in Jerusalem
84. had your picture in the newspaper
85. read the entire bible
86. visited the White House
87. killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. had chickenpox
89. saved someone's life
90. sat on a jury
91. met someone famous
92. joined a book club
93. lost a loved one
94. had a baby
95. seen the Alamo in person
96. swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. been involved in a law suit
98. owned a cellphone
99. been stung by a bee
100. read an entire book in one day

Guess life isn't boring....

Merel

Photo cube

2009-01-19T04:31:00.000-08:00

I altered this wooden photo cube. I actually started in the beginning of december. I started this project up again last night and this is the result..

I made covers for the hanging "albums" inside the cube.

I used embossing powder and alcohol ink on the clear butterfly. Liquid pearls can be found all over this project. The flowers are by pettaloo and prima. The bling swirl is by prima. PP by graphic45, chipboard bird and branch are by maya road.

Thanks for looking!

Merel

XOXO

2009-01-17T05:55:00.000-08:00

Finally.... some scrapping time...

I took a few "action shots" of Wouter during our summer vacation. I love how manly and though he looks in those pictures!

The beautiful paper swirls are made with the cricute using the home accents, the bling swirl is prima, flowers are by pettaloo, pp's by my little yellow bycicle.. and the boy... he's all mine!!

Thanks for looking

Bah humbug!!!

2009-01-07T04:19:00.000-08:00

I've been neglecting my blog... with good reason....

I got the worst flu ever!!!! I got sick christmas eve (hence the title) and I've been in bed ever since!! For two whole weeks! Beleive me..with three children that's saying a lot!

I haven't scrapped or thought of scrapping at all... Maybe next weekend...

Happy new year though!! (wich I will be celebrating in a week or so...)

Merel

Creative scrappers

2008-12-23T01:48:00.000-08:00

I was so excited when I was picked to be a guest designer on the creative scrappers blogspot. Check out their blog for all the wonderful interpretations of the sketch!

here's mine..

Thanks for looking and have a merry christmas,

Merel

Finally..

2008-12-22T03:18:00.000-08:00

Finally I finished my summer vacation mini album. The idea was to finish it during my vacation... I started and never finished ;) .
The idea for the album came from a Rusty Pickle class I took at Scrapaganza this year. The book has little flaps that open for journaling or more pictures.

Last week I finally had the last of the summer pictures develloped and here's the finished album..

Thanks for looking,

Merel

clean cut....for a change

2008-12-22T01:21:00.000-08:00

Thomas loves his capri-sonne drink! I finally made some time last week to order some pictures. I didn't have any developped since our summer vacation! This picture of Thomas was in the bunch aswell.

Lately my lay outs have been a ton of work. I finished this one in about 5 minutes! It felt wonderful! I love how fresh and clean cut it looks.

Thanks for looking!

Merel

'T is the season...

2008-12-04T04:48:00.000-08:00

Finally some time to post on my blog...

In between Sinterklaas ( a dutch celebration somewhat like christmas) and a huge stomach flu I've had no time to scrap or post..

I've been working on some christmas stuff. I just love all the christmas papers this year! The hanging cones will be teachers pressents filled with chocolate for christmas (only 4 more to go...). I pimped my christmas standard to a new bling level. I found this cute reindeer set bu K@company co cute!! I'll be adding decorations to it as soon as all the boxes come out with the christmas decorations.

I was also picked to be a guest designer on the creative scrappers blog. I got a beautiful sketch to work with and started my project (enter stomach bug and my project came to a halt..) It will be another two weeks before you can find my lay out there!

Thanks for looking, as always..

Merel

It's been a while

2008-11-28T05:30:00.000-08:00

Nothing scrappy to show you yet.. everything is drying now so I will try to make pictures during the weekend.

Last week I worked at the crea weekend in Rijswijk (a scrapbooking and crafts convention). Friday was soooo cold that Anne and I actually used our heatguns to warm ourselves!!! Sunday was bussy and warm! It was so much fun talking and seeing so many people and the workshops that we gave were a hit aswell!

Here are some pictures!

Nothing much has come out of my hands since the weekend as I'm completely nackered and have had a migraine for three days. I did finish some christmas stuff though which I will be posting over the weekend!

Merel

Elburg 08

2008-11-17T04:03:00.000-08:00

Finally some time for a lay out...

I did a ton of distressing on this lo! I stamped, embossed, snowed, distressed, pearled, crackled.. (it took a while...;))
I've been wanting to do some lacing on a lo, so I finally did it on this one..

The flower at the bottom is a regular flower, on which I smeared some Aleens real snow.

Some details..

Thanks for looking!

Merel

mini canvas

2008-11-14T07:13:00.000-08:00

I made this cute little mini canvas album for the Scrapangels workshops. I just love that velvet paper! It makes me want to pet the album all day!! :lol:

I keep wanting to do a lay out, but I've been bussy cutting the workshops for the crea weekend in Rijswijk next week ( a pretty big scrapbooking convention). Anne and I will be teaching three different workshops during three fun filled days for Scrapangels. I'm so looking foreward to it, but it's also a ton of work!
Hoping to get a lay out done during the weekend!

Have a great weekend!

Merel

2009

2008-11-13T00:24:00.000-08:00

We made this calenderbook (agenda) for next year.. 40 people took this workshop class, so now that we're finished teaching it, I can finally show it a bit more.

I'll add pictures to the pages as the year goes along, so I'll always have recent pictures of the boys..

Thanks for looking,

Merel

An award!

2008-11-12T08:25:00.000-08:00

I'm so excited my bloggie friend (and kiwi in excile... ) Ruth a.k.a. altered geisha gave me the Artey Pico award! Ruth makes wonderful lay outs and altered projects (check out her advent calender..) >

The RULES for presenting this sought after Award are:

1. Pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also for contributing to the blogging community, no matter what language.
2. Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog.
3. Each award winner (upon acceptance) should show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award.
4. Link to the Arte y pico blog , so everyone will know the origin of this award.
5. Show these rules.

The five winners I have chosen are:

1) Paulien (paulienvandenbosch), she makes amazing cards and is a true inspiration.
2) Tracey (running with scissors) tracey makes gorgeous lay outs at a speedy pace, so there's always something new to look for.
3) Beate (beatesverden) I always love to visit her blog and find some new inspiration
4) Ingvild (spinnvild) she just makes jaw dropping gorgeous lay outs.
5) Irene (scrapperlicious), I think Irene is a ranger pioneer!! She gives wonderful tutorials and makes gorgeous lay outs using beautiful techniques. (it's because of her that I now actually use my distress inks...)

So check out these wonderful artists at there blogs... I don't think that I ever succeeded in using links in my blog so if there are no links please check out my fave blogs and you will find them all there!

Merel

Babe watch

2008-10-30T05:25:00.000-07:00

I love this action shot of Wouter on our vacation!!! He looks like he belongs in Baywatch (except for th efact that he can't swim) Watch out David Hasselhoff!

I used tons of ranger distressing inks, and crackle accents from Ranger, flowers are storebrand, prima say it with swirl bling (cut in pieces) design paper is by K&comp. UTE gold embossing powder.

Thanks for looking!

Merel

a little sneakpeak

2008-10-28T03:29:00.000-07:00

Ok.. so I couldn't hold myself back and I ended up finishing the candle box, that gave me the eye splinter... I just LOVE how it came out! It's gonna be a day workshop in the new year, since we're booked up for this year. Looking foreward to it already though!

Thanks for looking!

Merel

a dangerous hobby

2008-10-25T04:57:00.000-07:00

Nothing to share today...picturewise or scrapwise... I was working on a new workshop yesterday when I rubbed a splinter in my eye... That hurts!!!! It sure loved my eye because it didn't want to come out!!
The neighbour was kind enough to drive me to the docter. She told me not to be scared but (!@#!*) she was going to turn my eyelid inside out! Yikes, forget the eye, I nearly suffered a heart attaque right there..

It wasn't that bad and she sedaded (is that the word?) my eye which felt really good! I spend the night in a darkroom with my eye closed!

Now I can see but the eye is still very irritated (so is the rest of my personality)

Earlier this week I put a crafters knife in my finger... They say bad things come in three, so I'm wondering what the third scrapping injury will be.... Please let it be a papercut! (lol)

Merel

Is anyone going to listen to my story

2008-10-18T08:32:00.000-07:00

I was blog-hopping the other day (I always love the places I end up) when I found a new challenge blog called scrapping across the universe (see my link list) they have a wonderful challenge up that seemed to fit a picture of Max perfectly.

Max always has a story to tell... He wakes up in the morning talking and he even talks himself to sleep at night...

The pp is Basic Grey, scribble scrabble, rub ons are basic grey, the lower letters are by Thickers, the other ones are storebrand, the butterfly is heidi swapp.

Thanks for looking!

Merel

Fristi

2008-10-11T09:15:00.000-07:00

Thomas LOVES Fristi! (a yoghurt drink) I lovethis picture of him drinking it straight out of the bottle!

The cut out figures are made with the cricut (home decoration cart) The flowers are prima. Stickles are by ranger. Paper is by making memories.

Thanks for looking!

Merel

a card..

2008-10-08T07:41:00.001-07:00

I made this card with the left-overs from my last lay out.

I've been so bussy with non-scrapbooking stuff the last week, so the card was a welcome project. I'm not really a card maker, but the papers were perfect for a card.

I've been teaching quite a few workshops for scrapangels and we've got a big one comming up, so we're bussy preparing for those aswell! My scraproom looks like a warehouse.. workshop packages everywhere.. I think I have well over a hundred workshop packages in my scraproom... Yikes! We haven't even started on the christmas workshop yet.... (got a little time before then...lol)

Thanks for looking!

Merel

My boys

2008-10-01T09:27:00.000-07:00

Still working away those summervacation pics...

I saw this beautiful sketch on creative scrappers blog, made by Liz Weber.

Here's my take..

The design paper is by Jenni Bowlin, grungeboard swirl by Tim Holz.

Check out the www.creativescrappers.blogspot.com blogspot. They have beautiful work there!

Thanks for looking!

Merel

Ella

2008-09-29T03:19:00.000-07:00

I usually don't get to play with pink and purple lay outs. That's what I get for having three boys! Luckily I have a few nieces that I can "borrow". When I saw this beautiful Basic grey paper I just had to get it!

The chipboard border was made with the cuttlebug, the clock is Heidi Swapp, copper stickles and the paper is by Basic Grey (eva)

Thanls for looking!

Merel

so this is christmas....

2008-09-20T09:43:00.000-07:00

Ok.. so the temperature today has been pretty wonderful here, sunshine all day long! Great weather to concentrate on a christmas workshop!!!!

My friend Anne and I had a pretty good idea of what we were going to make and we are just thrilled with the outcome! Little bits and pieces will still be added, so we won't give it all away!

We're teaching this workshop in a huge workshoproom, all day long! We've done these big workshops there before and it's always so much fun. If you would like to register for this workshop just hope on over to our scrapangels site and send us an email.

Thanks for looking!

Merel

Sweet @ 6

2008-09-19T06:55:00.000-07:00

I've been completely caught up in preparing workshop packages! At the moment I think I have about a hundred ready to go.. and still more to do! It's all fun though. I hurt my back in the beginning of the week while walking with my grandmother who's in a wheelchair. Sidewalks are much higher than you would think! It's staring to feel a little better now, so I'm hopeful!
Eventhough I'm up to my ears in our Christmas workshop I have a lay out to share.

My oldest son (6) refuses to look normal in a picture. I've now started to bribe him, to smile normal just for a few shots. Too bad for him he had to be born in a scrappy family!
This shot was taken in the beginning of summer and I've used it before, but I love that missing tooth smile!

I was inspired by Tracey's lay out (RUNNING WITH SCISSORS) and used a die cut paper I had to make a new one that fitted my pages.
The paper is SEI, loads of Ranger distress ink and check out the gorgeous pin I found!

Thanks for looking and have a fabulous weekend!

Merel

Artist

2008-09-13T01:12:00.000-07:00

These pictures were taken on Thomas' first day of pre-school.

He loves to paint and color there (for some reason not at home??). His teacher was kind enough to pass these pics on to me..

The papers are from dreamstreet, I thought the green color was a nice change. The flowers are from petaloo, The swirl was made out of foam with a sizzix swirl. The envelope was also cut with the sissix, inside is a little note I wrote for Thomas, I won't embarress him (or me) by sharing it with the world!!

Thanks for looking!

Merel

New Room...new inspiration!

2008-09-08T04:25:00.000-07:00

I'm so happy in my new scrap room... I know where everything is and I can reach it.. (I used to just pick from the top of the pile...)

So...no pre-cutting workshops today..instead I finaly scrapped a lay out of my ds with his little friend. Look at those cute little chubby cheeks!

So for this lay out I used Bo Bunny paper, from the beautiful life collection, thickers for the title, pearl ex, loads of ranger distress inks, heidi swapp mask, rub ons from me and my big ideas, die cuts are also from bo bunny. I made the scalloped edge using my fiskars punch (whoohoo I finaly have one!)

Thanks for looking!

canvas in vintage style

2008-09-07T07:06:00.000-07:00

I've moved out of my old scrap domain and into a new one this week. Which translates in to me wallpapering and rearanging Thomas' furniture in to my old office and I now have a room with more storage.
I've accumulated so much stuff with all the workshops that I'm teaching for scrapangels, that the room was about to burst!

Yesterday was spend mostly with pre cutting a huge workshop we're giving on lacation.
So I haven't been doing any scrapping this week. But I can show you (a part) of a vintage canvas I made, that we'll also be giving as a workshop.

Thanks for looking,

Merel

Award

2008-08-31T06:50:00.000-07:00

Thanks to my friend Arlene (a.k.a. Precious Angels) from Hawaï for giving me the I heart your Blog award! Please go ahead and check out her blog!

I'm going to follow the example of Tracey (a.k.a. running with scissors) and give this award to all who read this post! It's always good to award your self every now and then! Just copy the logo and pay it foreward!

Enjoy this beautiful summer day! (well the weather is gorgeous over here anyway...)

Merel

DREAM

2008-08-30T05:51:00.000-07:00

I made this lay out from a sketch from my sb.com neighbour q-diggity, check out her blog, my little sketchblook! I used the beautiful prima papers. The swirls are from prima aswell, I used versamark ink and embossing powder to make them stand out. I also used the versamark marker to outline the bird and embossed that aswell. Loads of distressing with my new distressing tool from making memories (which is making my life so much easier) The bling swirl and flowers are from prima aswell!

The clear flower is from maya road, I embossed it aswell and heat-curled the petals a bit!

Thanks for looking!

Merel

How mommy keeps her figure....

2008-08-24T03:58:00.000-07:00

How come kids always know when to find you, come dessert time??? Thomas pretty much finished the dessert for me... At least I get to order dessert and keep my figure!

Thanks for looking!

Merel

Back from our vacation

2008-08-20T11:22:00.000-07:00

We came back from our two week vacation this weekend! We had such a great time. The weather was pretty good but not steaming hot! They had entertainment for the kids, toys in the restaurant and a turtle named 'Mondy! What else can a family of five ask for?

I'm working on my vacation album which I'll post when it's finished. I actually took supplies with me on vacation, but I ended up not working on it as much as I thought I would.

Thanks for all your comments while I was away!

Merel

My first card

2008-07-27T04:36:00.000-07:00

Here it is.... my first card!!! Quite happy with the outcome (even if I say so my self). I used scraps for this one, so my drawer is a little lighter!

Thanks for looking!

Merel

New lay out...

2008-07-24T11:09:00.000-07:00

Finally, something I can post here. I've been so bussy the last two weeks with designing new workshops along with Anne. We want to introduce some new workshops to our selection and take some of the old ones out. We'll be posting the new workshops on our scrapangels site http://www.scrapangels.mysites.nl at the beginning of september.

But the good news is that I also managed to complete a lay out that I can post. Blue, red and black always work for me. I love this "Wouter look" he was just gone, in to his own little world, like he always does.

I used a ton of stamps on this lay out. I painted the chipboard flower cirle red and then stamped some images on it with antoher color paint, I got out the old paperglaze again and glazed in the corner stamps, and chipboard flower.

As always, thanks for looking!

Merel

Good times

2008-07-13T00:22:00.000-07:00

I just love these dreamstreet papers! I used a ton of stickles on this lay out. And created some ghost shapes with the cuttlebug, some embossing and stazz on ink. ( and stickles of course!!)
The bling swirl is from prima.

Thanks for looking!

Merel

Wonderful

2008-07-11T08:37:00.000-07:00

It's the boys in the Efteling, this spring. I love the bright colors on this cosmo cricket paper. All of the pp are cosmo cricket, the stars are storebrand.

I went away with a girl friend as well last weekend (no kids allowed!!! whoohoo!) We've been planning this trip for 6 years now, so we enjoyed every moment! Shopping, sleeping and dining without stress! We've decided to now make it a manditory yearly trip, so we can keep our sanity!

I've also been working on a few workshops, but I can't show you anything yet...

Thanks for looking, and as always, your comments are greatly appreciated!

Merel

follow your path

2008-07-02T10:52:00.000-07:00

I just love pictures with the image of a child walking away!

I used tons of ranger distressing inks, my new prima build a swirl stamp set, stickles, the butterfly was bright red when I started out I used everything from paint, to distress ink and walnut ink spray to get it to the brown color it is right now.

Thanks for looking!

Merel

An Award!!! Yippie!

2008-07-01T11:10:00.000-07:00

Thank so much to my blogger friend Ria, for giving me an award!

This is what I got from Ria! I am so thrilled to receive this award! Why? Well, you only get this award if your blog is outstanding because of your designs, actuality and themes.

Now I can pick 7 others too to give the award! These are the rules for the award:
1. Winner can place the logo as shown up in this message.
2. Place the link to the blog from whom you got the award, in my case Ria.
3. Send the award at least to 7 others who are outstanding in their blog too.
4. Put the links of the blogs on your own blog.
5. Leave a message on the blog who have won the award too.
These are the people I would like to give the award! Check out their blogs, these are some amazing scrappers/stampers/creative godesses!

Beates Verden
Running with scissors
Paulien
Tessa Ann
Spinnvild
Nicole Heady
scrapperlicious

Congratulations girls!!

Babyshoes

2008-06-28T09:38:00.000-07:00

These are the actual babyshoes that my sister and I both wore when we first started walking. My mom had them hanging in her house for ages, she put a picture of my sister and me in each shoe.

When I moved out of the house (also ages ago) she gave them to me. They've been hanging in my scraproom untill today!

I got this wooden wine-box last christmas and saw the opportunity for an altered project!

I used dreamstreets beautiful patterned paper for this. I also got a Ranger ink blending tool this week, so I played with that aswell! I stamped the front with a prima build a swirl with stazz on and then I added prima bling

Check out the slideshow for all the pictures!

Thanks for looking!

Merel

too cute!

2008-06-25T11:51:00.000-07:00

Ik heb deze lay out gemaakt het papier van Luxe designs. Ik heb er op Scrap-a-ganza een mini album mee gemaakt. We kregen toen zoveel extra materiaal mee dat ik met de restjes een lay -out kon maken..... deze dus..

Tijdens de workshop op SAG lieten ze een techniek zien om een hambly screen te bewerken met je paint dabber. Ik heb met zwarte Stazz on een stempel gemaakt en vervolgens de achterkant van het sheet groen geverfd. Ik heb rub ons van luxe designs, bazzil en k&company gebruikt. De knoopjes zijn van Rusty pickle, de letter stickers zijn ook van Rusty Pickle.

Bedankt voor het kijken,

Merel

60 jaar getrouwd!

2008-06-16T09:06:00.000-07:00

Mijn opa en oma zijn volgende week 60 jaar getrouwd. Ik heb voor hun dit album gemaakt.

Wie wist dat crea-motion inmiddels echt mooi scrappapier maakt?

Het papier is van crea-motion, het boek is van fancy pants. De lintjes komen overal en nergens vandaan. Het slotje op de voorkant is ook van crea motion. Verder heb ik veel met zwarte en goud embosspoeder gewerkt en met verschillende sizzix stanzen.

We geven het boekje woensdag, maar het zijn geen scrap of computerfreaks dus ik denk dat het wel veilig is om op het web te plaatsen.

Bedankt voor het kijken,

Groetjes Merel

Agenda 2009

2008-06-12T22:43:00.001-07:00

Anne en ik hebben dinsdag avond met z'n tweeën aan onze agenda voor 2009 gewerkt.

Een beetje vroeg in het jaar, maar we hadden van zoveel mensen al vragen gehad over onze agenda van vorig jaar, dat we besloten hebben om er weer een workshopdag in Mijdrecht van te maken.

Ik ben zelf zeer tevreden over het resultaat!

Vooral die deurknop erop vind ik zo leuk!

Mocht je interesse hebben, schrijf je dan in via http://www.scrapangels.mysites.nl/ .

Groetjes Merel

SMILE

2008-06-08T10:11:00.000-07:00

Nog even een lay out van Max plaatsen....

Ik heb me helemaal uitgeleefd met mijn Basic Grey vijl set om de randjes wat ouder te maken en natuurlijk met inkt.

De letters heb ik geverfd, daarna gestempeld en daarna ge-embossed. De bloemen zijn van prima (vandaag gekocht op SAG), de swirls zijn van queen en co. Het design papier is van SEI.

Bedankt voor het kijken weer!

Groetjes Merel

Scrap-a-ganza

2008-06-08T08:02:00.000-07:00

Het was een echt last minute besluit..... om half negen vanmorgen besloten Anne en ik dat we toch een dagje naar Scrapaganza gingen. Het was dit jaar in Noordwijkerhout, dus lekker dichtbij.

Bij aankomst konden we nog twee workshops boeken. We zijn begonnen met een workshop van Lance Armstrong (aka the rusty pickle man) color my world. Het idee van de workshop was leuk, maar het ging zooooooo achterlijk snel dat het niet bij te benen was (en ik hou van speed scrappen). Wel leuk om een keer een workshop van hem te volgen. Het was alleen weer een complete afgang dat Anne en ik allebei onze snijmatten vergeten waren. Gelukkig konden we bij Hennie van handig werk ieder een stuk karton gebruiken. We hebben hier wel weer vreselijk om gelachen en waren waarschijnlijk weer aan de andere kant van het hotel te horen.

Daarna hebben we lekker gelunchd en geshopt... Er waren leuke aanbiedingen voor de prima bloemrekjes, en we hebben weer lekker bijgeklept met bekenden.

'S middags hebben we nog een workshop gevolgd van Luxe designs. Color me silly (geloof ik)

Een leuk boekje en op een vriendelijker tempo dan de ochtend workshop. Het was dus een groot succes en volgend jaar ga ik zeker een nachtje slapen. Lijkt me erg gezellig!

Be Happy

2008-06-04T11:17:00.000-07:00

Nog een lay out van Wouter in het badje...

De achtergrond is bling cardstock, het designpapier is van Webster's pages. Verder heb ik gebruikt, noteworthy, maya road chipboard, bold sequins van Queen en co, en heel veel knoopjes!

Bedankt voor het kijken!

Merel

Gezellige dag!

2008-06-01T12:15:00.000-07:00

Vandaag was het dan zover, onze eerste workshop in Mijdrecht. De lokatie is daar echt super met veel daglicht en heel veel ruimte.

We hadden een hele leuke groep en we hebben zoveel gelachen. En natuurlijk ging iedereen met een altered frame in Iggydodie stijl naar huis!

Anne en ik waren zo enthousiast dat we meteen een datum in oktober hebben geprikt voor onze workshop Agenda 2009! We hadden al heel veel vraag hiernaar gehad en dus hebben we vandaag meteen de inschrijving hiervoor geopend! Tegen de tijd dat ik thuis kwam was het weer ook helemaal opgeklaard en hebben we nog lekker in de tuin kunnen zitten! Een prima zondag dus!

Groetjes Merel

A priceless photo

2008-05-25T04:33:00.000-07:00

Heel af en toe maak je de foto en dit was er weer één. Deze foto geeft het karakter van Thomas aardig weer..... ondeugend, ondeugend, ondeugend...

Lekker met water aan het spelen bij opa en oma, wat kan een kind nog meer wensen?

Het papier is van Bo Bunny, de rub ons zijn van Basic Grey, de klok is van Heidi Swapp, de tag is van 7 gypsies.

Verder hoorden we deze week dat het crea weekend in Rijswijk gewoon doorgaat. Dus Anne en ik zijn alweer druk in de weer om workshops te bedenken. Voor de workshop van zondag in Mijdrecht zijn we helemaal klaar. (gelukkig want het was een werk!)

En we zijn zelfs al stiekem bezig met workshops voor kerstmis... (zomer moet nog beginnen?!?)

Drukke week

2008-05-18T02:52:00.000-07:00

Het was weer een lekkere drukke week. School is weer begonnen na 2 1/2 week vrij en dat is altijd weer even wennen. Gelukkig krijg ik dan weer wat scrap tijd terug.

Woensdag hebben Anne en ik een workshop in Rijswijk voor een personeelsvereniging gegeven. We gaven twee workshops tegelijk en dat was voor een aardig grote groep best even aanpoten. Gelukkig ging iedereen weer met een leuk project naar huis.

En ik heb zelfs tijd gehad om lekker een lay out te scrappen. Ik kreeg zulke mooie foto's binnen van de week dat ik mijn scrap tempo weer aardig op moet voeren.

Het papier is van K and company en ik had het al weer een tijdje liggen. Ik vond het mooi bij de zonnige foto passen..

Vier jaar

2008-05-14T04:12:00.000-07:00

Deze lay out heb ik gemaakt naar aanleiding van een sketch (nummer 60) op de site van http://gotsketch.blogspot.com/. Ik wijk altijd een beetje af van de orginele sketch, maar volgens mij zijn een paar elementen nog wel herkenbaar..

Deze foto's zijn genomen op de laatste dag dat Wouter naar de peuterspeelzaal ging. Hij had het daar zo naar zijn zin... Gelukkig vindt hij de basisschool ook helemaal geweldig!

Summer vacation

2008-05-12T01:28:00.000-07:00

Deze foto heb ik al bijna een jaar liggen. Ik vond het blauw van het papier van my mind's eye (confetti lijn) er zo mooi bij passen.

Het chipboard van fancy pants is geverfd met craquelé verf van Ranger.

My little Prince

2008-05-11T12:26:00.000-07:00

Deze lay out van Thomas vind ik zelf zo prachtig! Hij is zo dol verliefd op zijn knuffel eend.

Ik heb deze lay out gemaakt naar aanleiding van een challenge. Je moest een techniek toepassen die je nog nooit eerder had gebruikt en nog twee andere technieken.

Ik heb een swirl met Gesso gemaakt. Vond het wel even spannend om gesso op het papier te smeren maar het werd een leuk resultaat. Verder heb ik gestempeld en heel veel gedistressed op deze lay out.