episode 2: mini's!

Yes Yes, so far I can keep my promise, day 2 of my daily posts this week! Although I’m writing while not totally awake. How come you think?! I woke up at 8 am (and that’s quite early for me!) ‘cause I’m expecting the mailman with some craft supplies (happy dance!), but… it’s now 1 pm and I still haven’t seen him, if only I knew… :-) oh well, in the meantime I’m surfing the net for some crafty ideas, not a big punishment! 

In this post, I’ll be showing you some pictures of mini’s that I’ve made. The first one I made during a workshop at the scrapheap, I had a wonderful time over there! The mini is actually like a box, and the pages are also little boxes that you can unfold. I’m currently looking  for some pics to go in it. When decorated, the boxes will be tied in with some ribbon, but I think it looks awesome already!  The second mini I kind of improvised a bit, after watching a you tube episode from My Sisters Scrapper. I like the paper, it gives me the feeling that Spring is coming soon! This mini also needs some pictures as well. That’s kind of my problem, I love making mini’s, but I don’t have a lot of pictures to go in there, oops :-)
 

Well, I’ll be back with more projects tomorrow, in the meantime, let me know what you think of these puppies!

 

Creative juices are flowing again!

Hello world!

First of all… Happy New Year! Oh my, oops, it’s February already… 3 months without blogging, I can’t believe how fast time flies by! I have to be honest, I wasn’t very creative the last couple of months so I obviously didn’t blog as well. February seems to be the month that makes the creative juices flowing, ‘cause I’m feeling in the mood again!

I started my 2015- creative process by making mini spreads for the “journal 52” weekly challenges, provided by Chelle Stein at journal52.com.  next to that, I’m participating the Documented Life Project. A huge challenge for me, because I’m not used to working on such big pages. So yes… I’m already behind, haha! Next, I made my very first zentangle! I’m a member of the heppie scrappy forum, and the lovely Chantal posted a mini tutorial so I had to give it a try! And yes, a new hobby was born… I’m also in a mini- album mood again, so after watching some you-tube videos from My Sister Scrapper I made a mini as well! It’s totally finished, I only have to add some pictures and embellishments. 

So yes, I’m back in town! Enjoy the pictures of my new projects, I'll be posting some every day this week (making up my delay on blogging :-)) and please, don’t hesitate to let me know what you think, I love reading your comments!

Creative greetings!

Art journal page in my France Papillon book,
made with distress ink, paint, wendi vecchi paste and stamping.

 

One of my DLP pages. Not in love with it but not super ugly as well :-)
Worked with paint, handmade stencil and stamps.
Also an attempt in lettering, think I need a lot more practice :-)

art journaling with France!

Hi Ladies!

Although my configurations box is still on display, Halloween is already gone! So said we can only create creepy stuff once a year... :-) We all know, after the black & orange comes the red & green... Time to start those Christmas decorations! I already started making some cards and since I really liked assembling that configurations box, I feel a Christmas one coming as well! In the meantime I'm trying to do some art journaling. I had the opportunity to participate a day workshop from France Papillon at the Retreat event from Craftorij (Ede, Holland) and I learned how to assemble my own art journal and how to make a page in it! My very first but definitely not my last! Enjoy the pic's and don't hesitate to let me know what you think of my first art journal attempts!

Greetings and 'till next time!

   Love the color blooms...                  Work in progress!                      Me and Marie-Anne :-)

                                              France & Me !!              Cover of my book (still needs something...)

                                                         My very first art journaling pages!

Halloween configurations box!

Hi there bloggers!

Lot’s of spiders in the garden… You can feel Halloween is coming closer! It’s been years now that I want to make a configurations box and I finally felt ready for it. I gathered some supplies and started making my own box, so it was deep enough for my Halloween findings. I cut 2mm cardboard to size, glued it together with heavy gel medium and painted it all black. I gave all the “boxes” some Tim Holtz background paper. Than the fun began, deciding what to put inside the boxes! I used some Tim Holtz dies, some flea market findings and some random supplies from my stash. I had so much fun and I can't help it... I love my box :-) Thanks for watching and let me know what you think guys, I like reading your comments ;-)

                                                                   The preparations...

                    The finished box!!

 

 

                                                                   Some detailed pictures

Back in crealand!

Hi Bloggers!

I was a bit chocked when I saw the date of my last post... oops!! 
In that last post I mentioned the open-house at my local scrapstore - hobbyfarm- so here are some pictures of the weekend. I had the honor to give a make and take with the dylusion ink sprays, love these babies! The colors are very nice and vibrant, makes you ready for the summer! (Well yeah, the open- house was in May :-) Pictures below...)

So, that was past May, it's been a while...  After the open- house I started working a temporary job in Brussels, because of the long distance/ hours, it wore me out a bit so I didn't create a lot during that period. When my job was finished, it was time for another adventure oversees!! And here comes the exiting news... I had the opportunity to take a workshop with the one and only Dina Wakley! So, in my next blog post, I'll tell (and show) you a bit more of this exiting day with this talented Ranger lady!  

 

                                        This is me :-)                  An enthusiastic make& take'r!

Some of my dylusions examples

                    In the store you also find materials for cardmaking, knitting, crocheting, sewing...

                             ...and a variety of loom bands!     Evelien & Katrien from hobbyfarm

See you next time, 
and don't hesitate to leave me a comment :-)
Greetings

NSD mini's

Hi bloggers!

So, last Saturday was NSD, also known as National Scrapbooking Day! I reserved this date for some “me-time” at my craft desk and I have to tell you, I enjoyed every single minute of it! I even started the evening before :-) Especially for this occasion, Maaike from our heppyscrappy forum, provided us with a tutorial for a photo folio. It was based on a FF from Kathy Orta from Paper Phenomenon, but she gave it her own twist. I have to tell you, the tutorial was awesome, with clear instructions and photos. At the end of the day I had a finished photo folio and I even found the courage and energy to finally finish another album that was laying around, crying for some design paper :-) So yeah, NSD was a productive day with 2 finished mini albums as result! Below you can see some pictures. The photo folio was made made with regular cardstock and finished with Basic Grey paper. The second album was made with the lovely Engraver paper from Prima. Now I need to find some time to make some more samples with dylusions, ‘cause it’s an open house at the Hobby Farm to celebrate there 15^th anniversary! So, gotta go… Have a nice day and don’t hesitate to leave a comment :-)

Greetings!