Oranje Boven!

Voor de nieuwe schets van Little Shop of Sketches heb ik deze layout gemaakt; eentje met foto's van ons weekendje met de (schoon)familie in Brabant. Oma had voor de vijf jongste kleinkinderen een oranje t-shirt gekocht, lief he?

The new sketch from Little Shop of Sketches is up!! a bit late but better late than never! For my layout I used photos from our family weekend away. My MIL bought these orange (soccer) t-shirts for the 5 youngest grandchildren and they loved it!

en wat close-ups:

Papier, vlinder en bloemen zijn van Prima Marketing, craft envelopje van Maya Road, klok van Heidi Swapp, stempels (op de tag en journaling labeltje) zijn van myStampBOX de "your story" set en letters van MLS, verder nog een onbekend knoopje en lintje.

Paper, butterfly and flowers are from Prima marketing, craft envelop is from Maya Road, clock is from Heidi Swapp, stamps (on the tag and the journaling label) are from myStampBOX (the "your story" set), the alpha letters are from MLS.

En dit is Tanya's schets:

and this is Tanya's sketch:

Mocht je willen zien wat de andere DT leden ervan gemaakt hebben, ga dan even naar het blog van Little Shop of Sketches!!

If you want to see the layouts of the other DT members please hop over to the Little Shop of Sketches blog.

Zo dit was het weer, ik ga genieten van het warme weer!

Hugs, Monique

Groetjes en tot snel,

Monique

De Griezels / The Twits

In maart hadden de groepen 6 en 7 bij Tim op school een dagje toneelles op de VAK in Delft. Ze speelden het toneelstuk "De Griezels" van Roald Dahl en dat was toch GAAF!!! Ze hadden de hele dag geoefend, zelf kleding en decor gemaakt, muziek & dans & tekst geleerd en aan het eind van de middag mochten de ouders komen kijken. Nou, wij vonden het helemaal geweldig en hebben echt genoten.

For the week 4 challenge from My Little Shoebox (create a layout with Flying High) I created this page about Timothy who featured in "The Twits", a play from Roald Dahl with lots of animals inlcuding birds. As Timothy was one of the birds who got caught in the glue in the tree, the papers from the Flying High line were just perfect for these photos!! If you're not familiar with this book from Roald Dahl then I highly recommend it to you!!  

Mocht je het verhaal niet kennen dan is het echt de moeite waard om het boek eens te lezen. In het kort komt het hier op neer: "Meneer en mevrouw Griezel zijn een wel heel bijzonder stel. Ze doen alles om elkaar het leven zuur te maken. Zo stoppen ze Reuze Kribbenbijters in elkaars bed of dienen ze levende kronkelspaghetti op als avondeten. Meneer Griezel is gek op vogelpastei en om vogels te vangen voor de pastei smeert hij een boom in de tuin in met lijm en vangt op die manier elke dag vogels. Verder droomt hij al jaren van zijn eigen Grote ondersteboven apencircus. Maar dan nemen de dieren wraak. En hoe!!"

Timothy was één van de "plakvogels" (= één van de vogels die vast komt te zitten in de lijm in de boom) en die zijn in het toneelstuk te herkennen aan de oranje/rode kleding.

Nu is op de Facebook pagina van My Little Shoebox een 6 weekse challenge bezig en week 4 is "maak een layout met de Flying High line". Laat die lijn nou perfect zijn voor de foto's van Tims toneelsstuk!!! 

Dus ziehier een layout over De Griezels:

So here's my layout:

en een collage van de details:

De kinderen hadden allemaal zelf een uitnodiging voor de ouders gemaakt en die heb ik in de layout verwerkt. Omdat-ie zo groot was heb ik 'm wel in stukjes geknipt: de griezels allemaal apart en de tekst apart, die ik eerst weer met Glimmer Mist heb bespoten anders was-ie wel erg wit. 

I incorparated Timothy's invitation in my layout but had to cut it in little pieces because it was too big. I cut out the text and misted it before I used it and then I cut out the "creeps" Tim had drawn and placed them on my page as well.   

Het gele vogeltje had ik net besteld bij My Little Bit of Whimsy en kwam gelijk perfect van pas!

The little birdie pin I just ordered from My Little Bit of Whimsy was the perfect finishing touch!

Dit is het voor nu, enne mocht je niks te lezen hebben..... Roald Dahl is errug leuk! 

Thanks for stopping by my blog and hope to see you again soon!

Fijn weekend!! Enjoy your weekend!!

Groetjes, Hugs,

Monique

Look what I got this month!!

This has been one lucky month for me! Want to know why??? Well, this month I won THREE prizes!!!

Look:

These wonderful stamps I won at a blog hop at the Banana Frog blog!!

This Disney bag I got from Hilde/Scoobie. She's from Norway but bought this in Paris in Disneyland!!

And then last Monday this arrived:

a box full of My Little Shoebox products!!! I won the 2nd week FB challenge and this was the prize!!

Just wanted to show this!!

I've been scrapping this afternoon, but can't show you yet....

Thanks for visiting and see you again soon!!

Hugs, Monique

Sketch 70, The Scrappiest

I don't know what it is about May and June but in our household it's the busiest time of the year.... we have dozens of birthday parties (our own & friends & family & even Jippie, our dog, has her birthday in May!), Timothy has his soccercamp, all three kids have lots of end of schoolterm festivities and the house is a mess!! It just doesn't matter how hard I work or how early I rise I never get on top of things...:-(

So this year we have no choice but to celebrate Timothy's birthday party after the summer holidays. His birthday was on the 19th of May but as of that date there never has been one free Saturday or Sunday we could have his party. Patrick suggested a Wednesday afternoon.... and I know why, because he'll be in the UK! So no, no Wednesday afternoon! I'm not doing it on my own! Timothy is disappointed of course, but says he understands (he's so sweet) .... and I feel totally inadequate :-(

Last Saturday I did find one spare moment to scrap though and here's what I made with Liz' new sketch:

The photos are from the warm Saturday two weeks ago and these Echo Park papers fit perfectly. The Cosmo Cricket spinner card is from a very old Nook kit I found again!! 

And here's the sketch from Liz: 

If you want to win a kit from Scrapbookdeals4U then give this sketch a try and link it to the blog post at The Scrappiest!! Can't wait to see what you create!!

And now I'm going to walk the dog and then off to bed!!! 

Good night, Monique 

EPIPHANY CRAFTS!!!

Wohoo!!! I made the Epiphany Crafts design team!!

Look here!

And if you don't know what their products are have a look at the video on the "about us" page!

Isn't it fabulous???

Can't wait for the goods to arrive!! I want to start playing with them!!

Thanks Tricia for choosing me!!

Here's the complete list of the designers:

Kelly Jo Massicotte
Tracey Taylor
Monique Liedtke
Joy Hager
Raechelle Bellus
Samantha Sibbet
Julie Walton
Danielle Holsapple
Lisa Wilkinson
Jennifer Priest

Have a great weekend everyone!!

Hugs, Monique

myStampBOX blog hop!

elcome to the "Jump into Summer" Blog Hop with myStamp BOX and our preferred product partners (Helmar, PK Glitz and Kiki Art)!

If you have just happened upon my blog today, you may want to head to the start of the blog hop, the myStamp BOX blog

Here is our Summer Blog Hop schedule just in case you missed anyone:

myStamp BOX Blog

Virginie

Tracey

Cherie

Helmar Adhesives

Jing-Jing

Jolene

Monique = you're here!!

Eva

PK Glitz

Ellen

Maryfrances

Gudrun

Lynda

Jill

Kiki Art

Agata

Ally

back to the mystamp BOX blog

The challenge for this Blog Hop was to take anything that makes you think of Summer and create a project that fits the theme.

Here's what I created for you:

A card made with the "Abundant Blossoms" stamp set:

and a layout using the "Colorful Companions" stamp set! I used one of the butterflies to create a border for my photo, don't you just love this stamp???

details of the stamped border:

You participate in the blog hop by leaving a comment on each and every participating myStamp BOX designer's blog and all of our partner companies' blogs as well.

You have a chance to win a set of stamps sets!

Our partner companies will offer up a prize as well. So leave a comment on all the blog posts and then return to the mSB blog and tell us what your favourite project was along the way for a chance to win! Have fun!

Please hop along to the next blog which is Eva's: http://www.evascrap.blogspot.com/ and check out her Summery inspiration!

Have Fun!

Monique

Eindelijk een eigen scrapplekje!!!

Na zeven jaar scrappen is het eindelijk zover!!!! Ik heb mijn eigen scraphoekje gekregen!!!

Tot nu toe zat ik altijd aan de eettafel te scrappen en lagen mijn spullen over de hele beneden etage verspreid. Ik mopperde vaak als ik weer eens mijn spullen moest opruimen omdat we gingen eten of omdat iemand anders ook de tafel nodig had om te werken/huiswerk maken/knutselen/computeren enz of omdat iemand zijn glas op mijn spullen had gezet ofzo... en daar werd niemand blij van, dus er moest iets gebeuren!

Om heel eerlijk te zijn had Patrick al vaker gezegd dat we naar Ikea moesten gaan om een "plank" voor mij te gaan halen. Maar een "plank" aan de muur zag ik niet zitten... maar wat dan wel????

 Afgelopen dinsdag was het zover en hebben we de knoop doorgehakt!!

After 7 years scrapping at the dining room table we finally decided I needed a "corner" of my own!! We went to Ikea and bought some Expedit cupboards and a desk and look what I've got now!!!!

We zijn naar Ikea gegaan en hebben een paar Expedit kasten en bureau gekocht!!

Het is nog niet helemaal klaar, er moeten nog wat plankjes boven, een lamp en een rekje om wat aan op te hangen, wat meer bakken/manden maar zo heb je in ieder geval een idee, toch???

It's not quite finished yet, but you'll get the general idea!! I'm sooooo happy with it!!!!

Ik ben er echt SUPER blij mee!!!!

Groetjes/Hugs,

Monique

Challenge #2 My Little Shoebox

Here I am again, for the second time today!!!

My Little Shoebox is having a six week challenge that features a new current line of MLS products each week. At the end of the week MLS chooses a challenge winner who will win a $20 value prize package from MLS. The winner will have a chance to win the grand prize of $200 MLS products!!!

From my very very last scraps I created this layout for the second week, featuring "Away We Go":

Thanks for stopping by and "see" you soon (maybe tomorrow in Voorburg???)!!

Hugs, Monique

First 6" x 12" layout!

On Little Shop of Sketches Tanya's new sketch went up!!

Here's sketch #64:

And here's my take on it:

and a few details:

Materials: PP and alphabet stickers: MME So Sophie, metal number: 7Gypsies, brad: Nikki Sivils, stamps: myStampBOX, flower: some old book paper.

The photo is of Manon's shoes.... she's always asking for new shoes because she really NEEDS them!! LOL! Girls!!

If you want to try the sketch too, don't forget to link it to the blog post on Little Shop of Sketches!!!

Furthermore there's a challenge going on over at "These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things". There are lots and lots of prizes to win (last time I looked 28!!!). The challenge this week is to scrap about..... right! SHOES!!!

This is it for now...

I'm going to enjoy my weekend and try to forget I didn't make Nikki Sivils' team :-(....

(did get an email from her telling me I made the top selection, just not the final selection; she's really a wonderful person :-))

Hugs, Monique

My "Stamping on my kids' wardrobe"-tutorial on myStampBOX!!!

Today it was my turn to post a tutorial on the blog of myStampBOX.

Did you see it??? I really loved doing this!!!

If you want to see how I did it, head over to myStampBOX!!

and please leave me a comment if you do!!

Mats is enjoying his new stamped shirt hugely!!

And you know what??? It's been in the washing machine a few times now and the shirt still looks perfect!!!

Thanks for stopping by and see you soon!

Hugs, Monique

myStampBOX blog hop!!

myStampBOX will be having a blog hop soon!!!!

Come and join us in this summery event filled with prizes and gorgeous creations from all the DT members!!!

BFF and such a lovely, sunny day!!

First of all I want to share the layout I made for Liz from The Scrappiest. This is her new sketch:

and this is my take on it:

I wanted to do something a bit different with my edge punch and in the end I decided to just punch away! What do you think of the result??? I rather like it!!

And of course here some closeups of the details:

Materials I used: cardstock: Bazzill, pp: AC/Dear Lizzy, embellishments: AC/Dear Lizzy, photo mat: page from Creative Café mini album, stamps from AC/Dear Lizzy and myStampBOX (seal it-set), sewing machine & Zig writer!!

If you want to see what my co-dt members created, hop over to the blog of The Scrappiest!! and if you decide to join us you may even win a kit from Scrapbookdeals4U, but don't forget to link your layout to the correct post!!

Were your Friday and Saturday just as warm and sunny as in The Netherlands?? We've been waiting a long time for this weather and when it finally came the kids (and mum) were super happy!! They've been playing with water for two days on end!!!

Let's hope this weather stays on!!!

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you soon!!!

Hugs, Monique

My Little Shoebox challenge

For the next 6 weeks My Little Shoebox will be having a weekly challenge that will feature a new current line of MLS products. At the end of the week they will choose a challenge winner who will win a $20 value prize package from MLS! The winner will have a chance to win the grand prize of $200 MLS products!!!!

The challenge for week 1 is "Lil' Critter" and because I still have lots of MLS scraps lying on my scraptable I started creating straight away!!!

Here's layout I made:

and a collage of the details:

Except for the MLS Lil' Critter line I used Bazzill and glimmermist, furthermore lots of punches! The title is done with my Diesel and Aquarius QK alphabets in combination with the mini alpha's from MLS!!  

And of course I used my sewing machine again!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs, Monique