TEA FOR TWO!!

Wow, 2 blog posts in one day!! :):):) (have some catching up to do, LOL).

Last Saturday I attended the SBN crop marathon in Voorburg (finally finished my December album, yay!) and although I swore to myself NOT to buy any more papers, I just couldn't resist this line: Tea for Two from Cosmo Cricket. It was love at first sight! I mean, look at all those chipboard shapes ... teacups, a teapot, flowers, hearts .... sigh! LOVE them!! And because I had these photos from an English Tea my friend Anita organised for me, I knew I just had to have this line!!

Of course I wanted to use it straight away .... and the first layout I had make was for the Dutch Dares sketch challenge, so here's what I made:

Hope you  like it! Here are a few close-ups:

If you feel as inspired by it as I was, why not give it a try too? Place a link to your project on the Dutch Dares' blog and who knows, maybe you'll win this month's RAK or be our next guest designer!! And if you want to see what the other designers made, hop on over to the Dutch Dares' blog!!

And now I'm going to try something the mailman (uh, I mean mailperson) just delivered .... this:

Doesn't this look like fun??? I never ever order something from a shopping chanel on tv, but when I saw this I relented .... I love baking muffins and cakes, but I'm an "easy" kind of person and don't want to bother too much and this looked  sooooo simple on tv. Can't wait to see if it's really as simple as it looked (probably not, LOL).

This is it for now! Thanks for visiting my blog and would love to read your comments!!
Hugs,
Monique

3 Together * Cosmo Cricket

When I was reading the Cosmo Cricket blog I saw this sketch challenge and you know I love sketch challenges, but this one is special!! The prize is getting published in Scrapbook Etc!!!! So I pulled out my Cosmo Cricket stash straight away!!

This is the sketch:

but I rotated it to this:

and the 2 photos I replaced for 2 pieces of patterned paper and I placed 1 photo on top.
Here's my take on it:

I used the "Togetherness" line for this page. I love the colors and the design of this line!! For the background I used the empty sheet from the corrugated alphas from Jillibean Soup. I placed it on my CC paper and sprayed ink on it, then removed the empty letter sheet again.

The photo is of my daughter Manon with her 2 "step nieces", taken last Sunday visiting their grandfather (my step father) for Father's Day.

And of course I used my fav tools from Epiphany Crafts for the finishing touches: the heart 14 and the heart 25.

This is it!! Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you back soon!!

Hugs,

Monique

My Core'dinations Creative Frenzy!

Core'dinations is having a Design Team Call and because I LOVE their products I decided to give it a go!

Here are three new projects I created with their cardstock this week. I decided on three totally different projects: a layout, a card and a "sleeve" for a "vase" (bottle).
First the layout: "Silly Kids"

Materials: Cardstock: Core'dinations (Core Impressions Cosmo Cricket Classics Collection), patterned paper: Cosmo Cricket (Jack's World), corrugated letters: Making Memories, doilie: Maya Road,  corrugated flower, bird & white/black flower: Lily Bee, other flowers & white/black leaves: Prima Marketing, buttons: Creative Café, Fabric star: Canvas Design, ink: Color Box cat's eye.

Techniques: I sanded the cardstock to achieve the beautiful white accents, I spray inked the fabric star, inked a lot of edges of the embellishments and of course I machine stitched the four edges of the layout.

Secondly an Easter card:

Materials: Cardstock: Core'dinations (Core Impressions Cosmo Cricket Classics Collection & Color Core), patterned paper: Scenic Route & Cosmo Cricket, flowers & leaves: Prima Marketing, crystals: ZVA, twine: Divine Twine, letter stickers: Bella Blvd & Cosmo Cricket.

Techniques: I distressed the edges of the background cardstock (light green) and traced it twice with a black pen, I handcut the rabbit and sanded it, I punched the border in the middle.

And then the third project, a sleeve for a flower vase/bottle:

Materials: Cardstock: Core'dinations (Core Impressions Cosmo Cricket Classics Collection & Color Core), patterned paper: Best Creation (Bunny Love), epoxy shape: Epiphany Crafts, pins, yellow ink: Color Box cat's eye.

Techniques: The "vase" is an empty flowers bottle from Prima Marketing which I found just perfect for these Daffodils to put on my Easter breakfast table!

Here's what I did:

• For the sleeve: I cut a strip of Core'dinations cardstock from the Cosmo Cricket collection and sanded it.

• For the front: I used another strip of cardstock (Color Core) and folded it into a flower. Then I punched a circle from the Core'dinations Cosmo Cricket collection and another circle from the Best Creation collection.Then I used a round Best Creation sticker and to finish it off I placed an epoxy circle with a Best Creation chicken on top.

These were my three new projects I created especially for the call, but I want to show you one more new layout I created this week where I used Core'dinations: "What's that in your nose"

Materials: Cardstock: Core'dinations (Core Impressions Cosmo Cricket Classics Collection & Color Core), patterned paper: Nikki Sivils (We are Family), die cuts: Nikki Sivils, brad: Nikki Sivils, letter stickers: Nikki Sivils, bird die: Marianne Design, ABC border punch: Martha Stewart, twine: Divine twine.

Techniques: I sanded the dark brown Core'dinations cardstock and used it for both the strip at the bottom of the page as well as for the bird in the tree. I distressed the edges of the "orange" Color Core cardstock and used it as a photo mat for the top photo and last but not least I created a border with the red strip of Color Core cardstock with a Martha Stewart border punch.

I just LOVE the versatility of this cardstock!!!

This is it! Hope you  like my projects and now keeping my fingers crossed for the call!!

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

Hugs,

Epiphany Crafts Make and Take bij SBN!!

Mocht je morgenochtend in de buurt van Voorburg zijn kom dan even langs bij Scrapbook Nederland! De hele ochtend zijn er demonstraties (glimmermist, I-rock tool, Fiskars all over the page punch) en ik geef een Make and Take met de shape tools van Epiphany Crafts!!!

We gaan een kaart maken met het papier van Cosmo Cricket ca. 1934. Kom je ook???

Vandaag is het trouwens de laatste dag dat je nog mee kan doen aan de Design Team Call van Epiphany Crafts!!

Tot morgen??

My Mum - sketch #99 The Scrappiest!

After scrapping of photo of my dad last week, I thought that this week it was high time to scrap a photo of my mum! So here it is.... a layout with lots of her favorite things in it: antique typewriter, antique photo camera, little birdies, music, yellow flowers, rust colored clothes, France, antique watch, handwritten text... it's all there!

 She used to have this exact typewriter and now I have it...

And she always used to wear watches like these! She actually had a few of them and the ones she wasn't wearing hung on the wall in the living room. The postcard of Lyon, France, I bought in the south of France and is soooo her. Creating this layout was a hard thing to do, I still miss her so much, sigh.

I used the November 2010 Nook kit again with lots of Cosmo Cricket "circa 1934".

The layout is based on this sketch by Liz, The Scrappiest, number 99:

We are only one week away from our 100th sketch celebration! We have a lot of fun stuff planned for next week with a whole lotta' sketches and prizes all week long. So don't forget - the fun starts on Monday Jan 24 and ends on Friday Jan 28th!!!

Thanks for stopping by and see you soon!
Hugs,

My Dad - sketch #98 The Scrappiest

Hello everyone! It's Monday which means sketch reveal day at The Scrappiest. Yay!

In accordance with my resolution for 2011 I didn't scrap a page about my kids, but this time about my DAD!!! My dad is the most wonderful dad in the whole wide world, I love him to bits (although I seldom tell him that, but I'm sure he knows).

I made this one with the November kit from My Scrapbook Nook....it's as gorgeous as ever!!! It's filled with Cosmo Cricket "Circa 1934".

this is the sketch it's based upon:

If you decide to try this sketch too then don't forget to add your layout to Mr. Linky no later than February 1st on the blog of The Scrappiest! You could be the winner of the amazing kit from Sweet Peach Crop Shop!


And VERY IMPORTANT: don't forget about the 100th sketch-a-versary happening on The Scrappiest blog during the week of January 24th. We will be starting it off with a blog hop, we will have AMAZING sponsors, guest designers and sketches ALL WEEK LONG! I guarantee you you don't want to miss it!

Woohoo!!!

Thanks for stopping by again and hope to see you back soon!!!!
Hugs,

The Scrappiest new design team and a new sketch!!

Wohoo, I'm allowed to stay on the new design team of The Scrappiest (and Liz had more than 100 applicants, omg!!) I'm so happy because I LOVE Liz' sketches!!

Here's the new sketch for this week:

And here's my take on it:

I turned the sketch upside down cause that worked better for me! The photos are from 6 years ago ... Manon is only 7 years old and looks so cute (she still does)!

For this page I used the De Lovely line from Cosmo Cricket again, stamps from myStampBOX (abundant blossoms) and epoxy shapes from Epiphany Crafts. I also used my Cuttlebug embossing border "caged bird" which I bought last Saturday (the brown bird cages in the top left corner). Love those!!

I haven't been able to use embossing folders before but last Saturday Angelique gave me her "old" Epic and I could finally buy some of those cute embossing folders too!! How sweet is that!! So happy with it!!

Right, back to the sketch.... if you have time to do the sketch and link it to the blog, then maybe you'll be the one to win the kit from Crazy Daisy Kits!!! And if you want to see who made the new design team have a look at this blogpost!!! and honestly the new team is amazing!! So many talented ladies in this group, I feel really honored to be part of this group!

Thanks for stopping by and see you back soon!!

.... btw did you see who the Guest Designer is at Nikki Sivils this month???? (doing a happy dance!!)

Hugs, Monique

New blog look and a new layout.

What do you think of my new blog look??? I've been changing and rechanging it and am still not perfectly happy with it. I wanted to have 3 colums and at least I succeeded in that.... but now there's still the rest. Mmmm still thinking about it.

And here's a layout I created yesterday. Megan at Crop Addict came up with the weekly challenge: create a layout with a sun/rainbow or lollipop and add some embossing.

Here's what I came up with:

I love how it turned out! Used De Lovely from Cosmo Cricket and do you see the epoxy shapes from Epiphany Crafts??? ... beside the word "always":

and in the cloud:

If you have the time please join us at Crop Addict with our weekly challenges!! We would love to have you!!

Hugs, Monique

Little Shop of Sketches - reveal time!

Last week - before the holidays even - I made this layout for Little Shop of Sketches with Tanya's latest sketch:

and this is Tanya's sketch:

As you can see I made this layout on the same day I made the layout about Timothy being only 2 days old :-) only this hand is from Mats.

Used "Material Girl" from CC again, furthermore Bazzill, stamps from myStampBOX, a label from Maya Road, a doily and Ranger ink.