New cards and blog candy at Susy's!

These are some cards I made this morning, again for SE:

While blog hopping I found this wonderful blog "scrap with Suzy" and she's giving away some Cosmo Cricket goodies!! and who wouldn't want that?!!

And here's an award I got from Romy, the most talented 16 year old scrapbooker I've ever seen!!! Thanks Romy, this means a lot!!


And now I'm supposed to give it to another scrapbooker, but I never know who to give it to... you're all so talented and I wouldn't want to offend anyone by not giving it. So I'm giving this to ALL of you!! (I know, it's the easy way out... next time I'll think of something else!)

TFL and see you soon! Monique

A new layout, new awards and new prizes!

This morning I felt like scrapping and when I saw the new challenge on "Scrap the boys" I decided on that one (I never seem to scrap "just for me" anymore....I'm hooked on challenges!). The layout had to contain a photo involving food and in the title you had to use a cooking term....(while typing this I start to doubt whether bite, dribble and spit are cooking terms....more eating terms??? nah, I think it's ok). I had a funny photo of Timothy and decided to use it. Furthermore I used the July kit from the Nook: BG Lemonade.

Here it is, hope you'll like it!
Then last week I received a few awards:

3 (!!!) from Romy (thanks hun!!):
and this one from Stefanie (thank you dear!!):

Which I have to pass on to my favorite bloggers! This is so terribly hard because I have so many favorites, so I have decided to give them to my 9 followers:

• Mieke
• Stefanie
• Vicki
• LG
• Helen
• Ewonne
• Stefanie S.
• Cindy
• Jessica

Thanks for following my blog guys!!! You don't know how much this means to me!!!!

And then I wanted to tell you about the prizes I won last month:

• 2 shaped cards (digital) from Paper Popsicles;
• vintage rubons from the Rasberry give-away;
• a RAK from Scrapbook Nederland which I won with my lifted Elsie lo!!

Woohooo!!!! Great isn't it?!

An award

Look what I got from Sonja:



Thanks Sonja!! this means a lot to me!!

And I guess I have to pass it on, so here are the names:

- Mieke
- Vicki
- Nic (as she's having her 1st blog anniversary)
- Sandra

Hope you'll like it! I think you deserve it!!!

New layout!

Op het forum van Stampin' Scrap stond een nieuwe challenge van Yvette: je moest een layout maken met vrolijke kleuren, een "layer" van tenminste 5 lagen, een "critter" (blijkbaar een beestje) en een boom. Nou ben ik gek op challenges en ook op "layers", dus deed ik graag mee. Dit is het geworden:

This is the layout I created for Yvette's "layers, layers, layers" challenge on the Stampin' Scrap forum. You had to create a layout using: layers (at least 5), summery colours, a tree and a critter. I had these photos printed and wanted to scrap them for ages! I'm so glad that I finally did just that!

Used the new American Crafts pp "Craft Fair".

Furthermore, I received another award from Vicki!

In getting this award there are some rules: I have to say one nice thing about the man in my life. Well that is not too difficult: Patrick is the most patient and caring man in the world and just "gets" me (he kind of understands all my do's and don'ts) and besides this he's the perfect father to our children, I couldn't wish for a better man! Thanks Pat!

And now I have to list six ways I measure my success in my life. This, I find much more difficult, because how do you measure success?? and when you asked me this question 10 years ago, the answer would have been totally different, but I'll give it a shot: being happy, being healthy, having a fab husband and raising happy children, having wonderful friends, being able to have a job (or at the moment, being able not to have work) and last but not least being able to be busy with my hobbies (scrapping, reading, walking, dancing).

I have to pass this award on and I choose: Mieke!!

Thanks for reading my post and please feel free to comment on it!

1st online class and another award

Vandaag heb ik mijn allereerste online scrap class gevolgd. Tanya, van Stampin' Scrap, had er eentje georganiseerd en Stefanie en ik hebben er samen aan meegedaan. Eigenlijk zou de klas om 8 uur 's avonds beginnen, maar vanwege het tijdsverschil begon-ie voor ons al om 8 uur 's ochtends... beetje vroeg! Nadat ik de kinderen naar school had gebracht en Jip had uitgelaten ben ik snel naar Steef geraced in mijn kleine autootje en konden wij om 9 uur ook beginnen. Het was echt erg leuk. Ik had geen idee wat ik kon verwachten, maar uiteindelijk was het erg simpel: Tanya liet in een aantal stappen zien hoe zij haar lo gemaakt had en die hebben we "na gemaakt" terwijl we met z'n allen in een chatroom zaten, waar je nog vragen kon stellen enz. Ik heb nog niet gezien wat de rest heeft gemaakt (behalve die van Stefanie dan natuurlijk), maar dit is de mijne geworden. Het papier is van de Nook februari kit (geweldig!).

Today I attended my first online scrap class! Tanya from Stampin' Scrap hosted an online class today and Stefanie and I decided to participate together. It was great fun; at 8.30 am I left in my little red car on my way to Stefanie and around 9 am we got started. The rest of the class had already begun, but that was no problem at all. I haven't yet seen what the others made, but this is what I made (used the Nook February kit, awesome!):

If you want to see the layouts the others made, check it out here!

Verder kreeg ik van Mieke en Vicki allebei dit award. Lief hè? Harstikke bedankt allebei!! Ben er erg blij mee.
Furthermore a BIG thank you to Mieke and Vicki for this award!! You rock girls!