June Doodles Sketch!

Today my sketch is up at Doodlebug! Have a look HERE!

This is the sketch I made:

And here's my take:

Remember I told you about the new Doodlebug/Hampton Arts stamps? For this page I used lots of them: Flower Garden, Home Sweet Home, Party Time, Journal Shapes & Thankful. LOVE them all!!

The layout is about my youngest who loves to copy his dad ... here he reads his magazine, uses his reading glasses and wears his shoes. Isn't he sweet? He always manages to make me smile.

 If you want to see what Aphra did with the sketch, then hop over to Doodlebug's blog!
Thanks for stopping by my blog today, I really appreciate it!
Hugs,
Monique

Doodles Sketch {by me!}

This month Doodlebug is having a sketch challenge too!! If you decide to play you can win an entire DB collection of your choice!

The sketches are designed by Jessy (card sketch) and by me (layout sketch).

This is the sketch:

and this is my take on it (you can find it HERE on Doodlebug's blog), however the DT had an extra challenge: we had to use at least 75% green on our layout .... (it's St. Patrick's Day on March 17, in case you were wondering why, LOL).

My take on this week's subject is a layout about our own "St. Patrick's Day". As my husband is called "Patrick" and because he turned 50 last year, we called his birthday: "St. Patrick's Day"!!

Supply List: Patterned Paper: Petite Prints, Colorwheel, Welcome Home and Bon Apetit; Diecuts: Birthday Celebration and Welcome Home; Doodle-Pops: Kaleidoscope; Sticker: Headlines "Celebrate"; Cardstock Alpha Stickers: Jack & Jill; Doodle Twine

If you decide to play, create a card or a layout based on one of the sketches and link it to THIS blogpost at Doodlebug's blog!!

Thanks for stopping by my blog again today!
Hugs,
Monique

Ice Fun!

Vinden jullie het ook zo jammer dat de sneeuw en het ijs weg zijn? Het was echt even een paar dagen genieten. Gelukkig heb ik eraan gedacht om foto's te maken, zodat ik nu kan nagenieten ....

Such a shame that the snow and ice have melted again. We had such beautiful days, full of snow and sunshine! but now we're back to grey skies and rain, lots of rain :(. BUT luckily I took lots of photos and have enough to scrap all the pp winter lines I bought! Here's a layout I created for the Dutch Dares using a sketch I made myself. The paper and stickers are from Simple Stories, "Year.O.Graphy". I love the designs and colors of this line!! With my new typewriter I typed the journaling straight on the background paper.  

Ik heb ze gebruikt om deze layout voor de Dutch Dares te maken. De schets heb ik deze maand ook zelf gemaakt. 

Mats moet nog leren hoe hij op echte ijshockey schaatsen kan schaatsen, dus die hangt tussen Manon en Patrick in aan de stok van de sneeuwschuiver. Handig joh! 

My youngest is trying to skate with his brand new skates and he needs to practice a lot! Manon and Patrick are helping him.

Het papier dat ik gebruikt heb is van Simple Stories "Year.O.Graphy". Geweldig makkelijk om mee te werken. De journaling heb ik rechtstreeks op de achtergrond getypt met mijn nieuwe typemachine!
En hier is de schets die ik gemaakt heb:

Als je de creaties wilt zien van de andere dt leden van de Dutch Dares, neem dan eens een kijkje op het blog! Er is trouwens weer een leuke RAK te winnen als je met ons meedoet, of natuurlijk het gastdesignerschap!

If you want to see the other designers' creations, please visit the Dutch Dares' blog and if you want a chance to win this month's RAK just use this sketch for your next layout and tell us where to find it! (open to everyone everywhere!!) 

Weer hartstikke leuk dat je even langs kwam!

Thanks for stopping by, it's highly appreciated! 

Hugs,
Monique 

Scrapping some school photos

It's Wednesday again and for me that means another sketch from Tanya. This week Tanya's sketch really worked for me. It arrived quite late (please take no offence Tanya!) and as I'm a working mom now it was a close call whether or not I would make it on time....but..... then Manon came home with her school photos! To be honest, I don't really like to scrap the photos taken by the school photographer, I don't know why. Maybe because they are too smooth? or to perfect??? Whatever. This time though, I couldn't wait to start scrapping! I knew exactly what I wanted to do and this is it:
I started with glimmermist and on top of that I sprayed the darker blue ink. The papers are from my October Nook kit, Graphic 45, flowers + centers + felt + swirl are from Prima and the rest is just a bit of this and that.

I think it's my favorite layout right now. What do you think???
And here's the sketch it's based upon:


If you want to see what the other designers made, have a look at the Little Shop of Sketches blog, better...please play along and show us your version of this sketch. You could win some Tanya Leigh Design products!!
Thanks for looking and do leave a comment (I love reading them!). Have a nice evening and see you later! Monique xx

Just a quick post,

showing you my layout I created for sketch #51 from Little Shop of Sketches!


Used MME papers and created the background with a Heidi Swapp mask and an inking pad and then machine stitched the lot! Flowers from Prima, grungeboard swirl from Tim Holtz, "red with white dots flag" from the local supermarket, alfa stickers from Jenni Bowlin and red letters from Scrapworks, furthermore a button and bling.

And this is Tanya's sketch it's based upon:
TFL and see you soon! Monique

Using my Prima stash (again)

I just love these Prima papers and find myself reaching for them time and again but as I don't find them very fitting for the boys' pics I always end up scrapping Manon's photos!

Can't remember the last time I participated in Paper Popsicles monthly sketch challenge so I thought I would give it a shot again.

This is their sketch:

And this is my take on it:

The journaling is hidden and is about Manon's happy and funny character and how she never tires of me taking pics of her... I LOVE her!

Another sketch on Little Shop of Sketches' blog!!

It's time for a new sketch, it's time for sketch #41!!!

Thanks Tanya for this wonderful sketch!! I wanted to scrap a page with multiple photos and this sketch came just in time!! In December 2007, when Timothy's soccer team won for the 1st time, I had these photos printed straight away! I was so proud of him, I couldn't wait to sit down and scrap about it.....but life got in the way and these photos were still sitting on my desk...until today!

If you want to see what the other designers did with the sketch, or if you want to play along, hop on over to Little Shop's blog!!

TFL!

New sketch at Little Shop of Sketches!

Yesterday Tanya had her new sketch up on the blog of Little Shop:
And here's my take on it:

Used some of my new October Afternoon stash. Don't you just love it?? If you want to see what the other designers did with the sketch, hop on over and have a look! don't forget to leave a comment!!!

And what I want to share with you is this: our own Stefanie has started a blog too!!!!! A miracle has happened!! If you want to see it, click here: four seasons in one day!

Another layout

This is the layout I created for the June challenge over at ScrappinKids.

Journaling is about the fact that the kids thought we did too much during our holiday in California! (They'd rather stayed in the pool of the hotel....) But if you see these photos they appear very happy!

and this is the sketch it's based upon:

If you want to play too....you have until the end of the month to upload your entry! and don't forget, the layout has to be kids related!

Busy busy!

Want to show you a few things that kept me occupied yesterday!!

1: Manon went away on her school trip: 3 days to Schaijk!! She was so excited to go!! Just hope she has a good time, because I really miss her!!!

2: Look at this phone I bought!! I knew I wanted it when I saw it, but Patrick told me to think about it, check if I could get a cheaper phone somewhere else, etc. etc....but, hey NO! I'm just not that kind of person; if I want something, I want it NOW! So when he wasn't looking, I bought it anyway!! I don't know exactly how it works yet, but I do know how to send text messages and that's most important for me! LOL!

and 3: This is the lo I created for 52 sketches...52 weeks:

And this is the sketch it's based upon:

Do play along if you want! Every week a winner will be picked randomly who will receive a few scrapbook goodies. You have until Sunday 11.59 pm EST time to upload your lo!!

It's that day again...

Wednesday! And that means that the new sketch at Little Shop is up on the blog!! Go have a look and see what Ewonne (the guest designer) and the DT made with it!

Here's my layout (using my favorite Sassafras again):

And here's the sketch:

Furthermore I have some TERRIFIC news, that I can't share yet.....tell you later!!

Catching up

Haven't shown you this lo I made for Little Shop of Sketches a little while ago. Used a photo of my dh's sister and her family.


And this is the sketch it was based upon:

And last but not least, a photo of the June Nook kit, which arrived yesterday!
I think this is one of my favorites, it's filled with Cosmo Cricket - early bird - papers and embellies and 2 sets of Thickers!!

Creative Scrappers weekly challenge

Today I finished my lo for the Creative Scrappers' weekly challenge.
Here's my layout, used the Orbit Collection from Crate Paper (paper and glitter die cuts), Hambly sheet, clip from MM and stamp from See d's:


And this is the sketch it's based upon, made by LG:



You have until the 6th of June if you want to play along!
Thanks for leaving a comment!!

Resuming "normal" life....

The cremation last Friday was truly beautiful (as far as something so dreadful can be beautiful) and I want to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart for their support!!! I love you all!

So, back to "normal" life it is ....

Haven't shown you my take on Tanya's latest sketch at Little Shop of Sketches yet.

Here it is:

And this is Tanya's sketch:
If you haven't visited LSS's blog yet then I urge you to do so quickly! The wonderful scrapbooker Ewonne has kindly agreed to be our guest designer. Her take on the sketch is amazing!! Thanks Ewonne for participating!! If you want to see more of Ewonne's work, visit her blog: genom mina ögen!

Happy Mothersday!

This month guest designer Laura Vegas provided the sketch for "Little Shop of Sketches" and she did a wonderful job too!

Here's her sketch:

And here's my take on it:


I left it a bit simple this time and haven't used any of my new American stuff yet (couldn't find my way through it)!

And you know: we would love you to play along!!!

Another layout for Little Shop of Sketches.

During my holiday sketch #36 went up on Little Shop's blog. Of course I had finished my layout before I went and here it is:

Used my stash of favorite Sassafras papers! And this is the sketch my layout is based upon:

If you want to see the other designers' layouts hop over to the LSS blog!!
xx Monique

Finally my layout for Little Shop...

Eindelijk is hier dan de layout die ik gemaakt heb voor mijn 2 wekelijks "assignment" voor Little Shop of Sketches. Omdat mijn pc het weer eens niet deed, ben ik een paar dagen te laat.... Ik vond deze layout echt heerlijk om te gebruiken. Ik heb mijn naaimachine gebruikt om de cirkels te stikken en verder de stempels en de rubons uit mijn tas te voorschijn gehaald; heerlijk!!!

As my computer was down (again), I'm a few days late showing you the layout I made for Little Shop of Sketches. But here it is:

en dit was de schets die we gekregen hadden:

Mocht je zin hebben om er ook mee aan de slag te gaan, vergeet dan niet 'm te uploaden op het blog van LSS! Je kan er een leuk prijsje mee winnen (hè Yvonne!!, gefeliciteerd!!).

And don't forget, if you like this sketch too, please play along and upload your take on it onto the blog!!!

Wednesday, LSS day

Vanmorgen heeft Tanya weer de nieuwe 2 wekelijkse schets op de site van Little Shop of Sketches gezet, dus kan ik jullie nu laten zien wat ik ervan gemaakt heb. De layouts van de ander dt leden zijn ook weer hartstikke leuk, dus ga gauw even kijken!

As of this morning you can find the new 2 weekly sketch on the site of Little Shop of Sketches! This is my interpretation. If you want to see the layouts of the other dt members, please visit the blog! They are worth it!!

Another layout for Zarah's Sketches

Kijk, deze schets werd me deze week toegestuurd door Annika van "Zarah's Sketches". Een onwijs leuke schets waar veel mee te doen viel. Als je op Zarah's sketch site kijkt zie je wat de anderen ermee gedaan hebben en hieronder zie je mijn layout.

Last week I received another fabulous sketch from "Zarah's Sketches" to work with.

Let me show you the sketch and my layout. I had so much fun making this one.

Ik heb gebruikt: Bazzill CC, American Crafts de Teen-lijn, een uil van MME, een Prima swirl, vilt van Fancy Pants, een journaling kaartje van Maya Road, lintjes + rub-on + smile-button zijn allemaal van AC, paperclip MM, tag is van Creative Café.

I used: pp: Bazzill CC + AC (teen line), owl from MME, bling swirl from Prima, felt from Fancy Pants, journaling ticket from Maya Road, ribbons + rub-on + smile-button are all from American Crafts, tag is from Creative Café and the paperclip is from MM.