Timothy's A tot Z

Een van de challenges bij Stampin' Scrap is een A tot Z album scrappen. Ik ben er eentje voor Timothy aan het maken. Elke maand noemt Tanya de letters die gescrapt moeten worden, dus niet per sé in alfabetische volgorde. Tot nu toe heb ik 5 letters gescrapt. Hier zijn mijn layouts:

In January I started Timothy's A to Z album (it's one of the challenges on Stampin' Scrap, you can still join if you want to!). This morning I scrapped the letters G and S, but as I haven't shown you the other letters yet, here they come:

A= Amerika

D = DS

G = Gat in de luchtI = Ik S = Schaatsen

Ik heb gekozen voor een 8x8 album en de pagina's zijn gescrapt in de stijl van Moniek Jannink. Ik vind haar albums altijd ontzettend leuk, maar vaak iets te "rustig" voor mijn doen. Echter, voor dit albumpje vind ik het perfect.

Oh, en ik heb nog wat gescrapt, maar dat mag ik (nog) niet op mijn blog laten zien: een layout voor de challenge van Daretousecolor. Als je wilt zien wat ik gemaakt heb, klik dan door naar hun blog en kijk aan de linkerkant bij dare #15 groen/geel. De layout waar Mats in een doos zit is van mij!

Last week I made another layout, but I'm not (yet) allowed to show it. It's a lo for the challenge blog of Daretousecolor. If you want to see what I made, click on the link and look it up under dare #15 green/yellow. The layout with the photos of Mats sitting in a box is mine!

Queen's Challenge #2

Deze layout heb ik gisterenochtend even in elkaar gezet voor Tanya's "Queen's Challenge, nr. 2". Mocht je zin hebben in een challenge, je kan nog t/m zondagochtend meedoen!!! Het enige wat je moet doen is een layout maken met alleen de kleuren roze, zwart en wit, wat bling erop en het woord "roze" in je titel gebruiken (3x raden wat Tanya's favoriete kleur is.....).

I made this layout for Tanya's "Queen's Challenge #2". You had to use solely the colours pink, black and white, furthermore some bling and the word "pink" in the title (guess what Tanya's favorite colour is...). As Manon loves pink, choosing a photo wasn't too difficult!
If you want to participate too, you have until Sunday to upload your entry!

Good times and (very) bad times...

I know, I know, it's all part of life: the good and the bad times, but I really really HATE the present bad times. My mother is terribly ill. I don't want to go into any details here, but at least you know why I'm probably not so much behind my computer chatting away..... I do find that I can (partly) relax while scrapping, so I'll keep on doing just that.

As for good times, there are lots of those too of course and I really try to notice and enjoy them. (The kids are very good at present and I hope that will last forever!)
An example of what made me smile the other day was Helen's reaction to my "Queen's challenge" post. Here's what she said: "You are my scrappy inspiration right now...Incredibly pretty layout". Thank you Helen, that means a lot to me!!!

And Jessica's remark at my last post was also so very nice: "Once again, it's an awesome layout! I love the layering and the detail. You are truly becoming more and more of an inspiration! Are you the Monique from the Netherlands that provided Prima photos for their blog? It made me instantly think of you." Thank you Jessica for thinking I'm good enough for Prima!! No, it wasn't me, but your question made my day!

And what I haven't shown you yet (well, I did show it on the Stampin' Scrap forum) is this mini album Mieke made for me:
Jessica had organized a "mini album swap". You had to create a mini album of at least 5 or 6 pages and be finished by the end of February. Jessica sent us details of the person you had to send your album to. I can't show you the mini album I made because I haven't heard if my "partner" already received it, but I can show you the album I got!! Don't you just love it? Thanks Mieke, for this wonderful album!!

This is it for now. I just want to finish with wishing Elske a lot of strengh and good luck, because she too has a lot of bad times to cope with...

Thank you all for the kind things you said, for the super nice cards you've sent me and for everything else I'm forgetting to mention right now.

En mam, als je dit leest: IK HOU VAN JE!!

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!

The Queen's Challenge

This morning I created this layout for the "Queen's Challenge" over at Stampin' Scrap. I missed the deadline so I won't be eligible for the rak, but I couldn't resist playing along anyway. The challenge was: use a photo with yourself in it, pink, bling and a crown. Thanks Vicki (the queen herself) for this fun challenge! Loved it!


left to right: Anita, Mieke, Stefanie and I (or do I say "me"??).

A new sketch

Op Stampin' Scrap staat een nieuwe schets challenge voor febuari. Natuurlijk kon ik het niet laten er gelijk mee aan de slag te gaan!

On Stampin' Scrap you'll find a sketch challenge for February! Of course I couldn't resist and started straight away!

Here's my interpretation:

And this is the sketch:

TFL!

And have a very scrappy weekend!!

xoxo Monique