Why is it that....

..... some layouts take hours to finish and others only half an hour??

I think it has something to do with this fabulous January kit from the Nook I'm using for this layout!

The kit is filled with Pink Paislee & lots of embelishments and the colors were just perfect for this photo of my DS Timothy. The layout is based on sketch 170 from Pencil Lines.

And here's the card with the journaling which I've put in the envelope:

Thanks for visiting my blog! Hope to see you again sometime!

Hugs, Monique

Feeling good!

Good morning to all of you!! Today is Wednesday and that means my day off!!! I've been a SAHM for 5 years and had 5 x 365 days off, but now that I'm working again I appreciate my one day off a 1000 times more!! And a day off means ..... SCRAPPING!!

But first I want to show you this photo of Mats' birthday party... It's his very first birthday party and he was so terribly excited!! He almost couldn't sleep the night before! The kids all got a new, very white t-shirt, which they had to change into a pirate t-shirt, an eye patch and an earring. Don't they look scarry? And of course we went looking for a treasure!!

And there's this photo of Manon I want to show you too. Yesterday she joined me when I took Jippie to the park. Of course I took my camera along! Don't they look cute together?

And then finally here's the layout I did yesterday. The sketch is from Sketchy Thursdays:

And this is the layout I created with it:

And some details:

I created this layout with both the sketch from "Sketchy Thursdays" and the "photo inspiration" challenge from Basic Grey in mind (even though these are in principal meant for cards...). As I couldn't choose between the two (and my days off are limited, LOL) and decided to combine the two (which I normally never do!).

I used the BG Eskimo Kisses line (papers, chip stickers and woolies), Bazzill, stamps from Creative Café/Autumn Leaves and HS, clear swirls from My Little Shoebox, bling from the local bead shop, felt stars, ribbon, cat's eye ink and border punches and my Slice!

This is it for now! I'm off to scrap some more!

Thanks for looking and hope you'll leave me a comment!

Hugs, Monique

Cherish

This morning I f elt like scrapping! (when not?) So I sat down and created this layout with my left over scraps from Nikki Sivils papers Sweet Cherry Pie. The layout is based on sketch #47 from Liz (The Scrappiest).

And this my take on it:

What I love about Nikki's papers are the bright colors and the sheet with cut outs!

And now I'm off to the library! Have a wonderful weekend everyone and hope to see you back soon!

Hugs, Monique

What's the scoop at Paper Popsicles?

Paper Popsicles just announced their new blog "What's the Scoop?", filled with inspiration and activities.... make sure you hop over and check them out!

Just an update...and some sneak peaks

Another cold weekend in The Netherlands!! It seems like our winters keep getting colder and colder... and we love it! (I sooooo regret throwing away my old ice skates! every store is now sold out!!). Here are some photos of the time we went to the Beestenmarkt in the center of Delft, but as of yesterday we also skate on ditches and ponds here in the neighbourhood.....

Look what I bought yesterday! I've had my eye on this paper tagger kit for months now, but couldn't decided whether it was worth approx. 30 euros.... Saturday I couldn't resist it any longer and now I finally got it! and I'm so happy with it!! I used it on a layout I made with Nikki Sivils papers, see photo at the bottom of this post....

And here are two sneak peaks of the layout I made for the Nikki Sivils' DT call. I made a layout using her Victoria's Street line. I really love working with her designs! They fit my style perfectly! (hope she thinks so too!) I even crocheted some flowers for this page!

Do you notice how I attached the orange flower to my green (self crocheted) flower? It's done with the paper tagger shown above! Isn't it fun?

TFL and hope to see you soon!

Hugs, Monique

My Scrapbook Nook Bloghop!

Did you know that over at the Nook they are having a bloghop??? It gives you the possibility to admire all the DT's amazing work and there are fabulous kits to win!!! You start at Leah's blog and go from there!!