My Girl

I didn't manage to play along with the online crop last monday at the SA-forum. But I made the layout today. Papers are SEI chocolat. The bird in the cage is from a postcard and the Picture was made 10 years ago in a small German town called Stadtkyl.

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Finally organized my ribbons....

Tried many different things before to organise my ribbons but nothing was satisfying. A few weeks ago I bought the "Ribbon Ring" system. I am really happy with it, finally my ribbons are organised.

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Keepsakes Box - new photo

This is a box for baby keepsakes which I made upon request for a friend. It will be a x-mas present for her sister. Originally it is a teabox (Xenos) which I covered with gesso and layered with Basic Grey lime rickey Inside you'll find pockets, tiny boxes and some tags to store memories like primary teeth, a lock of hair, small toys, first socks ore whatever you want to store.... The photocollage is stuck behind a clearsheet, to protect it from scratches.

the next morning...... I changed the inside of the box a bit, didn't like how it looked on the picture..

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Your Cherry Kisses Blow Me Away

How lovely this day started...I am really proud that my Angelique and her corset were one of the honourable mentions at Let's Get Shabby challenge 5!!

Wanted to played with my G45 papers today and came up with this layout according to today's sketch at the SA-forum...

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chit chat & oldies

I am sooooo proud that I won this weeks challenge at scrapping the music with my Berlin layout....for the 2nd time I made it to their Hall of Fame!!

And also I entered this months challenge at Dare To Use Color, purple & grey this time. Please check out the blog if you'd like to see what I came up with, because a sneak is all that I am allowed to give you right now....


And also I have been busy reorganising my layouts. Here are some "oldies" I would love to share with you, just for fun:

made this one february 2008, for a "huge letter"challenge at Scrapfever forum.

august 2008 - I so love this photo!! Isn't she beautiful!?

made this nov 2008 for a contest, gee I look so different now....

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These city walls

This weeks challenge at Scrapping The Music is U2's "only to be with you".  Since the 20th anniversary of fall of the Berlin is breaking news at the moment I chose an odd line in this song as my inspiration..."these city walls".
The photograph was taken near Brandenburger Tor. In order to visit the Eastern part of Berlin we had to change money, 25 DM. But there was nothing for sale back than!! So we went to a supermarket en bought hammers and chisers. Then we went back to West-Berlin to chop into the wall! Do you notice the VoPo's standing and staring on that wall.... It was an amazing and crazy time, that's for sure!

I used Tim Holz' technique to make the barbwire and a couple of Peters layout's inspired me to create that grungy look and oppresive atmosphere...
                                     
And this are pieces of the real German Wall, pieces that we chopped out ourselves, with hammers and chisers that we bought in Eastern Berlin during a daytrip.

                                         

Do you notice the DDR Police (Vopo's) standing and staring at us breaking down that wall....

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Angelique

Challenge no 5 at let's get shabby is a true dare: "Our Challenge Five consists of a focus of handmade embellishment/s - it can be a few or just one, but it must be the FOCUS of your creation "

Had a hard time figuring out what to make, untill I received AMM's newsletter with a tutorial for making a corset. So all the credits for my embellishment should go to Larissa, for giving me this inspiration!!!

The corset was made with K&C and MME papers. Decorated it with feathers, lace, tiny roses, pearls pieces that were cut from a vine and also used a lot of distress ink. Inside the corset is a tag, with an extra photo and some journalling. The background paper is MME Bella Bella and a piece of cardstock that I shaped, all the edges are distressed and stamped with distress ink, and for the finishing touch I sprayed some glimmer mist.

Does any of you know Angelique? I used to watch these movies with my mom and just dreamt away during these incredible stories about this beautiful woman. Not to mention her husband "Jeoffrey".......

Since she was wearing corsets as well, I thought these photo's of here would perfectly match my embellishment. This is a tag, that's inside the corset.

Oh, here's this Jeoffrey guy! He had a scar on his left cheek. Soooo sexy!

This is the corset without the tag.

Sorry that it's not in dutch this time! Enne, hier ben ik zo lang mee bezig geweest, verder heb ik niks meegemaakt....

Staying over at grandma's

It was my turn to receive a Personal Challenge at Scrapfever. I had to use a sketch and also I had to embroid on my layout. Photo's were made last summer while Jacky was staying over at her grandma's. They have so much fun together!

Het was mijn beurt voor de personal challenge bij Scrapfever. Davina heeft een sketch voor mij uitgezocht en de extra opdracht was dat ik moest borduren op de layout. Het golflijntje onderaan is geborduurd. De foto's zijn gemaakt toen Jacky deze zomer bij mijn moeder logeerde.

De bloemetjes met gouden opdruk heb ik in Frankrijk gekocht, bij een oude molen waar handgemaakte bloemetjes worden vervaardigt ten behoeve van de haute couture. Was ook te merken aan de prijs haha!

Door de vine heen heb ik een kralenhangertje van de Action verwerkt. Deze budgetaankoop heft de dure bloemetjes weer op :LOL:

Het prachtige slotje en sleuteltje zijn van Melissa Frances

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I'm All Ears

Our puppydog Midas is 18 weeks old now and he has huge ears. So I made this layout using weekly sketch 42 at Scrapfever and sent it in last week for the brown/aqua dare at Dare to use color.

Onze puppy Midas is nu 18 weken oud en heeft zulke grote oren! Daarom heb ik deze layout van hem gemaakt met behulp van sketch 42 bij Scrapfever en dare 22 bij Dare to use color . Wat vind je van mijn nieuwe hekjes pons? Ik ben er zo blij mee :)

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brood en spelen LGS challenge #4

And so there's allready challenge no. 4 at let's get shabby blog. This time we have to use a sketch for inspiration. And to use something vintage.
Papers I used are Bo Bunny and 7 Gypsies. The old Roman coin and head both represent the something vintage part in this challenge. The title is Latin for "bread & games" which the emperor thought the people wanted.

This photo was taken just 2 weeks ago, we had a special day with about 200 scouts and leaders, playing Roman games. My part was playing one of the emperors fine ladies, throwing around some money for "the plebs" to collect. Really had fun doing this... The fake money comes from a Chinese toko by the way.

Alweer uitdaging nr. 4 bij Let's Get Shabby! Deze keer mogen we ons laten inspireren door een sketch en moeten een vintage afbeelding gebruiken. De oude Romeinse munt en het hoofd staan voor het vintage-deel van deze layout. Het prachtige papier is van Bo Bunny en van 7 Gypsies. De titel is Latijns voor "brood en spelen".

Deze foto werd 2 weken geleden gemaakt, bij een dag vol Romeinse Spelen van onze scoutinggroep. Ik speel een dame uit het keizerlijk gevolg en strooi met geld, zodat het volk, het plebs, dit kan graaien. Geweldig leuk om te doen! Het nepgeld komt overigens uit een Chinese toko.
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