10 years old: a tongue piercing or a Neocube????

Sometimes you just have the coolest photo's. This photo from DS Joram I took a few weeks ago while he was playing with his Neocube. A Neocube is a sort of a puzzle which has 216 (I think) vety strong tiny little magnets and you can make tons and tons of shapes with them. But Joram also found out that you can use them for other purposes: You can do faux piercings with them! And ofcourse he was more than willing to let me take a photo.

And it was one of those photo's I loved to scrap. I used this photo to do a challenge at Let's Scrap. The challenge was to do stitching on your LO's. It could be hand stitching, machine stitching and even faux stitching. For those who see my LO's on a regular base know that I {HEART} to sew on

my LO's, so this was a great challenge for me.I love how this LO turned out, I wanted it to be like Joram is, his own little self. A little different than others, but not too diufferent. This is what I came up with.

PP: Basic Grey, Bo Bunny, Lily Bee Design, Sassafras Lass (found some more Bungle Jungle, ha!)

Stickers: American Crafts, Creative Imaginations

Chipboard: Maya Road

Rub-on: Making Memories

Transparency: Creative Imaginations

Journaling spot: Making Memories

Rhinestones: Prima Marketing, Bazzill

Doilie: Martha Stewart

Misc: sewing machine, staples, felt letters

My Silhouette machine; Playing with borders

One of the weekly challenges at Let's Scrap a couple of weeks ago was one with borders. With the border punches being the thing to have everybody came up with pretty cool LO's. I combined it with the borders I cut with my Silhouette machine. And I love how it turned out. I used ALL stash (WTG for me, ha!) LO's with all borders are a perfect way to get rid of some of your stash, trust me.

I wanted to place the photo more to the left but I had already adhered my borders and turning the page upside down did not work. so I am not to happy with the placement of the photo, but alas. The scanning cut a little piece of the top, but the punching on the top does look the same as on the bottom.

Other than that: LOVED this challenge, I had so much fun playing with all the borders and punches, all different scraps of paper. DD Jinte got a Little Tikes bathing suit last year from my MIL and it still fits. I think she is the cutest wearing it.

CS: Bazzill
PP: Rusty Pickle*, 7Gypsies, KI Memories, CM*, Doodlebug

Border punches: EK Success, Fiskars

Pens: Signo Uniball (white), Stabilo (turqoise)

Misc: Rhinestones

*: These companies do not have a website available or are out of business.

When I look at the photo on this LO I can't believe she is already turning two this Thursday. Unbelievable how time flies. Thanks for your visit, I am off to scrap, have a great week! 

Card for teacher

On the day DS Joram's class was going on their field trip to Toverland his teacher announced she was pregnant. Besides his teacher she is also assigned to take care of the 'care' children such as the ones with dyslexia. So Joram, with his dyslexia, has more to do with her than just being a child in her class. But a pregnancy calls for a card. I had the cutest cutting file and I have been dying to make something with that. An image of a pregnant women with a heart in her belly. And I started cutting.............well, my Silhouette did ;) I love how it turned out. I used a Let's Scrap sketch as my inspiration.

CS: Bazzill, K&Company

PP: Sassafras Lass, Lily Bee Design

Flowers: Prima Marketing, Making Memories

Rhinestones: Prima Marketing, Making Memories, Kaisercraft

Misc: Sequins

The sentiment says 'congrats' in Dutch and I made cut the letters with Cuttlebug dies.

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT Sunday. We'll be spending most of it at home since it has been pooring rain ever since last night.

 

Fancy Pants challenge at Let's Scrap

I know, I should have updated my blog way sooner............... Everything just seems to be so busy. My DH broke one of his vertebrae falling of the attic in our garage, he was not allowed to do ANYTHING! Trust me, I felt really bad for him, but everything was on my shoulders and it sort of got to me.
This months challenge at Let's Scrap is one where you should use a Let's Scrap sketch and a Fancy Pants product. Since I am trying to use my stash and not buy as much anymore I really digged in my supplies and found some Fancy Pants papers and many many unopened packages of Fancy Pants rub-ons (shame shame shame). I did do my stash justice because I have already created two LO's with very old Fancy Pants lines.
If you still want to play along: You still have until the end of July to participate in this challenge and win the Beach Babe line from Fancy Pants.

This photo was taken in our zoo the other day. DD is so fond of the turtles and the fence is just low enough for her to almost be able to touch them. The DH of my DM just lifted her up and put her in there. The journaling basically says that.

The title is in Dutch and says: (almost) in the cage.
I even got to use some little pices of transparencies I still had in my stash. Geeh, I should have money left at the end of the month, ha!

PP: Basic Grey, Fancy Pants, Bo Bunny, unknown

Stickers: Basic Grey
Rub-ons: Fancy Pants
Journaling spot: Fancy Pants
Transparency: Hambly Screen Prints, Creative Imaginations
Misc: sewing machine, staples, felt alpha stickers.

The second is is a photo is my DD Jinte when she turned one. Shei s actually turning two in a week. OMG, time flies.

PP: Fancy Pants

Stickers: Making Memories, October Afternoon, K and Company
Rub-ons: Fancy Pants

Chipboard: K and Company
Misc: Sewing machine, puffy heart stickers

Thanks for dropping by and I hope you all will have a great Friday and an even more great weekend!

Mothers Day Cards

Both the cards have been sent and received so it is now safe to post my Mothers Day cards.
This year I made them almost a month early just ot make sure that I would not have to make them at the last moment. I kept it pretty simple and tried to get both my DM and my DMIL' favorite colors in there. I can say they both liked them.

The top one I made for my mom and then the bottom one would obviously be for my MIL. For both cards I used patterned paper form a national chain store comparable to Target. The top card says Happy Mothers Day in Dutch.

Top card:
Cardstock: Bazzill
Rub-ons: Basic Grey
Image: Making Memories
Die-cut letters: Cuttlebug
Misc: Ribbon, flower, black pen

Cardstock: Bazzill
Rub-ons: Scenic Route, Basic Grey
Ribbon: Making Memories
Sheer: Maya Road
Misc: Washer, black pen

There's still a few days left to participate in the NSD challenges over at Let's Scrap. Our members and design team members rocked the challenges. Even if you don;t have time to finish thme all, you can still upload a few or even one so you'll get in the draw for a prize. We'll be announcing all the winners on June 3rd.

Have a  great weekend!

Pinterest

I think it was last month when I read about Pinterest at ScrapScene's Speedlinks. At first I had no clue what it really was or how usefull it could be. But now that I know: I am completely HOOKED! What a great thing that is! And how easy to use and to navigate through. Why didn;t someone think of this before?

So now you know how I like it, I might as well explain what it is and how it works. Pinterest is comparible to your favorites folder that you use with your internet browser. I tried to keep that folder organized so I added sub-folders for every subject. But over the years I noticed that it was still not easy. Lots of files expired, some of the links should have been in two or more folders but most of all: I could not remmeber what the link was for unless I clicked on it and visited the site I linked to.

You create all different folders (Boards) which you can load up with images, links and little notes (all together called Pins) so you know what you added and what it was all about. Another great feature is that it is connected to Facebook. So it automatically finds your Facebook friends and you can see what kind of boards they have and what they pinned. You can also decide to follow a friend, follow a board or even if you see one interesting pin of someone you can also Re-pin it. And you can not believe how easy it is: You just add the Pinterest link to your favorites toolbar and when you see something you want to Pin, you simply click on that link, it will give you the option on what image you want to show and add your note, choose a board and it is Pinned!

There's only 2 buts: You can not Pin anything that does not have an image on the page. The second is: You can not just join Pinterest, you have to get invited. but thne again: You can also request an invite.

Oh, and maybe there is a third but: You'll be Pinning the whole day! Like Pinterest says: Happy Pinning!

A little update on the NSD activities at Let's Scrap: You still have two weeks to finish all the challenges. If you are planning to still get in the draw for the sketch (NSD2011#11) I'll have to dissapoint you, the deadline is over! Ofcourse you can still make it and upload it but it won't be in for the drawing anymore. But the good thing is: Tomorrow there will be a reveal of a second ketch for NSD! And ofcourse there's still the regular sketches and even two DT challenges. So enough to scrap!

Have a great and scrappy week!

Mixed alpha title challenge (NSD at Let's Scrap)

As I said in my previous post we have so many cool challenge over at Let's Scrap during the NSD activities. This one I did is from Rene', one of our new DT members. She hosts a recipe challenge, which I always like. This was her recipe for the LO we had to make:

• a mixed alpha title
• use at least one border punch
• use 2 photos
• use a Let's Scrap sketch

And this is what I came up with. I had these papers lying around for a long time. I bought them because I'd love to make a LO with one of my kids wearing rain boots and these papers were just so cute. But then again, we have always al ot of rain so who is going to take photos in the rain. But DD saved the day and started putting on her little red boots just after she took a shower. She absolutely loves shoes. I swear it has nothing to do with what kids see, it is just in their genes! She'll hate me for these pics when she gets older but hopefully appreciates them when she is a mom.

Thanks for this challenge Rene', I had a lot of fun!

CS: Bazzill

Patterned paper: Prima Marketing

Stickers: American Crafts

Misc: Date stamp, sewing machine, staples

Tomorrow we'll be going to the zoo so I'll have some more pics to scrap! Enjoy your day and thanks for popping by!