Every year in October/November there's a huge hobby convention in the Netherlands. It's called Kreadoe. It's not as big as CHA, but it's the largest hobby convention in the Netherlands.
I always love going there. I'm going with a friend of mine and we always try to be there at opening and usually we are the ones who close off (so to speak ;)). Somehow we always need more time.
Last year we decided to buy something that we could use the next day. Two other friends of ours came over and we wanted to do something creative together. Last year we bought some Decopatch stuff and we created some piggy banks. It was so much fun! Hopefully we can find something else to do with our friends this year. I'm looking forward to it!
Love,
Marjan
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A penpal of mine has her birthday next Monday, so I made a birthday card for her. We've know each other for over 12 years at least (I really have to look up the first letters we ever wrote). Yes, that's right. We started writing each other old school letters. That was before the e-mail era. ;)
I'm really gratefull that we still e-mail each other every now and then. And I hope that we will stay penpals for a very long time.
On this card I used many products: paper, flowers, wooden embellishments, a brad, pearls, glossy accents, punches, ink, pen, perfect pearls mist. I love how they all come together in the pattern created by the circles. One nice detail is that the flower in the upper centre is a flower that I got from my penpal last birthday. So nice!
I still have some more cards to make. And I'm also trying to sew a baby bib. But, because I have never really sewn something, it is actually a little hard for me. I'll show you the result as soon as a finished a bib that is actually worth showing. ;)
Have a good week!
Love,
Marjan
After a great vacation in France and Belgium, I've been scrapbooking again. Of course I couldn't live without scrapbooking/creating during the vacation so I made a special journal to write a bit about the vacation and create a sort of smash book. I'll show you this in a later post.
For now I want to show you the layout I made yesterday (with temperatures of 37/38 degrees Celius which is very uncommon here in the Netherlands) and finished today. It is my most favourite picture of my sister's wedding. This was right after they were married. Everybody stood outside and I had given them bubble solution (is that the right word?).
In this picture you can see the lovely reaction of the newly weds and you can see one of the guests really getting into making bubbles. ;) Also pay attention to the bubble that is just bursting right at the time this picture is taken (it is right between the newly weds).
For this layout I used paper by Pink Paislee I just bought last Saturday. I love it! I used some ink on it, but also left some blank (I love how you can see the glaze).
Behind the picture is an accolade shaped paper that I bought at Boekenvoordeel (a Dutch shop) and a label with two small roses on it.
Under the photo is a piece of lace my mum bought me (isn't it lovely!). On that are some chipboard letters by Basic Grey which I inked pink at the bottom and a few mini letter stickers by Jillibean Soup.
The round metal embellishment with vellum in it is by Making Memories. I stamped the words 'a love story' on it with Stazon ink. The stamp is by Prima.
The bubbles on the layout are there to resemble the bubbles in the picture. They are meant to use as decoration on a plate of candles for example. But I love to use them on layouts.
The last piece I added was the small banner that says 'just married'. This is a piece of the envelope the wedding card came in. I saved it to use on a layout and I thought it fitted on this one. The writing is done by hand.
Please leave your comments (I would really love to hear from everyone that is reading my blog!) and have a lovely week!
Love,
Marjan
I'm back with the layout I told you I was working on. I love how it turned out!
In the picture you see my sister with her husband getting to the chappel in their wedding car. :D I really love this picture. It's their last moment as unmarried couple.
For this layout I used strips of paper of all kind of brands. There is also some vellum like paper in between. On the strips I painted with some glimmer mist and I also splashed some mist.
The flowers are by Prima. The butterflies are made of wood and I bought them in a Dutch shop (Xenos). I also painted these with some glimmer mist.
I've altered the AC thickers by painting crackle paint over them. Because they didn't stand out from the background enough, I also painted the sides of the letters with black paint.
That's it for today. I hope to make more tomorrow, because guess what? My holiday officially started just now!!!
Love,
Marjan
Lately I have been watching quite some You Tube videos. It is so inspiring! Although I do have to keep track of time so I also get to creating myself. ;)
A couple of days ago I saw a video on carving your own stamp out of an eraser. That seemed like so much fun that I bougt some erasers and started carving with my craft knife.
To be honest, I didn't think it would really work out 'cause I didn't have the right tools for it (just my craft knife). But, surprisingly it worked just fine.
I drew some kind of flower onto the eraser (I couldn't find a suitable picture on Google, so I just made one myself) and started carving. After a few test stampings I got the result I hoped for. Of course it's not perfect, but that's exactly the feeling I wanted the stamp to give. I love it!
Next to the hand carving, I'm also working on a layout that's almost finished. I'll show you as soon as it is finished.
Love,
Marjan
Hello everyone,
I'm back and it's not even Sunday. ;) No, my holiday kind of started. :D Why I say 'kind of' you ask? Because I have two jobs and for one I'm off already and for the other one I still have to work for two more weeks. This in fact means that I have to work 2 days per week for the coming two weeks. After that I'll be completely off for three weeks.
In these three weeks we will be off to Paris, Disneyland and Brugge (Belgium). I'm really looking forward to this!
Today it's a lovely day in Holland. Finally it actually feels like summer. It really makes me feel happy.
But enough of the chit chat. I wanted to show some things I've made. First of all I want to show you the gifts I made for my two interns/trainees. They want to become speech and language therapists as well. So, I made these boxes for them which hold a lot of small things one can use during therapy.
I also gift wrapped another present. I really liked the look of that and want to show you that too.
Yesterday I felt creative and did some art journaling. I've created a double page and a single page. I do like them both. Unfortunately the glimmer of the double page is not really visible. In real life it really shines.
The single page art journal was created around this card I made during a mini workshop by Creabest. I've used Tattered Angels products on this one.
Thanks for watching. Please leave a comment.
Love,
Marjan
Hello everyone,
I've done some creative things this weekend and the first thing I'll share with you is this diy tealight holder.
I've found this glass in the attic and thought I would make a tealight holder out of it. I found the inspiration for it on Pinterest. And it's so easy!
First you tie some string around the glass. You can slide the string just the way you want it to be. Then you grap your spray paint and put a few layers over the glass. I used two layers for this one. Watch out that the layers aren't too thick. My first one was too thick and that caused a little drippage...
After the paint dries, you can cut the string and voila, there is your diy tealight holder. Now all you have to do is put a tealight in it and the light will shine through the unpainted stripes. Lovely!
Have a good weekend!
Love,
Marjan
