Mini-album with Websters Pages

I love watching the Live with Prima online classes. Especially the ones with Marion Smith and Julie Fei-Fan Balzer. The classes are loaded with techniques and inspiration!

This mini album is inspired by one of the classes with Marion Smith, only I didn't use Prima papers. When I was shopping in my LSS lately I saw the new papercollections of Websters Pages. I don't know why I have missed this brand before...All of the collections are so pretty!!! I bought a 6x6 paperpad with a combination of two new collections: Lullaby Lane and Life's Portrait.  

For this mini album I used ten pieces of the papers...which means I have plenty of the papers left for another album..! The final album measures 3x3 inches. The album can be closed with the black ribbon.

This is the front:

And this is inside:

And this is the backside:

It feels like it has been a long time ago since I have made a project, not based on a challenge . This one was 'just for fun'! And it will be my own bragbook which I will probably carry with me everywhere I go.

TFL!!

Sandra

TCR#7: Sötaste du

Color palette #7 at The Color Room was up last week...I had some difficult times with previous palettes but this one really didn't bring any creative inspiration to me! And if it wasn't difficult enough I decided to try and scrap in 8,5 x 11 inch size (A4)...Even my scrapsupplies weren't working with me, especially that shade of yellow and the light shade of purple.

Still I managed to create a layout which was good enough to publish it here, but I can't say I'm completely satisfied. This was the color palette:

And here is my layout:

In case you are wondering what the title means: 'Sötaste du' is swedish for 'Lovely you'.

Why suddenly a swedish title? Because this pictures means so much to me! Not only because my little one is looking so cute, but also because of the memories behind the picture. It was taken during our summerholiday in Sweden, last summer. We had a great day while we visited the southern half of the island, called Öland. The house, the fence on the picture and all the things we did that day were so typically swedish. I wanted to express a little bit of that swedish feeling with my title.

Because I didn't have any patterned paper in the right colors I doodled away with my black marker.

The words in the written border all around say 'Jag älskar dig' which means 'I love you'!

This morning I saw the new color palette for next week...This one is much more what I like, so let's hope the creative juices start flowing!

Sandra

The Toppers in Concert 2010...I was there!!

Finally...The Toppers were here again! After last year's great party I couldn't wait to go again and yesterday it was partytime!! In the Amsterdam Arena! We had fieldtickets and managed to get a spot on second row, right in front of the stage. Unfortunately the stage was very high so we didn't see a lot when they were on the centre of the stage or on the other end. Still, we had the best time ever!!
The Toppers opened the concert with one of my favorite songs..I got a feeling from The Black Eyed Peas.
The video above is one I found on You Tube this morning...hopefully I will find better ones in the next few days...but I wanted to give you an impression of the great party and the crowd. I knew there were over 60.000 people in The Arena but when you see it from another point of view..must say, it is pretty impressive!
I had my old camera with me. The quality is very bad but I wanted to travel light and didn't want to risk damaging my good one...still managed to take some pictures:

The dresscode was white and silver with 'heavenly accents'..which was pink for us.

We had a great time and now..about 12 hours after the party I'm still enjoying the super evening I had. Can't wait till next year!!

Sandra

TCR#6: YOU @11

For the sixth color palette at The Color Room I felt like doing something completely different...I have been using a lot of flowers on my layouts and cards, all TCR projects with a soft touch. Now I wanted to do a little bit freestyle and most of all..no flowers! I was so happy to see the new color palette..it was perfect for a freestyle layout:

And here is my layout:

Have a nice day!

Sandra

She's got style!

Yesterday was a cloudy, grey and cold day...a day to stay inside and scrap, scrap, scrap...and cook!

I decided to do some scrapping with my 9 year old daughter Danique. She had asked me several times before but it was never the right time..It requires a lot of patience..from me...and having a 2 year old running around the house doesn't do any good either if you want to sit down and scrap. Until yesterday..we scrapped all afternoon and finished our first layout. I did the thinking, Danique did all the punching, glueing, cutting, etc. In the end I did the finishing touch with my black marker.

We made a layout for the challenge at Scrappassion. The challenge was: use white cardstock as a background, a 5x7 inch (13x18cm) picture, an edge punch and add stars.

Here is our layout:

We scraplifted a layout from an old scrapbookmagazine. As soon as I saw that layout I started collecting designers labels from all our new clothes...and this was the right time to use them!

TFL

Sandra

Three challenges..three cards!

This week I was inspired by the fifth color palette at The Color Room :

Again, a color palette with colors I never work with...so another search through my stash for matching papers and embellishments. Again...after I put it all on the table I realized that I have so much supplies, but still never enough!

This week I wanted to make a card with this color palette...and now, three days later I made three cards!

The first card was made especially for The Color Room:

But I wanted to make some more cards...

So the second card I made was for the May cardsketch challenge at Dolls & Decorations:

And the third card I made was for Sketchy Thursdays:

I'm beginning to like making cards more and more!

Sandra

I {heart} purple..especially Prima Purple!

Did you see the Prima Product pick for this month already? Purple, lavender, pink! Roses (of course..), lily's, leaves...a lot of bling...OMG, I love all of these gorgeous products!

Is your wishlist getting longer and longer too...just like mine?!

Sandra

My first giftbox

For a challenge at the forum of Scrapfever I made this giftbox. I got the idea thanks to an online class of Prima girl Julie Fei Fan-Balzer, which I saw on the Prima blog. The giftbox is made of cardstock and decorated with the papers I got in the scrapkit from Scrapfever. It is the To Love and Cherish collection from Imaginisce.
This is the outside of the giftbox:

I decorated the box with a chipboard butterfly from Buzz & Bloom, which I covered with stickles. The white e-line Prima flowers are colored with glimmermist (color: Twilight) and I added some plastic stamens. I cut out a pattern from one of the papers, glimmermisted it and covered it with paperglaze.

The box is held together by a piece of white ribbon. The bow of the ribbon is decorated with some handmade paper beads. I made these of the same patterned paper which I used to decorate the box.

When you open the box, it falls open and shows a mini-album:

I made the mini-album with some pieces of white cardstock. I binded the pages with some black scrappersfloss and attached some more handmade paperbeads and some pearls to the ends.

The front of the album is decorated with another stickled chipboard butterfly, a flower and a tag.

I didn't have better matching pictures for a project like this so I decided to use my own weddingpictures to fill the mini-album. I also used some scraps of the patterned paper again.

The date in front of the album is our weddingdate...almost 15 years later I still love this guy..even more!

Sandra

TCR#4 Someday...

Another Friday, so another color palette at The Color Room ! And if I thought the second color palette was hard for me with the brown and blue...this new color palette was really a challenge for me!! Again, I went through all my scrap supplies and threw everything on the table which I could use...and started to puzzle and play with it.
This was the very beautiful but also very difficult color palette:

And this is the layout I made with these colors:

Some details:

I created the brown flowers out of cardstock. I cut out the white twigs from one of the papers of Basic Grey's Wisteria collection. I made these a little more dimensional with a snow-marker. The little orange flowers are made from the smallest size Kaisercraft flowers. For the title I cut out some felt letters and painted these with distress crackle paint. Although the crackles were hard to find after the paint dried, I still loved the results, so I decided to use the letters.

As I said, this color palette was a true challenge for me but in the end I'm very happy with the results!

Sandra

Everything beautiful has it's moment

This week I was inspired by the first weekend sketch of Ingvild Bolme and also by her work of course.
I lost my mojo a little bit this week and the best thing for me to get it back is to start with a sketch and throw all sorts of matching papers and embellishments on my table and just start scrapping!
This was Ingvild's sketch:

And this is my take on the sketch:

Some details:

The embellishment in the centre of the green flower came from an old bag I bought at a flea market a while ago. The grey swirl is handcut from an old paper I found in my stash. I still had some scraps left from Tracie Hudson's workshop kit, like the red lace, the red Prima flowers and some pieces of the papers. I cut out the flowers from these pieces.

I created the pink flower (above the F from 'beautiful') myself. I didn't have enough of those gorgeous Prima flowers left, so I tried to re-create these. I glued two 'simple' flowers on top of each other, pierced a little hole in the middle, sticked some stamen through the hole and attached these on the back of the flower. I added some drops of green watercolor paint in the centre and on the end of the stamens.

The butterflies and the green swirl came from the same old paper from which I cut out the grey swirl.

The background papers are from the Abbey Road collection from Pink Paislee.

Now I'm finished writing this blogpost and take a closer look at the pictures of my layout I noticed that I forgot to distress the edges of the background paper...(I was in a hurry yesterday evening to finish my layout...bad combination! I know!)

But, since it is National Scrapbooking Day today I think I will distress the edges later and leave this blogpost like it is...lots of scrapping and bloghopping to do today!

Sandra