AAM Challenge #10: The Soundtrack of your life.

Challenge number 10 at All About Me about the soundtrack of my life. It starts with a great quote:

The best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

~Bruce Springsteen

Music is a powerful means of communication and has the power to cause emotions to well up within us. The emotional response can be varied: happiness, sadness, nostalgia, peacefulness, energy, festivity. This challenge is all about thinking of music that has been an important part of your life, your “soundtrack.” It can be a special song your grandfather sang to you as a child (or one that you sing to your own child), the party mix you listened to your freshman year of college or the one song that brings you to tears every time you hear it. What speaks to you in a special way?

I have lots of songs that speak to me in a special way...one for each occassion! But this song was on my cd-player when I was driving in my car and thinking what song would be the one and only soundtrack of my life.

Suddenly it hit me: this had to be that special soundtrack!..Although I had heard it a thousand times before...

The lyrics of this song say so much about my view on life and especially about my life with my hubby Michael. It is a song of my favourite dutch singer, called Ilse De Lange.

Here is my take on the challenge:

I sort of highlighted the two most important lines with a journaling tag. 

Nice detail: I used some of the supplies I won in the previous challenge at AAM. These are the Loire Valley papers from Kaisercraft, but there were a lot more yummie things in this prize. Hope to show you some again next time!  

Sandra

Some more layouts!

 found some layouts I made earlier which I haven't shown you before.
So here they are.
The first is a hybrid one.

I made this with the Flutterby digital kit from Kaisercraft and added some ribbon and flowers. I printed out parts of the papers and some butterflies, which I covered with paperglaze and glitterpowder. I covered some chipboardletters with the paper. The black butterflies are rub-ons. These rub-ons are also under the colored butterflies to create some shadow, but you can hardly see it on the picture.

The next one is a digital layout I made with the Hideaway kit from Kaisercraft. I used so many layers in PSE to create this one that my laptop sort of crashed. I was glad I saved the file every 10 minutes or so...

If you wonder where all those layers are...I used the digital rhinestones to decorate the swirl on the upper right corner and the wooden swirl in the middle. All the letters in the title were separate layers also.

I especially write 'were' because I united lots of layers later on to simplify my working file.

Still, the results are worth all the stress!

The next one is also a digital layout. I made it for the Saterday Sketch challenge at Kaisercraft. They started these digital challenges last week and used my layout-and others of course-to give an example of what you can do with the template.

I used the Schooldays digital kit for this one, from Kaisercraft of course...

And last but definitely not least a digital layout I made yesterday, for the challenge at the forum of Scrapfever.

You had to scrap your moment of 2009 and also let you get inspired by a picture with lots of diagonal lines and lots of color.

Here is my layout:

It wasn't a very complicated one, with lots of techniques, but I loved using the digital papers from Traci Bautista again. They are so colorful and were perfect for this layout.

I love all the colors, just like I love the movie Avatar..but you already knew that I did...

Sandra

CS #88: It's a girl thing!

The latest sketch at Creative Scrappers is a great one! Normally I don't show the original sketches on my blog, but this time I will make an exception..because I liked the sketch so much.
Here it is:

And here is my take on the sketch:

I'm so happy how it turned out!

I got these pictures of Danique from her grandmother. Danique stayed there last weekend and had a big slumberparty with three of her nieces. They had so much fun in grandmother's shop, loaded with sunglasses, hats, bags, necklaces, scarfs and so much more. They had fashionshows and played for live mannequins in the shopwindow. I love these pictures and they were perfect for this layout. Probably gonna use them again some time...

Sandra

I need your votes!

I made the TOP 5 at Sketchy Thursdays to win a guest designer spot for February!
The public can now vote for the best layout...so I need your votes too!!!
This is my entry:

You will find it on the blog of Sketchy Thursdays also and you can read all about the voting.

Please click HERE to go to this blog and please..vote for my layout!

The voting will be open till Tuesday the 26th of January.

Thanks!!!

Sandra

Avatar!

Did I enjoy Avatar? Did I like it? YES! YES! YES! 1000 times YES!!!
I think I might have seen the best movie EVER! At least, it will be MY number one from now on!
And this says a lot because I'm a die-hard Harry Potter fan and the six Harry Potter movies were in my top six...Well, not any more!
The movie takes 162 minutes..no breaks..and I loved every minute of it! After almost three hours hanging in my seat at the front row I still regretted that the movie had ended. I had completely forgotten there was a world outside the theatre. It felt like I was IN the movie, in the world of the Na'vi.
To me this movie is the ultimate mix of Dances with wolves, Tarzan, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Star Wars. If I could go again tomorrow I would...and the day after again..and again....

So, if you haven't seen it yet...go! Go! Go! And be sure to see the 3D version!

And if you need some company...feel free to call me!

Sandra

CS #86: A is for Apple

Here is my take on sketch #86 at Creative Scrappers...A hard one for me! I used the remaining papers and scraps of the Blooming Retro papers I had and some pictures of Laura, picking apples with her granddad. Such cute pictures!

I did a lot of handstitching (again...!) on this layout. You can see it in the corner up on the right and down on the left. The patterned paper had some stitched lines on it and I just made these lines 3D and added some color!

Talking about 3D...gonna see Avatar tonight in 3D!! So exciting!

Have to go....

Sandra

Blogcandy from Norway!

I love the scrapstyle of Swedish and Norwegian scrappers! I was following Asil for a while now and she has some great blogcandy to give away, because she has had over 20.000 visits on her blog.

Wouldn't you love to win this? Go check her blog for all the details and in the meantime...you will get lots of inspiration!!

Sandra

CS # 87: Close to perfection

I loved working with the Rewind collection so much last time that I made another one with it...and I have plenty of scraps left for yet another one, so be prepared for some 'Rewind attack'!
Here is a layout I made with sketch #87 at Creative Scrappers :

I sprayed the graphite colored cardstock with some graphite glimmermist...simply because I didn't have a black one, hoping it would still show. At first I was a bit disappointed about the result, but later on I saw a nice shiney layer. Of course, not the ink spots I hoped to see...so now I put black glimmermist on my shoppinglist!

Sandra

Hybrid project: Schooldays

Kaisercraft releases a new digital kit every week. This week it is Schooldays:

I decided to make a hybrid project with this kit, since I don't have a scanner to make our schoolpictures digital..and I must say...I don't like scrapping schoolpictures!

So I bought a little stationary kit with an eraser, a ruler and a sharpener at my local discount store and pimped these with the Schooldays digital kit.

Here it is:

I also pimped a 4x6 inch photoalbum and made some mini layouts with my son's pictures, to fit in the album:

Please, check the Kaisercraft blog to see more with this digital kit and read the great comments Kaisercraft gave me for my work. I've been featured on their blog for several times now and every time it makes me so proud to see my work there!

Have a nice day!

Sandra

Sketchy Thursdays: February GDT Challenge

On the blog of Sketchy Thursdays is an extra challenge: the winner will be their guest designer in February! I love this blog, although I only was able to do only one challenge yet. They have great sketches and great sponsors! This is my second entry..for the GDT spot of course:

Except that you had to follow their sketch, your layout had also to be 'vintag-y'. The frequent readers of my blog know that I'm so NOT into vintage! It is just not my style. But hey, you know me...it is just an extra challenge for me!! So I collected all my vintage supplies and just started...

The green patchwork on the background is handstitched! It took me three evenings this week to get it done. I was afraid to use my sewing machine because that is not really my friend...After I finished the patchwork I had lots of fun layering the ribbon and the flowers and than...no inspiration! Couldn't think of a title, didn't know what story to tell...So I made the previous Icefun-layout first and than I looked at my unfinished one again...And I knew what to do. Today I finally finished my layout! But if this means that I will ever do another vintage one again...I think I just found one of my limits...Still, I'm more than satisfied with my layout! Especially because of the work that was in it...but there were just as much sighs and muttering....

Sandra