Travel

Berna Datema has this mega economypack called We travel. Ideal for Art journal pages but you can also use it to scrap all your travel photos the traditional way. So much possibilities. For my first page I found this wonderful quote : "Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer" So true!

Off to make another page.....

Chicks & ducks

Berna Datema made a wonderful Easter collection. It is called Chicks & ducks and is available at Scrapbookgraphics. As all kits by Berna it is packed full of beautiful elements, lots of papers, borders, clusters, overlays and an alpha! This kit can be used for several occasions, not only for your Easter scraps. To prove this I made two pages, both have nothing to do with Easter.

Port of call, Japan

This is week 11 and I just made week 9 for the Art Journal Caravan. I wanted to keep up but as you notice I didn't succeed, LOL. Still two to go before Friday.
After Great Britain and France, port of call this month is Japan. My first page is about Japan, Land of the rising sun!
Everything I used is out of the March collection by Tangie Baxter.

Question

Port of call of the Art journal Caravan for March is Japan. But I still have one layout of France to show you. Word of the week was Question and I used the word as well as the Quickity Split, use 16 tiny polka dots, two bold words, stitches and an ephemera border. I always try to find a quote regarding the given word said by a person of the country we're in. This time a quote by the famous french writer Albert Camus.

For credits click here.

Love @Cape Cod

Love @Cape Cod is the latest kit by Studio Berna Datema! I love her designs, I use all of her kits over and over. Also very suitable to use for the Art journal caravan! This kit is available at Scrapbook Graphics.
Berna herself wrote about this kit: Cape Cod, who is not intrigued by its beauty, the turquoise of the ocean, the charm of the cottages, the calmth of ancient times with light houses, and old wooden piers, the harbours and the little boats that float on the water so peacefully? The seagulls that cry their songs over the Sound and the Wind that echoes and erodes.

Unfortunately I have never been there myself, but I fell in love with all the pictures and beautiful video's that I've whatched about it. That's why I called this collection Love @ Cape Cod.

I made two pages with this kit, but I'm sure I'm going to do more!

Love

Port of call of The Art Journal Caravan is still France! When you think of France and especially Paris you think of love! With Valantinesday next thursday it is no coincidence that the word for this week happens to be LOVE!
I found this quote of George Sand, a french authoress, born in Paris in 1804. She said "There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved"
I used it in the quickity split (it gets you started in 10 minutes or less), take polka dots, gears, stitches and a silhoutte for your page.

For credits click here.

Paris

It is already the fifth week of the Art Journal Caravan. We started in the United Kingdom and are now heading to France. When you speak about France you first have to think about Paris, city of lights but also city of love. I've been to Paris a few times and I love this city, it is so much alive!
In my page I used a photo in the background of "La Louvre", with the glass pyramid in front. And speaking of Paris of course I may not forget the famous Eiffeltower.
For all credits click here.

Eye love you

Berna Datema has released new borders and frames; eye love you old photo, available at Scrapbookgraphics. You can't have enough of the basic elements like borders and photoframes. These borders and frames can be used with all kind of photo's but I think old photo's are perfect!

I used an old photo of my grandparents. I think this photo is made in 1920.

Open

Already week 4 for the Art Journal Caravan. Port of call is still the United Kingdom.
I chose again for the word of the week, this time it is "OPEN"
I found a quote on the internet of the Scottish whiskey distiller Thomas R. Dewar.
"Minds are like parachutes, they only function when open" So true!

For credits click HERE.

The unsolved mystery

Port of call of the Art Journal Caravan is still the United Kingdom. Word of the week is mystery. One of the most interesting mysteries in my opinion is Stonehenge. Experts from all over the world tried to find out what the purpose of Stonehenge was. The latest discovery was that Stonehenge has wonderful acoustics. Maybe it was used for musical performances, a prehistoric discotheque? Was it one of the first crematoria, a timeclock, a healingplace like Lourdes nowadays or a place where they kept sacred rituals? Maybe it was just a piece of prehistoric art. Maybe they will never find out.

For credits click here.

Time

Week 2 of the Art Journal Caravan is still at the port of call: United Kingdom. There are a lot of items of which you can choose. One of them is word of the week : TIME.
I chose for a quote by Sir James Matthew Barrie, he was a Scotsman and he created the story of Peter Pan. His quote sounds :
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden because we let them slip by!

Credits: Tangie Baxter, Colorburned (flare brush), font is Whatshappened.

Art Journal Caravan 2013

The journey has already started. And I didn't, no good start already. I still have to write a letter to myself and I have to do Itenerary 1 for this week. But yesterday I made my signature, my passportstamp, my word of the year!
This year I chose "CREATE" I discovered digital scrapbooking six years ago and after my poor attempts I got a bit better and also started experimenting with photoshop and altered art. And I love it, could not do without it anymore.
But I totally switched from handcraft to digital and after six years I start to miss handcraft. So this year I'm going to do both! CREATE!!!

Credits: Tangie Baxter and a bit of myself!

Ethereal

I just did week 50 of the AJC 2012! Still two pages to go. I am going to make it this year. The only thing I did not work out are the monthly quests. The last one was the quest in March or april! Tonight I joined the AJC of 2013 and I saw that there are a lot of changes this year. I'm very exited because Tangie announced that it will be the best journey ever!

The word for week 50 is ethereal. This is what I made of it. Credits: Danimoy Designs, Paula Kesselring. Font I used is Country gold.

I hope you will all follow me on my journey in 2013! And if you like my pictures I would very much appreciate a comment once in a while :-)

Zebra

I try to catch up for the Art Journal Caravan. The last few days I made five pages! The next one will be for week 48 so I still have five pages to go!
I will not show them all five to you, I selected the one I think is the best and the funniest of them all. It is called Zebra and contains a quote by Dr. Seuss.
Materials I used are all by Tangie Baxter, the alpha is by Gunhild Storeide (striped by me). The photo of the Zebra is made in Burgers Zoo and edited by me.

Elixir

Today I made another two LO's for the Art Journal Caravan 2012. Still ten weeks to go, maybe I will finish it because I don't have to work during the holidays!

The word for week 41 was Noctilucous, that means a shining in the night. I made the background for this LO myself, the rest is by Pixelfairy from the kit New moon.

Elixir is the word for week 42. I used a wonderful paper made by Captivated Visions (Believe in beautiful), elements by Tangie Baxter and Scraps of Ellay. The photo in the background of the bottles is by me, made in the Glassmuseum in Leerdam.

Art Journal Caravan

I'm not going to make it this year either. I just finished week 39 and 40. Before we went to New York I was a few weeks behind and when we came back there were so many kits waiting that I had no time for the AJC. At Scrapbookgraphics you already can sign in for the AJC 2013. Shall I do it again? I'm still thinking about it. Maybe I will, it is fun!

Here are my LO's for week 39 and 40. Credits for the first one are for Captivated Visions (Celeste add-on), for the second LO I only used elements and papers by Tangie Baxter.

Winterdays

The newest kit by Studio Berna Datema is called Winterdays. The kit is available atScrapbook Graphics.

This is what Berna wrote about when she made this kit:

"Winter days... when you wake up, open the curtains and find out that the whole world is white... Birds are eating from that self made peanut chain, little animals that hop through the garden or in the woods while you are playing hide and seek behind the trees. You wonder if the ice on the pond is already strong enough to skate on it. Or if the sleigh will come along this time..."

Sweet memories that everybody has of his childhood.

I made two layouts with this kit but I'm going to use this kit over and over.

Tangerine

Vooruit, nog eentje dan voor de AJC. Misschien vanavond nog eentje dan kom ik toch weer een beetje dichterbij. Ik vind de opdrachten in één kleur altijd erg leuk om te doen. Heel je computer afstruinen naar die elementen in die kleur die er bij passen. Deze keer is de kleur Tangerine.

Tangerine is een felle kleur oranje, daar word je toch vrolijk van? Voor credits klik hier.

Machination

Ik weet het, elke keer zeg ik dat ik een inhaalslag maak voor wat betreft The Art Journal Caravan, ik maak dan een tweetal lootjes achter elkaar, denk dan dat ik er bijna ben en dan gebeurt er niets meer. Zo loop ik de achterstand nooit in. Vandaag dus week 37 gemaakt en we zitten al weer in week 43, schiet lekker op.
Toch blijf ik er bij dat ik 'm dit jaar af ga maken. We zullen zien.

Vandaag dus week 37 gemaakt, Machination. Lekker wat steampunk elementen kunnen gebruiken uit de kits van Sudio Rosey Posey en Danis Salles Design, opgeleukt met wat "gear" brushes.

Blooming paradise

Blooming paradise van Studio Berna Datema is een geweldige kit! Ik houd van haar stijl, lekker kleurig, veel bloemen, bonte achtergrondpapers, heerlijk.
De kit is verkrijgbaar bij Scrapbook Graphics. De economypacks van Berna zijn altijd erg compleet met volop papers, elementen, borders, frames, overlays, brushes en ook een alpha! Uiteraard zijn alle onderdelen ook los te koop.