Scrapaneers

Lately I didn't feel like blogging. There are many reasons, but none of them is really an excuse, lol. We have been very busy with our upcoming renovation of our house. We had to buy a new kitchen and bathroom, I never realized that this would be so difficult. It will be a choice for at least twenty years! But I think we did well. They will start a week from now, so exciting.
We also went away for two weeks to Tuscany, Italy. We rented an appartment in a little place called Limité sull Arno. We had lovely weather and we visited cities like Florence, Pisa and Siena.We had a great time.
And now, back to normal, working again and of course scrapping again! I started with Allstar digital scrapbooking techniques at Scrapaneers.com, 8 videolessons including some starting material. I just did lesson one, techniques with gradients, and I love it. In this page I used a gradient as a clipping mask, never thought of doing that, it works great!

Materials I used are by Kokon Scrap-Art, Red Ivy Designs, Rucola Designs, Tangie Baxter, Alexis Designs, Aylin Designs, Yaya and Ptite Souris.

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.

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.

Stories from Scotland

The new format of the Art Journal Caravan 2013 is awesome! Port of call is United Kingdom. There are so many subjects you can use; famous people, fairytales, places of interest and so on.
It happens that the UK is one of my most favorite desitinations to go on vacation, it is such a wonderful country and people are so friendly and helpful!
It was no doubt that my first page had to be about this mysterious monster in Loch Ness. Did Nessie really exist or was it just an elephant?

All materials used are by Tangie Baxter. The photo of the elephant is from the internet (National Geographic).

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!

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.

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.

Oxymoron

Ik heb eindelijk weer eens tijd gevonden om een scrap voor de Art Journal Caravan te maken. Oxymoron is het woord voor week 35. Ik had geen idee wat het woord betekende maar gelukkig; lang leve internet. Oxymoron is een stijlfiguur waarbij twee woorden die elkaar in hun letterlijke betekenis tegenspreken toch worden gecombineerd tot één begrip. Bijvoorbeeld; een oorverdovende stilte.

Ik heb er een verhaaltje van proberen te maken, volgepropt met "oxymorons" Een verhaaltje dat eigenlijk nergens op slaat, het had nog veel langer kunnen worden, want op deze site staat een ellenlange oxymoron list. Keuze te over, laat je fantasie de vrije loop!

Credits : Tangie Baxter, Dani Salles Design.

AJC week 34

Heel langzaam haal ik de achterstand in, week 34 afgerond, nog drie weken te gaan. Aan de maandelijkse quest denk ik maar niet, ik geloof nooit dat ik dat kan inhalen. Volgens mij is maart of april de laatste keer dat ik hem gemaakt heb.

Voor week 34 heb ik gekozen voor de quote. Ook nu had ik geen enkel idee bij het gegeven woord : Woebegone.

Credits: Van de AJC 2011 parcel 11, 31, 41 en 52. Achtergrondpaper is van Page One; not white paper. Font: An unfortunate event.

AJC week 33

Heb nog een beetje achterstand bij de Art Journal Caravan van Scrapbook Graphics. Ik heb vanavond week 31, 32 en 33 gemaakt.
Ik vind de AJC in vergelijking met vorig jaar een stuk lastiger. Het wekelijkse woord dat gegeven wordt laat zich zo lastig vertalen naar het Nederlands, ik heb er meestal geen ideeën bij.
Toch wil ik 'm dit jaar afmaken, het gaat me lukken.

Credits: Tangie Baxter (dreamspilling, parcel 20 en 24 van de AJC 2011), Crowabout Studio B (Odd people and borders).

Art journal Caravan

Afgelopen weekend heb ik mijn blog weer eens een update gegeven. Een aantal blinkies werkten niet meer omdat ze bij Imagehost waren ondergebracht. Helaas is deze photo hostingsite gestopt, tja en dan krijg je alleen een kruisje te zien. Dus blinkies op photobucket gezet en de linkjes gecontroleerd. Ook heb ik mijn AJC blog opgezegd. Naast al die verschillende gallerys, facebook en twee blogs, wel een beetje veel. Dus heb ik besloten ook mijn AJC creaties op deze blog te publiceren. Gelijk maar even de daad bij het woord voegen en mijn laatste AJC creatie plaatsen.

Credits:
KGU masterpieces stacked vol. 1 by Berna Datema
Journal 2012, vintage stamps by Tangie Baxter
Up up away freebie by Tangie Baxter
Globe from the internet
Font: Sébastian

O ja, deze layout "is featured" in de AJC blog van week 31!