First project in pictures

Because the new magazine "Creatief met Foto's" is in de store I like to show you the mini-album I created for the latest issue. An album full of cool and fun summer things. Great to work with the colorful Graphic 45 - Tropical Traveloque papers on this one.

Other items I used:
Graphic45 - Tropical Travelogue: Paperpad 12x12 en 6x6; Cardstock Stickers; Cardstock Alphabet Stickers; Chipboard Tags 1 en 2.

Graphic45 - Staples: Alphabet Stickers; Chipboard Buttons; Envelope Tags; Trim.

Core'dinations - ColorCore Cardstock Tim Holtz Distress; Peeled Paint; Crushed Olive; Brushed Corduroy.
WeRMemoryKeepers - The Cinch 2 bindingmachine + black wire; 12x12 Book board chipboard.
Kars - 12x12 Chipboard 115688/0151; gemstones; tacky glue.
Basic Grey - Clear Stamp Set Journal Block; buttons; brads.
Ranger - Distress Ink: Broken China; Peeled Paint; Old Paper; Scattered Straw; Brushed Corduroy;
Black Soot.
Tattered Angels - Glimmer Mist: Meadow Green; Peppermint Stick; Latte.
Prima Marketing - Flowers Essentials 11; Coventry Rose Pixie Glen; Firefly Blue Ochre; Avon Rose
North Country; Resistant Canvas #551612; Vintage Trinkets #551186 en #930004; Shabby Chic Treasures #890858, #890711, #890865.
More - lace; rope; staples and black pen.

Thanks for looking at my work and do come back again.

May challenge

For the challenge of last month at the Hobby Farm blog I created a layout about moving to our new home.

Thanks for visiting and have a good week.

Creatief met Foto's

I'm happy with my first article in "Creatief met Foto's".

Can't show anything yet, but already a little sneak to make you curious ...

At the moment my table is loaded with items for the next issue.

Nice that you came by and comments are always welcome.
Wish you a good and sunny weekend.

Card 'Have fun'

With a few upcoming birthdays and not much in stock it was time to create some cards. Here's the first one.

I used the following stuff:
cArt-Us - Cardstock.
DCWV - Latte Stack (8"x8" Paperpad).
Martha Stewart - Border punch.
Maya Road - Ribbon and pin.
Karen Foster - Scrapper's floss.

Marianne Design - Pretty Pearls.

Other - Button, ticket and sewing machine.

Wish you a nice weekend and hope to see you next time.

February Sketch

For the challenge at the HobbyFarm blog I created a layout with a picture of our wedding day on 19-9-1991 and one taken in September 2011. It was our 20th anniversary, not a happy one but filled with sadness because DH was fighting cancer at that time and on our special day his operation was scheduled.

On this layout I used an old silhouette sheet of K&Company as a mask.

For this layout I used the following items:
Graphic45 - Le Romantique (papers).
Basic Grey - Sultry (paper), clearstamps journal.
K&Company - Silhouette sheet.
Prima - Blooming Retro (paper), Leaves, Flowers #537456, #552473, Chipboard #551254.
Tattered Angels - Glimmer Mist Latte, Meadow Green.
Ranger - Distress Ink (Scattered Straw, Brushed Corduroy), button.
Maya Road - Flower Pin.
Other - Staples, Waxcord, Ribbon, Fiskars Border Punch.

Now, six months later, DH is doing fine. So happy that this emotional and stressful period is behind us.

I want to thank Nathalie for the award she gave me.

Thanks for visiting my blog hope to see you again.

Creatief met Foto's

The first week in January I got a surprising phonecall from "De Beursorganisatie". The question was if I would like to create something for Creatief met Foto's. I thought it was a joke because I knew that someone else was publishing this magazine. Anne van den Heuvel explained the situation and told me that "De Beursorganisatie" is the new publisher.

Today I posted the package with my first assignment for the magazine and hope that it is good enough to be published.

Wish you a good week.

Time for a challenge

At the Hobby Farm blog you will find the sketch for the January challenge.

Here's my take on the sketch.
The story about this layout is that my brother and his family were in Holland last summer. Eline likes to tinker and here she's working on a figure with ironing beads. It was great to have the family around and spending a lot of time together.

The stuff I used for this layout:
Core'dinations - ColorCore cardstock (snowflake).
Me & My Big Ideas - Modern Milan (paperpad).
Tilda - Autumngarden (paperpad).
Tinkering Ink - Trofiette (papier).
Basic Grey - Doilies (paper), brads and clear stamp.
Fancy Pants - Rub-ons #462.
Prima - Flowers #537456.
Webster Pages - Bloomers.
American Crafts - Thickers (Poolside).
Ranger - Distress Ink (Peeled Paint).

Have fun and join the challenge and create something nice based on this sketch. You have the change on winning a € 10,00 voucher to spend in the Hobby Farm store. Email your layout before February 15 to hobbyfarm@pandora.be.  Please take a look at the blog and see what the other girls created.

Have a nice sunday and enjoy the week ahead!

Another card

Created for the January 2012 Sketch Challenge of Scrappin' Patch.

Materials I used:
cArt-Us - Cardstock.
Action - Flowers (6"x8" Paperpad).
ColorCore - Cardstock Bluebelle.

Prima - Flower.

Martha Stewart - Punch Garden Trellis.

Other - Bling, flower and ribbon.

Thanks for visiting and hope to see you next time.

Card with cArt-Us

For the KKD in September last year I created several items. Most of it were cards as shown on the two canvasboards.

My favorite! Love the funny owl stamp on this one.

Materials I used:
cArt-Us - Flowers and Birds, Spring Flowers, Romantic Flowers (6"x6" Paperpads), clear stamps, cardstock.

Prima - Flowers #537456.

Tim Holtz - Distress Embossing Powder.

VersaMark - Ink - black.

Other - Bling.

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Challenge

The Kraft Journal has a website which I discovered just a few weeks ago. Inspiring and hosting nice challenges. For nr. 51, "Try Something New", I created a small gift bag.

Materials I used:
Little Yellow Bicycle - Magic Christmas Collection (paper) and sticker.
Prima - Journaling notebook.
American Crafts - Christmas ribbon.
Hero Arts - Stamp #c2919 Take Time.
Ranger - Distress Ink - Brushed Corduroy.
Other - Ribbon, Baker's Twine, brown tag, star pin, felt heart.

Thanks for your visit.

Fresh start

My first post in months is a happy one.

Serious health problems with DH kept me from blogging. Now everything changed for the good and I'm happy to pick up my creative things.

Evelien asked me to join the DT again, so the first layout I created in ages is for the Hobby Farm blog.

A typical boys layout about Jeffrey passing his tractor exam. The title and writing says: Tough - Since you were a little boy you drove on the tractor but today is your day and you can hit the road.

Tough

Materials I used:
Prima - Harmony Collection, Blooming Retro (paper), Chipboard # 551254, Flowers #552473.
7Gypsies - Familiy Documents (paper).
American Crafts - Thickers nutmeg.
Cosmo Cricket - Tiny Type # TT581.
Other - Ribbon, rope, buttons, staples, fineliner and sewingmachine.

It's good to be back, wish you all a good week.

Demo Fancy Arts

It was a busy day at Fancy Arts in Emmen. An ad in the local newspaper reminded people about the demonstration with the Slice Fabric. So the whole day the machine was running to show the possibilities of cutting fabric, felt, foam, cardstock, etc.

I created different items showing that this small and handy tool is very useful for cardmaking, scrapbooking, patchwork and home deco.

Thanks to Fredie and her family for this nice day, which was full of chats with enthousiastic clients and unexpected things.

Wish you all a nice weekend.

Mariska

Where did time go .....

It's a long time since my last post in November 2010! Many good things happened since then .....

October 22nd we got the key to our new house. That was also the start of a very busy period, many hours of painting, cleaning and decorating the house. Three months of hard work and January 15 we moved to our new place. From that moment on a lot of little chores had to be done. The final thing inside the house was to organize my scraproom. Later on, when the weather became better, we started outside with the paving and yet the garden has our priority.

In the meantime many cups of coffee and tea were served to those who came to visit our new home. We celebrated all four our birthdays, Jeffrey turned 18 and Jarno 16.

It's hardly unbelievable but I didn't scrap for 8 months. My last creative outburst was an article for "Creatief met Kaarten" (Spring issue) which I finished in October. Used the beautiful Graphic 45 papers - Steampunk Debutant, Colorcore cardstock and Prima flowers. And guess what .... for the first time I made the cover of a magazine. A small picture though, but still .....

These are the five cards I created with the wonderful stuff Kars send me.

Two weeks ago a collegue asked me to do a workshop for 19 ladies of a volleybal team. That's what got me started to pick up my scrapwork again. A fresh start also needs a new look for my weblog.

Happy to be back and hope to see you next time, wish you all a sunny week.

Greetings Mariska

Thanks

to those who voted for my card (see my last post). I didn't make it to the top 3 but it was fun to participate and will be going to the KreaDoe on Friday with my mom. Like every year it's a nice day out.