Weeping

A new challenge at These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things! You can submit until June 30, please make me a happy girl and play along :):)

This is my fave piece of art, called Weeping. It was made by Dutch artist Jose Botterhuis for an exhibition in Hummelo, a yearly event `kunstwandelroute`. A great mixture of art and nature!
The three crying eyes are watching the deforestation of our planet and was inspired by the Weeping Woman in Tofino, Canada.

The paper is an oldie by Kaisercraft, Jade´s Garden. I used a diecut paper to cut the outline, then wetted the edges with water to curl them up. I am not certain if the background sheet is from Kaisercraft as wel, but the colors match perfectly!

The flowers are plain brown Prima Flowers which I edged with TH cinnamom stickles. I found the small animals in a very old childrens book. Scanned, printed on thick paper en heat embossed them with clear powder.

 

 The chippie is a Buzz and Bloom florish which I heat embossed using this technique using different colors and types of embossingpowders. It is in Dutch but the photo´s speak for itself.



The title is the original title of this artwork. I made it with cork squares which I handpunched, inked and completed with alphabet stickers.

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Big World, Lil´ Secrets for Fave Things

There´s a grat new challenge at “Fave Things” going on!! This time the challenge is about scrapping your favorite Photo! Please hop over en join in and create :) You can submit until may 29 and then another challenge is waiting for you!

This is my fave photo:

It was taken in the summer of 2004. We were camping and my 7 year old daughter and her 6 year old friend had sneaked out caus´ they didn´t want to shower and go to bed. My husband secretly took this photo, just before they noticed he was there. They were always full of monkey tricks! I think the photo shows that and that is why it´s my favorite

I used Basic Grey Curio papers for this layout. I love them but they´re quite difficult to handle. I handcut all the flowers from one sheet and put some together with hydrangeas, leaves and rosebuds.

I removed one layer of the large Primaflower in the left upper corner and colored it with some perfect pearls and sprayed glimmer mist on top.  

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Fave Outfit

There´s a new challenge going on at Fave Things!! You can pick any challenge you like from the past ones, Julie listed them all, so feel free to take a look and play along with us :)
Here´s my example. I used sketch 150 at Creative Scrappers and after I finished the layout I also found out that colorscheme 187 at Color Combos Galore  was used, too bad I couldn´t meet the deadline for this.

Materials used are Echo Park paper "For the Record" and craft labels. The scallop form is created with an Crealies-In shape template. The Prima vine flowers were a bit too bright and yellow, so I covered them with Smooch pearlized accent inks to soften the color. The birdwings are decorated with some Ranger glossy accents and deco grains. All materials can be found at Scrapfever.
This pic was taken by my daughter in her (at that time) really messy room. So I had to do some photoshopping (first time). Printed that three times on cardstock and used black ink to cover the edges and make it look shabby.

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My fave pastime and OVA feb challenge winner !!

I haven´t been blogging for a few weeks, due to personal circumstances. But the new challenge at Fave Things came up, so my DT "job" was a good reason to do some scrapping again.
One of my favorite pastimes is to go for a walk in the woods with the family.  Last saturday was a really sunny day and when we found a meadow, we stopped for a drink and a nap enjoying the sunshine. That´s when this pic was taken. Don´t you just love the Maja Design papers? They are just so romantic...

For this layout I used the march sketch at Our Vintage Affair challenge blog and gues what.......????!!!
I won the february challenge :):):):) how cool is that! Now I get to show this blinky and I also won some awesome stamps:

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Fave Things challenge / Fave magazine

So here´s my first DT layout  for Fave things! We would love it if you al played along, so please hop over to play along with us :) :)

My fave magazine is FLOW, which is a very creative Dutch magazine. There´s 4 repeating sections in every edition : feel connected, live mindfully, spoil yourself and simplify your life. In order to achieve all this, every magazine always includes some great creative gadgets: writing papers,stickers, templates, (note)books, posters etc. etc. You can actually consume the whole magazine if you wanted to. And if you don´t want that, there´s always the website for free downloads and tips: http://flow.web-log.nl/flow/downloads.html"

Mijn eerste DT werk voor Fave things, een layout van je favoriete tijdschrift. Voor mij is dat Flow, heerlijk genieten, inspiratie opdoen en freubelen.

Voor deze layout heb ik allerlei materialen uit de laatste kit van Scrapfever gebruikt; de achterkant van het gestreepte vel uit de scrapkit en het groene cardstock. De kleuren pasten precies bij de cover, die ik gewoon van het tijdschrift heb afgesloopt (maar dat moet ook van Flow haha)

Met wat restjes heb ik het hartjes envelopje gemaakt en het roze achtergrondje is een patroontje dat je veel in Flow ziet. Ik heb het overgetrokken en uitgeknipt. De grote vlinder komt ook uit het tijdschrift zelf en heb ik wat opgebold met foam. De swirl is gemaakt met een perlen pen en de Viva Decor sjabloon uit de kit als mal. Sommige stukjes waren wat uitgelopen en die heb ik afgedekt met een mini bloemetje ;)

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Fave Things......

I have some GREAT news to share with you!  I am so happy to announce that since today I am a proud member of the design team for Julies challengeblog:  "these are a few of my favorite things"! Please check out the blog if you haven´t yet, there are great challenges to participate in every 2 weeks! 

Waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh ik heb zulk geweldig nieuws! Sinds vandaag maak ik deel uit van het design team van Julie´s challengeblog: "these are a few of my favorite things"! Uiteraard ben ik supertrots :) :)
Elke twee weken kun je meespelen met een geweldige uitdaging, dus neem maar eens een kijkje daar, als je dat nog niet gedaan hebt.

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