My post on Nikki Sivils blog

Let I start this post with wishing you all a happy and creative new year.

May all your dreams come true.

It's the 4th of the month again and that means that you can find me on Nikki Sivils blog. This time with a personal layout with U R My Favorite. A few month ago Nikki held a contest with the DT Divas. The winner is invited to go to CHA, meeting Nikki, Dan and Susan.

This was my chance.

To go to CHA.... it must feel like a kid in a candy store.

So I made this layout the day after reading about the contest.
These flowers are handcut with little Prima flowers on top.
The shoe is from a mini album by Maya Road, clued some paper on it and coated it with Rangers' Glossy Accents. The label is printed from internet. Alpha is also Prima just like the crystals.

I love this little flag. Sprayed it with Shimmerz Spritz and stamped with Nikki's alpha stamps. I put some floss around the wooden stick.

In the back you see Gesso sprayed with Shimmerz Spritz.

Have you seen the Prima blog yet? Lots of sneaks for CHA.

You might also love Nikki Sivils' sneaks

And Graphic 45, love their Le Romantique line.

Will let you know if I find some more sneaks that I love.....

Sweet dreams for tonight and thanks for stoppin' by.

Ps. I didn't win the contest...... cry..... cry....

more playing

I was putting some alu foil over my home made cake when I thought that I could use the foil for a nice egde. So I got me a cardstock heart shape......And put it around the edge of the heart.
Then it got messy ..........

With Gesso that is!

I put lots of it on the foil and sprayed it, while still wet, with Glimmer Mist and Shimmerz Spritz in blue, gold and red.

I can't show you yet what I made, if you go to CHA it will be in Nikki Sivils booth and ofcourse around CHA it will be here on my blog.

Thank you so much for your support this year,

I hope you will have a happy new year and to see you again in Januari.

Have been playing

So I have been playing a bit with Shimmerz Paints and Rangers' Glossy Accents on Nikki Sivils paper flowers made with Spellbinders dies and the Cuttlebug.

I used Angels Wings and Pink Shimmerz.

Angel Wings all around and the Pink only at the edges

This is how it turned out together with the Nikki Sivils brads.

More in my next post tomorrow!

sweet dreams

Last sketch Little Shop of Sketches

Here the last sketch from Tanya Leigh for Little Shop of sketches this year. Tanya is taking a break and will be back next year with more wonderful sketches.

This is my take of the sketch, I used another "old" Xmas line that I had in my box. It's from Paper Salon called Dazzle. Love the colors, used some of the rub-ons and lots of MM paint on the edges. The alpha I made with my Silhouette, the first time I tried it out and look at that... it works! Lol! If only I had more time to figure out how it all works, if only there were more hours in a day.........

Now I'm off to do lots of work for Nikki Sivils, I won't be showing that soon cause it's for CHA.

I can tell you it's with a familiar line and with a new line (yeah! looking so good!).

Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas, hope you have a wonderful time.

Winter

It's winter in the Netherlands, we haven't had this much snow in years and it's so cold!

No public transport, trains are late or not riding at all.

Lots of traffic problems but we are having so much fun!
It's going to snow some more this night, can't wait to see what the world looks like tomorrow.

Hugs,

Mieke

DT Call at Nikki Sivils

Check it out,

Nikki is having a DT call to welcome two new Willie B's Doghouse Diva's on the team!

It's for a short period, from February to May but don't let that stop you.

We are having so much fun, on the blog but also on the Google group where we can leave messages for each other and have peaks at the new lines (they are soooo yummmy!).

Get your applications in before January 25th.

Send your submissions to nikkisivilsdtcall@yahoo.com

Here's a golden oldie, one of my favorite layouts with the Xmas line

Hope to see you on the team!

Hugs from a very snowy and cold Holland,

Mieke

Little Shop of sketches #61

One more Xmas sketch from Little Shop of Sketches by Tanya Leigh. If you go to the blog you see wonderful takes of the sketch by Pearl and Monique.

I used "old" paper by Rhonna Farrer (2007). It's still such great paper.

The stars and the silver thingie is just plane chipboard covered in heat embossing.
The journaling tag and time tag are Tanya Leigh's originals

Thank you for looking!

See you next week with the last sketch of this year.

Hugs,

Mieke

canvas and little tree

Yesterday we celebrated Sinterklaas, Christmas and DH's birthday in one day with my parents and the inlaws. We had a wonderful day. Sorry for a blurry photo.

I had not much time to make pics cause there was a hungry bunch of family waiting to start eating!
I spend my saturday in the kitchen as you can see.
Had no clue what so ever as to what to give to the inlaws for a present so my creative spirit spoke to me and I created two pieces of canvas 20x20 cm.

This is the mother of my father in law.

I used the Savannah line from 7 Gypsies with Prima flowers and crystals.
On the flowers I used my favorite Shimmerz Paints.

This is the mother of my mother in law
Same paper line, different crystals also from Prima and also Prima flowers.

I also altered a wooden Xmas tree with Grunge board sprayed with Shimmerz Spitz,

Flowers colored with Shimmerz Paints and some Ranger Stickles.

The tree is sprayed in green with Glimmer Mist.

Not completely done by the looks of it....

I totally forgot to glue some hotfix stones on the flowers...... Sorry!

Thank you for looking!

See you soon with sketch #60 from Little Shop of Sketches.

Hugs,

Mieke

Blogging on Nikki's blog!

Check out my post on Nikki's Sivils blog. So cool!

I uploaded these projects:

Do read more on Nikki's blog, there you can find more close-ups from these projects.

Thank you so much for looking and have a fun and wonderul weekend!

Mieke