Winner and a layout tutorial

We have a winner....... Put all your names in a bowl and who came out first? Congrats to Carole Stirrat!! Email me you address this week to mieke0510@hotmail.com and Nikki will sent you your collection of papers! Do let me know what you do with it!

Then my tutorial, I was looking at Stacey Cohen's blog and saw how she made a frame to her layout. That gave me the inspiration to do something like that. So I started with a frame from Technique Tuesday as a mask and cut out the middle.

Then I cut out some things from the wonderful Webster Pages paper.


I glued two kind of lace to the back of the frame. And added some cardboard to get that 3d effect.


This is the front of the frame


This is what I added later on the paper. Also used Distress Ink Vintage Photo.


And here you see the result, added some Prima E-line crystals and some Prima flowers and leafs. Don't you just love that Tattered Angels frame? Most materials come from the April kit of My Creative Scrapbook. Check out their website, the new kit is up and so sweet!



















Thank you so much for your interest in my blog and my give away, hope you will stick around to see more of my creations. I really appriciate having you around!
If you really like Nikki Sivils papers and things, try out for the DT call, it's such a great and creative group of girls to work with. And ofcourse the best boss!LOl! I won't be returning to Nikki's team, it's time to move on allthough I'm gonna miss it all! It's been such a great chance for me.

If you love stamps by Elisabeth Bell have a look at Ladybug and Friends, this is a new store in Norway with the most wonderful products.

See you soon!

NSD Nikki Sivils give away

Hi all, welcome to the (Inter)National Scrapbooking Day give away of Nikki Sivils!

Nikki is so sweet to give lots of collections away on the blogs of the Design Team!!!!

So check out my fellow Doghouse Diva's. For this day I made this layout, it was still wet when I took the photo's!

I used Ellie's Day Out, with lots of Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, MM paint and Distress Ink by Ranger.

The flowers are Prima's, E-line with Glimmer Mist and the green/blue ones from Strawberry line.

The heart is Bazzil glued on a piece of chipboard and then cut out.

Misted with Pearl Glimmer Mist and a little Distress Ink Vintage Photo on the edges.

The dots on the arrow are made with the Ranger white pen.

I added some water to my pink paint and splashed some onto the paper.

Will he be the one

Willow Bee

Flaming Butterfly

Ellie's day out

Dan the Record Man

Bella Blue and Oscar too

These are the newest lines of Nikki Sivils.

How to win one of the collection?

Tell me which line you love most and become a follower on my blog.

That's all!

We will put all the name is a bowl and I will let one of our kids draw one of you.

You will receive one full paper collection from Nikki herself.

This will run till tuesday 4th of May
Good luck!

Layout and some photo's

I found this wonderful sketch on Creative Scrappers, and you know how much I love sketches.

I had just received my printed photo's, these were printed a bit smaller then the usual size so they fitted just right for this layout. I'm so happy with my latest My Creative Scrapbook kit, full with Webster Pages Life Portrait. I cut out some and added some glitter with a clear Jelly Roll pen to it.
Sewed by hand.

I used a lot of Zva Creative this time. I must say it's a lot better then last year. I didn't have any trouble getting it of the sheets.

My mum and her friend Annemarie made this dress for Mara for the musical at school.

Can you tell she loved the dress? LoL!

I'm so glad it's such nice warm spring weather right now.
To have my backdoor open, drinking my tea outside.
Walking in the garden enjoying the new leaves and the flowers
I took my camera this morning and found some beauty of nature.

Canon EOS 350D with lens 70-300

Canon Powershot A2000 on Macro

Canon Powershot on Macro

EOS 350D with 70-300

EOS 350D with 70-300 lens cropped in Paint Shop Pro XI

And I finally were able to shoot a picture of Mara, she's got teeth again!

She's so happy with her new (fake) teeth. It's only for show, she can't use them to bite.

We spend an hour with the dentist last tuesday. She was so brave!

Proud of my little girl.

Well, I'm off to sit in the sun for a while!
Enjoy your weekend and for tomorrow Happy Queensday!

Ps. You might know that this saturday may 1st is (inter)National Scrapbook Day and I have a little something in store for you all........

Just wait and see!!

Nikki Sivils layouts

Today is my turn to post on Nikki Sivils' blog. I've uploaded these layouts: Awe... it's been a long time since my kids shared a bottle! Lol! They were so cute here.

I believe this is taken in Zwolle at a garden centre. Was this our vacation with the kids and without the men Monique????
These layouts are full of the die-cuts you can find on Nikki's paper.

So love the burlap buttons!

This is the second layout, all about family.

Our American family came to Holland almost two years ago and it was so good to see them again.
Here we had lunch in Ermelo.

The flowers were in the Paper and Pictures bag that I won! They matched just perfect.

These are cut from the burlap buttons package, so cute!

With a little Magic Mesh

Alpha stamps by Pipoos (dutch craft store)

And here's my favorite:

Ever since I saw this paper line I knew I had to do something with this record.

Thank you so much for looking, I have more on the stories behind the photo's on Nikki's blog.

Have a great weekend!