Finally!

Hi all, finally I have something crafty to show you. It's been a while, I've been busy with other things like a career change and a study so not much time to be creative.

Just before Christmas I made this canvas for my mum with the wonderful Prima papers Tea Thyme.

 

 

I cut a die cut sheet in two and played with the wonderful Epiphany Craft tools.

 

We've had a cold and snowy winter so far. Look at that beautiful Chesnut tree!

 

Our new German Shepard Vaya enjoys the snow so much!

She's a wonderful dog, very playful and so sweet.

 

Well, I'm working on some more canvas, will show you when it's finished!

 

Thanks for all your lovely comments in the past, I hope to read new ones soon! I love it "wink"

 

Have a great day

Hugs,

Mieke

Stunning give away!

Reading on Facebook tonight and coming across this wonderful give away by Ingvild Bolme with lots of Prima products.

Just worked with the chalk ink for the first time this week and fell in love with it.

So you can imagine that I would love to win some!

 

Only a couple of hours for you to put this photo on your blog and link to Ingvild's blog

 

Good luck to all and Ingvidl, thank you so much for this chance to win

 

Have a great weekend

hugs

Mieke

 

 

 



 

It's been awhile!

 

Hi all,
It's been a long time since my last blogpost. I have been busy with work and other things and did not scrap at all....... Now the creativity is flowing, so feel like making beautiful pages again. And mini's of course ;-)

 

This wonderful give away I found on Facebook, it's Maya Road's.

Check it out, it's amazing!

 

 

What is your favorite line this season?

Mine is Prima's Romance Novel, just love every bit of it!

 

 

Remember our Julie died last december? Wel we have a new addition to the family.

Her name is Vaya, 5 months old now and such a sweetheart. Sometimes she is just too fast to make photo's but this time she watched some people passing by so I had the chance to a perfect photo!

 

Well, that's all folks! for now.....

Have a great weekend,

 

Hugs

Mieke

 

Sketch Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge

Here's the sketch and challenge from Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge

A sketch is a sketch you would say but this has a twist, the challenge is to make this about a group you belonged to when you were a child or teen. Girlscout, a sport group or like me, a group of friends. We used to hang out at the dance club and after our ballroom and latin lessons we went to Rotterdam or like this evening, to Scheveningen to watch the fireworks after a nice pizza dinner.

supplies:

MME follow your heart paper and chipboard border
AMM Expressions chipboard alphabet brackers
Prima innoscence collection - symplhony blend accesoires
Ranger Distress ink vintage photo
Glimmer Mist riptide
Shimmerz Paints Spritz cotton candy
Zva Creative Crystal

Don't forget there is still time for our Blog Hop, start here , there is such a great prize to win!
Good luck!!

Have a great week,

Hugs,

Mieke

Valentine’s Blog Hop at another Freaking scrappy challenge

Welcome to the next step of this bloghop, so glad you are on my blog!
If you came through the blog of Mitra you are well on your way.
If not, please start here

My word for you is

heart

You know the drill by now, email your words to Anne. Her email adress will be on the blogpost you go to last.
Please become a follower at the challenge blog (and if you like follow my blog too!) and if you participate in one or both challenges this month you'll have a bigger chance to win the stunning prize!

This is my Valentine project, I decorated a candle with Prima's Romantique paper, Prima flower and a piece of chrystal. Of course a heart of Epipany Crafts had to be on there!

Well, thank you so much for joining the hop, now you're off to
Donna
http://midnightscrapper.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/its-time-for-some-freaking-hop-blogging-fun/
Good luck !!

Hugs,
Mieke

Epiphany Crafts meets Echo Park

The first week of this month Epiphany Crafts teamed up with Echo Park and this is my layout for the blogpost:

The EC round 14 fitts just on the cute faces of the Echo Park paper!

I took off the smallest piece of the felt and replaced that with the EC heart 25.

After praying with Glimmer Mist I used some ink and added embossing powder. Then some splashes Clearsnap Smooch.

This punched out snowflake from a Martha Stewart Punch is mounted with the 3d squares by http://www.scrapbook-adhesives.com/3d-foam-squares-black-variety-pack Scrapbook Adhesives. I cut the small ones in half and that fitts just right. Love to use their My Stik Dispenser as well! http://www.scrapbook-adhesives.com/mystik-permanent-strips-dispenser

Supplies:
Epiphany
Crafts heart 25 and round 14 and the wonderful felt Starflower
Echo Park Winter Park
Bazzil white cardstock
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist
Ranger embossing powder silver and distress ink, also stickles (waterfall)
Clearsnap Smooch
Prima flowers
Maya Road kraft alphabet tags
Pink Paislee Artisan Elements borders
Martha Stewart punch
Scrapbook Adhesives 3d foam squares

Don't forget the bloghop of Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge blog tomorrow!

Epiphany
Crafts heart 25 and round 14 and the wonderful felt Starflower
Echo Park Winter Park
Bazzil white cardstock
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist
Ranger embossing powder silver and distress ink, also stickles (waterfall)
Clearsnap Smooch
Prima flowers
Maya Road kraft alphabet tags
Pink Paislee Artisan Elements borders
Martha Stewart punch
Scrapbook Adhesives 3d foam squares

Hugs,
Mieke

Epiphany Crafts project

This is one of my projects for the Epiphany Crafts blog this month http://epiphanycrafts.com/beautiful-details-with-epiphany-crafts/

Supplies:

EC round 14 and spring felt flower

Bazzil white

Ranger Distress INk

Glitz Beautiful Dreamer paper

Prima Butterflies, Say it in pearls and Madeline flowers, I also used the package

Want to Scrap sprighty sprockets

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist and Glimmer Glass Tattered Traveler

Bo Bunny alpha and stickers et cetera

In a few days you can find another project of me on the blog. Check the blog regularly cause there's a lot to see!

I also would like to give some love to this blog http://another-freaking-scrappy-challenge.blogspot.com/ It's so much fun and they are looking for new Designers!

Another thing I would love to share is Project life. 365 days of taking a photo this year and tell a little story. Read all about it here http://www.beckyhiggins.com/products/getting-started.php

Wish I had time to do the project but I will be too busy studying!

Have a great week!

Hugs

Mieke

Sad news and Epiphany goes Pebbles

The sad news for our family..... our sweet and loyal dog called Julie has passed away late last night. She was under the weather for a couple of days but yesterday evening it all went so fast. I'm so glad we were able to be with her till the last breath. It's hard to loose a companion that has been with us for over 10 years.

12th of March 1999 - 19th of December 2011

Here my layout for the Epiphany Crafts blog. EC teamed up with the wonderful Pebbles Inc!

Such a fun collection to work with. Seems like Blogger is not working like I want it to so here's the link http://epiphanycrafts.com/blog/

Do you like my new tool? It's the Shape Studio 25 oval and I love it!!

http://epiphanycrafts.com/products/tools/

This is the Button Studio round 20 together with the fabric Pebbles Inc brads

supplies

Epiphany Crafts 25oval tool and bubble caps, Epiphany Crafts 20 round button tool with buttons

Pebbles Inc Welcome Christmas patterend paper, button candydots, fabric brads, ABC stickers, layered embellishments and dimentional stickers

Scrapbook Adhesives photo corners and 3d foam squares

Martha Stewart snowflake punchEK succes edge punch

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Marmelade

Ranger Distress Ink Vintage photoRanger Distress Stain Spun sugerRanger Stickles Xmas red

Scrapbook Adhesives (see below)

The Twinery Honeydew twine

For the Epiphany DT we were lucky to try out some of the Scrapbook Adhesives products and ...... wow... they are super!

I cut up the 3d foam squares in two. That's so easy to do. You can even cut them in 4 pieces if you need to. I mounted the Snowflakes in two layers.

Also used the Photo Corners, they are wonderful. You can ink them, paint, spray .... what ever you like. Give them a try sometime! I used them natural this time.

Well, that's it for now. Have another project with Epiphany Crafts and Pebbles on my desk so I hope to show you soon.

Hugs,

Mieke

Epiphany Crafts

Today you can find my latest project featured on the Epiphany Crafts blog.

I decorated a witches hat, bought at Xenos. I started with glueing the ribbon to the hat, then sewed the braches on and added the crystals. I had some Nikki Sivils Halloween papers left from the time I played on the NS team. Love this paper so much that I just had to use the leftovers. The pumpkin fitted right into the EC tool with the 14 round clear bubble cap. So cool!

DD just had to goof around when she saw the hat!!

Here you can find some close ups:

Supply list:

Epiphany Crafts Shape Studio Bubble Caps Clear Round 14
ribbon : unknown
Metal: unknown
paper: Nikki Sivils "Boo-tiful"
flower: Magnolia
Crystals: Zva Creative
Branches: Prima Marketing (blossom Branches Pistachio)
Glue: Gütermann Creativ for fabric

Check out the blog, there you can find some more stunning projects!
Thanks for looking!

Hugs and enjoy your weekend,

Mieke

That was a long break

Hi all, I'm back..... finally. It's been a long break from blogging and scrapping. After the holidays in the UK I couldn't find the mojo to get started but now I'm back!

First I want to tell you that I've been published in this super magazine from Britain. You can imagine I'm proud!

This is the layout that's been used. It was all about mums and I'm proud of mine so I had to use this photo. Although it's a bit dark it's just how she is.

Yesterday I found a great tutorial on this blog of Creative Inspirations. You might know that I love scents, incense and oils. Now I found someone used a scented oil to give smell to this wonderful paint. I can't wait to get my hands on some of this paint. Looks good to me!

This Chi oil is my favorite. You should give it a try mixing it with paints !!

This next photo is of the English town Glastonbury. The picture is not taken by me cause I was so blown away by the spirit of this town that I totally forgot to take photo's! So you can imagine how much I want to get back!

This town is know for the Glastonbury Thor, where they say Avalon should have been in the time of King Arthur and Merlin. This land and it's history is so special to me. Think I got homesick when I was back in Holland. Felt right at home. Also Wales was so special. Must have lived there in another lifetime!
Anyway, I've picked up some incense sticks there and fell in love with the Stamford brand.
These are the ones I burn the most.

To stay on the spiritual path, I finished my course of Reiki 2 last week. Now it's all up to me to use that energy wisely. It's an old Japanese healing energy. I've done the first course over 15 years ago and now it was time to take it a step further.

Thank you all for your patients. I will show you my layout and project for Epiphany Crafts soon. Have you seen the new blog by Epiphany Crafts yet? It's worth the look!
Have a great week, I promiss it won't be this long before you read more of my creative life!
Hugs,

Mieke

Another freaking scrappy challenge blog

Have you heard? There is a new kid eh.... challenge blog on the block.

Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge Blog.

This is going to be so much fun!!!

I have the honours to be a part of the guest team for the first challenge and so proud of that! Thanks a lot Anne.

Here is my layout: It's about my girl and I dreaming about a horse of our own but the dreams are a little different. Mara wants a brown sport pony while I'm in love with Irish Cobs. Looks like we'll have to find a compromise!

I've used the Copic Airbrush system to make the background with the clouds. Have you ever tried it yet? It's fun! I used Authentique for the alpha. Love it! Can't wait to get my hands on the papers.

I also want to share a video with you. You all know how I love Tattered Angels!

Thanks for looking, do check out the new challenge blog and play along.

Hugs,

Mieke