Bird is the Word

Better late then never as they say......

A new word for Bird is the Word is due on my blog so here it is.

Begin / Beginning / Beginnings

My layout is about having a new kitty in our new home.

A few years ago our old cat past away and we've didn't get a new one straight away.

I did miss having a cat around so when we moved to our new home I started looking for a new one. First weeks I had no luck until I saw this add of a tiny 3 colored kitten. There she was. Our little Smoes (means something like excuse). She's special to me, a bit pig-headed and she know's how to cath mice!

I started out with a piece that I torn from a box, misted it with Smooch Spritz, Distress Ink on the edges and added some drops of Glimmer Glaze.

The heart is cut out a piece of Grungeboard, with a Tim Holtz die and heat embossed with Ranger's distress embossing powder. The bottom piece is red with Smooch from Clearsnap

Supplies:

Bazzil cardstock white

Clearsnap Smooch and Smooch spritz

AC Thickers Puffy

La Blance stamp

Tim Holtz dies

Distress Ink and embossing powder

Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze

Glimmer Mist on the swirl

Thanks for looking!

Hugs

Mieke

Sketch #84 Little Shop

Welcome to a new Tanya Leigh sketch for Little Shop of Sketches.

Number 84, can you believe it?

Use the sketch and show us on the Ning site.

I used the wonderful Madeline collection of Prima Marketing.

The colors in this collection called to me right away.

Supplies:

Bazzil cardstock Pinecone and Vanilla

Prima's Madeline paper, chipboard, rub-ons and flowers

Clearsnap Smooch Spritz

Distress Ink Vintage photo

Distress Stain

Tim Holtz Fragments

A bit of the package from the Prima Rub-ons

Prima E line crystals

Dusty Attic butterfly with Glimmer Mist

Lace unknown

Doily is custom made

Thank you for looking, visit the blog to see what Kim, Lindy and Jessica made.

Enjoy the week! Hugs,

Mieke

Bird is the Word

Again a new word for Bird is the Word blog.

Forever

So that got me thinking, what is forever? Well to me that is family.

This photo is of my mom and dad and little me.

I used Nadia's sketch that you can find on the blog. It's such a nice one and you know I love to work with sketches!

I used the Prima Marketing Spring collection with lots of Prima flowers, the small ones covered in Shimmerz. I had not used it in a while and it was a bit dryed up. Just added some water and it worked wonders again.

The dots are made with Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze.

Check out the blog to see the new DT girlies! It's so nice to meet you all girls and love what you did with the word and the sketch.

Enjoy your week,

Hugs

Mieke

Little Shop of Sketches

This fornight flew by, it's time again for a Tanya Leigh sketch for Little Shop of Sketches.

I used the new spring collection of Prima Marketing. Felt like this layout didn't need much more then the lovely text of the Prima paper and the always wonderful Webster Pages blooms.

supplies:

Bazzil cardstock white

Distress Ink tea dye and bundled sage

Clearsnap smooch spritz (on the edge of the cardstock and to give the alpha a bit of shine)

Prima Sparkling Spring collection

Prima say it with crystals (don't you just love those petit flowers in there?)

Jillibean Soup corrugated craft alpha's

My Little Shoebox mini alphabet stickers quicksand

Webster Pages bloomers

That's all, not much for my doing right? lol!

Come join our sketches at the ning site of Little Shop and see what the DT made of the sketch on the blog.

Have a wonderful week!

Hugs,

Mieke

Bird is the Word

Hi all, hope you are enjoying your week, are you creating?

I should be but I have to work a lot this week.

I hope to set up a new canvas this weekend and I have a layout to make.

Anyway,

It's time for another Bird is the Word challenge word

Magic

I bet you can think of lots of layouts, cards and altered items with Magic in your title.

Here's mine:

It turned out a bit too blue. I started on a white piece of Bazzil and sprayed the edges with Glimmer Mist. Then stamped with the Background stamps of Glitz design.

I love the Teresa Collins papers and I even used my sewing machine!

List of supplies:

Bazzil cardstock white

Teresa Collins, on the Edge collection

Glimmer Mist, riptide, black magic and electric blue

Kaisercraft wooden flourishes

Distress ink, black soot and vintage photo

Paint dabber gold

MM paint white

Cosmo Cricket tiny type

Dymo lable writer

Martha Stewart writing pen ebony

Heidi Swapp side clips

brads and overlay unknown

I hope you will play along with our challenge at the blog and read all about the prize to win

Have a wonderful week and I hope your weather will be as good as our saturday looks like!

Hugs

Mieke

Sketch #82

It's time for a new sketch at Little Shop of Sketches.

This is a real nice one, love the round pieces and the flowers.

Check out the blog to see what my fellow DT member did with the sketch.

This is my take of the sketch:

The weather is so sunny, it's spring for real so I felt like doing a bright and sunny layout.

I used the february kit of My Creative Scrapbook.

supplies:

Bazzil cardstock white

Echo Park "for the record" paper

AC Thickers Honey

Craft concepts embossing folder gem flourish

Ranger stickles

Ranger Distress Ink vintage photo

Clearsnap smooch spritz (love this!!!!)

Prima E line rhinestones

Prima melange flowers yellow

Prima ribbon

Jenni Bowlin rhinestone button

Maya Road doilie

MME lush brads

custom crochet flowers

Thank you for looking!

Enjoy your week

Hugs

Mieke

And the winner is......

Thank you all so much for your sweet comments on the blog hop and for becoming a follower on my blog and the Bird is the Word blog.

I hope you can find the time to play with us, we only can IMAGINE how wonderful this will be.

The winner of the blog hop that will receive a stunning kit by Tidbitz in Time is

Dara Lynn

The winner of my RAK is

.........

Number 11 by Random.org

........

Cathy from Australia!

Congrats, you can email me or leave me a message on Facebook.

I hope you have enjoyed this hop as much as we did,

Wishing you a very nice and creative weekend,

Hugs,

Mieke

Little Shop of Sketches

Welcome to another sketch at Little Shop of Sketches!

#81 this is

Tanya, thank you for making a lovely sketch even though there are so many aftershocks.

Check out the blog of Little Shop of Sketches and the ning site.

This is my layout

Our dear and very sweet German Shepard Julie is taking a nap here.

Now she's getting older she can sleep so deep, she doesn't hear a thing.

This is her favorite spot, in the sun at the cabin. In a few days she turns 12.

Supplies used:

Bazzil cardstock

Bo Bunny Gabrielle paper

Tim Holtz Distress Stains

Distress Crackle Paint

Distress Ink
Tattered Angels Chips

Prima package

O'scraps alpha

Doodlebug alpha

The new Distress Stains are so fun to work with! Do give it a try!!

Hugs,

Mieke

Mojo is back!

Spring is in the air....

Well, I like to think so. The sun is shining, the first crocus bulbs are out.

The only downside is that it's soooooo freezing cold!

I got me some spring inside with tulips. Love them!

Photographed my mini album today, feeling a lot better so I was up to it.

You can find the inside of the album on top of the blog on a special page.

And this is what I did today.

Supplies:

Bazzil cardstock Coastal

GCD Studio's Ella Blue collection (still in love with it!)

Martha Stewart edge punch

Dusty Attic French Flourish border

Glimmer Mist creme de cocao and riptide

Glimmer Glaze cowboy

Paint dabber gold

custom made flowers

Bella Blvd camped out alpha

Prima E line rhinestones

KaiserScrapbook rub-ons

Hotfix crystals

Stabilo brown pen

Cricut cartridge Cindy Loo

So glad I'm back with my scrappin', 2 weeks of doing nothing and feeling yuck is too much!

Received a box of new products this week and one coming tomorrow I can't wait to craft.

Don't forget the "Beautiful" challenge at Bird is the Word blog!!!!!

Wishing you a wonderful weekend

Hugs,

Mieke

Bird is the Word

A new word at Bird is the Word challange blog is up,

Beautiful

You are gonna love what the DT is showing you.

Show us your layout, card or altered item, as long it has the word Beautiful in it and win!

You have a month to upload

More details you can find on the blog

Now here's what I've come up with

I started out with a sketch of Pencillines,

Used the My Creative Scrapbook feb kit and here are the supplies:

Echo Park paper, stickers and alpha

Teresa Collins Chic bébé girl chipboard

DCWV street lace rub-ons

Prima E line rhinestones

Epiphany Craft buttons

Glimmer glaze drops

Paint dabber gold

Shimmers spritz bed of roses

Chalkboard charcoal

Martha Stewart pen ebony

Inkssentials pen white

Tim Holtz rosette die

Thank you for all your sweet words on the EC DT, still jumping around with joy here!

Can't wait to get started.

Wishing you a wonderful creative weekend,

Hugs

Mieke

An epiphany

WOooooooohhhhhhhhhhoooooo!!! I'm jumping up and down, so excited!!!

I made the new Fashion Accessory team of Epiphany Crafts!

This hairband I made in Ommen with a Prima flower, a piece of Prima packaging under a one inch Epiphany piece. Along with some rhinestones from Hotfix.

DD loved it and looks like EC did too! lol!

So thankful

(Monique..... finally on the same team again!)

I can't wait to start playing with the tools!

More good news but that will take some time to show is that I'm getting 2 layouts published in the best selling UK Scrapbook Magazine! But it will not be till november before it's published.

Hugs,

Mieke