It's my life

PL week 3

2012-01-25T21:21:00.001+01:00

Week 3:
The theme in my PL seems to be sleeping kids so far :) Agian I have 2 pics of them. (that when they are the sweetest ;) )

Another thing that was important was Tristan his first dat at school and Camiel getting his swimming certificate B.

Spread

Left side:

close-ups:

Behind the picture of Tristan his first schoolday I placed a card with more journaling, because I have lots to say ;)

Extra journaling card

Right side

Tristan and Camiel took the bottem pics :)

Journaling card written by Camiel about the baseball bat he got from his Etienne because his got his swimming certificate (he only began to learn how to read and write last september), love that he wanted to do this :) But I added a translation.

And againan insert with a drawing of Tristan and Camiel.

Hugs,

Astrid

PL week 2

2012-01-19T21:37:00.002+01:00

My second week of PL:

I used a lot of stamps this week. Mayor events were Camiel his testswimming for B and Etienne and Tristan being ikk (and this week it's me :( )

Again an extra A4 insert with the letter about Camiel his swimming for diploma B and a drawing of Camiel

Backside insert, a few hamsterbingo cards of AH , we won nothing ;) And the invitation for the actual diploma swimming (and he was succesful, more about that next week :) )

sickies

I got a haircut

I also made a new LO, but the pictures I made are unsharp, only 1 detailpic is OK, so I leave you with that and make new pictures of the rest asap.

Hugs,
Astrid

Dutch dare sketch

2012-01-18T21:07:00.000+01:00

This times dutch dares is one I designed myself (insert proud icon), it's based on an older LO of me.

I made a LO about Camiel's 7th birthday LO with it.

The highlighted the sevens on the backgroundpaper with white embossingpowder. I also sprayed white SC mister Huey on the background to tone it down.
I had the red cocktail stirrer with the7 already for a long time, it came in a kit I think, didn't know what to do with I then. But hey they are seven before you know it ;)
I also used to new favorite punches the MS vintage doiley and the new Jenni Bowlin tab punch
The LO is a bit busy but I love it!

Come join us with the sketch, look here for more inspiration and all the info. You can win this lovely RAK so what are you waiting for??

I will post my PL week 2 in the next post.

Hugs,
Astrid

Project Life

2012-01-11T10:48:00.001+01:00

Now that I finished my december daily I can move on to Project Life.:)

I hesitated if should join it, because of the commitment and the time it will cost. But I just thought of the fun of documenting all the little things in life. Especially the details you will forget quickly, the things the boys say, do or make. So I just jump in a see if I can make it happen.

I already had an AC D-ring album that I use and I ordered the AC page protectors with the 6 4x6 slots (on both sides). I like the A style PP of Becky Higgins' PL but I can't order them right now and I can get the same affect with this pp's.

And I made a PL banner, I had seen it on other blogs and wanted to try making one of my own, not that hard actually. Want do you think?

This is the title page:

The separate cards

One night I lay awake and had a brainwave about using the 1 year, 12 months, 52 weeks etc. :)

And this is week 1. I hard to get good pictures of the the page protectors I noticed, need to work on that.

Total spread with a A4 pp in between

left side:

I inserted the little verse Camiel got from school to read in the newyear, to show how good he can read now, he did that at 12 o' clock, so cute. Needed to add that.

And then I had the backside of the pp to fill, I used the self made christmas card I got, a great spot to save them :) Recognize your card??

Right side:

Who is also doing PL?

This afternoon Camiel is going to do a test if he can take the diploma B exam for swimming. The testing is actually more the exam. I hope he passes because he really is a case of doubt when it comes to diving and swimming under water through the 'hole'. And I'm done with more then 2 years of going to the swimming pool. I know I also have to do that with Tristan but then I can first take a break from it ;)

Hugs,
Astrid

December Daily day 24 - 31, finished!!

2012-01-10T21:42:00.000+01:00

The last pages of the december daily are finished !! :) I'm really happy with it but I'm glad it's over :) But it's worth it ;)

Day 12, I skipped that page, I added some selfmade cards I got because I participated a swap at Scrapotheek (of Margot and Hetty, use dthe rest for PL).

Day 24: Paymobil advent calender is finished

Day 25: christmas day

Day 26: day at the beach

Day 27: boys sleeping together in 1 bed

Day 28: christmas tree

Day 29: Date with Tristan to Alvin and the Chipmunks

Day 30: Date with Etienne (whole day :) )

Day 31: Newyears eve

A very thick album.

Finished! :)

Hugs,

Astrid

December Daily day 11 - 23

2012-01-07T12:16:00.000+01:00

Today I want to show the rest of the pages of my DD that I have done. Till day 23. The rest of the days I have picked out my pictures and made some collages. So I only have to print them, glue them down make the journaling and make the pretty. :)

Day 11: making birthday favors and Etienne's his big body builders game (he became 2nd in his class)

Day 12: I still have to make, no picture yet... Have to thinkabout that....

Day13: Big day for Camiel :)

Some extra pictures in between

Day 14: kidsparty for Camiel

Invitation card for Camiel's party included

Day 15: Decoration

Day 16: kerstpakket

day 17: party for Camiel and Etienne's birthdays. Those number coasters are really fun, only a bit thick for the album, I hope I have enough room for all my pages till day 31. I already removed some of the tick brad that I love :( to make some room.

Day 18: Another birthday party, this time for my daddy.

Day 19: Journaling about the boys 'playing' together

Day 20: Swimming lesson of Camiel

Day 21: Day out together with Tristan to Intratuin.

In between pockets with prettiy stuff, I wanted to add more pockets but no room left in the album...

Day 22: xmas celebrations of Camiel on school

Day 23: Another decoration picture, an old window of my formers parents house, that we have in our hallway.

That's it for today!

Hugs,
Astrid

December Daily till day 10

2012-01-04T22:21:00.000+01:00

Second post today, but I finally wanted to show my DD pages.
After weeks of waiting, my SC album finally came home to me, it looked like they played soccer with it, but luckily the album was OK. I couldn't wait to start on the albums outside, it is made of thick cardboard, I painted (first gesso, then cream paint) then sprayed glitterspray. On the spine I put fabricpaper (also on the front), then the decoration began. I already had the cardboard star for a long time and used ZING aqua embossing powder on it.

This is the result:

This are the pages:
Titelpage

Day 1

Day2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

Day 7

Day 8

Day 9:

Day 10

I have worked till day 24, so have more work to do. I'll show the rest of the pages in another post.

Hugs,
Astrid

Dutch Dare #86 Wishes for 2012

2012-01-04T15:10:00.001+01:00

First of all a happy newyear to you, may all your wishes come true.

This month I'm hosting the DutchDare blog, the dare of today is about our wishes for 2012.

This is my LO, I wish for strenght and enery to become a better version of me.
Picture of me was taken by Etienne on 2nd xmasday on the beach of Scheveningen, finally a picture of me that I like :)

Hugs,

Astrid

Top 10

2011-12-31T22:24:00.000+01:00

Last hours of 2011 time to make up the balance. It has been a restless year, I've seen lots of sad and happy things. On to a fresh new year, with lots of new oppertunities and hopefully a few changes.

Also a nice moment to look back to all the layouts I made this year and make a top 10 just like last year

I don't think I made as much LO's as last year, I think it's because of Project 12, which made me struggle a bit. I noticed I also made quite a lot of cards.

TOP TEN:

There also need to be a LO about me included :) My little word for 2011, still working on that ;) Probably a lifetime project.

Love that I made a relative clean design here (and love these paper together)

Fun design and I love these flag shaped tags :) And that scribble paper :D love

LOve the story and the background paper with the ink.

Also love this story and circles are really my thing :)

I choose this LO for the journaling very special to me . And again the papercircles (and flagtags ;) )

Love the pics and the design and ink splatters

Love the memorie here, this LO hangs in my haalway :)

Woodgrain with wite misterhuey swoon :)

Th elast LO I made (is usually my fave ;) ) Love again these circles and of course the pic.
And red turqoise and green my colorcombo!!

Curious what your top ten is, give me a link if you made 1 and I come and admire. And I also like to know what your fave is of me (don't have to be of of my top 10 of course), love the comments last year.

Not much time left in this year, I wish you all good for 2012 and lot of creative flows :)
Till next year, same place, same gal, different scraps.

Hugs,
Astrid

DutchDare sketch + LO

2011-12-24T16:44:00.000+01:00

Last wednesday the latest sketch dare went live, this time it was a sketch for a christmas card made by Petra (wish I could make such awesome sketches :)

And this is my card:
The background paper was from a wrapping of a present I bought a year ago , glad I saves it.

Last night I finally made another LO, felt like ages. I lifted a LO of myself ;)
This one:

And this is the new LO: sweet child o' mine (like the guns and roses song)

Wishing you all a merry christmas!

I need to work on my DD pages and soon (OK I said it before) you will see more!!

Hugs,
Astrid

Hiep hiep hoera

2011-12-13T09:34:00.002+01:00

Gefeliciteerd lieve grote kleine jongen!

Camiel is al weer 7 jaar geworden, hij stond zich vanmorgen om 6 uur al aan te kleden, benieuwd naar zijn cadeaus en hij wilde graag snel naar school om te trakteren. :)

PS ik zal snel mijn laatse DD pagina's opladen (als ik tijd heb, het is erg druk... )
Hugs,
Astrid

Dutch Dare #86 Q&A

2011-12-08T20:11:00.001+01:00

The new Dutch Dare is all about getting to know the DD girls better.
Petra made a list with 15 questions that we used on our LO.

And this is my LO (the list is in dutch, sorry for the non-dutchies, let me now if you want an translation :))
I used this SC paper with all the lines as in inspiration.

Come over and join us and scrap about yourself! Something most of us don't do often, now is the time!!

Tomorrow I will update with more December Daily pages.

Hugs,
Astrid

DD - Day 3

2011-12-04T22:37:00.001+01:00

Today we celebrated Sinterklaas at our house together with my parents. Our neighbourgh who was working on his car in from of the house, opted to knock our door so the kids could find the sack with presents, he was almost to slow with running away ;) But luckily Etienne saw 2 Zwarte Pieten outside (who were leaving from a party another neighbourg in our street), and they saved the day ;)

The boys were spoiled, Camiel loved the special Stabilo pen the most :) He also got a LEGO cars 2, zeeslag game, a build a house box, a smurfen book, a hotwheels addon box and a box to make magnets.

Tristan loved his HotWheels shark track, but also his book about a litlle bear and his mommy. He also got something of LEGO cars, a BOBO friendbook, playdough set, a game (kind of Jenga) and big ironbeads. To make it short they were spoiled :)

Tomorrow they have the last Sinterklaas celebrations, Camiel on school and BSO (daycare after school) and Tristan on daycare, in between I have to work so it's a busy day. And then I'm glad that is over ;) And next week we start with the birthday celebrations, hooray for december :) But I have lots to document about in my DD :D

But what I wanted to show is day 3 page of my DD:
We made a cute selfportrait, great starting point to write about how december is all about family.

The page on its own

Page with the the number overlay on top

And the number overlay flipped so you can see the number,

the coasters were included in the kit.

You can see the day 4 number page peek through at the right side

Thanks for passing by.
Hugs,
Astrid

DD day2

2011-12-03T16:03:00.001+01:00

And here is my second page for the december daily.

I wanted t document the 'Sinterklaas' celebrations we had last week at my workplace. So not a picture that was made on this day exactly.

with the number page

The print with the words: december was a digital sheet of Ali Edwards which we got on the SCboard (esclusive board wasincluded with the kit)
I embossed the 2 with red ZING powder, I cut the 'Zwarte Piet' from a chocolate letter (typical dutch Sinterklaas treat) package.

Hugs,
Astrid

December Daily day 1

2011-12-02T22:58:00.001+01:00

ETA: I update the pics with better ones in daylight :)

Yes it's that time again, december. Time for another december daily, after looking through DD of last year and seeing the SC/Ali Edwards kit I decided to do another round. Hope I can keep up in this really busy month (Sinterklaas, 2 birthdays, parties, christmas celebrations, work and so on...) But that also means I have lots to document.

Unfortunately the AC binder wasn't included in my kit :( I hope to get it soon...SO I had to make my basepages without the page protectors.

Here are the first (title) pages . (I made this pictures with lamp light, I will made new ones in daylights soon. I copied the pocket idea of Ali.

the pockets

The title page, I sprayed the paper with cream mister Huey and after that glitter spray

And this is my day 1 page: I made a picture of the boys opening the first door of the Playmobil Advent calender.
For every day I also have made an in between page of paper or overlay with the number of the day like Ali.

I also made day 2, but no pic yet. So I'm totally up to date :)

Hugs,
Astrid

2 boys + almost 7

2011-11-19T09:39:00.001+01:00

Last week I finally found scrapmood back, guess I just was too tired to scrap in the evening after work. The little men has been waking us up several times a night for the last weeks/months. He don't want to stay in his own bed, pfff tiresome.

But the good news is I made 2 LO's.

2 Boys in my life. Love the sunlight (and my boys ;) ) in this picture. A bit simple LO, but such a background paper don't need much. I took some brads and glued them on the butterflies iso making a hole.

Almost 7: I wanted to document the proces we have been to with Camiel, we got him examined for maybe AD(H)D or something related. He is not really hyperactive but has some other symptons like his lack of concentration(mostely at home) and some more. The reult were no ADHD so for they can sat now, but he also got an IQ test and with a IQ of 123 he is a 'gifted' boy. He probably need to be entertained al lot and is easyly bored, which is something we need to watch out on school. We have a meeting planned with his teacher next week to talk about it, but so far he is doing great on school, he is really studious at that's a great thing :) Beside that he is really stubborn and don't take initiatives himself. I start to know him a little bit more each time!
BUt I just love how this LO came together :) Love the white mister Huey on the woodgrain paper. Made the sub/flower with yellow tutu trim. I als heat embossed the banner and the numbers.

Have nice weekend!

Hugs,
Astrid

Dutch dare sketch #45

2011-11-17T22:22:00.001+01:00

It's me again with the latest Dutch Dare sketch challenge.

This is the sketch made by Petra:

And this is my LO about a walk in het Bergse Bos we made a couple of weeks ago. I loved to use the Amy Tan leaves these colors are made exclusively for SC :)

And don't forget to look at the creations of the other girls. And join us for another change on the RAK and to become our next guestdesigner!

Hugs,
Astrid

DD schets #44

2011-10-24T21:23:00.002+02:00

Last wednesday it was time for sketch #44 on the Dutch Dare blog. Sketch was made by Marsha and a good oppertunity to use more pics on a LO.

I used it to scrap the pics of Camiel on his first schoolday. His first day in 'groep 3' were he finally is going to learn to read, write and math. On his first day he made a little book about IK (me), the first word they learned. So cute, I added in a pocket (Smash) behind the picture on the right.

Here you can see the the other creations and read about the the change to win a RAK or be our guestdesigner if you join the sketchchallenge.

Last saturday I followed a stampworkshop together with Petra in Ede at the Craftorij, Jolanda was the teacher. We had lots of fun, got really messy (especially my fingers ;) ) and made very nice tags with lots of techniques and Katzelkraft stamps. I will take some pics tomorrow so you can see them.

Hugs,
Astrid

dutch dare krant

2011-10-05T14:03:00.000+02:00

And it's already that time of the monthagain , the new Dutch Dare is online. This time the theme was newspaper. Because I couldn't come up with a subject, I decided to use newspaperas background. I Took a piece of cardstock and glued pieces of newspaper on it with Claudine Hellmuth Studio Multi-Medium in Matte finish. After that I started to get messy with white paint, different inkts and I used a star as mask for spray painting (Miser huey Barnwood). Then I added a few embelishments, piece of paper and of cource a picture of Camiel where he was showing of his moves. ;)

Take a look at what creative things the DT made and have a change to win this awesome vintage RAK.

Last week finished another LO but I still haven't shw it because everytime I wanted to take a picture there wan't enough daylight :( Fall is really showing his signs. Although last week we had really nice weather, a bit replacement of the summer we had missed this july and august...

Smile: I went a little wild with embelishing this LO :) I misted a metal heart (with a cutout pattern) and added green/white string. Futher lots of buttons and stones.

Last week Camiel joined a training at a beeball (baseball) team and they asked his to play at a tournament with this new team. He really loves it, the weather was nice (great for us too ;) )
And they even ended in 2nd place.

A few pics:

Yesterday I visited the St Maartenskliniek in Woerden to let a orthopedic take a look at my lefthip (also made x-ray pictures of zourse), because I have often pains and can't walk a lot without pain and so on. The Physiotherapist couldn't help me anymore and besides that my sister has hip dysplasia which is hereditary.
The result is unfortenately I have an abnormality at my hipjoint (already all my life). They can do nothing about it now (only some training at the phsysiotherapist to get stronger) because an operation is a step too far (which is really heavy and takes a long time recovering, half year or so). I don't see the need for that yet neither.
But I'm a bit sad about this, because it will never get better only worse.... At lease I know what's the matter now.

And now I need to pick up Camiel from school, he had a (cold) cookinglesson after school.

Hugs,
Astrid

Faces

2011-09-27T15:36:00.001+02:00

Had this LO laying around for about a week, but I just didn't like the way I started it. Finally yesterdayevening I started from almost the beginning and now I'm satisfied.

So many faces
I used a few pictures of Camiel during our summerholiday.
I misted the mistable scallopes with mister huey white and a lite 'pony' spray.

Hugs,

Astrid

Dutch Dare sketch #43

2011-09-21T17:27:00.000+02:00

Time for the new Dutch Dare sketch challenge has arrived.

Petra made this awesome sketch:

And this is my Lo about 3 beachboys:)

So what's stopping you? come and join us, take a look here! You have as always a chance to win this awesome RAK or be our guestdesigner next month.

Project 12 august

2011-09-20T09:12:00.006+02:00

Finally started to work on project 12 again, this it was with august pictures. I still have to do june and july. Like the other LO's I made a spread with the sketch, used craft cardstock as a background, the SC month stamp, and the large tag for journaling and also the calender tag.

The sketch of Becky Fleck:

Spread:

Left:

Right:

Journaling:

Hugs,
Astrid

Cards

2011-09-17T21:59:00.002+02:00

Cards are not my speciality butfor special occasions I gladly make an exception.
Last week our friend Katja celebrated her 40th birthday, she had a great party. She celebrated it in a playground because most people they know have little kids, a clown performed and we had great weather,great food and drinks for the adults. Kids had a blast, what more do you want..
Made this card:

A week ago Lizze was born the daughter of Maaike and Michiel, first time I made a newborn card. Funny thing was Etienne handed me a postcard with the image of the little dress( came with a magazine: At Home) and mentioned that maybe it was something for the card. Great thinking :)
Congrats on your beautiful daughter Maaike and Michiel!

Also made a few LO's a while ago.

Oog, Ojo, Eye
A page about the story of Etienne's eye, who got hit by a 'kaatsbal' on a weekend trip with his colleagues. Long story, but luckily his eye is almost back to normal, but for weeks he couldn't see normal.

2 Ontdeugende binkies
2 naughty boys, picture speaks for itself.
Not too satisfied with this LO, lack ofinspirations sucks... But I do like the little wire leaves I made for the flower

Currently I'm busy with the Project 12 months sketches, I'm really behind, need to do june, july and august. And I need to make my LO for the DD sketch of next wednesday, so I need t get busy and get away from the PC. ;)

Hugs,
Astrid

Dutch Dare jeans

2011-09-07T20:08:00.000+02:00

Time for the Dutch Dare of september, hosted by Margot. The theme is jeans, I used a piece of a jeans both Camiel and Tristan had worn. Picture is of Tristan on holiday on Mallorca. Camiel insisted to go on the trampoline with the elastic bands so you can jump really high. Of course Tristan wanted too, he was a little bit to small, but he loved it anyway. This is the result.

Take a look at what the rest made (and there are some really great LO/mini's)

Hugs,
Astrid

Dutch Dare LO

2011-08-20T10:20:00.001+02:00

And then my creative flow left the building. My laptop died (mostely due to me who threw a glas f water over it (oeps), so I have a new one now (yeahhh ;) ) But then I had to place all my programs and data on it, that took a lot of my time. Next was our dishwasher who died, so we had a expensive month..
So I didn't create much last month, only for the Dutch Dares:

The last sketch challenge went online last wednesday.
This was the sketch by Monique

I made a LO with 1 photo iso 3, it is a family picture made with the selftimer during our holiday in Mallorca. I thought that the backgroundpaper Sassafras was just made for my pic. I love the outcome and am going to hang it in our hallway.

Take a look at all of the LO's from the Dutch Dare team, for a change to become guestdesigner or with the RAK.

I didn't show my LO for the DD challenge before this one, the challenge was: varen/vervoer (sailing/transport). I used pictures of our travel to Mallorca. In the pocket I put the boarding passes.

Have nice weekend! Today we have a party because my sister Ingeborg celebrated her 40th birthday yesterday. Gefeliciteerd zusje!!! ;) I made her a card andbought her a present of course. She lives in a not so big appartment in Amsterdam, so the party will be held in a cafe.

Hugs,
Astrid

Creative flow

2011-07-27T15:56:00.000+02:00

Yes, that's it a creative flow I'm in and I better take advantage of it.:) I have so much picture laying around.

Here are 2 more LO's I made:

You 2 are my sonshine:

Picture of Camiel and Tristan made last mayholiday in France. I just loveit , ok it is really overexposed, but I kind of like that too.

Ridder Tristan:
Tristan in his favorite knight outfit.

TFL.
Hugs, Astrid

Dutch dare sketch #41

2011-07-24T16:10:00.001+02:00

This week was again time for a Dutch Dare sketch challenge, this is number 41 by Marsha:

And this is my LO about a rare moments of the boys, were the forgot the are sworen enemies and gave eachother a hand to go look for adventure (at Drievliet) ;) Luckely we were quick enough to take a picture of it as prove.

We returned this week from our holiday in Mallorca, we had a great time. The weather was super. The minidisco, the pool and the beach were the kids favorites. I enjoyed reading my book, the few quiet times, the weather, eating out and of course the kids having fun. I'm sure LO's with some of the pics will follow.

And here are 2 other LO's, one I made befor the holiday:
SMILE, Pictures also from Drievliet, Tristan was just big enough to do this ride, it was more scary then I thought it would be. :) The boys, especially Camiel loved it.
The embroidered smile tag from Amy Tangerine came in the SC Paper Moon kit, love it!

And the next LO I made last night with the latest SC kit Mind the Gap, that was waiting for me after the holiday (at my neighbors). Love the circles stamp and the Sassafras paper. Pictures of Camiel with a beard of candy floss :)

Tomorrow the normal working life starts again. Yikes.

Hugs, Astrid

Project 12 may

2011-06-28T12:54:00.001+02:00

Finally I finished my may LO, I dont know why but it wasn't easy this time :)
But I tried some new techniques, I handsewed the flowers (I loved them in the sketch, so I wanted to create them myself). I even did the french knot for the first time, fun!!

This is the sketch:

And my spread

left side

right side

close up flowers

journaling

TFL!
Hugs, Astrid

Spin

2011-06-26T09:38:00.000+02:00

Made this LO more then a week ago but still haven't show it here. It is a picture of a carousel in Drievliet Etienne and Camiel are on it (but you don't see that). It went really high so I'm glad I wasn't on it...
I loved the colors of the carousel :) I used a sew easy head to make the pennants, not easy to use but I made it work ;).

Hugs,
Astrid

Steven

2011-06-25T15:31:00.000+02:00

Last week Steven, my best friend Hellen's son turned 7. She asked me to make a new canvas for his room. I mad 1 years ago with a picture of him when he was 2, so time for a new one. The theme was tools, because he love them.
This way for trouble ;) I used lots of sprayink, love this little tools fro Crate paper.

I'm suffering from heavy backpains :( No fun, I don't know how to sleep at night everything hurts, no matter how I lay. I got diclofenac from my doctor yesterday and I got an xray made, hope it gets better soon. It has something to do with my SI joint.

Have a good weekend,

hugs, Astrid

Trots

2011-06-17T11:41:00.000+02:00

Made this LO about how proud I am of the changes Camiel have gone trough this last schoolyear, according to his teacher. Regarding his behavior, expressing himself and his concentration, it is still his weakest piont. But he totally ready for group 3 now. Time to start learning how to read and write and his looking forward to it. He already tries to read words by himself. Love to exprience this proces.

I love the paper circles that in were included in the SC Lawn Party kit, this time I used it for journaling spot and that chickenwire paper (exclusive SC) has such a yummie color. I punched the holes for the sewing circles wit the sew easy (fun tool).
Picture was taking during our last holidady in France.

Still a few weeks left and then out holiday starts, so looking forward to it!! We are going to Mallorca, first time flying wit the 2 boys. The last time we went by plane Tristan wasn't born yet, but already in the tummie ;)
I hope the wil love it, I already showed some pictures on the internet to Tristan of the pirateship slides in the swimming pool and his telling everybody all about it now. :)

Have a good weekend. I hope to start scrapping my may Project 12 pictures soon, time flies we are already half way june.

Hugs,
Astrid

Dutch Dare sketch #40

2011-06-15T13:58:00.000+02:00

This is the new sketch challenge of today, made by Monique.

I have to say I love every single LO the DT members made, so quickly take a look!

This is mine:
30 april, pictures of Tristan of last konginnedag (queensday) on the kermis (fair) in the carrousel, eating cottoncandy. He had such a great time :)

Come and join us with this wonderful sketch!

Hugs,
Astrid

Last change to win my RAK!

2011-06-11T11:02:00.000+02:00

There are still a few days left to win a great RAK!

including exclusive Studio Calico stamps/vintage flowers/journal cards and more.

You can win this if you join sketch challenge #39 of the Dutch Dares.
Deze kan je winnen als je meedoet met de volgende schets challenge van de Dutch Dares

You can see the details in this post

So if you were planning on scrapping this weekend, come and join us!! :)
Deadline is next tuesday.

Hugs,

Astrid

dutch dare fotochallenge

2011-06-01T21:34:00.001+02:00

The dutch dare this week is a photochallenge.

I combined it with the one little word challenge of Scrapotheek: You.
I decided to use the pictures of last mothersday (not the best, I was just awake and the lightconditions weren't optimal). I just bought a heartpunched and I made good use of it :)
I wrote and handcutted the title and use 3D tape to attach it. (inspired by Revlie).

Take a look what the other girls and our guestdesigners (yes we had 2) made. Join us and have a change to win a super RAK.

I made another LO with pictures of easter egghunting in France.
Pasen in Frankrijk (Eastern in France)

ETA: I got a few comments on my blogheader lately (OK you were right, no snow anymore :) )so I finally changed it. Are you proud of me? :)

Hugs,

Astrid

creative weekend

2011-05-26T22:49:00.002+02:00

Last weekend I was really on a roll (creatively that is :) ), made a few LO's and I really like them. If I my say so myself :) I can show you 2 now, I also made one for the Dutch Dares, but will have to wait a week.

Treehugger
Funny pics of Tristan in France with the old peartree in the garden, he was holding it, like hugging. ;)
I love the effect of the pumice stone distress ink (love that color) on the cosmo cricket cardstock with woodgrain reliëf. Again I used ironwire for the flowerstems (I always love ironwire, I should use it more) and I love that used the really old big orange polka dot brad (isn't it great when you actually use your old stuf) for the inside of the sun.

Opa helpen (helping grandpa)
The last SC kit Lawn Party had so much fun stuf, I love the exclusive SC doiley paper (cut out a few doileys). I also love the backside (green chickenwire). I only have 1 piece so there I had a problem, but I have cut it strategic so I have left to use the barbwire side. I also love the paper towel circles, I have misted the with orange mister huey (SC).
I just love this pics, my dad was working in the garden and the boys (especially Tristan), wanted to help him with the wheelbarrow and I love that he let them.

Only 1 day left to work and then it's weekend. Well that is not totally true, because I have to be stand by whole weekend for my job (I'm a programmer and we are doing a sofware upgrade). So I take my labtop home, only in case of problems they need me, hopefully I don't have to do much, , but I have a bad feeling.

Further more we had a bad week last week.

Our wasmachine died and left us with a lot of water on the ground a some smoke, apparently something burned, but it stop luckely. I'm so glad took a look at the machine before I went to bed. But now (of course) we already have a new one (because who could live without a wasmachine).

Etienne was at a weekend getaway with his colleagues because the boss celebrated his 65th birthday. He was in Friesland (north of Holland), they did a kind of real Frisian sports. (skutsje sealen, fierljeppen en also kaatsen). Well to keep the story short, he got a ball on his eye with kaatsen and couldn't see much anymore. He needed to go to the eyehospital, he got examined and different medications. His eye is going to be allright but all the time he can't see and details, so no reading and he can't look in the light (because his pupil stays really wide due to the medicine). After 1,5 week he can now reduce the medicine and within a week his sight have to be better. Really badluck, but I'm glad it's not permanent.

Camiel finally could swim for his diploma A last wednesday after having to do the trail version a second time. He woke up that day with almost 40 degrees Celsius fever, so that was not going to happen that day... My parents waited to go back to France do they could see him swimn. Just that day, what bad luck for him, he has to take more lessons the next weeks and has another attempt on june 22.

But then again worse thing could happen. We will laugh about it in the future.

Hugs,

Astrid

dutch dare sketch #39

2011-05-20T20:44:00.000+02:00

This week I posted the new sketch challenge of the dutch dares. This was the versatile sketch by Petra:

When I saw the enlargement I thought about an older picture of Camiel which was made at a profesional photographer and was lying in the closet for a those year, I didn't know what to do with it. So I decided to crop it a bit and used it for this LO.

Take a look what the other girls made with this great sketch and you still can win the RAK of the month may.

I also made a LO with the fabulous Studio Calico kit Lawn Party.

C & T {heart} to play.
Pictures of our holiday in France. I loved the flowerfields and was happy the boys wanted to cooperate for a little photoshoot. I made the stems of the flowers out of ironwire which I curled.

Hugs,
Astrid

Project 12 april

2011-05-17T15:09:00.000+02:00

Time to show my april spread for project 12.

Lots of nice weather already this month an we went on vacation to France, so I had lots of pictures to choose from.

I used again the sketch of Becky Fleck.

left

right

journaling, again on a very large tag

Tomorrow it's time for the new dutch dare sketch, don't forget to take a look. I wil also draw the winner of the april RAK :)

Hugs,

Astrid

dutch dare dans

2011-05-04T21:57:00.000+02:00

First I want to congratulate my mother who is celebrating her 65th birthday today.
I made her this card:

This month it's my turn to make the posts on the dutch dare blog and also come up with the dare. I wanted to Make a one little word dare: and the word is dance.

This is my LO: dancing Ketelbinkie style
I used pictures of Tristan during the 'carnaval' week at daycare (Ketelbinkie), the could come dressed up, Tristan was of course in his Spiderman suit. I gave my camera to the teachers. So they made a couple of pics of Tristan with his little friends. Loved to see the dancing and jumping.

Take a look what the other girls made. JOin us and you can win a a place as guestdesigner and also a RAK you don't want to miss :)

Hugs,

Astrid

Dutch dare sketch #37

2011-05-01T00:14:00.000+02:00

It's almost time for the next dutch dare, but I haven't show my latest LO for the sketch yet.
The sketch was designed by Johanna:

I really loved this sketch and this what I made with it:

Grow: I used pictures of Tristan of 3 years in a row: 2009 (1 yr), 2010 (2yrs), 2011(3yrs).

There is still some time left to join us with this wonderful sketch and post it in the comments here so you can win a spot as guestdesigner.

We have been on holiday last week in France, Fouvent. At my parents house, we had great weather and didn't do much.

We did some egghuting:

Eastercrafting:

Eating:

Treehugging ;)

Hard working:

Laughing:

Posing:

Playing:

Walking:

Blowing bubbles:

Burning:

To sum it up: we had a great time.

New Layouts

2011-04-19T21:20:00.000+02:00

I made a couple of LO's last week, I think my mojo is back :) I can't show you all 2 are for the dutch dares (tomorrow the next sketch challenge goes live)

Somebody please stop the time
About Camiel who is starting to read words , letter by letter :) Used the last Studio Calico kit (Singing in the rain)

Hij is 6 en: (he is 6 and:)

Documenting facts about Camiel at 6 .

We are enjoying the early spring weather here and it is supposed to stay the whole week :)

Hugs,

Astrid

Project 12 march

2011-04-12T09:45:00.001+02:00

Finally, my march LO for project 12 is ready. It took me a while, I already started it more then a week ago.
This is the sketch:

Again I used the kraft cardstock, the SC month stamps (with ZING pewter embossing powder) and a month calender.

Hugs,

Astrid

Dutch Dare: Disney

2011-04-07T20:24:00.001+02:00

The new Dutch Dare is live: scrap about a Disney figure. I have no special Disney favorite, but both my boys love Cars. Like in Cars schoolbagpack, lunchbox, cup, shirt with print and of course the little cars themselves. Tristan also had his Cars underwear he like to point about by pulling up his shirt and he says: 'Dat is toch Cars(t), mama?' ;) Is that Cars(t) mommy? He trows in a extra T (like a real boy from Rotterdam ;) )

Take a look at the what the other girls made and join us in the fun, scrap about your favorite Disney figure. Each month we have a prize you can win (photo of this month's prize will be shown with the sketch challenge of this month), next to that you can also be our guestdesigner for following month. So what you're waiting for?

Hugs,
Astrid

More LO's

2011-04-04T21:40:00.000+02:00

I have a few LO's I haven't showed before here.

Picture I made during a date night last fall, time to do that again... I love the picture. Love the colors of this alphabet SC paper.

Picture from a day at Madurodam, already 2,5 years ago. I made a collage in Picasa, I love to use that for an event with lots of photo's, so easy.

Made this LO a little word challenge of Scrapotheek, the word was NEED. There is already a new word I need to think about.
My boys loved their Spiderman outfit, even Camiel who never want to dress up. So much fun, they both wear it to school cq. daycare during carnaval celebration.

An older Lo I made for a pass on LO challenge at scrapotheek (something gets a LO to lift, passes het LO on to the next person, who lifts that LO and so on).

Thanks for looking again :) and feel free to leave a comment :)

Hugs,
Astrid

Tristan 3 yrs old

2011-04-02T22:59:00.001+02:00

Still trying to document some facts about the boys every half year. This is Tristan his 3 year LO (I still have to do Camiel's 6 year...)

This is the result:

Today we had the most wonderful springday, we ate lunch on a teras and our diner in our garden, love when we can do that. Tomorrow the we will have rain again, they say :( I hope not for long.

Hugs,

Astrid

dutch dare sketch #37

2011-03-30T22:39:00.000+02:00

It has been a while, I have been busy with a lot things, not much scrapping and blogging.
Two weeks ago we had a new sketch challenge at Dutch Dares and I haven't even show it here, shame ;)

Still 1 of my fave pictures of the 2 boys when Tristan was just born :)

I want to show 2 LO's more I made a while ago, but blogger don't want me to add more pictures :(
So that have to wait till later.

Hugs,

Astrid

Project 12 februari

2011-03-08T20:44:00.001+01:00

Yes I decided to stay on top of it ;) and already finished my february spread.

This was the provided sketch by Becky Fleck:

I decided to use kraft cardstock as a background for all the LO's and I also have this large tags I bought at Papier Valise ( I love the store for little trinkets I like to add to my LO's), I want to use the tags for the journaling.
I rediscovered heat embossing, I used white this time. I love it because you can't get such a effect with white ink (at least not me).

Hugs, Astrid

Dutch Dare Wat schaft de pot?

2011-03-02T09:58:00.001+01:00

New Dutch dare: Wat schaft de pot (something like what's for dinner?).
In oktober 2008 I joined a project by Ali Edwards 1 week in your life. I made a lots of picture during one week. I never completed the project (still a shame), but I have collected all the foodpictures I made and used it for this dare. I printed them on small format, but what to do then? The forum of Scrapotheek came to the rescue, Monique posted a workshop (originally for the kwartaalchallenge which I don't follow this quarter) of a special minialbum. So I started to work on that which was not easy for me because I screwed up a few time, but with a bit of tape I could repare it.

The outside:

The inside with tags in it:

One side of the tags:

Backside of the tags:

This month Marsha donated a fabulous RAK which you can win if you join this dare or the sketch of this month. So come on and join us it's really worth it!!

I also made 2 card last week (I only do that for special occasions ;)

For Petra who celebrated her birthday last week.

And the inside

And sunday my sister in law Edith celebrated her 50th birthday. After I took the picture I addes a little punched butterfly to the lace...

Last weekend we were in Lunteren together with my 2 sisters in law and there family, we had a blast despite the bad weather. The kids so enjoined spending time with them.

Time to make the february LO for project 12, time flies... I already decided which pictures to use (the most difficult part I think) and printed them. Now the cutting and glueing part starts

Have a nice day.
Hugs
Astrid

Valentine's treat

2011-02-20T21:41:00.000+01:00

A love the picture I took of Tristan with his Valentine's treat, totally sticky and all. The last Studio Calico kit: the Candy Shoppe fitted the picture perfectly of course. I misted the SC background paper with SC mister huey lunchtray and used a heart mask, after that I made holes around the heart and hand stitched it. I also used the fab Crate rainbowpaper which was exclusively made for SC.

Hugs,

Astrid

Dutch Dares schets #36

2011-02-17T22:29:00.000+01:00

Another sketch challenge went live at the Dutch Dares. The sketch was designed by Ellemieke.

I used 3 pictures in stead of 4, simply because I only had 3 of the subject I wanted to scrap about. I also placed them differently but for the rest followed the sketch pretty well ;)

I used the last Studio Calico kit Candy Shoppe, with lots of 'sweet colors', which was perfect for the ginger bread pictures we made in the christmas holiday. The houses kept falling apart, I'm glad we still have the pictures :P

Creatief met koek:

Come and join us with the sketch and maybe win a spot as guestdesigner!

Hugs,
Astrid

New LO's

2011-02-15T14:48:00.002+01:00

Today is my day off, after bringing Camiel to school (from the start of this school year he goes on his own bike, and now of course on his new bike his birthday present), Tristan and I got to the consultatiebureau for his 3 yrs check-up. he got an eye test and some other little test and (of course) everything was OK. He neede to make a 'train' with little blocks (she first showed how), no problemo for him and later he even started to name the colors of the blocks, the doc was impressed :) He was quick for his age, something he has also started to do is counting things. So fun to see the development. That reminds me I need to start on his 3 yrs old LO. (and for Camiel his 6 yrs old).

Today Camiel has his swimminglesson, it is the first day they are going to swim with clothes on (shorts/t-shirt and surfshoes). he is in 'badje 4' now. I was hoping he could have he A diploma just before the summerholiday, but I'm not sure yet. It will be 1,5 yrs then, we will see.

Pictures of last weeks lesson.

here he had to dive/jump (in his case like a frog) in and swim right through the hole in the yellow canvas.

Today I also made an appointment to register Tristan for school, still a year before he turns 4 but before you know it, it will be that time. Time sure flies...

Yesterday at Valentine's day I got the boys a little treat and the big boy a box of chocolate truffels (his fave).

Camiel got me a heart balloon (of course school arranged that) and Tristan a big kiss. (and also one from the big boy) Lucky me :)

And now to the LO's part:

Annecy:

I just was in love with this LO of Lisa Truesdell for SC: adventure. So I decided to lift it. I used a pictue of 1998, made in Annecy, France. I was a camping holiday of Etienne and I we went by car and had a tent. Old days.

Dank u Sinterklaasje: A simple LO with our Sinterklaas pictures. I made a spread, 1 page for Camiel's album and 1 for Tristan.

40:

Finally scrapped the pictures of my surprise party when I turned 40. I used the flags from the FLOW agenda. I made it for the last sketch challenge at SC. I was also inspired by Maggie Holmes page see post of 02/13/11: http://studiocalico.typepad.com/studio_calico/sunday-sketch/

Tomoorow the new Dutch Dare sketch will go live, then I have more to show.

Hugs Astrid

Project 12

2011-02-08T12:54:00.003+01:00

This year I really want to do Project 12, which means make an overview LO of each month.
At the end of the year you have a great overview of the whole year, wouldn't it be nice if I could only keep up. ;) How knows...
Davinie Fiero hosts the challenge at Scrapbook and Cards Today Magazine: see this post, every month they have a sketch you can follow by Becky Fleck, this is the january sketch .

And I already made my january LO with the sketch :)
Due to low light situations I don't have great pictures of the LO, but I have done several tries and now I give up, this will have to do..

I finally can get good use of my SC month stamps, love them! And the doileys are also SC stamps. I decided to make double pages and to use kraft cardstock as background every month.

ETA: I took new pictures, who are a bit better. ;)

Who else is joining?
Hugs,
Astrid

Dutch Dare rood/wit/blauw

2011-02-04T12:23:00.001+01:00

Last Dutch Dare challenge was by Mandy and to use the colors red/white/blue, real dutch.
I had a old SC kit lying around, with lots of leftover which contained this colors.
The journaling is about my boys how can't live with and without eachother. Judging to the reactions of the other DD girls, I'm not the only one with 'issue'. ;)

Samen bakken (baking together):

Almost weekend here :)

Hugs, Astrid

3 jaar!!

2011-02-01T11:09:00.002+01:00

Sunday jan 30th my baby boy turned 3 year. So technically he really is no baby anymore. I started this blog, just before he was born, time flies.

Tristan now:

And here he is just a few days old, those cheeks :D

He had a fun day, with lots of presents and cake. Which I designed myself with a little help of internet (buzz lightyear picture on with I added the text) and Hema (making the cake with my photo) and I added the Toy story figures myself .

Hugs,

Astrid

Dutch Dare sketch #35

2011-01-20T23:06:00.001+01:00

This was the sketch of Marsha we used this week.

This is the LO I made, the pictures are of the kidsparty of Camiel in Piratenland. The colors where a bit difficult to work with. I rotated the sketch because of the landscape pictures. I started the Lo during out DT meeting, but finished it at home. Monique brought some goodies she got from an other DT she is a member of. I used a few of them on this LO.

Take a look at the LO's of the other girls: here and maybe join us.

Hugs,

Astrid

januari 18

2011-01-18T17:13:00.001+01:00

Already 2,5 weeks over in this new year. So am I already used to write 2011 in the date, not yet ;) I always adjust a bit slow to that :) Last sunday we had a meeting with a couple of the dutch dare girls at Danielle's house, it was a pity not everybody could join us. But we had a great time, chatting, scrapping (I'm not so great at scrapping with others, I think I can't focus enough on what I'm doing :) )Danielle had made yummie cupcakes and we made clubsandwiches together.

Last weeks I made a couple of layouts.
Just hangin': love the pictures a made that day on the fence, I used some pics already before.

Motherhood: just some thought about being a mother and Camiel made me a mom :) The backgroung paper have a resistent pattern, I used some ink and mist on it. That red is a envelop that I cut in two

Somewhere over the rainbow, already had the rainbow paper lying around for a while, but just couldn't get it right. Finaly using it but I'm still not really satisfied :( but I love this quote. The woodveneer stars are by SC.

I also have a dutch dare sketch LO, I will show that tomorrow when it''s on the blog.

Hugs,
Astrid

Dutch Dare OLW

2011-01-06T14:00:00.003+01:00

Our Dutch Dare blog has a new design come take a look and we also added a few new members to the pack, welcome to Johanna, Margot, Monique and Petra! (links at the right side of my blog).
The new challenge is to scrap about your little word of 2011.
I choose FOCUS.
Focus on the main things in life, focus on the main things at work, focus on my little family, focus to make better photographs (practice my skills).

I put the journaling in the envelop underneat the picture (still have to do that). I made the flower with a pleated ribbon. I decided I wanted use some distressing and pink and glitter. Not my usual :)

Thanks for looking,

Hugs Astrid

The last DD pages

2011-01-02T20:38:00.001+01:00

First of all happy newyear to all of you, glad that you come to visit my blog once in a while and even leave a comment. Hope to see you all this year. I also haope all your wishes foe next year come true!!

Yesterday I finished the last pages of my december daily (now I'm glad it's done ;) )
But I'm also glad I did it beause december is always a bit special for us especially with the birthdays.

Day 27: We went to the zoo: Blijdorp.

Day 28: Tristan loves his present he got for christmas: a K3 DVD and I fixed the 'knuffel' of Camiel, he is already 6 but he still loves his knuffel but he was sad he was really almost 'dead', he wanted me to sew him so I tried ;) (and the next day I checked the shop who I knew solded the same knuffels and yes still had them, excellent ;) He was so happy we he opened the present :D

Day 29: Camiel and Tristan went for a sleepover at opa and oma, because the next day I had to work and daycare was closed this week. So I was home alone (Etienne had to work late) for half a afternoon and the evening and I decided to scrap. This is the result

Day 30: A place for some handmade cards (by Marsha, Danielle and Camiel :) )

Day 31: last day of the year, we stayed home with the for of us, boys went to bed at the normal time but Tristan woke up around 9 '(I think th efireworks) and didn't wanted to sleep in bed anymore so he stayed awake till 1.30 am!! and we woke Camiel so we could do some (kids) fireworks. We met some neighbourgs outside. I tried to make pictures of the fireworks, always difficult.

Thanks for looking,
hugs Astrid

Favorites

2010-12-30T23:32:00.000+01:00

I thought it would be fun to show you my top 10 layouts of 2010. Like so many people do at the end of the year. Wow has this year really flown by.
I just counted and I came till:
110 LO's of which 3 spreads
3 projects (3 canvases and 2 letterboxes)
1 december album
and even some cards (I think around 5 ;)
And I even had 1 LO published in the online magazine Scrapstreet :) and I made it till the Dutch Dares DT :)

Man I can say that I have been productive or not (don't really knohw wat the odds of former years are actually)

But here are my favorites (I is difficult to should):

This next one got pubbed ;)

I would be fun if you could tell me what your favorite Lo of me was this year (don't have to be from my top 10 of course).
Have a nice newyears eve.
Till next year, same place, same gal, different scraps.

Hugs,
Astrid

December Daily day 20 - 26

2010-12-28T21:48:00.002+01:00

We had a nice christmas. The first day we went to my parents as usual together with Ingeborg my sister. I made the entree of the diner (cucumber carpaccio and big prawns), we had rabbit as main course and I also made the desert monchoucake :D and we also had a cheeseplate. So it was all yummie .
The second day was just the 4 of us, we played on the wii (Camiel got a new game of Santa) and Tristan got a DVD of K3 which he really adores ;). Camiel also watched a Harry Potter DVD (year 2), we are also reading the books (well, I am reading for him). Maybe he is a bit too young for them, but he just loves them, and he really understands the stories. We are in the middle of book 3 now, we had to bring it back to the library, but I think we are going to get it again tomorrow, he keeps asking about it ;)

And now back to the december daily album, I am up to date, so proud of me :)

Day 20: Through the snow to daycare and work

Day 21: A pj day a home

Day 22: We made a gingerbread house, atleast I kept falling apart. But luckily I fast anough for a picture ;)

Day 23: I worked a day from home, finally I appear in the album ;)

Day 24: Christmas grocery shopping and presents for my parents and also Santa brought something for the boys for under the tree.

Day 25: 1st christmasday at my parents

Day 26: 2nd christmasday a quiet day with the 4 of us. We went for a walk outside and we eat gourmet in the evening

I also have a few LO's I made the last weeks but didn't upload yet.

A spread for a sketch challenge of the kwartaalchallenge.

Enjoy today, also for the kwartaalchallenge (color challenge) I used Tim Holz fragments and I really love the word stixkers by KI memories.

Kijk mama! Tristan made a loooong queue with all the cars he could find in the house ;)

Starry starry night, just love this picture of my handsome boy, made during Halloween night.

Enjoy december, all pics of this december celebrations (for the Kwartaalchallenge, journaling about what you like about december)

Last christmas, made with the latest SC kit. Ans the wood veneer stars are also SC. And this was the last the kwartaalchallenge, a LO with the songtext last christmas by Wham. I only used the title.

So that's it for now.

Hugs,

Astrid

December Daily day 6-19

2010-12-22T22:19:00.000+01:00

I'm up to date with my december daily minialbum, yeah for me :D I haven't made pictures of day 20 and 21. But I will show the rest, prepare for a picture overflow.

Day 6: decoration of the house can begin.

Picture out of the pocket.

Day 7: cooking together with Tristan

Day8: Buying the christmas trees.

Day 9: The guirlande I made the night before add a workshop (made a mistake in the journaling, damn.. ;) )

Day 10: I received happy mail a box full of scrapbook goodies of Studio Calico :) I also ordered stuff for Petra so I wasn't all for me :) I also did the party decorations because next day we celebrated the birthdays of Camiel and Tristan

Picture collage.

Journaling on the back of the picture

Day 11: we celebrated the birthdays, picture of the room before, the cake with picture and blowing the candles by Camiel. The metal flowers are from a magazine ( I think 'at Home') I think from a few years ago already. I addes some rhinestones.

Day 12: Decoration of the christmas trees, preparing of the treats for Camiel to give to the kids of his class next day on his actual birtday, and packing Camiel his present a bike.

Picturecollage

Day 13: Birthday of Camiel

Day 14: Birtday of Etienne. Tristan wanted to give his present to Etienne through the telephone ;) Luckily for him daddy came home early from work so he couls give hime right away.

Pictures.

Journaling on the back of the picture

Day 15: kidsparty of Camiel at Piratenland, Gorinchem

Extra envelop, for some stuff I wanted to keep

The invitation, the table reservation page, 2 package pieces of the presents he got

Day 16: Christmas diner of Camiel at school

Day 17: We had lots of snow, Etienne brought us all to school, daycare and work. I snowed all day.

Day 18: A lazy day, Etienne is ill, the stomachflu, I tried to take a nap on the bench and Tristan only wanted to nap in the livingroom.

Pictures

Day 19: Some snowfun

Still lots of snow here. Today we did some more sleighting down a little hill we have near our house. Kids had so much fun. Tomorrow is my last workday of the week and next week only thursday and then it is the new year already.

Thanks for looking,

Hugs
Astrid

Dutch Dare sketch

2010-12-16T23:11:00.000+01:00

Last sketch challenge voor the Dutch Dares was made by Ellemieke

I rotated the sketch 90 degrees and made it work for the 3 pictures I wanted to use.
This is the result.

I also did a LO for another blind scrap challenge at Scrapotheek.
This was the description (in dutch):

- er is gebruik gemaakt van slechts drie kleuren

- gebruik een bewerkt achtergrondvel

- gebruik een grote cirkel dessinpapier

- plaats een smalle strook dessin papier rechts over de cirkel

- plaat een brede korte strook en een klein vierkant, beide dessinpapier, aan de rechterkant, opleuken met een ronde embellie

- een grote vorm uit dessinpapier knippen en over cirkel en strook rechts plaatsen

- een kleine vorm uit dessinpapier knippen en over cirkel links plaatsen

- aan linkerkant achtergrondvel iets inscheuren en dessinpapiertje achter plaatsen, op leuken met een bloemetje of 2

- 2 horizontale foto's 9x13,onder elkaar maar verspringend, maar iets overlappend.....

- titel links plaatsen

I did not followed the directions exactly. But I also wanted to be happy with it ;)
I also messed up the background of the journaling, first I wanted to correct it, but I then I thought I needed to accept it ;)

I'm really behind with my december daily. But yesterday I printed out all the pictures until the 15th, now I have to put them in the album.

I had a really busy week, yesterday Camiel went to Piratenland with his friends for his birthday party, they had a blast.

Hugs,
Astrid

Hieper de piep hoera!

2010-12-14T12:20:00.002+01:00

Big congratulations to my big boy Etienne who's birthday is today and my biggest little boy Camiel who's birthday was yesterday, he is 6 years already, his birth 6 years ago I remember it like it was last week. This was the invitation we sent for the part last saturday.

These weeks are really busy. Tomorrow we have the kidsparty for Camiel we go to Piratenland (indoor playground) in Gorinchem (hope the weather will be ok, no snow please!). And of course all the christmas celebrations. Thursday Camiel has christmasdiner on school in the evening.
I'm afraid I'm making my december daily in january, at least I have pictures :)

No scrapping things yet to show, this wednesday the new Dutch Dare sketch goes live and I managed to make a LO fot it during all the bussiness (proud of me ;) )

Hugs,
Astrid

Wall project

2010-12-07T13:57:00.000+01:00

Like I promised the pictures of my wall project of 3 cavasses.
I didn't at too much because i didn't want it to be too busy and I loved the background papers. I addedsome white paint behind the pictures. Other supplies: lace tape, frames, brads rhine stoines and currogated cardboard arrows.and stars. I connected them with iron wires. And that's it easy peasy :) And now it's hanging on our wall in the livingroom on the spot of other canvasses which weren't really up to date anymore (Tristan wasn't on it)

Thanks for looking,

Hugs,
Astrid

December Daily day 1 - 5

2010-12-07T12:50:00.000+01:00

The first 5 days of my DD are ready, lets hope I can keep on...

day 1:

Day 2

photo's in pocket

Journaling on back side photo:

Day 3:

Day 4:

photo's in pocket:

Day 5:

Hugs,
Astrid

Dutch Dare: overvloed

2010-12-02T23:20:00.002+01:00

Last Dutch Dare was about abundance during the holidays. I made this LO about Tristan his joy of unwrapping the gifts during presentsevening (Sinterklaas) last year. Saturday we will celebrate it again with the same friends, there will be a Sinterklaas who is coming to visit us. Looking forward to see the kids enjoy it :)

I combined it with the Kwartaalchallenge, prompt was to use paper of Jenni Bowlin (the digit paper).

I also made a card (again =) ) for an extra lift challenge of the kwartaal challenge (they keep us busy these girls ;)

I still have to show you the canvases i made but leave that till next time :)
And of course december has started so time to fill de DD, I only have it planned in my head, I hope tomorrow to actually start glueing things down. I am planning to print my pictures on matt coated paper, I also did that with the dutch dare picture of Tristan, I kind of like it.

And don't forget to check out what the other Dutch Dare girls made of it. I also like to welcome a new DT member: Johanna, go check her out!

Hugs Astrid

Daily December

2010-11-30T20:34:00.004+01:00

I was still thinking about wether I wanted to make a daily december album. Knowing that I still had a half finished album of 2008 lying around. But then the Kwartaalchallenge on Scrapotheek had an extra workshop to get some extra points. The workshop was to make a cardmap. Because I don't really make cards, I decided to use it for my daily december album, I just added some extra pages.

I used a lot of stuff from my stash which feels good ;) I also had these vintage number tags of Elle's Studios who were perfect for this album. The fromt page paper has flocked candeliers, just love it :)

Btw: you can click the pictures to see them bigger, because you don't really see the details this way.
The front:

The pages:

The back

The challenge was also to make 2 cards for some extra points, I had some nostalgic christmas prints (Katie Pertiet) and made these 2 matching cards.

I am planning to blog some more soon with scraps I haven't show yet. Last month was not a good blogmonth... But december is always such a busy month around here.

Yesterday we had some snow, I had to bike home after work through the snow, pick up Camiel from the BSO, he had to rode his own bike and together we picked up Tristan from daycare (like we always do if Etienne work late shifts). But I was glad to be home this time, warm and safe. Today was also a cold day, brrr and they promised us I will be even more colder at the end of the week and more snow also. I'm glad we all bought snowboots last week. Brrr, I'm not ready winter yet :(
Thanks for looking!

ETA: As Irene and Anja already mentioned (thanks), I forgot day 31 (too much pictures) but it's added now.
Hugs,
Astrid

Weekend

2010-10-31T23:10:00.001+01:00

So weekend is almost over, and 1 extra hour due to the wintertime, always nice. Luckely the kids didn't wake up an hour earlier because yesterday we had a little Halloween celebrations, they went to bed a little later then normally. Today we had a visit from my parents they came back from france last week and will stay in the Netherland during the winter. Happy to have them back :) so were the kids.

These are my latest LO's.

Zand: for the last round of the dare/sketch challenge at SA.

Tristan 2,5 jr.
For the kwartaal challenge, task was to us package material. I use a package of Sassafras (with the lines), handy when you have lots to tell :)

To dig or not to dig:
Also for the kwartaal challenge, this was a lift. I got messy with paint, mist and ink :) The right half is a sassafras paper, great isn't it.

Ans again for the kwartaalchallenge (do I see a pattern ;), these challenges really keep me going)
Ergens in oktober: this was also a lift and we needed to use a dutch songtext by Blof. The original had autumnleaves all over, I decided to get my butterflypunches to work ;) I also was inspired by a LO of Kinsey Wilson .

Have a nice week.

Hugs,
Astrid

Dutch Dares #32

2010-10-22T23:57:00.001+02:00

And it was time for the new sketch challenge over at the Dutch Dares. Sketch was made by Ellemieke.

I combined it with a dare from the 'kwartaal challenge' to use a little clothespin.
I use an idea of an online workshop I followed of Wilna Furstenberg. I made a 'washline' to hang a picture.

2 brothers: journaling about the bond between Camiel and Tristan.

Hugs,
Astrid

Exhausted

2010-10-19T12:55:00.000+02:00

For the challenge of the 'kwartaalchallenge' we had to use the brand Collage Press. I used it as my background paper. (And again used something older from my stash, always nice).
Pictures are from 2 years ago. We were at the fair and afterward did grocery shopping. Camiel feel asleep in the card with head on the price he won at the fair. :) He must have been exhausted because not something for him to do.
I punched out the circles of the Studio Calico paper and put some 3d-dots under it. I punch out a bit of the upper sid eand bottom, I used my postage stamp punch, just 1 side and repeated that for this effect.
Also did some handstiching, haven't done that in a while. I was inspired by Kinsey Wilson, she was guest designer at Studio Calico this month and she really is the queen of handstiching, you really need to look at het LO's with the SC kit. So amazing.

Exhausted:

Hugs,

Astrid

jump

2010-10-14T20:20:00.002+02:00

And finished another LO for the 'kwartaal challenge' at Scrapotheek. The task was to use 6 pictures, I already had these 6 lying around, so great opportunity to scrap them. They were made during the summerholiday.

Jump jump I used my new postage stamp punch, I also used a little pink mist on the background.

see you,

Hugs, Astrid

Starring

2010-10-12T10:55:00.002+02:00

This weekend on the SA forum they had a sketch which I used to make this LO. Yesterday I finished it with little bits and pieces (like I always do ;) ) I also made it for the kwartaalchallenge on the Scrapotheek forum, I task was use paint. I fianlly used my crackle paint (Ranger) again, love that stuff.

Starring father and son:
Made this picture of Etienne and Camiel a few weeks ago during a walk, we wanted to look for chestnuts but they were still on the trees, so I tried a little photoshoot. Love this photo, somebody on the forumday mentioned it looks like a picture from a fashiomagazine :D
I bought the metal stars on the forumday and I can see myself using them more often ;)

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs,
Astrid

Dutch Dare tegel wijsheden

2010-10-10T22:12:00.003+02:00

The last Dutch Dare was to use a tile wisdom, I used the very original 'home sweet home' ;)
Pictures of 2 years ago, the front of our house, love my home.

Details:

Today was such a lovely sunny fall day, so we went to the woods this afternoon. To the 'Utrechtse Heuvelrug, de Kaapse Bossen'. We had a great walk although it was a bit long and I have sore legs now. And Camiel was complaining he was so tired but I proud of hime he walked all the way. I made some pictures, I haven't upload them on the laptop yet, so don't know how they are. I was looking for nice toadstools, but haven't seen many.
Yesterday I was at a forumday of the scrappers anonimous forum, en de Scrapotheek it was in Culemborg, I didn't know any of the ladies in real life, but I was nice to meet a lot of new faces. We had a nice day, the shop of Scrapotheek was also there so I did a bit of shopping and even made a LO (which is almost ready). To go short I was a nice day :)

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Astrid

First LO kwartaalchallenge

2010-10-06T10:24:00.002+02:00

Since a few weeks I'm active on the Scrapotheekforum, they have a fun challenge going on. A quarterlychallenge, each month (october, november and december) we have 6 different challenges (already know them for the whole period), you get a point for each challenge you finish and there are suppose to be more challenges during the period. The one with the most point wins. (of course).
I really liked the challenges so I decided to join, don't how much I can make, but just for fun and I like a good challenge.

OK the first one I made was voor october the color challenge with a autumn theme
These were the colors:

Elfenbankjes:
Nature can be so beautiful, picture is of 2 years ago. I love this crown edge punch, I cut the little toadstool in two halfs, otherwise I is so thick and now I have two ;) I love this colorcombination by the way.

And the second one was a sketch and the format A4 or 12x6 inch.

No fear:
This summer we were in Artis (zoo in Amsterdam) together with Ingeborg my sister, she has a subscription. We have one for Blijdorp Rotterdam, such a different zoo, so nice for a change.
Tristan was checking out the silverback gorilla. The way he looked at him, brrr I was glad there was glass between them ;) But Tristan wasn't realy impressed...
Not my normal style of scrapping, again nice of a change.

Thanks for stopping by:
Hugs,
Astrid

SA dare/sketch nr3

2010-10-04T13:45:00.002+02:00

Already de 3th dare/sketch challenge van het SA forum was live.
This was the sketch:

And this the dare:

I choose to use the colors I just love this colorcombination, which shouts out black and white pictures.I decided to use pictures of me when I was pregnants by Tristan, almost 3 years ago, time sure flies. Etienne shoot this pics I glad we did it.

This is the result:

Today I have the day off because they have a studyday at daycare, so Tristan is home. I don't work on tuesday and wednesday which means, I don't have to work for 5 days at a row. :)

Yesterday was a lovely sunny day, we when swimming in the morning (inside of course) so Camiel could practise a little for his swimminglessons. And in the afternoon in little stroll in the park in our neighbourhood so I could make some pictures.

Great material for scrapping ;)

Thanks for looking,

Hugs, Astrid

Midgetgolf

2010-09-30T21:28:00.001+02:00

During our holiday on Texel Camiel saw an midget golf track and since then his wish was to do that. We didn't do it on Texel, but at the and of the summerholiday we went on a day trip to Recreatieoort Binnenmaas, which also had midget golf. So his wish came true :)
So I did my thing and created a LO about it ;)

Hugs,
Astrid

Dutch Dare schets #31

2010-09-23T20:39:00.001+02:00

Today the lastest Dutch Dare sketch went live. This was the sketch by Marsha

I have to say, it was a bit difficult for me this time, especially the wave. But I'm pleased with the final result.

Enjoy, a picture of Tristan from this summer with his backpack.

Only 1 day to work tomorrow and then weekend :)
Hugs, Astrid

Herfstwandeling

2010-09-19T11:52:00.003+02:00

the dare I joined of scrappersanonimous forum in this post, consist of 4 dares. The 2nd is now live and I think I try to join them all.
This was the inspiration picture of the dare:

I love these colors! and that top, so lovely!!

And this was the sketch:

I decided to make I spread.
I printed my piuctures with a vintage affect. I had the perfect fall papers lying around from last year.

So I used fall pictures we made during a walk i the woods also last year. The flowers are from Prima, I just got them home, they are so nice. I cut up the doiley rubons, The leaves and phrases are also rubons. They trees are cut-out negatives from a diecut. I just some golden 'tulle' and pearles to finish them

So picture overload =)

Thanks for looking :)
Hugs, Astrid

De boot

2010-09-16T22:45:00.001+02:00

Some things came in between so the Dutch Dare is a later then normal. Now it's live and I can show you the LO =)
The dare was to scrap about a childhood memorie. I browsed trough my scanned pictures and decided that it had to be about the sailingboat my parents used to have when I was a child. So many memories there.

I was nice to scrap an old picture, maybe I'll do it again.

Hugs,
Astrid

Faves @ 5.5 yrs

2010-09-14T13:47:00.001+02:00

Finally joines the sketch challenge at Studio Calico again. This time was such a great sketch based on a LO by Jen Jockisch see http://studiocalico.blogspot.com/2010/09/sunday-sketch_12.html

Faves @ 5.5 yrs
LO about Camiel his favorite things right now. Used the SC Summer Camp kit don't you just love this colors together...

Details:

Journaling:

Hugs,
Astrid

Fun

2010-09-09T20:04:00.001+02:00

I decided to join a challenge (dare/sketch) on scrappersanonimous forum . we got a color inspiration picture

And a sketch:

We could use one of the 2 or both. I did both.

Fun
The colors were a real challenge, so I decided to do a patchwork of papers (1 of my favorite) and a lot of stichting (I actually ruined 3 needles! I'm hopeless, luckely I just bought new ones). I also missed around the circle. I think result is kind of fun :P

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs Astrid

Mr.T

2010-09-06T21:47:00.001+02:00

At Studio Calico they did a scrap a LO of your favorites challenge. I decided to join, it was hard to choose from my just 1 LO from my faves, so many to love there. I decided that it had to be 1 of Chelseavn, don't you just love her gallery. I lifted this one: WINTER

And this is what I made of it:

Mr.T
I misted a template from the last FLOW magazine to make the background. I really loved making this LO, so much fun.

Last week we bought a new bed for Camiel. Tristan still slept in his crib. So it was time to move over in Camiel's old toddlerbed. Last night was his first time sleeping in it. I thought he would come out, because he often stands in his crib and wants to get out. But he just stayed in bed and slept throught the night. I the morning he called MAMA and he wanted to get out himself but he waited till I was there. Curious how that will develop.

Here is a piece Camiel his new bed.

And here they are together in Tristan's 'new' bed. =0)

The latest Dutch Dare challenge has been resheduled to next wednesday because not everybody had finished their LO. I really like my LO for that challenge, go and look for it this wednesday at the DD blog .

Hugs,
Astrid

ScrapStreetMagazine

2010-09-01T23:15:00.002+02:00

2 posts in 1 day!! It's because I just need to share: My first publication =) =) It's in an online magazine ScrapStreetMagazine in the september issue. The call was patchwork perfect and I had just finished a perfect LO for the subject. Take a look at the link where you can see the LO at the bottom of the page.

=)

Astrid

fast forward

2010-09-01T19:06:00.001+02:00

I made this LO for a challenge on the Studio Calico blog, we had to use tiny pictures. I combined it with a big picture I already used before. But it's still one of my favorite :) 2,5 years flew by.

Today is the day for the new Dutch Dare challenge, I almost forgot but I managed to squeeze a LO out just this afternoon. Can't show it because it's not live yet.

Hugs, Astrid

few more LO's

2010-08-31T10:36:00.000+02:00

Here are the rest of the LO's I promised:

First & last of school: Picture from last schoolyear of Camiel He changed so much I think it is fun now to see this pictures together. (I made pictures frim the first day this year last week, but the are really horrible, maybe I need to make new ones). I decided to make a spread that has been a while, but I love the result actually, I did two 8,5X11 inch pages. I used th SC continental kit (+ addons).

Schoolreis: Pictures of Camiel going on his schooltrip to Avifauna. I used the SC Summer Camp kit. And addes some bits of pieces of other kits ( I never seem keep it to 1 kit). I notice the red rhinestones I use on nearly every LO. ;)

And the last one.
He wants icecream: A 'simple' LO for a change (and again 8,5X11 inch). I used mosly the SC Continental kit. The flascard was perfect for it. And again I used a paper umbrella ;)

Thanks for stopping by,
Hugs Astrid

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