December Daily day 20 - 26

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

Dutch Dare: overvloed

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

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

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

Exhausted

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

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