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I've been neglecting my blog this past few weeks. Usually I try to squeeze in at least one post a week, but this past few weeks have been crazy. Good crazy, but just filled with fun stuff and a little less fun stuff, but stuff that needed to be done ;-) And although I want to promise to better my life I know vacation is just around the corner, so let's not make any promises and just see how it goes;-)

I've not only been neglecting my blog though, I didn't get round to any scrappy play either. Until thursday this is.. Last thursday I made my first layout in a month and it felt good! I absolutely love the feeling I get from scrapbooking!

This page is about my handsome little nephew. The picture was taken last april. The page is made with mostly the Roller Rink kit from Studio Calico. The colors were perfect for this photo. The journaling is about how I love this little guy and how he steals the show with his cute girls and naughty smile :-)

supplies: cardstock (Bazzill Basics Paper: white and American Crafts: Ash), patterned papers (Studio Calico Exclusive: Seize the moment and plaza, American Crafts Amy Tangerine Ready Set Go: To do List, American Crafts Exclusive: Speech Bubbles Paper), enamel dots (My Mind's Eye The Sweetest Thing Collection: Smile Enamel Dots), Washi tapes (Freckled Fawn Exclusive: Primer Wide Washi Tape and Freckled Fawn: Green Washi), Thickers (American Crafts: Sotheby in Woodgrain) letter stickers (Basic Grey Exclusive for Studio Calico).

For the Camera embellishment I used the sketch feature on my Cameo for the first time. I absolutely love it!

Can't wait to hear what you think!

Love, Dee

Mama, I love you!

Today is mothersday. For me it's not necessarily a day to buy huge presents for my mom, but a day to honor my mom, to thank her for all she is, all she does. 

I've made this layout to honor my mom and our relationship. The journaling says: Dear mom, I admire you, for what you do for dad, for caring for the people around you, for your energy that doesn't seem to have an end. I love you!

supplies all come from Studio Calico kits: patterned papers (Echo Park For the Record 2 - Just my type & Bouquet, American Crafts Amy Tangerine Ready Set Go - On the clock & Wind Down, Basic Grey exclusive for Studio Calico XSC-015, My Mind's Eye The Sweetest Thing - Tangerine " Together" Chevron Paper & Lavender "Reasons Why" Swatch Paper), thickers (American Crafts, Memo in Burlap), gold washi tape (Freckled Fawn), sequins (Studio Calico), bakers twine (orange by My Mind's Eye, yellow by Divine Twine), brads (My Mind's Eye The Sweetest Thing), stickers (Echo Park For the Record 2 - Alpha Stickers and My Mind's Eye The Sweetest Thing - Tangerine "Wonderful"  Tiny Words Stickers), and wood banners (My Mind's Eye The Sweetest Thing - Tangerine "Hello"  Decorative Buttons)

For the base of this page I was heavily inspired by the 'Three' layout from Geralyn Sy. I love love love how she used the Amy Tan paper with the orange sketched drops. I have to admit I was struggling to use this paper. On the one hand because I love it so much and didn't want to ruin it and on the other hand because it's quite a busy pattern. So I used it the way Geralyn did and I love how this page turned out.

Can't wait to hear what you think!

Have a great mothersday!

Love, Dee

This is me! - Customized Handbook

Last week I finished customizing my Handbook for Studio Calico's This is me class. I might customize the album some more, if I find some nice ribbon, but for now I'll just leave it like this. 

Supplies: Craft Handbook (Studio Calico Yearbook line), paint (Amsterdam Acrylic Paint in Pewter #815)

Check out my Studio Calico Gallery to see more projects! 

Can't wait to hear what you think! 

Love, Dee

This is me! - Intropage

Last week I told you something about Studio Calico's This is me class I'm taking part in. Right after the class was launched Lexi provided us with a challenge to get us going. Since I couldn't wait to get started I jumped right in and made the intropage of my album:

Supplies: kraft bag (Whisker Graphics), card (This is me class kit), washitape (This is me class kit), stamp (This is me class kit), ribbons (local craft store), wood veneers (Studio Calico), life is good piece (Studio Calico Sundrifter), journaling card (Studio Calico Sundrifter), Cardstock (Bazzill Basics), Embossing Powder (American Crafts)

Check out my Studio Calico Gallery to see more detailed pictures! Can't wait to hear what you think! 

Have a great weekend!

Love, Dee

This is me!

I'm taking part in Studio Calico's This is me class taught by Lexi Bridges, accompanied by loads of great contributors such as Jennifer Pebbles, Nicole Harper and Leena Loh. I really can't get over how awesome this class is and after months of Project Life I was ready to take on something new. This class is perfect for it!

What I really love about this class is that everyone is able to fill it in how they like. Some may make a mini album, while others go for regular layouts. Some may use it to document their current life, while others choose a life biography type of project. 

I took the opportunity to document my twenties with this album. In these years a lot changes and very rapidly at that :-) I like to have an album to look back on and remember what it was like. Since I'm not yet 30 this will be a project I'll continue to work on. I hope you'll follow me on this journey!

And you know what's awesome about this class too? The amazing class kit!

To accompany this amazing stuff I chose several different products. I picked a Studio Calico Handbook, lots of stuff from the Studio Calico Sundrifter line, some Sew easy stuff from We R Memorykeepers, glitter tape from American Crafts, letter stickers from October Afternoon, several different Mr. Huey's colors and some more bits and pieces:

Tonight I started decorating my handbook:

Can't wait to show you guys a lot more as I'm making progress with this new project! Get back soon!

Have a great weekend!

Love, Dee

I've won (again)

Who says you can't have luck in love and in game?;-) After winning the Sunday Sketch Challenge at Studio Calico last week I've now won the reveal give-away!

I've won a great e-book by Danielle Flanders from Ella Publishing about Embellishing. The previews look great and I can't wait to use it!



What a great way to start the weekend!

Love, Dee

I won!

I've won my first scrappy challenge ever at Studio Calico last week. I'm so happy! I participated in the sunday sketch challenge with a layout I was stuck on and look where it got me!




You can find the layout I participated with here :-)

Thanks for looking!

Love, Dee

Project Pinterest November 2012

November already! Time is flying by so fast! Here's another episode of Project Pinterest! 

In this series I will let myself be inspired by Pinterest to scrap, cook a meal, bake a pie, do my hair, my nails, et cetera. As many of you, I could browse around Pinterest for days on end, but I rarely really use any of my repinned images. And that's a shame, because there's so much good stuff outthere!

This month I let myself be inspired by this layout by Geralyn Sy. I loved the misted circles so I wanted to have a try at this myself:-)

And this is my finished layout:

For this layout I mostly used papers from ILS, as well as several Mr. Huey's from Studio Calico and the class cut from the Cut it Out class by Studio Calico and Silhouette:-)

For more detailed pics check out My Gallery at Studio Calico

Can't wait to hear what you think about this layout!

I hope you'll follow me on this Pinterest journey:-)

You can follow me on pinterest as well and check out my boards:

My Pinterest Boards:-)

Love, Dee

Cut it out!

So as you may or may not know, a week or two ago I purchased a Silhouette Cameo. I got an amazing deal at Studio Calico and along with it I ofcourse could not help but purchase the Cut it Out class.. After all.. I need to know how to work that machine right?;-) 

The class is taught by Susan Weinroth and she'll be joined by loads of other fab ladies:

And what's more this class comes with an amazing kit (which is unfortunately sold out right now). 

But the fun doesn't stop! There are some great exclusive files to go with all this as well:-)

Oh man! I just can't wait for my cameo to arrive and get this party started! Who's joining me in all this fun?

Love, Dee

Yikes!

Hey everyone!

So yeah I'm a bit in default when it comes to blogging this week. The past weeks have been crazy crazy crazy. So many things are happening in my life right now and I'm having a hard time finding peace and quiet to do the things I like... So I ended up having a 'blog hiatus' for a week (or at least I hope so)...

Nevertheless there's something that I wanted to share with you immediately: last wednesday I caved and bought myself a Silhouette Cameo... Eeeek! Can still hardly believe it myself, but I really did order one... Of course I was in doubt, because it's a lot (and I mean a lot!) of money, but in the end it was a good deal. Of course I purchased the Studio Calico Cut it Out class to go with it as well :-)

Who else is with me?:-)

Love, Dee

Happy scrappy buys

This time last week, in the early morning of the 28th of september Studio Calico's october kit went for sale. I  love the sneaks of this months kits so needless to say I had a hard time resisting them:-) Here's what I ordered:

Roller Rink (the main)

Couple's skate 

Crack the whip

Toe stop

And some more:

Foodie Stamp Set

Zing Embossing powder in Glitter gold

And last but not least...

SC crop bags

Sometimes you need to spoil yourself, don't you?

Have a great weekend!

Love, Dee

Project Pinterest October 2012

A new month has begun, so it's time for another episode of Project Pinterest! 

In this series I will let myself be inspired by Pinterest to scrap, cook a meal, bake a pie, do my hair, my nails, et cetera. As many of you, I could browse around Pinterest for days on end, but I rarely really use any of my repinned images. And that's a shame, because there's so much good stuff outthere!

This month I let myself be inspired by this big picture layout by Susan Weinroth.

And this is my finished layout:

For this layout I used several kits from Studio Calico from the months of April, May and June of 2012, as well as the geotag stamp by Kelly Purkey and some washi :-)

For more detailed pics check out My Gallery at Studio Calico

Can't wait to hear what you think about this layout!

I hope you'll follow me on this Pinterest journey:-)

You can follow me on pinterest as well and check out my boards:

My Pinterest Boards:-)

Love, Dee

Sisters in law :-)

Here's a page I made for the Pop Off the Page class at Studio Calico. I loved making this page although I have to admit I'm not really comfortable with the layering yet.. It seems I'm quite the arranged, orderly type of scrapper in a sense that I feel like I need to measure each block and make sure the spacing is right.. So when it came to sticking the papers to the page I messed that up just a teensy bit to get myself used to it :-P

This layout is about me and my sister in law visiting Londen. Loved using the butterflies on this page because both my sister in law and myself love butterflies :-)

For more (detailed) pictures check out my gallery at Studio Calico :-)

Can't wait to hear what you think!

Love, Dee

A tiny sneak

Hi everyone,

Here's a tiny sneak of a layout I finished last night for the Pop Off the Page class at Studio Calico. Had a lot of fun creating this page and love the way it turned out! 













Will post the full layout soon:-)

Love, Dee

It's almost time....

Only a few days before the new StudioCalico class starts: Pop off the page. I've written something about it already a while ago (you can find that post here). I've shared some sneaks from Jen Jockisch already, but there are some more, by Kinsey Wilson and Danielle Flanders which I really want to show you:

by Kinsey

How cute is that arrow shaped paperclip! Luckily there are some in the kit :-)

by Danielle

Love the colors Danielle used. And the flair is tdf! (also in the kit:-))

Also need to show you the class kit which I received two weeks ago.. It has got so much great stuff in it:

Really can't wait for the class to get started!

Have a great sunday!

Love, Dee

Ps: Sadly you can't sign up for the class anymore, because it's sold out. 

It's that time of the month again...

Each month on the 14th when I wake up the sneaks of a new Studio Calico kit are available.. And so this morning I would like to share with you the sneaks of Central High that went live this morning:

the main kit: Central High

Add-on one: Style Guide

Add-on two: Capital Avenue

Add-on three: Road Show

Add-on four: the Register

At this moment I think I like add-ons one and three best:-) Love the stamps in both of these add-ons and love the washi in one and the flair in three :-) But I'm sure that as new sneaks will come I change my mind for several times;-)

By the way, there's a 'new kit on the block'  at Studio Calico this month as well:   the Studio Calico card kit:-)

I'm not really a card-maker but the kit looks great! Especially the stamp set from Lawn fawn!

And there's more more more exciting news. Last month Studio Calico announced on their blog that 6 (!) designteammembers are leaving. I'm really sad to see Vee Jennings, Davinie Fiero, Laura Kurz, Nicole Harper, Stephanie Howell and Kelly Purkey go (especially KP:-(), but this morning (depending on where you're at:-)) Studio Calico announced their new designteammembers:

Sasha Farina who was on the team before (and makes great PL spreads ;-)), Amy Tan, Becky Novacek, Maile Belles, Marcy Penner and last but not least Robyn Werlich who did a great job at the summer stamp school in the month of July :-) 

Especially love that Amy Tan and Marcy Penner joined the team and I'm really curious to see what all new members come up with for the month of September! Can't wait!

Please share with me what your favourite add-on is for this month and what your thoughts are on the new designteammembers!

Have a great day! 

Love, Dee

Pop off the page!

At the beginning of this month a new class was presented at Studio Calico: Pop off the page with Jen Jockisch. And as soon as I read the description and saw the class kit (hello exclusive stamp set!) I knew I couldn't resist:-)

The class will be about layering paper and embellishments on a page, to add detail, dimension and visual interest to a project. 

There will be contributions to this class from:Wilna Furstenberg, Kim Stewart, Rahel Menig, Christine Middlecamp, Stephanie Dagan, Kinsey Wilson, Keisha Campbell, Sophie Crespy, Sasha Farina and Danielle Flanders.

The class is self paced, so all (4) PDFs will be available on the 1st of September. The PDFs will cover several different subjects:

PDF one: adding detail and dimension with paper layers, ephemera, mists & ink.

PDF two: creating layers from stamps, punches, die cuts and dimensional paper techniques

PDF three: layering in mini albums

PDF four: layering tips and tricks from Jen

I absolutely love the sneaks I've seen so far and can't wait to get started!

and some more sneaks:

The class is almost sold out, so if you want to join in the fun, you need to hurry!

Who's joining me in this class?

Love, Dee