Butterfly Frenzy

A few weeks ago, I took my camera into my moms garden to shoot some textures and flowers. She also has these little porcelain butterflies hanging on her fence, so I photographed those too. The other day I spent about half of my spare time trying to extract one of these butterflies from the background, so I could use it to put some goodies together. I really wanted to share this with you, so this Butterfly Frenzy kit is going to come in a series. (Though I have no idea when part two will arive, since I have more extracting to do for that.)

Here’s a preview (once again it looks terrible from downsizing…)
The butterfly has the same ratio in the preview as it has to the fullsize 12×12 papers.

You can download it here
Please leave some love if you download and I can’t wait to see what you do with it!

TOOT on me!

Yay! My CT hunt is already giving results!
Last Friday I got a mail from Chantal Taake that I didn’t make the CT, but that she would like for me to be her Guest CT for a month. So come October I will be playing with her goodies!
Of course this already made me very happy, but then on Saturday night I got a mail from BRENDA KEMPF! I actually made it to her Creative Team! And if I could let her know if I accepted… IF??? Of course! I accept, I accept, I accept! How could I not? She’s a fabulous designer and I’m honored that I get to be on her team. I already downloaded some of those beautiful kits, so you’ll soon be seeing my layouts here and around the communities.

Sorry if I’m going a little overboard on the capitals and exclamation marks, but I’m just so excited!

I have so much to do now. I really want to try to make my blog look a little better, got some LO’s to do, still trying to design a little, I REALLY want to get a freebie up here too, got stuff to do for the Dutch store (Pien) here and then of course there’s still that boring stuff of cleaning my house and doing laundry

Talk to ya later!

CT Hunt

Today I’ve been on a bit of a CT hunt. I would love to be a part of one and be challenged in a different way. Usually the demands are a little easier than for participating in Page-A-Day, LOL!
I had been wondering about where people find out about these calls. I had seen a couple come by SBB, but not lately. (I found out that thread is gone now.) So I decided to step outside of my box and browse around some other communities. I found DST and that’s where there were tons of calls! I could just pick a few! There are so many great designers having calls, so I picked 5 for starters. Let’s just see what comes of it. Here they are:

Kathy Moore
Scrap2basics
Brenda Kempf
Karah Fredricks
Chantal Taake

Have a look at the great products that these designers have made!

Tomorrow the school vacation is over again and Aydin will be back in school. Aaah, that means life will be nicely organised again. That is for about seven weeks, because that’s when the summer vacation starts. Vacation time is always so chaotic around here. It’s nice that you don’t HAVE to get up early (although the boys usually do anyway…), but they always start getting in each others way and on my nerves! LOL
At least for now, peace is returning…

Getting better?

Wow, June hasn’t even started yet and I already seem to better my life. I was working on the Color Challenge held at SBB, but I didn’t have any papers in my collection to go with the colors for this week. So I decided to create some papers I could use and share them with you.

Here’s the layout I did with them

The sketch was provided for the challenge.

This is the little paper pack I made

You can download it here.
Please leave a little comment if you download and have fun with it!

Bad, bad blogger

That’s what I am!
I just can’t seem to work up a routine for blogging.
Or designing for that matter. I just don’t give myself the time to do it. So I decided to quit the Page-A-Day challenge at SBB starting June 1st (sorry Colleen). All my spare computer time seems to go into keeping up with the challenge, so as long as I’m in, I’ll never get to all that other fun stuff. I did come too far in May to give up now, so I will finish this month. Only 8 more to go!

Yesterday when we were visiting my parents, I photographed all kinds of flowers, plants and interesting textures. So I have lots of stuff to use for my designs. I’m a horrible gardner, so I can’t find that sort of stuff in my own backyard! LOL. I think I will have to get out more often to go on little texture quests.

Yesterday was also a big surprise day at SBB because of the lanch of the new site design, with all sorts of chats, challenges and freebies. I managed to make it to a few and even finished a layout! This was for the template crop with Amy Bleser.

Credits are found here.

Last week I got some great news!
One of the best known (paper) scrapbookstores here in Holland, Pien’s Atelier, has decided to start doing ’something’ with digi. Digital scrapbooking is still pretty new over here, but it’s starting to make its way around. They don’t know exactly what and how yet, but they did invite me to become their first digital design team member! Not sure yet what it will bring me, but I can’t wait to find out!

Well, I guess I better get to scrappin’! The sooner I finish those layouts, the sooner I can start designing and sharing freebies again!

Yay! Another FREE kit!

First things first:
It took me long enough, but I actually have another freebie. Thanks to Chark’s Mini Kit Swap at SBB, I got my creative juices flowing again. Unfortunately, it was the last time she’s able to put together this swap, so I created this little kit as sort of a farewell bouquet for her.

You can download it here. I hope you enjoy it as well!

I’m actually getting back into things, even though it has been forever again since I posted. I might actually make the Page-A-Day challenge this month. Here’s my favourite layout I did recently

I’ve been playing with blend modes recently and also figured out how to work with scripts. I used the Sunset script by SheilSoft to create the effect in this photo.

Well, I’m off to catch up a little more on my layouts. Hope to share more soon!

Let’s give it another try

Well, again it’s been forever since my last post. This time it got so bad that all my 4shared links had expired, because I didn’t log into my account for more than a month. Luckily for me I only use that site to share my files and not to save them!
So I went back and restored all the links that were already here on my blog. So if you came by and missed out on the links just try again now.

Anyway, I’ve promised myself to better my scrapping habits. I don’t have to go all out like I did the first two months of the year, but it has to get better than it has been since. (I think I finished like three LO’s since March 1.)

So hopefully I’ll get to posting a lot more in the days to come.
Have a great day!

Here’s a start

Yay! I finished a layout! Finally got some juices going again. I used my Playful Boy kit in a template by Lie Fhung. Fonts are Primer Print and Planet Benson 2.

See if I can get some more done!

I guess I’m back

I know it has been forever since I posted. Just had so much going on here at home, that I didn’t even scrap a single layout for two or three weeks. Last weekend I did finally get to making a little baby album for people from our church.

I used the Splash Piece-A-Cake Album by Shabby Princess.

I’m amazed how people have still managed to find my kit (even though I haven’t posted for so long) and I love all the sweet comments that were left. I guess I should come up with something new soon.

Well, I’m off to scrap a bit. I used to be in the Page-A-Day challenge at SBB. I haven’t scrapped anything for the month of March, so let’s see if perhaps I can get something in for the last week of it.

Meet Playful Boy

I finished my Playful Boy kit and I now have it up for download.

Papers
Elements

I would looove to hear what you all think of it, so please leave a comment if you download.