Another Christmas card

Another Christmas card I made...this one I have sent to my youngest sister:

I got the inspiration for this one from Inge's blog.

Hasta luego!

Christmas cards....finally!

I finally got to making Christmas cards....and ooh how I love to make scrapcards! I really should do it more often.... For my dear Granny I made this card:

Of course I couldn't help myself...and crocheted a little star for it from Michelle's Grandma Twinkle Tutorial.
For my mum, who obviously loves purple, I made this card:

I used my new Eline's Winterhuis Christmas Stamps; I bought them at by Petra...my new favourite webshop!
The crocheted tree is from Michelle's Grandma Tree Tutorial. I used it as well for my eldest sisters card:

I  made the paper with the words to "Jingle Bells" myself. Just choose a nice Christmassy font, write the words for a Christmas song, mark a few words in colour and print. I'm off to make some more cards.....

Hasta luego!

And a card too

I almost forgot, I made a baby card too:

It's a simple card, but I love the little flags.....Ingrid inspired me to make them. And making this card inspired me to do some more scrapbooking. It's too dark to make photographs of my other work, so...to be continued....

Hasta luego!

Inspiration from Holland

My trip to Holland has inspired my crafts hugely! First there was this beautiful towel from Pip Studio that I couldn't resist treating myself to. The colourscheme is so fresh and lovely that it inspired me to make another cushion from Michelle's Grandma's Garden pattern:

Even before I left for Holland, I already had one thing on my wish list: Eline's House book by Eline Pellinkhof. It is even more inspirational than I expected. Eline talks about her granny's buttons, so when I visited my sweet granny I asked her if I could browse through her buttons and she gave me a jar full of old pearly buttons. When at home, I crocheted a cream flower to decorate the jar. I also decorated wooden clothespins from an example in the book. And look at the lovely vintage ribbon my granny gave me...

I also made two more 'modern' looking clothespins and 2 more cards with the scraps from the cardkit I used for the cards in my last post.
Hasta luego!

Cards and award

Although I had a big shortage of time....I 'had' to scrap....lucky me. My dear friend Astrid had her birthday last week (I hope the card has already arrived, otherwhise she sees it here first...) and I wanted to thank my mum for a wonderful week in Holland:

I haven't had time yet, to get my bloggin' up to date, so I just found out about the award that Maartje gave me, thank you Maartje!
The award involves telling 7 thing about yourself that your readers don't know yet.....uuuuuuh, I haven't got a clue what you know or don't know about me. Some blogfriends have been following me for a long time now and some of you are new blogfriends. So I'll just tell things that pop into my mind and I do appologize if they are 'old news'!

1. I have been living in the south of Spain for almost 4 years now, but was born in Amsterdam, the greatest city in the world! (but Malaga takes a good 2nd place...)

2. After doing a secretarial/management job for years (I actually studied for that) I started my own creative company in 2000. First I had a webshop in baby accesories en decorations. I was sewing 'till looooong after midnight because in daytime I had 2 little girls to look after. Since I started teaching jewelry making workshops in 2003 I never touched my sewing machine again....

3. I'm the eldest of 4, I have a brother and 2 sisters...none of them are creative! I inherrited that (a bit) from my mum, but mainly from her mum, my super sweet 91 year old granny.

4. Although I love many crafts, I always have periods in which 1 takes up most of my time. I went from embossed card making to sewing, to jewelry making to scrapbooking and now it's mainly crochet....but cross stitching is peeking around the corner and sometimes even my dusty sewing machine seems to call me again!

5. I can be totally obsessed with a project I'm working on: can't stop 'till way past my bedtime, dream about it, pop's right back in my head when I awake...and that process sometimes starts while I'm still working on another project!

6. I get really cranky when a day passes in which I could not do anything crafty. I'm always bursting with ideas, so I guess that when I can't realize any of them the pressure just gets too high.

7. I try to be very loyal to my blogfriends and feel really guilty if I haven't responded to their blogposts for a while. But a very busy life and poor internet sometimes just make it impossible. I seem to be the one that has the biggest problem accepting that fact though........you are all so sweet and patient!

Thanks for all the lovely comments and for following me! I have already reached 106 followers, so that calls for a give away don't you think? I will come up with one soon, promise!

Hasta luego!

Happy Valentinesday!

Well....I wasn't quite done making hearts and other romantic stuff....I just can't help myself...

So I made a card for the most wonderful husband in the world:

First time even I used glimmer mist, though it probably doesn't show in the picture...

I'm not really in a scrappin' vibe lately, but I was very inspired by the romantic hearts I saw on Dora's and Elly's blog. Mine turned out like this:
Of course I couldn't leave my crochet hook unattended for too long, so I made this little lady frog:
Got the pattern here. It is so easy to follow. I made several now, a plain green one, a hairy one, a christmas frog....looks like there's more of these to follow!

And last but not least, my valentine's jewelry collection...gotta be in style for every occasion...
The brooch was inspired by my sweet friend Paula, who unfortunately doesn't have a blog to show all of her wonderful creations to all of you.
I hope you all have a great day filled with love! Thanks for stopping by and leaving sweet comments, it's very much appreciated...

Hasta luego!

Scrapcards!

Eindelijk is het er dan weer eens van gekomen: ik heb kaarten gescrapt! En meteen maar in een voor mij nieuwe stijl: vintage. Had inmiddels zoveel materiaal daarvoor liggen, maar nog nooit gebruikt. Voor m'n schoonzusje had ik een hartjesslinger gemaakt in naturelkleuren en daar wilde ik een bijpassende kaart bij maken: En als je dan toch lekker bezig bent...

...en nog een...

...en als laatste weer wat meer back to basic, maar een kanten strikje kon ik niet laten...

Hasta luego!

Teveel om op te noemen...

De afgelopen weken heb ik een hoop gescrapt...alleen nog geen tijd genomen om het te plaatsen.
Op 16 maart is mijn oma 90 jaar geworden. Een verjaardag waar ik graag bij wilde zijn en daarom ben ik er met mijn gezin voor naar Nederland gevlogen. Ik had deze kaart voor haar gemaakt:
En deze A4 scrap voor in het boek dat we met de hele familie voor haar gemaakt hebben:

Omdat ze alles opschrijft heb ik met hetzelfde papier ook een kaft gemaakt voor een dik schrift, dat ze, als het vol is, kan vervangen door een nieuw exemplaar.

Op 30 maart was de verjaardag van Lex, hij kreeg deze kaart van me:

En een canvas met foto's van al z'n vrouwen...

Op dezelfde dag was ook m'n vriendin Astrid jarig en voor haar heb ik deze kaart gemaakt, waarvoor ik een paperpiecing heb gemaakt met m'n nieuwe Hero Arts Baboushka stempel:

Hasta luego!