King Day 2014

Today is a special day in The Netherlands.

We celebrate King WillemAlexander's birthday

and this is a free day in The Netherlands and

people are dressed up in orange, there are flee markets

 everywere and the King and his family visit some places 

in our country. This year one of the places was Amstelveen.

Amstelveen is next to were we live, so we took

our bicycles and went on our way this morning

to see the King. And we were lucky!!

My husband took some perfect pictures:

Beautiful flowers everywhere.

Picture while waiting for the Roayal Family to arrive.

Children singing for this event.

And here they are.

You see our former Queen Beatrix,

her son Willem Alexander, now our King

and his eldest daugter Princes Amalia.

In blue is our Queen Maxima.

After they spend an hour in town,looking at all

the activities, they went on their way again

and so did we.

We went to the old centre of town to have a look

 at the flee market and so did a few other people!

Oh yes and of course I made a card for today:

The focal point of this card is a Washi tape rosette

(one of the techniques of the latest newsletter

of the Technique Junkies) with the mini flower

by Michael Strong stamped in orange and

 embossed with clear embossing powder.

This is the inside of the card.

Why all this orange you may ask:

well, that is because the RoyalFamily is from

The House Of Orange!

....and even google knows it:

Have a creative day!