Club Scrap Blog Hop: Lagoon

Welcome to the montly Club Scrap Blog Hop.

This month the theme of the kit is Lagoon

and is such fabulous blues papers and

great stamps for wonderful pages, cards and projects.

I hope you have come over here from 

Pam's blog

and seen her wonderful inspiration.

I had a totally different project in mind and then we went to

the Sealife aquarium in The Hague/ The Netherlands.

So perfect to scrap with these papers!

I used two of the ALSB pages for it and added my own touches.

The left page is a general page with the entry

of the aquarium, the fishes and owen getting

his pirate diploma.

I added some silver embossed sea stars to the page

and teal jewel stickers from the kit.

Also on the cut out fishes strip I added some jewel stickers.

I love using the cut aparts, they look perfect in place.

And here the righ page. My daughter took this awseome picture of

Owen kissing the seahorse lamp in the aquarium. 

On the ALSB discription there are 3 coins on the squares, 

but I needed those for something else, so I used

the small sea star stamp to take the place of the coins.

I just love looking at this picture and the sentiment is just 

made for my page!

So here is the project that I wanted to make and 

couldn't resit making it anyway.

After googling Lagoon projects on Pinterest, I had many

ideas and made a lot of them come true in this

garden light/decoration project.

I wanted to paint a glas pot, but when I looked in t garage 

for a fitting pot, I came across this perfectly colored jar.

With hemp and my macramé skills from some early days

I covered the pot. When arriving at the bottom, I took

all the ropes together and bound it with an extra piece.

To make the pot hang  adding 2x4 ropes and made some knotting

the other way so I could tie the jar to a hook in our

gazebo and added a candle inside.

For decorating I stamped, embossed and colored

the sea star, the sea horse, and printed the mermaids tail.

All were cut out and glued to the jar in between

the netting. 

On pinterest I saw all these wooden beach signs

and i wanted those as well. I made it out of  paint

stir bars. Fist a layer of gesso and next some acylic paint.

When all was dry I stamped the sentiments on top.

As I did not want too many pictures on my blog post

so i made some collages so you can see the jar from

all sides. I added alse some stickers on the pot.

When the light is on in the dark it has a wonderuleffect.

Sorry, I could not make a good picture in the dark.

Underneath the jar the ropes are also decorated.

Here I added the coins, glued the shiny sea stars that

came with the kit, added more stamed woodsies,

a few real shells and a mermaids tail.

Well, that was it for this month. Hope you will go on

the see what 

Jennifer

has come up with on her blog.

If you loose your way, you can always go to the

Club Scrap Blog

where all the participants are linked

and where you can also link your own project.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap Blog Hop: Color Me Happy

Welcome to the first monthly Club Scrap Blog Hop in 2017.

I hope you have arrived here via

Jennifer's Blog

and seen her wonderful projects.

I have focust this time on my new scrapbook for 2017

and made a front page and the first entry.

For making pages I absolutely love the ALSB -

assembly line scrapbooking - formula.

You find a great instruction video by Tricia here:

For my page I used page 5&6 from the instructions.

The first pages in my book are about ringing in

the New Year at my daughter's house with 

champagne and fireworks. The eldest grandson

came out of bed and enjoyed seeing the 

beautiful firework and going to bed late!

I always make the pages first as they are from the instructions.

Once I add my photo's I make some changes that fit my

personal need, like on the middle strip there was another

text. I typed mine on the computer and printed it

to fit on the strip after cutting it out.

Also the left image I changed. I turned it around and 

the white side was beter for the journaling I wanted to add.

For writing I used the free Beacon font that 

you can  download here.

On the other page I had to adapt the right colomn for

picture, for I had two larger ones. It still gives the same

 impression. I added some journaling on an extra piece 

of paper.

I love the font that comes with this kit.

This is printed and colored with some ink around the borders.

Here again the first page. I am sure you want to know

a little more about how I made this. It is made in a 

few layers.

The first layer is the background on 12x12 inch turquoise paper.

For this background I used the dragonfly stencil

that came with this kit. I used dark blue ink

that shades the stencil perfectly on the paper.

The 2nd layer is the yupo paper that is also in this kit.

With alcohol ink you make a wonderful colored paper. 

All about the technique you find here.

The 3rd layer is the cut out year (with number dies from

Stampin'Up!). I stamped the leaves on top of the 

turquoise paper in black and colored it with green

pencils. The white dots are made with Ranger

white distress spray.

The sentiment is one of the cut aparts that came with 

this kit and I am sure 2017 has lots of moment that

we will smile about!

For mor inspiration, I hope you hop over to

Pam's Blog

and see what she has come up with.

In case you lose your way, go to the main

Club Scrap Blog 

and see all participants.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Sunday Scrap Page: Zoo

Hello! Rainy Sunday here, so a good day for scrapping.

We were lucky with the weather yesterday when we 

were visiting the Zoo in Amersfoort/The Netherlands.

We made so many pictures, but only a few made it for my scrap

page. I choose those pictures that also had a stamp by Michael Strong.

I used Club Scrap papers that we got in on of the retreats I was.

I think the set was called Safari. I used the ALSB (assembly line 

scrapbooking) instructions to make this page.

On the yop of the page you see the owl stamp and 

the smaller elephants. You find all the stamps on the

site of Michael Strong. Because the page is already

quite busy, i choose to keep the stamping simple.

 Using white ink on black paper for all the stamps.

Do you see the giraffe stamp? It is tucked away

behind the red ribbon.

Yes, we had a lot of fun at the zoo. It was just the 

two of us without any grandkids and we had all the time

to make lots of animal pictures. Here some more:

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Sunday Scrap page: City Walk

Today something totally different,

no babies!

Raymond and I went on a walk through

our home town with an architect. We only came to live

here about 15 years ago,we did not grow up here, so

it was very interresting to learn more about it.

The sad thing was,that this day the weatherforecast

predicted a Summer storm. When we left it was dry

and nice,but during the walk it started raining and the

wind became stronger and stronger. 

We ended the walk in the mill and we went all the way

up hearing the wind howling around the roof.

Later we learned this storm was the worst since 1901!

We learned a lot about our town,but we hope to do

it again when the weather is better!!

The papers are from Club Scrap's Big City kit

( from 2012) and I used 1 & 2 of the ALSB pages of this kit.

The cut aparts are also from this kit.

The tile decorations are stamps by

 Michael Strong called cloisonné accent stamps.

These are embossed with silver embossing

powder and a sticky silver gemstoon as an accent.

 Thank you for looking and hope to see you back soon.

Your comments are always much appreciated.

Have a creative day!

Club Scrap Artist Team is travelling

This is the Club Scrap June kit: National Park

We were asked to create something that has to do

with traveling. As I have just been on holiday,

I have some great pictures frommy trip to Italy

and the colors of this kit fit perfectly.

What I love fromClub Scrapis their ALSB instructions.

You find them HERE.

This way it is easy to scrap your photo's.

As I have my mind on other things, like are the babies going

to be born when i need my projects to be finished, I kept it

fairly simple this time.

Also I needed to decorate my photo diary of my vacation.

The book was dark blue and i started out by putting

a layer of gesso on it.

Gesso is quickly dry and i could go on to

the next layer.

Next I took some distress acrylic paint. With a dabber

it is easy to color. I used tie dye.

For decoration I used the Adobe stencil and 

the mahogany distress dabber.

Here is the finished front of my book.

The ribbons are frommy stash.

A close up on the decoration.

This was a quick and easy way to decorate my book.

This month I just don't have more time

for elaborate techniques.

If you want to see the first inside page of my book,

please go here:

http://craftchaos.blogspot.nl/2015/06/sunday-scrap-page-italy.html

For all projects of the artist team, see the main post

on the Club Scrap Blog.

There is more to see at:

Debbie's Blog

Roni's Blog

Wendy's Blog

Thanks for looking,

Have a creative day!