Sunday Scrap Page: Orange

After yesterday's  post, you must have seen this page coming!

I had so many beautiful pictures of King Day,

that I had this page in my head and made it in a jiffy.

In the background you see the ground plan of the

visit of the King. I had printed this yesterday to see what

was a good place to stand and wait. Well, we had a

perfect spot.

As I had explained to you yesterday why we use orange,

I had to use it for the scrappage too. I decorated the page with 

tulip stamps (large and small by Michael Strong).

The orange tulips are embossed with white

embossing power and the leaves are colored with green

distress ink.

The small tulip is stamped in neon orange

and also the leaves are colored with green

distress ink.

The sentiment is by Tim Holtz.

Thanks for looking,

Have a creative day!

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!

Tim Holtz April Tag: King

Here is my April tag for Tim Holtz

12 tags of 2013.

Of course I gave it my own twist,

but using Tim's creative ideas

and techniques.

If you have been following my blog,

you know we have a special day tomorrow

in The Netherlands: the inauguration

of the new King Willem-Alexander.

A very big happening for our country.

So I gave the tag an orange metallic look.

Yes orange is the main color you will see

tomorrow. Everyone will be dressed

in orange tshirts,coats, hats, shawl, jeans.

It will be a colorful day!

So my tag is titled:

Time to be the King

On top you see the clock and the hand of the

clock is pointing towards the "W"coin

on the ribbon. The "W" is the first letter

of the new King's name.

The lions on both sides are stamped on

transparant plastic,so I could flip the

lion on the other side. The are both staples

to the tag (covered by the clock.

The 2 is on of Tim's metal numbers

c0vered with bronze, rusty hinges and

mustered seed distress paint.

The word is stamped on kraft paper

and made into a tag.

The crown is out of grunge paper,

covered with the same distress paint as

the tag and added  a little mahogany.

On top a few sticky orange gemstones.

Underneath the crown I used a few

tiles from a scrabble game

painted with distress gold paint.

For all the technique instructions

on how to work with the distress paint,

take a look at Tim's blog:

http://timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2013-april/

Have a creative day!



Wednesdaystampers: King

Hier mijn bijdrage voor de WS: een klein houten doosje, bewekt met acrylverf, stempels en een foto van mijn opa (die me op dit idee bracht!). The king & queen stempel is van de allernieuwste Club Scrap Valentijn special.

Here my contribution for the WS: a little smal wooden box painted with acryl paint, stamped and a picture of my grandfather (who gave me this idea!). The king& queen stamp is from the just released Valentine's box from Club Scrap.