Some favorites from 2017 -1

Before I start to create for this year, I looked back to all the creations

I made last year. It was so hard to pick some favorite, so here 

are some I picked from the first 4 month of 2017.

There are cards, projects and scrapbook pages.

There will be more tomorrow.

It gives me a few days to clean my craftroom!

I guess some of you can relate!!

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

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 Artist Team: Nice to See you

Every month the Artist Team members

get a project or papers in their pizza box

to come up with something extra.

This month the "Nice to See You" kit 

is what we all play with. You find all the elements here.

On the Club Scrap Blog you find all of the projects 

from the Artist Team and some have more on there blog

 (there will be links to click on).

I came up with these trays for my scrap room.

I can add some little trinkets, project booklets

and other keepsakes in these boxes.

I started out with a piece of wood my DH had in the

garage. He added a metal hook on top so I could

hang my project when finished.Then I painted it dark orange.

If you wonder how long it is: 21 inch.

With the stencil that came with this kit I decoated

with dark brown glitter ink on top.

Here you see it when the stencil comes off.

For the trays I used 3 different decorated pieces

of scrap paper 12 x 12 inch. I scored them 

at 4 and 8 inch horizontal and vertical.

Left and right I cut in the first block and with double 

sided tape I made the tray stuck together.

For the corners I cut out a circle and folded it twice

and cut in one line to form  the corner to glue

on both sides of the bottom of the tray.

Some of the lettering for the trays, I cut with

the cricut. I added them to astamped background.

This is the top. The eye is embossed

with clear embossing powder and a little

sticky red gemstone is added.

Inside the trays i have added these

little booklets for writing ideas.

The are made from a 3 3/4 x 12 inch strip of paper.

Then score at 3,5-4-4,5-5 and 5,5 inch.

After scoring,you fold the paper like you see 

here on the picture.

Cut some paper to fit in the the booklet,

either lined or just plain paper. You can see here

that the paper fits in the M-fold.

Hold paper and cover together while making a 

whole with a punch, before adding the brad to

fasten  everything together.

For the closing of the booklet, I made the right side

look like a tag,with slanted punched corners, a hole in the middle

for adding some rope or other material to close the book.

The outside of the book can 

be decorated with stamps.

Here you see the trays hanging in my craft room.

Thank your for stopping by.

Have a creative day!

Club Scrap Retreat project 2: Magnetic Board

Here we are back at the 

Club Scrap Retreat in Wisconsin.

Now I share with you the Magnetic Messenger class,

whchj was by Jacq. If you like the project,

you can find it here:

http://www.clubscrapshop.com/store/p/3074-Magnetic-Messenger.aspx#.UoORwvmshcY

As you can see we were all very busy doing

this project, for if you want to finish it,

you just kept on working:

tearing and glueing, tearing and glueing.

It came with the metal, the paper and everything

else you needed to make this board. I love the bottle cap

magnets we made in the end to hold your messages.

Because this was so heavy in my suitcase

I gave it away as a present to the friend

I stayed the night before flying home. This way she 

had a memory of the retreat too (she unfortunately

could not come with us).

Have a creative day!

Club Scrap Wisteria Blog Hop

Welcome to another great

Club Scrap blog hop!

If you came from Tricia's

Efficient Crafter's blog: welcome!

Was't it a wonderful project?!!

If you loose your way hopping along.

please go the the 

Club Scrap Create Blog

were you will find all the blogs that

are participating.

Here is what I have in store for you:

1. a scrap page ALSB style

2. a card with triple stamping technique

3. surprise box

This is the 2nd layout you find in the ALSB

instructions, that I thought was perfect for the pictures

I took in May when I was in Amsterdam, not knowing 

that the Wisteria kit was coming.

It always feels, that Club Scrap knows what we are doing

or where we take pictures of. 

Here you see a part of the page, where I used one of the frames

 that was included in the box.

I had an earlier post about this triple stamping and I just

love doing it. You can find a video HERE.

The first time I looked at Wisteria, I thought of these 

gazebo's where one has a little tea party.

So getting out my 2008 Infusions stamp to make

this card together with the wisteria stamps.

If you want to make a card like this to,

here are the measurements I used:

(first is cardstock, 2nd is paper you stamp on)

card base: 8 1/2"x 5 1/2" + 4"x 5 1/4"

2nd layer: 3 1/4"x 4 1/2" + 3"x 4 1/4"

3rd layer: 2 1/4"x 3 1/2" + 2"x 3 1/4"

This box I found just by accident.

I wasn't looking for another project to do,

but when I noticed it it just said: wisteria.

So I took it home, sanded it and painted it.

After the paint was dry I used the rubber stamps

to decorate the box. Here are a few pictures.

I guess you want to know what is inside

......well I think this post is getting way to long, 

so do come back tomorrow

and I show you what is inside!

Thank you for visiting my blog.

It is time to move along to 

Kay's Keepsakes Blog

and see what she has in store for you.

ENJOY!

Have a creative day!