My scrappin' life

1.000.000 kusjes voor papa, a layout for Infocrea

First of all a big THANK YOU! to everyone who wished Lennart well, whether it was by commenting here, on facebook, by e-mail, phone or mail! He is very much enjoying all the attention and it is fun to have some cards waiting for you when you come home from school every day!

I made this LO for the InfocreaDT. The picture was taken in Italy and I love it! Marlijn gave this LO to her daddy for his birthday. She is definitely his little girl and he is her hero!

For this LO I combined different paper lines to achieve a bright and happy page. Funny thing is that the green paper is from a more boyish line (Robotic)but because of the many numbers 1 and 0 it fits the title and the girly theme very well! The blue with white dots and the blue grid paper is from Revolution.com. The little quote tags are from Ces petit riens, the journaling spot is from Herbier, all Infocrea.

Supplies: patterend papers: infocrea (see above) | striped paper: October Afternoon | flowers, pebbles, e-pearls and crystals, leaves: Prima Marketing| rubons: S.E.I. | fabric circle: HEMA | Letters: Frances Meyer | Adhesives: Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L(the foam squares are just perfect to give the flowers even more depth!)

That's it for now. Come back soon for great Prima offers and some sticky fun! :)

 

Infocrea designteam

Last week I made my first 2 posts on the Inforcrea blog for which I'm a design team member since last month. Infocrea releases new paper lines every couple of weeks. You can sign up for they're newsletter here.

The first layout I made is about my little girl who's favorite toy is Playmobil. She bought this playmobil boat from her vacation money the day after we rented a boat and spend the day on Lake Garda, swimming and sun bading.

 

Infocrea supplies: Revolution.com(blue grid and blue with dots) | Ces petit riens (green with blue circles and blue circle transparency) | Herbier(pink) | Alphabets(pink letter stickers)

Other supplies: Adhesive : Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L | Green and white rubons: Basic Grey | Pink and black rubons: Urban Lilly | Letters: American Crafts | stitch rubons: K&Co. | Buttons: Hema | cake cup, paint tag

The second layout is about Venice. I wish I could say I loved Venice. And of course it was nice to see the gondolas and all the canals and little bridges. And I did make some nice pictures but, to be honest... I thought Venice was way to crowded, dirty, with to many shops that all sell the same and oh so expensive. Therefor the title of this LO is "To bad, but Venice is not so beautiful as you might think when you see this lovely picture".

Infocrea supplies:  Innocence: background paper | Ces petit riens: patterned paper and tags | Herbier: Butterflies | Tampons tout mignons : flower stamp.

Other supplies: Adhesive and photo corners : Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L |Yellow paper: Doodlebug Design |Letters : American Crafts | Distress ink (Broken China): Tim Holz | thread.

Don't forget to check out the Infocrea blog. You will find tons of inspiration there! 

Or visit the other DT-members' blogs. You can find their names in the sidebar on the right >>>

Thank you for your visit!
Smiles,

Birgit

Prima Build a Page and Revolution.com layouts by Christiane Müller

Since I was on vacation I didn't have the change to play along with Prima's august BAP, but I did do July's BAP and haven't showed it here yet, so here it is!

You might recognise the tag. I made it a while ago when I was playing around with paint and glimmer mist. More tags here and here. You can find the sketch, the Prima products I used and more inspiration here on the Prima blog!

Also I want to share today 2 gorgeous LO's my sweet friend Christiane made using my paperline Revolution.com. I think they're just amazing!! Christiane's layouts alwasy pop, make sure you visit her blog for tons of inspiration! Thanks Christiane, I love them!!

 

That's it for now. Still trying to catch up with everything but promiss to show more pictures and LO's soon, so stay tuned :)

Smiles,

Birgit
  
 

More Revolution.com LO's made by Rev, Evelien and Chantal

My sweet friend Revlie made this LO using Revolution.com. Thanks Rev! I love it, it's so YOU! :) It's fresh and clean and I love the embroiderd title! Check out more of Rev's work on her blog Life is good!

Evelien from Hobbyfarm also made 2 wonderful LO's. Check out the Hobbyfarm blog for a chance to win a free class with me or Nathalie Kalbach on the Scraptastic Event!

The colors in the pictures go so well with the papers and the beautiful Prima flowers give the paper a sweet and girly touch!  And look at those sweet girls... aren't they the cutest??!!

Also I got an e-mail from Chantal who made these 2 LO's:

 

Chantal used a transparency on pink paper which makes it more soft and girly. I love the craft colored tags and envelope on the second LO and how she created the journaling spot on the doily!

Thanks girls for sharing these LO's with me and giving me permission to show them on my blog!!

Now, this will probably be my last post for a while. Tomorrow evening I'm leaving with Anne for London untill monday. I can hardly wait!! :)  Hope to be back with loads of London pictures next week! :)

Have a good one! See ya!

Birgit

Revolution.com give away winner!!!

    
 
Ellemieke!!!! You're the lucky one!!! :-D  Please e-mail me your addy and I will get the package out to you this week!!

For those of you who are not as lucky as Ellemieke I have good news.... As from today Revolution.com is availabe at Hobbyfarm.be!! If you can't find it at the online store yet but don't want to wait just e-mail Evelien at hobbyfarm@pandora.be:)

OK, I'm of to watch the game! Hup Holland Hup!!!

Birgit :D

Give away time: free Revolution.com!!!

Just for fun... just because things are going so well for me, just because I feel like celebrating, just because I want to share some of my happiness...

I'm giving away one Revolution.com kit!!! What will you get? 12 sheets of patterened paper, 4 different overlays, 5 different overlay embellishment strips, 5 different paper embellishment strips and a set of clear stamps!

What will you have to do?

* follow me (if you don't already) (click on "follow this blog" in the sidebar at the right)

* copy and past the revolution.com picture below to your blog or facebook and link back here.

* leave me a message here so I know you did.

So, if you like these papers, join in!! This is your chance to get them all for free!!

I will randomly pick a winner on Monday, June 28!

Have a great week!

Birgit

LO's made with Revolution.com

It is such a fun experience... while blog hopping last week I came across some LO's made with Revolution.com. It made my heart skip a beat... when I opened those blog pages, seeing the LO's appear and I suddenly realized what I was looking at. When I turned in my designs at InfoCrea I was very nervous about them. I was afraid nobody would like them, in fact I didn't believe they would really be released until the day before... To find out that people actually bought AND used my papers is such a GREAT feeling!! Makes my fingers itch to create more :)

4 ans et 3 mois is made by Giniew. She's a member of the InfoCrea DT. I love the fresh and simple style and the green she added!

Het Paradijs is made by Marsha Valk. I love how she used an old picture (doesn't she look cute?) and combined it with this "modern" paper. It works so well!! Also love the stitching on the circles!

Photo shoot is made by Margriet. I love that she used so many different paper AND so many pictures on one page. The added crystals make it a very feminine page!

Travel companion is made by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer. Julie made this LO also for the InfoCrea DT. I think that stitched airplane is simply amazing. I'm so thrilled to be in the Prima DT together with this very creative and talented lady!!!

 

 
 
Did you create a project with Revolution.com too and want to share?? Please leave a link here in the comment section or e-mail me at scrappen@birgitkoopsen.nl! Would love to see them! :D

Have a great weekend!

(P.s. Holland won from Japan today :-D )

Smiles,

Scraptastic 2010! workshop

The third and last workshop I will be teaching at Scraptastic 2010! in Belgium (september 25-26).

If you haven't signed up yet and consider going... don't wait to long!!! Some of the workshops are alsmost fully booked!

Nat Kalbach (Germany), Evelien Verschelde & Tanya Watts (Belgium), Tracy Hudson (UK), Wendy Morris (USA) and me :) (The Netherlands) will be teaching a total of 21 different and awesome workhops!!

This is going to be the coolest event of the year and you don't want to mis it! Read all you need to know here:

 

Looking forward to see you there!

Smiles,

Birgit 
 
  

Trying something new...

After a whole bunch of "clean and graphic" LO's I felt the need to get my hands dirty again :)

So I took out some transparencies, stamps and alcohol ink and made this LO.

It's not the materials on this that's new... it's also not the techniques, I've all tried them before... but what I can't remember EVER having done before... is cutting out my picture! I just don't do that... But this time I made the background first and then tried to fit in the picture and for some reason i just didn't like that whole "big" picture taking away the background. So I cut it out!! I'm not really sure about this although I think it looks kind of cool...

So... what do you think?

  

Supplies: Revolution.com by Birgit Koopsen: white transparency, dot stamp, alphabet stamp | Prima Marketing Inc.: flocked transparency | Hambly: orange transparencies | American Crafts: thickers | Adirondack: Tim Holtz alcohol ink | Jenny Bowling: black letter stickers |My little shoebox: red letter stickers | EK Succes: arrow stickers | DIY store: color samples (tags) | Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L: Adhesive  | Other: black pen, white staples

 
  
Have a great wednesday!!

Smiles,

Birgit  :-D
 

Revolution.com, first LO by me! :)

It took a little while before I got my papers but now they're here!! Yes! And I am sooo happy with how they look in real!! I guess you can imagine that I just HAD to create something with them today :)

So here is my first LO with Revolution.com: Li'l miss Monroe

Journaling says: A city somewhere in France... a grid in the side walk with air coming out. So you might not wear a little skirt but your hair is flying everywhere and you love it!

 

 
Supplies: Revolution.com by Birgit Koopsen (V.I.P. Sultane): papers - Odyssey (RC03) | Equinoxe (RC02) | Erosmachine (RC02), Embellsihments strips - RC-E01 | RC-E05, transparency strip - RC-T-E02, stamp - Tampo{maniak} journaling spot, Other: Sticker letters - Basic Grey | American Crafts | KI Memories, little flowers, crystals and leaves - Prima Marketing Inc., border punch Martha Stewart, patterned paper (circle) - Scenic Route, Adhesive: Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L, random buttons, bosher ?

Prepare to see more! *LOL*

And I also finished a LO for Color Conspiracy using their new paper line called Saison{deux}. Love those papers! The traditional family picture we take every year during may vacation when we spend a couple of days with my family in law. 47 years agon my MIL and BIL started this family together. Now there are 21 and nr. 22 is on it's way...

From 2 to (almost) 22 in 47 years:

 
 

 
 

Supplies: Saison{deux} by Color Conspiracy: papers: Tibouchina (CCP10-04) | Potentille (CCP10-06) | Zinia (CCP10-05), Other: Sticker letters: American Crafts, October Afternoon, Journaling sprouts: Jillibean Soup, Flower punch: EK Succes, Flower & Crystals: Prima Marketing Inc., Stamp: Will 'n Way, Brad: Kars Christmas Collection, Adhesive: Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L, Bosher ?

OK, that's it for today! Hope to be back really soon :D

Smiles,

Birgit