My scrappin' life

At the lake of Annecy, vacation pictures (warning: picture overload)

We're back home! Today 4 weeks ago we left for the lake of Annecy in France and now it's already over. Time flies when you're having fun! I took over 2,000 pictures and after spending a day on my laptop I'm left with a little over 900. Today I want to share a "small selection" with you. I hope you're having a wonderful summer too!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And now I've got to scrap them all, LOL!

Have a great week!!

Do you know that feeling...

that feeling that you created something that turned out just the way you imagined and it makes you really happy?! That you look at it and think "this is so perfect"!? Something like a 1 in a 100 projects feeling...

That's how I feel about this travel diary.

 

About half a year ago my sweet friend Liesbeth made this "december daily journal" and I just love it! I knew that one day I would make something like this. Instead of sewing the pages in like Liesbeth did I used a Zutter spiral. This way I can add (or remove) pages while working in my journal since I don't know exactly how many pages I need.

 

I collected all kinds of papers, envelopes, tags, little page protectors, a little book that came with Flow Magazine, pages from my Flow agenda and notebook pages. For a book like this you don't need the newest paper collections and fancy embellishements. A great way to use your stash!

 

 

I made a chipboard cover and applied fiber fill on the front and back. Then I sewed a cover from fabric to slide over the chipboard pages. I just LOVE my soft and chunky journal and already looking forward to work in it this summer! All I have to bring is a black pen, watercolor pencils, a water brush and a MyStik!

So how will you be journaling your vacation this year?

Vacation pictures

Hi everyone! It took me a little longer then I planned to post again. With the kids still being at home it's hard to get back to everyday routine, and I have to admit that I like it :)

No alarm clock in the morning, going away with our boat for a whole day, go out for dinner and shopping... still feels a little like vacation. Besides that we celebrated Erik's birthday last weekend and had some guests staying over. We had a wonderful time!

But I promissed pictures of vacation so here are a couple:

On our way to Italy we went through Austria where we stayed 2 nights near Innsbrück which is a lovely city worth visiting.

Our camping place was at a little lake and surrounded by mountains, just beautiful!

Then we went to Lake Garda in Italy where we had this beautiful view from our swimming pool:

Beautiful Desenzano in the evening:

We also went to Verona where we saw the Arena:

And of course to Julliet's house where Romeo sang under her balcony. Touching the right brest of Julliet brings good luck!

One day we rented a boat and spend all day on the lake. I think this was the best day of our entire vacation :) Swimming, navigating and sun bading... To make this picture I had to swim away from the boat holding my camera above my head...

 

Sirmione:

Salo':

Picture taken from the beach at our camping place:

From Lake Garda we went to a camping place at the sea near Venice:

And then it was already time to go home and this was our welcome just before we arrived:

Rain, rain, rain... and it was soooo cold! Oh how I wished to turn the car and go back!!

OK, this is it for now. I'll be back soon with a couple of LO's!

Thanks for stopping by!

Smiles,

Birgit

London tips???

Next week I will be taking Anne on a mother-daughter trip to London. Our present for her 16th birthday :) We have about 3,5 days to spent an there are a couple of things we decided to do already. Shopping ... of course!! And we will see the musical Grease at Piccadilly Theatre (her birthday present from my parents), we want to make a ride in the Eye and do a tour in one of those big red busses :)

Of course we can find all kinds of tourist attractions in the travel guides, but I'm looking for things that are the most awesome :) to go with a teenage girl! Shops, attractions, restaurants, where to have a high tea? And, if possible, for a reasonable price... LOL!

So, any tips are welcome!! Thanks!!

Smiles,

Birgit

Travel journal

Ohhhh, looks like the weather is finally on our side!! Summer has started, yeah! To get in the mood for vacation Marlijn and I made a travel journal together. I bought a white A5 binder and let Marlijn draw a picture about vacation on it. Then we added some embellishments and colored it with alcohol ink. Inside are envelopes to collect cards, tickets etc., page protectors and drawing paper. I think it turned out really cute!

 

 

Meanwhile you have 5 more days to play and try to win a complete set of my Revolution.com papers. See my previous post to find out how! :-D

Enjoy summer!

Birgit

More Jillibean, pictures (finally!) and a question for my readers...

Here are the other 4 LO's I made for the Jillibean GDT-spot:

30 PK
Supplies: Jillibean Soup Patterned Paper: soup staples on white collection/red sugar, soup staples on white collection/orange sugar, soup staples on white collection/light blue sugar, soup staples on white collection/olive sugar, minestrone on white collection/olive oil & soup staples on kraft collection/red macaroni Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: Old world cabbage stew Journaling Sprouts: journaling sprouts on white/circle calenders brown Alphabeans: baked brown Corrugated Alphas: white & kraft Clear Stamps: Handmade Other: red and green acrylic paint, Stazon black ink

 
Klassefoto groep 7 (while uploading this picture I noticed a strange object over the letter r in the word Borgschool, it's a little piece of dymo tape and it does NOT belong there :)

Supplies: Jillibean Soup Patterned Paper: old world cabbage stew on white collection/diced tomatoes, old world cabbage stew on white collection/red peppers, old world cabbage/brown rice, old world cabbage stew on white collection/spring onions, minestrone on white collection/olive oil,soup staples on kraft collection/red macaroni, minestrone on white collection/sliced leek Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: Old world cabbage stew Alphabeans: baked brown Corrugated Alphas: white Canvas Flowers: Green grid
Other: black pen, white staple, green acrylic paint

 
Lange vingers
Supplies: Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Soup staples on kraft collection/brown pead pod, Minestrone on white collection/cannellini beans, Ministrone on white collection/red peppers, Minestrone on white collection/brown rice, Ministrone on white collection/spring onions, minestrone on white collection/thin zucchini, old world cabbage stew on white collection/diced tomatoes & Soup staples collection/light blue sugar Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: Old world cabbage stew Journaling Sprouts: square/brown on white Alphabeans: boild blue Corrugated Alphas: Kraft
Canvas Flowers: Green grid Clear Stamps: Handmade Cool Beans: red Other: Dymo, Make Me/Crystals, black pen

 
Souvenirs from Italy
Supplies: Jillibean Soup Patterned Paper: old world cabbage stew on white collection/caraway seeds, old world cabbage stew on white collection/red peppers, old world cabbage stew on white collection/diced tomatoes & soup staples on white collection/red sugar Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: Old world cabbage stew Journaling Sprouts: journaling sprouts on white/circle calenders brown Alphabeans: baked brown
Corrugated Alphas: white Canvas Flowers: Green grid Clear Stamps: Handmade Cool Beans: red Other: Bazzil/cardstock, postal stamp, Stazon black ink

It seems like I won't have my laptop back for a looong time - arrgggghhhh - so yesterday I dug out my photo editing programm and installed it on this antique laptop I'm working on right now. So here are some (a lot) pcitures of the last couple of weeks (just scroll down a long time if you want to skip these :)

First some pictures of camping in Bourtange where we spend a weekend with my parents:

Fishing for tadpoles (kikkervisjes)

Marlijn and my mom.

Releasing the tadpoles...

 
 
 Love cherry blossoms, to bad they only last for such a short time!

And some pictures of the "Avond 4-daagse", the kids walked 5km every evening:

And some pictures of our camping weekend in Deventer with my in-laws:

My mother in law was one og the children how revealed this moment after WWII.

Swimming and playing in the IJssel.

My cute little niece Emma

My little niece Guusje is going to be the perfect housewife when she grows up!

Now she just has to learn how to clean her pretty white dress! :)

 

On the little ferry that goes from the camping place to Deventer.

OK, that's enough pictures for now! Now I just have to find my printer software so I can actually print and scrap them!!

And then my question to you!

I'm such a dumbo!!! No really!! Yesterday evening I uploaded several LO's to SIStv to find out this morning that this website is officially closed down since may 15th.... *blush blush*

Now I'm looking for a new gallery. I do know 2Peas... But do you know another gallery/community that you consider the greatest, coolest, kindest and most inspiring of all? Could you please leave me a link?

Unless you don't want me there of course! :)

Thank you!

Have a wonderful week!

Hope you all had a great may vacation...

... we had a lovely one! Every year we spent may vacation with my in laws. It's a family tradition that started years ans years ago with 9 people (mom, dad, 5 children, me and my BIL).  We are 21 now and number 22 is on it's way! :) Also a tradition is to make a family picture every year. The first one is the official one but I like the second one better!! :)

Right now I'm playing with the gorgeous yummy Jillibean goodies I got to create something for my Guest DT-spot. Just gotta love them :) !! Nope no sneakies, just be patient, the projects will be up soon! So I'll make this a short post and of to play some more!

See you soon!

Birgit

Back home...

We had a lovely and relaxed Easter weekend, nothing big, no egg hunting or so. Just nice and quiet and easy. Hope you all had a great Easter too!

Yesterday evening we had our Buzz Stamp it up! workshop and it was a big succes! It was so fun to see the amazed and enchanted faces with some of the techniques :) Like we were making magic! I thaught them how to make their own stamps with penscore and Cuttlebug templates and we made this little envelop book in which we used stamps, ink, glimmer mist and embossing powder in 23! different ways. Of course they got a written instruction of every tehcnique to take home!:

   

Ok, that's it for today! Hope you enjoy spring!!