Book of Spain

I seem to have lost my mojo a little bit. Nevertheless, I started making a page about my 'book of spain' yesterday.
My book really needed finishing, because I'm going to London soon, so I can begin a new scrapbook :).
Now this one isn't finished yet, I just have a space issue... My book is filled LOL.
I started with a sketch from creative scrappers (sketch 94 for the people who want to take a look... just follow the blinkie on my blog) and started laying stuff all around.
You can't really see the sketch any more, but hey.. it's just meant for a head start, ain't it?


Allthough my mojo is a little bit missing, I'm really pleased with the outcome of my page.
There's a lot of white space for my style, but sometimes more is less.
I saw on a site somewhere that putting xxx-es on your lay-out really uses up your x-es from your alphabets, so offcourse I had to use this.
So what do you think?

Book of Spain

Aan deze pagina zit een heel verhaal verbonden, dat ik niet op mijn blog ga vertellen.
Maar komaan... Welk jong meisje heeft geen foute wc-foto's van zichzelf? :)


To this page there's a whole story connected that I'm not going to tell at my blog.
But come on... Which young girl doesn't have 'naughty bathroom pictures' of herself when she was on vacation? :)

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Deze twee gaan wel zo lekker samen, daarom dat ik ze er tegelijk opzet.

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These two go so well together, that's why I've putted them on my blog at the same time.

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Ik dacht dat ik deze lay-out al een tijdje geleden had gepost. Blijkbaar niet dus.
Een vriendin van me was jarig, net toen we naar Spanje gingen.
Ze houdt heel veel van bezienswaardigheden en daarom gingen we naar het kerkhof, dat dichtbij onze verblijfplaats lag.
Als titel had ik eerst 'de kerk' gezet, tot mn vriend me er heel attent op maakte van: "Welke kerk? Waar is de kerk"? en toen dacht ik: Oeps, vergissing.
Hier dan de lay-out met titel zoals die moet 'Het kerkhof'.
Ik vind dat deze lay-out heel mooi de sfeer weergeeft die er op een kerkhof hangt. Ik zou m zo hetzelfde doen :)


Voor de lay-out gebruikte ik wederom een schets van Creative Scrappers en had ik mezelf een serieuze uitdaging opgezet.
Zie je die 'scalloped' randjes daar in het zanderige bruin? Nou, daarvoor gebruikte ik dus een nestabillitie, die ik ongeveer tien (jah, hallo pijnlijke arm) keer uitdraaide om de cirkel zo groot te krijgen als op de pagina. Mooi gelukt, toch? Al zeg ik het zelf :)

Book of Spain

This is a lay-out from Water World. I've had to nag all week to go here, but I've looooooved this Water Park. I have never been to such a water park before and this was a dream come true.
We took sooooo much pictures that you wouldn't believe it if you saw it. From those pictures I made a selection and managed to put 7 pictures on one lay-out. This is a personal record for me. Still, I find that the page doesn't seem too crowded and everything comes together here. This is thanks to a sketch from Creative Scrappers that inspired me to do the page like this. As I said before, almost all of my lay-outs are inspired using the sketches from this website, because they are so versatile and I almost immediately think: 'I know which picture I could use for this sketch'. So thanks Creative Scrappers for beeing my inspiration :).
Enjoy!

Book of Spain

Another lay-out from my Book of Spain. It seems like I've done 7 lay-outs a day uploading the pictures to my blog all together.
This IS NOT THE CASE! LOL.
Now the book begins to get shape (I've been working on it since summer vacation last year!!) I thought it became time to show my creations onto my blog.
I'm putting the lay-outs in no particular order on my blog. I have no idea why :)
I just hope you enjoy looking at it as much as I enjoyed creating this lifelong memory. If something happens to the book, I think I'll die :)



There's actually a funny story behind this picture, but since I really don't like journalling (I think it messes up whole of my page, but heads up for the people who can do it without making the whole page look weird) so... since I don't like journalling, I'll just put the story on my blog.
This is why I love blogs too :)

We were waiting in the train station for our train (what else? For our plain maybe? :)) to arrive and then we saw this poster. It translates:
'There's a 25 % chance that you are carrying your laptop'.
Us: 4 girls and 1 girl was carrying her laptop. You don't have to be a math wizard to know that this is 25%.
So funny that we asked someone to take a picture of us 4 pointing at the one laptop.
Aaaah, this is why we love taking pictures and scrapbook them.

Book of Spain

Deze lay-out heb ik gemaakt voor de hobbybeurs, maar toch nog heel veel bloemetje gebruikt. Ik hou van die dingen :)
Het was van onze uitstap naar een supermooi park in Spanje.



This lay-out was made before I went to the fair. Nevertheless, I used very much flowers.
The pictures are from our trip to a very beautifull park in Spain.

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Off course... When you have a lot of flowers, you can achieve beautiful projects without having to look at a flower or two :)



I always seem to have a glueing problem. I lay down all my materials just perfect and when I want to glue it to my page, something always tend to shift, so I don't like it any more. Now I've found the perfect solution. I just took a picture of my unfinished, unglued lay-out. Then I removed all the items and glued them together one by one using my camera.
The first pictured is my unglued page, the second picture is my finished page as it stands beautifully in my scrapbook.
Can you see the difference?


With this page I'm entering the Practical Scrappers contest too, where the theme is 'flowers'. I think there will be a lot of entries. Who doesn't love flowers?
You can't see it really well, but in the picture my friend is giving a flower to the other friend, so another flower used. LOL.

Book of Spain - Creative scrappers challenge

Oh my lord! I'm in love. Completely, utterly, head over heels in love. Yes, with my boyfriend, but also at this lay-out, based on a sketch from Creative Scrappers. I used so many new techniques and the page is just such an eye-catcher. It's great!
First I took two pictures, but they didn't fit my page, so I cut them apart and putted them together. More people shouldn't be so afraid to cut in their pictures. You might be surprised at the originallity of your page.
Then I found some painting bottles tucked away in a dark corner. I decided to experiment with it and it gives the title so much more caracter!
I bought something to make great stitching. It's the first time I've used it, but then again... I think I should do it more often.
I've ripped, curled, teared,... I think of used almost every technique (except embossing LOL) for my papers around the picture. I love the way it gives the picture deapth.
Then I've used the 'ribbon tied with ribbon' method again. I just love the way you decorate your flowers and your pages with this technique.

Thanks for looking at my huge post today. But sometimes when you are happy with something, you just have to let the world know, don't you think.

Book of Spain

Hoef ik nog meer te zeggen?
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Do I need to say more?

Book of Spain

En alleen meisjes kunnen ervoor zorgen dat een jongensdrank iets meisjesachtig wordt.
Mijn vriendin was zo blij dat ze Duvel had gevonden in Spanje dat we daar absoluut een foto van moesten trekken. Ik vind de foto geweldig, omdat ze helemaal niet door heeft dat ik van de drank probeer te drinken.
De titel van de pagina 'drank is den duvel' is zoooo toepasselijk. Ik moest er zelfs niet over nadenken.
De schets komt van Creative Scrappers. Ik vind ze de meest geweldige schetsen ooit hebben.

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And only girls can make sure that a boys drink becomes girly.
My friend was so glad to have found 'Duvel' in Spain that we just had to take a picture of it. I think the picture is great, because she has no clue that I'm trying to take a sip of her bottle.
The title of the page 'Booze is the demon' (Duvel = demon) just fits it so well, I didn't have to think about it at all.
The sketch comes from Creative Scrappers. I think they have the most fabulous sketches ever!

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Alleen ik kan een scrapbookpagina er te meisjesachtig laten uitzien. Ach ja, het was dan ook een alleen-meisjes foto op een alleen-meisjes vakantie, dus ik denk dat de pagina het wel kan hebben.
Mijn inspiratie kwam van de roze sjaal die ik geleend had van een vriendin, omdat ik serieus verbrand was. Eerste vakantie ooit hé...

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Only I can make a scrapbook look too girly. But oh well, since it is an all-girl picture on an all-girl vacation, I think the page can have it.
My inspiration was the pink scarf I'm wearing, borrowed from my friend because I had a serious sun-burn. First vacation ever, hmm...

Book of Spain

Some of you might remember that I posted a page with me and my friends sleeping in the airport. This is what happened before. The airplane had been delayed for hours (this is shown in the little circles in the close-up, although the pictures are a bit fussy). We asked some people to take a picture of us waiting. Right after that she asked us to all look really happy. I am veary pleased that she asked us this, because it's really funny to see us very sad and in the same position very happy. This kind of pictures are what scrapbooking is all about, isn't?

Book of Spain

Besides making cards, my other great passion is making scrapbook pages. This is where my crafting obsession got started.
Last year in august I got to go on vacation with friends for the first time in my life. This was the perfect occassion for me to make a grand scrapbook about.
The pages are neatly tucked away in a scrapbook album. Can you guess where my journey took me?

This is a lay-out based upon a sketch I made myself (and yes, I am very proud of it!)

Travel - A spoon full of sugar

Eindelijk heb ik nog eens lay-out gemaakt!! Voor de challenge van 'A spoon full of sugar' is het thema 'Travel'. Ookal zijn ze voornamelijk een kaartsite mogen andere projecten ook worden ingediend. Kwam dat ff goed uit... Het thema past perfect bij mijn lo. Het verhaal errond:
Na een vermoeiende week in Spanje bleek dat ons vliegtuig vier (ja vier!!) uur vertraging had door een vogelaanrijding. Omdat het al laat was en we de dag ervoor maar drie uur hadden geslapen, waren we zeer moe en besloten ons op de stoeltjes in de luchthaven te leggen zodat we eindelijk konden slapen. Dit is het resultaat. Zie je ook in de rechterbovenhoek mijn vliegtuigtickets? Meer Travel kan je niet hebben, denk ik dan zo.

Finally I made an other lay-out!! For the challenge of 'A spoon full of sugar' there's a theme named 'Travel'. Allthough they are formost a card making site, you can enter other projects too. Wasn't that convenient? The theme fits my lo perfectly.
Now the story about the lo:
After an exhausting week at Spain we found out that our plain had been delayed for four (yes four!!) hours. Why? Hit by a bird... Because it was really late (like one o'clock at night) and we had just slept for about three hours the night before, we decided to get as comfortable as we could get on the chairs at the airport so we could finally get some sleep. So here's the result. You see my flighttickets at the upper right corner? I don't think you could get more into the Travel-theme, don't you think?

Products:
Paper: cardstock, DCMV
Embellies: cardstock letters, cardboard flower all the way from America given to me by a friend, butterflies from HEMA and a carnaval attribute, foam letters, airplane tickets
Flowers: Prima Flowers (like: what else?) and flowers from HEMA
Stamp: NONE (yes, I'm as surprised as you are ;-))