I'm back!

I know, it has been a real long time! The reason I took a break was my big move to this 5 sq mile Caribbean rock called Saba to follow my heart and the love of my life. I only brought two suitcases over, so there was no way to get all my scrapbooking stuff here! Besides that, the move changed every little detail of my life and it took some time to settle in and get adjusted to my new life. From making new friends to understanding island life (yes, that's a thing!) to working completely different jobs. I came from working for a corporate company for 14 years and here I've been working for a dive shop, a restaurant and the Saba ferry. 2018 was a crazy roller coaster: we adopted our fur baby Blink, we got married in Barbados and we bought a restaurant!

Well, that was a quick update on the last 2 years, let's talk scrapbooking again :-) Last Summer I started to feel that itch to get creative again, scrapbooking was always a big part of my life and I needed it back! So of course my first online stop was Paper Issues, my all time favorite for pretty papers and embellishments. I'm not gonna lie...I've also been missing being part of their DT. I was on the team for almost 4 years and made the best scrappy friendships over there! They have great monthly challenges that helped me get back into scrapbooking again. Because of the lack of space that I have here, I've only been doing travelers notebooks so far but I think there will be some 12x12 layouts in the near future again. It will always be my favorite to do.

For this first post in about 2 years I will update you with the travelers notebook pages I've made so far about our travels and wedding last August and will keep posting on a regular basis again.

I like to sew my own journal covers, so I made this one especially for our travels

I made a mesh zipper pouch for inside the journal so that I can easily take embellishments with me on the go.

These were our destinations for the month. Each destination got it's own insert.

That's it for now. Later this week I'll share the travel journal I started about our fur baby.

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The Cut Shoppe - Insta Love

Hello everyone! It's kind of a sad day as I'm sharing my last layout as a DT member of The Cut Shoppe. I want to thank Ashley for having me right from the beginning, it was such a joy working with you and working with your amazing cut files!!

For this layout I enlarged the insta love cut file from the Stay Focused set and used it as the title of my page. The insta pics are taken last month at Disney World. I used the Amy Tangerine Rise & Shine collection, the colors and patterns are so bright and happy, which is perfect for the happy Disney feel.

Stay Focused

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The Cut Shoppe - Happy Camper

Hello everyone! I have a new layout for The Cut Shoppe to share with you today, with some cut files from the Happy Camper cut file set. All papers and embellishments are from the Crate Paper Journey collection, which is such a perfect match to these cut files!

This picture is taken during camping in Yosemite. As a kid I loved camping, as an adult not so much. I guess I've spend too much time in hotels the last 15 years. From camping in The Netherlands I was used to having to take your own toilet paper to the restroom, so that's what I did in Yosemite as well. I was very pleased to see that this wasn't needed overhere, so luckily I had to make this embarrassing trip only one time :-)

Happy Camper cut file set

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The Cut Shoppe - Giant Tree

Hello everyone! I have a layout for The Cut Shoppe to share with you today. I have been using the new Wood You Be Mine cut file and I had the perfect picture for it of the tunnel tree in Yosemite. I love it when things come perfectly together like this!

I used the super gorgeous Fancy Pants Designs Office Suite collection for my layout. 

Wood You Be Mine

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The Cut Shoppe - Favorite place

Hello everyone! I have a layout made for The Cut Shoppe to share with you today. I love the World Traveler cut file set so much, I just had to make another layout with it. The original cut file said favorite places, but since I used only one picture I cut of the s at the end.

This picture is taken at the beach of Santa Monica and this is definitely one of my favorite beaches. I think I say that about almost every beach, but you get the idea :-) I used the Pinkfresh Studio Up in the Clouds collection for this page and added stamps and enamel dots from Little.Miss.Evie.

World Traveler cut file set

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