Swing it

I'm back with some more Bella Blvd. We are still not having summer overhere, so I thought let's get the sunshine out of this bright colored collection and of course little Phiene. How can a little one be so photogenic, without even being aware of it? Probably it is just because she's not aware of it. Anyway, she's making proud auntie totally happy with those photo's :-)

This is the first layout I used my new Silhouette Cameo with. For the last 2 weeks I have been playing with the machine to see what it does exactly, how the designs come out and tried other stuff than cardstock or patterned paper. Like on this layout, I used washi tape with the Silhouette.

I created a staff with the music notes by running the yellow chevron washi tape through the Silhouette and sticked the tape on the striped patterned paper.
I made the 'remember-arrow' with the Silhouette as well, this is a design by Ali Edwards. I created the background of the arrow with the pink striped washi tape.
On the little banners I added some of the cut out music notes. Below some detail photo's.

Bella Blvd Baby Girl, Snuggly Safari

Bella Blvd Baby Girl, Pretty in Pink

Bella Blvd Baby Girl, Alpha + Bits Stickers

Bella Blvd Baby Girl, Flag

Bella Blvd Sophisticates, Ciao Chip Simply Simona Pickle Juice

Bella Blvd Designer Tapes, Yellow Chevron

Bella Blvd Designer Tapes, Pink Stripe



Too cute for words

First of all I'm thrilled that my Crate layout 'a day of fun' was chosen last week as Friday Fave at My Scrapbook Nook. It's such an honor to me to be picked out of their talented community!

For my next layout I went for the My Mind's Eye kit from My Scrapbook Nook. This kit's from last March, but I haven't played much with it yet. I don't know why actually, because it is such a gorgeous girly collection and I have lots of photo's that will work with it.

Of course this one is about the number one girl in my life :-)

MME, Miss Caroline Dolled Up "Living" Everyday

MME, Miss Caroline Dolled Up "Living" Blooms

MME, Miss Caroline Dolled Up "Cute" Quaint

MME, Miss Caroline Dolled Up "Cute" Garden

MME, Miss Caroline Dolled Up "Favourite" Madras

MME, Miss Caroline Dolled Up "Day" Stickers 

MME, Miss Caroline Dolled Up "Day" Pins & Buttons

MME, Miss Caroline Dolled Up "Princess" Layered Stickers

MME, Miss Caroline Dolled Up "Cute" Title

MME, Miss Caroline Dolled Up "Cute" Brads

MME, Miss Caroline Dolled Up "Cute" Twine

Martha Stewart Punch Classic Butterfly

 

How many photo's on a one pager?

Last Saturday I was babysitting Phiene and I took her out for a day of fun. We went to the city of Utrecht where the Dick Bruna House is located. Dick Bruna is the creator of Miffy (her original name is Nijntje and that is how the Dutch kids know her). The Dick Bruna House is a fun way for little children to get familiar with a museum. Miffy's house is in there and the kids can actually go in there and sit on Miffy's bed or chair. Other than that there are televisions with headphones where they can listen to the Miffy story's and there are 2 locations where they can craft a Miffy room and the Miffy ears.
Phiene's first words, when we were in the museum, were: 'I wanna get out of here!' But after I showed her around, she (luckily) started to like it :-) And what is the best way to end a day of fun? That's right, a visit to Mc Donalds!
I took a lot photo's that day and I didn't want to make a mini album, so I tried to get as much photo's as possible on a one pager. I managed to get 13 photo's on this layout and it became a sort of collage which represents the day perfectly.

For this layout I used Crate Papers, Crate Buttons, Crate Stickers and Crate Alpha from the April kit of My Scrapbook Nook. And since a very long time I used my edge scraper for all the edges. Much fun to dig in your 'old' stuff and use it again!

TFL and have a wonderful day!!

Sunshine and Happiness

I have tons of 'happy' photo's of little Phiene, not that weird as she's always smiling :-) She can really make my day with her smile! So I dove into the Sunshine and Happiness collection by Bella Blvd, which is a perfect fit for all the happy photo's. Here's the first layout and there's more to come!
The photo I used for this one is from almost 2 years ago.

And yes, it's the first time I used misting spray, how fun is that! :-) I was cutting out the paper strips for the chevron element and after that I was messing with the sprays on the paper I cut the strips out. That gave me the idea to make my own mask out of a 12x12 kraft sheet.

This is what it became:

And on this photo you can see clearly how to use this mask in 2 ways on 1 layout: spraying on the right top and as a mask to cut out strips in the middle.

TFL and have a great day!!

 

A new winner and Teresa Collins Vacation Album

First of all I draw a new winner for the Petaloo giveaway.
The winner is:
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Crafting With BlueApril 8, 2012 5:51 AM

woohoo welcome to florida. hope you enjoy it.
thanks for the giveaway while your away having fun.
im a follower. yippy.

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Please send me your info: danielle(dot)de(dot)konink(at)gmail(dot)com

Then finally the album with my vacation pics is finished. I'm so glad that I did the pre-work for this album, because usually it takes me forever to scrap my vacation pics. Now I do have them in a mini album and I can sit back and relax. Well some of the pics will make it to a 12x12 page, but all of these photo's will not frustrate me anymore ;-)

Like I showed before I used the Teresa Collins travel kit for this one. Fabulous collection and so different from what I usually would use for travel pics. Recently I fell in love with my Instagram app, it makes it so easy to edit your photo's. I edited all the photo's for this album with Instagram, as I thought it fitted the style of the album best.

TFL