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When I took some photos of Jan with his colorful toys, the colors reminded me of some Bella Blvd papers. They seemed to match perfectly, so it was very easy to create this layout. I love when it all fits so right and the Bella Blvd collections are always perfect for kids photo's.

Bella Blvd Baby Boy: Momma's Boy, Wild About You, It's a Boy, Baby Blue, Borders, Alpha + Bits, Miniatures
Bella Blvd Sophisticates: Ciao Chip Simply Simona Salt Water, Quattrofina Milk & Oreo
Bella Blvd Button Market: Aqua Flowers
Bella Blvd Designers Tape: Teal Stripe

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Pizza time!

When I have Phiene over for a fun girls weekend, we always have yummie food for dinner. It's really a joy to watch her eating. Even though she's such a young one, she already likes almost everything!
This time we chose pizza and for me the fun already starts with ordering the pizza. She hears me ordering a pizza pepperoni and she starts yelling: 'no, I want the pizza with the sausage'. I think it will take some time before she realizes that those are the same thing.... :-)

Last Friday I received my October kit of Gossamer Blue and again it is one fabulous kit!! It has some gorgeous fall colors and it is filled with Basic Grey, Bella Blvd, Jillibean Soup, Lawn Fawn and Webster's Pages. The weekend couldn't start any better and I started creating immediately.

For this layout I used the Basic Grey papers and embellishments, from the Clippings collection. I already had some papers and embellishments from this collections that I hadn't used yet, so I added them to create this layout.

To add a fun detail to the title, I created a shadow with kraft cardstock. I made the title with my Silhouette.

Basic Grey Clippings: Flannel Suit, Trench Coat, Cotton Dress, Snippets, Mixed Brads
Prima Marketing Inc Alpha Rosarian
Bella Blvd Designer Tape Pickle Juice Chevron
Kraft Cardstock
Silhouette Cameo
Studio Calico stamps
Archival Ink Jet Black
Dymo metal tape embosser

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Cousins

I think this will be the last layout with the August main kit of Gossamer Blue. All I got left is some scraps but I can't throw them away, so maybe one day I'll try to get one more layout out of it :-) I can't even explain how much fun I had with that kit, I loved every little piece of it! Well, the October kit arrived and I already know that this one will give me as much fun as the August kit did. Last weekend I made a layout with it, but I'll show that one later this week.
So for now the last August one. I love this photo of Phiene, picking flowers in the field with her cousins Fleur, Sophie and Olivier.

Crate Paper: Pretty Party Cake Stand, Pretty Party Planner, Pretty Party Button
Simple Stories Summer Fresh Stitched Lattice
7Gypsies Ecriture
Prima Marketing Inc Alla-prima Ferrulle
Lily Bee: Double Dutch index card, Buttercup ABC stickers
My Mind's Eye The Sweetest Thing Tangerine wonderful word sticker
Kaisercraft stamps: script, grid
Distress Ink and Distress Marker Walnut Stain
Bakers twine red
Silhouette Cameo

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Mini album in a box

Last month I tried to make it to the Jillibean Soup DT. Unfortunately I didn't make it, but I still want to share the projects I created for the this call.

The first one is a mini album in a box. Mostly I make layouts but mini albums are definitely some favorites for me to create and I always try to make each one a little different. I had some simple cardboard sort of sigar boxes that are easy to pimp up with some paint, stamps and embellishments.
The mini album is self made with kraft cardstock.

Jillibean Soup
Dutch Mustard Soup: Leeks, Wholegrain Mustard, Cornstarch, Dry Mustard Powder, Pea Pod Parts, Journaling Sprouts, Coordinating Stickers.
Bean stalks Orange/Yellow, Sugar Picks Butterflies, Corrugated Houses, Journaling Sprouts - square green, Alpha Beans grilled grey.
Kraft Cardstock, Hero Arts background stamp grid, SC stamp numbers, Hero Arts Chalk Ink Grass, Acrylic Paint Dabber Lemonade.

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A winter day at the beach

For this layout I used the Pretty Little Studio Sand Castle collection, from the Gossamer Blue add on kit of August. With all these soft tones and the words on the embellishments, you would probably have a first thought of a hot summer day. That's exactly the type of photos that I used on my first layout with this collection.
Because me and my family are living close to the beach, we don't just spend summer days overthere, winter days can be great too. It is the best place to get some fresh air and empty your mind on a cold day. So this time I made a layout of a winter day at the beach, with this sunny summer collection.

Pretty Little Studio, Sand Castle collection: pattern papers Summer, Sun Tan, Sand Dollar, Star Fish, Swim Suit. Bingo card, Stencil Flash Card, Bookmark Tag, Castle Flag.
Kraft cardstock, Mr Hueys, Silhouette Cameo, hand stitching.

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