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.

Thank you for stopping by!

Paper Issues - Roll the Dice

Hello everyone! I'm up on the Paper Issues blog today with the December Roll the Dice challenge. It's a bittersweet one for me, as this is my last one. I'm moving to a teeny tiny tropical island, so I have to push the pause button when it comes to scrapbooking. But no worries, the Roll the Dice challenge wil stay for sure!

Of course I'm not making it an easy last one, because after all it's a challenge! :-) This month you need to use 5 pictures on your layout and 4 different types of alphas. So this is the time to finally use your hoarded Thickers and alpha stickers.

For my layout I used the Shimelle Go Now Go collection to document these pictures taken on the island that will be my home in a view weeks.

I hope you'll play along with us. You can link up your layout overhere in our challenge album for your chance to win.

Thank you for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Paper Issues - Cut it Up Saturday

Hello everyone! Today I'm up on the Paper Issues blog with the Cut it Up challenge. You can grab this file for FREE overhere in the store and link up your projects made with it overhere in our challenge album for your chance to win.

Also, we're having our Fall Crop going on in the Paper Issues Friends & Fans facebook group this weekend. 

We would love to see you there!

I cut the file on white cardstock and stamped words on the outside borders. I backed the cut file with a patterned paper with mountains to match the picture, which was taken on a hike on Saba last month. All papers and embellishments are from the Pink Paislee Outfitters collection.

Thank you for stopping by today and have a creative day!

Roll the Dice

Hello everyone! Today I'm up on the Paper Issues blog with a new Roll the Dice challenge. This month it's not a tough one like last month: two pictures and two pieces of wood veneer (any wooden embellishment). Other than that you can use anything you want. For your chance to win you can link up your projects overhere in our challenge album. 

For my layout I used the Shimelle Go Now Go collection to document these two pictures taken on a hike on Saba last month. This collection has some gorgeous wooden buttons, which I used two of to complete this challenge.

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day!

Paper Issues - Roll the Dice

Hello everyone! I'm up on the Paper Issues blog today with the Roll the Dice challenge. I hope you enjoyed this new challenge last month and that you will join us again this time. You can link up your projects for this challenge overhere in our challenge album.

This month the dices are not making it easy, you can definitely call it a challenge. The first dice is for the amount of pictures, which is 6. The second dice is for the amount of stickers you can use, which is 3. This can be any kind of stickers: chipboard, cardstock, puffy, thickers etc. You can find a video of the rolling dices overhere.

For my layout I used the Shimelle Go Now Go collection and as you can see you can perfectly use it for non traveling pics too. These pictures were taken last March when I was at the Crop on the Cape with some girls of the PI Design Team. We had the best of time and took some fun pics using props.

Thank you for stopping by today and have a great day!