Crowabout week43

Wow, this is great, I got 2 days off, my nephew went with his parents for a trip, and I locked myself in my room and started playing today, boy, did that feel GREAT!

A couple of weeks ago I bought this great book by Kelly Rae Roberts, Taking Flight, full of inspiration, techniques and more fun stuff. I haven't read in it much, but wanted to make the cover of my Taking Flight journal, and for that I've used sheets by CrowAbout, gosh, those are great and so much fun to play with!

This is what I've made, used some scrappapers, most by Basic Grey, added pieces of old textbooks and music sheets, painted over them and started glueing my collage together. This weeks sheet is used, but also pieces of sheets from weeks before! Love the fact that you can combine everything and it just fits together!

Honestly, I can't wait to start with my 1st page, but I have to read more in the book first, and starting this coming Friday we have 3 instead of 1 people staying here, look forward to that, but that means I'll have less time playing around with paint, ink and other fun stuff!! But hey, at least I did something creative, which hasn't happened for a while!

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great day!

Little blog break

Just a short post to let you all now I'm still here, but not much at the computer!

At this moment our nephew from Holland is staying here for 3 weeks, so I'm pretty busy with other things than crafting... actually, I haven't done a thing in 1.5 week..... Doesn't matter, that will come again!

Also I haven't visited your blogs in a while, I hope I will find some time soon.... but if I can't make it, please forgive me, I will make it up after they've left!

In the meanwhile, enjoy the weather, I've heard it's very nice and warm in Holland, don't know about the rest of the world, but.... have fun in the sun where ever you are and I hope to be back and crafting in about 2 weeks!

Two Graduates!

Wednesdaynight my youngest daughter graduated from Elementary School......

Isn't she just gorgeous? Even got two awards!! Honourroll for an average of more than 80% and a math award... I'm so proud right now!!

And Thursdaynight my oldest daughter graduated from High School.....

And yes, she's gorgeous too! I'm very proud of her, making it to getting her diploma in 3 years, in a new country, with a new language, it wasn't easy! But, she did it!!

Graduations and....oops, some creativity!!

We've got a busy week ahead here! Two graduations... oh boy my girls are getting older and older, when did that happen??

This girl, Anouk, graduates from Elementary school tomorrow.... with gown and all the picture was taken about 2 months ago, but they don't have to wear them during the ceremonies. Just another nice dress and some high heels... accessories, make-up, and she's done! Hope my camera's working, so I can show you pictures of the event later this week!

And this one, Marloes, graduates from highschool Thursday! And they have to wear the gown and cap stuff, oh my gosh, that's going to be so awesome! I'm so proud of them both! 3 Years in Canada, doing great, speaking English like they never learned anything else, having lots of friends......

I think I better take lots of tissues with me the two coming nights!

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And yes.... I made some stuff!!! At one of the Yahoo groups I'm a member of, there's a different technique every month and this month it's seredipity!

I've made this ATC

And this birthday card for my great-aunt with that technique, and I think they turned out nice!


Another birthday card, made it yesterday..... don't look mom, be patient!!!


With this ATC I had so much fun, clear embossing, sponging with ink, stamping.... and that great bee-woman.... love it if I may say so myself:-)


A couple of weeks ago I showed you a 4x4 canvas I'd made, and it was time to give her a little sister, so I made this one! And now they're hanging together in my scraproom, looks great!

Thanks for stopping by again and have a great day!

Creativity.......not really from me!

I still don't know what happened to my MoJo, but it's so gone..... on the other hand, the weather has been great the last couple of days, so I actually don't mind! Love to sit outside on the deck, enjoy the sun and read.... another hobby of mine!

And, if we are outside, we love to make everything look a little nicer and more colorfull. So, Saturday we decided to finally make a nice border outside the back basement. All the grass and mudd that was there didn't make my windows look better, so... of we went and bougth some nice white marble stones and Henk started to take grass out and make the ground a bit level. Hard work, cause it was kind of warm:-)

This is how it looks now!

Sunday my neighbour told me that one of the garden centres had a great sale going on, 50% off of everything.. Wow, it would have been so nice to be able to spend about $ 1000.-- now... men, would we have bought a lot! But.... no leftover money here, so we bought this great Dracena, nice for outside in the Summer and in the Winter we just put it inside!

All these nice colorfull fluffy plants were so cheap, 48 for 10 bucks! Don't you just love the orange, red and yellow? Well I do!

And we also planted some veggies a couple of weeks ago, see that little tomatoe... oh yummy, that's going to be so nice in a salad!
And yeah,...... a strawberry, boy do I love those!! Wonder how much we get, cause the rabbits love them too, that's why they are protected now!

We are also groing green beens, cucumbers, zuccini's, radish and we even have a blueberrie plant! So, lots of creativity going on outside!!

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Marloes had to do a project for her English exam, she could choose from a couple of things, as long as it had to do with the book they'd read "Of Mice and Men" She chose to make the barn and spent several days making it look nice!!

Here are some pictures!

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Some work from me, some work from others!

Last Friday, June 5, hubby and I had our 22nd Anniversary and I made him this card!

Just to let him know, he still holds the key to my heart! And guess what.... he loved it!(and me too LOL)

This gorgeous card I got from Conny, the owner of Kicostampers I just became a member of! Every month they have a technique challenge and just to make sure I would try it out too, she sent me some embossingpowder, with this gorgeous card!



A Summerswap was organized at Stamping Fantasy , great fun to do, and look at the lovely ATC's I got back! The one with the Eifeltower on it is my own,the others I received! Don't you just wanna go on a holiday if you see that?

Ineke and I had a personal ATC trade, I sent her my "who caught who?" (showed in an earlier post) and she sent me....... these 3 just because........ Well I love them all, specially the Blond Amsterdam, Jeanet, don't you love this eiter???



Well, that's it again, can't help it, it looks like all the MoJo has taken a flight to a better place.... and left me alone and desperate looking for ideas! So hopefully I can show more of my own creativity in a next post!





Oh, coming Wednesday we have a Sports Banquet at Marloes' school.... and from very reliable sources I've heard that she's going to get an award for MIP...(most improved player)! And I'm so proud of her, my poor girl, she's walking on cruches for over 2 weeks now, cause she injured her knee at the soccer finals 2,5 weeks ago! Her knee popped and we still don't know if the tendans are just sprained or torn... she's having physiotherapie now and they want her to go for a MRI, just to be sure nothing is torn inside that knee. Hopefully that won't take too long, but.... I've heard that can take months.... Boy, she doesn't háve months, it's almost Summer holidays!
Anyway I better charge my batteries, so I can take some pictures, if that's possible at all!



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Two canvasses and an ATC trade.

I've been doing some creative stuff this past week, made this cute little 4x4 canvas.

Used Broken Chine crackle paint (Ranger) on the canvas, the little girl and wings are by Lisa's altered Art and so are the words. The flower comes from my stash and the bling brad is from the Dollarama. The stamp on the bottom is by Autumn Leaves, didn't work out quite the way I wanted it to, but hey, it looks kind of vintagy!

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This canvas I made for the black and white challenge for June at wijDUS, didn't mean to but realized I could use it cause the picture is black and white!

The man in the picture is my great-great-grandfather, who worked at the American Hotel in Amsterdam. I've reseized and printed out a newspaper clip (1927) which has a drawing in it, made by an artist who couldn't pay the bill and did that by making this drawing for my great grandfather. I so love the stories behind the pictures!

On the canvas are 3 colors of crackle paint, musicpaper and a bookpage, stamps by Inka stamps and Gel-a-tins. The letterstickers are by Karen Foster, and the corners bought at the Dollarama.

Here are some close-ups.

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At Stamping Fantasy there is an ATC tradegroup, and we trade ATC's every month. I just started last month, but I love this! Eventhough I don't have much stamps yet, I try to make the best of it!

The top row are the ATC's I've made for Jeanette, the bottom row are the ones she made for me! Aren't they gorgeous?

Ok, that's it for this post, have a great day and thanks for stopping by again!