Scraptastic 2010

This weekend I went to Scraptastic!! What a fantastic event. We stayed there for the weekend and did lots of awesome workshops. On Saturday I did a workshop by Birgit Koopsen and Nathalie Kalbach. On Sunday I did again 2 workshops. This time by Evelien Verschelde and Birgit Koopsen.

Thanks, Hobbyfarm, for this amazing event. Can't wait till next year.

Our bedroom

Some snacks

Birgit Koopsen

Playing with alcohol inkt

Working hard

My partner in crime: Daphné

Nathalie Kalbach

Workshop by Nathalie Kalbach

Me and Nathalie

Ironing and ...

even sewing!

Sketchy Thursdays

I am totally in love with the sketches at Sketchy Thursdays. This is the sketch of this week:

And this is what I made with it:

While we were on vacation in Djerba, we saw people selling all kinds of stuff on the beach. Made a layout about them.

Numbers

Our challenge this week is to use numbers. You can use them in your title, your paper choice, embellishments, ... Everything is perfect!
Don't forget to use at least 1 stamp too.

Our sponsor this week is:
The winner gets 3 cut files of their choice.

I made this page for the challenge. Sorry for the bad picture but the light wasn't very good that day ;-(



You can find the other pages on http://scrapandstampsaturday.blogspot.com

New challenge

A new challenge at the Scrap and Stamp blog (http://scrapandstampsaturday.blogspot.com)
Our sponsor this week is:
This time,we have another sketch made by our talented Paola:

I made a page about the lighthouse at the island Djerba, Tunesia. Sorry for the bad picture but it was already dark outside when I took it.

Enjoy the weekend!

Busy, busy, busy

The start of the new schoolyear is always very busy for me as I'm a teacher in grade 3 (age 7 - 8 years). That's also why I didn't post any new layouts .

Last Sunday we needed some US-time so Eric and I went to the coast for a look walk on the pier.

Meet ...

this new member of the family. I created this little rabbit for my sister. Her rabbit died two weeks ago and I wanted to give her something to cheer her up. This one will live forever so she won't have to be sad. It was the first time I used my sewing machine to create a stuffed animal and I absolutly loved it. There will be more animals soon ;-)

Buttons

This weeks challenge is to create your own buttons. You can find all the information and tutorial on the blog: http://scrapandstampsaturday.blogspot.com/



I made this page. You can see my father-in-law opening his christmas present. I used the sketch of Sketchy Thursdays.

Tomorrow is my birthday!!!! I'm so looking forward to it. My sister who lives 2 hours away from us is coming over to celebrate. Can't wait to see her again.

Another bag

My grandmother asked me if I wanted to make her a handbag. As most of you know, I recently started sewing. My grandmother gave me her sewing machine (from the '70s) and now, I'm always surfing the net for cute tutorials.

What do you think? Will she like it?

In a local 'sewing shop' I ordered these name labels. I chose the name 'Sollie Wollie' as my best friend and my sister always call me like that. The little image on the label is a sewing machine ;-)

Enjoy the weekend!

Love

The challenge this week is to create a page about something that you love. It can be anything at all. It doesn't matter if it's silly, funny or even serious. We can't wait to see what you come up with. And as always: don't forget to use at least one stamp!!!

The sponsor this week is:
http://laurettasdigitalstamps.blogspot.com/
The winner will receive some digis of their choice. So go quickly to her blog and have a look!

Since a few weeks I'm totally in love with Vitamin Water. I don't know if you have it in your country but it's in Belgium since a few months.

Oh yes, this is the link again to the blog of scrap and stamp saturday: http://scrapandstampsaturday.blogspot.com

Sketch

Yes, it's saturday again and that means another challenge at http://scrapandstampsaturday.blogspot.com/



This week you can win a prize from this fantastic scrapbook brand:

All you have to do is make a layout with the sketch:

I created this one:

Enjoy the weekend!

2 page layout challenge

Hi everyone,

Here is the next challenge at http://scrapandstampsaturday.blogspot.com
We want you to create a 2 page layout and ofcourse you need to use a stamp too.

The price this week is a gift certificat for this shop!
I created a page about our vacation in Djerba almost 2 years ago.

Have fun creating!

Transformation ;-)

I was in a shop when I saw this lovely baby t-shirt. There were sales and I only paid 0,50 euro!!! I fell in love with the print on it. Then, suddenly, I got an idea. I rushed to the 'Veritas' where they sell zippers and I bought a flashy pink zipper. When I got home, I ran to my sewing machine and ....

This is the result! A little purse for my pocket camera. The lining inside is pink like the zipper is pink too.

Do you remember the layout in my last post? The one with the pancakes? I was one of the favourites at the Sketchy Thursday webblog!!! I was so thrilled when I saw my layout posted on their site. Thanks a lot, Sketchy Thursday, love you!

Sketchy Thursdays

I'm totally in love with the sketches at Sketchy Thursdays (http://sketchythursdays.blogspot.com)

This is the sketch of this week:

And this is what I made with it:

On the picture you can see the cook that made pancakes every day during tea time while we were in Djerba in 2008.

Buttons + award

Here I am again with the new challenge at http://scrapandstampsaturday.blogspot.com/
This week we want you to use buttons on your layout. Sounds easy, isn't it? Hope you all participate and show us a lovely layout using buttons. Can't wait to see what you came up with.

This week we have a new sponsor, Jillibean Soup!! The winner of this challenge receives this wonderful prize:

This is what I made this week. It's a picture that I took when we were in Tunesia almost 2 years ago!

And for the Dutch speaking readers of my blog:

Ik kreeg deze award van Viv (http://vivscrapaholic.blogspot.com/)

Bedankt, Viv;-)

De wereld van bloggers is verbazingwekkend. Door 't bloggen heb ik vrienden gemaakt en plaatsen bezocht waar ik anders nooit gekomen zou zijn. Vriendelijkheid en medeleven is wat ik ervaar als ik er kom.Ik hoop dan ook dat deze award weer wordt doorgegeven, net als ik nu doe aan:

Ik geef de award aan: Daphné, Birgit Koopsen en Mandy!

Baywatch

Here I am with another layout! I used this weeks sketch at http://sketchythursdays.blogspot.com

Last night I sewed another handbag. I'll post some pics soon.

Handmade

My grandmother gave me her sewing machine. I think it's more than 40 years old but it still works. I read the instructions and tried if it still works and it did. So I started searching the internet for patterns of handbags. I found a very nice one at http://www.ottobredesign.com

The next day I went to the shop and bought some nice fabrics and started sewing. This is how it turned out. What do you think about it????

I'm really into sewing right now so I already bought some new fabrics for another bag. If any of you have some nice patterns of websites with patterns of handbags, please let me know!! You would make me sooooooooooooooo happy.

Enjoy the weekend!

love, Isolde

New challenge

Hi everyone,
Here I am again. I'm enjoying very hot summer weather here in Belgium. I love it a lot but the only negative thing about it is that I'm not in the mood for scrapping. I have tons of ideas but I can't create. Frustrating!!!

I forced myself to scrap wednesday evening and I had so much fun. I made a layout for the new challenge at http://scrapandstampsaturday.blogspot.com

This week you can win 2 digis of your choice from this sponsor:


I hope you all play along with us and use this sketch for this week. Our talented member Paola designed this sketch.

This is what I did with the sketch.

So, grap your stuff and create a layout with this wonderful sketch. Leave a link at the website of SSS and maybe you'll win!

Still alive

I'm so sorry for not posting the past weeks. Life has been busy around here. Two days ago was the last schoolday before summer holidays. It was superbusy with meetings with the parents and getting all the stuff ready for the end of the schoolyear. I'm having 2 months summer holidays right now but that doesn't mean that I don't have to work. Yesterday and today I need to visit the parents of the kids that will be in my class next year. I want to work a bit ahead for next year too.

All of this nees to be done in very hot weather. We will have 37°C today. It's too hot to sit outside.