The life of a Dutch scrapper

Happy Mother's day!

Today we celebrate all mothers. Being a mom isn't easy, at least for me it isn't. We as moms have to arrange almost everything in our household and besides that we also have to work, part-time or full-time, keep the house clean, buy gifts for parties, makes sure that everything goes according to plan and everyone is where he needs to be on time. Everything falls apart when we are sick, so we can't be sick, there is no time for :)

My kids made me the most beautiful presents, which I think are ALWAYS the best ever!
DH took me out to get some new shoes and clothes to take with me to Italy the end of this month :)
This morning Anthony woke me up EARLY!!! to wish me a happy mother's day. I said thank you sweetie, now get back to bed and return when it is a decent time....which he did, pweh!

We were on the beach at 9 am and it already started to get busy. We put so much sun lotion on ourselves that we didn't got burned...although we didn't get a real tan either :(
But we had a great time. In the end we went for an ice-cream and I could swear I paid with 50 Euro(thinking I wanted to break the money so I would have some change in my wallet) the woman who had made my ice-creams gave me back 1,50 to make it 10 Euro. So I said to her, i do like you but not THAT much. I gave you 50, so you still owe me 40 Euro. She said: No you gave me 10 Euro. I looked in my wallet again to see if I was mistaken, if the 50 Euro was still in there...which it wasn't . So I said: No sorry I did give you 50 Euro. She started to talk loud and nasty to me, so i said Ooooooooo.k ..and I turned around to the man that came to see what all her shouting was about....and let her talk to the air and said to him: I want you to call me after you counted all your money tonight. If there is 40 euro above what you had to make I want to be called. I explained to him what happened. I was still calm. I said to the man I was talking to that I didn't appreciated to be talked to like that by her and that I didn't think this was normal behavior for someone to treat a customer this way, to talk to a customer this way. Than the woman said: Well that you do not own any money, that is not my fault! She was still shouting and it was very crowded with people. I turned to the her and said: I so want to trow this ice-cream now right into your face, you hysterical PEEEEEEEEEEEP. she stood there and said: Well go ahead, what are you waiting for!!! tempting tempting.......VEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRy tempting, but I controlled myself although I REALLY wanted to trow her the ice-cream right into her face. I again turned to the man I was talking to who wrote down my phone number, and said to him, do you really think this is normal!!!? still thinking he was the boss and I was in shock that he didn't said anything to her, just nothing! Than some man also started to get into the conversation all agitated. And I said well whatever I do not expect a call from you even if I was right. I turned around....and what do I do? I start crying. I HATE IT WHEN I DO THAT, HATE IT!!! I have one problem all my life and that is that I feel very small when I have the feeling that someone isn't taking me serious. I did however made sure that SHE couldn't see me crying, that would had made her day.

When we got back Home the phone rang. It was the last man that came into the conversation. He was the boss, not the older man. He apologized and he wanted me to return my money without checking if it was right or wrong. I told him I appreciated that but that it wasn't at all for me about the money, but the way that woman behaved to me which was totally not acceptable to do. He also said that I was right and it should never had happened. He was making sure someone was bringing the money to my home tonight. By this telephone call I again felt that I was taking serious.

In the late afternoon we went to see my mom and I gave her this:










This wall-hanger was so fast and easy to make! I mostly used the Trendsetter Collection from SIStv. I cut the Prima Paintable in 4 pieces and used some purple watercolor that was in the kit on it. Glued the pieces on Chipboard and cut holes in them on top and at the bottom with my crop-a-dille.  Later I made it one piece by putting ribbon through the holes, so it could hang.
After I added text(LOVE the this Alphabet from Prima as well!) and glued down the photo's and other embellishments i finished it off with some touches of glitter!

My Mom loved it!

Here is my wedding card for Maya Road:



Hope you all had a great day!

corinnexxx

OMG! I am packing my bags

and I will be in Italy teaching at the Paper and Co show end of this month in Naples!!!!!!

I am replacing Shannon Tidwell who can't come due to her pregnancy. So for the last 2 days I have been stuck behind my computer to get all the sponsorship done for my workshops, stressful, but it turned out OK. I will be teaching 3 different classes, 2 lo's and 2 mini-albums. Sponsors are Maya Road, SIStv, American Crafts and Hambly. I love Italy and I have never been to Naples before so I just can't wait.

Made this lo with the Boy Story papers of cherryArte:

It is in dutch and these photo;s were taken at Anthony's birthday party where they unexpectedly went carting. He was scared at first, but after one slow round he only went faster and faster and even became the winner of the group.

OK I have to go to get some work done here, hope your day was great too :)

Corinnexxx

creating again.

First of all do not forget to send me a link to your lo if you did my challenge lo to win an awesome goodiebox from me. what challenge...this challenge! you have till Friday people!

I promised you some of my creations with the Trendsetter Collection from SISTV, so here you go :)

A lo about this photo that I love so much of jadenn, although it isn't a sharp photo.

A card

Had to scrap the famous finger photo right ?!

And I made this one with the new Hipster collection from SIStv that will be released SOOOOON!

And check out THIS card I made with Maya Road products.

Ok enough for one day right?

Corinnexxx

OMG!

I just got 4 tickets on JUNE 7th to see:

Derek Ogilvie! I love this man and what he does, he is really, really good and I have been wanting to see him for a long time now so I am over the moon happy to have tickets, yeah!

Corinnexxx

And again

we have to deal with sickness in our household, this time it is Jadenn who has the 5th child disease. I thought it was the chicken pox but wasn't so sure today so I called the doctor and she said to what she was hearing from me that it sounded like he had the 5th child disease. I also checked some websites and I am pretty sure that this is what he has. He has fever and it is also very contagious. Aaaah so nice to sit at home, inside all day when it is really sunny and hot and another child that is bored out of his mind and wants to do stuff, but mommy can't go with him....sigh, sigh, sigh....this is going to be a long week.

NSD went by so fast that I didn't even find any time Saturday to scrap....shocker! But Sunday night I did play along with Jo-Anne's challenge and I managed to make this lo:

And this lo was for my first challenge:

Ok what else...uhm...Oh yeah my scraproom...it is getting there, it is getting there. So far the ground is almost empty and so are a lot of boxes on my shelf...actually all of them!!! I think I am going to store photo's in them. But most of all I have a desk again! yeah! I got my Trendsetter collection from SIStv and I just started creating tonight but I almost finished two lo's already, I LOVE this kit! so I will upload these tomorrow.

Ok off to scrap!

corinnexxx

Happy NSD!

I got out of my bed by 4 am since I was awake a whole hour, just lying in my bed....excited much you think :)

Edited'***: Just had my 3 hourly challenges and it was so much fun!!!! Thanks to the girls who joined me in these hours.

If you are still interested to join this is possible till midnight on Sunday:

Challenge one: Piece of me
Challenge two: Sketch it
Challenge three: Scrap your idol

For challange 2 goes that you still can get published with your lo, you also have till Sunday evening to finish it :)

Make sure that you link your creations to the right threads!

If you participate in all 6 of my challenges this Saturday and Sunday you also get a change to win this package: Tinkering Ink Set + 3 SIStv Gaffer Tapes! you have until Sunday night to post your finished challenge LO's to win this prize

Or...

If you participate in all 3 challenges this Saturday or the 3 of Sunday you also get a change to win a package of the new cherryArte, so post a link to all three threads to your lo.(will pick a winner for the Saturday Challenges and one for the Sunday Challenges).

Tomorrow I will be hosting from 1 am and will end at 4 am(8 tot 11 uur) see you there!

Corinnexxx

Tutorial

You know how much I love the OLW challenges right? So this tutorial is a lo based on the last word Grow. But I also wanted to challenge myself not to use a photo on this lo.

What you need:
cherryArte:
Cosmic Energy - Milky Way(suite 5)
Kitty Lou - Girl Gossip(suite 5)
Tropics - Lime Zig Zag(suite 3)
Chipboard Alpha 1

Other:
White Cardstock
Computerfont(Arial)
A cute image
K&Company Berry Sweet Icons Stickers
Ranger Alcohol Ink 'Lettuce'
Ink Blending tool
Tiny brads American Crafts
Prima Flowers

Step 1:
Print journaling on a piece of 8,5 x 11 inch white cardstock like this:


Step 2:
Take the ' Girl Gossip'paper and cut a tree by hand with your scissors. If you don't feel you can do that you can also draw a tree on the back of the paper and cut it out. Do not glue the tree down yet.


Step 3:
Also cut by hand a halve circle, as the sun that goes down under. Before you stick that down make sure it fits with the tree. When it does, stick it down and you might have to cut a little from the side.



Step 4:
Glue down the tree

Step 5:
Cut a piece of 8,5 x 0,7 inch of the 'Lime Zig Zag' paper. Make from this little piece grass to place on the bottom of the tree. Do this by making little cuts vertically all along the paper. When it is done curl them a bit. When you're done glue it on the bottom of the page.



Step 6:
Find a cute image. If it is too big, scan it in and print it out a smaller size on white cardstock. Glue the image in the middle of the bottom of the tree.



Step 7:
Next up is making the title, which is 'I have grown'. Take the alcohol ink 'Lettuce' and put some of it on the blending tool. The chipboard Alphabet from cherryArte works really well with the Alcohol ink since the Alphabet is already white. This makes the colors pop more than it on normal chipboard would. Stamp softly on the letters.



Step 8:
Press the letters out and glue them on the lay-out.


Step 9:
Now finish the lay-out by adding stickers and small flowers and brads.


Now you're done :)
Hope you like it, be gentle since this is my first tutorial.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, I want to challenge you to do the same as I have, make a lo inspired by the word Grow and by my tutorial...so this includes no photo's! Show me your creations by linking it up under this post. You have till next Friday and the winner will get a box of scrapbooking supplies, promise I make it worth your while :)

Corinnexxx

Maya road, house cleaning and NSD

Maya Road has a new website! Go check it out, I think they did such a good job! I have been playing around with their stuff but I can't show anything yet, but their products rocked my socks of since not everything they made is availably in the Netherlands.

You probably know by now I am seriously cleaning and sorting out the stuff in my whole house right? Well the last big obstacle was my scraproom. If you have seen the photo's (photo-album on the right) of it, well....it looked like that for a week...tops. I literally had to hop over things to get to my chair.




My desk....what? is it a desk? yes pitifully right? actually it is even worse irl, BUT not anymore! I have cleaned it out many of times before, like I did with my house, but the difference this time around is that I now know how to do this....organizing things, sorting things out, doing stuff away. So that is what I have been doing since yesterday afternoon and so far all the boxes on my shelves are empty!!! I already know what I am going to put in them though and that will be photo's. I have 2 huge boxes of photo's to sort out....that will be my last task....no...last task is to sort my computer out, make back-ups, but OK, you get the point.

Oh even have a found a space for my vintage items(see post below)! When I am done with the whole room I will update you with pics of course :)

NSD-this Saturday at SIStv, be there when the party starts at 12 AM SIS-time, which is.....7 o´clock in the morning here in the Netherlands!! Yes I know early, BUT I am starting this party off for 3 hours filled with challenges, games and lots of chatting, oh and did I tell ya about the prizes yet? No? Well LOTS of prizes will be given away during the whole day, LOTS! So set your alarm clock or stay up late and join me!!! what a bout the kids I hear you, well what about them? a good dvd won't do them harm hehe! Claim your scrapping time, it is only NSD for one day!

Corinnexxx

PS: be sure to check in tomorrow for a tutorial I am now working on for cherryArte :)

Score!!!!

Today it is Queensday in the Netherlands, a national holliday. It started last evening at 6 pm. By that time the people could sell their stuff on the streets, which mostly is done in the centre of the city. I went to have a look because I never went the evening before Queensday and it was already crowded with people! I didn't see a lot of the stuff being sold though since I was so happy to find this huge suitcase:

And in it were 2 HUGE books that were actually old newspapers(a year edition) that were binded into two books.


Told you it was HUGE!
 
One was from 1919 and the other one from 1930. I nearly peeded my pants when I saw them! I took the suitcase as well because no way I could carry it otherwise, but it was worth the hernia. So no looking around for me anymore....and I was just there! Back to the badmobile and on my way home again to show DH what I found. He just let out a deep sigh and was shaking his head. Well.... anyway it makes MY heart sing and that is all that matters :)

This morning we got up around 6.30 and went away into the city with the kids to see if we could score some more items. I was looking for vintage stuff, which I always have a hard time finding, but I guess it was my lucky day because this is what I came home with :)

Couldn't resist this little owl.

Gorgeous lace

Love the colors of this tin

LOVE the colors and design on this tin

Adore this!

Cuuuuute!

I think this is the BEST score of the day since it was Sooooooooooo cheap and so much! A whole bunch a vintage cards, I am in love ...seriously!
Here is a close up:


Old card games , also with vintage images on them, love the coca cola one!

The one thing not vintage but actually new :) are these socks.

Loved this image and this is an image from inside:


More old books



And last but not least this package:

Which is old music paper, YEAH!


My DH doesn't understand that I want to buy this stuff, he thought I was busy cleaning out the house, getting rid of things, but come on...could you resist this :)

Corinnexxx.....of to find a place to put it all...yikes!

The Trend Setter - Off the Runway Collection April 2008!

This is an image from the new collection at SISTV called Trend Setter and Although purple scares me, I know I can't wait to scrap with this. I never scrapped with the color purple until cherryArte made a line with the color purple. Let me tell you that the mini-album that I made with that line is the best mini-album I have ever made...to my opinion :)
So again I will get out of my comfortzone with this kit, but I am sure I will love it :)...just look at that alphabet, yum!

Finished a few things on my to do list although I am still not done and probably never will be hehe.
I did say no to a few things so I am proud of myself for doing that, since I always say yes too soon. I guess it is because I would love to do it all, but I have to think about not getting so much extra stress on my shoulders each month.

OOOH this Saterday is National Scrapbooking Day(NSD)! and I will be hosting a few morning hours on SISTV with lots of prizes and fun challenges and ofcourse a LOT of chatting! I will give more information about this soon, because I expect you to be there, rise and shine :)
And the best part is, SIS can't just do it one day, nope, also the fun will continue on Sunday :)

Don't think I showed this one yet. Was published in MM in January:


Corinnexxx