Posted in Inspiration, Projects on Nov 16th, 2009
Today is the first day of Jessica’s class Holidays in hand. I got all the stuff done basically, so I’m pretty happy.
* Write down goals for this Christmas season – check
I created a nice wordle which I might be able to use later on in the class, not sure yet, but I will definitely [...]
Posted in Freebies, Inspiration, Layouts on Nov 8th, 2009
On Nina’s blog there is a little inspiration game going on. Go, play and maybe win a 10$ GC for her shop at Oscraps. She provides a great quickpage to start with, too.
This is what I came up with. I really don’t like to see those guys hanging around like this.
Credits: Quickpage: [...]
Posted in Chat, Inspiration, Projects on Nov 3rd, 2009
I know, my scrapbooking activities leave a lot to be desired these days. So maybe this will get me back into the swing of things. Jessica Sprague offers a free class “Holidays in Hands” where you create a December album project. Jessica’s classes are awesome, I know this from “Digi in deep” which I took [...]
Posted in Inspiration on Dec 30th, 2008
Taylor Made Designs has an incredible tutorial for a layout with floating photos on her blog. It uses an action by Panos. I’ve had this action and various others by him for a long time but never thought to use it in the way that the tutorial does. It is absolutely fabulous. Head on over [...]
Posted in Chat, Inspiration on Sep 21st, 2008
Oh, miracle. An email I received yesterday caused me to totally update my homepage today. The looks are still the same, but the links are all checked, deleted if necessary, new ones were added etc. I’m so proud of myself, LOL. I added a few interesting links that I talked about on this blog, like [...]
Posted in Family, Inspiration on Jul 27th, 2008
Big Picture Scrapbooking offers a free class once more. It is called Getting Started: 10 Summer Photos To Take Right NOW!
It is not a big thing, but just some inspiration in form of an audio message and a handout. Quite good to get your summer photography up and running.
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Our garden is [...]
Posted in Fun, Inspiration on Jul 21st, 2008
I was having a look at DST the other day and found this link posted by hummie. Wordle.net is the coolest thing ever – especially for scrapbooking. Just enter words, a URL from which to draw the words or a delicious user name to draw the tags from (I suppose the tags, I haven’t tried [...]
Posted in Inspiration on Jul 9th, 2008
My scrapbooking mojo has gone (not for good I hope, I so want to scrap our photos and make another yearbook, but I just can’t), but my bag insert mojo is still up and running. Two inserts came in the mail today, the one I showed you the other day and this one:
I used this [...]
Posted in Family, Inspiration on Jun 29th, 2008
The bouncy castle was a roaring success today. Corin was totally excited when we blew it up and he and Sean had a blast with it.
It is rather small – that is probably why it was so inexpensive – but it is big enough for our two boys. They loved it.
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I can say I’m [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Layouts on May 24th, 2008
Sue Cummings is the Designer Spotlight over at Oscraps and has an awesome freebie and a challenge for us. I only heard about it this morning, so I whipped up a page really quick. A few pics from our last vacation in the UK.
Credits: Template and wordart: sue Cummings
Font: Century Gothic
Number stamps: my own
Posted in Inspiration, Projects on May 2nd, 2008
Today the quote album arrived here. I’m amazed at the speed. It turned out beautifully. Just the right size to carry around, due to the (not quite) clear plastic cover it is quite sturdy and it looks great. Here are a couple of pictures – sorry I took them with a small camera and without [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Layouts on Apr 30th, 2008
I finished my quote album – thank God! I looked for a service to have it bound into a little book, and only two days ago I fund one that I liked and that was reasonably priced. I thought about the Shutterfly brag book (horrendous postage), the CEWE rectangle photo book (upload didn’t work for [...]
Posted in Creative Teams, Freebies, Inspiration on Apr 18th, 2008
Want to get a free template, crap it and win? Head on over to Nina’s CT G.R.I.N. blog and snatch the template. You might win a GC to Nina’s store at Oscraps.
Here is my layout I did with it:
Credits: Background: Brushed metal basic paper by Rikkiscraps – Round background paper: Every day – paper on [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Layouts on Apr 12th, 2008
Have you seen Sue Cummings’ contest over at Oscraps? I was looking at her scrap apple inspirational wordart the other day and decided to enter. I bought her set for week 8 and got my page done yesterday. I killed two birds with one stone, because I created the page with a template I made [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Poetry & quotes on Apr 6th, 2008
In today’s mail we got a little freebie, a journaling card by Jan Crowley. Jessica suggested to use it for our favorite quote and stick it up. So I came up with this. I’ll take it to work tomorrow and stick it up by my computer…..
Credits: Brushes: Maya, Fonts: Travelling typewriter, Excellentia in excelsis
Posted in Altered objects, Inspiration, Layouts, current news on Mar 26th, 2008
I managed to get a spot in Jessica Sprague’s new Digi: in deep class. I got up really early to register – and thank God I did, because the class is full already. Can’t wait to get started and see what Jessica has in store for us.
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For the ADSR I got an awesome layout done. [...]
Posted in Chat, Inspiration, Layouts on Mar 1st, 2008
I posted my new ad challenge at Polka Dot Potato today. Check it out! Here is my layout for it:
Credits: Photograph: from the net; Papers: Vera Lim; Photo edge: Ninascraps; grid overlay and edge overlay: mine; Fonts: X-Files, Hootie; Haiku: Issa, Quote: Mark Strand
Now that I have a nother look at the page I [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Paper, Polka Dot Potato on Feb 17th, 2008
Yes, over at the Shakerbox there is a President’s Day crop going on with loads of challenges, and one of them was an explosion card. What on earth is an explosion card? Tilda posted a very easy tutorial for making one. So I decided to get my (few) paper supplies out and give it a [...]
Posted in Books, Inspiration, Poetry & quotes on Feb 16th, 2008
On my igoogle page today’s quote of the day is:
"Books are ships which pass through the vast sea of time."
by Francis Bacon.
In German that would be:
„Bücher sind Schiffe, welche die weiten Meere der Zeit durcheilen.“
Now, doesn’t that call for a special book page? I think so. I’ll keep this in mind [...]
Posted in Inspiration on Feb 2nd, 2008
In the new Scrapjazz newsletter is a link to a short quiz to determine your journaling voice. Quite interesting to read and mayne helpful for scrappers who are still a bit shy about the journaling part. Finding your voice…
Posted in Inspiration, Layouts on Jan 13th, 2008
In the last Scrapjazz newsletter there was the link to an interesting article with some ideas about how to use bold or unusual color schemes. Very helpful tips, maybe they will come in handy one day. I’m all into colorful these days. And speaking of colorful, here is yesterday’s page:
Credits: Template: Pattie Knox; Papers: Storytime; [...]
Posted in Books, Inspiration, Projects on Dec 30th, 2007
Thanks to Michele from The Shakerbox who pointed me into the direction of The Big Picture today I am now looking forward to two new projects.
First I registerd for the "Get a load of this!" workshop. For one month I’ll create a layout every day. Lain will give prompts, or rather helpful suggestions, but everybody [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Layouts on Dec 28th, 2007
I have followed Valgal’s 25 days of Christmas PAD project and it was so much fun. The last few prompts came sort of late for me, so I just snapped whatever I felt like. All the pics I have now used to create a 2-pager about our advent 2007. I used Christine Borgfeld’s awesome colorblocks [...]
Posted in Inspiration on Dec 5th, 2007
and it looks awesome. Really, it is much better than I thought it would be. This was such a bargain, I must get at least one voucher for another one. They are good until June next year, that gives me plenty of time to do one.
Here it is IRL:
Credits: Paper – Artsmock & Grid [...]
Posted in Inspiration on Dec 2nd, 2007
Valerie has an awesome photo project on her blog, the "25 Days of Christmas PAD". A photo a day will turn into a lovely layout about the time before Christmas. We are up to day 2 – obviously. There is a Flickr group pool for all our photos, great idea to have a look at [...]
Posted in Buy this, Inspiration on Dec 1st, 2007
One of my favorite shops, tchibo, has come out with a special offer once more. You can buy a coupon for a canvas from fotokasten for a really good price and have a canvas printed with your creations. The 60×40cm canvas is 39.99€ incl postage, whereas normally it would be 69.99€ excl. postage. Can’t complain [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Paper on Nov 26th, 2007
Via a link from Susan I got to Princess Pamela and her great template for a scrapbook ornament. I did this one yesterday and it turned out very cute. However, I think a put the ribbon through the wrong sides, but next time I’ll know better. And some whose name I won’t mention stepped on [...]
Posted in Creative Teams, Freebies, Inspiration, Shakerbox on Nov 21st, 2007
My new ad challenge at The Shakerbox is up. The ad was suggested by Cinda this time. It is an awesome winter ad and I can’t wait to see what people will come up with. I also created a little freebie for it. two sheets of watercolor paper and a text on a path template [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Layouts, Polka Dot Potato on Oct 29th, 2007
For November’s ad challenge at PolkaDot Potato I’m a little bit early. I chose an awesome ad from a local club. You can see the challenge and inspiration here: November ad challenge. Come on in and join me. I’ve only recently discovered ads as great inspiration. It is so much fun scrapping pages with them.
And [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Layouts, Shakerbox on Oct 24th, 2007
Fot the ad challenge at The Shakerbox I came up with this cute page. The ad was not much but a huge tab, so something quite interesting. And Tracy Ann’s tab frames came quite in handy here. It looks like a regular tab, but in reality it isn’t.
We went to this "Day of the open [...]
