Playing with some more scraps...

Having so much fun making these little cards again!!! I've challenged myself to finish up some of my scraps.. (I've PILES of these in my scraproom.. yup..time to get rid of these.. hehe..).

Sooo that's what I've been doing here.. and this is what I came up with ;-). I've created the (embossed) butterfly with my Cuttlebug, added some glitters to the borders of it and some pearls to finish it.
I had some 'old' little circle rings lying around which totally matched the papers.. YAY! Couldn't resist using some more Prima flowers and jewels here as well.. sorry.. ;-)
I hope you're all enjoying your weekend until so far!!!

Thanks for stopping by again.. I'll be back with some more creations soon!

XOXO
Nancy

Brown, orange, green....

Yup.. these are the colors that I've been playing with for this little card... no pink this time.. hehehehe...

As you can see I just can't get enough of shaped cards at the moment.. the basic here is a round card on which I've added a huge flower (with embossed polka dots) and a circle with 3d foam tape underneath it to make it stand out a little bit.

Here are some more details... lots of Puffy Paint here also, and some Prima flowers, jewels, a clear button and stickpins too ;-)

I'm still thinking about a fun new step by step workshop.. hope to be able to share it as soon as I can!!!

Thanks again for stopping by and for your sweet comments!!

Happy scrappin'!

XOXO
Nancy

A girly invitation....

A few weeks ago my sister asked me to create some invitations for my little nieces 3rd birthday (yup.. little Demi will be turning 3 already next month!!!). Since Demi is really into princesses and stuff like that at the moment, I immediately came up with the idea to create a 'crown' card..... soooo.. that's exactely what I did....

I drew a crown on a piece of cardstock, which I've cut out and used as basic for the card. Then I started layering the crown with some patterned paper and some other goodies. I wanted the '3' to stand out a little bit.. so I've used some 3d foam tape underneath the circle...

Here are some more details... still can't get enough of my glitters, Cuttlebug embossing folders, flowers and puffy paint.. hehe...

Some of you have been wondering how my little nieces (Demi and Fay) are doing....

Sooo.. here's a recent picture of the girlies...

They're really growing up too fast.. hehe...

Thanks for stopping by again... I gotta run since I've to create 9 more "crown' invitations.... (yup.. that's what I'll be doing next week... haha)

XOXO
Nancy

Sophie..

About 2 weeks ago, one of my sweet colleagues gave birth to a little girl named Sophie. Of course I jus HAD to make her a little PINK card..

Soooo....I dugged into my pile of scraps to find some fun pink goodies... I ended up using some silver Thickers, my Cuttlebug embossing folder, a Martha Stewart border punch, some thread, a button and safety pin and last but not least.....lots of glitter and Puffy Paint (and a lot more).. hehe..
And as usually.... here are some more details...

Unfortunately I'm not getting the colors right on my pics.. the pink color is actually slightly different than what you see on your screen.... Oh well.. ;-)

Thanks again for stopping by... I'll try to do a little blog hopping soon too to check out what you've been up to... hehe...

XOXO
Nancy

Happy Tuesday!

I hope you all had a great weekend... My weekend has been busy... really really busy.. I even had to work on Sunday for a biiiig running sponsor event "Running4Cancer" which I'm organizing for my company for the 3rd year in a row. It's been a lot of work.. but soooo worth it!!!! We raised a lot of $$ for KIKA (a Dutch fund for children with cancer) ... I'm so proud!!!

Playing with scraps has been so much fun last week! I also created this simple card... not too happy with the result... but I do like the colors... hehe...

And some more details... can you see that I love my Cuttlebug??.. especially the embossing polka dot folder..hehe..

Wishing you all a great week...

Happy scrapping!

XOXO
Nancy

Yay.. it's weeeeeekend!!

First of all: a big thank you to all of you for your sweet welcome back messages.... It feels soooo good to be back in blogland after such a long time!

I'm trying to challenge myself to use some other colors than PINK... So..while looking through my pile of scraps I found some orange papers to work with..... and this is what I came up with... a little 'star' card with all kinds of goodies.. and everything ORANGE....


Some more little details.. It feels sooo good to have found back my puffy paint and sewing machine too.... hehe...
Ok.. gotta run.. have a great weekend everybody... I'll be back SOON with some more creations!!!

XOXO
Nancy

Yay! Still got it ;-)

It's been quite a while since I've updated my blog (I know.. bad bad blogger.. haha)... Lots of people are still wondering how I'm doing, why I've dissapeared and.... if I'm still crafting... soooo.. here's a little update.. with hopefully a lot more to come :-)

First of all.. I'm doing fine.. just too busy with all kinds of things... besides that I had totally lost my scrappy mojo for MONTHS!! Buuuut.. last weekend I've found some time to sit down and create... I ended up with 4 cards!! So happy about that... this feels soooo good!! Woohoo!!

I started with a little colorful 'flower' card. I had these Junkitz scraps (my favorite colors) laying in my desk for about a year now.. so it was definitely time to use these thingies.. hehe.. I even found my Cuttlebug back under a pile of dust for some fun embossing..haha... Anyways.. here's the first card I came up with....

And here are some details....

Sorry again for being such a bad blogger.. this time I hope to be back with updates and new creations on a more regular base!!! And maybe even a little step by step workshop!!

Thanks for stopping by and until next time!!

XOXO
Nancy

In a nutshell......

Heeeyyy....thanks for stopping by again... Lots of people are wondering what I've been up to these past few months.. sooooo.. here it is in a nutshell.... besides being busy.... changing jobs, visiting my family in France and enjoying LIFE........

Vacation vacation vacation (yup.. the good things in life..)

Enjoying my little nieces Demi and Fay. Especially Fay has changed a LOT... she's 9 months already!!!! (and soooo cute with her 2 teeth)

Having fun with friends....
Disco party @ work..
Life isn't too bad huh??

Since I don't want to leave you guys without posting one of my creations.. I'm showing you one of my all-time-favorite cards (created with Junkitz scraps)...

Bye bye for now....I hope to be back in the blogging world soon.. MISS YOU!

XOXO
Nancy

A tiny little update...

First of all I'd like to thank all of you for your sweet comments and emails asking me how I'm doing!!! So sorry I didn't update my blog since August... Just wanted to give you all a tiny little update to let you know that I'm doing ok...

I've been so busy.. besides that there have been a few things going on in my little life... the main thing is that my little grandpa from France died unexpected in November at the age of 96.. I'm so so so sad and I still can't believe it... I think most of my blog-followers know how much I loved him... We try to help my little grandma as much as we can right now... but it's a pitty that we're living so far away from her..
Since I cannot leave you all without showing you one of my creations... here's a little card that was published in "Cards" back in October 2009...

I think I've been using some Heidi Swapp scraps for this card...

Thank you so much for stopping by (and for being so patient.. haha).... I hope to be back blogging on a more regular base soon!!

XOXO
Nancy

Grandma and the market place....

As promissed I'm showing you my latest layout today! I'm really happy that I've finally managed to finish a layout (since it's been ages hehe..).

This layout is about my little French grandma who used to go to the market every Saturday to sell her own vegetables, fruits, flowers, herbs etc... she did this almost her entire life (and so did her mom and grandma in the old days), when I was little I used to join her there as much as I could (while being in France). In 2005, when my grandpa got really sick, she had to decide to give this up entirely.. it was just not possible anymore to do all preparations and being away the whole days (since my grandpa helped her a lot too). Since then her life has been turned upside down.. she misses it so much.. just being away, having her friends and regular customers stopping by. This picture was taken on one of the last Saturdays that she spent on her spot at the market... so it's kinda special to me (and also to her, because this picture is hanging on her fridge for years now.,. hehe). I just HAD to create a layout about it..
Here's a better look at it...
I hope you're all having a great weekend until so far! Our weekend has started really well.. we've spent 2 days in a city called Middelburg. Besides enjoying the beautiful weather overhere in The Netherlands we've walked around to see all different historical monuments..and we also did some shopping for our US-trip in a few weeks!!! Totally relaxing!!!

Thanks for stopping by! I promiss to be a better blog-hopper soon.. I miss visiting your blogs so much!!

XOXO
Nancy