Grunge it up card

Click on the image and see how this was made. There is a video tutorial of the process.

Friday, September 30, 2011

Smashbook day 9: Cupcakes & Clothing

Hi bloggies (I love to call you that, hihi), Todays theme is clothing and cupcakes. I'm not a kitchen pricess, but I love to make cupcakes and especially to decorate them. There are so many supplies to decorate them with and I want to have them all, haha. Everytime I make...

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Smashbook day 8: My Craftroom

Hi bloggies, Sorry I was a bit too busy yesterday, so that's why skipped a day. But today's theme is my craftroom. At first I had my craftroom / office in what's basically a storage room. My apartment has a "vide" (what literaly means empty space, and don't know the...

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Smashbook day 7: SannieLein

Hi bloggies! Todays theme is SannieLein. I'll explain what that is. SannieLein is a project I started with a friend (I'm Sannie and Marjolein is Lein, that makes SannieLein). When I got my Cricut, I searched what it can do and I where I could use it for, and I discovered vinyl....

Monday, September 26, 2011

Smashbook day 6: Cricut

Hi everyone! Today's theme is Cricut. Because of Lein I learned about the Cricut. She had the first Cricut. She was so sweet to lend it to me. We had a crafty afternoon and the same afternoon I had SCAL (Sure Cuts a Lot) installed on my laptop and the Cricut was also...

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Smashbook day 5: Hotfix and beads

It's day 5 and today I have two themes for you! How exciting! The two themes are hotfix, aka rhinestones, and beads. I love sparkly things and when somebody introduced me to rhinestones, I was sold. At first I only used them to decorate my bags and then I made applications with...

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Smashbook day 4: Bags!

Hello everyone, It's day 4 of the smashbook adventure. Yesterday I revealed the theme of today : Bags! I'd never thought I would make anything else than stuff for Wall-E. When I saw a homemade bag in a great fabric store I bought the pattern after some doubt. I wasn't...

Friday, September 23, 2011

Smashbook day 3: Sewing machine

Hi everyone, It's already day 3 of my smashbook project . I just counted the pages and there are 18 total, so after this one 15 more to go! So stay tuned, haha. Today it's about my sewing machine. When I making the houses and mats to for Wall-e, I wanted my own sewing machine....

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Smashbook day 2: The beginning

Hello everyone, It's day two of my smashbook project. The theme of today is "the beginning". About 2.5 years ago I started being creative. Actually it all started with my pet rat, Wall-e. You can get very nice hammocks and houses for rats, but they're a bit pricey and it didn't...

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Smashbook day 1: Inspiration

Hi everybody, It's day one of my smashbook adventure. The first two pages are about what inspires me in crafting. I like to be creative and making beautiful things. At the moment I like to stamp and make the distress techniques my own. And I'm practicing with this smahbook.   For...

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

My own version of a smashbook

Love the smashbook concept. For this you can use all your scraps and embelishments you've laying around. I don't have much with journaling and pictures, but when I started this project I became hooked. I decided to do a smashbook from when I started with crafting till...

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Organizing!!

Hi everyone!Recently I been busy organizing my new purchases and going crazy with my new hobbies. I noticed that my workspace became a mess quickly. I don’t like it when it’s a mess, because I get distracted. But I found a solution for that problem. I had my stuff in high boxes,...

Friday, September 16, 2011

Slatwall rearranged

Hi everybody! On “Marktplaats”, a dutch version of ebay, I found  storage boxes for scrapbook paper that is compatible with my slatwall, and they were just 1 euro each! Unfortunately, they are second hand, but that's fine. I've ordered too much, because I was afraid that...

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Distress ink box

Hello!On the blog from France: http://papillon-sur-la-branche.blogspot.com/ I saw a very nice upstanding storage box with doors for distress inkpads. How cool?! But then I saw the distress ink box (at the bottom of the page) and for me it was a bit more practical. Besides I...

My first real blog

Hi everybody! My name is Sandra and this is my first real blog for you all to see:). I had a private blog, more like a digital creative journal. But this one is for you guys. Do you still follow? Never mind haha. I have many hobbies, but lately I am busy with card making, stamping and other paper projects. I really like the stuff from Tim Holtz’ line...