Adore

Hello once more,

Here's another layout featuring my little man. I love this picture! It's funny how you visualise an entirely different paper colour at first. I ended up using this one from my much loved but not much used "Rockstar" paper stack. These colours gave the picture way more attention than my initial idea would have done.

These days I couldn't scrap without my mists, crackle paints and stencils!

A layout I'm actually content with once again. If you like it too, leave me a comment!

Take care!

A moment in my belly, a lifetime in my heart

Hello again,

Of course I had to scrap a picture of my (rather modest looking) pregnant belly too! On a canvas, Finnabair style. I ran into a heart shaped canvas, which seemed perfect for this topic.
I embellished, gesso'ed and created an embellical cord with my glue gun, from my belly to a heart shaped charm in which I'd glued a little glass baby, depicting my woom.

It was hard to settle on a quote, but I went with "A moment in my belly, a lifetime in my heart." Because that's simply the truth. ♡♥♡

I used pastel colours, even made my own lilac spraymist. All in all I'm happy with the result, though the whole thing seems somewhat opaque.  I may have to add some of my recently discovered Inka Gold creams... ;)

Just like chocolates, comments make me happy :) (Luckily they're less fattening,  lol)

Take care!

"The sky is NOT the limit!" Also, cowboy & king

Hello once more,

Wanting to try a more mixed media style involving gears etc, I used a picture of Connor wearing his pilot hat. (Because with me the embellishments always have to suit the theme.)
It was my first attempt in smearing gesso all over the metal embellishments (as a preparation for misting them) and I have to say I am pleased with the outcome. The whole layout happened fairly quick, it all came together like magic!

Imagine my surprise when I totally messed up the following 2 layouts. I am never doing that again, working on 2 layouts simultaneously.

The layout of Connor with the cowboy hat started out on a brown timber background with a black swirl. When I added gesso rays through a stencil it only went downhill from there. I re thunk the whole thing and decided the sepia picture needed a background that would make it pop.
Once I had settled on that it still didn't go smoothly. I finished the layout but I'm not very content about it.

Maybe it was hard because the photo had an emotional aspect for me. The morning I took those pictures all was well. But that afternoon we were involved in a car accident. Shaking off the image of Connor covered in millions of glass splinters (from our shattered rear window) is a hard thing to do. I thought I'd lost him, right then and there. And he wasn't even 4 months old... :{
In that sense the layout doesn't do my feelings justice at all. It's a simple layout with a touch of the "Western Cowboy" feel in it, without being too obvious.

Then, the other layout didn't do what I wanted it to. I had fallen in love with the paper: a royal blue flockprint, damask and stripes... I was going for red, white and blue because of a clothing tag I wanted to use along with it.
Well, the red on my gesso'ed damask turned out PINK...! Several layers of white paint, gesso and gesso mixed with white paint didn't help one bit.
In the end I was able to colour the pink a bit more sandy and decided to embellish most of that part, because I didn't wanna give up just yet. It would be a shame of the wasted paper!
In the end the layout kinda came together thanx to a few touches of green. But it's not of my favourites.

Ah well, I blame it on the new techniques I am trying as well. I haven't practiced enough to know what happens when you do this and that. And it proves once more I am not someone who can just begin, smear something on the page and have my artistic abilities make everything come together like magic. I have to think things through. But I have learned a lot in the process and am happy to apply this new knowledge in my future projects! ;)

If you have any more knowledge to share or wish to learn from my mistakes, drop me a line! Take care in the meantime!

"My little green man"

Hello again,

The first layout I did after the project for my mom was a layout starring one of my favourite pictures ever of Connor. He was wrapped tightly in the belly sack, 6 weeks old and refusing to sleep, when I took this picture. He looks like a little elf to me there. ♥

From the moment he started to see more clearly he was fascinated by the trees, wind and sky. When we were walking he'd gaze at the trees like they were the most amazing thing he had ever seen. It always calmed him when he was crying for some reason.

And so "My little green man" was born...

Comments are always much appreciated! Take care!

Finally... I have returned...

Hello there,

I had already sort of decided to start a new blog and call it "Less is Bore... Encore" or "Less is Bore, once more" but I'm sticking with this blog anyways.

Okay, so, why my absence?  Life got in the way. In the best way. Because since my last post I have become a mommy! Connor is already over 18 months even... Whoops...
He's a great boy. Adventurous, funny, sweet at times. Handsome. He really was the one thing missing in our lives. ♡♥

So before he came, we had to clean out the room that was to become his. Then paint and decorate it. Then ofcourse there was the time our whole life revolved around our little man. And it still does. Obviously... ;)

But, we redid the attic as well. Painted it, had a carpenter install some (sliding) doors and straighten out the crooked furnace.
So I'm back to where I once started to scrap: the attic. And while I still haven't sorted everything out (knowing me that will probably never happen anyway...) I have truly recovered my mojo there!

I don't think I have ever scrapped this much in a row! I finally have the cutest subject to scrap about, maybe that's why? While he's sleeping I relive the precious moments we shared by working with his pictures.

I also made a new 'object' featuring my deceased mom's picture.  Because the layout I did on her which was standing in the room, clashed with our (new) living room colours.

I'll try and update this blog with my latest projects, stick with me!

Take care... And I LOVE it if you'd leave me a comment! :)

Our freshly re-born home

Hey there,

I've been a busy girl again lately... Once more NOT in my beautiful scrap-room though... Hubby and I had wanted to change our livingroom for quite some time already. So I started to look around for furniture as I had NO idea what I wanted. I figured once I found the pieces of furniture my heart wanted, the rest would follow. It did happen, but VERY slowly... And I am still sorta in between 2 styles. That's okay though. No need to follow the flock and stick to 1 exact style...
Everything in our house was terra cotta coloured or a lighter shade of it: the walls, ceilings, windowpanes, doors. Every freaking room! All our furniture was made of dark brown wood. So we sort of lived in a cave, LOL. With Indian/Eastern accessories such as a large wall-fan, a temple rug, etc. Or as one of my colleagues pointed out: like being in a Chinese restaurant.

The upperpiece of our mantle was not symmetrical so we had that straightened out by a carpenter, much better! Most walls are painted off-white except for the ones on the side of the mantle. They're a taupe/mauve kind of colour. I LOVE it! We're still awaiting our dining-room table unfortunately. That's gonna be a light/greyish kind of wood with 2 huge column-shaped legs. Like in a monestary or castle. Ofcourse I still need to get curtains and stuff...

By now the TV has been replaced with an enormous flatscreen that belonged to my dad :) I like the chandelier very much too. I wanted a shape like that, not the usual shape. I bought it in a store in our town, how lucky is that? The woman told me it's old and she bought it in Belgium, but it came from France.

I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.


I made my own wall-art ofcourse, that wall desperately needed a splash of colour! I saved some of the wallpaint so it's the exact same colour as on the opposite walls! It's a triptych consisting of 3 canvasses, the middle one is 60x60 cm, the other ones are 30x60 cm. I applied gesso on them and just went with the flow. The iron ornaments came from my grandma's closet and I painted them to look silver, they were a sort of golden shade. Glad I saved them though :) I handcut and hand-sew the heart in the middle.

I'm so happy I could die...

Wow...

I feel the need to re-introduce myself here! It's been 1,5 years ago since I blogged! It's also been that long since I really scrapped... Damn... What happened?

Well, Blythes came in my life. They came, saw and took my heart over. I started out with 1, June last year. Now, I'm up to 10 of them! And I'm building them a house, no, a whole appartment! So most my free time was spent with my beautiful plastic dolls, who are so much more than dolls. Their expressive faces, their attitudes, characters. The eyes that change colour and position. Their face that changes even more when you vary the angle of your camera. Their cute litte wardrobes, shoes, necessities...

Also, I moved my scrap-room! I'm no longer scrapping in the attic, I've moved one floor lower, in a spare bedroom. But, that bedroom had to be altered first. New ceiling with spotlights, fresh FUCHSIA paint on the walls, new Ikea furniture. This weekend I scrapped in my new room for the first time. The attic is still a mess, and not everything in my scrap-room is in place yet, but I can scrap again.

Combine these items and what do you get? Right, a LO about one of my Blythes... Her name is Roxie Starlight, she's cool, she's wicked, she's pierced, she's bored, she's hit puberty... You get the picture? If not, the visual's underneath... Check it out!

Take care, leave me a comment if you're still with me after all this time! Or, if you've just discovered me... I intend to show my face a lot more again... ;)

Happy scrappin'!

Some serious T-shirt pimpin'!!!

Hey there,

Gosh, back so soon? Yup, 'cause I actually managed to create something! If all goes well, my friend Monique and I will be going to the Scrap a Fairytale weekend again, it's supposed to take place mid June. So, I thought it'd be fun if we made a T-shirt to wear to that event. A scrap shirt.

So, yesterday Monique came over and we were quite busy for many hours. She did a purple one, I did a fuchsia one. (Only my favorite color in the whole wide world!!!) It's a shame we didn't do any 'pre-pics', but I guess you know what a plane Tee looks like, right? :P

First, I stamped on the checkered background, then, I scrapped the letters "SCRAP" on the background. I made the 'S' out of 2 colours felt, the 'C' was made with metal studs and paint, the 'R' was made from white buttons, the 'A' was made from eyelets with silver ribbon laced through it and the 'P' was formed from ric-rac-ribbon.

I added a patch with 'punk', 'cause well, I scrap and I dig punky outfits/music/scrappin'/etc. I like to be/dress sweet and feminine with a little punky edge, you know?

Anyway, here's the result. I'm kinda proud of it, I have to add. (Well, all but the 'C' , I kinda messed that one up, but it will have to do...)

If you like it, let me know! If you have any questions about something I did, write me!

See ya! Happy scrappin'! XOXO