Archive for the ‘inspiration’ Category

New eye on design - on your coffeetable!

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Hello sweet ladies,

Welcome back for some new inspiration! It’s very easy this time. We’ll find the inspiration on our own coffeetable. Did you checke your coffee table already? Well, I did! And I fell in love with this cover, both the colors and the graphic composition!

 I love to buy magazines, I think I’m really addicted. Could be home interior, could be gardening, could be parenting or psychology, or could just be a general magazine. But this magazine seemed to yell at me with those fresh springy colors and the Dutch title that says winter poëtry! It’s a Dutch magazine about home interior (they have a great website to, but it’s only in Dutch : http://www.ariadneathome.nl/)  The cover of the magazine is so uplifting, I had to use it to make a new lay out! this is the result:

 

click here for credits - I used the kit Freckles and giggles ! it’s supergreat for girls pages!
 
 So I was inspired by the lay out, the wall paper, the chandelier, and of course the titles and topics spread around the page. And I couldn’t help myself, but I made a freebie template for your inspiration! You can find it on my blog.
 

If you like this, soon there’s more to come! BUT, I don’t know if I spill the beans, by letting you know this! On this blog, you can find the hottest news, because I have laid my eye’s on some pretty cool stuff Kim is working on! You sure wouldn’t want to miss this!!!! Stay tuned!

Scrapness aka Vanessa

New eye on design - Architecture

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Hello wonderbabes of the digiscrapworld!

I’m back here with more out of the box inspiration and please read on, with some surprises also! I hope you loved the previous post I have made - we did get inspired by jewelry!

This time, it’s a whole different approach! It’s something I adore = modern architecture! I really admire those architects that have a view, a concept, something different that stand out. I like it for home’s, but I even like it more when it’s public buildings, because they are for all of us and we can enjoy these structures, from the outside and the inside. So on a magic websurfing moment, I found this building:

 dierendonckblancke architecture

This building can be found in Avelgem (Belgium) and is a centre for the community which houses a theatre , a youth house, a pub and several rooms for gatherings of all kind. You can find more explanations in Dutch on the architecture site : Dierendonckblancke, but also some more pictures, so you can see how beautiful this building is and also it’s placement in the surroundings!

But we are here to SCRAP! So let’s go! I’ve been so inspired, I made a template based upon this picture! And I have used this template two times, with different Kim De Smet kits!

with Freckles and giggles and Be Free (click picture for credits)

With Cherish Happiness (click picture for credits)

and to top it of = I give this template as a freebie on my blog! ssshhtt it’s a secret!

So, I’d love to see how we have inspired you! Don’t be shy to show off your creations!

hugs

Vanessa

Cherish Happiness

Monday, January 26th, 2009

 

Happy Monday everyone. Did you have a good weekend?

Mine was mainly overshadowed by the tragic events that happened in Belgium on Friday. Updates on the baby murder all are over the papers and television, and it’s hard not to think of it. I am still very much shocked and I cry every time I read or hear more about it. I can’t help it, ever since I gave birth I am extremely sensitive and emotional when I hear of the cruelties some people do to children… I can’t imagine what I would do if someone would hurt my little girl…

But luckily yesterday we had some distraction. We went swimming with Roxanne. I’m ashamed to admit it, but swimming is something we have not done often enough with her. I’m totally not a water rat myself. Although she loves it, she is still afraid to go head under, and she needs us to hold her constantly when she can’t reach the ground, even though she wears rubber armrings. But yesterday we witnessed a great milestone! After several hours in the pool, she finally dared to ’swim’ all alone! (with her rubber bands and without us holding her) We were so proud of her. We had such a great time with her yesterday. And things will even get better, because I finally managed to get a spot in the weekly swimming courses for small children or city organizes. Starting next week, she and daddy will go swimming every week. I had been trying to get a spot for over a year, so I’m very happy about this.

 

I promised you I’d be back today with a new kit and a coupon, so here it is. My new XL kit  ‘Cherished Happiness’

It’s jam-packed with goodies: 18 papers, over 50 elements and a complete alpha with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctution and special European characters.

I’m really loving the colors in this kit, and I scrapped 4 pages with it! An absolute record :) My pages are also available as quickpages:

The top right page is scrapped by my good friend and CT member Jen, aka chookie in the galleries, and the other 4 by me.

And here is some more inspiration for you:

And here is a little coupon:

 

I have one more thing to show you. Madame Mim is guest designer at Scrapartist this month, and she has released a beautiful new kit called Best Friends Forever

Here is my page with it:

On the photo are my dd and my cousin’s nephew on their first play date. Those two are quite something together. They spent the entire afternoon screaming, laughing, making funny faces and giggling, both dressed as princesses. Oh, and MOONING. ROFL. They both seem to have a passion for that, haha.

Have a great week!