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Wedding bouquet and other (flower) tutorials

I keep getting a lot of questions about my flowers tutorials and because of that I wanted to let you all know that I will post them all on my website this next coming week so everyone can easily find them, all in one place!

Now of to bed :)

**EDIT** : DONE! :D See right sidebar

Unpacked....and packing

Last Friday we came home from a great week at a bungalow parc. We had so much fun with the 3 of us!

I will show some pictures ( I know I also still owe you the once from cha...) this coming week. Like the title of this post says.....I am packing my bag again tomorrow. Just for one night away. I will be at the Cosmo Cricket booth at the Kars trade show (KKD). So I have all my layouts with the 3 new releases packed and ready to go.

Here are 2 I made with "Joy Ride"

London Baby

Ms. Pirate

and to make the booth look a bit more fun I made a banner with "Material Girl"

The unwrapped banner will be shown later :)

Okay and now I really have to get to bad! My alarm is going at....6.15AM OUCH!

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Cards?!

Hi all!

I just found out there is a hotspot here so I have internet at our bungalow :)

Since I will be at the KKD days at Kars (trade show here in the Netherlands) next Sunday and Monday to do demo;s etc at the Cosmo Cricket booth I brought along the new Cosmo Cricket releases on our holiday. I wanted to make some cards to put up on the booth, next to the layouts I already made.

Now lots of you may know that card making isn't really my "thing" but I gave it a go. Here is are the results...

JOY RIDE

You drive me wild

Lunch?

GARDEN VARIETY

You are my sweet pie

Happy easter

MATERIAL GIRL

Lets shop

You are sew cute

I know those are very different from the layouts and mini;s I normally make but I think they turned out quite fun :) Sorry about the picture quality....light here is very bad :(
Now of to enjoy ourselves some more here at the park!

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Just long enough to wash my clothes

Hi everyone!!
I am home again save and sound. After 23 hours of traveling I arrived at Dusseldorf airport with...snow!! So it took us 1.5 hour to drive home. After a lot of sleep and laundry washing we are now packing our bags again for a nice week with the 3 of us in a bungalow park. But before leaving I owe you report about CHA!!

After arriving on Friday afternoon in a rainy LA I met Julie, Eric and Lindsay at the hotel. It was so much fun meeting Julie and Eric for the first time in real live! After dinner and a good night sleep they took me on a tour on Saturday. Julie and myself sat in the backseat and Lindsay was driving the car with Eric as co-pilot :)
Now I need to tell you I never heard - recalculate, make a U-turn that much! Even though Julie and I feared for our lives we were laughing so hard it made my eyes wet! If you ever read the Cosmo blog I can tell you, they are even funnier irl :D
Here are some picture that I took during "the tour" trough Beverly Hills, Hollywood and Balboa Island.

our first stop was.....a gas station. Guess Lindsay though you can not visit the USA without seeing one, lol

see we were close by Hollywood already!

Never knew Lindsay had a star on the walk of fame!!

After our visit to Hollywood we drove to Balboa Island were we had dinner. Love it there, I mean, look at these pictures!!

After dinner we drove back along the shore.

We made a pitstop at the beach...it was cold!

It was such a great day and we had so much fun!! Back at the hotel I met up with Vicki and Greta with whom I shared my room. It was great seeing Vicki again and to meet Greta! Since CHA would start the day after we all went to bed on a decent time :)

The make and takes I did at the Cosmo booth were so much fun and I actually had a cue at some points!

It was so much fun meeting a lot of people I only knew from the internet irl!! Like here, Emily Pitts (left) and Liz from Tattered Angels.

Most evening I had dinner with Eric, Julie and Lindsay and of course, one night we went to Red Robin. Can't leave the states without haven eaten an....

and here is Julie showing me how the handle it ;)

Here is a picture of us at the last day of CHA, jep we all were a bit tired but we had soooo much fun!

Thursday morning the Cosmo's went back home and I spent my day at downtown Disney!

were I bought Noa this cute tiger with cute clothes at Build a Bear, she loves it!!

I was such a shame that this all came to an end so fast. I really had the best time and Julie, Eric and Lindsay really are the sweetest, so funny and nice. Must be the Dutch genes huh Julie ;) They made me feel like a part of the Cosmo family, gotta love them!

Of course I also made a lot of pictures at other booths at CHA and I owe you a post showing my favorites from CHA. But now it is time to put our bags in the car and head for our little holiday!!

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On my way..

When this blogpost goes up I will be on my way home! I am up for a loooooong day of traveling but I will survive lol.

Now I just wanted to let you know that I did some work before I left to be able to give my first self organized workshops. The first one will be in March (13th or 20th probably), the exact date will be known after carnival. Yeah where I live life stops during that time of year ;)

It will be on a Saturday though, that’s for sure. So please be just a bit more patient and I will have the details up here as soon as possible :)

More projects

I hope I have been able to post some more on my blog from CHA but while I am writing this post I am still sitting on the couch at..home, hihi. 10 more hours before I am of to the airport.

Since I showed you the Garden Variety projects in the last post, I will now go on with Material Girl.

LOVELY DRESSED

 

KEYHOLE

     

SEWFUN

You just gotta love this release!!

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Here I am, but not for real :)

Yeah yeah…I posted this one ahead of time! I promised you all to show you some more of the projects I did with the new Cosmo Cricket, so here we go.

Today is Garden Variety day :)

SUNSHINE

WATERING CAN

 

FLOWER

I AM OUT OF HERE

HORSEFUN

Just so you know, all these chipboard alpha’s are Cosmo Cricket!! And there are more fonts and colors!! To die for really!!!

Hope you liked what you saw :)

Just before I leave..

Well firs an other night at home, but I am all set! My suitcase is packed, my hand language is filled with CHA projects, a good book, some low calorie snacks, the new Flow (Dutch magazine) which is always stuffed with inspiration and some other unimportant stuff of which I do not even know why I am bringing it along :)

I will do my best to update my blog while I am away but I can’t promises. If internet is bad you can get yourselves ready for a looooong post when I am back.

About CHA…did you guys already saw the new Sassafras lines?! They are to die for!

 

 

 

And here is my favorite of the 3 lines…!

 

And…all the lines come with these stunning stickers!!

To see the full releases please visit the Sassafras blog.

As you know I did a lot of scrapping the last few days. I played with 2 of the 3 new releases from Cosmo Cricket but, before I show these to you I would first like to share with you the projects I did with the older lines.

Summer Times - Snorkel

between the pages I put transparencies

This line maybe an older one but it is such a bright line and so much fun to work with!!

Today my first post is up at the My Tattered Angels educators blog

Please go over and check it out!

Now if you happen to be at CHA, please drop by at the Cosmo Cricket booth ( #2269) to say hi or even to join me in one of the make & takes I will be teaching there mornings and afternoons!

Well that’s it for today. I want to hit the mattress early, my alarm clock will brutally wake me tomorrow morning.  

Will make some posts ahead so you can see the other projects I made later this week :)

Bye for now and thanks for stopping by!

And the winner is….!!!

 

 

Lori congrats on your prize!! Please send me an email and let me know which craftkit you want and your addy and such :)

New Cosmo Cricket!!!

These new lines are just awesome!! Go over to the Cosmo Cricket blog to see the entire lines!

Next to paper lines there will also be alpha’s!

Please visit back tomorrow to read who the winner of the give away is :D