Bad bad blogger!!!

I know, I have been a very bad blogger! I have many excuses, like the flu, too busy with other things, birthdays,etc....but I feel guilty anyway ;-)
During these 2 months I didn't create a lot, but I'll show you what I have....
The first one is an old LO that I did for a secret scraplift that took ages before everybody had finished his lift. I found inspiration on Birgit Koopsen's blog for the style (lots of bright colors) The titel says "Scared? Me? Only a little bit..." and the hidden journaling tells about the meeting of our son with "dwarf Kwebbel" from television, who turned out a "little bit bigger" than he expected. ;-) The buttons are "homemade" from chipboard, covered with paper and glossy accents.


The next one is about a rainy day in Italy, where we couldn't go to the beach, but that turned out a funny day for the whole family on the playground.


The third one has a pocket where I put his first New Year letter that he learned at school. And of course the pictures while he "reads" the letter for us.



I'm feeling already the holiday season spirit and I took some old pictures from our Christmas decoration and one from our little Santa in the bathtube. These Lo's are both inspired by the latest Creating Keepsakes issue.The trees on the first one are embossed with the cuttle bug. The "star" in the second one is cut with the cricut Home Decorations cartridge, sprayed with Glimmer Mist and covered with distress stickles.





I also took some cute pictures last year of Olivia.


This is it for now! I hope to be back soon with more things to show.

Trying to control the left-overs-box...

Last Thursday, our "mini-crop-club of three" finally met again for an evening full of......scrapping and talking of course! I managed to make 1 (one!) x-mas card..... But that was still better than Marina, who spend the whole evening on deciding how the title on her lay-out should look like ;-))) (hihihi)
So, here is what I made.

Then, I read about a challenge that a scrap-friend put on our forum: do not buy any new scrap-stuff before January 1st 2010 or before she finished 50 lay-outs with her stash. Pfiew, that is a challenge! It inspired me to do a clean-up session myself and make some cards with my leftovers. This is what I made today:








And to finish this post, I'm showing an LO with pictures from my little girls present when she had her first birthday. I can hardly believe that in 3 weeks she will turn 2 already!