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April Week 2 Challenge: Life is Sweet!

Hi! It's Dee and I'm here with a new challenge for this week: document the sweet stuff!

As said before I'm a real foodie! I love to eat, cook, write and talk about food! The thing I love most is the sweet stuff, so I've got loads of pictures of me just munching on pastries, macarons, et cetera. And, because I know I love to document these pictures, I thought it would be fun to challenge you and do the same! 

Here's the layout I created for this theme:

And another one:

And, last but not least, an older layout. I made it back in 2012 but the theme is fitting so I thought I'd share it with you all.

These layouts do not contain big stories, important things I like to remember. And even though I like to make pages that are very journaling heavy and that document the bigger things in life, I do like to keep it short&sweet (pun intended) every now and then!

I hope you feel inspired to document the sweet stuff in life and that you will share your pages on social media with the hashtags #wcsaprilchallenge and #wcsdocumentsweetstuff

Much love, Dee

March Week 3 Creative Idea: Spring!

Hi! It's Dee and I'm continuing with the theme Jennifer set out for this week: spring!

Nothing says spring to me like beautiful colored flowers, so I created a layout for this week about springtime in my hometown. The pictures were taken in april 2015. We had just visited a foodtruck festival nearby and afterwards, as we walked home, we walk through a beautiful park that is close to our home and came across these beautiful tulip-filled fields! I had to take some pictures of course!

For the design of this layout I used one of my go-to techniques to make a quick & easy layout: I used Project Life cards! This is a technique I use really often lately and I absolutely love it. My layouts come together so easily and yet I get to document these fun little stories in an awesome way! Also it's a great way to do some stashbusting, because I have so so many project life cards!

For this layout I used Project Life cards from the Everyday collection and embellishments (stickers) from an older Studio Calico collection (Sundrifter).

I hope you feel inspired to get out those project life cards for your regular layout and create some quick and easy pages! Please link up if you do!

Much love, Dee

The elements: Love

Hi! It's Dee and I'm continuing with this weeks series about the elements. Today is all about that fifth element: Love. To me this is the most elemental thing in our lives. It can make us or break us and without it we definately cannot live!

 

As long as mankind exists 'Love' has been an immense source of inspiration. Last weekend I was surprised by my husband with a weekend getaway to Paris and we visited both The Louvre and Musée d'Orsay. Both museums house an extensive collection of art that was inspired by love, whether it be divine love or human love, romantic love or love from a parent to a child. The same goes for music; there are so so many songs written about love! It definately must be the biggest source of inspiration of all times! 

 

One of those songs about love is a quite recent one by John Legend: All of me.

 

All of me loves all of you

Love your curves and all your edges

All your perfect imperfections

 

This song is so beautifully written. In fact my husband and I picked as the song for our first dance as husband and wife. And this song inspired me to make this layout:

 

 

The journaling tells of course about the love I have for my husband. And the picture shows us just after we got married in the cityhall.

 

As I'm sharing this layout about love, let me take the opportunity to share a few more layouts that I've made in the recent past. All of these are from our wedding and thus the theme is definately love.

 

 

Romantic love is not the only kind of love that can inspire us to make layouts though and so I have a few more that are about other kinds of love, like love for children, love for family, love for photos, love for food and love for certain places...

 

 

Do you feel the love?!

 

I hope you will feel inspired to get working on some love-inspired layouts!

 

Have a great weekend!

 

Much love,

Dee

The elements: water

Hi! It's Dee and I'm continuing with this weeks series about the elements. Today I'm here with the fourth element: water!

 

When Jenny proposed to do our weekly theme about the elements I immediately opted for water as 'my' element. I may or may not have something to do with the fact that aquarius is my sign;-) Just kidding, the main reason for my pick is that a story about my dad (and me) immediately came to mind. My dad always called me a 'water rat'... This may be a Dutch expression, i'm not sure, but it's used to say someone very much likes to swim :-) Apparently from a young age I had always loved to swim. My dad would throw me in the water with my water wings on, even one time in Austria where the water of the swimming pool was extremely cold, I wouldn't mind at all! So here's the layout I came up with, with graphic elements of water, cut out with my Silhouette. I love how it turned out.

 

 

I absolutely adore this story and I'm glad I documented it. Now that my dad is passed away I try to document as many things I remember of him, stories he told me and adventures we had together.

 

It's great how one word or one theme, like in this case water, can spark so different stories, different layout ideas... It may be about summer water fun, or rain or the sea.. So many stories you can think of!

 

I hope you feel inspired to make some fun water-themed layouts as well! Please link up if you do so!

 

Much love,

Dee

NO - visible journaling

Hi! It's Dee and I'm so happy to be here with another blogpost for Write. Click. Scrapbook! I hope you are enjoying this week with the subject of "no." This topic may seem a little negative, but as we've seen the passed few days it contains a lot of fun ideas for layouts.

 

Today I'd like to challenge you with another no: no visible journaling on your layouts. First and foremost let me preface this by saying that I love love love layouts with a lot of journaling! But sometimes a layout just works better without journaling. If you do want to tell a story with that layout you can of course add in an extra page (maybe a 6x12) even, but another option is to hide the journaling. That is exactly what I did! For both of this weeks layout I'm keeping in check with the food theme of this month's gallery because well.. I just really like to talk, blog & scrap about food ;-)

 

First up is this fun layout about an absolutely amazing lunch at the Eiffel tower me and my husband had last September when we visited Paris.

 

 

I printed the pictures with my Canon Selphy. The little ones are 2x2 and the bigger ones are 3x4. I've written the journaling about this amazing lunch on a grey tag that I tucked behind the bigger photos. For the title I used a fun stamp by Kelly Purkey and letter stickers by Tim&Beck for Studio Calico. The acetate shapes are by Maggie Holmes for Crate Paper and the colored paper is by Heidi Swapp.

 

The second layout is another picture heavy layout and it tells the story about another great food-experience. Dinner at an amazing restaurant in my hometown. This dinner was a gift for our wedding. People who visit my blog probably already know this layout, because I posted it there recently.

 

 

This layout features a special centerpiece: the edible (!) menu we got at the restaurant. I'm not sure this menu will stand the test of time, but we'll see! I tucked the journaling and memorabilia behind this menu. It can be pulled up to read with the floral washi tab I created at the top of the menu.

 

I hope you are inspired to make some pages with no visible journaling yourself! Please link up if you do so!

 

Much love,

Dee

The Color of Autumn: mmm

I love Autumn. I could say it is the crisp air, the chilly nights, the yummy apple recipes, but really it is the golden color of sunshine, the bright blue skies, and all those beautiful leaves. Sigh. Big fat happy sigh.

 

I have been taking all sorts of golden evening photos. And couldn't wait to scrapbook a few of them. For this first one, I went with the apple colors in the photo, and then added some cream, brown, and gold. I'm totally digging them this season!

 

The girls had Friday afternoon free last week, so we hurried to the orchard to get some apples. This picture was making me giggle! The colors I went with are all apples. Yummy!

 

And lastly, a picture of the youngest apple picker's hair. I strayed from the traditional fall colors on this one, as I added in some dark blue and pink, rather than red. I am pretty sure these five colors are going to be put to use on some end of summer layouts as well!

That's it! I hope you are loving the colors as much as I am! Our weatherman announced that tomorrow is the height of fall colors. I am hoping to spend the day outside enjoying all of it. May you, too, be so blessed.

Thank you for stopping by!!

Challenging yourself

Hi, it's Dee with another post on fall colors!

 

Sometimes it's good to challenge yourself into using colors you normally wouldn't use. For this layout I used a color I don't use all that often, but that is one of the typical fall colors: green. I'm not the biggest fan of green, although it really depends on the shade of green. I do like the more minty green or the darker shades. But not so much the moss/grass green colors. I did use some of this for todays layout though, because I think it matches well with the green in the pictures.

 

Sunday Stroll

12 x 12 | materials: kraft dotted cardstock (BoBunny) + Green cardstock (American Crafts) + patterned paper (Dear Lizzy for American Crafts, Studio Calico and We R MemoryKeepers) + kraft tags (Studio Calico) + thickers (American Crafts) + kraft embellishments (Studio Calico) + chipboard buttons (Pink Paislee) + ink (Stazon) + pen (Sharpie) + date stamp (Dear Lizzy for American Crafts)

 

For the base of the layout I used a really cute polkadot craft paper by BoBunny. I used several shades of green and several different patterns as well. The thing that makes it easy for me to use colors I don't use all that often is to use it with papers I love the patterns of. I absolutely adore the swirly/floral-ish paper by Studio Calico (Sundrifter) collection and the same goes for the fun chevron paper by We R Memorykeepers. I love how all the different shades of green combine together and how they combine with the kraft as well.

 

I hope you feel inspired to challenge yourself to using a (fall)color you wouldn't normally use! Please link below in the comments when you do! I can't wait to see what you all come up with!

 

Much love, 

Dee

My favorite fall colors

Hi! It's Dee and I'm so happy to be here with my first blogpost for Write.Click.Scrapbook!

 

When we're talking colors & seasons fall definitely is my fave. I love the orange/yellow shades of the leaves but also of the sunlight. It paints the whole world beautifully gold. So for fall layouts my goto colors are definitely orange, yellow & gold. As complementary color I absolutely adore (dark) pink, because pink & orange is one of my favorite color-combination. Another 'color' I like to add to this palette is woodgrain. Of course this is not a real color, but especially dark wood is something that screams fall (or winter for that matter) to me!

 

I used the abovementioned colors in a layout I made a couple of weeks ago for the start of fall. For those of you who visit my blog on a regular basis, you may already have seen this one!

 

Autumn

12 x 12 | materials: patterned paper (Studio Calico) + leafs (unknown) + kraft label (Amy Tangerine for American Crafts) + thickers (American Crafts) + Gold Camera (Studio Calico) + gold 'captured' label (Studio Calico) + folder tab (Heidi Swap for Pink Paislee) + washitape (Freckled Fawn) + ink (Stazon) + pen (Sharpie) + date stamp (Dear Lizzy for American Crafts)

 

For the basis of this page I've used a gorgeous paper by Studio Calico that consists mostly of woodgrain and a touch of pink on the side. Since I use cardstock as a base for most of my layouts I really wanted to challenge myself to use this paper as a base instead of plain old cardstock ;-) I matted my photo with an old Heidi Swapp file tab on which I did my journaling. The title is in burlap thickers by American Crafts. Burlap is another thing that screams fall to me! At the base of the picture I've used little leafs in various colors that I've had in my stash for ages. I love how they connect with the leaf in the photo! In general I love how the colors of the layout complement the colors in the picture, which is not always an easy task!

 

What are your favorite fall color combinations?

 

Much love,

Dee

The Color of Autumn: using neutrals to make colors pop

Hello! It's Jennifer Larson, sharing one of the best things about October: the colors of autumn. This week you will see the work of Dieuwertje, Katie, and Marnie as they share inspiration relating to fall colors. Today, I wanted to share the importance of neutrals in highlighting those gorgeous hues.

First, a page where the photos were so bright, I used mainly grey as the background color:

There are bits of red paper around the main photo and backing the embellishments, but overall the main fall colors are present only in the photos. The grey background allows the photos to pop.

Next is another page where the photos are filled with yellow and orange, so I used mint green and white with a wee bit of coral to back the page:

Finally, an older page I made, again where the photos contained lots of orange and red. This time I used black and white to make the photos pop:

Thank you for visiting! I hope you now will dig into your neutrals as well as your red, yellow, and orange when scrapbooking autumn. For the rest of the week, you will see Dieuwertje, Katie, and Marnie sharing their own projects relating to the colors of Autumn. See you tomorrow!

FALL LOVE

Hi, everyone!  Ewa here! It's my favourite season now in Poland - FALL !!. I love the sunny, cool and misty mornings. Color palette of leaves and smell of forest during Fall are amazing.

I love to stroll for hours, stepping on crunchy leaves. During one of these walks i took a photo which later became a part of my last LO.

I hope you like Fall-ish mix of brown and gray, with addition of gold.

Do you also love this amazing season ?

Hugs , Ewa.