Le Garde Robe

Een tijdje geleden zag ik op Pinterest een afbeelding voorbij komen van een klein kledingkastje waar iemand een mini album in had gemaakt. Er stond geen werkbeschrijving ben, maar ik vond het zo'n leuk idee dat ik zelf aan de slag ben gegaan! Het gehele kastje is door mijzelf ontworpen en gemaakt van chipboard en vervolgens volledig afgewerkt met de nieuwe lijn What's Up van Basic Grey.

Ook de kledinghangers zijn zelf gemaakt van ijslollystokjes. Daaraan hangen 12 kaartjes met op elk kaartje een mini-layoutje. De foto's zijn maandfoto's van mijn nichtje Pien. Op elke foto is ze weer een maandje ouder.

Toen ik het kastje liet zien aan Lia Sauer van de Craftorij, was ze zo enthousiast dat ze me gevraagd heeft of ik er een workshop van wil geven. Woohoo....dat is gaaf!! Hij staat inmiddels in de winkel en voor de liefhebbers op 23 juni geef ik de workshop waarbij je aan het einde van de dag het kledingkastje hebt gemaakt met de hangertjes. Thuis kan je dan zelf de mini layoutjes afmaken! Klik op deze link als je meer info wilt over deze workshop!




A few weeks ago, I came across an image on Pinterest of a mini album in a little wardrobe. There was no tutorial or any explanation, but I was inspired, so I decided to design & create my own version. With chipboard and the new What's Up Collection of Basic Grey I created this wardrobe.

The clothes hangers are created from popsticles. Each clothes hanger has 1 mini-layout of my little niece Pien. In total 12 foto's of her first year, each layout 1 month.

When I showed the wardrobe and mini album to the owner of my local scrapbook store, Lia, she was so excited and asked me whether I was interested to give a workshop on this project. Woohooo....of course!! So June 23 I will give this workshop at The Craftorij in Ede, The Netherlands!

XX, Rianne

Heldinnen - Heroines

This month's theme the challenge on the Glitz blog is celebrating the special women in your life. I chose to scrap a photo of my sister with her baby girl.
I used the sketch from OUAS to create the layout. All of the embellishments on this layout are handmade.

First I cut the little airplanes from the PP and used them as a mask to create the background. I misted with blue glimmermist and added a few brown glimmer drops. I stamped the rest of the background with a little stamp with tiny stars. I cut the bicycle from the patterned paper, created spokes and covered it with glossy accents.

I applied clear rock candy distress crackle on the airplanes and used foamtape, so they come off the page

The hearts are created with a die and then covered with glossy accents. The photo mat has hidden journaling, and I wanted to create a closure, so I stamped on a piece of clear art and added a closed eyelet with a small piece of scrappers' floss

I stamped & clear embossed a large globe on the patterned paper and layered it with different die-cut pieces of PP

I created the weave from 3 strings of hennep rope which I stapled to the layout. 

The photomat opens into journalling, which translates in English to:

"My sister Marielle & niece Pien are for me true heroines. In 2011 my sister and I went on a short holiday in Egypt. At the time she was 32 weeks pregnant. We could never have known that that week turned out to be one of the most scary weeks of our lives. On day four of our holiday my sister's water broke and we rushed to the hospital in Sharm-El-Sheikh, actually the same hospital were former President Mubarak was at that same time. We called her husband who was at home in The Netherlands with their 2 year old son. He flew into Egypt the next morning. Two days later my sister was rushed into the operating room, all by herself with 4 Arabic doctors to have a ceasarean section. Neither her husband nor me was allowed to support my sister during that terrifying time. Her husband and me were nervously waiting to hear that both mother and child would be ok. On April 25, 2011 my little niece Pien was born. 8 weeks too early and so incredibly small, but definately healthy. This whole experience made the bond between my sister and I stronger than ever. The fact that I was the first to hold little Pien, half an hour after she was born, to take her 2 stairs down in the hospital to meet her mommy, my sister, has left a huge impact on me. My love for my niece will always have that deep dimension because of that incredible moment. Both women have fought for their wellbeing in that pretty mediocre health care facility, without the natal care we are used to at home. They have fought to be able to come home to the Netherlands, which fortunately already happened 10 days after Pien was born. Now, more than 1 year later, they are both amazing, healthy and strong. For that they are my true heroines." 

XX, Rianne

Love your cooking Dad!

Hi everybody!

For the April Sketch Challenge on My Creative Sketches I created this layout using Prima Marketing's En Francais collection. Love the colors of this collection. My cute niece was so nice to spill her food all over her face, resulting in this cute instagram picture. The retro colors of the picture go so well with the colors of the papers.

I hand stitched along the large die cut, which i created with my cricut. The horse is fussy cut from the collection. The little fence is a wood lasercut piece, which I painted with Ten Seconds copper paint and then used a text stamp and sea foam white embossing powder. I finished the layout with some hand cut paper pieces from the collection, rolled paper flowers and prima flowers.

Thanks for looking!!

XX, Rianne