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Dutch Design Leather, Est 2013

5 little booklets…

Monique

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June 16, 2013

Yup, that’s right, 5 little booklets and 9 more in the making. What was I thinking…

With the school hollidays coming up and lot’s of birthdays, I wanted to make some journals to either tuck in my handbag while on the road, or give as a cute little present.

I saw some youtube video’s with the cutest little booklets. One was a doodle book – journal from Michelle Mooney, thepaperaddiction on YouTube. Made completely from envelopes. I tried this last week, but as I only had white envelopes and not the nice brown colored ones she uses, I tea dyed some junk envelopes.

Then I saw some realy cute file folder mini booklets made with a mini file folder and just some random papers in them. I fell completely in love with these. You can see some great examples at RoxPaperScissors and Yolanda’s Crafty Channel on Youtube.

As I just got the File Tabs Sizzix on the edge die, I thought I would do something with that as well.

So I’ve spent my weekend collecting, cutting and folding papers, all sorts of papers…
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The sea is only… – art journal page

Monique

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June 13, 2013

I’m participating in the Summer of Color. Where this year the colors to be used on your projects are chosen by the participating artists. This week, week one, the colors are Citron Green and Turqoise. Two of my favorite colors.

Here’s my entry for this week:

“The sea is only the embodiment of a
supernatural and wonderful existence.
It is nothing but love and emotion;
it is the ‘Living Infinite…”
― Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

I remembered to make some progress pics and of course some detail shots, so this is a rather picture heavy post =).
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WOYWW 210

Monique

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June 12, 2013

It’s time for yet another What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, #210 already, over at Julia’s Stamping Ground. Time does fly these days. If you want to know what this is all about, just hop on over to her blog and she’ll explain it all to you.

My desk is still a mess from making the book cover for my art journal while simultaniously working on a journal page for The Summer of Color, Week One. Who has time to clean up, right?
So I’ll just show you a tiny part of my desk this time, a sneek peek at my journal page and some of the things I’ll be using on the page.

I have now come to this stage in the page where there are some parts of the page that I realy like. I find this to be the most difficult part, because you know it’s not done, but going forward could go either way.
Here is one of the parts that I realy like in this page. Followed by some Lovely ATC’s from the WOYWW4 swap.
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Mixed Media Book Cover for art journals

Monique

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June 11, 2013

Next week is my birthday and my mother is coming to stay with me again for a good part of the week. I’m looking forward to the mess we will be making while crafting together. So far I have made three art journal booklets for her with a pamphlet stitch. Each made with 5 folio’s.

For next week I want to make her a book cover so she can bind the 3 signatures together in a book. It will have to be something she can decorate herself and I want the signatures to be removable, so it’s easier to work in the booklets.

I saw a blogpost and youtube video’s from Paula Phillips (JournalArtista, Mixed Media mini books) where she did just what I was looking for. An easy to make bookcover with removable signatures. Go check her out, her booklets and journal pages are beautiful and inspiring, I started playing a bit with this idea and made a test cover for my own pamphlet booklets.

I didn’t make progress pics, because I got rather caught up in the process of making this. I learned a lot while doing it and there are several things I will do differently when I make the cover for my mother. I will try and remember to make progress shots when I make that one, just let me know if you would like a tutorial on that.

I do, however, have some close up shots for you.
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Home, a safe haven – art journal page

Monique

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June 7, 2013

The theme for the month june over at Art journal journey is to reflect on the term “Home”. For me home is the place where my loved ones are, my 2 kids, husband and 4 cats. It’s a safe haven, a place of warmth and kindness.

My home used to be in Limburg, the Netherlands and it’s hills are never far from my thoughts. I even created “hills” in my garden to remind me of them in the middle of the flat fields I live in today. Although, I suppose, the dikes in the polder could be considered as some sort of hill.

Someday I may go back to Limburg, but for now I’m happy where I am. Pottering away in my garden and my little craft corner. My little hiding place.

I made this page on a background that was used for cleaning of stencils and left over paints.
I’m afraid I didn’t make any progress pics, but here are some close ups.
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Mix It Monthly – Picasso meets vintage

Monique

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June 2, 2013

Last week I didn’t do very much in my art journal. I did start a page on sunday evening. Continued with it on monday and then put it all away. Didn’t touch it all again till thursday when I remembered the challenge over at Mix It Monthly for may/june. The prompt was yellow vintage girl goes Picasso. This sparked something with me and I went looking for some picasso inspiration and some vintage inspiration. Fliddled around a bit with that and ended up with this.

Which is not at all how I started the page.
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My first swap

Monique

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May 30, 2013

A while back I took part in the altered playing card challenge over at Sandee and Amelie’s steampunk challenge blog and I forgot to mention how happy I was when I found out that my altered playing cards were spotlighted at Sandee and Amelie’s steampunk challenge blog. Such a lovely surprise =).

These cards brought yet another suprise because after I posted my APC’s for the altered playing card challenge over at Sandee and Amelie’s steampunk challenge blog, I received lots of sweet messages. Among which there was one message from a lovely, very talented, lady. Her name is Dagmar and you can find her wonderful blog here. Dagmar mentioned in her comment that she would love to add one of the cards to her ATC collection. I was delighted that she liked them so much, so I wrote her a message telling her that I would gladly sent one to her.  She wrote me a lovely message back in which she offered to sent me one of her ATC’s in return.

I was over the moon as this was now my very first swap. I love sending gifts, I love surprises and I love getting mail, but…well there allways a but isn’t there, I didn’t know how to get the ATC to her in one piece. Nor what is common practice when doing a swap.

So I did some research and Dagmar sent me some tips. I found a nice free picture online for the back of the card and a bubble envelope, large enough for the ATC. I was however still afraid it might bend or break in the mail and after thinking a while, I figured I would make a little book to put the ATC in. And since I love making books and trying new things, I made her a little ATC booklet.

I even remembered to make some “making off” shots.
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WOYWW 208

Monique

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May 29, 2013

Today will be a very short WOYWW post, as my mother is keeping me company this week. Which means I won’t be online as much as I would normally be. Still I didn’t want to miss the big 4 year anniversary of WOYWW over at Julia’s Stamping Ground.

I only found this blog a few months ago and this will be my 4th post. So far I have shown you my rather messy workdesk, the view from my workdesk and whats’s behind my workdesk. Today however, as my mother is here, I will show you my dinner table.

The table has been converted to crafting workdesk for as long as she is here. I must confess, I do like working there, because there is a lot more room to play….less room to eat though…

As you can see, the ATC’s for the WOYWW4 anniversary ATC swap are on the table. They are not yet entirely finished, but I think they look cute already.
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