Meeting Lisa Bearnson

I´ve been to the Netherlands for a day of workshops. My sister Carola, my friend Nicole and I started early in the morning to go there and came back late at night (or early the next morning ;o) ). But we had a great day and that was worth all the sleep we missed and the long drive to get there!
First I had a workshop with the new stuff from Elsie Flannigan. I was a little disappointed because I didn´t like the colorcombination with red and light blue that much. But it was ok, because I wanted to try something new and that´s what I did! I think I mostly scrap a clean and simple way and Elsie´s stuff is just the opposit. ;o) Here´s my result:





I changed the LO a little and didn´t use the button- and other stickers we had been given. The stickers were pink and I don´t like to use pink with red. *brrr*
The next workshop was with Cosmo Crickets Souvenir-Line. I really love the stuff and the little folded album we made. Unfortunatly mine isn´t ready to show yet. I´m still looking fort he pics I wanna use. But I will show it when I´m done! :o)
My most important reason to go there was Lisa Bearnson. She hosted two workshops I visited. I liked her a lot! She is such a nice and friendly person! And the projects she made where great too! I loved that she told why she is scrapbooking and how to do the journaling. I´m always a little unsure what to write on my LOs. It was awesome for me to meet her! Maybe it´s crazy but I felt a little like a kid standing in front of santa clause! *lol* Maybe it´s because it isn´t usual in Germany to meet scrapbboking celebrities. ;o)




The first project she teached was a Filefolder named „My simple truth“. I´m not done with the journaling but I finished it at home and can show it. I will do the journaling later this week to comlete my project. Again I changed it a little.







The other workshop was an Album „About Me“. I loved the stuff we got to do it. It´s a complete Album with stuff to do 20 LOs! Mine isn´t ready but if you wanna see it you could see Lisas version HERE. Here sister was also there. She is a really nice person too and has an awesome handwriting! She wrote my name across the box of the album. I wish I could write and doodle like her!

We really had a great day and had a lot of fun! I´m sure I will not forget that day!
Last weekend I found some time to stamp a little and made some new cards:

This House Mouse-stamp I bought during my vacation to Florida. In the same shop I found another stamp. Although it´s really hot here in Germany lately I had to use it. :o)

Isn´t that little snowman cute? It really warms my heart! :o)
Have a nice day! - Coni

Back from Florida

Since a few days we are home again. We had a great vacation to Fort Lauderdale and I wish it would not have ended this fast!We had a room in a small hotel at the beach in Lauderdale-by-the-sea and really liked it. From our room we could see the beach and the ocean.

We went to the beach several times, laying in the sand or going for a walk. But we also did some trips. We went to Disneyworld for two days. The first day we were at Magic Kingdom to visit Mickey Mouse and his friends and the other day we went to see the Disney-MGM-Studios. Both days were wonderful and we had a lot of fun!

Another time we went to the Everglades to see some aligators. Unfortunatly we couldn´t see many of them because the water was high. But at least we saw a few ones. Here´s the proof:

We also enjoyed the trip because of the airboat we took to went into the Everglades. It was a lot of fun to nearly fly over the water! :o)

And we visited Miami too. We went to Bayside but I was very surprised to see Miami again. There are so many high buildings with condomniums build there and they are still building new ones! I was a little disappointed because I loved that Miami wasn´t doing that but now they do it more and more. :o( But we went to the Hard Rock-Café which was all the same and ate HUGE burgers *mjamm* :o)

I used our vacation to the states to visit some LSS and some of the big shops like Michaels oder AC Moore. It was great to have so much Scrapbooking-Stores around! Here in Germany there are just a few shops that sell Scrapbooking-stuff and they are far away! And I love to have the possibility to buy stuff at supermarkets like Walmart or Target. I wish I had this chance in Germany too...
We really loved our vacation and we are sure we´ll go there again! We love the landscape, the people and everything we saw!
I know I´m crazy but I scraped a little in Florida too. :D Here are two of the LOs I did there:



I will close for today with a picture of a sunrise from our hotelroom. Thanks to jetlag we were up very eary! ;o)

Have a great day! - Coni

Just a few more days...

...and my boyfriend Andis and my vacation to Fort Lauderdale / Florida will start. I can´t wait to get there again! I hope we´ll have a great trip! :o)I didn´t wrote much here but I was very busy. There´s so much to do - especially when you plan to go on vacation. But I found some time to be creative so I can share something new. Whoohoo! I made a box for my Big Picture-class "Goals 101". I really love the class! It´s great! I will write my goals on little LOs and put them inside.

The picture is aweful but I took them late yesterday and there was not enough light to take better ones. :o(
I also made a new LO. I´m not sure if I like it but I don´t know what to change maybe. So if you have any suggestions just leave a comment! :o)


I had to make a frame for a swap and was really late. But when I started it in the end it was so much fun that I did a second one for myself too. The day I did it I got my new stamps from Magnolia. Those stamps are really popular here in Germany at the moment. I bought that girl (her name is Tilda) and the fence. When I did the little scene I didn´t have any idea to make a greeting card with it. So it went into my frame. :o) I´m sure one day I´ll change the picture and make a card of it. But at the moment Tilda is feeling pretty fine in the frame on my desk! *lol*


The last things I can show are a few card I did. I need a lot of card for birthdays this month and these are the first ones. I know I don´t have enough cards right now but at least it´s a start! ;o)



Hugs,Coni

Back again!

It´s been a while since I write something here. But I hope to be back more often now!I did two new LOs I want to show:

I wanted to try the new big eyelets from Makin Memories called grommits. And now I can say, that I really adore them! The picture is from my vacation to Turkey in 2000. I can´t believe I have been so blond! *lol*
Here is the second LO. It´s a scraplift from C.D. Muchowski. She won the "Scrapbooker of the year" at Creating Keepsakes magazine. I love her style! That´s why I scraplift a LO she did for the lastest issue of CK.

And here are some stamping-cards I made lately:

I would like to to some new LOs but didn´t have any ideas right now. I hope this will change soon!

New stuff

I haven´t been creative lately. I just don´t have any ideas and if I try something I don´t like it that much. :o(
That´s why I didn´t blog. But today I think I could show you two things I´ve done.

I´ve been shopping last week and got some clearstamps from Technique Tuesday I always loved. Here´s my first try useing this stamps:

I have some more ideas to use them. I hope I could try it soon!

Another thing I bought was a pc-programm called "Memory Mixer". I´m not doing digital LOs often but this sounds great! So I give it a try. It was very easy to use and I just did this first LO in about five minutes:

The journaling says: "I love to laugh with you!"

I hope I get my mojo back soon!

Beach

Last monday I recieved a new "Creating Keepsakes". On the backside of the magazine was an advertisment from "Close to my heart". I love the LO shown on it and its colors. So I thought about a scraplift. This is what I made:

The idea to use the doodle and put flowers at it came while I was scrapping. And I really like the result!

I guess buying "Creating Keepsakes" was a good idea! I saw some more LOs inside this issue that were inspiring. I just wish I have more time...

Speaking of Creating Keepsakes: I´m very exited about a scrapbook-weekend in the Netherlands in the beginning of June that I will go to. I´ve been there last year twice and had a lot of fun. I thought I wouldn´t go there this time because of my vacation to the States but when I read that Lisa Bearnson (founder of Creating Keepsakes-magazine) will be there I couldn´t resist! I love her work and think that she´s amazing! I will do two workshops she´ll teach and I´m really exited about it! I hope it´ll be a lot of fun!

DreamTeam & Bears

Last friday I´ve been to a crop again. I made this LO:

It shows the girls I´m regulary stamping with. We always have so much fun and I love spending my time with them!

With these girls I meet last saturday again too. Just Nicole was missing but she´ll be around next time again. When we meet I did the following cards:

On this cards I used the paperscraps from the LO before and rubberstamps from Penny Black and Daries. I LOVE bears! I love them as stamp-images and I love them as toys. I hardly can turn around and go when I see a cute little bear. That´s why I couldn´t resist buying this new stamps from Whipper Snapper designs.

EDIT: The pic of my small book will follow...

Aren´t they cute??? The small book is a bonus project I did for my Big Picture-class "The Art of choosing joy". It´s a little journal to I write in every day the things I´m grateful for. I´m a little behind in my class but I love it! It is so inspiring!

I not only stamp cute bears last weekend. I bought a new cuddly toy too. I love the bears from Build-a-bear. They just open two shops in Hamburg last year. I´ve been there and saw this sweet little spingbear:

I call her Micah (I know it´s a boys name but I like it for this sweet teddy too) and she is so soft! I always could cuddle her! ;o)

I hope next weekend I could be creative again and maybe there will be some new bearstuff again! *lol*