Relaxing and introducing

Hi everyone!

How are you all doing? I don't have to go to school any more!! Okay I still need to pick up my results next week, but apart from that, I got vacation!! I already know how to fill it. Scrapping, scrapping and scrapping! Also a bit designing and a trip to Disneyland Paris! Half August it's out with the fun, cause then are my second chances for a couple of exams. But that's far far away!

So that was the relaxing part, now the introducing part! I wanted to write something today about my scrapping friends! We all are members of the same Dutch Scrapbook board and recently we all started with designing and some are really talented!

Let's start with Raoul.

His latest creation is also a toy block alpha! but really different from mine! I really like his designs and maybe you do too! He also made his own handwriting font, awesome Disneycharacters in 2 different ways and other alphas! You can pick up his freebies at his blog: Scrapbooking Raoul (you get directed to the toy blocks post)! Not all previews shown!

Next in line is Sarah! She is unstoppable at the moment! Wordbits are coming from her, like she was a mass production industrie! But she also has amazing alphas! She's also an upcoming designer you must check out! I'll post some previews of her work here, but for the download you need to head to Sarah's blog: Sarah Online! (you get directed to her post labelled as freebie)

 

And as last I want to introduce you to the work of Fiona! She's the reason I started scrapping and I really love what she does as a designer! She has such a nice style I really love her templates, because they're just perfect, and her buttons. For the alpha lovers, don't be afraid, cause she got them too!  Just go over to Designs by Fiona and grab them!

  

 

So that was all for today! I saw I need to practise a lot with those images in my blog messages. I may change the layout of the post later today because of that. 

But for now: It's relaxing time! Me and a friend go to a sort of market in a nearby town. I didn't see her for a very long time so it's going to be a lot of fun!!

See you later!!

Another Freebie!!

Hey!

5 of the 7 examinations are already past. Only 2 to go! But one is just a paper and must be finished on Sunday, and the other is one harder subject, but that examination is miles away! (23 June) So I decided to take a little break from learning for school and I started on learning to design proper elements and other scrapstuff! I started with an Alpha that was in my mind for a very long time! And when I was busy, I dicided to make it in 6 different colors! Yeah, 6 different colors! Right now they only contain the upper case letters. Maybe later there will come one with the lower case. But for now, they're finnished and I can't wait to share them with you! Please make sure these freebies are for your personal use only. 

 

 

 

 

Click the images to download!

Hope you like the alpha! I'll post a example of it when I used it in one of my lay outs. But I havn't had the time yet to make a LO. 

Xxx
Jojo

I showed off!

Hey everyone!

first some bad ending of my presentation from the 30th of May. I received my points for it, and well... It isn't good. I got 7/20 and that point is 20% of my final total. I hope that I get 10/20 in the end, but I'm a little scared. I really don't know what I've got to do if I fail again.

Right now, I've been so busy! Already 4 of the 7 exams I need to do are past me! Tuesday I've got the fifth one. Fysical sience... Urg. I've still got loads to do for that one! after that one, I get a little break. See that as scrapping time! finally!

To talk about scrapping. I wanted to post and let you know that one of my lay-outs is in the show off's from Britt-ish designs. I really love her products. And the lay-outs I've send is one of my favourites I've made during the second birthday of Mousescrappers. It's the page that comes next to my entry for Speed Scrap #58.

Credits

And Britt was so kind to give me, and the others who showed of, an amazing new alpha for free!

So if you also love her designs, go get there and show off sometimes! I've saw such pretty lay outs in the show off! You definitely need to check it out @ Britt-ish designs. 

I need to study a bit more this morning, and in the afternoon I've got to go to a party for my little niece and nephew. I don't know what it's called in English, but it's a party because they may accept the body of Christ in the church. (really bad definition) In Dutch we say "Communiefeest". So I'm going to loose most of the day because of that. And I need to do so much for my next exam! stresss...

See you next time!

Xxx

Jojo

Get it right?

I’ve just presented my project, and to be honest I think it was horrible! The 3 other people who needed to judge me were so mean and horrible to me! So I’m a bit down right now.

To keep you all up with me, I’ll present my project once more today, but this time to you. Feel free to share your thoughts with me about it, cause I don’t see the big mistakes my judges saw.

We needed to make a house in the middle of a hill (but first thought. Who wants to build in the middle of a hill when you got a flat and empty surface on top of the hill and down the hill!) Me needed to start with 4 spaces that were linked to each other. In the beginning I chose to experiment and pick cylindrical spaces to build in my project. But the result of that didn’t satisfy my feeling about it and I went to redefine everything. I came up with 3 rectangular spaces who were on top of each other. They follow the slope of the hill. To top those rectangular spaces, I still used a cylindrical space. The way it was connected to the other spaces was so spectacular and eye catching that I didn’t want to lose that.  In the next faze we needed to make it like a home, so I placed the living spaces in the big rectangular ones and the cylindrical space became an out-side space to give a nice romantic add-on with the parents’ bedroom.

Some photo's of my models: 

The judges thought I was too busy with form, and not with architecture.  Also the cylindrical space they questioned. But in my opinion, that space is a nice effect in the whole project. It came there throughout experimenting with things, and it stayed there. If it would be rectangular like the other spaces it would be a boring project in my opinion. I needed something expressive and spectacular to satisfy my thoughts about it. But is wasn’t good enough.

So now I’m wondering, what have I done wrong? How can I learn from this? And how can I get it right? Is there is any right? And with all these thoughts there’s one Glee song that fits! Here is it, cause it fits so well with my feelings and thoughts about my project.

Let’s hope for the best for my project.

And now I’m going to relax a few hours (Scrapbooking!!) so I can start with a fresh head tomorrow. Examinations are coming up next week.

Wish it was July already!!

Xxx

Jojo

Let's go Blog hopping!

Ok, first I want to tell about the concert yesterday. It was amazing!! I only played 2 little faults that no one but my fellow orchestra members heard. So I covered those 2 pretty good. Al my solo's went amazing, and afterwards everyone was so full with love for my playing! At the end, all the players who had a solo (so most of the players that play the first part) got to stand up for everyone. That moment felt so good. 

Next year we're doing a Beethoven programme. Very classic and that's what worries me a little. But like always, it will turn out great! Maybe I will get another solo, but that's for next year.

But the main reason for my writing is to inform you about something where I've been looking forward too! To celebrate the second birthday of Mousescrappers there's a huge Blog hop today!! So join me and start hopping now! I already saw a few previews from a few participants and they looked amazing! If you don't know what I'm talking about, go check ik out here @ mousescrappers.

And now I'm off hopping, and hoping my laptop has enough space to save all those amazing freebies!

Xxx

Jojo