Happy Easter and welcome to the Easter blog hop! You should have come here from the blog of Nathalie Kalbach. Today is the day when we tumble down the rabbit’s hole and hop after the White Rabbit. The rabbit hops from blog to blog, from country to country all around the cyber scrapbooking world!
Although the countries and styles vary and designers participating had a free choice what to create for the hop, the pieces of art have all something in common. If you’re familiar with Alice in Wonderland, you might remember that the White Rabbit, which Alice followed and found the Wonderland, had a pocket watch. So in this hop the common theme is the time piece. You can find an interpretation or a way to incorporate a clock in every creation! Inspiring, right?

So please hop along and remember to leave a comment at every stage! That way you ensure as many tickets for the raffle as possible. You’ll have just a week to participate (to April 8th at noon GMT) for the giveaway put together from donations from 7 Dots Studio, BadgesFolie, Garn&Mehr, Stromsvigt and Wycinanka.
So enjoy the hop and find the inspiring Wonderland of scrapbooking!
A few weeks back I treated myself to a bouquet of these lovely tulips. Instant spring in our home, so it felt. And instant spring in my scrapbookalbum. I started out with a sheet of white cardstock and applied a good layer of gesso, adding some texture to the page. After drying, I sprayed Glimmer Mists onto the gesso, added some water and let the colors bleed. I followed the color scheme of the tulips for my page.
Next to the greens and pinks, I also brought in some gold (in small amounts) with glitter tape by American Crafts, and with some golden Smooch sparkle accent ink onto the chipboard feathers by Jenni Bowlin. In the cluster of embellishments at the right bottom corner of the picture you can find a pocket watch, die-cut from a Teresa Collins paper.
This turned out to be a layout with almost all of my favorite products, techniques, and brands at the moment. I was a bit sceptic at first, but I’m so addicted to this fabric tape. This one is from Maya Road.
Now it’s time to hop along to Adrienne Ford‘s blog. Thank you very much for stopping by today! Enjoy the rest of the hop!
Els.
Supplies:
Stamps: Grid Pattern – Studio Calico, Neapolitan Roller Stamp – Dear Lizzy; Inks: Jet Black – StazOn, Chewing Gum Dye Ink – Jenni Bowlin; Patterned Paper: Memories – Teresa Collins; Misc.: white cardstock – Bazzill Basics, gesso & Blank Canvas acrylic paint – Claudine Helmuth Studio, fabric tape – Maya Road, Goldrush Sparkle Accent Ink – Smooch Glitz, Cherub Pink, Olive Vine, Irridescent Gold Glimmer Mist – Tattered Angels, Brown Sugar Glitter Tape -American Crafts, Neapolitan Splendid Puffy Thickers – Dear Lizzy, Vintage Instaframes rub-ons – Heidi Swapp, label sticker – Kési’Art, Lost & Found, & Indie Chic label stickers – My Mind’s Eye, Photo Freedom Alpha Stickers – Echo Park, Handmade Layered Circles – Elle’s Studio, Feater Chipboard shapes – Jenni Bowlin, Soleil Mixed Brads & True Love chipboard shapes – BasicGrey; Tools: Standard Circles Small Nestabilities dies – Spellbinders.








First of all I altered some chipboard Thickers to match the colors of my layout. I covered them with some tacky glue, added pink glitter, and finished them off with a thin layer of Glossy Accents to prevent that the glitter would rub off. The rest of my title is die-cutted with letter dies from Papertrey Ink.
This ‘contagious laugh’ sticker is from Dear Lizzy’s Neapolitan collection. The small puffy hearts have been in my stash since forever. I bought them when I first started scrapbooking in a local discount store, and they still last. The polaroids are trimmed out from a Follow Your Heart ‘Be Happy’ paper, also by My Mind’s Eye.








So I dug out my circle nestabilities, and die-cutted about 5 circles of old book paper of each of the dies. I wrinkled them all up, and flattened them out again. In between all of the layers is a layer of corrugated cardboard, to give the tree some extra height. Add in a stick and a lot of hot glue. For the trunks, not really visible on this picture however, I used a small slice of a branch. * Dus zocht ik mijn cirkel nestabilities samen, en sneed van iedere cirkel er een 5-tal uit oud boekpapier. Ik verfrommelde ze en wreef ze weer plat. Tussen elk van de laagjes zit een stukje golfkarton, om de boom wat meer hoogte te geven. Voeg nog een stokje en heel veel warme lijm toe. Voor de stammetjes, die hier op de foto echter niet zo goed te zien zijn, gebruikte ik smalle stukjes van een tak.
They’re really great decoration items for the holidays, which you can make as large or as small as you like. Hope I’ve been able to inspire you. * Ze zijn heel mooi als decoratie-item voor de feestdagen. En je kan ze zo groot en zo klein maken als je zelf graag wil. Ik hoop dat ik jullie kon inspireren.





