Sunday Morning. I wake up, read my e-mails and look at the messages on Facebook on my Iphone and read that Whitney Houston has died. Whitney was a singer I am grown up with and I have tried to sing her songs, with the only audience of some neighborhood cats :) I have been a fan of her and also loved her in "The bodyguard".
When she came to Netherlands for a tour, I went to her concert with my mother. I was disappointed because her concert was very brief and she didn't do an encore and didn't even hit those famous high notes. However, I was still a fan and followed her career. It is a pity she is gone because I am going to miss her. If it was a surprise? I don't think so, but still a pity we have to say goodbye to her. Whitney you were a star and you will keep on shining upstairs.
R.I.P. Whitney.
Whitney Houston & Jermaine Jackson - If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful
This week I have been super busy with a number of layouts LOL. ZigZagScrap has got a lot of great stuff to come this month. So stay tuned I love to share it with you, but first I like the share what's new in store this week.
Angelle design made a great "Alpha Mix" alpha pack. This alpha pack contains 3 different alphas: Blue silver, Green Polka Dot and Orange Stained. They are bright, "juicy" and perfect for adding the final touch to your LOs. Each of them is made in 2 variants: English and Russian. I will only say it here on my blog, so please don't tell it further :), I am not a big fan of alpha's. Why I don't know, so when Angelle Design came up with this alpha pack I had to made a LO with it and to my big surprise I liked it. So I don't know why I have troubles with using alpha's.
Next week it's "Valentine day" this new kit "Lovely Day" by Camomile Designs fits perfect for those romantic layouts or not :) I love the colors and it's just to sweet.
My LO
Credit Picture: Love by gggirl
Another great kit is "Dearly full kit" by Kokon Scrap-Art. 'Dearly' is a kit in beautiful colors and great elements that you must have in your collection. The colors blue, brown/liver and red match perfect together. With this kit you create a very special look at your photos with your loved ones, treasured memories to watch very often with a smile on your face.
My LO
There is also a great wordart available; One Little Word - Wordarts by t for me designs. 10.png-files with wordarts that could be used for almost any page or project! Let one single word follow you through this year! Let it guide you and remind you of what is important in life!
I love various kind of music for example light classic, reggae, pop, rock etc. We have been twice to Jamaica for holiday and the impact of Bob Marley's music is big and everywhere you came you heard his music. I loved to hear it, but when there is only one Cd on repeat for two weeks it got a bit much for me. So when I came home I didn't listen to Bob Marley anymore. I had downloaded the cd of Katherine Jenkins "Believe" and I was surprised she did a cover of the song of Bob Marley "No Woman, no cry". I thought it couldn't be covered :) but I love the song and if I want to relax I put it on and try (yeah try) to sing with it. LOL. I haven't heard the neighbors complain yet.
So the song is at the moment on repeat and I wanted to share it with you :)
As you know I am one several creative teams and I had so say goodbye to some. I mostly had time to made layouts for my teams and didn't had more time to do more and now I notice I have time to create other layouts and even got my photo book finished of my "Straight to Josh" tour which I received this week finally. It got 122 pages and I am really proud of it. It became more a dairy/scrap/photo book.
I already shared some pages with you in a previous blog. But this one I really love. Josh likes to sing "Smile" a song by Charlie Chaplin and to all my 5 concert he finished it with this song. I wanted to do more with my pictures and looked up some Charlie pics. I put the lyrics of the song on it and did some blending.
Smile sung by Josh Groban
A day of Bergen, Norway
Credit: Focused by ValC and Sue Cummings
The other thing I have done in the mean time is collecting free stuff which I didn't use. So last night I found this lovely freebie by Lindsay Jane Designs and I definitely wanted to make something with it. If you like the freebie you can get it of her blog.
My LO
Credits:
Lindsay Jane Designs - Lovebirds scatterz, Elements by Studio 68,
Paper and wordart of Fancydress collab and Crazy Little thing called love collab by MScraps
Angelle design has made a great collab with Camomile Designs called "Color your Memories". It is a great colorful collab. The collab is available in a bundle or in separate packs. They made elements, templates, clusters and alpha's. A lot of stuff you can use for your layouts.
I loved to work with clusters. Why? They are so sweet and easy to use in your layout and it looks like it took me a lot of time to make it :) Sometimes you can use that because I also have to work and do my housework. In both of my LO's used one of the clusters and add some elements to it.
My LO's
I also played with another collab "It must be Love" by Bekah E & Pink Reptile Designs. I love the style of Pink Reptile and I couln't resist to make a dreamy layout.
First of all we have a new designer at Zig Zag Scrap and that's Dasha of Angelle Design.
Meet Dasha, aka Angelle Design! Dasha is from Russia, almost 29 years old, happily married, has a wonderful 4-year old son called Tim and apart from being a wife, mom and digi designer, she teaches English!
By accident I came in touch with her when she send me a pm asking me if I wanted to be on her guest ct in 2010. She was a starter. So I did, but when her store stopped she also stopped with designing. A couple of weeks ago I received an email of her asking if I wanted to be on her permanent ct. I could not resist it and the funny thing is her store is at Zig Zag Scrap. Why funny? Most of my ct designers have their shop at ZZS. So sometimes it is difficult for me to be creative :) but hey I am drifting away because I was talking about Dasha. Meanwhile she was on a couple of ct and I saw her LO's in several gallery's and I must admit I became a big fan of her work. If you want to see it you can go to her blog.
The second one is:"My Jake..." Bundle. This one is a bit bigger, because it has templates and alphas, but I you don't want to have the whole package it is also available separte.
My LO's with the kit
Credits: Poem by QueenofNarnia29
Credit: Twilight pictures are from the site Daydreaming
If you like the kit I am sure you will like the freebie she has on her blog :) So you have met Dasha of Angelle Design and you know where you can find her.
Also new in the Zig Zag Scrap Store:Messily Stitched and Glittering Love by 2 am Designs It was fun playing with the with the Messily Stitched and Glittering Love. It is a fun little collection of stitched shapes and wordart, perfect for adding a little extra love to your page. 10 stitched shapes and WA, plus a couple of matching glittering hearts scatters and a cute heart button for a finishing touch. Get them for your Valentine's stash!
The last new thing I want to share with you is: I Heart U by Digi Junkie I am so in love with the colors :)
My LO.
I used first the gray background, because another ct member used the same paper I changed it to pink. I like them both, but I prefer the first one. What do you think? It is also my first LO without pictures and I am very happy with it.
