Happy birthday to Leonie! It was a lovely day, as she celebrated her 4th birthday, and she was SO tired tonight she fell asleep instantly. That almost never happens!! Maybe it was the Disney princess Barbie doll lying next to her We had company throughout the day and ‘diner’ at McDonalds as she requested. I have one day of work tomorrow, and will be home on Tuesday and Wednesday. Can’t wait for that little weekend during the week LOL

Somehow I found time to design, and I created a freebie mini-kit for the Designer Apprentice contest. I such a sucker for contests, so I just had to play in this one! I can only hope I’ll have enough time to crank out the kits untill I’m eliminated…

I was supposed to design something inspired by SUMMER. That was the only given assignment, and this is what I did. I thought of what Summer meant to me and was suddenly humming ‘This is where I want to be, La Isla Bonita’. Can you believe that? Then I spent all this time avoiding anything cheesy like the Madonna song LOL

Find out how to get the freebie here! I’d love to know what you think, before the judges speak their minds

It’s time for this weeks new releases at Elemental Scraps, and it’s collab week, so that means… well… a collab LOL

This time I got together with Crystal of Inspired Designs by Crystal, and created this kit all dedicated to READING! I don’t know about you, but I LOVE to read. I have a childrens book fetish, and I’m sorry to say I have had far too little free time lately to read anything. For the first time in my life, I have TWO unread books waiting for me. And that’s me saying this after 5 weeks of summer break, what’s wrong with that picture?? Ugh…

Anyway, let me show you the kit:

a closer look:

Here’s a LO I did with this kit, featuring our bookcases:

And here’s what my CT/the ES CT did with the kit!

Off course this kit is on a 25% sale, as usual. Make sure you grab it! I have a cute freebie for you, a set of 3 doorknob hangers for the readers that do not want to be disturbed

download here

Enjoy! And don’t forget to visit Crystal’s blog as well, for another freebie!!

It’s weekend, and that means that new-release-monday is right around the corner! And for this week, it means my 30% sale is almost over, and THAT means your chance of getting Birthday Bliss for free is almost gone too!! Hurry if you haven’t checked out yet!!

I have some beautiful layouts to show you:

I love how Denise captured this first-camera-moment! When I first released this kit, I used it to scrap Leonie taking pictures for the first time with her own camera too, such a great event to capture!

Here’s another page by Denise using Sail Away! Don’t you just love how she cleverly used the rings to create mouse ears?

Tanja used Birthday Bliss for this great double page layout, she also used some parts from Julie Marie Designs in here.

And here’s another one by Denise, doesn’t that cake look delicious? Remember, you can still get Birthday Bliss for free with ANY purchase from my store till Sunday! My store is on a 30% sale (and you know, being 30 isn’t scrary at all, I feel no different than last week LOL), so make sure you grab what you want. I’ll be back tomorrow with sneak peeks!!

Ugh, what a day to get sick! I’ve been out of it all day yesterday, just feeling yucky, nothing specific. A HUGE headache, feeling sick to my stomach and I slept hours and hours. Well, what mom can get sick longer than a day? Not this mom… so, here I am, still an aching head, stomach feels better, and I’m here to show you NEW stuff!

First of all: have you seen the super freebie on the ES blog? You can this lovely kit in bits and pieces, scattered throughout the next week, so make sure you check the blog multiple times a day! The download will only be available for 24 hours, so don’t miss them!! If you gather all pieces, you’ll end up with this:

Lovely, right?

Well, onto the next part!

Here’s what I released today:

Since there were only 2 comments, both of you win this kit! So, Michele and Alyna, send me an e-mail at bianca {at} danton {dot} nl, so I can get you your coupons!!

Next, here’s the collab with Sherri Tierney: Enjoy the Shade:

You had a chance to win this at DST, and I was supposed to pick a winner yesterday, so I’ll better run, right?

Besides that, I also have:

(this was a newsletter freebie, now available for sale)

commercial use flowers

and commercial use flower brushes!

Hmm, are you still with me? That was a LOT of images! All new releases are 25% off TODAY, as usual, so make sure you shop! I’ll be back tomorrow with some CT inspiration (or you can check the detailed images in the store, to see the stuff in action).

Hello all! Welcome to the Elemental Scraps Summer Blog Train. The designers at Elemental Scraps have gotten together to entice you with a sampling of our great talent. While you are tooting along, we would love it if you would sign up for our individual newsletters or join us on facebook and/or twitter. (My fanpage is NINE fans away from 500!! When we reach that mark, I’ll hand out goodies!!) The downloads to each portion will be hosted in the store. For best results and hopefully, one smooth download, keep one window open and logged into the store, so that hopefully your cart doesn’t clear.

Let me first show you yet another collab that was released today, this time I collabed with Brynn of BZB Designs!

If you love strawberries just as much as I do, then this kit is a MUST!! Below you will find some CT inspiration, now let’s take a look at the train first. Please follow the image links below and enjoy!

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In case you are lost, here is a list of participating designers.

Thanks for looking!