Hello February!

Walk On The Wild Side

I'm pretty proud of how this kit turned out! I handdrew all the little animals, the jeep, some of the flowers and later I digitally adjusted and coloured them in with Photoshop. It's a great way to combine 2 of my hobbies, drawing and designing scrapbookitems. 

The theme for the Pixel Scrapper blogtrain for February was so cool, and all of the contributions are adorable and beautiful! If you like to download the rest of the blogtrain, head over to the Pixel Scrapper forums, you can find the list with contributors on there. 

I hope this kit will be useful to you, I think there are some pretty useful elements in it, and the colours are not too bright  and just a pretty mix of muted colours. I had fun designing everything and I think this will be one I definitely will use a lot myself. My son loves wild animals and I can see him go on a safari trip when he gets older. 😆😉

Here are the 4 parts you can dowload! If you want to grab the matching journal cards and tags, go to my Facebook group, I will post the link to that part on there. 

Have fun with this kit and please let me know what you think of it! 

xxMarjanxx 

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A Very Blue Monday

I hope your Blue Monday isn't too blue! 

This kit won't help, because it is blue all over, and I think it will be a while before I touch anything blue coloured when I'm working on a kit in Photoshop, because for now, I've had enough of the colour BLUE... lol! Luckily the kit I'm currently working on for the February Pixel Scrapper blogtrain has just one very dark blue in the colourscheme, so that's good. 😉

The last 2 parts of 'January Blues' are now ready for download. 

You can grab the elements here, with the link below the preview. As a little extra, I also have a part 5, with some cute journal cards and wordart and a quickpage I made ages ago, in 2400x2400 pixels, so not the normal size, but still I think it's lovely, with a beautiful poem about January on it. If you'd like to get this part as well, head over to my Facebook group , that's where I share the link to the downloadpage! 

I hope the rest of your January will be good, with many sunny winterdays! ⛄⛅🌞

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January Blues...

Goodmorning everyone, 

It's a beautiful cold and frosty (but also very sunny) sundaymorning over here and I can't wait to go on a walk later today. Winter is finally here, and although I don't really like cold weather, when it's like this, I wish every winterday would be like this.🌞

Tomorrow it's Blue Monday, I think you've heard of it. A day, apparently, when a lot of people feel down or depressed, at least that's what I read everywhere. It's mostly because of the feeling a lot of us have, after a month of celebrations, holidays and festivities, to come down from all of that and having the long month of a cold and grey January ahead of us. 

Personally, I don't feel like that on Blue Monday. I love December, but I always look forward to a fresh new year, full of new opportunities and chances. 

So I do like January as well, also mainly because my son will turn 8 by the end of the month. 😲

It only seems like yesterday when he was born, but.. well, time flies! 😵

Years ago (in 2010) I made one of my first fullsize minikits, and I called it January Blues. I had never heard of Blue Monday back then, but I guess I knew the feeling it referred to. The kit is in - of course - blue shades and has a lot of denim / jeans elements and papers in it, which I love. The kit needed some adjusting and updating, and I think it still is a pretty fun kit, with the adjustments I made. It contains 18 papers and about 50 elements. 

You can grab the first 3 parts today, and I will upload part 4 & 5 tomorrow, on Blue Monday. I just hope it won't be too Blue for You. 😉

I hope you like it, let me know how useful it is in the comments sections. 

Have a happy Sunday! 

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A little update

I'm really glad my Science Fiction kit is so popular! I was just looking at the downloads, it's been downloaded about 250 times in just 2 days time! 😲😮😁 

It did surprise me a little, because I thought it wasn't quite THAT spectacular, but it seems many of you really like it. 

So thank you for that! 

Every now and then I get questions from people (on here, on Facebook or on Deviantart) regarding older kits that I've taken down or that aren't available for download anymore, asking if they will be available again in the future. Mostly I just want kits to be available for a certain period of time, because I need the space in my storage accounts, but also because I want to be able to keep track of things and it's getting more complicated when I have so many kits 'up' for download. Sometimes there are issues with the download pages, or other technical problems, and I just don't have the time to keep up with all of those issues. I have a job to go to and of course a family life that I hold dear. 😉

But when I come across a question from one of you, asking for a specific kit that you'd like to download but it's not available on here anymore, I usually recommend to look on my Deviantart account first, or on my Facebook group. Sometimes I keep the downloads up on those pages for a little longer, just because I simply forgot to take them off, or because I posted the downloadlinks later on there than here on my blog. I just thought you should know this. If it's not available anywhere anymore, you can always send me an email, (marjan_sprankeling@hotmail.com) and I will see what I can do. It's not a guarantee that you'll get what you're asking for, but you can sure try! 😛😆

Then lastly, today I've started designing already for the new Pixel Scrapper blogtrain edition, called "Walk On The Wild Side". I love the colours for this theme and the theme itself, but it's also quite difficult to be original with this one. Most designers go with animal prints etc. and that was also what I was going for, but ah well, at least it will be a consistent blogtrain I guess. 

I'm also doing a renewal of an old kit this month, called January Blues. It's with lots of ...well blues, winter elements of course and with elements of jeans fabrics, which makes it a very fashionable and usable kit too. It won't be huge, but with about 15-20 papers and about 50 elements it'll be worth it I think. 

I hope January will be a great month for you all, have fun scrapping and I'll be back soon with the January Blues.💖😆

(The pictures below are just a few examples of the 2 kits mentioned above).

Merry Christmas everbody!

At last! 

Here are the two last additional parts of the Retro Holly Jolly kit. The plan was to upload them seperately, but I have no idea when I'll have the time the next few days, so I'm going to share them both at once, here on the blog.

I think this will be the last time I'll be posting before the holidays, so I really would like to take time to thank all of you who have been downloading my kits the last couple of months. It's been wonderful to do some digital designing again, and I'm sure I'm going to keep doing it, for sure when the busy festive days are over and I'll have some time to sit down and start designing a new kit. I already have some ideas and of course I'll be participating in the next Pixel Scrapper blogtrain, with the Science Fiction theme. I finished it a while ago, and I struggled a lot with this one! I'm pretty satisfied with how it turned out, but I think it's not my best work though, haha. I actually love Science Fiction, but somehow I found it very hard to translate it in some useful stuff for a scrapbooking kit. 

A little reminder for you as well; both Free Spirit kits will be taken down next weekend, so you better be fast if you still like to download it. 

For now, I'm wishing everyone a very merry Christmas. I hope you can all relax for a while and enjoy the festive days, like we're going to do (hopefully).   

I'll be back on one of the last days of this year for the blogtrain post, so be sure to check in then. 😉

Season's Greetings! 

🎇🎄🎅🎄🎇

Marjan

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Christmas around the corner

Goodmorning everyone! 

It's been a week since I posted the first extra part from Retro Holly Jolly. It's been such a busy week, the hectic days before Christmas I guess, that I haven't had the time to  post more. But I always keep my promise, so here I am with another part for you.  I will be posting this on my Facebook Group, so you better be heading there if you'd like to grab it.  Maybe I'll be posting it here on the blog after Christmas, but for now it will just be on there. 

This part contains 54 more elements, and they combine with the original blog train part beautifully. 

Just click below the preview to go to the Facebook Group and click the link on there to download this part. 
Have fun with it and look out for 2 more parts this week! 

- x - 

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Retro Holly Jolly Extra

Hello! 

First I want to say THANK YOU for downloading my Retro Holly Jolly kit so many times! It's great to know you like this all so much. I'm liking it too and already started some layouts using it, maybe I'll post them later this month, maybe even a Quickpage for a freebie, who knows? 

Anyway, here's the first of 4 extra parts of the Retro Holly Jolly kit. It contains 10 papers that didn't make it into the blogtrain. 

The next parts will be a pack with 54 elements and 2 more paperpacks. They will be up in the 2 weeks leading up to Christmas, and I will post them on my Facebook group, Deviantart or on here. 
I will keep you posted here on the blog, so you can keep an eye out for them. 

I hope these papers will be of use to you, they're perfect for combining with the Christmas kit, but most papers can also be used for other types of layouts. 

Happy scrapping! 

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Free Spirit II

Whaa... I'm a little late with this one! I've been busy lately, so this one almost slipped my mind, but here it is, finally! 

Tomorrow's the day for Retro Holly Jolly by the way, so you scrappers are reaaally getting spoiled this month! 

Anyway.. here's the second version of Free Spirit. Have fun with it and let me know what you think! 

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Free Spirit I

"A free spirit 

is just an old soul

with all its karma paid,

needing to prove nothing"

- unknown

Here is the first part of the Free Spirit kit, in very soft colours, even with pink, which is rather unusual for me. 😆😂

I hope you like it and that you can use it for your pictures.  

It will be available for free for 2 weeks! 

Leave a message to let me know what you think. 

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Free Spirit

Soo... Pink isn't really my colour.
I've never been that kind of girl who had her whole room decorated with pink, princessy, girly stuff. Oh yes, I've played with dolls, a lot to be honest. But I never was that obsessed with them being dressed in pink and I honestly can't remember ever wearing pink clothes myself... at least as a unicoloured item. Maybe if there are pink flowers on a shirt, or even a bright pink for my nails in summer.... I'd wear it, but that's as far as it goes. I don't hate it... I just don't LOVE it. As long as I can remember blue has been my colour. Especially the aqua blues (and greens), beautiful turquoise and petrol. And it still is actually. 
But when I collected some CU items to use for a next kit, I came across the colour palette that I used for this kit and I actually loved it. There may be pink in it, I think it came out as a classy, chic kit, a bit bohemian and sparkly.

Here are the previews of both kits, the first one is with pink/black/gold, the other one is with more copper, beige, sammon tints. The kits will be online within the next week, so keep an eye out for it. 

Just Love Add-On

November 15th, 2013 was a very special day for me. 💓😉

So today, 5 years later, I want to share this with my followers/viewers/readers and offer an add-on for the kit Just Love. It's just a minikit with stuff that didn't get to go in the big kit. It will be available until January 2019, unlike the full kit, that will only be available as a freebie for  another week. If you don't want to miss out, get it now. 😁

Then also, this week is the last week some of my kits will be available as freebies. A Soft Touch is already taken down and Autumn Day and Say Boo will be taken down by the end of this week. If you haven't got them yet, I can only remind you to download them now before they are no longer available. 

The good news is, I have a few new kits planned and they will go online in the next few weeks. One kit is called Free Spirit and it's a large one, in 2 different colourschemes, so you can choose, or just grab them both. The kit is in a bohemian theme, hippie style, or however you like to call it. I will show some previews next week, it's definitely a fancy kit in soft colours. 
Then of course, we have a Christmas kit, the blogtrain theme Retro Holly Jolly, that will go online on December 1st. So, enough to keep you busy scrapping for the coming months. Until then, have fun with the goodies and let me know what you think. xx

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Family Traditions

Hello November! 

This is my first contribution for a blogtrain on the forums of Pixel Scrapper. The theme was 'Family Traditions' and I didn't find it very easy. In Holland we don't have Thanksgiving or anything and using a typical Dutch tradition isn't really useful for all the (mostly) American scrappers. 

So I kept it basic, making use of the colour palette, with elements and papers that will be of use for anyone with a family, friends or pets.. really. 😉

The rest of the blogtrain is really amazing, and very divers! It's nice to see how one theme can be translated in so many different ways. If you'd like to grab the other parts of this blogtrain, go to the Pixel Scrapper forums and you'll find a list of all the contributions. 

The next blogtrain will be a Christmas themed one, and I've already started designing (a few weeks ago already, lol)! It's so much fun to do, the colour palette is amazing and the theme is Retro Holly Jolly. So it will be a fun kit over all I guess! I know my part will be a big one, or for download available in many parts, on the forums and on here, because well... it's a Christmas kit and I like to bring gifts. For now, here is the minikit of Family Traditions. The download button will direct you to the Dropbox download links. 

I hope you like it! 

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Say Boooooo!

Happy Halloween! 

Halloween isn't a 'real' holiday in The Netherlands, and not celebrated like in other parts of the world.  But, I think it's a great themeday, the scary stuff, the dressing up, and of course trick & treat (for the kids 😁 ) . 
So I thought I'd make a minikit, especially for those people who do celebrate this holiday and who will make lots of pictures of their & their kids' scary costumes and party's. 

I began a few days ago.. thinking it definitely would be a small kit, with about 20 elements and 10 papers. Well... that didn't work out, haha. I couldn't stop designing all these cute little figures and things, and I tried to add a few pretty scary elements too. 

Soooo.. here's the 'MINI' kit, with over 40 elements and 24 papers, as a freebie for you! It will be available for 2 weeks, so be sure to grab it! 

There are 5 parts, the files are not too big. Have fun with it and let me know what you think of it! 

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Overlays 2

Hiya,

Here's another freebie for you, the second set of 8 textured and patterned overlays in grayscale so you can colour and adjust them to your own needs. I still have hundreds of textured and patterned papers to go through, but these ones I've used here and there in my own projects. I hope you can use them too! They are for PU and CU and will be up until December, so be sure to grab them while you can.

Don't forget to leave a message, it inspires me to make more freebies! ;-) 

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New freebies coming soon!

Hello all,

And another few weeks have passed.. pffeww. Where does the time go? I've been doing a lot of designing lately, and I'm also still in the middle of 'Inktober', an online challenge to draw only with ink, every day of the month. I've already skipped a few days because I couldn't find the time to just sit for a moment and draw, but hey, I'm good with it. I love drawing and painting and find I'm not doing it enough, so Inktober is a good way to get back in the swing of things, as far as drawing goes. 

But.. I've also worked on 2 kits for the coming month of November. One will be released later this week, it's called Touch of Frost and the other one (Family Tradition) will be online on November 1st. Family Tradition is a Pixel Scrapper blogtrain contribution, the first one I ever did. Touch of Frost is another upgraded kit, originally from 2009. Although, upgraded... almost every bit got renewed or was designed from scratch, so actually it's a new kit over all. ;-)

As a spoiler, I'm showing you a preview of Touch of Frost. I hope you will like it and enjoy using it. In a few days the downloadlinks will be available! 

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The last day of September!

Wow.. summer is officially over now, the last day of September has arrived. I do love fall though, with its beautiful colours and cozy days inside. Today is a sunny day over here in The Netherlands, nice and bright and not too cold yet. So I think we will go for a walk in the woods this afternoon.

This 'new' kit Autumn Day  ('officially' designed in 2009), is pretty perfect for the sunny days in autumn, with a great color scheme to start with. I've designed quite a few new elements and papers to upgrade it just a little and to have more choice with your layouts. I think it turned out pretty cute, I already did one page with it, with pictures of my son in the early fall of 2017. When you scroll down, you'll see that page, just as an example what can be done with this kit. 

I will post the links of 2 paperpacks and the elementpack today, and then tomorrow another 2 parts, 1 paperpack and a pack with journal cards and wordart. The last 2 parts are completely new designs and I'm particularly proud of the journal cards and wordart, so stay tuned for those. 

I hope you'll have a beautiful fall and I'll be back soon with another upgraded kit, called 'A Touch of Frost', with a truly wonderful colourscheme, it's so much fun to work on. 

Happy scrappin' everyone! 

Marjan xx

P.S. If you download my kits, please be so kind to leave a message, I'd love to read what you think of them. Thanks! 

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Layout made with the Autumn Day kit <3

Autumn Day

Goodmorning! 

Just before work (it's 9 AM over here in The Netherlands) I have some time to post a new freebie. It's an add-on for a kit called Autumn Day. I designed the kit back in 2009, but last week I did some adjusting and upgrading on it and added quite a number of new elements and papers. 

As a spoiler I want to offer you this little freebie, with stuff that didn't make it in the completed kit. It will of course combine beautifully with the rest of the kit, so nothing is lost. ;-)

The whole kit will be uploaded in the next few days/week, so be sure to stop by again. 

Hope you like this little piece, and I hope to see you again soon!

Marjan xx

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A Soft Touch

Hello again, 

Finally, after some computer and work-related issues, I'm back with scrapbooking goodies. The blog is almost empty, I have deleted quite some posts because the downloadlinks were expired and I wanted to upgrade my graphics. 
So, here it is. Hopefully I'll be able to change the background etc. into a more contemporary look, meaning I'll be having to design a new kit or something, who knows? 
For now, I have a little freebie to offer you. It's a mini set of a kit I did years ago, in 2010 to be precise. ;-) Last week I spent reviewing / upgrading all of my older work and thought it would be nice to share some of it again, since there are some lovely themes and elements still in there. This original kit was much bigger, but the quality of the papers wasn't that great (due to a very old computer I was working on back then), so I haven't used many of them in this minikit. Most elements and embellishments were quite fun, and I hope you can use them again in your layouts. 

The kit is calles A Soft Touch and has some very nice muted colours of brown, pink and grey. A lot of the elements were created by me, myself and I, as at that time I was starting to design a lot and learning much more about it. 
This 'mini' version has 10 papers, 50 elements and an alpha in upper and lower case, included in the paperpack. 

If you like the kit and decide to download it, please leave a message below. 
The kit will be available for download until November 15th., 2018.

Have fun with it!  

(Edit: I've fixed the link to the paperpack, it's ready for download!)

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