I always start a new collection with a new color pallette and a new set of dolls. The dolls are my most popular item. There are always 4 dolls and they can be used in various ways: I make them in black outlines and in full color, so you can mix and match with everything else of the collection. There are people that collect them, really. They use them for fun, as a mood, an activity or a state of mind with their scrapbook layouts. If you only collect these dolls, you will have

Winter, snow, skating, Christmas, trees, birds, a fox and a badger, these elements all show up in my new Christmas collection. My new collections all have a cute girl inside and this time she is on skates. Skating in the open air has always been a real Dutch habit. In case there is snow. Holland is a land of many canals, ponds and lakes. Sometimes they are made by nature, floods, rivers, ice-age, but the Dutch always digged their own waters. There is so many water around us t

... that all of us Global Talent Search competitors will know if we are chosen for the next round or that we can work on our own again :). It's sooo nerve-wracking to have to wait to the outcome. For sure, it's a big decision for Lilla Rogers to pick the fifty from 1000 submissions, WOW, that must be even harder than making the entry itself if you ask me! But I still LOVE it, whether I will be chosen or not, I learned a lot! I learned about my style. I now feel that my quirk

I'm feeling so down to earth again, now that my Make Art That Sells part B course of Lilla Rogers school is over! I haven't done anything but designing for the course. And I liked every minute of it. ! Luckily I still have the Bootcamp, the monthly assignments (instead of the weekly of MATS B). It6 means that I have time left now to show you what I have made, to show you new stuff I have made for Studio Berna ( for digital scrapbooking - see my Scrapbooking pages) and for who

I was certain that I had time enough to post the contribution I made for the February Bootcamp assignment. But... for the first time I couldn't make it. Not that I felt too bad about it, I HAD made the tree slice with a painting on it. I did more than one, as you can see in my last post. But this was the ultimate idea I had: make a canvas into a tree slice and that tree slice into a clock for a childrens' room. Now as you can see I still have to make the numbers on it and I h