Your help is needed! (2x)

I guess vacation came in the way for some of you and probably some of the cool challenges on blogs like One Little Word, Pencil Lines etc. too (which I can understand because they are sooo inspirational!) but I got only 9 entries for the july/august challenge. To bad, really, because the RAK for the winner will include some really nice Hambly, Prima and MM goodies :)

Anyway... 9 entries does not mean an easy choice, not at all. I've been through these LO's several times and I like this on one LO and that on another... I can't choose! So I need your help! Please let me know who deserves to get the RAK. Leave a message with the number of the LO you like best on this post before wednesday evening (sept. 5.) 12.00p.m. (european time) and the designer who gets the most votes will be the winner! I did not mention the names of the designers with their LO's to make this voting as fair as possible!

The challenge was to scraplift this LO:

and here are the entries:

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Good luck to all of you!

I also promissed you a new challenge... I want you to take something from your kitchen and use it to stamp with! Look around you and use your imagination. Whether you want to stamp with paint or ink, you want to make a LO, a card, a project, use the "stamp" for a background or an accent... do whatever you like as long as you do it with an item from your kitchen!

You can enter until september 30th. 12.00 p.m. (european time)! Send your project to scrappen@birgitkoopsen.nl and please ad your name to the LO title!

Good luck and have fun!!

Who else needs your help? Well, the girls from Art Noevoo, a belgium scrap blog are organising a day of scrapping against cancer on november 11th in Ekeren, Belgium. Read all about it here or click on the button "Scrappen tegen kanker" on the right!

Thanks so much for stopping by and helping out!!

Birgit

sneaks and a new challenge!

I've been working my butt of and still have nothing to show :( I hope to be able to show a few LO's next week just before I leave on vacation but for now it's just sneaks, sneaks and more sneaks... :)

This is just a little bit of the LO's I finished lately, the rest I've already sent out, but as you can see I really have been doing something and I haven't been lazy :)

Just wanted to share with you what my table looks like while I'm working on a project. And this is not even so bad, sometimes it looks like a bomb exploded. I always clean up between two projects. I'm not so organised and have a hard time already finding everything I'm looking for :) It would be dramatic if I didn't clean up in between...

The challenge for july/august will be a scraplift challenge.

What do you have to do?

Scraplift the following LO:

You can use whatever theme you like. You're free to use any color, embellishment, letters, stickers etc. you want but you're NOT allowed to use any patterned paper, just cardstock!

Because it's vacation time you have until August 30th to send in your LO.

You can send it as always to scrappen@birgitkoopsen.nl Please use your name for the title of the image you send in to make it easier for me to find them once they're saved on my computer.

Hope to find lots and lots of beautiful LO's in my inbox when I get home!

I bought a new lens for my Canon 300D. I was not very happy with the standard lens that comes with the kit and my friend Anita, who has the same camera, was raving about this lens for a long time. I´ve seen her pictures and they are beautiful, so I thought if I was gonna buy a new one anyway I´d better do it before the holidays.

It´s the Tamron AF SP 28-75/2,8 XR DI Canon and this is the first picture I took with it:

No photo editing done on this! Isn't it great? I think I'm gonna love this lens.

Today was the last schoolday in the north of the Netherlands so if you´re leaving on vacation any day now...have lots of fun, make sure you make some precious memories and don´t forget to take loads of pictures!! Enjoy!

Oh, and I almost forgot: Have a look at memorylanescrapbooking. Danielle already has the marvelous new Infuse paper by Basic Grey!! Don't miss it!

Birgit