Today I want to show you a card I made with "Tilda" paper and a "Magnolia" stamp.

You can see more of' "Tilda" here: www.tilda.no And here is another site were you can buy the "Tilda" products www.pandurohobby.com "Magnolia" products are to be seen here: www.magnolia.nu And the words are by Hero Arts: www.heroarts.com The little metal rose I bought at Xenos. I colored the image with Derwent Colorsoft Pencils.

Recently I got the opportunity to go to Zutphen with my husband. Zutphen is an old city along the river IJssel. Here are some pictures I took there.

Today I have to tell something really nice! Here in our village we have a store wich sells beautiful fabric for quilting. But recently they also sell some paper. When I bought that paper the lady of the store asked me if I want to make something of it for the store. Wich I did of course.I felt very honoured about it. And this is what I made. The paper is "Tilda"paper. You can find it here : www.tildasworld.com
And the stamps are by Hero Arts.
I enjoyed using the paper. It feels great when working with it. The sheets have two different sides. And all sheets of one line really coördinate well together.
The lady of the store accepted the things I made, and thats why I am very happy today!

Altough we loved France when we were there for vacation, we must say that we have some interesting and lovely places in our own country. For example Delft. We went there last week. We visited museum the "Prinsenhof" wich tells interesting things of the history of our royal family. After that we found this fun chair in the garden near the museum. Delft is wellknown by its Delfts blue pottery. This chair is a fine example of it.

And here is our son standing in a pair of giant wooden shoes. You can find them in the center of the city.

And this is a part of the "Prinsenhof "with a tower of a church behind it.In Delft you find a lot of old houses with those beautiful facades. You have to look up for it. And also you can find a lot of stores where you can buy Delfts blue pottery.

Isn't this beautiful?! Just in our backyard! There are a lot of beautiful things to see very nearby, if you got eyes for it!

Just back from our vacation in France. I want to share some pictures of an interesting little castle we visited : "Le Logis de la Chabotterie".
It has beautiful furnished rooms. As if someone in the old days just left the room.It offers insight into life in the countryside in the years before the Revolution.

There is a lovely garden.....

... and I espescially loved this well with the iron frame on it.

I can imagine the lady's in the old days walking here in the shadow.

Besides all the beautiful things you can see there, they also give a lot of information about the War of the Vendee and the arrest of General Charette in 1796. He was the leader of the farmers wich rebel against the rules of the new leaders of the Revolution. It costed a lot of lives. Knowing a tiny bit more about it is good and interesting, but also made me feeling sad. It can happen that you are at a lovely, lovely place, but in the same time feel grieve over things happened in history.

Made this card last week. With thanks to some lady's wich showed their creations in the Hero Arts Flickr group, using this technique : stamping and embossing on vellum! These beautiful cards made me longing to try it too. Used a Hero Arts flower. And also thanks to "Meet me in the Meadow" where I read the words.