This time our Gypsy Travels take us to a small town in The Netherlands, called Diepenheim. The Netherlands is a small country, neighboring Germany on the East and Belgium on the South. They are still ruled by a King, Willem Alexander, and his wife, Queen Maxima. Though most people think it’s about cheese, wooden shoes, tulips, drugs and its capital Amsterdam,…
Does the name ‘Villa Villekulla’ bring any childhood memories to mind? Maybe you were a Pippi Longstocking fan, read all the books or read all the books to your kids. Villa Villekulla is the fictional house where Pippi lived with her horse and monkey, Mr. Nilsson. A gingerbread style home was created for the tv series…
What are your favorite holiday traditions? Maybe you celebrate by the sea, maybe it is warm for your holidays, you might enjoy special foods, special events with the kids or how the stockings are hung. We would love to know more about it and see your creative work that helps to tell the story. Mandy Leever-Koel lives in the…
What happens when Christmas is upon us and you didn’t buy any holiday craft paper for the season? No worries, just grab your basics in red, green, gold and silver and start creating. Crew Member Mandy Leever-Koel had just such a dilemma and it did not take long before she was in the creative Christmas spirit with a craft table filled…
We love challenges around here, maybe because they help us to get focused, think outside of the box and then see how others interpreted the same challenge. Mandy Leever-Koel show us what she came up with for this month’s challenge: Movember. What is Movember? It is a word used around the world with a few…
Going to a pumpkin patch in the fall is usually on the top of the family to-do list as soon as Halloween starts getting closer. It is so much fun to watch the kids carefully choose the perfect pumpkin, enjoy a hayride, taste some apple cider and maybe even a pumpkin donut (or two!). This…
Travel with us, to a beautiful place, to meet crew member Mandy Leever-Koel. We love that the internet allows our crew to be anywhere in the world and feel like they are just down the street. Mandy lives in a city called Hengelo in the beautiful, flat Netherlands (near the German border), with her husband and our 3 year…
Why do you craft? To make art? Design? Create? Because your are driven to do it? Because it relaxes you? Because it must come out? Because it is your therapy? Everyone creates for a reason and with a purpose even if we don’t always realize it. It may be a love of making for others, out of necessity,…
We launched an exciting challenge where the beach, the water, the vacation, the sand, the sea life and the family all can play a part. The natural colors of the beach paired with the colors of the sea create an amazing color palette and backdrop for those vacation photos that you will treasure forever. Create a photo journal, memory album or…
We just can’t get enough of mixed media projects these days from our CCB Crew, like the one our Crew Member Mandy Leever-Koel created called; “Sunny Days!” This piece gets our hearts pumping. We just want to pull out some Canvas Corp Stretched Canvas, Papers, Tattered Angels inks, paints and start creating. There is just so much…