Spotlight Sunday- Sarah (Community Member Edition)
This week we’re spotlighting Sarah aka Saar!
This is me
Hi Sweet Shoppers!!! I feel so honored to be spotlighted today. It was a complete surprise and I’m a bit nervous, but here we go.
My name is Sarah and I live in Belgium. In the past, I didn’t like it when someone was trying to take my picture. I was the person behind the camera, not in front. But that has changed since I started scrapping. I love to go through my albums and not only find my family and friends in them, but me included. I also want to have my friends and family to have something to remember me by, when I’m not here anymore.
I don’t like the way I look on photos most of the time, but the two upper photos are ones I actually do like. If I’m not alone on a photo, you can probably find my boyfriend or my co-worker and close friend (or other friends) in it too.
Fave Layouts
That’s a though one. I’m participating in the Sweet Shoppe Summer Shadowbox challenges this month. So I chose 4 layouts I made for the challenges.
Top left: Halloween In Disneyland Paris. In Belgium, Halloween isn’t celebrated like in the US. But I love this holiday, so we celebrate it in Disneyland Paris. The photos in this layout bring back a lot of memories and I love how it turned out. Oh, and I have a weakness for beautiful Halloween kits. Lol. This one is my all time favorite Halloween kit because of the soft colors.
Top right: I made this one for the ABC challenge. It took me hours to find the right photos. When I had all the photos in my layout, I didn’t like it at all and was about to start over. But then I picked a kit and the background paper and decided to continue. I was surprised how it turned out.
Bottom left: This one is special to because of the person in the photos. She’s very dear to me. I met her online on a forum. We started e-mailing and became friends. She knows me better than my friends I see daily. These photos are taken on the day we met in real life. We only met each other twice, so these photos are precious to me.
Bottom right: I love this one because of the colors and clusters. Creating this layout went so smoothly and I couldn’t stop adding things. I really like how it turned out.
Fave products
Top left: Cindy’s templates. Whenever I need to do a journal page, I look at Cindy’s templates first. I don’t only love her journal templates, I love ALL her templates. They make scrapping so easy. It’s her designs that made me discover Sweet Shoppe Designs.
Top right: Kristin is really the best in outdoor/wood kits and I love every single one she makes. This one is my absolute favorite because of the colors, the word strips, patterned papers. I use it over and over again.
Bottom left: Traci’s “Magical” collection is fabulous. I use them for my Disney pages all the time. My favorite is Magical Adventure because of the colors and the PERFECT patterned papers. I love every single layout I create with it.
Bottom right: I love templates made by Zoliofrope because of the paper layers and the shapes she uses. Honeycomb templates are one of my favorites because of the hexagons.
Fave places I’ve visited
I love to travel and go on city trips. Here are some of my favorite places I have visited.
Top left: London. I had no expectations when we were planning our trip to London. But wow, I loved it! I loved the musea, the parks, the people, the musicals, everything… London has become my all time favorite city.
Top right: New York. We won a city trip to New York a few years ago. It was my first time in the States and I loved it. Now that I’ve seen New York, I want to see more of America. I hope to be able to go back someday.
Bottom left: Disneyland Paris. Disneyland is my happy place. For me, it’s the perfect place to leave the everyday life behind for a just couple of days.
Bottom right: Perros-Guirec in Brittany, France. I have a “thing” with lighthouses. There aren’t that many in Belgium, so when we’re on vacation, I love to visit some. Phare Min-Ruz in Perros-Guirec is by far my favorite one. I loved the whole atmosphere of that place. I didn’t want to leave. Lol.
Places I want to go to
Top left: San Francisco. For as long as I can remember, I wanted to go to San Francisco. I don’t know where it came from or how I got that in my head, but I still want to go and see Golden gate bridge, Alcatraz, Fisherman’s Warf etc…
Top right: Stockholm, Sweden. I don’t only want to visit Stockholm, but I would love to visit all the Scandinavian countries. We’re talking about it for years now, but we still weren’t able to visit Stockholm. Hopefully we’re able to go in the near future.
Bottom left: Scotland. I’ve been in Scotland once and it was only for a weekend. I just love to visit old castles and get to know about their history, plus Scotland is a beautiful country. I would love to go back and do a roadtrip.
Bottom right: Canada. One of my dream vacations would be to go hiking in Canada. We love to hike and nature is Canada must be breathtaking!
Well, that’s it.
I hope you enjoyed reading and getting to know a little about me.
eve said...
on September 2nd, 2014 at 5:56 pm
love knowing more about Sarah, i love her pages, especially the disney ones!
Adrienne said...
on September 3rd, 2014 at 5:22 pm
yay! it was great to get to know you a bit better! I missed it until now! haha