Just five more minutes !

Hello everyone,

First of all: thank you for all your kind comments on my last entry! I'm happy you like the LO better than I do!!

For today's LO, I used sketch #105 from Creative Scrappers


I liked that sketch very much for various reasons:
1) It was clean and simple, and I felt like doing such thing
2) It was a rather small picture and I needed that (plus, at the time of my brother's wedding, I had just gotten my camera and was only taking landscape pictures... Right now, I am scrapping MY pics of the event, so, that square picture was a great compromise to change things up a little bit)
3) I didn't have much paper left from the collection I'm currently using for the wedding so that was GREAT! (Since I took the resolution of using up my stash, the paper I used for this LO is as much paper which won't go into my scrap folder).

I must say that, as clean as it is, I pretty much like the result.

QUESTION FOR YOU THOUGH: do you think I should put a line on the outside edge of the LO?

Here are a few shots:

See how bold I am, I added a button compared to the original sketch. AHAHAH

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS LO

* I LOVE this picture. One thing you have to know about my brother, this guy NEVER looks natural on pictures when he smiles. But here, it's just true happiness and you can just tell in the pic!
* I used up my tiny bits of papers and a star which I had already cut for another project but not used! I didn't use another collection but managed to make a LO with what I had!
* I managed to do a LO in a record time :D

SUPPLIES


* Cardstock: AC
* PP: Hello Luscious collection by BG
* Buttons: From my stash (I have ton of them so I have to scream RESOLUTION)
* Alphas:
                    * The: "Bubbles" alpha by Mark Richards
                    * Groom: "Rainboots" puffy Thickers by AC
* Ink: "Fired brick" distress ink by TH
* Blending tool, Inkssentials by Ranger
* Punch: Circle punch by Mary Uchida

Hello everyone,

Special "HI" to my friend Sabine! I usually wake her up in the middle of the night when her phone bips after I blog (I live in Can. and she lives in Austria, so...).

Well, after this oh so sentimental touch, let me introduce you to one of my latest layouts. I'm no too impressed with the final result but I thought I would share it anyway.

But before that, I am going to share ONE RESOLUTION: I decided to use either a stamp or something from my stash on every LO (or I'm going to try anyway).

To make it, I used one of Shimelle Laine's sketches of the week! And God knows why, her result is WAY BETTER than mine (maybe because she's a star at scrapping?!).


Anyhow, I should have used a different paper for the long strip, this way, I could have journalled without a problem... But what's done is done!

So here are a few pics:

This I like!

I hope the result ain't TOO bad, you know!

Even if I'm not too pleased, I'll make the usual sections

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS PROJECT

* I like how I used my die cut pieces to make a mat for the title!
* The use of stickers... And the little cute sun
* The stamps, above all the stamped sub-titled!

SUPPLIES

* Cardstock: AC
* White and black cardstocks: from the stash, not sure of the brand
* PP: "Olivia" (Ashlyn) and "Oliver" (Evan) lines from BG
* Alphas
             * "Bain de" : Puffy alphabet sticker by ATD
             * "Soleil": "Marquise" Thickers in red
* Inks
             * "Chipped sapphire" distress ink by Ranger
             * "Lemon Drops" and "Cough Syrup" by Jenny Bowlin
             * Jet Black Stazon Ink
* Border punch: "Threading water" border punch by Fiskars
* Stamps:
              * Subtitle: "Kiss from the sun" stamp set by Hero arts
              * Yellow sentence: "Sentiment I" by Impression Obsession
* Little sun above the title: "Handmade Travel Adhesive Chipboard" by K&Company
* Die: "Label Fourteen" Nestabilities by Spellbinder
* Date sticker: "UPcycle" sticker sheet from Cosmo Cricket

TFL!!!

Hello everyone,

I hope you are all having a lovely week end! As for me, I'm pretty happy with the weather and my fiancé is coming back in two days (after I came back from my two-month holidays in France with my family, he went to see his in Tunisia for a week), so I'm pretty happy!

For this LO, I used this sketch I found on Sketch Support (I'm sure you'll all agree that this is a GREAT website):

Originally, this was a two-page sketch, but I decided to only use one side of it, which, I think, worked pretty well!

So here is the LO:

And here are a few close-ups:

Vellum, PP and button

The banner dangles freely, LOVE IT!

 WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS LO

* I started with a sketch, was not satisfied with how it was coming up, so I adjusted
* I used my big shot to create the journaling tag, YAY!!!
* I used rub-ons I've had in my stash forever

SUPPLIES

* Cardstock: AC
* PP: BG "Hello Luscious"
* Alphabet stickers: "Fantastic" Thickers by Dear Lizzy and AC
* Rub-ons : "Life of the Party" rub-ons by BG
* Pearl: Yellow Sunshine Pearls by Queen&Co
* Brads: "Hello Luscious" glazed brads by BG
* Postage stamp: Handmade Stamp sticker pad by K&Company
* Floss: "Mud Pie" floss which goes with the Sew Easy tool from WeRMemoryKeepers
* Die: "Labels Fourteen", Nestabilities by Spellbinders

TFL

Hey everyone,

Here is the day for me to share the new "Starting points" from Shimelle Laine.




First of all, let me show you MY take on the starting point


Can you see that I just bought Crackle Paint and Distress stain? Gotta try those babies out!!

It's called "Poup'"... Don't try and find a meaning to this word, there's not. It's just the nickname my best friend and I give each other.

This LO features a picture taken at my brother's wedding last year. Beautiful dress, nice hairdo, good make up: PERFECT TO MAKE A GIRLY PICTURE!!

So, enough talking, here is my take on this project:

At first, I didn't mean to put anything but I put too much paint so I had to fix my mistake

 


I really liked doing this project and I hope you like the result as much as I do!

To make it look less "plain", I used some white acrylic paint and spritzed some all over the place (that's when it went wrong on the top left corner).

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS PROJECT

* I used up some Basic Grey stickers I've had for months
* I think I managed to mix different collections pretty well
* I embellished it with several things (which is hard for me to do)
* For the first time, I dared to write my journaling on the LO, no tag or anything!

SUPPLIES

PP
         * Stripped paper: "Fairy Trails", from the Imaginisce "Enchanted" collection
         * Pink 10x10 paper: "Vicki B. Perky" by Bo Bunny
         * Big brown strip w/ polka dots: "Golden Gate", from the My Little Shoebox "City by the Bay" collection
         * Big flowered strip and green strip: "Darling Dhalias", from the Imaginisce "Garden party" collection
         * Orange damask stip and orange tag at the top: "Honeyed", from the BG "Hello Luscious" collection
         * Dark pink paper: "Simply Grand", from the BG "Hello Luscious" collection

Flower stickers: "Sweet threads" sticker sheet from BG
Pearls: Yellow Sunshine pearls by Queen&Co
Letter stickers: Lax Thickers by AC
White paint: "White Wash" Americana paint by DecoArt
Ink: "Antique Linen" distress ink

Hope you like! TFL!

Hello everybody,

I'm up today with a LO I created yesterday for the last day of Jen G.'s "Stretch your sketch" Aug. class.

I can't even see it in the challenge submissions, so I don't know if it didn't work or what. Anyway.

I used a pictures of my sisters during my nephew's baptism last year. I decided to break out my CC "Social Club" kit (FIRST KIT I USE!!!!!!!!! WOOOOT WOOOT). It's a bit masculine, but little Jules is a little man, so...

So here are a few pics of the project:

Please don't mind the messy desk ;)

A few buttons to balance the embellies

I stamped, cut and "glossy accented" the title letters

Litterally took me hours to find fine embellies for each circles!

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS PROJECT

* I haven't bought anything new to make it! (That would be the second time it happens, I'm stocked!)
* I used lots of different embellies. It took me forever but I'm pleased with the result.

Well, I hope you like it :)

Hello everyone,

In my attempt to keep my blog alive (meaning I'm going to try and write more regularly), here is a LO I created some time ago. It features my dad and my nephew last Xmas.




Those pics features two of my loves: "Thickers" and "Basic Grey"!

I sure used a sketch for this page but I can't seem to find the link (I usually write them down, but no trace of this one!).

Hope you like it!! TFL :)



SUPPLIES:

Hello there,

Today, I thought I would expand a bit and also share a love that was born at the same time as scrapbooking : photography. Instead of always posting scrap related posts, I thought I could also share pictures I like and why! This way, I'll work on photo taking as well!!

For a starter, I thought it would be nice to introduce you my camera: Nikon D5000! GREAT camera, amazing features but yet simple... What else could I ask for?


Coucou tout le monde,

Aujourd'hui, j'ai pensé vous présenter un amour qui est né en même temps que le scrap, la photo ! Au lieu de ne poster que des messages sur le scrap, j'ai pensé commencer à poster des photos que j'aime ! De cette manière, je travaillerai aussi sur ma photo !

Pour commencer, je pensais vous présenter mon appareil: le Nikon D5000! Un super appareil, des fonctionnalités de dingue, mais simple d'utilisation.... Que demander de plus ?

Avant/Front

Arrière/Back

With this baby, no reason not to take great shots!

Avec un engin pareil, plus de raison de ne pas prendre de supers photos !

Ciao :)

This LO was created for Shimelle's Starting Point:


So here is MY starting point:


Since I had found the pictures  I wanted to scrap (a hug between my niece, my nephew and my fiancé), I knew I wanted pretty colorful PP, with a christmasy feel.

At first, I had four pics. I thought I would trim them and make a smaller square, but it looked too "plain", too similar. So I decided to use three... And then I thought: why not use the four of them but hide one of them (I think Shimelle did that once, the April issue of "4x6 photo love" maybe?

Anyway, here is what I ended up with... I was REALLY not sure I would like the result (I was not even convinced by my starting point) but I think I like it now...

Before giving you pictures, let me tell you what I like about this particular project. First of, I like the fact that I didn't use a sketch (I tend to have a hard time not following it exactly) but just a starting point; then, I LOVE the fact that I didn't buy anything new to make this LO; I also like my attempt at clustering and at trying to include more embellies than usual...

My first attempt ever at clustering embellies

See how the little door opens? I like doing this! :D

TFL!!!!!!!!

SUPPLIES USED:

* Cardstock: AC
* PP: Dear Lizzy by American Crafts + Petits Rênes by Harmonie
* Alpha: Pink Glittered alphabet by Martha Stewart and Alphabet stickers by BBP
* Buttons: From the stash
* Brads: Glazed, "Hello Luscious" collection, by BG
* Glitter : Crayola Glitter glue
* "Our life" stamp sticker: "Handmade" sticker pad by K&Company
* Punches:
           - Border punch: Threading Water Border Punch by Fiskars 
           - Circle punches: Marvy Uchida
           - Heart: Double heart by EK Success
* Embossing: 
           -“Top Boss Watermark” by Clearsnap
           - Gun: Ranger heat tool 
           - Seafoam White embossing powder by Ranger 
           - Glitter Pink embossing powder by Ranger
* Stamps:
           - "Cherish": Spring Silhouettes stamp set by Kanban
           - Snowflakes: Artemio
 

Hello everyone,

Well, I'm back home (so to speak), in Canada, so I got my office, supplies and time back : let's scrap and share!

Today, I decided to share a LO I created some time ago (obviously). It features my nephew's first day at kindergarten, 3 years ago! (A real cutie, isn't he?).

One of my first attempts at layering embellies

Supplies used:





What I like about this LO:


I didn't use any fancy techniques or anything, but I like the fact that I cut out PP to create a nice and different page! I feel it's simple but efficient :)

TFL!!