Just five more minutes !

Hi everyone,

**Doing the walk/typing of shame here**

Last time I came by, I said I would start posting every week or more (Don't want to check... too ashamed again), and here I am, 6... *****6***** months later!

Well, let's give this blog the love it deserves by posting a card I made for my 4-year old nephew! He is in France so I miss a lot... but still, I know he is into dragons! (Just this morning, some dragons decided to attack his Playmobils.)

Sooo, I used some Lawn Fawn stamps, Spellbinders dies and beautiful papers to put my dragon in the sky!


The light is not great, but we can see well the shadows created with the foam squares.

A few close-ups, just because I can :)

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Love the little stamped heart. And the vellum clouds!

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS CLOUD:
* I used some new products and some older ones
* I love the background paper, that pictures sort of a sun
* LOVE LOVE my Wink of Stella pen :)

Well, I'll keep it short (again... to increase my chances of posting more)

Thanks!

Johanna

Hello everyone,

Once again, long time no see! I hate it but I can't seem to reverse the trend! I'll try to do better though!

Today, I am sharing a page I created using a BG sketch!
I stayed pretty true to it :) I liked that it allowed me to incorporate 4 pictures :)
Since those are pictures from my brother's wedding, I used the Hello Luscious collection from BG.

So, here we go:

A double page, not so usual for me!

Left end side. Most of the space is taken up by the pictures.

Right end side.

Used my Big Shot and some SpellBinder die to create this banner. I added faux stitching with a white gel pen

A few cardboard shapes and again, my oh-so-loved Big Shot for the big circle

The top letters are DIY alphas by AC which I coated with Wow glitter in brown. The bottom letters are BG. Originally beige, I painted them in green with Maya Mist to fit my color scheme.

I punched the butterfly with some Martha Stewart punch.

Same SpellBinders die.

Stitching, Big Shot and Martha.

Hello everyone,

Unfortunately, I haven't had time to post again last week, but I am going to try and be better... I wonder how many times I've said so...

Anyway, today, I am sharing a boy's page: my wonderful oldest nephew! I don't see him nearly often enough so, when I'm in France, I love spending time and playing with him! (I can't wait for Christmas to come around so I can hold and hug him!)

Anyway, here is the page I made using one of my favorite boy's collection: A boy's life by EP.

I didn't use any sketches for this one, I just went with the flow, and I am pretty happy with the result :)


And a few close-ups

Some stamping with the "Hooray" collection by Hero Arts and Studio Calicco

Used my Big Shot and some misting for this title :)

Used my big shot again, some stamps, stickers, buttons, sewing

And another view :)

STASH USED

* The "corrugated" cardboard
* The buttons
* The stamps and inks (Jenni Bowlin)

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS LO

* All the misting (Maya Mist and Mr Huey)
* The various textures (stamping, sewing, buttons, etc.)
* The pop of colour on the dark background

Thanks for stopping by :)

Hello everyone,

I decided to play along one of Shimelle's sketches... Too bad I haven't had time to do more of them... I'll try to finish one or two more though 'cause they were really awesome!

So, this time, I chose "Challenge #9: Take your pick". We had to choose an outdated challenge and play! Since I had never seen any, I chose one of the "UKScrappers" challenges (for March).

And here is my take on it:


And a few close-ups:

I used some beautiful Fiskars stamps I hadn't really used before.

I cut some flowers out of my "Plumeria" 6x6 pad from BG

Used some Liquid Pearls for the first time in my life!!! :) It's not perfect yet but I like the result

More pearls, more journaling and some handwriting :)

STASH USED

* I bought this paper collection some time ago
* My butterfly punch
* The "tag" punch
* The Fiskars stamps

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS LO

* All that stamping! I love those stamps but I had never really used them, what a shame!
* I liked making my own tags and shapes
* I like the general feel to it :)

Hello everyone,

So, as planned, I didn't post last week because my dad came to visit me, together with my step-mother and my sister. It was great, it felt good to see them and I already miss them a lot!

So, this week end, I tried to play along Shimelle's scrappy weekend! I used the page she first posted and scraplifted it, as asked.

So, here is my take on the challenge:


And here are a few close-ups:

You'll notice that I used the same card as in the original page!

A little "cluster" never hurts!

I don't know why this hand is so popular but I love it too!!!!

I have been wanting one of those bingo cards for a long while! *Happy Happy Happy*

STASH USED

* The buttons
* The little heats on the right from TPC Studio
* The stencil I used in the background
* The Distress stain

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS LO

* I used many brands in this LO: TPC Studio, BoBunny, Echo Park, Simple Stories, Cosmo Cricket, Crafter's workshop, Crate Paper
* I FINALLY used one of my 12x12 background stencils in the back AND some Distress Stain in Picket Fence!
* **Heart** **Heart** the bingo card and other cards I used!

Hello everyone,

Today, I am sharing a card I made for my mother-in-law's birthday. I had to make it quickly since my fiancé had to leave and take it with him.

I don't know why, but I always find card sketches daunting... I always end up with something I am not really satisfied with! Too close to the sketch maybe. Then, I have a look at other scrappers' creations and they look amazing!

So, today, I decided not to use a sketch. The only thing I knew is that I wanted to use one of my Spellbinder's dies to create a funky shape (got the tip from Jennifer McGuire or Kristina Werner). So, in case you don't know it, I am going to share: to cut a card into the desired shape with a die, place the folded cardstock on the die, but leave the folded edge hang OUT of the die. This way, you'll cut around the paper, but the folded edge will stay intact and you will be able to open your card :)

So, here is what the final card looks like


After cutting up the shape, I just wanted to align three stamped butterflies on the white cardstock. Unfortunately, my stamps were too big to fit. So, I decided I would "give it a pop" with some bright PP. And I felt like the shape on this red one coordinated pretty well with the shape. Seemed all oriental to me :p

Then, I thought about stamping the sentiment, but I felt like the PP was too busy already. So, I cut out three butterflies out of the same collection, and I stamped the sentiment inside, together with three rhinestones.

Finally, I added some black faux stitching because I felt like the outside was too bare.

I am not showing the inside because I took the pictures after writing my card, so it feels kind of too personal, don't know why!

SUPPLIES

* Paper is from the Picadilly collection, by BG
* The Big butterfly is from Martha Stewart
* The die is from Spellbinder

STASH USED

Well, I don't think anything is old enough to be called stash. However, I haven't bought anything new to make the card... So nothing and everything qualifies!

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS CARD

* I didn't use a sketch
* I used my Big Shot, and if you read my blog, you know I LOOOOVE to use it!
* Love the colours, the pattern... the general feel!

Thanks for stopping by today and have a great week!!! :)

 Hello everyone,

So, long time no write (can I modify the actual expression to write this?!)! As predicted, I have been REALLY busy, worked about 53 hours last week... I guess it might not seem a lot to some of you, but I normally work 37,5 hours... And as a French person, I should fight for my 35 hours! But I don't mind, I did lots of new things at work and I loved every piece of it! But this week is more quiet, and I have to say that I like being home with my fiancé (let's call him S. from now on) and my kitty cat Gaston (let's call him Gaston, shall we... after all, it's his name :p).

I just finished my homemade mayonnaise (yummy) and I am waiting for my leeks to be cooked so we can have dinner. And I thought that, in the mean time, it was time for me to blog!

Anyway, do you know Pam, over at Pamela's world of scrap? Well, if you don't (which I doubt), walk.. no RUN and visit her blog! She has fantastic ideas and makes fabulous designs. Anyway, I fell in love with one of her LOs and thought I would scraplift it... Bad me... But then, I know that she underwent surgery and can't blog not scrap as much. So, I thought that sharing one of her creations might do her well... Even if I am sure nobody is going to forget her!

So, she shared this LO in Jan. (yes, click, click, go!) and I instantly knew I would have to scraplift it!

And here is my take on it

The background is the Picadilly collection from BG. I used the "Out of Print" collection for the circles (6x6 pad)

And here are a few close-ups:

The heart is, if I'm not mistaken, from Artemio! Love the TPC fiber! (or is it TCP, I'll check out!)

I cut out a AC sticker, and it fit perfectly the size of the circle! PERFECT!!!

For the flower, I used a Spellbinder die, it's BEAUTIFUL! Some layering, some brads... AWESOME!

I stamped and clear embossed a nice shape. Then I put some distress ink on the side!

Used some washi tape, layered more flowers. I used a square shape I got at some Dollar Store, and I painted some yellow crackle paint on it.

Thickes and a alpha. To cut the first words, I used a Sizzix die.

STASH USED:

* The little shape
* The crackle paint
* The stamp on the tag

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS LO

* I used washi, YYYYEEEAAAHHHHH
* The title... Just the title is a story. It's a sentence my nephew used to say when he was like 2 or 3... It's from Snow White!
* I love the pop of colours in front of the off-white background... And the black twine too!
* I liked using stickers and stuff!


Well, on that note, I will leave you to your day, hoping it will go well!! If I have the courage, I will have a look and come back to let you know what the exact supplies are!

Have a great day everyone :-)

Hello everyone and happy new week!

I hope everyone has had a great week end! As far as I am concerned, I have been trying to keep it pretty calm since I had a crazy week at work, and I know the next one won't be any different. But, on the other hand, I love the new responsibilities I have, it makes my job that much more interesting since it's more diversified! Who thought a translator's life could be so exciting?!

Now, onto scrapping!! This week, there was no sketch on the BG blog... They decided to give us a LO and asked us to scraplift it... Well, no need to say one more word! I mean, the designers over at Basic Grey are nothing short of AMAZING, so if you give me the chance to scraplift one of their LOs, I'll gladly oblige you! It's like leaving me in my favorite shop and tell me to take anything for free... But, I am dreaming right now... too bad though!

So, here is the sketch to scraplift:


And here is my take.. If I may say so..


What? REALLY scraplifted? ME???? Noooooooooooooooo

So, here are a few close-ups

I didn't have that beautiful flower, so I made my own with some fabric I got at Walmart.  See how I sprayed the tags with some Glimmer Mist? I used some spellbinders as masks/stencils.

I used the same Glimmer mist on all the papers, so they would "feel the same", even if they already come from the same collection. I used "Iced spruce" distress ink around all of them too.

See how I dared using gems?! I'm happy because I downloaded the "Typewriter font" on Dafont.com! I love it :) I haven't written my journaling on the computer in forever but I love the clean look it gives to the page!

***Sorry I couldn't get the picture on the right side***