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,

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 ladies,

So, are you impressed with all my blogging this week?

Today, I thought I would share a LO I created on Jan., 2d. WITHOUT A SKETCH BABY! (Oops, sorry, I got carried away!).

I am sure you know Sutty, over at Fruits of my scraps... She's that great scrapper who does those AMAZING pages and doesn't even seem to realize how wonderful she is... Anyway, why am I mentioning Sutty you ask? Because I had been wanting to use "banners"/"pennants" for a while, and she won a challenge over at AC with one of her great pages! So, she and another amazing blogger, Mary Pat, over at Siehled With a Kiss, inspired me to give it a try!

So, here is what I came up with:


As, Pamela, a third GREATLY wonderful scrapper said, you can NEVER go wrong with butterflies, so...

And here are a few close-ups

Martha Steward punch, Sew Easy baker's twine by WeRMK, PP : Basic Grey's "Life of the party"

Sticker from the "UPCycle" collection by Cosmo Cricket and BG brads

See... BUTTERFLIES! The ink on the doilyis Jenni Bolwin's "Chewing gum"

"Subway" Thickers

Rub-on and sticker from the same BG collection. The label is a die cut I made using a spellbinder die and my Big Shot. The paint is just watercolour I spritzed on there! I inked the buttons and clear embossed them.

STASH USED

* Buttons, as usual (it seems to be a never-ending stash)
* The Cosmo Cricket sticker! I'm really happy when I get to use one!!
* All the eyelets at the top

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS LO

* The inking of white buttons when I don't have the right colour for a button. I have plenty of white ones, so it's good! Plus here, the one at the button is green and blue, so I can try to create mixes :)
* The watercolour, I think it adds a nice touch and a bit of texture since some of it crackles!
* The eyelets... A different touch I think, but it works

SUPPLIES

See comments under the pics!


Before thanking you for stopping by, I'd like to invite you to visit the blogs of the three great scrappers I mentioned today (just in case you didn't know them.. Which would be quite surprising, but still!).

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by ;)

Hello everyone,

Today, I am sharing a LO I created for Shimelle Laine's sketch of the week.

I used BG Life of the party paper, together with Echo Park (Dots and Stripes collection) and AC stickers. I blinged it up and there you go.

I must say that I am pretty happy with the result. For once, I managed to cluster it pretty well :p

So, here it is... Excuse the poor quality of the picture but, even if I took it during the day, the light was sooo bad. Anyway, there you go:


With a few close-ups










STASH USED

* The stickers. I've had the EC collection and the "Remarks" stickers for a long while, so I was happy to use them.
* The stamp "J'adore"
* Even the alphas

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS PROJECT

* The clustering
* The colours... It's bright and nice

SUPPLIES USED

For a list of some of the supplies used, please see my 2Peas Gallery

Before I say goodbye, I want to share with you my desk... I know it's not Wednesday, but I don't think it's ever been this bad!!



Okay now, have a great week everyone!!

Hello everyone,

Just a quick message to show you a page I created last night using of one BG's templates!

I adapted it to match the collection I had! And it even works for their "challenge" of the month: stitching :)

So, here it is



And here are a few close-ups

Used Tim Holtz's thingie!

STASH USED

* Border punch (Fiskars)
* Buttons

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS PROJECT

* The colours
* Even if there are flowers, it's not too feminine, I think

SUPPLIES

Everything, except for the buttons and the border punch, comes from the "Life of the Party" collection from BG.

Hello everyone,

This is going to be a short short post because I had my first day at work today (YAYYYYYY) and I am exhausted (but excited and happy)!

So, here is another project I created for a "Sketchy Thursday" challenge. I made a pretty litteral interpretation of the sketch again, but it was so nice, it really didn't much more!

So, here it is:


And here is my take


And a few close-ups

"Lauderdale" glazed brads, Some old book paper

I like this "clustering of paper"

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS PROJECT

* I really liked the sketch, so I'm pretty happy with the result
* I'm happy I used some mist again

STASH USED

* The old book paper. I found a stack of those papers at Winners and don't often get around to using them, so I'm happy about it :)

SUPPLIES

Please see my 2Peas gallery and the legend under the first pic.

Hello everyone,

Here is a new LO created for Shimelle's sketch of the week!


So, I really liked the sketch this week so I HAD to play along! I chose I picture from my birthday and decided I would make the first page of the album!

So, here is what I came up with


And here are a few close-ups

LAX Thickers and handmade faux chipboard letters (tutorial to come)

Some stars and swirls... that's all it takes

And more swirls!!

Used en embossing folder for this! Here is the debossed side because I changed my mind about what side to use!

A rub-on and some hand journaling to finish it off!! WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS LO * The way I used swirls to add movements * The fact I FINALLY used one of my embossing folders in a LO * The fact I *CREATED* faux chipboard letters (*HEART*) STASH USED * The LAX Thickers... It's one of the first collections I bought * The rub-ons... I've bought them WAY BEFORE I bought the papers! * The cereal boxes I keep (used them to make the chipboard letters) SUPPLIES Please see my 2Peas gallery and the legend under the pics to see the supplies I used for this project

Hello ladies,

Today, a LO evolving around a different theme (at least for me): a table! ***A TABLE***, I hear you say... Well, not any table... My birthday table! Two colours: green (lime let's say) and pink... (I have to mention that my best friend folded the napkins).

For this project, I used a LO by "Got Sketch?". Sorry but I'm unable to put the sketch here, so you'll have to follow the link to their page :) I couldn't pass up this one because they had rosettes... And we know I LOOOVE them!!

So, here is the page:


LOVE the colours... And I'm really happy because the "Life of the party" collection had colours that matched up the table pretty well!!

STASH USED

* None really... Well, this border punch is the first one I bought, does it count??
* I've had those rub ons forever (see previous post)...

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS LO

* I've been thrifty lately (I don't know why, but I love the word "thrifty" in English... there are some words I also love in French... and that's one of the ones I like in English) and I've cut out the center of the papers... Like here for example, I cut out the center of the pink paper since it was not going to show up! I often do this when using a particular collection for a event...
* The rosettes... the banner... the lively colours...

SUPPLIES

For a list of supplies (and more pictures), please visit my 2Peas gallery

Hello everyone,

As you may know/have noticed, I'm really into using "Creative Scrappers" sketches for my LOs (I even decided to create a LO for each sketch they put in their PDF files!). Well, instead of ONLY "living in the past", I decided to participate in one of their challenges with sketch #179 (to view the sketch, please click on the link).

So, here is my take (pretty clean and simple...)


And here are a few close-ups

I applies the rub-ons one on top of the other

And just a slight modification to the journaling since I noticed a MISTAKE!!!! I HATE HATE HATE mistakes... As we say in French, "déformation professionnelle"

So, there you go!


I don't know if I like it better like that or not, but I could not stand everyone pointing this mistake out when having a look at the album!!

VARIATIONS FROM THE SKETCH

The top left corner: I used banners instead of the squares!

STASH USED

I must admit I only used the red ribbon... Well, the papers are new BUT I've had the rub-ons for a LONG while! So that also comes from my stash...

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS LO

* I like the way I applied the rub-ons
* The wound grain paper... but that's BG, not me :D

SUPPLIES

For a list of supplies, please visit my 2Peas gallery

TFL and have a fantastic day!!!!

Hello everyone,

Here is a LO I created for Shimelle's sketch of the week


And here is my take on it:


You said handsome?

And here are a few close-ups:

I used washi tape instead of the paint Shimelle used

Used an American Crafts sticker

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS LO

When I first started, I really didn't think it would end up well, but I tried to adapt and I think the result is pretty good... So, I'm generally happy :) Plus, I think my nephew is a cutie in this LO! (Have you noticed I quite like my niece and my nephews??)

SUPPLIES

For a list of supplies, please go to my 2Peas gallery