Just five more minutes !

Hello everyone,

Once again, let me thank you for all the amazing comments you leave on here! It's always a great joy for me to read them!!

I didn't manage to take pics of this LO with a great light but I thought I would share it anyway, otherwise, I am never going to post again.. And I want to stop waiting for two weeks between two posts!

So, Echo Park had a sketch inspiration post last week, and I thought I would hop in! I really liked the sketch and I loved the page the designer made out of it! It's funny because my finished page really doesn't look anything like hers! I'm amazed at the different results one can get with the exact same sketch!

Here is the sketch


And here is my take


I pretty much followed it! Once again, the white paint took forever to dry (I don't know why the Calico White Mister Huey ALWAYS does that... When I say forever, I mean forever... It takes more than a day sometimes... Does it do that to you???), so I smeared it a little bit... but I guess that's okay!

And here are a few close-ups:

Haven't added a rosette on a LO in a while! Used Tim Hotlz's die with my Big Shot

Love that felt "swirl", it gives texture and it just looks cool

Put the banner on not-so-thick pop dots. I used white cardstock, sprayed some Mr Huey in Calico Cream, some blue and pink mists.

I sprayed, put a flower and some brads. Oh and some baker's twine on top. Circle sticker is from AC.

I STAMMMPPPED! Used Jenni Bowlin's inks and some Artemio stamps :) And a ribbon for added texture

BoBunny breads :) The sticker underneath is from the "Upcycle" sticker sheet from Cosmo Cricket

STASH USED

* The flowers
* The rosette die :)
* The stickers
* The papers in general

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS LO

* The bling fell on it, and I really liked how it looked so I just decided to stick it on there! I really like the result :)
* I really like the difference between the two pages! (Mine and the one from the designer.)
* I stamped several times... And that's definitely a good thing!

Anyway, thanks for looking and have a great day or night!!!

Oh man, I know I should be ashamed, and I am! I haven't been posting in two weeks! Haven't scrapbooked much either to tell the truth. Fiancé had food poisoning and got a one-week sick leave! I'm not all that sure it was food poisoning since I haven't felt well for a week.... I think he passed whatever he had on to me! ANYWAY! We're all fine now and I decided to scrapbook this week end!

So here is a page I made using the Sunday Sketch by Studio Calico.

 As you can see, it was originally a 8x11 or so, but I made it 12x12! I should try another format some time...

So, here is my take on it:



 And would it be a real post without a few close-ups?

Used WeRMM baker's twine, Sizzix dies for the hearts. PP is BG's "Indie Bloom"

Small letters are Lily bee design, big ones are "Jewelry box" Thickers. Cut out a heart out of vellum to put them together and hand stitched in the middle.

Paper tape is Cavallini & Co.

"Genuine" is from a "Tiny Type" sticker sheet from Cosmo Cricket. Brads are from BG. The shape is a Spellbinder die.

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS LO

* The grey coloured backgroung by Bazill!
* The use of the baker's twine! I love the result :)
* Used my Big Shot quite a lot for this!


STASH USED

* The vellum
* The brads!

Thanks for stopping by!!

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 ladies,

First of all, let me wish you the very best for this new year. May it be filled with success, love and everything you could wish for... Particularly for those of you who had a rough 2011 (but for the others too).

Even if last year was not bad for me, I am hoping to do better this year... To stop wanting and start acting... Seems simple, but it's quite hard for me (dunno why, it's in me I guess).

For this new year, I am going to show you the very first LO I made in 2012 (I didn't create a whole lot anyway... just 2!). I had a stack of pictures that featured the same event (my birthday last year), but I didn't know how to arrange them... Then, I saw this LO from Amy Tangerine and  I thought it would be a perfect starting point. I loved how she mixed the textures, the stripes and the stamping. Some of you may know that I love stamping but I never know how to incorporate it well, and here, it seemed perfect! Then, I "pushed the LO further" by creating kind of a "mini" book with the pictures. I only put tags inside to decorate since I thought the paper was "heavy" and beautiful enough.

But, let me show you the result:


And here are a few close-ups

Handmade flower I made using some white lace, pink distress stain and a big button

This should be on the other side!

This too..... But you can see the stamping

See how it opens up to make sort of a mini book

STASH USED

* The white lace
* The stamps!!!!
* The buttons

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS PROJECT

* I took a LO that I used as a "basic sketch" and I made it mine... And I feel like it worked!
* I am really happy I created this flower. At first, I just wanted to use the lace, but it was curling up as I was applying the distress stain, so it made me think of this!
* I included 7 photos and it's not too bulky or too busy

SUPPLIES USED

See my 2Peas gallery for a list of some of the supplies used

Thanks for having stopped by :)