Get it Scrapped - scooter ride

Hi everyone!
A new layout of mine was published today at getitscrapped.com alongside other layouts about bike rides.
Since my daughters don't ride bikes yet (Arielle is learning to ride without training wheels but I don't go on field trips with her on her bike) when we go for a ride I'm walking and they ride their scooters. Even Maya is very good at it!
I like the page I created. It's very soft and girly. And oh how I love to use polaroid photo frames!!!!

I did my title with some older Thickers and the new letters from Dear Lizzy that I so totally love!! I went with 2 very different colors, fonts, styles. And I stitched the 2 words to unite them.

 I used some polaroid frames that I found online for free and that I printed on white card stock. I cut out the inside with an x-acto knife.

This little man on a scooter is a small card I have had forever and I thought I'd never use.... you see, we never what we'll need. I keep EVERYTHING!! :) I stitched it to add some cool texture inside the frame and I added the date on the frame with my smash date stamp. I added a simple Dear Lizzy chipboard arrow to direct the eye to the next picture.

Here's a detail shot of my focal point picture that I have set right under my title and that I didn't frame but printed in a bigger size. I stitched some Dear Lizzy chipboard accents in the white space of the photo. I kind of like it .... a lot! :)

Here I played with chevrons to direct the eye. And I added some texture and fun to my layout with some rub-ons from Heidi Swapp! I never have enough of those!!!!!! (And I secretly wish that Heidi will soon have a new something to replace/accompany these!!)

Here's a look at my journaling that I framed. And I added another rub-on at the bottom.

On the side I used 2 triangles to act like arrows to direct the eye.

Voilà. :)
oh, and can you see that there are some glitter in the background paper? And did you see all the stitching?? ;)

Ok, we're off to Disney!!
Have a nice week, guys! :)

Talk to you soon!

Marie

an ode to my friend and some watercolor love

Hi everyone!!
it feels unreal..... I'm leaving in a couple of hours, no kids, just my husband and I.
My in-laws are here and will take care of the kids while we're away.
We are going to Orlando, our favorite destination, even without kids!

Before I leave, I wanted to show you something I made 2 weeks ago when I went to visit my parents in Quebec. I have my best scrappy friend there so I brought us some goodies to play and make a page together, something that had never happened before. Sure, when Gen comes here we do get to scrap, but usually we both work together on one page (mine or hers, it depends on who needs help), but this time I wanted that we both do our own page and I also wanted to push Gen out of her comfort zone (she ALWAYS do double page layouts and it's ALWAYS about/for her kids!) and have her do something artsy, a single page, about HER! :) So we did!

I brought all the material we would need and I let her have a peek into Wilna's art class which I LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!! We watched Wilna do a page, and we then did the same. Here we are:

(Notice the bag of chips in the background!) ;)

Here's our set up, at my parent's dining table:

And here are our pages:

(mine)

(Gen's)

Aren't they cool?? :)

One thing Gen struggles with when scrapbooking is the journaling. So to help her, I decided the theme of the page (even cut a title for her with my Silhouette) and I sent her an e-mail the day before our meeting telling her she had to write down 34 things she likes at the moment. Well, 5 minutes after the e-mail was sent, she wrote me back sayong it was done. See, when you are not writing FOR a scrapbook page, I think it's easier to write. Maybe because there's no pressure, or the expectations are less high? Anyway, Gen' style is usually very graphic and tidy and .... perfect!!!! So I was happy to see her let go and have fun and play. And it was very fun to see that with exactly the same supplies, we got to very different styles. :)

So that's it for today. 

Love you Gen!!

Talk to you soon!

I'm off to (not so) sunny Orlando! ;)

Marie-Pierre :D

Project Life - Week 12

Hi everyone!!

Here I am with week 12 of my Project Life album.

I'm slowly falling behind in this project since I have so much to do these days (and past weeks) but I keep the faith that I'll get back to it and be able to keep up again!! We're only in April so I still have lots of time to get things under control. :)

 Marie-Pierre :)

Project Life week 10

Hi everyone!
Welcome to my week 10 of my Project Life album!! :)
Hope you enjoy looking at it:

Marie

Artsy page I love - Inspired by Wilna

Hi everyone!

Oh! I'm so happy I could squeeze another blogpost in before I left home because this page I'm dying to show it since I made it!! :)

The assignment at getitscrapped.com was to use the colors of the rainbow. 

I mixed the assignment with my art class I'm taking with Wilna Furstenberg (that you can find here - IT'S AN AWESOME CLASS!! don't miss it!) and it gave me this nice result. :) How do you like it??!

Some of you will wonder how I did the watercoloring. Some will think that I was courageous to draw outside the little jars..... but no, I wasn't really. ;) Actually I painted first and stamped second. lol I then added some butterflies that I cut in velum with my silhouette and that I stitched (call me crazy!) and some tiny hearts that I punched in paper of the same color than the watercolor in the jars. 

The title, cut with my silhouette, some journaling.
Cute black and white pictures and voilà. :)

Oh yes, a few watercolor splatters too. ;)

I mounted the whole thing on some Amy Tangerine colorful paper and stitched all around. :)

And you? Are you getting artsier in your scrapbooking?

If you like what you, and would like to go for it and try it, it really doesn't take much. You can do this layout even with your kids watercolor palette, just like I did. And I didn't use watercolor paper, no, just normal white cardstock from Bazzill. So, what are you waiting for? Get artsy! It's so easy and so much fun!!! :)

Have fun making pretty stuff! 

Marie-Pierre

Project Life - week 09

Hi everyone!

I'm packing tonight, leaving tomorrow morning to Quebec! Yay!! :)

I know that I was just there but as my planing skills are very week I just realized this week that we had no school, no danse and no appointements next week and that we were free to do whatever we wanted to. So I felt the urge to go back home, have some time with friends that I couldn't see last weekend and perhaps squeeze another lunch time at the sugar house!! WOOHOO!! :) 

Su just before I leave I wanted to give you something to look at while I'm away. Here's my week 09 of Project Life, without comments this time. :)

Enjoy and have a great spring break week!! 

3 inserts this week.

I stamped this little clock with staz-on ink.

Here I typed with a typewriter (I had one for a month and gave it back) on vellum.

This green card is from my Studio Calico Project Life kit. I didn't think I'd find a use for that month's kit because I didn't like it all that much, but finally I did make good use of with with a little imagination and creativity. ;)

Loved that 4x6 Studio Calico card!!

And since I discovered Heidi's color shine, I couldn't help but use it in my PL album too!! So pretty and shiny!

That's it!!
I'll have a beautiful page published this week, I'll try to make a blog post about it. ;) You can see a small sneak peek on the first page of this week's PL. ;)

Talk to you soon!!
Marie-Pierre