Pocket pages for a baby album

Hi everyone!
Salut tout le monde!

Today I'd like to show you the beginning of a baby album I made using some pocket page protectors. In 2008, I made a classic baby album for my first born daughter, but last year I was challenged to do this project and I must say that if it was to be redone, I'd choose this style of album!!
Aujourd'hui j'aimerais vous montrer le début d'un album de bébé que j'ai fait "style Project life". En 2008, quand ma première fille est née, j'ai fait un album plus classic, mais l'année passée j'ai été mise au défi de faire un album de bébé en utilisant les pages protectrices divisées et je dois avouer que si c'était à recommencer, je ferais mon album de cette façon là. Voilà, pour les jeunes mamans, laissez-vous inspirer. ;)

First of all, it's not because we choose to use divided page protectors that we can't mix things up. Here, for my first page, and to add an explanation of why I was re-doing her baby album, I used an 8x8 page protector and made a "traditional" scrapbook page.
Tout d'abord, ce n'est pas parce qu'on décide de faire un album "à la Project Life" qu'on doit être super rigide. Ici, pour ma première page, celle qui explique pourquoi j,ai décidé de refaire les premières pages de son album de bébé, j'ai utilisé un protecteur 8x8 et j'y ai inséré une page de scrap plus traditionnelle.

On the back of that first page, another 8x8 layout.
Au dos de cette première page, une autre page 8x8 plus traditionnelle.

All products are Pretty Little Studio.
Tous les produits sont de Pretty Little Studio.

I added some stitching. And some gold foil.
J,ai ajouté de la couture. Et du doré.

And I selected only the best pictures. This was taken in 2008. The technology (and our camera) was not the same as today. Also, by selecting fewer photos, the ones selected have more place to breathe.
J'ai sélectionné seulement les plus belles photos. Premièrement, mes photos ont été prises en 2008. À ce moment-là, la technologie (et notre caméra) n'était pas ce qu'elle est aujourd'hui. Aussi, en choisissant peu de photos, les photos choisies ont plus de place pour respirer.

Here: gold rub-on and stitching. And a piece of patterned paper.
Ici: transfert doré et couture. Et un peu de papier à motifs.

Some cork accents, more stitching and patterned paper from the baby Claire collection (Pretty Little Studio).
Quelques accents de liège, encore de la couture et du papier à motifs de la collection Baby Claire (Pretty Little Studio).

Some journaling cards and large tags that fit right into the pocket.
Des cartes de journaling et des étiquettes qui rentrent juste dans les pochettes.

I'm melting for the motives of that collection. Look at the moon. For little boys there's also the Baby Jack collection with greens and oranges.
Je craque pour les motifs de cette collection. Regardez la belle lune! Pour les garçons il y a la collection Baby Jack avec du vert et du orangé.

Here I opted for some gold glitter and vellum.
Ici j'ai opté pour des paillettes et du vélin doré.

And some more golden rub-ons.
Et d'autres transferts dorés.

4x6 pockets are perfect to hold a 3x4 photo (that I cut down a little bit). Backed with a 4x6 cards, it creates some nice space for some journaling.
Les pochettes 4x6 peuvent très bien contenir une photo 3x4 (que j'ai découpé un peu plus petite). Avec une carte 4x6 en arrière-plan, on crée de la place pour du texte.

A little word sticker. So cute. Perfect little accent. Notice the white frame I added to my photo that I down sized, once again and that I mated on a 3x4 card.
Un petit collant "I love you" tellement cute comme petit accent. Et j'ai laissé un petit cadre blanc autour de ma photo que j'ai montée sur une carte 3x4.

I dressed this picture a little bit more up and added some color to break the softness of the page.
J'ai habillé cette photo un petit peu plus et j'ai ajouté de la couleur plus vive pour briser la douceur de la page.

The little lamb…. no words!
Le petit agneau…sans mots!

Rub-ons are probably my favorite to add a little something special to a photo!! Way better than writing on it!! :)
Les transferts sont ma façon favorite d'ajouter un petit quelque chose de spécial a une photo. Tellement mieux que d'écrire sur la photo avec un marqueur ou avec l'ordi!!

Here some Cosmo Cricket gold glittery vellum. Yum!!!
Ici un peu de vélin doré et pailletté Cosmo Cricket! J'adore!

I covered the pink heart that was on the card with a gold one. :)
Ici j'ai couvert le coeur rose qui était imprimé sur la carte avec un coeur doré. Ca donne de la brillance et de la texture. :)

I love 4x6 cards that have lines like this one!! It makes it so easy to write! And with the incorporated label, it's easy to make a detail stand out.
J'adore les cartes 4x6 qui sont lignées comme celle-ci. Ca rend la tâche tellement plus facile quand on veut écrire beaucoup! Et avec la petite étiquette intégrée sur la carte, c'est facile de faire ressortir un petit détail.

The golden vellum that was used to back my photo in another pocket was used here as washi tape. It's not sticky, I simply stitched through it. An easy way to add some journaling to a card that it very colorful and busy like this one is to use some strips of paper like I did here.
Le vélin doré que j'ai utilisé pour mater ma photo dans une autre pochette a servi ici de washi tape. Il n'est pas collant, je l'ai simplement cousu. Une bonne façon d'ajouter un peu de texte sur des cartes très colorées est en utilisant des bandelettes comme celles-ci.

And of course, I use labels ALL THE TIME!
Et bien sûr j'utilise des étiquettes tout le temps!!!

Vellum mixed with rub-ons.
Vélin et transferts.

Vellum again with a cute die cut.
Encore du vélin, cette fois avec un petit die cut.

And a cute flair to end the story in a beautiful and precious way. :)
Et un beau petit badge pour terminer ces pages en beauté. :)

I hope I could inspire you a little.
Looking back at these times that are so far behind although they are just 6 years ago replace things in perspective… Have a nice day!!
J'espère que j'ai pu vous inspirer un peu. 
Regarder ces photos et relire tout ça et me dire que ça ne fait que 6 and que c'est arrivé, ça remet les choses en perspective. 
Passez une belle journée mes amies!

Marie-Pierre

Citrus Twist Pocket Life Kits - a new beginning

Hi everyone!
Salut tout le monde!

Today I am very happy to announce that I've been invited to be part of this amazing company:
Je suis super heureuse de vous annoncer que j'ai été retenue par cette extraordinaire compagnie:

I'll be working with their Pocket Life kit and with their Embellishment and Sprinkle kits.
I am so so so excited and happy and just can't wait to start!! :)
Je vais jouer avec leur kit Pocket Life, ainsi que leurs kits Embellissement et Sprinkle. 
Je suis tellement excitée et heureuse, je ne peux presque pas attendre mon premier kit!! :)

I hope you'll enjoy following me through this wonderful adventure.
J'espère être à la hauteur et j'espère que vous me suivrez dans cette formidable aventure. 

Marie :)

Project Life - March Part 2

Hi everyone!
À mes amis francophones, veuillez m'excuser pour un 2e billet sans traduction, mais on part pour la Floride après demain et j'ai encore tellement de choses à faire!!  Je me reprends au prochain billet!! Merci de votre compréhension. Et si vous avez des questions sur ce que vous voyez/lisez, n'hésitez pas à me laisser un commentaire. J'y répondrai. :)

Here's part 2 of March 2015. Enjoy!

This month's theme in Ali's "craft the story" kit is MAGIC. I could't love it more!!! I love the products, but even more than that, I love the reminder to look for little pieces of magic in our ordinary life. I found a lot this month.

I started this left page with a card from the kit and a picture of my parent's car in our driveway.

Here,s the story. I love to use full 4x6 cards to tell a "longer" (still relatively short) story.

I used some cute gold and silver metallic stars. (I should have covered the blue ADT sign with one of these stars.)

Remember my post about photos that showcase people's personality? This is a good example. The picture is far from being good, but at the same time, this picture is perfect!! Because it captures so very much my daughter who has a calendar for the first time and who is constantly asking and writing things on it. On the calendar card I circle the date my parents arrived to our house. It was THE BIG EVENT of the month. :)

This is a small picture of my mom who is walking home with my daughters from the bus pick up. Precious.

And this is Arielle at her soccer practice, giving everything because she is competitive, but also because grand-pa is watching tonight! :) I added a label with some details, a big golden glittery heart and a happy wood veneer.

Another perfectly imperfect photo. My parents, Arielle laughing and interacting with the coach. I love it!

Here I would like to have your attention on the colors. I used only warm colors on this spread (and a tiny touch of mint to pick up the blue wall on the left page) because the red dog was pretty dominant and I wanted to blend it in a little. So I used oranges, yellows, pinks…. the paler pinks are toning everything down a little. I also used neutral wood as a background for the dog and some glitter gold as a mat for my small photo of Maya and the dog.

Love these two cards next to each other. And look at the stitching on the lines of the sun burst. Do yo remember yesterday when i talked about stitching along the lines? That's a great example. A little stitching really goes a very long way!

Another word wood veneer here to repeat the one on the left page. And some warm gold foil on a cooler pale pink card. Notice also how I mixed the fonts and the texture of the fonts? One is cursive and lower case, the other one is a sans serif and all uppercase. One is rather bulky and the other is extra thin.  It's a great contrast. Remember, a little bit of contrast is good.

So, what do we do when we have white space? My scrapbook friend would tell you "don't touch it, I like to breathe". And I'll tell you "if you want, use it to write in it". :) Both ways are fine. Here again I mixed the font size and thickness of the lines.

For my last spread of the month, I'm documenting our easter party and I decided to go with the colors of the rainbow!! Starting with the orange, yellow and pink on the left and going into a green and blue palette on the right. I think that this is pretty cool! :)

Look at our white trees!! Gorgeous!! They go so well with our bunny. :)

On the warmer page, I added a golden glittery heart.

And to tie in with the gold I used a white card here with golden stars and I added gold and pink sequins and a pink label.

I love the pop of yellow brought by the journaling card and the arrow. Did you know that arrows are perfect to bring the eye of your viewer where you want ti to go? Here for instance I'm journaling about the tactic that daddy was explaining to little 4 year old. I thought it was pretty funny. :) Well the yellow arrow points toward the race, ...

And here another arrow points toward daddy giving the tips. It's good to use arrows when pictures are really busy like this one.

To the blues and greens I added some black here. It makes a neat contrast to all the white from the bunny and the trees.

A small embellishment cluster with some white and some blue.

And here some more gold. We need a balance throughout the spread. If yo have it on the left side, you'll want to have it also on the right side. At least a little bit of it.

Here there's a mix of textures: cork, enamel, foil. And again a little pinch of black.

Here the words that were showing around the picture of the bunny made no sense to the story so I decided to stitching over them.  And on the bleu card I used a tone on tone embellishment. It makes for a soft look.

I so love this card. It makes me happy. I love happy colors. :)

And here, one last little embellishment cluster and a pinch of orange that brings balance to my spread.

There you go!
I hope you enjoyed those 2 days of Project Life.

I'm very happy to be up-to-date because as we are ready to go celebrate spring break at Disney World, I'll be ready to start a new month, fresh from the beginning when I come back. With my new system, it seems like there's really no more "being late". That's AWESOME!!

Talk to you soon!!!

Marie