tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23306546027456420452024-03-13T10:31:53.573-04:00Marie-PierreMarie-Pierre Capistranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07082780761580103690noreply@blogger.comBlogger762125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330654602745642045.post-54688992832716182202021-07-01T09:00:00.031-04:002021-07-01T09:00:00.288-04:00Happy Canada Day!! - Video hop<p><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hi everyone!</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm happy to welcome you here again (this means that something big is happening!) :) </span></p><p><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xcmxIRq8JZs/YNkdtPfmHTI/AAAAAAAAg1Y/DFDKzEdnFZo9ml6FhDO8wNsmukJoo_LlACLcBGAsYHQ/s940/01%2Bhop.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="536" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xcmxIRq8JZs/YNkdtPfmHTI/AAAAAAAAg1Y/DFDKzEdnFZo9ml6FhDO8wNsmukJoo_LlACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h536/01%2Bhop.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Happy Canada Day! I’m joining a group of Crafty Canadian YouTubers and we’re celebrating this special day by featuring Canadian craft products and shops. A total of 16 shops and 2 Canadian papercraft magazines have generously sponsored today’s event and we’re giving away over $1300 in prizes! After you’ve finished watching my video, please leave a comment for your chance to win, and then click on the link in the description below the video for the next person in the hop.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b>Don't forget to follow me, that would be highly appreciated! <3 </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Read further before you join the hop!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CWMrosJoteA/YNkdtOW3djI/AAAAAAAAg1c/0BBmhD83SsghfBLEDjTJPtNJmgYx_JrYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s940/03%2BHop.png" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="536" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CWMrosJoteA/YNkdtOW3djI/AAAAAAAAg1c/0BBmhD83SsghfBLEDjTJPtNJmgYx_JrYgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h536/03%2BHop.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This year I've discovered a new Canadian brand: <b>Pigment Craft Co.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Check out their IG account to automatically fall in love with them!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It could also make you win 100$ in gift certificate since while we are video hopping, they are IG hopping!! Head there when you're done with our video hop. Their IG handle is: <b>@pigmentcraftco</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ARj6oJM0MDI/YNkdt-5bV7I/AAAAAAAAg1k/jIT7tNCmx6s3W_5aJ3onNuNMkeKKfXeywCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/Pigment_CD-Promo_Feed-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ARj6oJM0MDI/YNkdt-5bV7I/AAAAAAAAg1k/jIT7tNCmx6s3W_5aJ3onNuNMkeKKfXeywCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h400/Pigment_CD-Promo_Feed-4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here's my affiliate link to Pigment Craft Co if you want to shop there after the hop!! It won't cost you anymore and it will give me a little something so that I can continue to inspire you! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.pigmentcraftco.com?aff=21">https://www.pigmentcraftco.com?aff=21</a></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LFMwxqMxzQw/YN02uE-_xAI/AAAAAAAAg48/SifesgGnB5gFk-fTjtjeNl58IjcZOCRpwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/good%2Bdiscount.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LFMwxqMxzQw/YN02uE-_xAI/AAAAAAAAg48/SifesgGnB5gFk-fTjtjeNl58IjcZOCRpwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h360/good%2Bdiscount.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />A lot of our sponsors are also offering discount codes!! Find them at the end of this blog post and on <span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Emily's blog with </span>the full list of prizes and participants<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span><p></p><p><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://leiphartonart.blogspot.com/2021/07/2nd-annual-canada-day-video-hop.html">https://leiphartonart.blogspot.com/2021/07/2nd-annual-canada-day-video-hop.html<br /></a></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>YOU'LL FIND MY YOU TUBE VIDEO HERE:</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/HoQmkpY7h78">https://youtu.be/HoQmkpY7h78</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The more you comment, the higher your chances of winning. (Please indicate if you are in Canada or elsewhere as a few prizes are restricted to Canadian addresses only.) All of the giveaway details are on Emily’s blog.</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Comments close at 11:59pm EST on Sunday, July 11, 2021 and all winners will be announced on Saturday, July 17, 2021.</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><br /></p><p><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have fun hoping, being inspired and </span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">shopping!! :D </span></span></p><p><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And Happy Canada Day eh!</span></span></p><p><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marie</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SHOP COUPONS FOR THE HOP</span></p><p><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-7b8dfc8f-7fff-4231-c757-fcc904c5382a" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://creativescrapbooker.ca/contests/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creative Scrapbooker</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Contest Entry Form</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://creativescrapbooker.ca/artfromtheheart" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://creativescrapbooker.ca/artfromtheheart</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">codeword: CANADA21</span></p><p><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.ecstasycrafts.ca/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ecstasy Crafts</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">$25 off $50+ order using code BLOGHOPCA</span></p><p><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://jenniferedwardson.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jennifer Edwardson</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">15% off with CANADADAY</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Valid July 1-11</span></p><p><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://the-paper-and-ink-boutique.mybigcommerce.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Paper & Ink Boutique</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">20% off with CanadaDay20</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This coupon code is valid July 1-31 and can be used once per customer during that time period. Gift certificates, classes, take&makes, Jennifer Edwardson Creative Kits, Big Shot Machines, Gemini Jr Machines, pre-orders and Scrappy Hour are excluded. </span></p><p><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://ldli.co/e/x1g264" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Penguin Palace</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">20% off using code CDAY20OFF</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Valid from 30 Jun 9:00pm to 11 July 11:59pm PDT</span></p><p><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://ldli.co/e/0dmk1l" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pigment Craft Co</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">15% off using code CELEBRATECANADADAY</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Valid July 1st 2am EST - July 4th 10pm EST on all products in the Pigment Craft shop. Cannot be used towards free shipping minimums or to cover shipping fees.</span></p><p><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://ldli.co/e/1056jq" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scrap ’n Stamp</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">20% off with Canada20</span></p><p><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://scrapbookandcards.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scrapbook & Cards Today</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10% off using code SCT10</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This exclusive offer valid through July 15, 2021 can be used on any online classes, stamps and dies sets and kits on the Scrapbook & Cards Today website. This offer is not valid on events, subscriptions or the SCT Sampler.</span></p><p><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.thescrapbookcottage.ca/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scrapbook Cottage</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thescrapbookcottage.ca%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7C9e7e0b4904ef464e2a9908d93a69c85c%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637605048266150671%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=4XxTDbzdF5SswBpKtH%2FiBHOujmBA%2FbFTBpv2j%2BLUWfA%3D&reserved=0" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.thescrapbookcottage.ca</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; 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color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">20% off with VIDEOHOP21</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Valid July 1-10</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Code is valid on most items in our store. There are a few things that are excluded and those can be found under our FAQs.</span></p><p><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://yournextstamp.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your Next Stamp</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">30% off with CANADA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">July 1-11</span></p><p><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal;"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal;" /></span></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Marie-Pierre Capistranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07082780761580103690noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330654602745642045.post-15049008317258455552020-10-08T15:32:00.001-04:002020-10-08T15:32:24.888-04:00Kutna Hora<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have another video up on my YouTube channel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This layout is about the day we spent at Kutna Hora, in the Czech Republic, a city where there is a church decorated with with human bones!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can read more about Kutna Hora and it's churches here: https://www.amazingczechia.com/destinations/kutna-hora/</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And reading this, I know that I owe my scrapbook a more accurate description of the town.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VM25kPu3GX0/X39WZbs7saI/AAAAAAAAgkg/yuoPJfkcQfwV5u1eWfevowKYoAgEXQcUgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_6251.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VM25kPu3GX0/X39WZbs7saI/AAAAAAAAgkg/yuoPJfkcQfwV5u1eWfevowKYoAgEXQcUgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h640/IMG_6251.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Here's the link to my Yout tube channel process video:<div>https://youtu.be/738KOE58Cf0</div><div><br /></div><div>And here are some close ups of the details.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vmpOEcFCm38/X39WZUMF5_I/AAAAAAAAgkk/71XuvuTmRDcRWiRQ0SBF5hPUgqcepNzqACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_6252.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vmpOEcFCm38/X39WZUMF5_I/AAAAAAAAgkk/71XuvuTmRDcRWiRQ0SBF5hPUgqcepNzqACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h640/IMG_6252.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>These vellum leaves and sequins are from my <a href="https://prettylittlestudio.shop/collections/fall/potpourri/" target="_blank">Pot Pourri collection</a> and they are now 50%. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZQycrKVTESY/X39WZdl_3JI/AAAAAAAAgkc/OROhXlc5h4cGQ95o-W1OHitUcNK8qZZeQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_6253.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZQycrKVTESY/X39WZdl_3JI/AAAAAAAAgkc/OROhXlc5h4cGQ95o-W1OHitUcNK8qZZeQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h640/IMG_6253.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SJSy5RKgAR0/X39WcMfyViI/AAAAAAAAgk4/q8ZzmSnEMNwFdFY38NRNLHPxMasGIYoPwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_6258.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SJSy5RKgAR0/X39WcMfyViI/AAAAAAAAgk4/q8ZzmSnEMNwFdFY38NRNLHPxMasGIYoPwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h640/IMG_6258.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>I hope you get to scrap and treat yourself to some creative time! </p><p>Stay safe and see you again soon!</p><p><br /></p><p>Marie</p><p><br /></p></div>Marie-Pierre Capistranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07082780761580103690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330654602745642045.post-31488357079088552682020-09-24T15:37:00.000-04:002020-09-24T15:37:32.408-04:00First impressions of PragueThat conversation with Tiffany and Tracie (<a href="http://www.thescrapgals.com" target="_blank">The Scrapgals</a>) really made an impression on me! Here I am with my 2nd layout in 3 weeks (!!) that will make up my Prague album! I'm so excited!<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>One of my most vivid memory of us arriving in Prague is when after dropping all our things at the hotel and resting a little bit, we brought the girls to the main square in the city to show them OUR NEW HOME TOWN! </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s8kD1H_17uk/X2vnPA2GVEI/AAAAAAAAghk/5am5nvliaM09mkw8UJsNheqKl8RqjAmxACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0251.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s8kD1H_17uk/X2vnPA2GVEI/AAAAAAAAghk/5am5nvliaM09mkw8UJsNheqKl8RqjAmxACLcBGAsYHQ/w300-h400/IMG_0251.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This sight of Tyn church always gets me and moves me! Arielle's reaction was:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Mom! Why are there so many people in my city?" Precious.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I always imagined that she already felt like home.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We wandered the streets and tried to find all the good things the girls would love:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Prague candies at the Chocolate Museum.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Trdelnik.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The street artists.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There are so many impressions when we travel, right? But when we move, we feel lost and we find ourselves looking for some good things to grasp. That's what my layout was all about. I'm not sure I could capture it very clearly in so little words and photos. I might need many more pages to explain more...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But for now, here's my layout.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You can se my process video <a href="https://youtu.be/VBhFEyoQrh4" target="_blank">here</a>, on YouTube.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hZmMaGYiSCY/X2vpFB4ltiI/AAAAAAAAgh4/273bKmw4r6AX-itHC8d2IJUktZ34-iPsACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_5272.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hZmMaGYiSCY/X2vpFB4ltiI/AAAAAAAAgh4/273bKmw4r6AX-itHC8d2IJUktZ34-iPsACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_5272.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div>Marie-Pierre Capistranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07082780761580103690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330654602745642045.post-65967969805935446942020-09-19T10:10:00.001-04:002020-09-19T10:10:45.359-04:00BaileyMy first ever <a href="https://youtu.be/pix0FOGJ7XY" target="_blank">scrapbooking process video</a> is online! <div>Please go and give it a thumbs up and maybe a comment?! :)</div><div>You can also subscribe to my channel. I'm intending to do more. </div><div><br /></div><div>If you are arriving from my YouTube channel, thank you and Welcome to my blog! </div><div><br /></div><div>This layout, Bailey, was born from a stamp set. I fell in love with that cute little <a href="https://shop.catherinepooler.com/products/put-a-pin-in-it-stamp-set" target="_blank">clipboard stamp</a> by Catherine Pooler Designs.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sI7X8wQ7jE4/X2YN1afkq4I/AAAAAAAAghA/Pire2MHHoy8ouiPGVb044ZYW69OkoVkigCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Layout%2BBailey%2B-8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sI7X8wQ7jE4/X2YN1afkq4I/AAAAAAAAghA/Pire2MHHoy8ouiPGVb044ZYW69OkoVkigCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h640/Layout%2BBailey%2B-8.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Since I haven't scrapbooked in a while, I also haven't shopped in a while. These products are all pretty "vintage" lol I used colors I love and subtle patterns.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Slwd8Sr_vP0/X2YN0EcFOmI/AAAAAAAAgg4/KIrg4muNvqws00VkAoCEDyar70QNxeFYACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Layout%2BBailey%2B-7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Slwd8Sr_vP0/X2YN0EcFOmI/AAAAAAAAgg4/KIrg4muNvqws00VkAoCEDyar70QNxeFYACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/Layout%2BBailey%2B-7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Some acrylic embellishments from past Citrus Twist Kit kits.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Tf-4VdktSyM/X2YNt8L7--I/AAAAAAAAggo/4mlF0uNXxQIZdmQyCeNKvWTk60BN4AS8ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Layout%2BBailey%2B-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Tf-4VdktSyM/X2YNt8L7--I/AAAAAAAAggo/4mlF0uNXxQIZdmQyCeNKvWTk60BN4AS8ACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/Layout%2BBailey%2B-1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I fussy cut some stamped details, stitched with my sewing machine and used stickers and puffy stickers from my stash.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-71kdY7Ej0Y4/X2YNu0lSmPI/AAAAAAAAggs/_sECFkATCu0KydqVD3_ueoCwp-_EtyzAACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Layout%2BBailey%2B-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-71kdY7Ej0Y4/X2YNu0lSmPI/AAAAAAAAggs/_sECFkATCu0KydqVD3_ueoCwp-_EtyzAACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/Layout%2BBailey%2B-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>A piece of vellum scrap with hears in it, a tiny trombone, some chipboard pieces...</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XDh7quRSzhE/X2YN0dDCMFI/AAAAAAAAgg8/-1fWIuaRJAY6yJV4vQap0CwZ9vjsEvVxgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Layout%2BBailey%2B-5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XDh7quRSzhE/X2YN0dDCMFI/AAAAAAAAgg8/-1fWIuaRJAY6yJV4vQap0CwZ9vjsEvVxgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/Layout%2BBailey%2B-5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I also used a <a href="https://mamaelephant.com/collections/extra-large-cuts/products/letter-board-creative-cuts" target="_blank">letterboard die</a> from Mama Elephant. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WgDwd_BrG2w/X2YNzIqe_aI/AAAAAAAAgg0/IFseYiTp8j8Cb4-Tzc601r7a8JNfqvPlQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Layout%2BBailey%2B-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WgDwd_BrG2w/X2YNzIqe_aI/AAAAAAAAgg0/IFseYiTp8j8Cb4-Tzc601r7a8JNfqvPlQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/Layout%2BBailey%2B-4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XALvMd6NFNQ/X2YNvCde37I/AAAAAAAAggw/BdUtddUa1WAG4PJL7eoTE9RgUgb4E9lVgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Layout%2BBailey%2B-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XALvMd6NFNQ/X2YNvCde37I/AAAAAAAAggw/BdUtddUa1WAG4PJL7eoTE9RgUgb4E9lVgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/Layout%2BBailey%2B-3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>I'm glad to be back and productive in my studio. Scrapbooking really keeps me alive!</div></div><div>I'm glad you're here to share this with me. :)</div><div><br /></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Marie</div>Marie-Pierre Capistranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07082780761580103690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330654602745642045.post-87384301990805150432020-09-17T09:00:00.001-04:002020-09-17T09:00:04.674-04:003rd Cutest Video Hop Ever<p> For the 3rd time in a row, Maya, Arielle and I are participating in the</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UmBGHbsJH1w/X2K7siBKSEI/AAAAAAAAgf0/pMK6PUn1_KsvIK_uthfNDqZGzrqdYcxEwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1920/3rd%2BAnnual%2BCutest%2BVideo%2BHop%2BEver%2BIntro_ORIGINAL%2528static%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UmBGHbsJH1w/X2K7siBKSEI/AAAAAAAAgf0/pMK6PUn1_KsvIK_uthfNDqZGzrqdYcxEwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/3rd%2BAnnual%2BCutest%2BVideo%2BHop%2BEver%2BIntro_ORIGINAL%2528static%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lVjDNY4nEow/X2K7uFntU4I/AAAAAAAAgf4/kW-BurBvgOwwLXXy5RGxFQg6qCO0pKVbwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/3rd%2BAnnual%2BCutest%2BVideo%2BHop%2BEver%2BSponsors_YouTube%2528static%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></a></div><p>instigated by Emily Leiphart, 4 years ago.</p><p>This year we played with products from Catherine Pooler Designs, Ranger ink and Lawn Fawn.</p><p>We had some serious fun!</p><p>To see our 3 cards, I'll invite you to head over to my <a href="https://youtu.be/SFMcf-EONQI" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HabtE6MEszM/X2K76rgYz8I/AAAAAAAAggA/drhngxDcANQCY4EnFT9I7cCyV8gb0OJiACLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/3rd%2BAnnual%2BCutest%2BVideo%2BHop%2BEver%2BSponsors_YouTube%2528static%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HabtE6MEszM/X2K76rgYz8I/AAAAAAAAggA/drhngxDcANQCY4EnFT9I7cCyV8gb0OJiACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h225/3rd%2BAnnual%2BCutest%2BVideo%2BHop%2BEver%2BSponsors_YouTube%2528static%2529.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>There are so many sponsors this year and so many prizes to win! Over 1000$ in prizes! Isn't that incredible?! To win, simply like and comment on as many videos as you'd like. Arielle, Maya and I would also appreciate a follow. :)</p><p>See you over there!! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_ZYmqkKjv78/X2K8mZTsHmI/AAAAAAAAggM/dj3rVOyp6Zsa6P2tuPAvSAYXMQVM6XvzQCLcBGAsYHQ/s4032/IMG_E4933.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_ZYmqkKjv78/X2K8mZTsHmI/AAAAAAAAggM/dj3rVOyp6Zsa6P2tuPAvSAYXMQVM6XvzQCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_E4933.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Marie with Arielle and Maya (and Bailey) xo</p><p><br /></p>Marie-Pierre Capistranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07082780761580103690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330654602745642045.post-66990658360316475422020-09-14T23:48:00.000-04:002020-09-14T23:48:09.168-04:00The Scrapgals Podcast<p> Hey everyone!</p><p>Last Monday I was so happy to jump over my fear and be a guest on the Scrapgals podcast! Yay for being brave! Right?!</p><p>If you want to listen to the episode you'll have to register for the podcast and you can do so right <a href="http://www.thescrapgals.com/p/how-to-listen-to-scrap-gals-podcast.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>The episode is called Marie's dilemma and was prompted when I talked about having not scrapbooked in 3 years and being kind of lost as of where to start again.</p><p>After looking at all my already created albums/layouts, and after making some switches of some layouts that should live in different albums, I came up with the list of what I have, which is always a good starting point:</p><p>My Childhood (birth to 20 years old - right before I met my husband) | 2 albums full</p><p>Vancouver/Meeting my husband | Some layouts</p><p>Switzerland (1999 to 2010) | Some layouts</p><p>Travels (occurred while living in Switzerland + after kids) | 1 album full</p><p>Our wedding | Some layouts</p><p>Our honeymoon | Some layouts</p><p>My oldest daughter | 3 albums</p><p>My youngest daughter | 2 albums</p><p>Project Life/Day to day life | 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 (half the year)</p><p>Prague and Paris | some layouts (more than I thought)</p><p><br /></p><p>From there, I decided to write down what I wanted to have in my library of memories, in other words, what I want to add to my collection:</p><p><br /></p><p>Childhood</p><p>Teenage years - jobs, cars, brother, synchronized skating, Highschool - 3 schools, prom, graduation, summers with brother and friends </p><p>Vancouver - friends, family, school, private classes, activities</p><p>Wedding - civil</p><p>Wedding - religious Guests, flowers, music, colors, invitation, menu, photograph, ceremony, reception</p><p>Honeymoon - Camping trip through USA</p><p>Honeymoon - Cruise</p><p>Honeymoon - Canada with the inlaws</p><p>Honeymoon - Canada with the friends</p><p>Travel - one layout per place visited</p><p>Switzerland - moving to... German classes, friends, outings with the boys, job</p><p>Bachelor degree in Canada (4 years)</p><p>Back to Switzerland (before having my baby)</p><p>Young mom - 2 babies away from home, expat life but not really</p><p>Travel after kids (take out of family album and gather as travel instead)</p><p>Moving to USA - life in USA (other than Project Life) - moves to Farmington, Avon, NC</p><p>Prague - special stories: house, villae, school, friends, concerts/dance, city, visits, special events and visits</p><p>Paris</p><p>Travel while living again in Europe (2016-2019)</p><p>Move to Cleveland/summer (2019)</p><p>Everyday life - Covid</p><p><br /></p><p>Since the podcast appearance and talk with the two hosts (<a href="http://www.tiffanylowder.com" target="_blank">Tiffany</a> and <a href="http://www.tracieclaiborne.com" target="_blank">Tracie</a>), I have much more clarity as you can see by my "want-to-do list" and with clarity comes Mojo and motivation! Woohoo! I have to say that I have had Tiffany watching over my shoulder and steering me in the right direction every day of the week! lol </p><p>Here's the first layout I made and that will go into my Prague album:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J_SnPURwVsY/X2Az1JAUMqI/AAAAAAAAgek/LkzSg94DWG8P2IZQeZ5POs5sd0FsRo9iACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Tiffany%2Bin%2BPrague.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="2048" height="325" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J_SnPURwVsY/X2Az1JAUMqI/AAAAAAAAgek/LkzSg94DWG8P2IZQeZ5POs5sd0FsRo9iACLcBGAsYHQ/w625-h325/Tiffany%2Bin%2BPrague.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eJGRdBXsqXk/X2AzWQpCmTI/AAAAAAAAgdw/LcH2_4CnXKIeYERZ_m8tTToflhx39aBHgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Tiffany%2Bin%2BPrague%2Bleft.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eJGRdBXsqXk/X2AzWQpCmTI/AAAAAAAAgdw/LcH2_4CnXKIeYERZ_m8tTToflhx39aBHgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h400/Tiffany%2Bin%2BPrague%2Bleft.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bqetOM_hdQg/X2Azi2BB3YI/AAAAAAAAgeA/6h3DJJBLm50ZKS3Ek6Q4u9V2GDdaooO0ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Tiffany%2Bin%2BPrague%2Bright.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bqetOM_hdQg/X2Azi2BB3YI/AAAAAAAAgeA/6h3DJJBLm50ZKS3Ek6Q4u9V2GDdaooO0ACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h400/Tiffany%2Bin%2BPrague%2Bright.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Yl6WXscBo88/X2AzZL2ZPdI/AAAAAAAAgd4/tpUpsoGTCsYMaSeLv0CBrirwQwqVG2z3ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Tiffany%2Bin%2BPrague%2Bleft01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qtEDNRyl470/X2Azqd2jmuI/AAAAAAAAgeU/OyntHmPWUA0hwRIoekP5Mzc5DWEqjHwhwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/Tiffany%2Bin%2BPrague%2Bright03.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-02pl3iXHflw/X2Az0f3Ts5I/AAAAAAAAgeg/ZujtR8UxAw8rtb-YEUa17ccmdGvm0nvmACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Tiffany%2Bin%2BPrague%2Bright04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-02pl3iXHflw/X2Az0f3Ts5I/AAAAAAAAgeg/ZujtR8UxAw8rtb-YEUa17ccmdGvm0nvmACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/Tiffany%2Bin%2BPrague%2Bright04.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span> </span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Some comments in this layout: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- I had so many photos that I had to use 2 pages. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- Some photos didn't make it on the layout</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- I liked playing with different size photos. I print at home and resize my photo with Photoshop.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- I was overwhelmed by the products because I haven't used any in a very long while! So I opened an armoire, grabbed a pile of stickers, chipboards, letters and just started! My intuition did the rest and knew how to guide me to the right products. I had been a 24/7 scrapbooker for 9 years after all. Can't really lose that experience it seems like!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- Starting with a white background is ALWAYS a good idea. It's a neutral canvas and you can always add more colors to it with embellishments and photos!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- When stuck, just continue. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- Sometimes, more is more ;) Trust the process. And a story told is always better than one untold! <3 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Now a little bonus, coming directly from the podcast: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I talked about a layout I made about my childhood. My neighborhood and the different places making it up. Here it is with some close-ups.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ts7T6sVZsDg/X2A0yuZ2DpI/AAAAAAAAgfQ/4F9NHCTUvZgoYIUz47QDPsQDxIrbBrPIACLcBGAsYHQ/s1238/Lieu%2Bde%2Bmon%2Benfance_full_150dpi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="1238" height="313" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ts7T6sVZsDg/X2A0yuZ2DpI/AAAAAAAAgfQ/4F9NHCTUvZgoYIUz47QDPsQDxIrbBrPIACLcBGAsYHQ/w625-h313/Lieu%2Bde%2Bmon%2Benfance_full_150dpi.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kKSygDGGUXg/X2A0waczvrI/AAAAAAAAgfA/HxFmC4XcM5c75japYny8NGU5n_wGPBECACLcBGAsYHQ/s1238/Lieu%2Bde%2Bmon%2Benfance_detail1_150dpi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="928" data-original-width="1238" height="375" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kKSygDGGUXg/X2A0waczvrI/AAAAAAAAgfA/HxFmC4XcM5c75japYny8NGU5n_wGPBECACLcBGAsYHQ/w500-h375/Lieu%2Bde%2Bmon%2Benfance_detail1_150dpi.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I've cut out my address in black paper with my Silhouette! <div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JsetkxH99XI/X2A0xF8JvfI/AAAAAAAAgfI/17qVnr3DqKc6KyqYSIAHWjnjw70S8SzuwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1238/Lieu%2Bde%2Bmon%2Benfance_detail2_150dpi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="803" data-original-width="1238" height="325" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JsetkxH99XI/X2A0xF8JvfI/AAAAAAAAgfI/17qVnr3DqKc6KyqYSIAHWjnjw70S8SzuwCLcBGAsYHQ/w500-h325/Lieu%2Bde%2Bmon%2Benfance_detail2_150dpi.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I took these pictures one summer, when visiting my parents in Canada, I went back to my childhood neighborhood, 2 hours drive away!) and snapped pictures of my school, grandma's house, babysitter, etc... But you could do the same using Google Earth and screen shoting the different places of your childhood.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--h0ER4UIJJI/X2A0w8skC1I/AAAAAAAAgfE/KYZ6gQ5POMIPUZ-rWFZKULfo-5cxIu7XgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1238/Lieu%2Bde%2Bmon%2Benfance_detail3_150dpi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="1238" height="325" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--h0ER4UIJJI/X2A0w8skC1I/AAAAAAAAgfE/KYZ6gQ5POMIPUZ-rWFZKULfo-5cxIu7XgCLcBGAsYHQ/w500-h325/Lieu%2Bde%2Bmon%2Benfance_detail3_150dpi.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Stitching on a layout makes everything better!! Take your sewing machine out of the wardrobe and try it! :) </div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xNW5ufQFJNA/X2A0xh905YI/AAAAAAAAgfM/RuKo9uHowS4sh-cdinGkzDXWhj9fMKrhgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1238/Lieu%2Bde%2Bmon%2Benfance_detail4_150dpi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="928" data-original-width="1238" height="375" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xNW5ufQFJNA/X2A0xh905YI/AAAAAAAAgfM/RuKo9uHowS4sh-cdinGkzDXWhj9fMKrhgCLcBGAsYHQ/w500-h375/Lieu%2Bde%2Bmon%2Benfance_detail4_150dpi.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The map was screenshotted from Google maps. You can see here the starting point.... 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I wrote the name of the place or street and added some childhood stories as the description of the photos. </div><div><br /></div><div>Hope this can inspire and motivate some of you to scrapbook, no matter how long you have been stuck! If I could, you can totally do it too. Assess what you have, find out what you want, and start!! :)</div><div><br /></div><div>Have fun memory keeping!</div><div><br /></div><div>Marie </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Marie-Pierre Capistranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07082780761580103690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330654602745642045.post-86099682593923431472020-07-01T09:00:00.000-04:002020-07-01T09:00:03.301-04:00Canada Day Video Hop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Welcome</span> to the Canada Day Video Hop where Canadian crafters and crafting companies have gotten together to celebrate!!<br />
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We have 25 individual gift certificates ranging from 25$ to 100$, a one-year subscription to Creative Scrapbooker Magazine, and a grand prize package worth 150$ from Scrapbook & Cards Today to give away.<br />
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<b>In total there are over 1000$ in prizes!</b><br />
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You will find my 3 projects on my <a href="https://youtu.be/DwOChZVWnZo" target="_blank">You Tube</a> channel.<br />
Here are some sneak peeks.<br />
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<span style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); white-space: pre-wrap;">After you’ve finished watching my video, please leave a comment for your chance to win, and then click on the link in the description below for the next person in the hop.</span><span style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); white-space: pre-wrap;">The more you comment, the higher your chances of winning. (Please indicate if you are in Canada or elsewhere as a few prizes are restricted to Canadian addresses only.) All of the giveaway details are on Emily’s blog.</span><span style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); white-space: pre-wrap;">If you get lost along the way, please head to <a href="https://leiphartonart.blogspot.com/2020/07/canada-day-video-hop-over-1000-in-giveaways.html" target="_blank">Emily’s blog</a> for the full list of participants:</span><span style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); white-space: pre-wrap;">Comments close at 11:59pm EST on July 17, 2020 and all winners will be announced on Monday, July 20, 2020.</span><br />
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Enjoy the celebration and Happy Canada Day!! ;)<br />
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Although Arielle turned 12, there seemed to be no age limit for mommy's cakes! </div>
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She wished a cake with flowers on it, an elephant, a giraffe and so on.... I had to draw the line somewhere. </div>
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I wasn't as organized and ahead of time this year as per the Covid 19! So the same morning I was shopping for favors and balloons. Thankfully I found some that were matching the cake and the flowers that my husband had brought from Costco the evening before. ouf!<br />
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That morning I also made a card. Thanks to already colored images, I just had to refresh the colors and add the penguin, bird and cake! Turned out perfectly fine!<br />
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For the cake, I made some fondant flowers with the kids during the week. I made an elephant and a very modern rainbow (that kind of rainbow is to be found in every paper collection these days!) + the rainbow is the symbol that says everything is going to be ok right now. I thought it was working well.<br />
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The #2 candle was recycled from Maya's 2 years old cake! And went through 4 moves - 2 overseas!<br />
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Got some matching balloons. Thankful for a party store 10 minutes away from the house! Yay for being back in the US! Try this in Paris...<br />
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Voilà! 2 friends came over. It was small, contended and perfect!! I still have nightmares from the <a href="https://mpcapistran.blogspot.com/2017/06/bluebird-chic-golden-birthday.html" target="_blank">golden birthday party</a> in prague!! LOL </div>
<br />Marie-Pierre Capistranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07082780761580103690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330654602745642045.post-20092411612682803922020-06-10T07:15:00.001-04:002020-06-10T07:15:52.036-04:00I am a card makerHi crafty friends,<br />
It’s been awhile. And another move for me, this time from Paris to Cleveland Ohio.<br />
In the past 4 years, with 3 moves under my belt, my carrier as a scrapbooker has taken a turn! I had just arrived in Prague when Pretty Little Studio asked me for a <a href="https://prettylittlestudio.shop/collections/christmas/home-for-christmas/" target="_blank">Christmas Collection</a>. It was my 2nd Christmas collection in 2 years and my 4th collection for them. (You can find all my collections <a href="https://prettylittlestudio.shop/brands/Marie%252dPierre-Capistran.html?sort=featured&page=2" target="_blank">here</a>) At the same time I was on The Citrus Twist kits design team and on the Get it scrapped design team and in some teaching ventures for them as well. I might venture to say that this was a bit much! So I ended my term with CTK and decided that I was done with designing collections. I had to breathe. My scrapbooking mojo kinda left me while I was adjusting to the new chapter of my life, in czech. 😖 2years later we unexpectedly moved to Paris. I had a beautiful scraproom but could never settle in there! Another big adjustment and so little time and space. So I decided to follow my crafty BFF into her endeavor: card making. That was more portable than scrapbooking. I bough myself some Bristol paper and a lot of zig markers and I was good to go, on the corner of the table in the living room. Since then we moved once more, to the US this time. We should be here for a longer time. I do have my own office here too but it hasn’t been yet a year that we are here and I haven’t picked up scrapbooking back just yet. I’ve been making cards though! Lots of cards. Growing my stamp and tools collection and having fun pouring my soul and passion on these small scale projects. Here are some of my favorite cards I’ve made in the past two years:<br />
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Of course, I have made way more than just these. If you want to see more you can check my Instagram account @mpcapistran or on Facebook @PrettyPleaseByMariePierre<br />
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Now that I’ve straightened things out here, I’ll make sure to post my cards here as well because even though they aren’t scrapbooking pages, they are pieces of art and I’m sure you crafty friends will be interested in these too. 😊</div>
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Talk to you soon!!</div>
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Marie-Pierre Capistranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07082780761580103690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330654602745642045.post-11285479958291242872019-10-14T22:26:00.000-04:002019-10-14T22:26:04.400-04:00Color combo challengeHi everyone!!<br />
It’s been a while!!<br />
Last time I showed up here I was living in Paris. I am now in my new home near Cleveland Ohio. How fast things can change, right?!<br />
It’s been tough to stay creative in the past year! I have to admit that 10 months in Paris weren’t nearly enough to empty all the boxes and put stuff away and get a good creating environment. So I did had my studio space, but I just didn’t go in there. Instead, I stayed in the dining and living area where the light was so much better and I colored stamps and made cards! That became my creative outlet. I’m not saying that I won’t get back to scrapbooking, in fact, I’m setting up my studio as we speak, but I now have a new cord to my bow. And I love it!!<br />
Here’s the latest card I created, using a mood board as jumping point! I loved working this way.<br />
Here’s the mood board. Visit her on Instagram!!<br />
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Arielle, Maya and I are so happy to be participating in the 2nd Annual Cutest Video Hop Ever! Thank you from the bottom of my heart to Emily from <a href="http://leiphartonart.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Art From The Heart </a>who invited us to join in the fun!! 😘<br />
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Isn't it amazing to share a passion with our kids??! We hope that this hop will inspire you to start crafting with your little ones as well. The craft doesn't have to be perfect. All that matter is that it's a fun time spent together.<br />
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In our video you'll see three cards that we have made with the cute stamp set Simon Hurley sent us! You'll also see how we integrate crafting to our busy daily life, even when we're on the road, which we often are!<br />
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<br />Marie-Pierre Capistranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07082780761580103690noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330654602745642045.post-20219729997334042702019-04-09T07:16:00.002-04:002019-04-09T07:16:57.348-04:00Get it Scrapped - a layoutHello,<br />
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it's been a while!<br />
As I am preparing for the Cutest video hop ever (come back tomorrow to see this go live and have a chance to win one of over 30 wonderful prizes!!!) I thought I'd share with you the last layouts I made for Get It Scrapped:<br />
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The first assignment was to create a scrapbook page about what I love scrapbooking most. I chose: scrapbooking about myself. Now, I realize that this may sound a little self centered, but it isn't really. What I love most is scrapbooking about when I was a kid. I have so many good memories that I want to record, either for me to look at later on, or for my kids, as they might want to know how life was like when their mom was little.<br />
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The layout I'm going to show you is very special to me as it includes a piece of newspaper I appeared in as I won a story writing contest. I have carried this piece of ephemera with me forever now, in all our crazy moves (!!) and I decided it was time to give it a home in one of my albums.<br />
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As you can see, I have the Christmas story I won the contest with on this, and also a picture of me when I went to pick up my price. I didn't think I needed another photo of me at that time. The newspaper article does the job! I did add journaling though to explain the page to the viewer.<br />
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I decided to go with this busy background because I loved the rich dark color, the vintage feel of it, and also all the Christmas song titles which to me made it look like a newspaper... My thinking was that my actual newspaper clipping was very bland. Although it's a little bit busy for the eye, I find that it makes the drab newspaper article pop out.<br />
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I used lots of Christmas die cuts to guide the viewer's eye toward what they needed to look at. Here the little bird is looking straight at the story.<br />
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This little owl is perched on the photo.<br />
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And that cute Santa and mice lead you to the sparkly title which, although it's sparkly, doesn't jump out of the page to get your attention.<br />
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I typed the journaling using my own handwriting and cutout strips of journaling. I used hot glue to adhere it forming waves and giving movement to that part of the page.<br />
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Here are more die cuts to frame the journaling. Notice how I sat the die cuts on that strips of gold paper? I added red stitches to reinforce the bottom line.<br />
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More die cuts directing the viewer's eye.<br />
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I also played with foam tape to create dimension.<br />
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Here I added the foam tape only at the bottom of the die cut.<br />
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You will find all the die cuts and elements you see on this layout at www.prettylittlestudio.shop<br />
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I hope you enjoyed this layout!!<br />
It was a really fun one to make!<br />
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Don't forget to come back here tomorrow so that I can guide you over to the Video Hop and lots of fun prizes to win!! :)<br />
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MarieMarie-Pierre Capistranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07082780761580103690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330654602745642045.post-17876898266098463932019-01-13T04:52:00.000-05:002019-01-13T05:00:30.620-05:00Team Spellbinders | January 2019 card kitHello everyone!<br />
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I've been invited to play with the <a href="https://www.spellbinderspaperarts.com/card-kit-of-the-month-membership/" target="_blank">January card kit from Spellbinders</a>.<br />
Have you seen their different clubs?! You might have not heard of it yet, as I hadn't heard of it before they contacted me. <span style="font-family: inherit;">I was totally surprised when I saw the website and all they were offering! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">They have several kit clubs and they also have <span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121;">several <a href="https://www.spellbinderspaperarts.com/clubs/" target="_blank">Value Club</a> options available for those who would like to join multiple clubs at once.</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121;"> </span></span><br />
So anyway, I received the box, which was filled with goodies: a 6x6 paper pad, a set of dies, a stamp set, a pack of pre-made die cuts and some 3D die cuts as well, a bottle of sequins, a sheet of enamel stickers, a sheet of letter stickers, some sheets of card stock and finally some card bases and enveloppes. There was also double sided tape and foam adhesive.<br />
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What?!! I know! Loads of stuff!!<br />
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I was excited to start creating and didn't even bother clearing my table before I sat down to create! lol<br />
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He are the cards I created:<br />
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This first card I would like to show you was made exclusively with the add-on kit of the month. You can find the products <a href="https://www.spellbinderspaperarts.com/shop/club-kits/card-club-kit-extras/" target="_blank">here</a>. <span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">These products, unlike their Club products, are available to everyone, not only Club members.</span></span><br />
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I used the XOXO die cut on patterned paper here and glued the little X's and O's behind my 3D bear. I stamped my sentiment on a piece of patterned paper that I cut into a banner shape. It's a simple card that you can make in just some minutes.<br />
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I loved that hot air balloon die cut and wanted to give it lots of space to breathe so I simply mounted it on one of the plain colored card stock and stitched sun rays behind it in the colors of the rainbow. I then added the die cut banner. Very simple, yet it is one of my favorite!<br />
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For this card I simply gathered some of my favorite die cuts and made a cluster like I often do on my scrapbooking layouts. I layered it on top of a piece of patterned paper where I had previously stitched a frame with pink thread.<br />
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For this cards I used the typewriter die. I backed it with patterned paper. I stamped my sentiment on vellum and die cut it with the rectangle die that came with the kit. It's the perfect size to make a note as it fits in the typewriter. I added some red sparkly stickers for the XOX and the end of my note. I used my sewing machine to stitch 2 pink lines at the left of the lined patterned paper and sprinkled some black ink. I adhered the typewriter using foam adhesive.<br />
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I used the rectangle die again to make this small polaroid frame. I simply cut out the rectangle, directly in the card base, and I then trimmed around it leaving more space at the bottom. I've then die cut the word LOVE at the bottom of the polaroid frame, but it would have been a good place to stamp something as well. I blocked the whole left in the card base with some pink card stock and offsetted the polaroid frame. I added the heart and birdies die cuts, some sequins and the YOU stickers which I ran through my sewing machine.<br />
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This card is also a base of patterned paper with a stitched rectangle. I used the leaves/branches die to die cut white flowers and branches. I love the mix of the white and the colors of the pre-made die cuts.<br />
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For this card I decided to use the camera and repeated the polaroid frame idea. I mounted the 2 elements on a piece of patterned paper and added different hearts and sequins to make it festive.<br />
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Voilà, 7 cards to inspire you!! I still have so much things left from the kit, that I could make many more cards!!<br />
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Thank you again Spellbinders for this opportunity!<br />
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Talk to you soon,<br />
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It was his birthday yesterday. And I had never made a layout specifically for him and him alone. So when the fatherhood assignment came up on the Get It Scrapped Creative Team, I jumped on the occasion. I loved doing this page.</div>
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I used die cuts from my collections: <a href="https://prettylittlestudio.shop/collections/here-comes-the-sun/" target="_blank">Here Comes The Sun</a>, <a href="https://prettylittlestudio.shop/collections/fall/potpourri/" target="_blank">Potpourri</a> and <a href="https://prettylittlestudio.shop/collections/christmas/home-for-christmas/" target="_blank">Home For Christmas</a> to gather everything represents him...<br />
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I added a fair amount of text. :) Typed directly on the background with my fabulous 12x12 printer. I love when I use it to it's full potential!! haha! And i stitched around the page following the side of the text to create large frame. I then knew where to put my photo and the embellishment. It's called an organized chaos. :D<br />
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I played with icons, colors, shapes, sizes and materials (gold paper clip, gold foil, baker's twine with a thread of gold, flair buttons)<br />
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These letters are pretty cool! You can take the mille out to make outlined letters, or you could use the outline + the inside to have a full letter. The inside is white. The letters are from American Crafts.<br />
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I added some die cuts at the top and on the side to tie the bunch of die cuts and the photo together.<br />
Oh and I had lots of pictures I could have used. My initial idea was to use many small photos showing Dad interacting with all of us, but I finally settled for one larger photo of all of us in a very happy moment. Love the colors! And that everyone here in genuinely happy. No fake posing.<br />
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I chose to stamp the date of the day I made the page. Not the date of the photo (which was taken last summer)<br />
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Have you ever made a page about your husband? Or your dad??! Watch out for ways do scrapbook fatherhood on the Get It scrapped blog.<br />
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today, Get It Scrapped is <span style="font-family: inherit;">shining</span> the light on every part of a scrapbook layout:<br />
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I am playing along by sharing a layout where the focus is on the title.<br />
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I have to admit that my layout finished way more loaded than how I thought it would. But I still think that my title gets the focus because of all that white space around it. The empty pulls the eye away from the business of the rest of the page.<br />
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I used 2 different alphas. Both are foam, both are capital letters, one is smaller and white while the other one is much taller and very shiny and sparkly. I added a golden puffy sticker on top, right in the middle and I also added a giant balloon that I stamped over some gold leaf I had previously applied.<br />
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My main photo is right next to the title and also pulls the eye in with the golden balloons and again, the empty space in the photo. I added a subtitle right next to this photo: a giant 9 gold puffy sticker.<br />
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Separating the title and main photo from the smaller supportive photos, I layered 3 ribbons. One solid pink with some dark pink and glittery leaves motif, a transparent tule kind of ribbon. It was very wide so I folded it in 4, which gave it more consistence than a single layer would have had. And I topped all of these with a narrow gold ribbon that I glued in place forming circles.<br />
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Under that shelf of ribbons, 4 photos developing the story a bit more.<br />
And my journaling, of course! I printed it on white cardstock and cut it out into stripes. I glued them loosely, creating small hills to give movement to the page. I also added some gold leaf here in that corner.<br />
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Here's a layout I made for <a href="https://debbiehodge.com/" target="_blank">Get It Scrapped</a> using my new Potpourri collection (available at <a href="https://prettylittlestudio.shop/collections/fall/potpourri/" target="_blank">Pretty Little Studio</a>).<br />
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If you follow me on Instagram (@<a href="https://www.instagram.com/mpcapistran/" target="_blank">mpcapistran</a>), you'll probably know that I now have a very talented team of designers <strike>working</strike> playing with this collection. So for inspiration, check Instagram out!<br />
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Here's my layout:<br />
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This year just before Halloween I found a makeup artist on Instagram (@<a href="https://www.instagram.com/classycozmetics/" target="_blank">classycozmetics</a>) and I started following her. She had a video of her as this wooden doll. I fell in love with that make up and decided that's what Arielle would be for Halloween. I gathered the supplies and right after school, I got to work! I took me 2 hours to get this together! Thanks to my friend Lisa, Maya transformed into a cute little lion! Were usually not very big on costumes but this year, we went all in! :)<br />
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Here's the main picture and the journaling. Short and sweet. I stitched around the polaroid frame.<br />
The die cut word October doesn't work as the title, but add an element of journaling as well as works as a shelf on which my photos lay. I hid a small sticker label under there with the location and the date. We move a lot, so the location has to be on my layouts.<br />
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I perched that small owl on the card which is backed with all sorts of fall twigs and leaves. I added some wooden elements as well to give it a full feel: a clip, a slice of wood, and 2 wood veneers I had in my stash.<br />
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I finished that small cluster off with 3 blue sequins to tie the blue twigs with the rest of the layout.<br />
If you look closely, you'll see that there is a date on this small Fun wood veneer. The date is NOT 2017! lol but I simply hid the end of the date under the leaves and no-one knows (this is just a way you can still use these older and dated products you probably have!)<br />
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Someone asked me how I used sequins on my layouts. Most of the time, I scatter them all over my layout. I a controlled way I would say. I pay attention to where it needs what color. I create cascades, lines, or triangles with them.<br />
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Here, I made a cute "shaker element" using patterned paper form the collection, which I've cut out in the shape of a pumpkin. I gathered sequins, topped it with a plastic sheet (I used a part of the packaging) and stitched it in place. Behind it, I added one of the vellum die cut leaves. I stitched around the leaf to give it the same texture as the shaker-pumpkin. I added a small pumpkin sticker in front of the shaker-pumpkin, again, to tie everything together and to the page. It's important to have elements in the front and also in the back to give dimension and to give the impression that everything belongs together.<br />
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You can see that I added wood here as well.<br />
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When I started adding wood to my layout I thought it would be fun to add another material: metal. so I tied this tiny metal camera charm I had laying around for YEARS! Tied to a twine bow, along with the acorn die cuts, I find it really heart warming and pretty. :) Notice too a strand of golden ribbon. Gold is always winner when making a fall layout.<br />
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To add even more texture, I stitched on all the vellum leaves. I only stitched the veins on the leaves, and not around the leaves. I feel like it gives the leaves an aspect of reality.<br />
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Again, see the purple sequins tying the leaves and the label together.<br />
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Here a cascade of sequins to pull the eye out of that huge cluster in the middle of my layout.<br />
The red of our Elf didn't really fit with the other photo, nor with my fall theme, so I added the mushrooms from the collection as well as some red flowers from the flower die cut pack.<br />
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I like how the sequins run through my title and fell like falling leaves.<br />
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And that flair button, the smiley without a mouth, was the closest I could get to a surprised and creeped out smiley. :)<br />
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A small label to add even more details about the story.<br />
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And one last detail shot of the embellishment cluster. <br />
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I hope you like my layout and I most importantly hope that it might have inspired you to use products in a different way.<br />
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If you want to see more creative ways of stitching on a page, head over to the<a href="https://debbiehodge.com/" target="_blank"> Get It Scrapped </a>blog post and be ready to be blown away!! :)<br />
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Thanks for watching!!<br />
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MarieMarie-Pierre Capistranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07082780761580103690noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330654602745642045.post-52689512062022099442018-03-27T16:00:00.000-04:002018-03-27T16:00:34.556-04:00Get It Scrapped | The Expat LifeHey everyone,<br />
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have you seen my latest layout for get It Scrapped called The Expat Life?<br />
The assignment was to make a layout using emojis.<br />
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What I love about DT assignments and especially the Get It Scrapped assignments, is that they make me think outside the box. I don't just tell stories, I think of better stories to tell and of better ways to tell them!<br />
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So while thinking about a story I could tell with emojis, I thought to myself "well, if I want to use emojis, the story better have some emotion!" The first thing that came to mind was my over sensitive daughter, but I didn't feel like using emojis was very appropriate to scrapbook a serious subject like that one. The second thing that came to mind was the Expat Life I've been living since 20 years! That's emotional I thought! And just the right level of emotions, positive and negative, to add emojis without it being inappropriate. You know what I mean?<br />
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What the emojis and the story brought me to think of is a roller coaster, with ups and downs and twists and turns! And I had the vision of making the silhouette of a roller coaster in black paper. I googled "roller coaster" and chose the best picture I found that I could possibly convert into a cut file.<br />
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I wanted the title to follow the ups and downs. I chose 2 different fonts. One for the title and one working as a subtitle. Both are gold.<br />
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I wanted to add lots of small photos representing the past 2 years we've spent her, in Prague. I wanted pictures of ups and pictures of downs, and pictures of favorite things. My pictures go hand in hand with my journaling.<br />
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And even though I tell all the stories of the pictures in my main text, I added tiny sticker labels to sort of identify each photo/story.<br />
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I also tried to align the photos with the text. So that when I talk about a story/an idea, the photo would naturally be there where the eye is looking. It wasn't easy and I had to reprint and recut my journaling a couple of times.<br />
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Throughout my text, I sprinkled emoji stickers (from my <a href="https://prettylittlestudio.shop/collections/fall/potpourri/" target="_blank">Potpourri collection</a>, sold by Pretty Little Studio). I didn't do this randomly. I really wrote my text and placed the emojis where they would go, have I been writing a text message to a friend.<br />
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When I write I often add little hearts here and there with and through the emojis. So here too, I added the hearts.<br />
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I added some dimension to the tiny pictures, using foam adhesive and stitching.<br />
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I also left the smileys half stuck to the page and I stitched all the journaling strips, one by one. Again, this was a tough job! As I was stitching I had to make sure my strips of paper were staying straight, and I had to make sure I wasn't taking more space then wanted because I would have gone over my roller coaster silhouette.<br />
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To break the harsh black and white contrast at the bottom of the page, I decided to fit some of my small pictures in the back and front of the roller coaster. Again adding stitching, to keep the continuity with the top of the layout.<br />
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I had to put my last sentence at the bottom of the page, over the roller coaster silhouette. I did it because space was running low, but I'm glad it ended up like this because that strip kind of attach the top and the bottom of the page together.<br />
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Have you ever made a layout using emojis? If so, link me to it. And if not and you want more ideas, check this link to the <a href="https://debbiehodge.com/2018/03/scrapbooking-ideas-emoji-motif-storytelling/" target="_blank">Get it Scrapped blog</a> where you will find more fun ideas for using emojis.<br />
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Also, don't forget to visit Pretty Little Studio to shop for emoji products and my <a href="https://prettylittlestudio.shop/collections/fall/potpourri/" target="_blank">Potpourri collection</a>. :)<br />
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But here I am with an awesome creation I made with my new <a href="https://prettylittlestudio.shop/collections/fall/potpourri/" target="_blank">Potpourri collection</a> available at Pretty Little Studio!<br />
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Here's the whole page which was put together with 95% of products available in the <a href="https://prettylittlestudio.shop/collections/fall/potpourri/" target="_blank">Pretty Little Studio shop</a>!! :) Let me break it down for you.<br />
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I used 3 pieces of paper: gold glitter (this is a must have in your paper collection! I adds a beautiful accent to any layout.), one colorful paper and a black and white paper, both found in the <a href="https://prettylittlestudio.shop/paper-pack-potpourri-8x8/" target="_blank">8x8 Potpourri Paper Pack</a>. The Combination of these 3 styles is perfect to give bling to my central photo!!<br />
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I stacked the papers on foam tape to leave some space to add small embellishments between the papers: <a href="https://prettylittlestudio.shop/sequins-falling-leaves-mix/" target="_blank">leaves shape sequins</a> (also from my Potpourri collection!), <a href="https://prettylittlestudio.shop/die-cuts-back-to-school/" target="_blank">small star die cuts</a> and some <a href="https://prettylittlestudio.shop/die-cut-fall-banners-gold/" target="_blank">foiled die cuts in heart shape</a>.<br />
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I've placed my photos on a diagonal and added the journaling in the space created by that line. I filled the small spaces with more label die cuts, stickers and wood veneer.<br />
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I the right space I loosely added leaves in a way that they look like they are falling. I sprinkled some sequins, playing with the colors and I added some stitching to add some more details.<br />
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At the very top of the page I have a large cluster of die cuts: large vellum leaves all stitched down with two lines of thread. I added a gold foiled banner on which I stamped my title in black ink. I adhered the banner with foam dots. Same thing for the speech bubble. I stitched all around the white heart in the middle of the speech bubble. Stitching is so easy with the sewing machine and it adds so much details!!! I added small wooden buttons and brads in the tones of the Potpourri collection.<br />
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Here's another perspective to see the dimension and the shimmer of the gold foil.<br />
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To sort of mat this first picture of the cascade, so that she doesn't go unseen, I added a colorful vellum leaf under it and a sticker and flair button on top of it. I then sprinkled some sequins. The check mark is really coll because it's simple shape and the fact that it is black and white is pulling from the black and white patterned paper I used under my main photo. Also the checkmark symbol is going hand in hand with my picture where my little one is checking the days that have passed and the ones left until she gets her biggie!.<br />
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On the far right, I added a fun cluster of die cuts, leaf sequin, wooden brad and wood veneer and a squirrel paperclip. Isn't it the cutest?!!<br />
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Also notice how I layered the pink label, left blank, under the gold foil banner. It just makes the banner pop even more.<br />
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I finally added a small chipboard piece, some word stickers and more gold foil die cuts.<br />
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I've been asked how I use sequins on a page. I use them to highlight some groups of embellishments. Just like confettis. I like them way more than the enamel dots because they are sparkly! :)<br />
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I hope you liked my walk through!!<br />
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Talk to you soon with more beautiful layouts. I promise!!<br />
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Ha, it feels so good to be back at blogging! :)<br />
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Today I'd like to show you a layout I made for Get it Scrapped. It's a layout that I love and it came so easily together. It's the first page I made after a 5 months break! I was a little afraid to get back at it as I was thinking I might not know how anymore.... but Debbie Hodge had a great way for me to get back at it, painless! You want to know the trick?<br />
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Use a BRAND STYLE GUIDE<br />
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Debbie says: "<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: 'SF Optimized', system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px;">A brand style guide is a collection of colors, fonts, images, textures and patterns that help businesses to create a cohesive look in the design of their websites, social media graphics and marketing materials that are consistent. These style guides can be a great roadmap when it comes to designing a cohesive scrapbook page.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: 'SF Optimized', system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px;"> "</span><br />
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Here's a link to the Get it Scrapped Pinterest board where many brand style guide are curated.<br />
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https://www.pinterest.com/getitscrapped/inspo-brand-style-guides/<br />
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Here's the brand style I chose:<br />
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https://www.pinterest.com/pin/281052832979165321/<br />
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I chose it for it's soft palette and also for the choice of colors. I knew I wanted to make my layout about Arielle getting her little guinea pig. I wanted to be soft and dreamy. The pictures I had had a lot of stark orange in it and I felt the very pale pink would break it. I also loved the marble texture. It's not far from my watercolor I use all the time. Finally I loved the title work. The font and the mix of the 2 fonts. I thought the general look of this image was a good match to my style.<br />
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First thing I did was to gather my supplies. I took out one plain cardstock in Pink Pirouette (Stampin'UP!) that I knew would work as a base for my layout. And then I took out my big box of die cuts and gather everything that was in that color palette. I didn't find much of that sage green, so I went for a very soft greenish aqua instead. I also held on to any little bits of gold I was crossing path with.<br />
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Once my desk was covered with all these supplies, I felt pretty pumped! lol I forgot to mention that when I go through my die cuts box like this, I usually skip the very pretty ones. I like to hoard them just a little longer, but not this time! Since it was my first page in a very long while, I gave myself the permission to use ANYTHING that would fit and find a place on the page! What a freeing feeling! You should try that too!!<br />
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I printed 6 small pictures of Arielle meeting her guinea pig. I printed them 2 on one 4x6 photo and also leaving a white border around each photo. I knew that I would need small photos if I wanted to fit so many on the page. I ended up using 4 of them.<br />
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Here's the finally result:<br />
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Look at the color combo. I stuck to the guide almost 100%. I have the pale pink, the darker pink, the minty aqua, grey and a touch of gold. I substituted the beige with a toned down yellow, just because that's what I had, and actually, I think it does add a little touch of life and happy.<br />
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I often hear people ask how they should match the colors of their layout to the photos. If you look here, you'll see that nothing is matching. I just went with the predetermined color combo without worrying about matching my pictures. My pictures have orange in them, purple, pink, peach, and even an orange red... Nothing says it would work with the combo I chose. But if you stick to your combo, it will all make sense at the end.<br />
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I gathered my photos closely together, forming a grid where one picture is on top of the others and another photo is made bigger than the 3 others because I used a frame around it.<br />
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I printed my title directly on my background (I have a wide format printer) in grey, rather than in the usual black. I also used the non textured side of the cardstock so that the ink dens get into the creases and do weird things. I also did a print test on a white cardstock before I used my chosen background. I had only one more piece of that color!!! (little panic moment here) And I did have to make some adjustments. My title was may too big for the canvas.<br />
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That little rabbit is one of the die cut I would probably have hoarded, hadn't I told myself I can and have to use anything I like most! Also, I have to tell you that when i was looking for a place for the little rabbit, I first tried to put it down the page, next to the framed photo. But if you think about it, it makes so much more sens up at the top of the page, whit it's ballons in hand. I added a cloud and some stars to create a little scene. Try to think about that when you add an embellishment.<br />
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I also played with dimension. I added plenty of foam adhesive. And I played with foil as well. Also, when you add embellishment, try to link them together by overlaying them. You see how the star and the bunny are hiding the heart a little? And the head of the bunny goes over the cloud? And then the gold star is all alone, a little further? That creates tension between the elements and it makes them all belong together.<br />
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The smallest details like a tiny bit of stitching make a huge difference on a page.<br />
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I really like that small cluster of really pretty embellishments. The bicycle is a very pretty piece that draws the attention of the viewer very quickly. Then, the cluster of tags behind behind it, overlaying some transparencies and twine... it's a cluster of textures and different materials. It's very pleasing to the eye. Dont be afraid to add layers and letting just a little part of a very pretty piece (the bird!) peek out. Also, use little prompted spots to add details. Like here, on the new born baby tag with the stork, I added the date and even time we got the baby guinea pig. :) I checked on the picture information on my computer to find out the real time.<br />
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Finally, when embellishing a layout, use repetition! Here on the upper corner of the page, which was left totally empty, I grabbed elements that I had already used on the page. I used transparency, a flag label, gold foil, stitching and foam adhesive for dimension. All of these were already used somewhere on the page. By repeating them, you just tie everything together.<br />
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That's it for today. I hope you enjoyed it.<br />
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If you want to get out of a rut or if you just want to try this method to start a layout with a brand style guide, go ahead. Pick one from the Get It Scrapped <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/getitscrapped/inspo-brand-style-guides/" target="_blank">Pinterest board</a> and just get started. From my own experience, it works great!!<br />
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Talk to you again soon,<br />
Marie<br />
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Hello everyone!!<br />
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I'm really happy that you joined me today for a short presentation of my new fall collection called Potpourri!<br />
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It's available through <a href="http://prettylittlestudio.com/" target="_blank">Pretty Little Studio</a> and you can pre order it now right <a href="http://www.plspapershop.com/category-s/2312.htm" target="_blank">HERE</a> and it will ship around October 15th on a first come first served basis.<br />
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The name Potpourri was my husband's idea. As I was telling him how eclectic my collection was, I was saying things like "there are fall motives, but there are also spring motives" and "the patterns and colors make the collection usable all year round", a little bit like my <a href="http://www.plspapershop.com/category-s/2264.htm" target="_blank">Here Comes The Sun</a> collection, you know? So Potpourri, which means a mixture or medley of things, was pretty fitting. :)<br />
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The collection consists of patterned papers, cards, clear acetates, vellum sheets, cardstock and vellum die cuts, sticker sheets and flair badges.<br />
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The colors are happy and vibrant. I hand painted each image (even the labels!) with watercolor and a brush! :)<br />
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Here's a closer look on some of my favorites of the collection:<br />
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Paper! This is the <a href="http://www.plspapershop.com/product-p/mc-po-2005.htm" target="_blank">8x8 paper pack</a>. You can also get it in <a href="http://www.plspapershop.com/product-p/mc-po-2077.htm" target="_blank">4x4 </a>and <a href="http://www.plspapershop.com/product-p/mc-po-2007.htm" target="_blank">6x6</a> or in <a href="http://www.plspapershop.com/product-p/mc-po-2006.htm" target="_blank">6x8</a> if you are into mini albums! :) </div>
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My favorite paper of all is the one with the big leaves, but I also love the mushrooms and raindrops. And oh well, I love all of them, otherwise they wouldn't be there! The paperback has a mixture of white background with colorful motives, black and white papers and full colored papers. Some patterns are subtle and some are really bold and great to make a big statement! </div>
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And then there are the vellums. I love vellum to layer!! I doesn't only give another layer to the layout, but it also brings another feel and a softness to the stories and photos. And the Pretty Little Studio vellum is a really nice one! </div>
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The collection also has some of these patterns in gold on paper, velum and clear:</div>
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If you are a Project Lifer (I am!) :) you'll like to see all the cutes cards I created!!! There are 3x4 and 4x6. And you can get a pack of all the papers in 4x6 as well if you'd like. </div>
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My bestseller in my previous collection are the die cuts!! And this collection as plenty of options as well. :)</div>
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I absolutely ADORE these vellum leaves!!!</div>
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And I also like these labels and polaroid type cards. You can use them to journal, stamp, or add photos! You could also cut the inside and layer them over photo and make little shaker cards with them. Endless possibilities.<br />
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And this is what I can never have enough of!!! </div>
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And again, for my love of labels, I have some gold banners!!</div>
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Most of these die cuts are also available as stickers:<br />
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I really wanted to offer enough black and white in this collection so I made a pack of clear all black stickers.<br />
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I absolutely love these numbers as well (and letters are to be added to the shop soon to).<br />
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Plus, I added some mini stickers to the line that were thought specifically to be used in planners.<br />
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Here is the collection in a nutshell but you can see the whole collection and order it on the <a href="http://www.plspapershop.com/category-s/2312.htm?searching=Y&sort=7&cat=2312&show=300&page=1" target="_blank">Pretty Little Studio</a> website.<br />
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I can't wait to see your unboxing videos and your all of the projects you guys are going to use my products for! Please do share and tag me on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mpcapistran/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PrettyPleasebyMariePierre/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> when you use my products!! I really enjoy and appreciate it each time! :)<br />
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It's been a while!<br />
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I am back from the end of school year + 5 weeks of vacation and one week in remission of the jet lag (which has still not totally passed!)<br />
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Now, I've been walking in Prague yesterday and today, after a long time not having been in the city, and so many thoughts were flying through my head and heart. One of my Prague BFF is gone! insert a sad face here. It seemed like the city was not the same.... and all the places I laid eye on were reminding me of this past year we've spent touring the city and adventuring every little nooks and creases. So weird. Thank god for all my other friends who are still here. And expat community is full of love and support, and that's awesome. I need that!! We all do.<br />
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Remember the <a href="http://mpcapistran.blogspot.ch/2017/04/family-portraits-mini-album.html" target="_blank">mini-album</a> I made for my friend before she left? Well, I've finished it and gave it to her and received lots of compliments and heard a lot of "I want one too!" and I'm ready now to show the rest of the album with you. :)<br />
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This is what it looked like when I gave it to her. I closed it with a yellow and white striped ribbon and I insert a go away card.<br />
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I attached a small pottery figurine of the well known Prague Golem to the spine of the album with a black leather lace.</div>
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I thought it would look lovely, dangling from the side of the album, when put upward on a shelf. Plus, my friend will know the is her Prague album!<br />
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This is the card I made:<br />
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I used a stamp set from Mama Elephant. I thought it was very symbolic to have the little girl (me) releasing the balloon (my friend) and letting her go to new adventures. The yellow balloon is for Joy and positivity. :)<br />
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You can catch the first part of the album by clicking <a href="http://mpcapistran.blogspot.ch/2017/04/family-portraits-mini-album.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
Most of the products (including the album) were sent to me by <a href="http://familyportraits.eu/" target="_blank">Family Portrait</a>.<br />
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On this photo, 2 friends that left in June and who I will greatly miss.<br />
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For this page I took a screenshot of an Instagram post. The photo is bad! It was a video post. But the memory is priceless! I love that the photo shows the number of views and some funny comments. :)<br />
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Attached with an arrow shaped paperclip, I added our ticket stub to the communism museum. I added a black and white die cut from my <a href="http://www.plspapershop.com/category-s/2264.htm" target="_blank">Here Comes The Sun</a> collection, available at <a href="http://www.plspapershop.com/default.asp" target="_blank">Pretty Little Studio</a>.<br />
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And on this side I printed a photo directly on white textured card stock. It makes it look like a small painting. I really like the effect.<br />
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I've added a picture of her daughter signing a solo at the school concert. I find these candid shots really cool! So natural and reflective of the real life. I like that we see other kids that are in her kids class, and the music teacher too.<br />
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And here you can catch a glimpse of our two cars parked next to another while we were having fun in the city. Another very candid shot, yet so representative of our reality.<br />
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One of the problems I encountered while doing this mini album is that when you use both sides of the cards, one of the page will fall upside down. When one side is a pattern, it doesn't matter much, but when it's an image, like here, sometimes you really have a problem! The umbrella was laying upside down!!<br />
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These small golden heart and hand painted label are also from my <a href="http://www.plspapershop.com/category-s/2264.htm" target="_blank">Here Comes The Sun</a> paper collection.<br />
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There you go, plenty of important details that will go forgotten in some years! Don't forget to add them to your albums!!<br />
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And I ended the album with a note to my friend and a cute die cut. <3 nbsp="" p=""><br />
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<br /></3>Marie-Pierre Capistranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07082780761580103690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330654602745642045.post-89366743525811829222017-06-12T15:37:00.000-04:002017-06-12T15:37:34.800-04:00Bluebird Chic | A golden Birthday CelebrationHello everyone!<br />
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If you are following me on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mpcapistran/?hl=en" target="_blank">Instagram</a> you might have seen that Friday June 9th was Arielle's BIG GOLDEN birthday!<br />
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The golden birthday is when you're turning the age of your birth date. Arielle was born on the 9th of June and she was turning 9. Some people say that this is supposed to be a lucky year....<br />
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I always try to make nice birthday parties for my girls, but with that Golden Birthday in mind, I decided to throw a slightly, not necessarily bigger, but better party. With lots of love for my little one. One never gets too much love, right?<br />
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One of the things I did to please her was to let her invite who ever she wanted, but it had to be friends. Not random playing partners. We ended up with 14 friends coming. That's 16 kids including mine.<br />
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Another thing I did was to let her have the party at my house. That was her wish.<br />
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And then I started thinking about what I would to make it very special.<br />
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I made myself an idea sheet, as well as a <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/mpcapistran/arielle-golden-birthday-9/?eq=arielle%20golden&etslf=5251" target="_blank">Pinterest board</a> and a place to jot ideas on a phone, in the notepad application.<br />
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This list was just a starting point. I would say that I ended up doing only half of what's on here. But it was a nice way to classify my ideas. I like this way better than a digital list when I need to brainstorm. Afterwards though, my digital list was the one I always went back to, because it was more convenient.<br />
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The day was FILLED with surprises, big and small. And there were some bumps along the road, but I would say that in general, she had an unforgettable day. :)<br />
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Here's the day in word sand photos:<br />
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1. I woke her up almost one hour earlier than I usually do. My thinking was that she can take her time and not be stressed out, for once!<br />
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2. I "filled" her room with golden balloons and Dad, Maya and I all woke her up by signing happy birthday to her. We needed to sing twice.<br />
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Spontaneous hug from little sister.<br />
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She is 9. :)<br />
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3. She came downstairs to find a homemade birthday crown. And a stack of birthday cards from her friends and family, some she havent seen in 4 years! That was "the BEST birthday present ever", she said.<br />
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I hung some pink and white pompoms over the table.<br />
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I also placed the birthday gift from her little sister on the table so she could open one gift before heading out to school.<br />
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She was pure joy until she read the last card. Even putting the birthday crown on her head made her so happy! I wouldn't have thought that it would have such an impact.<br />
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Here's how I made the crown:<br />
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1. I've cut out the shape of a crown in a toilet paper roll. I made two slits on each side so I could slide it onto a metal hair band.<br />
2. I've pressed the toilet paper roll onto a Versamark ink pad and used gold embossing powder. I had to do this process twice. I also thought of using gold Stickles over the embossed crown, but I thought that it looked good enough like this.<br />
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Here's the finished crown. I like the texture of the embossing powder.<br />
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My goal now is to make a mini scrapbook with photos of the party and I want to add all the cards. It's really precious. I asked people to write why they love Arielle. You can imagine that it's very emotional to read through these. Her cousins, uncles and aunts, grand-parents made cards, but also all her ex-teachers, including her swimming instructor and all her best friends that she still remembers. Her oldest friend is from Pre-K 3! Everybody was so nice to write! Technology can be very helpful if we think of using it wisely. :)<br />
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I woke her up almost an hour early so she had a good 45 minutes to go through all of these. It really was the best birthday gift and I highly recommend it if you want to do it yourself!<br />
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Here's my card:<br />
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I made it with a stamp set from <a href="http://www.lorabailora.com/" target="_blank">Lora Bailora</a>, a small scrapbooking company in Spain. They ship world wide. I made the background with watercolor and stamped the sentiment with pink ink. I LOVE the sentiment. It fits my daughter so perfectly!! You can't see it on the picture but I added some glitter with my Wink Of Stella pen in the hair of the unicorn and on the balloon. I also stitched with golden thread.<br />
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4. I brought muffins to her classroom without telling her that I would!<br />
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It was early morning so I opted for raspberry muffins instead of cupcakes. They were homemade by Daddy himself and they were absolutely delicious!! No frosting needed and I used a really cute gold candle to put on one muffin. Notice how she brought her crown in class! She was a happy and a proud 9 year old that day!<br />
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5. The party with friends!<br />
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6. I've put a lot of effort on the decor! We blew up some gold, white and pink balloons with helium, at home, the day of the party.<br />
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This was the table. Some food was still missing when I took this photo.<br />
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I made some really yummy raspberry and lemon-lime homemade lemonade. (Recipe to come in future blog post!)<br />
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I labeled all the glasses with the names of the kids.<br />
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We took some photos before the kids arrived. I love the little golden crown on this picture.<br />
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And the kids started arriving. Sadly, we didn't take a group photo, nor an individual photo with each of them like I had planned. 16 kids, it was "a little" overwhelming for Mom. :(<br />
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Here we were hiding in the shade and playing a game called "do you know the lyrics" where the kids had to guess the lyrics when I stopped the song. I was fun.<br />
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We also played musical chairs (a favorite) and we did a treasure hunt! Another favorite.<br />
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7. Here are some pictures from the treasure hunt:<br />
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These are the 9 things the kids were looking for.<br />
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I gave them each a bag and this card with the 9 hints. We read the hints together. All the things they had to find were related to Arielle and the hints brought them to think a little. They didn't technically need the list to find the objects but I told them to fill the card as they were finding the objects to see how they related to Arielle. It took them a good half hour of running to find everything and some came back to show me their answers.<br />
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I bought little plastic jars and filled them with small candies. And I took some small plastic bags to hold the pink peppermint. I closed the bag with a cute metallic gold and white washi tape. The goldfish baggie was holding a crystal.<br />
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I sent them off two by two. The team factor made it so much more fun. Toward the end, when they couldn't find the last 2 objects, all the teams started helping each other. It was my personal highlight of the party.<br />
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8 The cake.<br />
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The kids ate all the way through the party. I thought there would be a set moment for that, but everyone just helped themselves on the table. I can't blame them, it looked so yummy. ;) So after the treasure hunt, we served the cake.<br />
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The theme of the Golden Birthday was "gold", obviously. But I must admit that it was a little challenging to find how to integrate gold into the cake. I found these really nice gold candles. And then I decided to o with the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Arielle wanted a unicorn, I thought it was doable and that it would go great together.<br />
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I added a little crown, hearts and flowers with golden centers. Clouds, flat and puffy (Arielle wanted to help me make the cake, so I always let her do some things that make it onto the cake. On this cake, the flat clouds.)<br />
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I'm pretty pleased with the end result. The cake inside is a typical Czech cake that Arielle loves. It's not sweet at all. She's not a big cake fan, so I was happy to find a recipe that made her happy. I was also happy that it was a Czech recipe. American recipes don't really work with Czech ingredients. I had the same issue when I was living in Switzerland.<br />
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The kids sang "Happy Birthday" in English and in Czech! It was pretty special!<br />
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She was mesmerized by the golden rocket I've lit. Look at that high flame and sparkle!!<br />
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The kids decided that they wanted her to open her gifts with them. It was unofficial. One kids went to get all the gift bags and then kids started coming in one by one until the whole 16 kids were gathered together. It was a really fun moment! </div>
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As sad as it is not to have the group photo we wanted, I really love these genuine photos!<br />
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One last thing I'd like to show you. I made a photo corner. I wanted to have a picture of each kid with Arielle in front of this quote:<br />
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I just love the quote so much!! We totally forgot about it though and this little girl was the last one to leave. I wanted to show her mom the wall and that's when we took this photo. Their hair, red cheeks and tired expressions scream "party is over". But the sparkle in their eyes also reveal that they had an awesome time!<br />
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<br />Marie-Pierre Capistranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07082780761580103690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330654602745642045.post-82823401778486431662017-05-25T06:44:00.001-04:002017-05-25T06:44:38.830-04:00It's a piece of cakeHi everyone!<br />
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As I am working on Arielle's upcoming birthday, and as I am wondering what to make for a cake, I decided to go back in time to get a clear picture of all the cakes I made up to this date.<br />
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I went to my photo library and that brought me for Arielle's 1 year old cake, the one that I didn't make (because I wasn't making cakes yet!).<br />
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That cake is the reason why I started making cakes. I had a clear idea of what I wanted, and THIS was definitely NOT what I wanted! lol<br />
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Lucky enough I had a friend in Canada who was really good at cake making and she thought me some tricks. How to play with fondant. How to cover a cake, how to make figures, how to play with melted chocolate....<br />
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so fast forward a year later and here's my FIRST cake! :)<br />
For Arielle's 2nd birthday.<br />
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The animals are made of Fimo clay (not edible!) and the little sign was made with some stamping, but still, the effect was good:<br />
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2nd attempt, a year later, for Arielle's 3rd birthday:<br />
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The horses are cookies.<br />
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The rest of the carousel is made out of scrapbooking papers, ribbons and gems.<br />
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No perfection here, but I like it. :)<br />
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The 3rd cake was for Maya's 1st birthday:<br />
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It was the start of the 2 layers cake. :)<br />
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The bears were made out of fondant. They were mit first fondant figurines.<br />
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4th cake for Arielle's 4th birthday:</div>
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Made with a cake kit (towers, door and windows)<br />
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And I added lots of details with butter cream on that one.<br />
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5th cake for Maya's 2nd birthday:</div>
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This is when I started playing with chocolate more and with molds to make figures.<br />
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Some were made free hand too. I bet you can't tell which one is which. ;) lol<br />
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6th cake for Arielle's 5th birthday:</div>
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That's when Arielle started to wish for a theme for her cake. That year it was Arielle the little mermaid. I think she was inspired by Maya's under the sea cake.<br />
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That year I ordered a cake, covered in blue butter cream, and I decorated it. I don't like to bake! So decorating only was way enjoyable. (I have to say though, that that blue on the face and hands and clothes of the kids was not winner).<br />
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I remember this as the year I had work about 5 hours to get that mermaid look like this and I left it on the countertop and little 4 year old Arielle walked buy and liked her face! I had to start over again. LOL<br />
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7th cake for Maya's 3rd birthday:</div>
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8th cake for Arielle's 6th birthday:</div>
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Olaf is pretty cute and close to reality, but Elsa... oh well.<br />
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And she was the 2nd attempt. Could have been worse, take my word for it! lol The giant snowflake behind was a struggle too, but somehow I made it happen. And moved on. ;) </div>
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9th cake was for Maya's 4th birthday:</div>
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I really like this one. All the details!<br />
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you know, it's not perfect, but it's cute. I added lots of details on the dress and shoes. stitching lines, pearls, glitter.<br />
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I added fairy dust on the wings and flowers.<br />
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And I love the texture, and rose doorknob, and little heart shaped window + window in the door.<br />
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And the sign in front of the house...with the little vines holding it. I thought it was pretty creative :)<br />
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2015 was the year where Arielle was very much into swimming and we also had a nice pool in our backyard so we had to have a summer/swimm themed cake (cake #10):</div>
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I'll let you go see more beautiful detailed pictures of the cake + party over here: <a href="http://mpcapistran.blogspot.com/2015/06/arielle-turned-7-crafty-pool-birthday.html">http://mpcapistran.blogspot.com/2015/06/arielle-turned-7-crafty-pool-birthday.html</a></div>
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Then Maya turned 5 with this fairy cake (cake #11):</div>
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We made the whole fairy party that went with the cake and you can see more about that here:<br />
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The following year we were moving so we had to squeeze both birthdays together. I still made 2 cakes (call me crazy, I know!) So here are cakes #12 and #13 for their 8th and 6th birthdays:</div>
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Call me even crazier that I didn't take the time to take more pictures!<br />
Maya got a Maya the bee cake.<br />
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I really like how these very large flowers turned out!<br />
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And Arielle got a Grand Oak (the name of their school) cake:<br />
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She made the pic nic blanket herself. The making of the cake with mommy is almost as important as the cake itself now. Probably because while she works, she can eat some fondant. ;)<br />
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Then we moved and July came and to counter the depression following the move, I decided to make another cake for Maya who had celebrated her birthday almost 2 years before her actual birthday. I was still unpacking so it had to be quick and easy. I ordered a cake and made a single and simple figure to put on top. Here is cake #14 for Maya's 6th birthday:</div>
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I am thinking of the next cake, which will have to be ready in 2 weeks! It's kind of panicking when I think about it. Arielle wants a unicorn.... I know, another one! It's also her golden birthday so I want it to have something to do with gold and luck.... I have some ideas, but I haven't started yet, so I have to see where this will go. I'll keep you posted for sure! :)</div>
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<br />Marie-Pierre Capistranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07082780761580103690noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330654602745642045.post-17069541126233755972017-04-26T03:00:00.000-04:002017-04-26T09:45:27.534-04:00Citrus Twist Kits | Cinque TerreHi everyone!<br />
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I have a layout for you today, one of my last ones with the Citrus Twist Kits since I decided to resign my position on the design team. If you don't mind, I'll show you my layout first and tell you the story after...<br />
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So here it is, one of my four layouts made with the April Citrus Twist main scrapbooking kit.<br />
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I love every paper with compartments like this one. They always call for many small photos and embellies and stories.<br />
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So first thing I did was choosing a story I wanted to tell and I settled on our day at Cinque Terre in Italy. I knew I had enough photos to fill in many little frames.<br />
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I looked at the frames and chose my photos to go with them. I mesured the frames and sized my photos and placed them on a4x6 canvas in Photo shop. It looked like this:<br />
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I then cut out the photos and placed them over the frames to give me a good idea of how it would look and to see also if I needed more photos.<br />
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I then started cutting the inside of the frames with an exact knife. It was really quick and easy. Especially when I decided I'd get rid of the scallops inside some of the frames. lol I was cutting around them when my husband came in my room and I realized what I was doing was a loss of time. I just simplified. ;)<br />
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I love the look of the photo behind the paper. I adhered them all with washi tape. (I always have to check which one is sticking enough for that task. I also stick to one I love less or have more of, because it is hidden behind the page).<br />
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Once all my photos where adhered, I started adhering small embellishments and adding details with words and letter stickers.<br />
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I also decided I'd color some of the frames with gold ink because the photos being so small were totally lost on a total black and white layout.<br />
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I like that the gold ink I chose is very yellow and happy and still has the shimmer of the gold in it.<br />
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Very simple layout. it took me less than an hour to finish it. But I still like it. I'll add more to the story in other layouts (we did a 10 days road trip through Germany, Italy and Switzerland, so I still have a lot of photos and stories!) Or I might just keep this page in our travel album and move onto a mini album for the whole road trip. Yep, that might be a good idea. :)<br />
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So now for the story of my decision of stepping down of the design team...<br />
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I don't want to get too much in the details of why, but just let me tell you that this move to Prague, even if I absolutely love Prague and my new friends here took a toll on me and I was stretching myself way too thin for all that was going on. Inside of me, I knew that I was going straight to a fail, but I kept trying to make everything work until my body said "Enough!"<br />
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Last time by body talked to me like this it was when we learned the news that we were moving to Prague and to make a story short, I ended with my worse fear in my hands!<br />
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Yep, a snake!<br />
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So anyway, this time, with the mindfulness techniques I've been practicing since January (thank god for that!), I could keep my nerves under control but it was still very scary and at that moment I was struggling to stay sane, I knew I had to let something go, even if that something is what I love most in life. I cried over my decision but really, I had no choice. I've hit a wall. I have to step back and readjust. Go back to a minimum of things to do is a good thing to start with. I think.<br />
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So for now I'm on a break of all my design teams. I'll see in September what happens when I get back from our summer vacation and readjust again to our life in Prague. I'm just hoping that I will still be able to make scrapbooking a priority. Because it really is what I love most.<br />
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Thanks for stopping by guys, and for all the comments you leave me here and on Facebook and Instagram. They really lift me up and keep me going when times get hard.<br />
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<br />Marie-Pierre Capistranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07082780761580103690noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330654602745642045.post-11117821980911828132017-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:002017-04-25T06:00:12.882-04:00Get it Scrapped | Principle of ProximityHello everyone!!<br />
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Today I have a page to show you that I made for <a href="https://debbiehodge.com/blog/" target="_blank">Get It Scrapped</a>.<br />
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This page is documenting the day I left Vancouver, at the beginning of June 1998, going back home and leaving my "future husband" behind. It was a tough day for both of us and I'm glad I finally documented it.<br />
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To design this page I used a design principle called "proximity". You can read all about it on the Get it Scrapped blog today.<br />
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Its to give you a little hint of the proximity principle, it's about how you place your elements on the page, together or appart, to create a feeling. Here I wanted to document the separation so I used two pictures that I separated with a line formed by the little plane. I also used a skyline picture to give the feel of something going away. Finally I placed the little plane very close to the side of the page to give the feeling of it flying away.<br />
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I used a paper from Crate Paper, from their Flea Market collection and I really like the big gold area which grounds my picture and also gives it a lot of shine and light. <br />
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I mounted my picture on a piece of raindrops patterned paper from my <a href="https://www.plspapershop.com/product-p/mc-pp-88hc00.htm" target="_blank">Here Comes The Sun</a> collection to highlight the sadness of the day. By the way, that photo was not taken on the day I left, but it was the last photo we took with our two best friends in Vancouver the day they left. That was a sad day too. Sometimes you can't get caught up with the idea that you don't have the perfect photo to document a story. Just use what you have and explain the story in the journaling.<br />
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I added some die cuts to add importance to the photo. I love how all the colors of the products in different collections coordinate.<br />
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So as I said, I added a line between the two photos. I used my sewing machine and gold thread. I was easy to do stitch but it would have been easier if I would have stitched BEFORE adhering the photos and all the other elements. It happens to me all the time! Oh well, no now knows, right?! :)<br />
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To add to the theme of sadness, I used some acetate clouds from the Little You collection from Crate paper and since they were so subtle, I added a flair button, again from my <a href="https://www.plspapershop.com/product-p/mc-fl-10hc06.htm" target="_blank">Here Comes The Sun </a>collection. Adhering acetate is tricky. I have special vellum adhesive, but it wasn't doing a good job so I decided so use some tiny staples.<br />
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This die cut from Dear Lizzy acts as my title and is accentuated by the golden "our" that I added. I love the look of the clear acrylic stars mixed with the cardstock die cut stars. I adhered the plane with just a little bit of hot glue. I added some stamping with white ink next to my title to add some more whimsy.<br />
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ut of course, the whole layout just comes alive when the viewer reads the journaling. .... it's always the most important part for me. ;)<br />
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Have a great day guys!!<br />
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Marie-Pierre<br />
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