Project Life - Weeks 39--40

Hi everyone!
Salut tout le monde!
I did it again. I'm up to date in my Project Life album. :) Such a great feeling!
Now, I was hoping to find a GREAT spot for photographing my Project life album in our new house, but I still haven,t find a super spot, so I'm sorry for the not so super great pictures.
Here are my last few weeks: 39 to 42.
J'ai encore réussi. Je suis à jour dans mon album Project Life! Ta que ça fait du bien. :)
Quand j'ai su qu'on allait déménager ici, j'espérais que j'aurais un super endroit pour prendre des photos de mon album Project Life sans reflets et avec de la belle lumière, mais non, je ne l'ai pas encore trouvé, alors désolée pour les photos de plus ou moins bonne qualité. Je vous présente mes dernières semaines: 39 à 42.

WEEK 39
Semaine 39

On this spread I used mainly Heidi Swapp journaling cards from the Dreamy edition PL kit. I like the softness of it, letting a lot of place to the pictures and not competing with them and at the same time, bringing lots of happy colors to the album.
Cette semaine-ci, j'ai surtout utilisé les cartes de Heidi Swapp de son kit "Dreamy". J'aime beaucoup la douceur de ce kit. J'aime comment les couleurs douces laissent toute la place aux photos et apportent quand même une belle touche de couleur.

I dressed up this date card with somme calligraphy. My quill wasn't cooperating much, but I still decided it would have to be good enough. I love that this week I added the Week numbers to my spreads.
Sur cette carte "date", j'ai ajouté un peu de calligraphie. Ma plume n'allait pas super bien mais j'ai décidé que ça allait rester comme ça. Une chose que j,aime beaucoup de mon album cette année sont les numéros de semaine. Je trouve que ça donne nue idée rapide de combien de semaines il reste à l'année.

I kept this spread VERY simple. Not many embellishments. Mainly pictures and cards. It's ok. I don't love it, but it documents and does the job, right?
Cette semaine est hyper simple. Il n'y a pas beaucoup d'embellissements. Il y a surtout des photos et des cartes avec du texte. C'est correct. Je n'adore pas ce style-là, mais ma semaine est documentée et pour moi, pour cet album, c'est ce qui compte.

This yellow card is a card I made. I kind of like them . They are soft and still colorful and very useful to add lots of journaling or to mat a picture.
Cette carte jaune "en ce moment", est une des cartes que j'ai créées. Je les aime beaucoup car elles sont délicates et douces et elles sont super pratiques pour ajouter du texte ou pour encadrer une photo.

I added a drawing from Maya that I particularly loved.
J'ai ajouté en plein milieu de ma semaine, une peinture de ma petite Maya.

I added a bit of stamping and a little golden heart.
Et je lui ai ajouté une estampe et quelques mots….

Another drawing from Maya on the back. She's a little drawing machine write now.
Un autre dessin de Maya à l'endos.

Here's another card I made. :) I make the backgrounds (color touches) using watercolor and I add some handwritten elements to them. It's really fun to let my creativity run wild and to see where it brings me.
Voici une autre de mes cartes. :) Tous les éléments colorés sont de l'aquarelle et les éléments digitaux sont dessinés à la main. J'aime vraiment ça faire mes cartes. Ça me permet d'être créative quand je n'ai pas de pages de scrap à faire. ;)

This is a card from Heidi Swapp, from the glitter kit. I like it with a simple little wooden heart.
Ça ici c'est une carte de Heidi Swapp de son kit "glitter". Je l'aime bien avec un simple petit coeur en bois. 

This is the picture of Maya making her picture I included in the album. Although I'm including a picture, I still like to have the original in there. It looks totally different. I guess it's like looking at a scrapbook and looking at a picture of a scrapbook. Seeing it in real life is much more impressive!
Ça ici c'est la photo de Maya qui fait son dessin que j'ai inclue dans mon album. J'ai voulu mettre l'original de la peinture même si j'ai mis sa photo ici parce que les originaux sont toujours beaucoup plus beaux. 

Here again: a card and journaling. That's it. Simple simple.
Encore une fois, ici, une simple carte avec un peu de texte. C'est tout. :)

WEEK 40
Semaine 40

Another VERY VERY simple spread mixing Heidi Swapp's cards and my cards.
Une autre semaine très très simple incluant des cartes de Heidi Swapp et quelques-une de mes cartes.

For "longer" stories I use 3x4 cards, and to add only few details, I add small labels. I printed and cut myself a bunch of them so now I have plenty when I need some. :)
Pour des histoires un peu plus longues (pas tellement longues quand même), j'utilise des cartes 3x4 et pour ajouter quelques petits détails, j'utilise des petites étiquettes. Je m'en suis imprimées et découpées plusieurs alors j,en ai toujours quand j,en ai besoin. :)

Another thing I do to create some room for journaling is cut my pictures square and mount them onto a 4x6 card.
Parfois, pour ajouter du texte j'imprime mes photos en 3x3 et je les monte sur une carte 4x6. 

WEEK 41
Semaine 41

On this spread I used exclusively cards that I made myself. :)
Pour cette semaine je n'ai utilisé que des cartes que j,ai faites moi-même. :)

Here again I cropped my picture to a 3x3 and I added the words on the rest of the 4x6 card.
Encore une fois ici j'ai imprimé ma photo en 3x3 et j'ai ajouté les mots sur le reste de la carte.

WEEK 42
Semaine 42

This AM PM card is from Studio Calico and it's some sort of watercolor paper maybe? I hoarded it for so long and today I was happy I still had it. :) I colored it with some ink and a paintbrush and some water.
Cette carte AM PM est une carte de Studio calice que je gardais depuis un bon moment pour l'occasion idéale de l'utiliser. Elle est en papier aquarelle je crois (?) et j'étais très contente de l'avoir encore aujourd'hui quand j'ai fait ma semaine. Je l'ai colorée avec de l'encre, un peu d'eau et un pinceau.

This is a card from Heidi Swapp. The glitter add-on kit. I also used an embellishment from the gold foil add-on kit.  These kits all mix and match so well.
Encore une fois une carte de Heidi Swapp, de son kit "glitter". J'ai aussi utilisé un embellissement de son kit "or métallique". Tous ses kits s'agencent vraiment bien. 

This is a card I made myself. I added a simple drawing from my daughter that I adhered with washi tape and I added a small label from Elle Studio.
Ici j'ai utilisé du washi tape pour coller le dessin de ma fille sur ma carte. J'ai ensuite ajouté une petite étiquette de Elle Studio.

In the middle of the spread I added a 8.5x11 page protector and I slipped in a couple of drawings from my youngest daughter. I find her drawings so interesting right now. I saved the best ones.
En plein milieu de cette semaine-là j'ai ajouté un protecteur de format 8.5 x 11 et j,y ai inséré quelques dessins fait par ma fille. J'adore ses dessins qu'elle fait en ce moment alors je garde les meilleurs.

Here I'm pretty happy with the tiny banner I adhered over the group photo of the class.
Sur la photo de groupe j,ai ajouté une petite bannière que je trouve bien cute. 

This is another one of my cards.
Et voici une autre des mes cartes.

And on this small 3x4 picture I added some rub-ons to indicated the final score of the ice hockey game. It's lucky that we won.
Sur cette photo j'ai écrit avec des décalques le score final de la partie de hockey. (Une chance qu'on avait gagné!) ;)

I took this picture when I walked my daughter to her classroom. The walls of her school are FILLED with beautiful things the students have made. To highlight my daughter's scarecrow, I added a little golden star next to it.
J'ai pris cette photo quand je suis allée mener ma fille à sa classe. Les murs de son école sont remplis de dessins et bricolages que les élèves ont fait. Pour marquer l'épouvantail que ma fille a fait, j,ai utilisé une petite étoile dorée juste à côté.

There you go. A month worth of Project life spreads!!
Where are you at with your Project Life album? Are you a Project Lifer?
If you have a PL album and a blog, or even if you share it on Instagram, make sure to follow me and link me up!!
I'm thinking that I'll give away some cards in the next few weeks. But I want to know who my Project Life followers are. :)
Alors voilà, un mois de Project Life dans un seul billet. 
Et vous, vous en êtes où dans votre album Project Life?
Vous en avez un? Si oui, montrez-moi où je peux le voir. Si vous avez un blog, laissez-moi un lien, si vous le partagez sur instagram, suivez-moi là-bas et montrez-moi votre album. 
Je pense faire un petit tirage de quelques-unes de mes cartes dans quelques semaines, mais j,aimerais ça savoir qui sont les project life-er qui me suivent. :)

Talk to you soon!!
à bientôt!!! 
Marie

Project Life Week 37 and 38

Hi everyone!

When I said in my last post that I was up to date, that's not what I meant. I'm not completely up to date. I haven't catch up on 20 weeks in 2 weeks, don't worry, I'm human too. ;) I only meant that even though I'm working backwards to fill up the gap, I'm also working forward and on that forward side, I'm up to date. :) Voilà! That's what I meant. :)

So here are my weeks 37 and 38. They are very special to me. Here's why:

Last week I worked on a very special project I had for a long time: I worked on my very own Project life cards. :) And I used them this week and it was such a special feeling to see my own work in my own album. Here's one of the cards. There's a watercolor look to it. Soft, but still vibrant. I'll point you to the next ones as I go.

That week, we had our first meeting in Arielle's classroom and I was happy that my husband could come along with me. I loved to sit at my daughter's desk and see what she's working on in class. Look at the story she wrote… hilarious!!! :) You'll see that later on. ;)

 Here's another card I made. I was working on a "different" pattern than what we always see and these were not supposed tu be bubbles, but I finally paired them with pool pictures so yeah, they turned out to be great bubbles. :) The label is hand drawn and is part of the card (I didn,t draw it over the printed card - not sure I'm being clear) This bold and beautiful yellow arrow flair is from my friend Caroline Elliam at cuts2luv.  You should check her Etsy shop out! :)

Here's another card of mine. One of my favorite!! I love the bold and sunny colors. The background is watercolor and the lines are hand drawn.

In an 8.5x11 page protector I slipped what I brought back from my daughter's school. She had made us a beautiful drawing!! I added the little note we left her on her desk and a picture of one of her really cute project that was on the wall "first day jitters". :)

To tell the story, I simply added a little card that I attached with a tiny paperclip.

On the other side of the drawing I inserted the news letter I get every week from her teacher. Not sure I'll print them every week, but I find that it's a nice way to keep track of the progress they are making in class.

On the right page I added a picture that my youngest daughter made. She's just starting drawing people and I find them SO cute!!!! This 4x6 card is also from my collection. In the label that was intended for the date, i let my daughter write her name. :) I love this little blue heart!!

There's another card of mine right here, this time with some French on it!!!! That's one thing missing in the French community: PROJECT LIFE CARDS IN FRENCH!!! So I thought if I can make some, it would be fun for my French speaking friends. I just don,t know just yet how I'll distribute them. Still thinking about my options.  So on this yellow one we can read: right now. And right under there I've stamped "routine no.1" from my other friend Tchoubi (Nathalie Grégoire) who just launched her shop this week!! I am so excited for her and I'm very happy that she asked me to be on her design team.

This overlay "les beaux jours" is also from Tchoubi. I simply layered it over one of my cards.

Here's the card.

And here's the overlay. :) So cute!!!!!!

Week 38

Here's another one of my favorite PL spread and I'm using a bunch of my cards. It's such a wonderful feeling!!! Sorry for the blurry spots but I'm working on some secret stuff. ;)

This beautiful 4x6 card is from my friend Heidi Swapp. Have you seen her "dreamy" edition yet?? If not, you've got to see it!!! Fabulous stuff.

This little cutie is from me. ;) I love the yellow drop and the ombre yellow/green blue effect. :)

I wish I could have NOT blurred these cards as the pink orange one is probably my favorite!! Look at this little heart in the tiny speech bubble!! And the colors are so vibrant!!

Another of my cards. I love the texture in the lines. So yummy in real life!! The little dear is from a kit from Studio Calico.

We had such a wonderful day at that ranch where we could feed the animals. Another one of my cards right here. :)  And so ends my week 38.

Hope you enjoyed!! And I hope to see you again soon.

Marie