Pretty Little Studio | A Halloween layout

Hi everyone!!
Salut tout le monde!!

Today I'm sharing another Halloween layout I made with the Trick or Treat collection from Pretty Little Studio. Like I already said in a previous post, last year we spent Halloween at Disney. Well, not really Trick or Treating IN the park, but still, we spent the whole Halloween day at Magic Kingdom and went to Celebration to trick or treat. It was a fabulous experience!! I'm telling you, way better than having to wear our costumes over snow suits! ;)
Aujourd'hui j'aimerais partager une page que j'ai faite avec la collection Trick or Treat de Pretty little Studio. Comme je l'ai déjà mentionné il n'y a pas très longtemps, l'année passée on a passé l'Halloween à Disney. On n'a pas fait la cueillette de bonbon dans le parc, mais on a passé la journée à Magic Kingdom et on a passé l'Halloween à Celebration. C'était une super belle expérience. Bien mieux que de porter un costume en plastique par dessus un habit de neige! :)

I chose an orange background that makes my little princesses blue dresses stand out! And I used my Silhouette for that title that I cut out 5 times in black paper. I also played with repetition with my rub-ons from Heidi Swapp. I added a couple of journaling cards behind my photos and even wrote my journaling on one. :)
J'ai choisi un fond orange pour faire ressortir les robes bleues de mes petites princesses. Et j'ai utilisé ma Silhouette pour découper le titre 5 fois pour lui donner de l'importance. J'ai aussi joué avec le principe de répétition avec les rub-ons de Heidi Swapp. J'ai ajouté quelques cartes de journaling derrière ma photo et j'ai écrit mon texte sur une carte de PL de Heidi.

I added cute and shiny pieces here and there.
J'ai ajouté quelques beaux petits embellissements ici et là.

I'm really in love with all the Pretty Little Studios Die Cuts and flairs! I mean, really!! The quality is GREAT and the colors are vibrant, the motives bring me back to when I was a little girl. It's just perfection!
J'adore TOUS les die cuts et les flairs de Pretty Little Studio! Vraiment!! La qualité est superbe, les couleurs sont vives et les motifs me ramènent à quand j'étais petite. C'est la perfection!!

Did you do anything with your Halloween pictures yet?? :)
Et vous? Avez-vous scraper vos photos d'Halloween cette année?! :)

Marie-Pierre

One Little Bird Designs | November Guest Designer

Hey everyone!

Today I'd like to share my Project Life spread for the week of Halloween.
I made it entirely with One little Bird Designs kits: Ready Set Go, Sugarcoated, Pedal Pusher, Luna and Dialogue.

For the title card I cut out my letters with my Silhouette in glittery orange cardstock and I printed a frame from the kit on a piece of white cardstock.

I placed them on the card with a little bit of adhesive and I ran them through my sewing machine.

I then placed a black cat my daughter had made me a couple of weeks ago.

This is a 4x6 card with lines for the journaling and a blank space on the right for a photo. I used a frame found in the Sugarcoated kit to print my photo.

For the "this Way" card I cut a 3x4 card out of glitter cardstock and placed the arrow and the stars over it.

I try to repeat the glitter. Here I used it as a mat for my photo.

I try to put elements under the picture and over the picture to give more depth.

This glittery card is from MAMBI. I left a white space under the photo to give it a Polaroid look.

I love that paper look.

This little sign post is also very cute!! And it was perfect for the story of my little girl who was tired of walking.

And so ends my Halloween week. Come back tomorrow for a traditional Halloween layout.

Marie

Happy Halloween!

Hi everyone!!
Salut tout le monde!! 

Happy Halloween!!

Bon Halloween!!!!

Today I'd like to show you a page that I made for a project that, sadly, never saw the light of the day...
So anyway, since it's a Halloween layout, I thought it would be fitting to show it to you today. Maybe it will give you some ideas to scrapbook Halloween, or to scrapbook an old picture that you love but that you don't really know what to say about it.
Aujourd'hui j'aimerais vous montrer une page que j'ai faite pour un projet qui n'a malheureusement jamais vu le jour. Comme c'est une page d'Halloween, j'ai pensé que ce serait parfait de vous la montrer aujourd'hui. Peut-être que ça vous donnera des idées pour scrapper non seulement vos photos d'Halloween, mais aussi ces vieilles photos que vous aimez tant mais qui ne vous inspire peut-être pas de texte... 

The picture on the right is one of my brother and I at Halloween in 1981. Maybe you have a picture similar to this one. We would stand in front of the door, right before we left for trick or treating, and take a picture. With the flash, please. lol :) Well, let me tell you that years later, I'm so grateful for this picture!! With flash and all. :)
La photo de droite, c'est moi et mon frère en 1981. Vous avez peut-être une photo semblable à celle-ci. On se mettait devant la porte juste avant de partir faire la récolte et on prenait une photo. Pour immortaliser le costume. Avec le flash en plus!! :) Laissez-moi vous dire que DES années plus tard, je suis bien contente d'avoir cette photo. Flash compris. :)

Look at our costumes! lol Plastic overall that we would put over our snow suit. Yes, in Canada, Halloween is cold!
Regardez nos costumes!! lol Vous vous souvenez de ces habits en plastiques qu'on mettait par dessus nos habits de neige? LOL Oui, au Québec, il fait frette à l'Halloween! 

The second picture is one of my daughters, last year, as we went to Disney to celebrate Halloween. Now that we live so close (8 hours by car), we couldn't let the occasion go!! :)
La 2e photos est celle que j'ai prise de mes filles l'années passée alors qu'on passait l'Halloween à Disney! Maintenant qu'on habite à 8heures de route, on ne pouvait pas laisser passer l'occasion. :)

My title says: When I was young... (with the emphasis on the I) And the journaling talks about the costumes. :)

My background is an ombre watercolor wash that forms a square and I stitched around it with black thread.
Mon fond de page est un lavis d'aquarelle qui part du orange foncé et qui se dégrade en jaune. J'ai cousu un carré noir autour.

I then created a stencil with my Silhouette.
J'ai créé un stencil avec ma Silhouette.

And used molding paste that I spread very unevenly to create more texture.

Et j'ai utilisé de la molding paste (C'est écrit modeling paste légèreté sur le pot! LOL!!!) pour créer de la texture. J'en ai mis épais et je l'ai étendue de façon très inégale.

Lifting up the stencil is always a fun moment!! :)
Soulever le stencil est toujours une étape super excitante. :D

Happy with the result:
Contente du résultat:

I added black elements to add some oomph to my page: labels and a flair from Pretty Little Studio and that BEAUTIFUL die cut that remind me so much of the sticker collection I had when I was young!!! Also from Pretty Little Studio. Check out their Halloween collection. It's just gorgeous! And perfect for scrapping your Halloween pages!!
J'ai ajouté quelques éléments noirs à ma page pour lui donner du punch: des étiquettes et un flair de Pretty Little Studio et ce super beau die cut qui marelle tellement ma collection de collants que j'avais quand j'étais petite!!! Aussi de Pretty Little Studio. Vous pouvez voir toute la collection d'Halloween. Elle est superbe! Et parfaite pour scrapper vos pages d'Halloween. :)

I also added that crown paperclip to add to my little Elsa princesses. :)
J'ai ajouté une petite couronne paperclip pour ajouter un petit quelque chose à mes deux princesses Elsa. :)

There you go! Hope you like my layout and I most of all hope that you are inspired and ready to create some beautiful memories of your own. :)
Alors voilà! J'espère que vous aimez ma page et j'espère par dessus tout qu'elle vous a donné quelques idées pour créer de belles pages. :)


Marie-Pierre

Project Life - Weeks 43 and 44

Hi everyone!

I had lots of fun working on these last two weeks!!
To put myself in a Halloween mood, I decided to get myself some Halloween cards. I found some MAMBI Halloween cards for $1.50 a pack of 36 cards. I loved the cards because they were all glittery and they had foil and were all shiny. :) Check out the beautiful pumpkin face in my pages below!!

I also used my Antuquary Project Life Kit from Stdio Calico, which I absolutely adore. Why I like these kits that much?? Because I feel like I CAN use the embellishments that come in it! I bought them for my PL album so it's like granting me the use of it vs. hoarding them forever for a future scrapbook page I might do later…. :)

So, with no further bla blas, here are my pages:

Week 43

Fallen leaves are like seashells, I can't help myself and stop picking them!!! One found it's place in my album. I don,t know how long it will last before it all break down in leaves pieces but hey, who cares? If it falls apart, it will only be in it's small 4x6 pocket! :D This red leaf reminds me of my Canadian flag.

This is one of the Mambi card, glittery Happy Halloween. One week in advance, yesss!! :)

This is a cute anecdote that happened in my house.
Translation:
Me: "Arielle, today we have to clean because Genevieve is coming tomorrow."
Arielle, looking at the living room: "Wow! It looks like Maya will have a lot of work to do today!"
The stars are from an Halloween stamp set from Hampton that I picked at the same time as the Halloween cards. I colored them in with a gold paint pen. The Arielle 5 years old was stamped with some alpha stamp. I love these! They are so useful for titles.

The "You've been Boo'd" sign was intended to put in our window but it was so small I thought it would fit better in my album. ;) I printed a new one from the internet to hang to our door. And the small picture was taken in our garage, right before we went booing our friends. :) It's a favorite Halloween activity that we discovered when we moved here. :)

This is a picture of the girls saying "good bye" and "I love you" to each other in the car when I dropped Arielle off t school. This is MY favorite!

This week Patrick had to leave for work so we went to have dinner at our best friend's. We had an awesome time. :)

One insert this week: It's a drawing I made for Maya in school because she was crying to leave with me. :(

When you have an insert, I suggest that you add a little card (or a part of one) to explain WHY you added this insert. You'll be thankful for that later when you don't remember why the heck you made a drawing. ;)

On the other side of my drawing I added our ghost from the door as we have been BOOed and I added a small story from these BOOS. We've been booed twice and the second time Patrick found his favorite swiss chocolate in the bag!! We had been obviously boo-ed by our Swiss neighbors. :) Patrick wanted to take the chocolates but the girls opposed to the idea. So Patrick had to trade!! Did you know that a swiss chocolate is worth 2 american chocolates? ;)

This week we had my best scrappy friend over with her family!!!

We scrapped (chatted and ate) all night! We tried to make a page together…. :)

Here's our selfie (I shouldn't have used the wash tape, it's too busy and too much on our heads) and a small card I made with gold card stock and a cute punch that my friend bought while she was here.

These cuties are my friends two daughters. I loved it when they played with Maya. I loved that Maya could have a conversation with kids her age. She does,t speak English so here, even if we have friends, maya never get to talk and express herself. That makes me sad. She was so happy!!!!

Because next week it's Halloween, the girls won't have dance on Thursday, so they could wear their Halloween costumes today. I asked Arielle to be creative and not wear her Ariel's dress at dance because dancing with a fish tail is not possible! ;) The picture was taken with my iPhone and is not good, but hey, this or nothing? I'll go with this anytime!! :)

We went climbing again. It's a family activity that we love and that is growing on us. :) And this weekend Maya could climb for the first time up to the top. She is so small that it is very hard for her to reach the steps. Be she did it!! I bet we'll see her get better every time we'll go.

And lastly, a "beautiful" picture of me climbing!! I don't have many of these and it is really blurry (Maya, 3 years old, took it!) but I wanted it in my album!!! :)

Week 44 - Halloween Week!

Are you going with the flow? Are your kids in the Rainbow Loom fever?? I didm,t know if Arielle was to young for that (she's 5) but I did bought her the kit, and about 10 bracelets later (or 2 days later) I had to go buy her refills of every colors!! As you can see I received a very nice all black bracelet!! ;)

And 2 days later we switched to the triple single bracelet. ;) We're still working on that one!

Here are the sisters at work. The little one is the helper.

This small and very cute camera was cut out from a journaling card from my Antiquary kit. (The pink card you see above.) Think about that when you use the cards. If a cute embellishment lands behind a picture, cut it out!! :) Just a tip.

An then it was time for pumpkin carving. I love this. For me it's like making a cake. It has to be grand!!  :)

On the 31st we had an Halloween Party in Arielle's class. Arielle was very nice to her little sister.

On Halloween night my 2 pumpkins had lots of success. :) That makes me happy.

Some cute journaling card from my Studio Calico Antiquary Kit. I stamped some yellow stars that came in my Halloween stamp kits from the week before. I stamped in yellow for a subtle tone on tone effect. I love these tiny tiny stars!!

The foil pumpkin card. Beautiful!!
And Maya when we came back home, in her Belle's costume.

This was our after halloween with our friends. The "nice" meltdowns from my girls didn't made it to the album. ;)

And this was our week-end, geocaching once again. It was so nice and warm outside!!!

So that's it! I'm up to date again!! Isn't it easy?! ;)
You got to make it a priority!

Talk to you soon!!
Marie-Pierre