Kutna Hora

I have another video up on my YouTube channel.

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!!

You can read more about Kutna Hora and it's churches here: https://www.amazingczechia.com/destinations/kutna-hora/

And reading this, I know that I owe my scrapbook a more accurate description of the town.

Here's the link to my Yout tube channel process video:

https://youtu.be/738KOE58Cf0

And here are some close ups of the details.

These vellum leaves and sequins are from my Pot Pourri collection and they are now 50%. 

I hope you get to scrap and treat yourself to some creative time! 

Stay safe and see you again soon!

Marie

Get It Scrapped |Best Costume Award

Hey everyone,

Here's a layout I made for Get It Scrapped using my new Potpourri collection (available at Pretty Little Studio).

If you follow me on Instagram (@mpcapistran), you'll probably know that I now have a very talented team of designers working playing with this collection. So for inspiration, check Instagram out!

Here's my layout:

The story:

This year just before Halloween I found a makeup artist on Instagram (@classycozmetics) 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! :)

The page details:

Here's the main picture and the journaling. Short and sweet. I stitched around the polaroid frame.
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.

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.

I finished that small cluster off with 3 blue sequins to tie the blue twigs with the rest of the layout.
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!)

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.

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.

You can see that I added wood here as well.

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.

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.

Again, see the purple sequins tying the leaves and the label together.

Here a cascade of sequins to pull the eye out of that huge cluster in the middle of my layout.
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.

I like how the sequins run through my title and fell like falling leaves.

And that flair button, the smiley without a mouth, was the closest I could get to a surprised and creeped out smiley. :)

A small label to add even more details about the story.

 And one last detail shot of the embellishment cluster.

I hope you like my layout and I most importantly hope that it might have inspired you to use products in a different way.

If you want to see more creative ways of stitching on a page, head over to the Get It Scrapped blog post and be ready to be blown away!! :)

Thanks for watching!!

Marie

Get It Scrapped | The Expat Life

Hey everyone,

have you seen my latest layout for get It Scrapped called The Expat Life?
The assignment was to make a layout using emojis.

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!

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Throughout my text, I sprinkled emoji stickers (from my Potpourri collection, 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.

When I write I often add little hearts here and there with and through the emojis. So here too, I added the hearts.

I added some dimension to the tiny pictures, using foam adhesive and stitching.

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.

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.

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.

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 Get it Scrapped blog where you will find more fun ideas for using emojis.

Also, don't forget to visit Pretty Little Studio to shop for emoji products and my Potpourri collection. :)

Marie


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Pretty Little Studio | Welcome Home Maple

I can't believe I haven't blog since last October!!

But here I am with an awesome creation I made with my new Potpourri collection available at Pretty Little Studio!

Here's the whole page which was put together with 95% of products available in the Pretty Little Studio shop!! :) Let me break it down for you.

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 8x8 Potpourri Paper Pack. The Combination of these 3 styles is perfect to give bling to my central photo!!

I stacked the papers on foam tape to leave some space to add small embellishments between the papers: leaves shape sequins (also from my Potpourri collection!), small star die cuts and some foiled die cuts in heart shape.

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.

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.

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.

Here's another perspective to see the dimension and the shimmer of the gold foil.

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!.

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?!!

Also notice how I layered the pink label, left blank, under the gold foil banner. It just makes the banner pop even more.

I finally added a small chipboard piece, some word stickers  and more gold foil die cuts.

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! :)

I hope you liked my walk through!!

Talk to you soon with more beautiful layouts. I promise!!

Marie

Pretty Please at Pretty Little Studio | Potpourri

Hello everyone!!

I'm really happy that you joined me today for a short presentation of my new fall collection called Potpourri!

It's available through Pretty Little Studio and you can pre order it now right HERE and it will ship around October 15th on a first come first served basis.

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 Here Comes The Sun collection, you know? So Potpourri, which means a mixture or medley of things, was pretty fitting. :)

The collection consists of patterned papers, cards, clear acetates, vellum sheets, cardstock and vellum die cuts, sticker sheets and flair badges.

The colors are happy and vibrant. I hand painted each image (even the labels!) with watercolor and a brush! :)

Here's a closer look on some of my favorites of the collection:

Paper! This is the 8x8 paper pack. You can also get it in 4x4 and 6x6 or in 6x8 if you are into mini albums! :) 

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! 

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! 

The collection also has some of these patterns in gold on paper, velum and clear:

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. 

My bestseller in my previous collection are the die cuts!! And this collection as plenty of options as well. :)

I absolutely ADORE these vellum leaves!!!

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.

And this is what I can never have enough of!!! 

And again, for my love of labels, I have some gold banners!!

Most of these die cuts are also available as stickers:

 I really wanted to offer enough black and white in this collection so I made a pack of clear all black stickers.

 I absolutely love these numbers as well (and letters are to be added to the shop soon to).

 Plus, I added some mini stickers to the line that were thought specifically to be used in planners.

The collection also has some vellum washi tape.

Finally, I have some nice packs of flairs. Here are just two of the 5 sets. 

Here is the collection in a nutshell but you can see the whole collection and order it on the Pretty Little Studio website.

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 Instagram and Facebook when you use my products!! I really enjoy and appreciate it each time! :)

Marie-Pierre






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