Pretty Little Studio | December Daily and Winter Joy

Hello everyone!!

Today I'm on the Pretty Little Studio blog with so many pictures that I just can't post them all here!!! I'm sure you'll understand. I was working on my December Daily and came quite forward. So here are a couple of pictures of the full pages but if you don't mind, I'll let you go over to my original blogpost for all the details and more inspiration!! :)

I'm long from done with this album! I can't even tell you on which day I am since I'm not doing the number thing this year but one thing I know is that I'm almost done with the "Prague" part of the album...now on to the "canada" part, with the snow and cousins!!! :) FUN!

See you on the Pretty Little Studio Blog!!!

Oh and, maybe you noticed here but I only used my new Winter Joy collection so you'll see more of that too when you head over to the blog!! See you there!! :)


Marie

Pretty Little Studio | December Daily

Hello everyone!

My goal this November was to finish my December Daily from last year (2015). I had to stop doing it when I left to visit my parents in Canada and left it untouched at day 12, knowing that I would want to finish it this November to get in the Christmas spirit! If you can remember, last year in November I re-did my 2009 December Daily and I really enjoyed the process of looking back and of slowly getting fired up for the coming Christmas. Read all about it here.

This year was a different situation though. I was pretty busy with the Christmas collection coming out in November so I felt like I had to catch up and I was afraid I could never do it! But today (I'm writing this blog post November 18th) I can tell you that I did reach my goal. Last night in fact I made the finishing touches to the last pages! :)

Today on the Pretty Little Studio blog, you can see the pages 13 to 17. Here are some pictures of what you'll see over there. Please head over for a list of the products I used and more detailed shots. :)

One thing I particularly enjoyed this year was to use my own collection Winter Joy which you can pre-order right here. I hope you'll check it out.

All right, see you later for some more December Daily updates. :) 

Marie-Pierre

Pretty Little Studio | Winter Joy collection

Hello everyone!

Big news this morning: I'm done with my Winter/Christmas collection!

Maybe there will be some minor things to be done from now until it gets printed and ready to ship, but for now, my work is done!!

Here's a sneak peak that I showed on Instagram and Facebook for those of you who might have missed it:

These are the "With Glee" stickers.

My whole collection was painted by hand. With watercolor.

I then scan all my drawings and patterns and I create my cards and papers. And I decide which illustration will become what. It's a lot of fun. And it's also a lot of work!

I don't know if you realize how much work goes into such a collection. I didn't count my hours (next time I will, not that it matters, but just to have a better idea)  but I think I might have put about 200 hours into it. Spanned over 2 months. It's a lot, considering that I do this as a side project, next to all my DT assignments + extra work and of course my mommy work. :)

So anyway, I'm really happy with how it turned out. And I was happy yesterday to do something else than computer work. I actually scrapbooked, and it felt so good!

I would like to show you one more sneak... only for you, my dear blog readers!!
As a small thank you for being here, you are very much appreciated!

These are my favorite flair buttons: Winter Friends.

I can't wait to show you the whole collection!!! 

The collection will be available at Pretty Little Studio and you will be able to pre-order it at the end of October. It will ship late November. I'll give you more details as it comes closer.

Again, thank you for being here with me, for liking what I do and for following me and sharing my work with you friends. I really appreciate all your support!

Marie-Pierre xox