Project Life - week 08

Hi everyone!
As promise, because I know some of you visit me for this, some Project Life spreads coming your way. :)
I'm showing you week 8 today but don't be fooled, I'm not late on my Project, I just have so much on my hands these days that I can't keep up showing you everything I make (and that's a good thing...I think!) ;)

Ok, so here's my layout:

I love the lightness of the sea foam edition. But that week I got to mix things up a little since I got my Studio Calico PL kit. 

I wasn't I big fan of the March kit. I really have to admit it. I was quite sad when I opened my box but I decided to look at things with a positive eye and I've been reminded how strong the power of the mind is because I could use SO MUCH of the kit. I even made good use of certain things I really dislike. I know right, ...

Ok so first thing I liked in the kit: the Basic Grey yellow mini alphabet set. LOOK AT THAT!!! :) I almost used it all on this double page layout. :)

And look at this: a little note that my husband left on my scrap table before he went to work one morning. Come on!! He used to do that when I arrived in Switzerland. Can you tell how much I like it?? :)) And a little preview of a really nice page coming soon on the get it scrapped blog. :) Shhh...I'm not supposed to do that. ;) I'm eager to show you the real thing!! It's one of my favorite page to this day. :)

And here is an ode to Heidi Swapp and her Color magic line which just hit the Michaels stores. I wanted to go and check it out and I'm telling you, I almost bought the whole wall! From that first day I saw it in the store, I then went to Michaels every day for about 2 weeks, collecting and using coupons and taking advantage of the 30%... ;) If you don't know it, you should check it out! More about it on my blog when I'm allowed to share this gorgeous page...soon soon. Bare with me. :)

Here's a 3x4 card that I attached to one of Arielle's drawing with a mini paperclip from Tim Holz.

On the back side of Arielle's drawing I have Maya's drawing. that week she made a ton of little grey circles on tons of sheets of paper! I picked one and I also made a 3x4 journaling card out of a watercolor Maya made. Isn't it gorgeous? :) That's a great way of using your little ones artwork.

Oh my! That was a FUN day!! A friend called me and asked if we would go to the jump zone with them and I said no, because Maya doesn't like it at all (she's afraid of those giant things! Can't blame her!!) so my friend told me ok so then come to my place. And we ended up spending THE WHOLE DAY at her place!! It was so much fun! At one point of the day, the girls were tired so they wanted to play a bit with our cell phones.... every one got some kind of electronic thing to play and there we were all together yet in our own world.... crazy!! I snapped a picture with the camera that was still in my possession!

Meet Gianna, it's Arielle's best friend. They connected on their first day of pre-school, last year when they were just 3 (Gianna was 2?! Can that be??!) and they are still so happy when they are together. It's so fun. Especially because her mom and I also get along so well.

Last story, really, sickness could let us breathe a little.... I found Maya really cute in her princess dress with her bucket. ;) I also recorded Maya's breakfast and a glimpse onto the surroundings here that I find so beautiful!

That's it for week 8. I'm ready to show you some other weeks so stay tuned. They'll be posted very shortly. :)

Oh and, thanks for your comments! Keep them coming, I just love them so much. :)

Marie-Pierre

Weather Alert!

I know, spring is around the corner and there is no weather alert to be seen. But since we ive in Connecticut we've seen so many weather alert, some of them for not much if you ask me (I grew up in Quebec, Canada, so I've seen worst), so I decided to make a page about the biggest storms we experience since living here.

Here are some details shots:

I cut my title directly in a 12x12 card stock with my Sihlouette and backed it with some pattern paper. One half red, and the other blue.

The first snow storm was in January 2011 when we were living in Farmington. I backed the picture with some rub-ons and a little bit of watercolor. I added some snowflakes and red stars and a tiny tag.

Second thing that happened was our basement that was flooded during hard rain for several hours and a lot of snow melting at the same time. 

Here again some watercolor as a background and I also added a stamp that I stamped in red, some washi tape and some rub-ons that mimic water.

The camera was stamped with staz-on ink on a sheet of plastic and I fussy hand cut it.

Third event: Hurricane Irene.
I backed the picture on watercolor and added some leaves that I stamped and embossed in white on green paper.

Fourth event: Snowstorm Alfred
Watercolor paint, washi tape...

Fifth event: Hurricane Sandy, we left Ct.
The same red stamped image to back the picture and the snowflakes are here too.

And the last event was the big snowstorm we had in february.
The red behind my picture is a rub-on. I also added a tag that I embossed with white glitters.

The photos are all mounted in a circle on some silver thread.

For this layout I was inspired by my Art Class with Wilna Furstenberg. 

It's a wonderful class and if you are looking to learn some new techniques or even only to refresh the techniques you already know, Wilna's class is a GREAT SOURCE OF INSPIRATION!! I love it to pieces!!!!

Talk to you soon!

I promise to show you some Project Life layouts very soon!! ;)

Marie-Pierre

do you also have a princess at home?

Hi everyone!

Here's a layout I made to showcase Arielle with all the princesses we saw when we went to Disney last October. 

I did this page for Get it scrapped and had a sketch to follow. Actually, the sketch was a single page layout and I had to word with it and make it a double page layout. Here's the sketch (the sketch is from the very talented Amy Kingsford):

 And here's what I made with it:

I wanted to have a very large title work. It's a quote from my daughter Arielle and it says: "Mom, I'm really a beautiful princess am I?" I die cut it with my beloved Silhouette and I used some sparkly pink thickers to emphasize the word Princess. 

I adhered only parts of the title to give it a little more texture.

On each sides of the layout I stitched some lines and I glued the photos right on those lines. Between the pictures I stitched some circles and I adhered some rhinestones.

For the black and white photos, I chose some pictures that represented Arielle's princess-like side. The little foot in front, the hand on the side, that's what she was doing while posing, and I haven't told her to do that, believe me!! I found it very funny! :)

Happy Easter everybody!!

I'm off to celebrate with my family in Canada. :)

Talk to you soon. :)

Marie-Pierre

are we moving this year?

Hi everyone!

I'll be quick tonight since we are all sick here today.

I wanted to show a favorite page of mine that was featured on the get it scrapped website a little while ago. I don't even remember what the assignment was....

On this page I wanted to keep track of all our moves in the past 13 years. We move so often that it's getting harder and harder to remember all the places we lived. 

I started by stitching pieces of patterned paper in a circle and following the rainbow colors.

And I added one house to every pie part. I chose the house in my chipboard collection paying attention to the shape of the house that would represent best the actual house we lived in.

Embellishing here and there, the places where I enjoyed most living and where special events happened. 

And I added the name of the city and the dates we lived there.

The big flower here is an American Craft rub-on that is cracking because I hoard it since so long!!

I added 2 little planes (rub-ons) for our 2 over seas moves.
And I'm sure you noticed the little baby accessories in the houses where I had my two baby girls.

I had lots of fun building this page and I quite like the end result!! :)

Thanks for looking,

And talk to you soon!!

Marie-Pierre

Let the sun shine

Hi everyone!
Wow! I have my hands full!!
So full that I had to give in.
I just had to face it: I can't do it all. As much as I'd like to. :(

I might not be showing you that much but I'm scrapbooking A LOT lately!
In fact, I'm scrapbooking like I never did before!
I'm working on my creative team's assignments and on some secret things that I have going on. (You'll know more about that as soon as I can share.)
And with all that scrapbooking, I still have my life to make work, somehow. My two little ones....and all the rest.

So this weekend it got hard. It got me hard!! I had I migraine that lasted 3 days and I was bound to stay in bed. :( And as I was out of order (and not liking it!!), I started thinking about the changes I'll have to do to make it work and to stay healthy at the same time because without health goes nothing.... My first thought was the blog.... I know.... :( I won't give up on the blog, but we'll have to take it slow and enjoy the blogposts as they come. Even if we have to wait some weeks before we see new things over here.  As long as scrapbooking is not my full time job, I can't afford making blogging a priority.

That being said, I have some Project Life weeks that are done and that are waiting to get photographed before I can show them to you. The'll come. Be patient. :)

Ok, so for now I'll show you a page that was published this week at Get it scrapped. It's a page I love very much and that I framed. It's hanging right now in my scraproom. :) Yeah, that's just how much I like it. :)

Here you go! :)

The assignment was to make the journaling in some kind of shapes.... I chose to mimic clouds. And to support my journaled clouds, that I stamped letter by letter, I added some chipboard clouds and another cloud that I fussy cut in some patterned paper. I also stitched some sun rays in yellow and I misted my background with some blue Tatered Angel mist (that's right before I fell in love with Heidi Swapp's Color Shine mists - you'll see that very soon).

I also used a butterfly that my friend Genevieve misted and made all glittery when she was here on my birthday last May. It reminded me some nice moments when I used it. :)

For my title I used 2 kind of Thickers.

And I made a little scene, something I enjoy making a lot!!! :)) I used lots of little snippets of things that I found in a plastic bag. You know the little things you end up not using on other layouts and putting away and forgetting about? I also added stitching, texture and dimension and I even used a little something my dear friend Keiko sent me directly from Japan (the yellow porcupine). It adds another special something to the page. :)

Voilà!

Thanks for looking!!

Marie

Vintage

Hi guys!
I have a page that was just published over at Get it Scrapoed and here are the details. :)

The assignment was to make a page with a vintage style.

I decided to make the page I wanted to do since a long time, a page about the school I went to when I was 9-10 years old. 

Lots of goodies to look at! Including a photo of my school, taken last summer. I made a trip to my hometown only to take pictures of the neighborhood I grew up in. 

When I drove by, a wave of emotions came up to my head and to my heart. You know, the memories you have when you are 9 years old....well, I didn't have the address of the old house in which we had our school and I recognized it.... white walls, green window panes. Yes, it's here! :)

Here's my little text. I have a couple of different stories here.....

I used Heidi Swapp's Polaroid frame. Can never have enough of those!! Heidi Swapp's rub-ons as well. Love them!! And right behing the picture of the house is an envelope I got when I was about 9-10 years old. I had won a drawing and a writing contest and the mayor had sent me a letter. You can see my old address there. I find it so very cool! I let the opening of the envelop free of glue and embellishments so that I can pull out the letter if I ever want to read it. :)

The background is a sheet of canvas. I stitched all around as I often do with cardstock. Somehow it's even cooler to sew on canvas. ;)

To the left of my picture (it's an original, from my memory box!!) I tucked some stickers that I had in my stickers collection. Yes, the whole real deal here!! Doesn't get more vintage than that!! :)

Behind the stickers is a small pocket in which I tucked a canvas ATC (Artist trading card) from 7Gypsies I believe. And on each side of the card I adhered the pictures of two of my best friends in the school.

This is the reverse side.

That's the top of the envelop I was telling you about. You can see a little corner of the letter that is still in there. :)

Together with the old and new pictures and the old and new ephemera, I mixed some pattern paper that are very soft, and that have a school feel, like the paper with the letters.
At the end, I'm left with a beautiful page, very full of eye candies and full of memories! I wasn't sure about using the original photos but I can't tell you how happy I am to now have something as precious in my scrapbook! :)

Talk to you soon!!
Marie-Pierre