Our December Story Day 9 through the end!

Hi everyone!
Life is faster than me and I couldn't show you the end of my December Daily album before now. So sorry!!

To see my album from the beginning, follow this link.

Here is the continuity:

I only added a little gem star.

Golden ink directly on a photo.

The snowflake is embossed with "white gold" embossing powder I bought in a Christmas market in Switzerland at least 6 years ago!

Translation of her letter to Santa on a small piece of paper: Mermaid tail, Arielle doll, North Pole.

These kraft tags came in very handy for me.

This silver house and trees is a die cut I created. :) I don't offer that one though in the die cut package I offer. (if you don't know what I'm talking about, you might want to follow this link to get some free die cuts you can use in your December Daily album or on your pages.)

This is a die cut and the font is my hand writing. I offer it for free in the die cut package if you are interested.

Sometimes, one page was enough for one day.

The gold thread is working some miracles in my album!!

We had an "extreme" Christmas this year without electricity. The pictures were not awesome, we were opening our gifts with our head lights on. We didm,t wear our nice Christmas clothes because of the "no electricity for several days and it's very cold outside" situation. So I used black patterned paper for the background of this page…. I took the pictures that we telling a story. I didm,t focus on the quality of the photos.

Our family picture was taken around 4:00 pm. It was almost completely dark in the room. We boosted up the iso and tried not to move. The result is just fine. At least we have a picture.

Merry Christmas die cut in use. :)

And the electricity came back just as it was time to eat. After 3 days….. We were VERY lucky!

The morning after Christmas, with her mermaid tail, she is ready to conquer the world. That's so totally her!!!

There you have it! :)
Thanks for watching!!

Marie-Pierre

Memory Planner - by Heidi Swapp

Hi everyone!
I'm happy to pop in here to show my latest addition to my ongoing scrap projects: the memory planner, by Heidi Swapp.
I received it as a gift from Heidi when I was attending the Play event, hosted by Big Picture, following CHA in Anaheim.
The conference Heidi gave before we could unwrap our present was fabulous. Her speech touched my heart very deeply and convinced me (as if we would need to be convinced!!) that what I do, memory keeping, is VERY important! Really, even if we all know that our albums are worth gold, I for myself often feel like when I scrapbook, I'm steeling time to my family, because it could be time I would spend with them, instead of being on my own, in my scrap room, but really, what we do is much more than "just" art and crafts…. when we scrapbook, we have the power to stop in time any moment we'd like, in order to remember it later. It allows us to stop the blur of everyday life and looked passed the loads of laundry, the cooking, the picking up of the mess to see what really matters.

And she launched a new tool to help us do that even more easily and it's called a memory planner. It's a calendar with protector pages in between the months that allow us to add pictures and bits and pieces of life and with some pages with places to write more if we wish to.

I just finished my month of January and I'd love to share it with you.

First page:
I was lucky enough to have Heidi write me a kind word inside my book. I know right?!
Heidi is so real and generous. I adore her!

And with her memory planner she has some really cute chipboard elements, die cuts, stickers, rub-ons, labels, stamps….everything we love! :) And everything we need to embellish our album. :)

January:

Every month starts with a page full of prompts and place to write more! Every month is different and awesome.

Then comes a divided page protector for photos and memorabilia. The sizes of the pockets change from month to month.

The other side of the page protector:

And some more embellishing .

And finally there's the calendar:

I use it to write one little thing a day. You could use it however you like. You could fill it for your child, ask him to tell you one thing from his day.

I decided to use it for ME, personally. This way, it's not the same as my PL. This calendar is much more personal and axed on myself while my Project Life Album focusses more on us as a family.

Before I leave, I want to take a moment to thank every single one of you leaving comments, and who became a member of my blog lately. I have now 71 followers + more followers who are with us through the e-mail list. It makes me so happy to know that you take time to come here and stay a moment with me when I have something to show you. :)
Thank you so much!!

Talk to you soon!!!

Marie-Pierre :)

Watercolor background by Marie

Hi everyone!!

Do you remember my blog post about CHA? I told you that one of the things that impressed me the most was the watercoloring effect with the Tombow markers. Well, at home I have every color of the Stampin'UP! markers. I would have been crazy not to try them out for this technique and look at the result!! 

The background was made by scribbling on a plastic square with a yellow and a pink marker. I then sprayed a little water with a mini mister and I flipped the plastic over and "stamped" with it on my background (with a mask over my stamped image. The yellow and pink mixed together to form some orange. I added one owl that I mounted with foam dots to give some dimension and I added a little banner and some sequins. Easy. :)

Hope I can inspire you a little with my cards. :)

Talk to you soon!!

Marie