Polaroid! Et CROP!

Just un petit message pour partager ce site que je viens de trouver: Rollip! Génial, ce site permet de créer des "polaroids" à partir de tes propres photos, et c'est hyper facile en plus. Un example de ce que j'ai fait:

J'ai trouvé ce site via Scrapastuces, et je sens que je vais bien m'amuser avec!!!

Hier, je suis allée au crop de Padicréa, le journée a été trop chouette!! J'ai fait des ateliers avec Safo, avec Mélanie Lagarde et avec Brigitte de la Compagnie des Elfes, 9 heures de "cours" et ça s'est passé trop vite! Une fois pas coutûme, j'ai pu finir les trois pages proposées par Safo dans le temps (!! d'habitude j'amène mes projets à moitié finis à la maison!) et j'ai quasiment fini le mini proposé par Mélanie (il me reste plus que quelques stickers à ajouter!). Le mini proposé par Brigitte était absolument génial et m'a permis de (enfin!) faire connaissance avec les encres à alcool, que j'ai immédiatement adoptés( lis: achetés)! Je n'ai pas pu finir ce mini dans le temps, car tous les pages et papiers devaient secher et ça prenait trop de temps. Par contre, je n'ai pas encore photographié mes réas donc les photos sont à venir!

Je fais un petit coucou à Céline de Créachooet', Sandrine de Montauban, Caroline de Padicréa et toutes les autres femmes fort sympatiques dont je ne me souviens pas le nom :-O Si jamais elles passent par ici... C'est sur, l'année prochaine je me réinscris!!

Birthday boy, pictures and some layouts

I totally feel like scrapping again, after a couple of months of very low mojo! Last week I went to the first 'class' of a local scrapbook association, it was good fun and nice to scrap with others again! I'll definately go more often, even though our mutual time tables here might not allow me to go each time. AND Saturday two weeks from now I go to a huge crop where I'll take 3 classes and hopefully have a lot of scrap fun.

September means back to school, in France it does anyway. I tradionally take pictures of my kids on the first day of school, easy to compare each year! Here they are for 2009:

Yesterday we celebrated Albans birthday with a couple of his friends from school (and other), this involved a lot of shouting and screaming, a lot of running and climbing, a lot of playing, a lot of presents and a lot of candy! And of course this also involved a birthday cake with 5 candles:

I also did a little scrap these last days. I suddenly had this feeling that I needed to scrap some more of the kids first years, as I started scrapping only in 2005, I mostly scrap recent pictures and the first years are really missing from their albums. So I tried to make up a little ;-)

This first one is about my little girls' second birthday. This feels weird to show her 2d birthday in the same post as his 5th! She's 7 now. Cute pictures!

This one is with pictures made during my son's first year. It is also the first layout I do without any patterned paper, I just realise this :-O Love these pictures!!

And finally this wonderful picture of Naomi with Snowwhite and her prince, Naomi is very proud of this picture and for me it was the opportunity to use this paper that I once bought and didn't think I'd ever use ;-) That happens!

I have one more layout that is almost finished and I need to finish the layout I started during the scrap class, so I'll have more to show soon! Thanks for looking!

Spring!

I know we're only the 15th of March, and that technically spoken we are therefore in WINTER, but it almost feels like summer to me! Temperatures are up, the sky is BLUE, birds are singing, flowers are starting to show their beautiful colors, I spent the whole day in the garden and boy I'm happy!

About my blogs, I don't have enough time to keep up with 2 different blogs for photography and scrapbooking, I hardly have time to take pictures and to scrapbook :-O So I decided that the 2 go very well together, that's why I changed the name of this blog from Scraps 'n Pieces to Scraps 'n Pics and I'll show both on here!

POTD! Let's start with some pictures! It's about time because I haven't done a POTD since February 14th... and it is so much fun to do!

The first one is of Scooby, who's thrilled with spring!

The following are some action shots of my kids, while they were playing rugby with their dad. I really like how I took these 2 at exactly the right moment! (40 others were a lot less action!)

SCRAP

I completely forgot to post the following layout on my blog, so better late then never! I made this one for a sketch challenge on Classygirls 52 week sketch callenge blog!

The next one is for this same challenge blog, showing the "rugby game" from yesterday (see also pics above!):

That's about it for today! Thanks for looking and please don't hesitate to leave a comment! :-)

31/12, time for some resolutions!

Just this once I will post the same post on this blog as on my photography blog, mostly because it's long and it is both scrapbooking and photography related! 2008 is almost behind us, we’re going into 2009 and guess what, I still haven’t met any extra terrestrials :-O The “new” millennium definitely doesn’t live up to the expectations!

Looking back at the year 2008, even though some great things happened such as moving to this beautiful area in the South West of France, 2008 has been the worst year of my life with loosing my sweet mother in May. I’m glad to go into a new year, even though that won’t change a thing!
It’s time for some resolutions, of course. OK, there is still the goal of loosing the few kilos I have too much, I still blame it on my son although he’s 4 now and I really should start blaming it on myself ;-) But this year I only set “creative” goals, skill developing goals! Here we go!

Photography – I just bought myself a Nikon D60 DSLR (Reflex) camera and my first goal would definitely be to learn to get the best use out of it, using manual (or at least semi-manual) mode! In order to achieve this, I read a lot (I love reading) but I do realise that practice will be the best way to get there. I therefore plan on doing the POTD challenge on Two Peas Photography (cf. post before), which will “force” me to practice every day! At the same time, I hope to learn how to use Photoshop Elements to get the most of my pictures!
Scrapbooking – Last years goal was to make 104 layouts in the year (2 a week!) but I didn’t make it, I came to a (sad) total of 63!!! But, having moved houses and having had all my scrapbook things in a box for 3 months, I am not surprised about that! For 2009, I set my goal on a little less, because I hope to spend time on Photography too ;-) Up till yesterday I thought I’d set my goal on 1,5 layouts a week average, for a total of 78, but this morning I revised my goal and I’ll put my scrapbook thicker on 52 layouts because I also plan on making quite some mini-albums (Richard gave me the bind it all for Christmas!!!). I plan on doing a challenge a week (which means a layout a week) on some of my favourite challenge blogs!
Scrapbook related – ATC holder! I bought myself an ATC holder earlier this year, it is still in the box. I plan on filling the holder with ATCs (surprise) that show my children in 2009. I basically plan on taking one picture a day of them (at least), either the two together or only one of them, and on the ATCs I want to document their year. I’m not setting the goal of making one ATC a day, I’ll probably do loads of them every once in a while ;-) but I really am gonna try to keep up with this!

Well, that would be about it. I do have to clean my house once in a while, and I do have a job to go to!!! Having said that, I do realise that these goals might be a little optimistic, because it does involve daily photography and daily blogging :-O but I’ll try!! See you next year!!

Christmas

Let's start with a layout!

We took this picture of the kids in front of our tree (barely visible!) for some of our christmas cards. Quality could have been better, but we were in a hurry!! :-) I made this quick layout with the picture, craft cardstock (I love that color!!), a lot of felt, a Autumn leaves stamp and the eternal prima flowers! I didn't give it a title, just a little journaling that this picture was used for some christmas cards!

In 2008, I had set the goal for myself to create 104 layouts, which is 2 per week ;-), but I got to 63 and will MAYBE be able to create one more, but not 41!!! I blame that on us moving houses and most of my stuff being in a box for 3 months! I'll set a more realistic goal next year, even though in 2007 I did make it to 104 layouts, I guess 1.5 per week, on average of course, will be OK. So that would be 78 (please correct me if I'm wrong!) layouts, and I also plan on making mini albums, as Richard offered me a bind-it-all for Christmas, a little machine that binds books made from just pieces of paper/cardboard etc.

I offered myself for Christmas a new camera, a DSLR or Reflex camera! Nikon D60 with 2 lenses. I have created a website for this: Linnao's Photography, which sounds quite professional but which is NOT, I'm an amateur trying to learn how to use the thing ;-) But that is a lot of fun. On Two Peas Photography , I not only find tons of useful information, but I also decided to do the POTD challenge, POTS meaning Photo (or Picture?) of the Day. So I'll try to keep up and post (at least) one picture each day on my blog! It will be fun to see the progress after a year! Or at least, so I hope :-)

Again on Two Peas, this time on the Scrapping board, I sometimes do the blog challenge, which for today is "why is creativity important?". Well, I can't say WHY creativity IS important, but I can say why it is important to me. I've only been creative since a couple of years (2 or 3) and it is important to me simply because I enjoy it and because I really like that when you're creative, or try to be ;-), you have a lasting reminder of it, something that not only you but also the people you know can enjoy.

I wish you all a happy new year, a nice celebration tomorrow night and please know that I am very happy with comments!!!