About time!

OK, I guess it's too late to say happy new year, in France anyway you're only "allowed" to say that in January! But anyway, I wish you all a happy one anyway. :-)

It's been a while, I actually hardly did any scrap these last 2-3 months, but I have two little layouts to share anyway, the only 2 I did. I hope to get back to it real soon!! I quite like these two layouts. I wanted to make nice pages of my kids for their dad. Crea'chooet had a challenge for a monochromatic layout, so I made the one of Naomi for that challenge and after that I tried to keep the same style for the other one. I love the red and the blue on the kraft paper, I love kraft paper!! I acan't really remember which brands of paper I used, all I can say is that I loooove these little dots on the layout of Naomi. I used glimmer mist on the flowers and lots of stuff I found in my ever-growing stash!

Yesterday we had a real sunny day, not hot yet but then again it *was* only March 2d! Spring is defenately coming! I hope...

je t'aime moi non plus

J'ai deux petites réas à vous montrer aujourd'hui, tous les deux essais du Clean & Simple. J'avour tout de suite qu'en effet les pages sont simples, mais le coté Clean est surtout grâce à PSE qui m'a été bien utile pour enlever les taches d'encre :-O

La première, c'est "Je t'aime moi non plus" avec des photos de mes chats qui se battent, tout le temps! Mais toujours assez gentimment, je crois qu'ils ne se font pas mal. C'est plutot un jeu pour le petit, la grande doit en avoir ras-le-bol! Que du papier Bazzill, quelques brads, un skull (merci à Mikrado!), des peel-offs et un sticker de Kesi'Art, j'adore ses planches de stickers!! Ah oui, et un peu de Craft Robo pour le titre.

A layout about my fighting cats, who are more playing then really fighting. The title is difficult to translate, I'd say something like "I love you, neither do I" which is the title of a famous song here in France.

Puis une page pour le challenge "Sketch" du forum Tempor'elles , basée sur le sketch de Elle scrap. J'adore le C&S mais je trouve que c'est beaucoup plus dur que ça en a l'ai! Bref, pas 100% satisfaite du travail... Papier (tout petit peu!!) Dream Street paper et titre imprimé (c'est la première fois que je fais ça!)

A C&S layout about my son with his Halloween make-up after a day in the holiday center. Dream street papers and title printed with computer, my first time ever :)

C'est tout ce que j'ai à montrer, je ne scrappe pas énormément ces jours-ci. Merci d'avance pour vos commentaires!

That's all for now, I don't scrap much these days. More to come! Thanks for any comments!

Still haven't found what I am looking for

One of my favourite songs by U2 is the challenge of the week at Scrapping the Music this week. Perfect! OK, I have to admit that I did this layout two years ago, well, it is one of my favourite songs isn't it? It is one of my (numerous) favourite layouts too, so all the more reason to give this one a second life!! So here we go:

The journaling is in French, it is all about my sons love for CARS and Flash McQueen and despite the fact that he had four little red cars by the name of Flash, (Lightning McQueen in English!), he was always looking for one because he never found one when he needed one!

PP: Crate paper, Bazill background, alphabet unknown and Cuttlebug.

Thanks for looking, please leave a comment! I love comments!

Just an ordinary Thursday... but happy anyway!

That means work, dinner and off to bed! :-) Nothing planned, yay! Autumn starts to kick in, after weeks of good weather, sunshine and over 25°, which is not usual for me in October, being from Holland, it started to rain today... My laundry was still outside. Not happy about that! Nothing makes me happier than laundry drying outside. Well, almost nothing :) A lot of things actually! Had a good day at work, two of my quotations sold immediately which doesn't happen every day, so that made me happy. Scrapping makes me happy, I have two layouts to show you that I made a couple of weeks ago but that I didn't publish on my blog yet. Might actually throw some scrapping in between dinner and off to bed!

This first layout shows Alban in the swimming pool. This happy face makes me very happy too! Patterned paper by Cherry Arte and Jellybean (the frogs!!). No title, but didn't need one this time!

This second layout is featuring Naomi. The colors were very much inspired by her clothing. This picture was taken on a happy day, we were visiting Rocamadour (layouts already shown in previous posts!) with our friends Loïc and Rachel and the kids. Naomi was just taking a break from walking on this picture, isn't she cute? I *think* the papers were from Jellybean too, but I'm not sure. Stamp from Magnolia.

Strangely enough, this little strip of white on black polkadot makes me happy!

Coming home and being welcomed back by little Bugger (the little red cat) makes me happy too! Last weekend I took some pictures of Buggy and Scooby fighting (they still don't get along, Buggy loves Scooby but Scooby does not like Buggy), I'll have to upload them to show you in a new post. I'll leave it to this for today, thanks for stopping by and thanks for your comments!

A gagner!

Sur le blog de la Compagnie des Elfes:

un superbe lot

de tampons

faites passer le message sur votre blog

le tirage au sort aura lieu samedi 10 octobre 2009

des tampons anniversaire, fait avec passion,

bisous, la vie est belle, juste pour le plaisir, toi ...

étiquette cuir, encreur versamark,

boutons transparents, libellules,

fleurs et brads

pas belle la vie ???

Et ben, moi je dis TRES BELLE! :-) Bonne chance!

3 pages en 3 heures, l'atelier de Safo!

Mon premier atelier lors du crop (voir post avant, d'hier) était avec Safo. Et voilà le challenge était de faire 3 pages en 3 heures avec les thèmes patouille, freestyle et couture! Pas évident, en seulement 3 heures avec une 'prof' qui chronomètrait à la minute près! ;-) Mais, j'ai pu les finir tous les 3 et je suis assez contente du résultat. En plus! ;-)

La première montre mon fils et mon petit chat. Le fond de la page a été fait avec des pages de livre déchirée, des tampons et du glimmer mist (j'adore!) de Tattered Angels. La voici:

Ensuite la page Freestyle avec un beau papier d'Onirie (drôle de rêve) et une photo de ma copine Rachel et moi, l'été dernier à Rocamadour.
Et pour finir la page couture. Vous remarquerez que je ne suis pas très douée en couture, c'est difficile d'aller tout droit!! :-D La photo est de Naomi, qui revenait tout juste de chez le coiffeur, d'où le titre! Alphabets sur ces 2 dernières page sont de Kési'Art.

J'ai encore des choses à montrer, des layouts faits avant le crop, les minis fait pendant le crop... mais ça va devoir attendre car j'ai un faim de loup! Bon appétit, merci de vos visites et merci d'avance pour vos commentaires!

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!!

Rainy weekend

It started raining just half an hour before our weekend officially started, so depressing :-( Apparently it will stop raining after the weekend, Tuesday or something. Well, might just be THE opportunity to scrap some more, I have lots of pictures to scrap (we are just after the summer holidays aren't we?) and really feel like scrapping! Here are two layouts I did recently, for challenges.

The first was made for the september challenge on classyscrapper. We had to use a Classypak, a technique that was new to us (I used dry embossing, something I hadn't tried before but it's so simple and looks neat!) and at least 3 items that have been sitting in our stash for at least 6 months (I used brads, flowers and a chipboard crown). The pictures were taken in Rocamadour when we visited that town with our friends Rachel and Loïc and their kids. Rocamadour is so beautiful! The paper is 7gypsies.

The second was made for the sketch challenge on 52 sketches...52 weeks. I just discovered this site this week and as I really liked the sketch, I decided to participate. The layout shows Rachel and me, the title is really cheezy but I quite like the result! Papers are Porcelain from Basic Grey.

Look how both layouts have a hand made "flower" in them, I just tried out this technique and really love how these flowers turn out and obviously match the layout. You might just see a lot more of them in future layouts!

That's all for now, you might see a lot more after the rainy weekend! Thanks for stopping by and thank you for your comments!

As promised!

After two days of rain, cold and work (perfect combination, not!), summer is back, the sun is out and temperatures are slowly rising again! Besides that it's Saturday, which is always a good thing :-) This last week I registered for a crop in a small town not far from my house, near Padirac/Rocamadour, at the association Padicréa, I'll go one day at the end of the month and I'm all happy about this! What's more, when I registered I learned about a scrapbook association in my town, huge surprise, a good one! I hope to be able to join them (depends on our mutual time tables here! We'll have a busy year with tennis, aquagym and maybe scrap! And work of course!).

As promised I'll show you the layouts I made over this summer, because I'm desperately behind on my blog!

Hard to see, but this is Alban being lazy in the garden. My take on C&S :-D

And here's Naomi being a real girl, also in our garden!

Both the kids at the Figeac fair.

Alban's new shoes, the picture was taken by Alban himself, he was really happy with the spiderman shoes! These shoes are as we speak ALMOST ready for the garbage can :-O

My little girl after eating cherries.

Alban on the same Fair in Figeac, he was having so much fun on his motorcycle!!
Alban again, blowing a Dandelion (?)Naomi who's happy with spring!

And last but not least a layout about Scooby (the bigger one!) who does so NOT like our new kitten Buggy, that we took in our house in July at the age of 7 weeks.

I'm sorry, but I have NO CLUE which papers I used for which layout with which embellishments etc! Sorry! That's all for now, thank you for your comments!

Holiday is over...

Time to get back to normal occupations such as updating my blog and participating in Scrap challenges! And back to scrapping... even though I did do some scrap in the past months! Yep, I have lots of layouts to show you, but for today I'll just stick to this one layout that I did for the OLW challenge! The "Word up" is Beauty and with a real beauty in the house, this one was not difficult ;-)

I just love these pictures of Naomi, taken last July just before she had a haircut! The title is "Pure Beauty".

I'll be back SOON to show my other layouts! Thanks for looking and Please leave me a comment is you stopped by! :-)

Layouts

Oh my, I just discovered that is really has been a LONG time since I blogged, shame on me! The beautiful weather makes that I spend a lot more time in the garden (doing nothing) then in the house scrapping or blogging. So basically since mid-april I only did 2 layouts! Which I'll show you now ;-)

Well, if the blogger would hurry up oploading my pictures that is.... slow internet connection! Grr.

This first is about my kids making a delicious cake with sand and water, the layout was made for a challenge on classyscrapper.

This second one shows my little Nagawika with his huge smile, this picture is photographically spoken quite bad but I LOVE it!

Well, even writing a little about scrap makes me feel like doing a layout! And as the weather is REALLY bad today (such a bugger for a Saturday, after a week of sunshine at work!!), I might actually go for it! More to come, soon I hope! Thanks for stopping by!

Nagawika

I'm way behind and a real bad blogger! My scrapmojo or whatever you like to call it is GONE, and has trouble coming back! I think some challenges are in order :) I did do this page of my son, who did an indians and cowboy show with his school. We had a great evening watching the kids dance, listening to their cute songs, one of which was called Nagawika, eating (all parents took some food to share) and socialising :) Here's the layout:

This was before the same cute little Nagawika decided the layout desperately needed some drawing on it :-O

And some pictures of the event, I'm sorry for the bad quality, the lighting was horrible :

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! :-)

After a beautiful week, it's about time to blog again!

We have had the most beautiful week here, weather-wise! Spring is in the air!! Temperatures went up to 18°, the sky was blue, so nice after what feels like a long winter! Well, today it's raining again, but I'm sure spring will be back soon! :-)

A layout I made earlier this week! Personally, I like it a lot! I love the picture of my little girl! After an article in "Histoires de Pages" about mixing papers from different collections and different manufacturers, leading to mixing colors and textures, I made this:

I used Cherry Arte, Bazzill, Sassafras Lass, Hambly and one more whose manufacturer I forgot... Plus brads, chipboard with stickles, flowers, a felt heart and even some heat embossing, something I rarely do.

TFL

One Little Word - mama is having Fun

I have FINALLY created a layout for the newest challenge on the One Little Word challenge blog. I've been wanting to participate for ages, and finally did it! I have to say, I am totally, utterly intimidated by the incredible talent on that blog, so jumping in with a layout is not necessarily easy, for me, but I did it and I kind of love my creation.

I had these pictures of my son who was willing to do some kind of photoshoot with mom (me!), I have my new camera for about 2 months now and was so happy he wanted me to do the photos! I have to add that normally he says something like "I'm really annoyed with you taking all these photos" :-) Yes, he's 4! So in order to scrap these pictures, I wanted something else but "Alban on a photoshoot" or something similar, I wanted it more to be about ME liking to take photos. So what better word to use than the Word Up "FUN"? Here we go:

I used paper from Love Elsie, Bazzill and Pink Paisley Vintage Moon. And Bubble plastic, ordinary staples, buttons from I-don't-know-who, some rubber like feltish stuff, no idea what it is called, Autumn leaves stamp, American Craft Thickers, Pink Paisley letter stickers, Paint dabbers and a piece of cardboard that I ripped of one of the last moving boxes still around! It is actually a hanging layout, but I had to crop most of the background because the picture is taken against a glass door and I just realised the glass is really dirty! :-O

TFL

A valentine inspired challenge

But not a classic valentine challenge, not necessary to use red :-P I did this layout for the February challenge on Classyscrapper, I rejoined the kit club so felt it was right again to do the monthly challenges! The challenge was to use at least 3 hearts, one of the following words: kiss, hug, sweet and another I forgot, in the title, and to use paper from a past classy kit. I used basic Grey, don't remember which month (and year!) they're from. the title is My Sweetheart. I'm actually not really satisfied with this layout, but after procastrinating for at least a week I didn't even want to look at the papers anymore, so I let it be. :-) TFL

Crescendo and a Happy Dance!

Wednesday today, a day off work! Today was so cool, the weather was beautiful, blue skies and lots of sun. The thermometer even showed 15°C!!! Wow, and it is only February!!

Two layouts to show you. The first one is one of my personal all-time favorites, I like the photos, the paper, the colors... Hope you like it too! :-) I used Bazzill, Basic Grey, Cosmo Cricket (the mat), a hambly transparents (love it!), flowers (prima and unknown). that reminds me, this one too (see my last post) was for the use your stash flower challenge on classyscrapper. (and the second one too!)

This other layout is one I love too. It's my little girl doing a happy dance at the playground, love this picture! I used Bazzill, Rouge de Garance and WeRmemory papers and rub-ons, flowers from Prima and Chatterbox, American Craft thickers, and loads of little thingies from unknown sources.

Thanks for looking!

Celebrate Friendship!

For christmas, we went to our former region to spend the holidays with family. We had a chance to go see our friends while over there, it was great to see eachother again! Luckily I didn't forget to ask someone to take a picture of Rachel and me, because I don't have many pictures of us (if any) and don't have many pictures of myself in general! And a great friendship is important to scrap!

This week, the use your stash challenge on classyscrapper is to use flowers, so I did (13)! Here's the result:

Thanks for looking! More to come soon, because the flowers are VERY inspiring! :-)

Weekend!!

Oh I'm glad it's Friday. Even gladder (can you say that?) that it is Friday evening!! The week has been quite busy, so busy that I have not yet had a chance to post my latest layout, even though I finished it last Sunday!! Here it is, the title is Autumn Colors.

The title was actually meant to be in the right upper corner, but I cut the words out with my Craft Robot, got them through the Xyron X thing and then they were so incredibly sticky (I know that it is supposed to be, but it was actually annoying!!) and I tried my best to stick them on right (didn't do a great job) and at the end I noticed I took the wrong corner :-O Oh well, this will work too.

The weather is HORRIBLE here, it is raining raining! Richard just called, he picked up the children from school and is still not home, because the river fled and traffic is *hell*. Luckily for me I'm safe on my "mountain" - not very high but high enough to keep the water away!!

The two peas blog challenge for today is "what are your scrapping plans for this Weekend". Looks like a very easy one to answer, but it actually isn't because basically I scrap when I have a moment and that is not always to be foreseen. But I do hope to scrap!!

Have a good weekend all, and thanks for comments!

Classy use your Stash challenge!

On the Classyscrapper message board, a new series of challenges just started, a Use you stash challenge. For this week, the item to be used was Chipboard. I actuallyd don't really drown in the Chipboard but I did have enough to make a nice layout about my son riding his bike while wearing the "rollerskates" from his sister. These and all the security equipment happen to be pink, which made me use a little pink in the layout, a thing I don't usually do when putting together layouts of my son.

PP Cherry Arte (from quite a while ago), American Craft Thickers and arrows, one Tim Holtz grungeboard, prima flowers and other unknown! Sketch by Tiare Smith.

And for the TwoPeas challenge:

Challenge for today~ What would you do if you knew you wouldn't fail?

This is a hard one! First of all I don't know whether answers should be scraprelated or not, so I'll answer both ways! Scraprelated that would be send in layouts for publications. It's not that I don't send them in because I'm afraid to fail, I just don't bother because I *know* I'll fail :-D

And not scraprelated, I honestly don't know. I don't "don't do" things because I might fail, I'm in general not afraid to fail. But one thing is driving alone (with the kids) all the way to Holland (12 km / about 800 miles), not because I'm afraid of having an accident or something but because I'm afraid that halfway up there, I'll be so fed up with driving (and tired of it) that I would have to abandon :-O

I won't wait this long for a new post this time, my next layout is almost finished :-)

Thanks for looking and thank you for comments!