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!!

St Cirq Lapopie

Another challenge, a layout based on a sketch, which you can find here. It's another layout with pictures of our region, when our friends Rachel and Loïc came to visit us during summer, we transformed ourselves into tourists :-) St Cirq Lapopie is a beautiful little town about an hour drive from our house.

Paper are from Basic Grey.

Today is lazy Sunday, at least that's what I hope it will be! This will involve some scrapping, because I have yet another layout waiting on my table to be finished!! Can't stop anymore. But for now, this is all...

Thanks for looking, and thanks for your comments!

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!

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!