All good things...

... come to an end. Hello friends! Yes, that's true, there' an end to everything, also the this great sketch series over at Ella's blog. Here's, if I got it right, the last sketch by the talented Donna Jannuzzi:

What appealed to me most was that bigger part with journaling in the top corner and title on the bottom. And I decided to use all spaces for pictures, especially that we just had another *multi* photos event. We went to Europa Park. And there were several things I realized. Like that a little paint could make my son so happy, that we would all have so much fun, and that I'd love to go back there one day...
I've added some pieces of paper here and there and the title became a bit longer. A also used stamps from myStamp Box's set Snapshot, a very useful set for any layout! :)

So, I'll miss this series of sketches but I'm sure they will come up with something cool again!

I have a thing for twine!

Hello good people! Here's a confession: I do have a thing for twine lately! Since I've finally got my hands on some of that product, I want to incorporate it in almost everything! And of course, I have a thing for sketches, especially when it comes to scrapping many pictures at a time. So when I saw that sketch by Donna Jannuzzi on Ella's blog, I knew I could finally attack those Zoo pics! Here's the sketch:

Every time we go to the zoo this happens: I take zillions of pictures and never have the courage to do anything with them. And I know why! For this layout it took me something like two hours to select, crop and print those pics (with me knowing the size they had to be). And I won't even mention trimming! But fortunately I will learn something in the process and next time I'll find my courage to tackle the subject of multiple photos events.

Enough of the talk, here's my take on the sketch that I had to stretch a little! :) I told you, many pictures! In order to fit a good part of them on those pages I mirrored the sketch, altered some pictures sizes and embellished it all...

Page 1:

Page 2:

The only animal stamp set I have is the one by Artemio, a belgium company.

As for the title I went with this cool alphabet set by myStamp Box that's called Royal Flush. With a little background touch of Back to the Basics set.

One more close up:

Thanks for sticking with me that long. And thanks Donna for your fantastic and inspiring sketches!

A new sketch

Hi there! Lately, I've been MIA or so it seems. But I'm still here, trying to keep up (my head out of water most of the time :))

Sooooo, I've almost forgot about Ella's sketch series. I don't know how come but that's the truth! Fortunately, when I've run across them again, it sparkled and I was at work. Here's the first of July's two sketches:

And here's my version. We were at the Zoo the other day and I was astonished to see that my son (who usually is - or was! - very careful and not much into climbing, jumping etc.) suddenly goes onto that swinging thing all by himself! I guess that's the benefit of a year of gym we went to together... The title says "Smart" (at least that's what my dictionary tells me)...

Supplies: cardstock Bazzil Basics; PP BG; stamps myStamp Box; dye inks Ranger; alphas and eyelet AC; twine MME; stapler

I've popped up this one last picture for some dimension and in order to enhance the effect of suspension. Used myStamp Box Snapshot set which was perfect for this layout!

I guess that's it for tonight. Have a good one!

Another sketch

Hi there again! There's one thing I know and I'm sure you know that, too: I can't resist a good sketch! And I came over another one on Ella's blog, a sketch by Donna Jannuzzi. In fact, they're having another "Stretch Your Sketches" series and I'm on!!! Here's a third version of Donna's sketch as she proposed it:

I find it so versatile (and two other versions, too)! And it definitely triggered something in my head. Maybe because I've done something similar in the past?... Anyway, I had those three pictures of my daughter, taken in December and really, for the love of me, couldn't decide which of them was cuter! But why chose if you can have it all?...

Supplies: cardstock Bazzil; patterned paper MME; letter stickers Toga, AC; Clear stamps myStamp Box; Versamark Tsukineko; embossing powder Stampendous; brads We R Memory Keepers; felt snowflakes HA

The story is about the pink sled that's in our family's winter house's attic. My daughter was absolutely fond of it! And the color was perfect for her wintery outfit! I used again of of those marvelous My Mind's Eye papers and my new myStamp Box snowflake stamps.

Be assured, winter hasn't come back yet. We're still wearing T's, tongs and sun screen (almost everyday). But it's so good to look at this sweet face and remember good time! Have a good one!

Mise à jour / Update

Alors, j'était pas là. Mouais, je crois que ça s'est fait remarqué... Il y avait d'abord les vacances entre Noël et Nouvel An. Puis, j'ai fait un voyage bien particulier, un voyage en Pologne pour aller chercher ma Maman. En effet, nous avons décidé qu'il était temps pour elle d'habiter plus près de chez nous, sa santé ayant empiré dernièrement de façon assez spectaculaire. La voilà donc, la raison pour laquelle je ne fais plus partie de Scrap Rendez-Vous... Notre vie de famille est en train de changer, il faut trouver un nouveau rythme, un nouvel équilibre. Ce n'est pas tout à fait facile et il y aura sans doutes des moments plutôt difficiles. Mais pour l'instant la vie continue, à peine rentrée de Pologne, nous avons fêté le deuxième anniversaire de notre fille!

Soooooo, I was away. Yep, I guess you've noticed... First, there was the Christmas/New Year holidays. And then I went for a very special trip, a trip to Poland in order to fetch my Mom. Since her health got worse lately in a rather spectacular way, we've decided that it was time for her to live closer to us. Here it is then, the reason for which I've stepped down from the Scrap Rendez-Vous team... Our family's life is going through a change, we have to find a new rhythm, a new balance. It's not very easy and there are going to be some hard moments. But for now, the life goes on. As soon as I was back for a couple of days and we've celebrated my daughter's second birthday!

C'est un de ces événement où il y a beaucoup de photos et moi j'ai toujours de la peine à en faire quelque chose qui a du sens. Je me suis donc servie comme point du départ d'un sketch présenté sur le blog d'Ella. Le voici:

It's one of those events where there are plenty of pictures and I'm always in trouble when it comes to making something good out of it. So I took one of Ella's sketches as the starting point. Here it is:

Et voici ma (double) page. J'ai renversé les deux pages puis ajouté quelques nouveaux tampons de myStamp Box.

And here's my spread. I changed pages order and added some new myStamp Box stamps.

Matériel: cardstock Bazzil et Core'dinations; papier Bella Boulevard; stamps myStamp Box; encres Ranger et Colorbox; stickers SRM Stickers et Provo Craft; Stickles Ranger; perfo papillon Martha Stewart

Et voilà pour ce soir. Je vous souhaite une excellente nuit! :)

And that's it for tonight. I wish you an excellent night! :)

Un bon WE / A good weekend

Bonjour! Avez-vous eu un bon weekend? Le notre était sous le signe du rhume et de la pluie. Mais aussi sous le signe du scrap puisque c'était la journée internationale de scrapbooking hier! En plus, il y avait quelques surprises auxquelles je ne m'attendais pas du tout! Apparemment, j'ai emporté le gros prix sur le blog d'Ella pour leurs défis télé! Ce qui annonce quelques achats... ;-) Puis, en regardant la nouvelle galerie sur Write.Click.Scrapbook. j'ai vu qu'une de mes pages a été liftée par Moon Ko! Oui, c'est ça, LA Moon Ko dont je suis fan jusqu'au bout des ongles! Si ce n'est pas un cadeau ça! Vous pouvez voir sa page ICI.

Hello! Did you have a nice weekend? Ours was spent on wiping running noses and at home because of the rain. But there was also some scrapbooking since yesterday was the {inter}National Scrapbooking Day. Plus there were some surprises that I wasn't expecting. Like, it seems that I won the big prize over at Ella's blog for their TV challenges! Some shopping ahead! ;-) And, while browsing the new gallery over at Write.Click.Scrapbook, I saw that one of my layouts was lifted by Moon Ko! Yes, that's it, THE Moon Ko which I admire so! If this is not a gift!!! You can see her layout HERE.

Puis, ce scrap alors. J'ai commencé par une page dont l'idée me trottait dans la tête depuis un moment. Et finalement, je l'ai réalisée grace au défi de Hero Arts qui était de faire une page tout simplement! Comme défi personel, j'ai décidé de ne pas utilisé de papiers à motifs puis d'utilisé que des tampons et des encres. La page est entièrement en anglais à cause du titre qui se traduit par "Femme au foyer". Le journaling mentionne mes autres "rôles" que j'ai vécus jusqu'aujourd'hui et celui de "maman à la maison" est mon rôle courant. Voici ce que ça donne:

And the scrapping. I started by a layout. It's been a while since I had this idea in my head. And finally I made it thanks to Hero Arts' challenge which was simply to make a layout! As a personal challenge I decided to use only stamps and inks instead of patterned papers. It's entirely in English because that's just how I imagined it and because of the title. Here it is:




Puis, j'ai encore fais une carte pour le défi sketch de SRM Stickers.

I also made a card for the SRM Stickers sketch challenge.

Matériel: cdc Migros; tampons HA; encres Ranger et Tsukineko; poudre à embosser Aladine; brads AC; calque

Et voilà, le weekend s'achève. Je vous souhaite un bon début de la semaine!

Here we go, le weekend is almost over. I wish you have a nice week's start!

Du nouveau chez Ella / Ella's news

Un nouveau défi a lieu chez Ella, tout sur la télé! Ou presque... Il va durer 7 semaines et on peut gagner un livre éléctronique par semaine! J'ai loupé la première mais je viens de terminer ma page pour le 2e défi. Qui était ("est" encore jusqu'à demain) de faire une page sur son programme télé préféré d'enfance ou celui que nos enfants aiment. J'avais une histoire sous le coude, d'ailleurs, je culpabilisais depuis des mois parce que je voulais absolument faire une page là-dessus! Et voilà, c'est chose faite!

There's a new challenge going on over at Ella's. Everything (or almost) about TV! It will take place for 7 weeks and you can win an e-book every week! I didn't play the first week but I didn't miss the 2nd one! It was (or still "is", till tomorrow) to make a layout about favorite TV show from your childhood or the one your kids watch. I had a story just waiting to be told for months!! I was feeling very guilty about not doing anything about it for so long! Now, I can sleep in peace! Here's in short what the journaling says: In 70's and 80's, Poland was in crisis. There was nothing either in shops or in the TV. Still, there was a 10 minutes long kid program every evening. I remember watching Reksio, Bolek i Lolek and Mis Uszatek. It was all natural to introduce those shows to my son. We started with Reksio (who is a dog) and one day for a change we showed him Mis Uszatek who is a felt teddy bear. When we started showing it to him (1 1/2 yrs ago), he was like mesmerized! When the episode was finished, he'd cry and want more. He just fell in love (and that's the title in French)! Now, he knows all the episodes by heart, he can imitate all the sounds and wordings at the right pace. But nobody orders love, right?

Matériel: papiers Bazzil et OA; alphabets AC, Chatter Box et Toga; tampon Artemio; encre Ranger; machine à coudre

J'ai utilisé le sketch qui était proposé sur le blog par Barb Wong. Voilà pour aujourd'hui. A bientôt!

I used a sketch that was proposed on the blog by Barb Wong. That's it for today! See you soon!