Project 12 Avril 2012 / April 2012

Bonjour! C'est vraiment incroyable comme le temps file vite! Déjà une semaine depuis mon dernier billet! Et aujourd'hui je viens vous montrer une page qui est prête depuis plus de 2 semaines! Bon, j'ai des trucs finis depuis bien plus longtemps encore en reserve, en gros ce n'est pas so mal que ça! Mais parlons de la page elle-même. C'est le résumé du mois d'avril puisque malgré les apparences je continue le Projet 12, un peu à ma façon cette année. J'ai tout de même choisi un sketch de Becky Fleck (le 7e sur cette page). 

Hello! It's truly incredible how fast time flies! One week already from my last post! And today I want to show you a layout that's been finished for 2 weeks now! Well, I've got other things finished for longer than that so it's that bad after all! :) But let's talk about that layout. It's about our month of April. Because even if it's hard to believe, I do continue the Project 12, in my own way this year. Still, I have chosen a sketch by Becky Fleck (the 7th from the top here).

Vous aurez sûrement remarqué que je l'ai changé d'une page double A4 en page simple 30.5 x 30.5. Une fois les photos imprimées, je gentiment dévié du dessin original et l'ai fait à ma sauce. :) J'ai utilisé des vieux papiers BG mais comme le bleu était trop sombre pour y imprimer le journaling directement, je l'ai fait sur du calque. D'autres vieilleries ce sont ces fleurs et papillons de Heidi Swapp que j'ai sorti de l'oubli. Le tout apposé sur ces magnifiques impressions embossées de Papertrey Ink...

Maybe you've noticed that I've changed the design from a 8.5 x 11'' spread to a 12 x 12'' layout. Once my pictures were printed I 've gently changed the design and adapted it to my liking. :) I used some old BG papers but as the blue one was too dark to print my journaling directly onto it, I used some vellum for this.  I've found some other old stuff, unfortunately forgotten like those clear flowers and butterflies shapes by Heidi Swapp. All applied over those magnificent Papertrey Ink embossed images...

Le Projet 12, comme proposé cette année sur Scrapbook & Cards Today, veut qu'on inclut des memorabilia sur les pages. Ici, une petite étiquette provenante d'un bracelet en papier que les enfants ont porté sur ces voitures, a été agrafée  sur le bord de la photo.

This year's Project 12, as proposed on Scrapbook & Cards Today, asks for some mementos to be included on layouts. Here the only one I've managed is this small piece of a bracelet my kids were wearing while driving those fab cars! :)

OK, je crois que c'est assez de blah blah pour ce soir. Merci de votre passage et à bientôt... pour une nouvelle vieillerie! :)

OK, I guess that's enough of bla bla for tonight. Thanks for visiting and see you soon... with another new oldie! :)

Project 12 - Janvier/January

Bonsoir! Je reviens avec une page qui m'était un peu difficile et, en même temps, si précieux de faire. La page qui résume notre mois de Janvier. Il y a eu des changements au niveau de ce projet, notamment, Becky Fleck ne fait plus des sketch pour des double-pages. On est donc libres de choisir un sketch qui nous plaît ainsi que d'inclure sur nos pages des mémorabilia divers. J'ai donc choisi un sketch du mois de Février sur pagemaps.com et j'ai procédé comme suit:

Hello! I'm back with a layout that was a bit difficult and, at the same time, so precious to make. A layout that resumes our month of January. There were changes in the project conception, namely Becky Fleck is no more preparing a spread sketch for each month. Everyone is free to chose a sketch of her liking and also the challenge is to include some memorabilia. I've chosen one of February sketches on pagemaps.com and made the following:

Pour marquer la bordure, j'ai utilisé un des nouveau tampon de Hero Arts ainsi que ces magnifiques papiers de My Mind's Eye. Les choses que nous avons vécues étaient comme une déchirure d'où les bords des papiers déchirés. Sur les photos il y a les empreintes de pieds de notre fille défunte, mon autre fille dont l'anniversaire nous avons fêté, ainsi que ma belle-maman qui tient ma nièce, toute petite encore. Toutes ces femmes si chères à mon coeur! L'étiquette du mois vient de mes copines de Scrap Rendez-Vous. Je la trouve vraiment magnifique! Si elle vous plaît autant, allez faire un saut chez mes amies et laissez leur un gentil mot...

To make the border I used one of the new Hero Arts stamps as well as those beautiful papers by My Mind's Eye. The things we went through were like a tear, hence the torn paper edges. On pictures there are foot prints of our deceased daughter, the other daughter whose birthday we were celebrating, my mother-in-law holding my niece. All those women dear to my heart! The month tag comes from my friends over at Scrap Rendez-Vous. I find it truly beautiful! If you like as much as I do, pay my friends a visit and leave them a nice comment...

Maintenant on vient aux mémorabilia. J'ai fait cette page recto-verso. Au dos, j'ai accroché un papier imprimé, fait un rabat que j'ai fait tenir par le bracelet de naissance de ma fille et créé ainsi une pochette pour y glissé tous les gentils messages que nous avons reçus dernièrement. Au bas de la page j'ai tamponné quelques messages du genre "je pense à toi", "meilleures pensées" etc.

Now we come to the memorabilia part. I turned this layout to be double but in a different way. On the back I've adhered another patterned paper, folded its border that I made hold by my daughter's birth bracelet and created this way a pocket in which I put all the nice messages we received lately. At the bottom I've stamped some sentiments like "thinking of you", "sending warm thoughts" etc.

Pour accrocher le bracelet, j'ai tout simplement fait une incision à travers les papiers...

To make the bracelet hold, I've simply cut a slit through the paper...

Et voilà tout pour ce soir. Un bon weekend pour tous!

That's it for tonight. Have a great weekend!

Un jour spécial 2 / A special day 2 + Project 12

Bonsoir les amis! Il y a une semaine j'écrivais ce billet pour fêter l'anniversaire de ma fille. Combien peu je savais ce qu'il allait arriver ce 10 janvier 2012! Il y a une chose que je vous ai caché - j'étais enceinte de 17 semaines déjà. J'attendais un moment opportun pour vous le dévoiler, avec une page p.ex., mais je n'ai pas réussi. Et voilà que mardi il y a une semaine je n'étais pas très bien. A la fin de la journée je me suis retrouvée aux urgences et peu après minuit j'ai accouché d'une petite fille. Elle nous a offert quelques moments de douceur puis est partie vers son Créateur... Depuis, mon coeur pleure et demande cette question sans réponse: pourquoi?

Hello my friends! One week ago I was writing this post to celebrate my daughter's birthday. Little did I know how "special" this day would become! There's one thing I was hiding from you - I was pregnant of 17 weeks and was trying to find an occasion to announce it here on the blog, with a layout for example, but didn't succeed. On this day of 10th of January 2012 I didn't feel very well. At the end of the day I was driven to the hospital and shortly after midnight I gave birth to a little girl. She offered us some moments of tenderness and then flew away to her Creator... Since that day, my heart mourns and asks this question without an answer: why?

La vie doit reprendre et je vais gentiment réapparaître ici pour vous montrer des projets déjà finis depuis un moment. Mais je vais probablement être plutôt discrète et peu bavarde pendant encore un moment... Aujourd'hui, c'est le tour de ma version du sketch de décembre de Becky Fleck pour le Project 12. Voilà le sketch:

Life has to go on and I will slowly reappear here to share some projects that are finished for some time now. But I will surely be rather discreet and not very talkative for a while still... Today I want to show you my take on Becky Fleck's December sketch for Project 12. Here's the sketch:

Et ma version: / And my version:

J'ai utilisé des restes d'une collection de LYB de l'année dernière et je suis vraiment navrée qu'il ne m'en reste plus que des tout petits morceaux...

I've used almost last pieces of a LYB collection from last year. And I'm really sorry that I'm left with only scraps now...

Que trois photos: notre fils avec le St-Nicolas, notre sapin et notre fille à la fabrique du chocolat que nous avons visité le dernier jour de l'année...

Three pictures only: our son with Saint Nicolas, our Christmas tree and our daughter in the chocolate factory that we've visited on the last day of the year...

J'ai fait cette rosace il y a une année et là enfin elle a trouvé sa place...

I made this medallion a year ago and here finally it found its place...

Voilà pour ce soir. A bientôt?...

That's it for tonight. See you soon?...

Project 12 - October

Bonjour! Il est temps de vous présenter ma version du sketch de Becky Fleck pour le mois d'octobre. Voici le sketch:

Hello! It's high time to show you my take on Becky Fleck's October sketch. Here is the sketch:

Et voici ma version. J'ai sorti des très vieux papiers mais qui sont tellement magnifiques!

And here's my version. I took out some very old papers that are so beautiful!

C'était un très bon choix à l'époque d'acheter des raub-ons blancs! Et enfin je m'en sert! :)

It was a great choice at the time to buy some white rub-ons! And I use them finally! :)

The story of October: we went to see our new nephew, the weather was so fine that we were quite often visiting the playground, we had two weekends off and went on a small trip where kids saw some snow and were simply delighted! At last, our daughter had a small accident while playing with a plug which costed us some time at the emergency. But all is well that ends well...

Je me suis fais plaisir à fabriquer quelques rosettes comme embellissements. Et c'est pourquoi je vais entrer ma page au concours sur Moxie Fab World. Voilà pour aujourd'hui, à bientôt!

I had some fun making few medallions as embellishments. And that's why I enter my layout for Moxie Fab World challenge. That's all for today, see you soon!

Project 12 - September

Bonjour! Je suis entre le repassage et la préparation du déjeuner, puis ensuite on part, alors je poste en vitesse! Voici le sketch de Becky Fleck pour le mois de Septembre:

Hello! I'm in between ironing and dinner making, and then we're leaving so I'm posting in a hurry! Here's Becky Fleck's sketch for September:

Et voici ma version: / And here's my take on it:

La première page avec des photos d'objets: nouvelle voiture, un bonhomme Duplo et mon appareil photo mort... Je ne suis plus très fière pour parler de notre voiture vu que j'ai déjà réussi à faire un petit dégât dessus. Comme mon mari aime bien dire: Femme au voéant, danger constant! Mais pourquoi ce bonhomme? Et bien, mes enfants lui ont donné le nom de leur arrière-grand-maman qui s'est éteinte au début du mois. Une façon douce de parler de son départ...

First page with pictures of objects only: our new car, a Duplo man and my dead camera. I'm not so proud speaking of the car anymore, I did some small damage on it. As my husband likes to say: A woman behind the wheel, Beware! Danger is near! But why would I put here this Duplo people? Well, my kids gave him the name of their great-grand-mother who died at the beginning of the month. For me it was a smooth way of speaking about her departure...

La page n°2 avec que les enfants, y compris notre nouveau neveu!

Page n°2 with kids pics only, also the one of our brand new nephew!
Zoom sur un des clusters... / Close up of one of the clustering...

Et l'autre, avec un yo-yo en tissu. Je m'éclate à les faire dernièrement. Mais je vous dévoilerai les détails une autre fois, ok?

And the other one, with a fabric yo-yo embellishment. But I'll tell you more about it another time, OK?

Merci de votre visite et à bientôt! / Thanks for visiting and see you soon!

Project 12 - August

Hello again! It's the sketch time again! Another installment of Project 12 with a great sketch from Becky Fleck. Although there were only 3 pictures originally, I've found a way to sneak in some more! Especially that there were some important events that took place in August, like my son starting school!

Here's my take on the sketch:

I purged again my stash and went for those old OA papers and embellies. The journaling is short for there was not much to tell. So instead of one piece of cardstock, I used several to tell each part of the story separately.

All die cuts are pop dotted for dimension.
The Repeat after Me stamp set by myStamp Box was very useful again to make the border in Faux stitching manner.

And one last detail: I hand stitched those trails behind bugs - it was fun!

Thanks for stopping by! I appreciate your visits!

Project 12 - July

***This is my second post today. For my DT Team up project, scroll down or click HERE. Thank you! :)***

Hi folks! I'm back as promised! :) This time I have my take on Project 12 - July to show you! Here's the sketch:

Now, before you start saying that it's not the right sketch, I'll interrupt. I know, it's the May sketch. But since I still haven't made my May layout I could do a little switch. Why? Because our July was so quiet, I didn't have enough pictures to fill the July sketch. Plus, the July sketch will be perfect for my May layout since there are so many pictures from that month.

Now, after all that long explanation here's my July layout. The very first one with a colorful background.

I've recently purchased some paper packs and wanted very much to use the Luscious one by Basic Grey. That ment cutting up papers and making a patchwork. To reinforce this effect, I stitched all pieces with zig-zag stitch.

Since my sewing machine was already out, I used it to sew all around both edges. That's one thing that unifies my Project 12 layouts.

Another one are SRM Stickers that I used for title and accents. They were not perfectly of the color I needed. However, they matched two pictures. And I guess that gives them the right to be on the layout after all...

OK, I'm off for good today. It would seem that the September issue of CARDS magazine is out. And I have one card in there! But I'll save it for another time once I've received the issue. Thanks to Tiffany for the reminder! :)

Project 12 - June

Hello there! Is anyone there? :) I'm still here waiting for our vacation to start and trying to occupy kids as well as I can. And I scrap from time to time. As you know (since I've mentioned it a couple of times already) I'm behind with my layouts. Project 12 is no exception. Month of May is not done and here's July almost over! But please welcome my version of June according to Becky's sketch:

So, what did we do in June? We started the month with two pic-nics in one day: at noon with our family in a forest, in the evening with our neighbours in the garden. Then, the huge event of the month - we went with my husband to Poland to liquidate ma Mom's apartment which at the same time is (was?) my home. Not easy to leave kids with my in-laws and do such a thing... A layout about it is yet to come :) Then, my son had two events that marked the end of the school year before the first serious one - he starts school in the end of August!

Page one - as you can see those two pictures here are in fact one picture split in two.

Page two - I did a faux stitching all around the layout using myStamp Box stamp set Repeat after me. Just love how it works! But I've also included some real stitching on the patterned paper, leaves and frame.

As I was missing space for one pic, I hid it under the top one making a hinge with a brad.

As I've mentioned in the previous post, I brought from my Mom's house some old sewing patterns. And I keep on having fun with them! I thought it was only logical to include some of them on the layout since I'm talking about our trip to Poland.

Here's another detail showing the frame I made from cardstock. Such a fun way to add some more dimension!

Hope you're not too bored with so many pictures! I'm for sure glad this layout exists! On to the next one! :)

Project 12 - April

Hello there! Yes, I'm already back with the next double layout for the Project 12! In fact, I made a resolution to finish those projects till the 10th of each month. There's no reason to wait!

Here's the sketch by Becky Fleck:

And here's my version with some of my favorite April pictures!

Fortunately there were 9 pictures on the sketch - we did something special each weekend!

As for the January sketch, I used kraft cardstock as my base and used a myStamp Box set to create my own patterned paper. SRM Stickers are back, too! As well as a flowery border.

Here are some close ups:

That's for the Project 12. But today I have two projects on myStamp Box blog. So if you have a moment, please click here to see them. Happy Wednesday!

Project 12 - March

Hello! I'm back with another Project 12 installment. Here's Becky Fleck's sketch for the month of March:

Here's my take on it. As for the two previous months I used SRM month stickers. I even sited one of them on our new couch! :) As for the papers, their choice was somehow guided by the color of the stickers. And in my stash I've found this Bella Boulevard Swing into Spring collection.

The left page came about in a whip. I've added one more picture to the layout, stickers, flowers for the border and that's it!

As for the 2nd part of the sketch I had to alter some more things since I had too much to say and my couch picture was too big (which was another addition to the original sketch). As for the stitching around the whole layout, this time around I decided to change things a bit. Since I've already stitched the papers, so I've simply stamped a border with myStamp Box stamps.

Now, as for the story, well, we had another birthday in our family (my husband's), my son was invited for the first time to a friend's birthday party, there was a show in our church, we've installed the sand on our balcony, we've received our new couch and were the first ones to maw the lawn in our quarter! The great weather continues (they're talking even about the draught already!!!) and I've started gathering the story and pictures for the month of April. I even know which one will be on the layout for sure. Greetings from Switzerland, again! :)