Entre Artistes | Scrapbooker of the year Part 4 of 4

Hi everyone!
This is the 4th and last post of my reveal of my creations I submitted to the Entre Artistes contest. If you missed part one, two and three, you might consider catching up with that first. :)

Entre Artistes Part 1
Entre Artistes Part 2

Entre Artistes Part 3

The fourth assignment was to make a mini-album. If I remember correctly, they wanted to see 5 pages. For the purpose of the contest, that's all I did. Afterwards, I continued adding more content to the album.

So my mini-album is about the love I have for my children and the idea was inspired by the fabulous Hands Free Mama. If you don't know her and her work, I highly recommend you go take a peak at her blog.

For the base of the album, I used some mini memory file folders that were very very hot at the moment. I had just taken a class given by Heidi at Big Picture Classes called The Art Of Observation and I thought that using these super cute and colorful and "just my style" file folders would be the best idea!! :)

Lots of layering on the front letting place to a more simple and clean look inside.
On the first page I wrote a letter to my daughters, explaining the not so glamorous sides of motherhood. I will not share the letter with you because my mom can't read it without crying and I wouldn't want to ruin her day today. ;)

On the second and third pages, I share a love letter I wrote to each of my girls, and where I write about why I love them. What they do that I love so much.

Here I used my Silhouette et some Washi Tape to layer under the negative space.

I've designed and cut out my large title with my Silhouette.

Some vellum and stitching.

And the last page is recording small precious moments that happen daily in our house.

There you go! :)

I might share with you later the remaining finished pages. 

In the meanwhile, thanks for coming by and don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions. :) 

Thanks again,

Merci :)

Entre Artistes | Scrapbooker of the year Part 3 of 4

Hi everyone!
This is the 3rd post of my reveal of my creations I submitted to the Entre Artistes contest. If you missed part one and two, you might consider catch up with that first. :)

Entre Artistes Part 1
Entre Artistes Part 2

The third assignment was to make a home decor piece that was creative.
I decided to make 2 silhouettes of my daughters and to mount them on a special background.
Here's the result:

One of the things I was doing before I started scrapbooking was called "Decoupage". It's french and it translates to "paper cuts". I learned the art in Switzerland. Here are some of my work of art on cards.

Anyway, to come back to these silhouettes, I started but working on the photos with Photoshop. I had to play with the contrast, and to cut out the silhouette of the girls. I then cut them out in a special black paper.

This is Arielle on her bike.

And this is some of the details of the background. It's a sheet of Dear Lizzy patterned paper with some stitching and some ink spraying from Heidi Swapp.

This is Maya on the carousel at Downtown Disney, Orlando.

And this is a detailed shot of the background. Again, Heidi Swapp's color magic spray in Cherry. On this one I stitched on the contour of the patterned paper.

I haven't hung them yet but I definitely will do so in my new house.

Thanks for looking and stay tuned for Part 4 in a couple of days! :)

Marie

Entre Artistes | Scrapbooker of the year Part 2 of 4

Hi everyone!

If you missed the first part of this series, you might want to start reading here to know what I'm talking about. :)

Ok, so today I'll share another layout. This time I had to make an auto-portrait. The page had to represent my style and talk about me. Here's what I made:

For these little squares, I'm almost shy to say that this was a cardstock that I had pull out of the trash can. I had been working on a layout and wasn't happy with my background…. I don't even remember what I used for the paint. Probably a simple watercolor kit for children.

Notice the stitching on a couple of the squares? I had stitched in a circle on the entire background. When I cut it apart, I made sure that small pieces of that stitching would show. I had also used some of the Heidi Swapp Color Magic golden spray. I love the effect of the brilliance.

On the squares I'm talking about small special facts about me.  The subjects include: traveling dreams, my biggest fear, my passion, my dreams, I'm happy when, I'm proud of myself when…, I'm sad when…, my wishes for my daughters.

I rememeber I had just stocked up on the brand new Heidi Swapp products. :) I wasn't cheap on the layering. ;)  And the fine golden lines are a foil that I sticked to some lines I had made with a glue roller pen. Same thing for the golden dots.

I wanted to make something that hadn't yet been seen. And so I began to form my style… :) I can't say that this is very innovative, but for me it was all new and different than what I was used to create.

I still love the small watercolor pieces.

Thanks for looking!
Stay tunes for the rest.

Marie

Happy Velentine's Day!

Hi everyone!!

Happy Valentine's Day! :)

I made some Valentines this year with the girls. 23 with my oldest who is in kindergarten and 18 with my youngest who is in Pre-school. It was fun! My new Ai Valentine stamps made it fun, fast and easy!! 

I used the Tweetheart set for my youngest and the Has Hugz set for my oldest. I only stamped with staz on ink on watercolor paper and they colored with water based ink diluted with water. When the images were dry, I went over it and added some details, like the beak and legs of the little birdie and a little background behind the bird to cover the imperfections. As you see, the girls did a very nice job and I think these stamps are perfect for coloring in with watercolor since it's very forgiving and we don't have to stay in the lines perfectly.

Here is my take on the same stamp. Of course it's the card I made to show them how to color their images. That's why they look alms the same. :) 

I added the sentiment in a speech bubble that I die cut from a piece of watercolor paper on which I had made a wash of the same color I used to color the image.

Hope you are inspired a little by my cards…. 

Here are the products I used:

InLinkz.com

Marie-Pierre

journaling: make a list

Hi everyone!
Do you some times struggle with journaling?
If so, have you ever tried to add a list to your page??
It's quick and it's easy. No need to think much, you just draw a dot, or adhere a rhinestone and you write one thing. And you continue like that until you have nothing more to say. :)
At get it scrapped today you can see many ideas to add a list to your page. Here is my take:

My page is about the "one little word" I chose to accompany me throughout the year: HEALTH.
And here is my list of goals:
I added some rub-ons from Dear Lizzy and some gold ink spray from Heidi Swapp.

And this is a die cut I made with my Silhouette. I LOVE LOVE LOVE to create with title and subtitles like this one. I incorporate my own handwriting (Body) for even more beauty. :) I love the tone on tone effect.

So, not inspired to write a long story? Write at least some little bits in a list format. 5 things is the only thing you need to think of before you start. :)
Happy creating!!

Marie

Memory Planner - by Heidi Swapp

Hi everyone!
I'm happy to pop in here to show my latest addition to my ongoing scrap projects: the memory planner, by Heidi Swapp.
I received it as a gift from Heidi when I was attending the Play event, hosted by Big Picture, following CHA in Anaheim.
The conference Heidi gave before we could unwrap our present was fabulous. Her speech touched my heart very deeply and convinced me (as if we would need to be convinced!!) that what I do, memory keeping, is VERY important! Really, even if we all know that our albums are worth gold, I for myself often feel like when I scrapbook, I'm steeling time to my family, because it could be time I would spend with them, instead of being on my own, in my scrap room, but really, what we do is much more than "just" art and crafts…. when we scrapbook, we have the power to stop in time any moment we'd like, in order to remember it later. It allows us to stop the blur of everyday life and looked passed the loads of laundry, the cooking, the picking up of the mess to see what really matters.

And she launched a new tool to help us do that even more easily and it's called a memory planner. It's a calendar with protector pages in between the months that allow us to add pictures and bits and pieces of life and with some pages with places to write more if we wish to.

I just finished my month of January and I'd love to share it with you.

First page:
I was lucky enough to have Heidi write me a kind word inside my book. I know right?!
Heidi is so real and generous. I adore her!

And with her memory planner she has some really cute chipboard elements, die cuts, stickers, rub-ons, labels, stamps….everything we love! :) And everything we need to embellish our album. :)

January:

Every month starts with a page full of prompts and place to write more! Every month is different and awesome.

Then comes a divided page protector for photos and memorabilia. The sizes of the pockets change from month to month.

The other side of the page protector:

And some more embellishing .

And finally there's the calendar:

I use it to write one little thing a day. You could use it however you like. You could fill it for your child, ask him to tell you one thing from his day.

I decided to use it for ME, personally. This way, it's not the same as my PL. This calendar is much more personal and axed on myself while my Project Life Album focusses more on us as a family.

Before I leave, I want to take a moment to thank every single one of you leaving comments, and who became a member of my blog lately. I have now 71 followers + more followers who are with us through the e-mail list. It makes me so happy to know that you take time to come here and stay a moment with me when I have something to show you. :)
Thank you so much!!

Talk to you soon!!!

Marie-Pierre :)