Sail away with me...

Hello fellows !

What did you do this week ? I had fun baking a little bit (brioche with cream and chocolate chips, meringues, mussels and homemade fries, cream puffs...), painting a little bit (a 48"x60" canvas...), crocheting a little bit (a red crop top for my daughter) and scrapbooking a little bit ! Here is my new layout :

I used the Ocean breeze stack by DCWV to create this layout. I cut out the whale from a journaling tag, because it was so cute !

The shell border was made with a Fiskars punch and that's the until tool I used (beside my trimmer and a pair of scissors)...

I doodle with white or blue pen on the different paper too.

That was a quick layout, playing with layers... I don't know when I will make another one, because we have a new guest in our home since yesterday : a puppy ! We are fostering her (yes it's a cutie pie) until she found her forever family.

So have a great day, and see you around !

Best photo scrapbooking layout

Hi !

Back with a layout this time, made with a paper kit I won so long ago.. I used this kit once on a layout after winning it from Scrap Your Stash challenge. I was inspired by a layout from Rochelle Spears blog :

The paper kit is the On The Sunny Side by My Mind's Eye. I spiced up the background (just a light blue paper) by stamping chevron and dots patterns, and by drawing a stitched line with a red gel pen.

I cut the red circles with stitched circle dies and inked every edges with Vintage photo ink.

Then I added few journaling tag stamped with words from a Florilege Design set.

This picture remind me of a very good time I spent with friends at a mexican restaurant last year. I miss both my friends and the restaurant...

I'm gonna take a small break from craft for few days for two reasons : first I have an public hypnosis session (in French) that I will do on Skype (if you're interested, see the page event), and I will need to work on it. Second I also have a paint project on a huge canvas that I want to finish.

So see you soon, but not tomorrow...

Thanks card with Prima

Hello !

Complete change of style for this new card ! It's more a shabby/romantic style created using only scraps from an old collection of Prima Marketing papers, Tales of you and me :

It was challenging to not use a new paper sheet but only left over papers !
So I cut two corners with a Sizzix die, the ornated frame with another, used decorative scissors to make a ribbon and cut out few flowers...
For the center of the frame, I use two stamps, one from a Sizzix set and the other one from My Mind's eyes set.

Thank you for stopping by today. I have made a layout too, but this will be for another post...
See you tomorrow...

Another Thank you card with copper

Hi there !

As I do like copper very much, here is a second thank you card with the Classy Copper stack by DCWV :

Beside the papers, I only used two dies : the roses and the sentiment. The choice of papers is so very important when you're creating. See how the mouvement of the central square draw the eyes to the roses ? It's also why I love to work with paper pad, because they are matching !

Time for a break from cards, I have almost finish a layout that I will show you later. And I will have a card for tomorrow too...

Have a great day !

Rose and copper Thank you card

Yes, still there, making cards... What about you ? Did you create some ?

Today' card was create with the Classy Copper stack by DCWV :

Layering is sure a great way to use scraps of papers... and I did kept a lot of them !
I just cut out the flower clusters, used two decorative scissors and cut the sentiment with my Scan-n-cut. Very easy and yet beautiful !

Thank you for stopping by today ! See you tomorrow for another card...

Take Care !

Thank you card with (Garden) charm

Hi  there !

Time for your card of the day !

It's a very simple sketch, but efficient. What makes it pop is the fussy cut flowers... All of the papers, including the flowers came from the Garden Charm stack by DCWV.

The sentiment is a stamp from the Oriental Orchid set by Altenew, with Vintage Photo distress ink. I really like the Altenew stamp sets I own, because they are a good mix of images and sentiments (that I could use separately).

Tomorrow I will show you a card, not a square one, with another stack of papers...
Be patient my friend...

Have a great day !

Thank you card with a twist of red

Good day everyone !

Still using the Cherry blossom pad, but with a twist of red this time !

As much as I liked using the Blossom stencil on two other cards, I wanted something different to create a cherry tree branch, and I remembered that I have a die perfect for that... It's an Alterations die by Tim Holtz, from the mixed media collection.
As the central journaling tag has a red bird on it, I decided to use a dotted red paper too. It's a Christmas paper but the goal is to use everything !

As you can see the Thank You die by Heidi Swapp is very handy, here with brown cardstock again.

For tomorrow's card, I changed the paper pad. I choose the Garden Charm pad by DWCV...
See you tomorrow to discover the result...

Have a great day !

Thank you card n.3

Hello !

I'm still working with the lovely Cherry Blossom pad for my cards...

You can see that I used again the Blossom stencil by Art Anthology with pink pencil for the center. I made one of my Christmas mesh ribbon useful to make the sentiment pop. This sentiment was cut from brown cardstock with a die cut by Heidi Swapp. This die is discontinued by you can find it sometimes at Tuesday Morning (oh ! I miss TM so much !).

I made another card with this paper pad, you will see it tomorrow, and I switched pads for another one...
See you tomorrow ? Take care...

Thank you card n.2

Hello again !

Here is my second card, with the same It's the Cherry Blossom paper pad by Recollections :

It's mostly paper layering, except for the sentiment : it's a Sizzix stamp from an old stamp.+dies set.
And two small flowers cut out from a sheet...

Hope you like it ! See you tomorrow for another card...

Thank you cards challenge ?

Hello !

While checking Facebook and other social medias, I did see a lot of dumb challenges. On the other hand, I also saw a lot of posts about making masks. I don't do challenge and I don't sew. But I make cards. So instead of challenging myself in ridiculousness or sewing my own fingers together, I decided to make cards. Not only for doctors or nurses. For all the people that are outside taking care of us. From the stores, the garbage companies, the mailmen and women, the teachers... in fact they're so many we can't count. 

So I will try to create as many as I can, and give them to everyday heroes. Here is the first of a new serie :

I am still using my old paper pads, so maybe you recognize this one as I used it on few other projects : I cut out the sakura flowers from a sheet on this layout, and on this one too with other papers.

It's the Cherry Blossom paper pad by Recollections. I also used brown cardstock, a brown ribbon, a cherry blossom stencil (by Art Anthology) with Vintage photo Distress ink and a pink watercolor pencil. The sentiment is cut on brown paper with an old Sizzix die.

I hope it will inspire you to create and give beautiful cards ! Thank you for reading this post, see you tomorrow for another card...

Take care.

Walk in the woods

Hi you !

Another layout made without buying any new materials... This it's a picture from 2016, a rare one with my husband AND one of my daughter :

A good way to use a maximum of papers is to layer them. I think I succeed in this layout ! There is 9 different papers here ! Most of them came from the Autumn Sunset paper pad by Prima, but the grid one by 7Gypsies is older (from my time in the Canvas Corp Brands DT). 

For the dark brown and the green, I used washi (We R Memory keepers, so old it's discontinued) and paper tape.

I found cute chipboards buried in my stash perfect for this color scheme. They are form a collection by Prima so old I forgot it's name (doesn't happen often... still have a rub-on from this collection though).

The other embellishment is a laser cut chipboard heart by Bo Bunny, with paper covered with the green washi tape under it. 

The title is cut with the help of my Scan-N-Cut. It's three layers of the same cut but in different papers.

This quarantine thing will do wonder for my scrapbooks ! I will have a great collection of pages when this will end...

If you are looking for more inspiration or tips to scrapbook or create with mixed media techniques, don't hesitate to take a look at my YouTube channel BonjourscrapValerie and watch few videos...

Have a wonderful day...

See you soon.

Back-to-school layout

Good afternoon !

I'm almost sure my kids will not return to school this year... A return is planned for the 4th of May in Texas, but I don't see how it will be possible. I just hope we will be able to fly to France for the Summer vacations...

Anyway, I did a layout with a Back to School picture from few years ago, when we were in Aberdeen, Scotland, in full uniform and that is so cute !

I used nothing else than the Wild Saffron paper pad by K&Company , few rectangles dies and a tiny alphabet stamp set with distress ink. If you follow me, you know my love for fussy cutting and spotted right away the hand cut flowers, right ?

Now, I'm waiting for a new paper and ink kit for my Selphy printer so I can continue to scrap without getting out picking up pictures... I have a giant blank canvas (48"x60") waiting for me anyway...
What are you up to these days ?

Thanks for stopping by and see you soon for another project !
And stay safe inside...

Friends : a scrapbooking layout with DCWV papers

Hi everyone !

Still creating layouts but without lowering my stock of papers... Today it's a layout made with the Copper Blue paper pad by DCWV :

I had wood frame from an old collection (Lawn Fawn) that I wanted to use in this layout, and this was the shape I used to create the squares. I wished I had a die for this because it took me a while to cut them all !
The title is a wood sign covered with papers colored a with a Copic marker (B26).

The wood frames were covered with paper too. Can you imagine the knife work ?

What did you create this day ? I will continue to do some layouts this week.So see you then !