Joining a new Design Team - Nouvelle équipe créative

I am a lucky gal, I've just been invited to join a design team with a group of super talented ladies that are just a superbe to work with as well. Thank you to Valerie Ouellet for this amazing opportunity. I can't wait to start working with the team.  

 

 

Un nouveau défi pour moi, merci à Valérie Ouellet qui m'offre l'opportunité de joindre son équipe créative. Une équipe très talentueuse et inspirante. Si vous ne connaissez pas cette boutique en ligne, c'est maintenant le temps d'en faire la découverte. Scrap aux Puce offre les nouveautés ainsi que de beaux défis pour vous inspirer. Venez nous joindre: http://www.scrapauxpuces.com/forum/index.php

 

Have a great day everyone ! Je vous souhaite une superbe journée !

Magic School

Oh my a scrapbooking challenge with a subtil touch of Harry Potter, of course I have to look into this. Marina Syskova from 7 dots studio is setting up a project called Magic School. So I am keeping my fingers crossed that google translate will be my friend and translate well the required challenges from Russian to either English or French. Anyways, I think I'll give this a try. Here is to google translate doing some Magic.  

The link to join : Magic School    

13@rts Sketch challenge

So I am still working on a few more pages for my mom's Las Vegas vacation album. For this next page, I was inspired by the 13@rts October sketch challenge.   You can find it here: Facebook October 13@rts challenge  

   

 

Papers I used:

Background: Aura Rose

Cut-Out Flowers: Out of the Blue

   

  For the 13@arts products I used my clear and white Gesso as the foundation of my page.   Other products: Badges from Cuts2Luv, sticker from Tim Holtz, flowers fromWild Orchid Crafts and die-cuts that were sent by a friend.   Thanks for the inspiration !  

Happy Birthday Mom !

Happy Birthday Mom !   Last august as a pre-birthday gift, I took her to Las Vegas... Just the two of us. Now if you have not noticed, most of my pages are with pictures of Las Vegas, because I am building her a 12 x 12 album as her last gift.   Here are a few more pages that I've done during the online challenge at Scrap Aux Puces. We were asked to scraplift pages of other talented girls that I've gottent to know because of our shared passion for Scrapbooking.   Scraplift of Missourie (aka Daisy): Las Vegas at night....  

 

I love her work, it's vibrant and has debth, here is the page that I scraplifted from Daisy:

 

 

This next page was a scraplift of July:

Mom and Elvis (aka Tylor James)

 

Here is her page:

 

 

This one is from Nellie:

Mom & I at the Mirage hotel

 

 

and her page:

 

 

Happy Birthday Mom!

 

 

 

Now here is my last page for the blog challenge:

 

This  page was a scraplift of Joe: (but a picture from our Cuba vacation)

 

 

Joe's page:

 

 

 

Hope you like my take on the challenges ! Thanks for stopping by.  

Lindy's Stamp Gang October challenge

It's a fall inspired color board this month at Lindy's Stamp Gang. What a beautiful board:  

  I had this beautiful picture of the Venetian shopping center gondola ride that had just the perfect color to work with. Added bonus that it fits well in the album that I am making for my mom .  

 

Here is the step by step on how I built my page:

  First, I started my page by embossing a series of butteflies, letters and shapes with the Lindy's Embossing powders:  

 

Then I added a touch of color with my sprays:

 

 

I like the effect of the drops of sprays, then I added some rub-ons to increase the tone-on-tone effect.

 

Started to add my elements, an embossed flowe, die-cuts, flowers and my Cuts2Luv badges.

 

 

 

Love the look of the different tone enbossed butterflies:

 

Want to join in on the fun? here is the link to Lindy's challenge: October

 

And now for the link of the products I used:

Queen Sheba's Silver embossing powder

Midnight Pewter embossing powder

Midnight Bronze embossing powder

Black Orchid Silver Spray

Cajun Carnelian Red spray

Canna Lily Burnt Orange

 

Thanks for the inspiration to the Lindy's Design team,

 

Life is better when you are laughing

I am in full perparation mode for my mom's birthday gift...   In August, I took my mom on a vacation, just the two of us. I asked her what she wanted and she mentionned that she'd love to go back to Vegas. So off we went...   As part of my gift, I am making her a Las Vegas 12 x 12 album of some of my favorite pictures and moments of our trip. For this page, I was inspired by two challenges :   More than Words and Cuts2Luv.  

  Let's start with More than Words : Ombre and Change   For the Ombre part of the challenge, I chose to focus on different hues of green on my page, I love the softness it gave the page. I rarely use black and white pictures, but I truly like how it all came together.   For the change part of the challenge, well there are many for this page. First let's use my mom's birthday... Turning 70 is a big thing for her, and with my dad being gone, she's been feeling a bit alone. This "Just the two of us" trip was a perfect way to make her feel special. My change was taking the time to give my mom some dedicated time, balancing work, family and day to day often does not give me much free time, so it was fun to be just us girls for a few days. It was the first trip that we've ever taken just the two of us, and if I am lucky, I'll get the chance to do this again someday.   Here is the beautiful inspiration board: And the link to the October challenge: Change & Ombre   ***********************************   My second entry is for the October challenge at Cuts2Luv, here is the gorgeous moodboard:   If I had on-hand different shades of purple flowers, I would have used that color scheme, but I just have 1 or 2, so it was just easier to go with the green colors... Maybe next time... (Now I need to order more purple flowers...)  

 

Link to the challenge: October challenge

  For my page I used the sketch and the metalic elements...and of course my badges.   I have two, can you find them?   Thanks to both Design Teams for the Wonderful challenges...