Paris -Lindy's & Creative Embellishments challenge participation

Ahhhh Paris, a magical place. I visited about 12 years ago, I'd love to go back. This page was inspired by 2 challenges, the color combo of Lindy's gang as well as the April challenge for Creative Embellishments.

Oh I have to say this color combo is not my a combo that I play often. This one took me out of my comfort zone for certain. I kept at it and in the end, I am quite pleased with the result.

I embossed this Atelier de Karine stamp with Cleopatra's Copper on vellum. I Love the delicate feel it gives the layout.

A few chipies from Creative Embellishments were embossed with Ceasar's gold & Midnight Bronze.

I added 2 beautiful flairs from Cuts2luv 

Paprika Seedlings from Blue Fern Studio, and copper roots from 13@rts

On theses pieces I embossed in 3 colors: Cleopartra's Copper, Ceasar's Gold & Bratwurst Brown

Here is the Lindy's color combo : BLOG

Products used:

Bratwurst Brown EP

Bratwurst Brown Magical Shaker

Ceasar's Gold EP

Midnight Gold EP

Cleopatra's Copper EP

Cowwabunga Copper Spray

Opal Sea Oats Spray

And here is the Creative Embellishments Inspiration image :

Twist: use a harlequin pattern on your project.

I used, the Paris chipe, flourish & Small frame on my page. 

I hope you enjoy my takes on both challenges, & I wish you a very creative day.

Kraft Plus Guest DT for April

Kraft plus challenge, my second guest DT for the month of April. If you've not played along, they have amazing challenges.

Here is my layout for the April guest DT:

The challenge this month:

Something Old: The picture of the Tulum Ruins in Mexico (and many many ornaments LOL)

Something New: White flowers

Something Borrowed: My friend Ani's gorgeous mandala die to make the die-cut

Something Blue: Paper, butterfly, flair & heart.

And here are a few more pictures of my layout:

I just LOVE this watercolor Cuts2luv flair... a replica of a watercolor done by my friend Valerie.

I hope you enjoyed my take on the challenge and that you will be joining in on the fun !

Happy Crafting !

April challenge for More Than Words

It's April already, and in Canada we are starting to want to see Spring around the corner. I wanted to created a summer page and chose to use one of our vacation pictures from Riviera-Maya.

Nature & Animals.... This picture was just too perfect. While on the resort, my son is a HUGE animal lover, we had the chance to get a picture with a small Monkey. And here he was cleaning out my sons hair like only monkeys can do.. it was so funny and perfect moment captured on film.  I just had to use this picture for my challenge layout. 

Products used on this page:

-Papier Blue Fern Studios Happy Accident Blessings
-Badge Cuts2luv
-Chipboard: Creative Embellishments
-Fleurs Wild Orchid Craft
-Die Kaisercraft
-Mots titre Heidi Swapp
-Spray Lindy's Baby Blue eyes Aqua

Hope you will be joining in on the fun ! Come play along, I can't wait to see what you will create.

March mini challenge on the More Than Words facebook page

It's mini challenge time  on the More Than Words Facebook page. Such an easy and fun challenge, you can make a card, a tag, ATCs or a post card for this challenge.

This month the challenge word is : WARM 

Here is the challenge board:

Products used to create this tag:

• Tim Holtz Die & Stencil
• Cuts2luv flair
• Lindy's Stamp Gang Spray: Hydrangea Blue
• Gel medium Matt by Prima
• Wild Orchid Crafts flowers 

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you will join in on the fun.

Lindy's challenge & Edith Cloutier Creation.

Wow so much inspiration this month, another amazing color combo challenge by Lindy's and a fabulous moodboard by my friend Edith.

I had fun making this layout. I used a 13@rts stencil with Prima Donna Purple magical & light modling paste to make my leaves.

Here you can see some of Edith's printed flowers, butterfly and leaves:

I played with Tiffany lou Blue, Witch's potion purple & Hibiscus rose sprays for my background.

Poppin pink Embossing for my chipboard. Perfect to make Edith's words pop off the layout.

Lindy's challenge board:

Store links:

Hibiscus Rose Spray

Tiffanylou Blue Spray

Witch's Potion Purple

Poppin Pink EMbossing Powder

Prima Donna Purple Magicals

Edith's March Board on Facebook, I was inspired by the flowers and the lights

I hope you liked my takes on the challenges

Follow your dreams pour Cuts2luv

L'été dernière, lors de nos vacances, nous en avons profité pour faire un petit shooting photo en famille. J'ai fait cette page de mon plus jeune fils Gabriel, beau comme un cœur et adorable. Cette année est une grosse année, il termine le Cégep et va faire son entrée à l'Université. Alors, le titre 'follow your dreams' est tellement parfait pour cette page.

Pour cette page, j'ai superposé 2 badge, une caméra et ainsi que le badge brique pour le look grunge de la page.

Une citation des mots d'Édith Cloutier.

Voyez-vous le sisal bleu foncé et les racines sous mon montage? J'adore l'ajout de cette texture

Un montage avec plusieurs chipboard style grunge donne une page très masculine.

Ensemble Camera English

Badge et liens: 

Ensemble Fearless

Je vous souhaite une superbe journée et bonne création !

Autres produits sur cette page: Papier Cold Day de la collection Until dawn 13@rts, Sisal et Racines de 13@rts,  Chipboards Creative Embellishments, Blue Fern Studios embossing Blue Sky, Lindy's embossing Queen Shaba Silver et Magical Caribbean Blue, Light modeling paste, gesso blanc & clair de Prima, Petit mots Creation Edith Cloutier & chipboard Wycinanka. 

Blue Fern Studios March projects

Hi bloggers, I can't believe that it's March already. Time is flying but, but I am enjoying crafting for the Blue Fern Studios Design team. This month, I'll be sharing 2 layouts and 1 off the page project. 

Capture the Moment Layout #1

The starting point for this layout was this beautiful picture of my 2 sons and I taken during our Riviera Maya vacation last summer. I wanted to extend on my layout the colors of my picture, so a blue background with a sandy beach.

I chose the beige background from In the Mood - Flirty paper. Once covered with Gesso, I layed my foundation of ink on the top half.

I wanted to have multi tones on my chipboard to give it more dimension. I opted to cover my clock and rectangle pieces in Ginger, Black & Gold and finally a touch of Oatmeal embossing powders.

The bottom of the layout, in order to create a beach feel effect I worked with cheese cloth and wool fibers that I glued with gel medium. Then I added touches of small stones and 4 colors of seedlings: Paprika, Twig, Gold Nugget & Glass.

Once my background was complete, I chose to build my layers. For my title, I chose to use 14 Karat embossing powder. I love the glitter it adds to the layout.

This last picture shows the beautiful Blue Fern flowers, more details on the embossed chipboard & seedlings. I also included Rose Gold glitter but it's impossible to capture the glitter on my picture.

Blue Fern Studios product used on this layout:

Paper Collection: In the Mood Flirty & Pensive

Seedlings:

Paprika

Twig

Gold Nugget

Glass

Embossing Powders:

Black & Gold

Ginger

Oatmeal

14 Karat

Glitter: Rose Gold

Flowers :

Chesterville blooms

Homespun blooms

Heartland blossoms

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Formidable layout # 2

Time for another magnificent picture of my gorgeous niece with her family. I just love the vibrancy of the red in the picture and chose to use that for my highlights.

 Remnants Westfield is my chosen paper for this layout.

I had fun playing with different techniques on this layout. The first step was to emboss different sections with the Green Ivory Embossing Powder.  I used 2 stamps to emboss on my background paper: Weathered Doily & Honeycomb.

I chose to alter the circle chipboard with black gesso, and some waxes to give them an antique look & feel.

I love adding the small sentiments from the Remnants printed chipboard set.

Can you see the top of my tags? I like making my own tags, they make wonderful ornaments for my layering. Here is used leftovers of my Remnants collection. 

I wanted to add some shine to my flowers, so I added touches of white & gold glitter

Blue Fern Studios product used on this layout:

Paper Collection: Remnants Westfield

Embossing Powder: Green Ivory

Glitter: White & Gold

Stamps:

Weathered Doily

Honeycomb

Chipboard:

French adjectives

techno Rings

Printed Remnants

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Off the page project: Vision Board 2018

Have you ever made a vision board? This year at work, I hosted a team event where we I invited our team members to create their combined work & personal vision board for 2018.

The goal of a vision board is that if you see you goals on a daily level... you set-up you mind to making them happen.

To set-up my board I used many elements from my Blue Fern collection.

The first step was making my chipboard world map. I wanted it to pop out so I chose Blue Sky embossing powder:

Second elements where to use my gorgeous Blue Fern stamp sets. I love the words Family and Hopes & Dreams. I found them perfect for the family section of my board.

To create sections, I chose to use the frames in the Homespun printed chipboard set:

Here we can see a printed frame and the word Journey, both from my stamp stash.

And lastly, more of the Homespun printed chipboard elements. They are just adorable.

Disclaimer: I did pull off the internet and Pinterest some quotes that I found to complete the vision board. 

Blue Fern Studios product used on this layout:

Embossing Powder: Blue Sky

Stamps:

Hopes & Dreams

Distressed Titles

Floral Vignettes

Chipboard:

Printed Homespun

I hope you enjoyed my 3 projects for March and I wish you an amazing crafty month !