Check Out Celine's New Class

What will you do during the Soccer World Cup this summer?
Your husband is CRAZY about Soccer and you already feel anxious about the World Cup being the NUMBER ONE priority in the house?
Scared to be bored?



NO WAY! COME AND SCRAP WITH ME INSTEAD!
 

MAKE YOURSELF HAPPY AND TAKE MY ONLINE CLASS!

Come join me for my first 4 week class : you will learn many techniques (my favorites!), you'll be inspired by trendy color combos, you'll be in love with new sketches, and you'll participate in the most fun, colorful, technique workshop you've ever taken!

For 25€, you'll have access to :

·      a private blog with workshops posted every Tuesday and Friday with exclusive and brand new layouts made by Céline

·      new color combos twice a week

·      new sketches posted twice a week

·      TWO new techniques posted twice a week

·       inspirationnal posts posted every week

·      my "soccer" and "non-soccer" thoughts and feelings (always in a funny way)

·      what's going on during the World Cup with a different look to it : get to know the countries that participate int he World Cup

·      VIDEO tips and techniques!

·      access to a FLICKR gallery for you to post your beauties

·      TWO live chats where you'll be able to ask your questions

·      full supply lists of products used on my projects

and all this for a WHOLE MONTH!!!

And, the icing on the cake, for the BIG FINAL game, your last class will be a FULL mini album class because, hey! It's the WORLD CUP! :)
And you'll be able to order the kit if you want to.

Don't feel like you HAVE to watch the Soccer games, get READY TO SCRAP!

You can pay via paypal below.

SCRAP World Cup online Class

For those of you whose husband doesn't like soccer, or if you go on vacation, know that you'll have access to the online class for the whole summer! (or winter, depends on where on the planet you live) :)

SIGN-UPS until JUNE 10th 2010. BEGINNING OF THE WORKSHOPS : JUNE 11th2010. END OF WORKSHOPS : JULY 11th 2010.

Busy Weekend!

I was so crazy busy scrapbooking this weekend. My car broke down Friday night so I couldn't really go anywhere. And what else is a girl to do when trapped in her house for a rainy, miserable weekend? Scrap! And I have to warn you... this is a bit longer then most of my posts!

First, here's my layout for this week's Scrapping the Music - The Rainbow Connection. I love this song and knew I wanted to scrap my children for it. This is them last Autumn at Mike's Corn Maze. The day started out rocky but this is how they were by the end :o) I love seeing them so happy together! I used Pencil Lines 185.

Then I finished these two for some challenges over at scrapbook.com. I just love challenges... they really push me to think outside my comfort zone.

First is this layout using the Material Girl/Garden Variety double deck I won on the Cosmo Cricket blog. I made the flowers from a tutorial on their blog as well.

And then I finished this one last night. My daughter, sister and niece posing so well while visiting Fort Michilimackinac last summer. My daughter was even panting in the role of the family dog :o) They were really getting into it! My brother, sister and I used to visit Mackinac a lot as children and it was so fun taking my daughter and niece there for their first visit. I would like to make this a 2-page layout but need more of that Graphic 45 paper I used for the background. Here are the 2 other photos to go with it:

And finally, I started this layout because I love these photos! They make me laugh every time I see them. My son is getting quite tall.. he's about 6' now. My brother is 6'4" and last summer Zach asked, "Hey Uncle Don, do you think you can still give me a piggy-back ride?" So, up he jumps and of course, if Zach does something, Gwen wants to do it, too. So, up she goes, on her brother's back, who is still on their Uncle. And poor Miss Alexis couldn't be left out she over she ran to be held by Uncle Don :o) However, every time I look at the layout, I just see the awesome photos and great memory. I haven't put anything on the page and can't think of anything to put on the page! Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome :o)

Keep Your Head Up High

I created this layout for Scrapping the Music 131 Just Fine and Pencil Lines 184.





My niece was born with epilepsy. Each time she has a growth spurt her medications fail and she begins having siezures. Many of them occur while she sleeps and this has started affecting her education and ability to store what she's learned. As she becomes more aware that she is different she loses confidence in herself. So, to her I say Keep Your Head Up High.

A Scrapping First for Me!

I have been playing along with the Scrapping the Music challenge blog lately and won this week's challenge with my "Will You Hear Me" layout. The song was Just Fine by 40 Dogs. I am really inspired by the lyrics each week and sometimes even the music inspires the look of my layout... sets the mood, if you will. I highly recommend you come join the fun and play along :o)

Will You Hear Me?

For Scrapping the Music #130, 40 Dogs, and Pencil Lines 183



Picture it flipped and with less paper, more ink :o)



As Zach works through the teen years, at times we struggle with our relationship. More then ever I feel the need to remind him that he's a great kid and I will always love him.

Some Challenge Layouts

It's been a busy couple of weeks around here. I started to move my scrap space and then we had family visiting for just over a week. Finally got around to scrapping the following layout for Pencil Lines 181 and this weeks Scrapping the Music 129.



We were in Boston with our visitors and while at the hotel I asked Gwen what she could do in a hotel that she couldn't do at home. Crazy bed-jumping was the result. I immediately knew I wanted to cut her out of the gaudy hotel background :o)

I also whipped this one out. This is the fastest layout I've done in a long time. I was finding bits that I forgot I had while setting up the new space and was just inspired to use them :o) The cardboard was already painted, torn and punched and I couldn't wait to use it. The bg was a scrap I had used to protect my table while inking something awhile ago. I found a misplaced bottle of lemon yellow paint and a few other scraps that I threw on. The whole thing is scraps, really. I guess that's why I was finding these things not where they belonged!



Thanks for stopping by :o)

A Baby Album

I've been stalking Christine Clouse's blog for quite some time and am always blown away by her mini-albums. I took a stab at one and while it's not terribly detailed, I'm pretty happy with the outcome. Here are a few of the pages:



I started the album at a crop and figured out the layout of each page. I wanted to stitch the pages together because I wasn't likely how flimsy the pages were feeling. So, when I got home, I started to stitch the cover together. Any my sewing machine broke. I'm not sure what is wrong with it but it just did not want to feed the thread at an acceptable rate! I ended up hand stitching the pages together with a quick whip-stitch.



At the time,my friend didn't know if she was having a boy or girl so I tried to keep the album relatively neutral with the colors.



She decorated the nursery with a nature theme so I tried to add elements that fit.

All-in-all I'm happy I gave it a go. A few weeks later I saw a tutorial on Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's blog on how to make another type of album. Since I was satisfied with this one, I gave that one a go, too! But that's for another post :o)