La La Land

Here we are in June already. Where did May go?

I am really pleased to have been added to the talented group of ladies on the design team at http://csichallenge.blogspot.com  I've been thinking of giving it a go for a while now, and decided to try it out for the 6 months term. Thank you Debbi. ♥

If you haven't played yet, why not give the challenge a try. The rules are simple;

*Use all 5 colours. Neutrals such as black, white, and kraft (tan) are allowed.
*Choose at least 3 items for the Evidence list as your embellishments.
*Choose one (or more) of the prompts from the Testimony list to write your journaling.

It's that easy.

Debbi posts new challenges on the 1st, and on the 15th, of every month.
You'll be challenged and surprised at how beautiful your layouts will turn out.

Ready to play ?

Here's the challenge for the month of June.

I have to admit, when I saw the colours and the Superhero theme I thought, "Oh, oh...".  Royal blue has got to be one of my least favorite colours. I had none of it in my stash. A trip to Michael's fixed that. I did, however, know exactly what my layout would be about, and it had nothing to do with superheros.


Here's how I solved the case:

The colours Royal Blue, Turquoise, Bright Buttery Yellow, White, and Primary Red are all there.

From the Evidence list: Stripes, Twine, Starbursts, Stars and tiny Hearts.

I chose the Inspiration Words, Super, Awesome and Wow, as a kickstart to my journaling. Those words clearly represent the way I feel about La La Land.

I would say that the journaling is the most important part of my layout. If you haven't seen La La Land, and plan on seeing it, you might want to skip the journaling as it contains spoilers.

A few up close details:

 

 

 

And there you have it. I enjoyed working on my very first Design Team assignment, and hope you'll find something that inspires you to join us.

 

 

I'm leaving you with the movie trailer for this magical movie. Enjoy !

 

 

 

 

Jacynthe ☺

 

 

 

 

Career Day 2020

 Can you believe November is almost over !  It seems like we've been in this pandemic forever and yet, time still flies by. Hope everyone is keeping sane. 

Here's the mid-month sketch:

My layout:

As usual, I veered off a bit from the original sketch and made it my own. 

For Career Day at school, Rosalie chose to be a teacher, and Coraline, an artist. I picked elements from both as embellishments; the library card, the flag, and the map pattern on the tag, to represent teaching, and the colour splats for the artist. 

The splats, skeleton leaf, and the title letters were cut files from the Silhouette store. The library card is a Stampin'Up stamp. 

Thank you for dropping by and having a look. 

Until next time, À la prochaine,

Jacynthe😊

Changing & Growing

 I have a last minute entry to share for the Sketch - N- Scrap # 211 October challenge.

Here's the sketch:

My layout, using nothing but scraps of paper from previous layouts. (Yeah, me !)

Our pup, Rufus, has certainly grown and changed since we got him back in April. With his ears up straight, his shaggy hair, and his confident stance, he is the perfect little Cairn terrier. 

That's it for now. I hope to play along again soon.

À la prochaine, Until next time,

Jacynthe😊

That Look

 Here I am posting a last minute layout for the mid-month sketch at Scrap Our Stash challenge.

The sketch:

My layout:

The challenge not only called for us to follow the sketch but we also had to use wood grain patterned paper and an animal embellishment. 

I used a piece of painted wood grain pattern placed behind the photos, as well as a little butterfly with a wood grain pattern. I replaced the paper circle and flower with a Silhouette cut file, added a flower grouping in the upper corner, and the journaling was placed where the title is on the sketch. 

The layout is of my daughter's dog, Quincy. She sits in front of us and gives us this look. We wish we knew what exactly she is thinking. 

That's it for now. Hope to be back again soon.

À la prochaine, Until next time.

Jacynthe😊

NEW DO

It's late in the month but there's still a few day left to participate in the July Scrap-Our-Stash challenge.

Here's what we had to work on:

I struggled to get a layout done for this one.  I wanted to scrapbook but my mojo didn't want to.  It took watching quite a few RTS (Record The Story) videos on YouTube to get me back on track.

I ended up choosing the word "HAPPY".
Hearts, Alphabet stamp set, Polka-dots, Pattern papers, Yellow.

My grand-daughter, Coraline had been asking her mom to get her hair cut for quite some time. She was really happy when her mom finally said "yes". 👩

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That's it for now. I hope you can find a bit of time to join the challenges here at Scrap-Our-Stash. I love seeing everyone's take on the challenges.

Until next time, À la prochaine,

Jacynthe😊

Violet at 8

I'm back with another fun challenge at Scrap our Stash. 
This time around we have a recipe to follow.

And here's what I came up with:

5 different pattern papers : background, black with diamond shapes, green stripes, pink floral, and teal/pink floral for the tag.
4 embellishments : flowers, flair, ribbon, epoxy heart.
3 word title : Violet at 8
2 types of alpha : Basic Grey and Creative memories stickers.
1 photo : my grand-daughter Violet

Close-up shots

I've "spiced up" my layout by adding some cut files from the Silhouette shop, a little doggie stamp, coloured and fussy cut, a StampinUp buckle on the ribbon, and two pre-printed phrases on the tag that say - Favorite things -  Right now. 

I recently did a layout of my grand-daughter, Rosalie at 7. I plan on making similar layouts for my other two grand-children. 

Thank you for stopping by, and for any comments you may care to leave.

À la prochaine, Until next time,

Jacynthe 😊

You can't buy happiness

Another month brings new challenges for me to play along. 

This time around my layout qualifies for two different challenges:

SimonSaysStamp - It's a dog's life
Scrap our Stash - What's my challenge

May's  Scrap our Stash challenge - What's my challenge - is a fun Tic-Tac-Toe.
I chose Flowers, Doily, Twine.

My layout:

For the SimonSaysStamp challenge, It's a dog's life, I used (2) sets of stamps. The flower and butterfly set is from Stampin' Up  "On Gossamer Wings". I stamped directly onto the background and used crayons to add colour. I also used a Tim Holtz stamp as an accent behind the main photo block. 

The layout is about my rescue dog, Maggie. She's been with me for about 18 months. She's a senior, age unknown. I don't know anything about her past but, I do know how lucky I am that she is now mine. 

I want to thank my friend, Anna-Karin for inspiring me to participate in the SimonSaysStamp challenge. She's an amazing stamping/mixed media artist and a designer on the blog. You can also check out her beautiful work on her own blog, Layers of ink . 
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Thank you for stopping by and for any comments you may care to leave.

À la prochaine, Until next time,
Jacynthe 😊

UN BEAU CADEAU

Hello again. I rarely get to scrap two layouts in one month but since all the in-home confinement, I found the time to play the sketch challenge at the SCRAP OUR STASH blog.

Here it is:

My layout:

As usual, I played around with the sketch, changing one of the piece of pattern paper and replacing it with one long strip. I also added a chain link cut file behind the photo for a bit of texture. I've had that plaid pattern paper in my stash for years. I'm glad I finally got to use it. The wood embellishments can be found on the journaling tag.

Some close-ups:

Finally, the journaling. My grand-son gave me this book for Christmas. He chose it at school from the books available through Scolastic.  It warms my heart that he thought of me when he saw it. He knows me well. 

That's it for now. Thank you for stopping by.

À la prochaine, Until next time,

Jacynthe😊

At 7

A new month, a new challenge. This time it's a fun one at one of my favorites, Srap our Stash.

I tried my best to find papers and embellishments that matched the colour combination chart. I think every one of those colours is on my layout.
We also had to find stash items for the letters of our first name.
Here's what I came up with;

Journaling card
Alpha letters
Cut file, clock, chevrons
Yellow sequins
Number
Text print, teal coloured ribbon
Heidi Swapp ghost letters, handwriting
Epoxy heart

My layout:

I scraplifted the words banner at the top of my page from one of Design Team member, Karen Yagel's layout. She featured her layout on her YouTube channel, Yes Please Papercraft - Layouts of 2019, which you can watch here.
As soon as I saw her layout, I knew I had that particular paper in my stash and that those words described my grand-daughter to a T. They also matched the colour combination so that was also a plus.


Here are some close-ups:

Cut files of the circle frame, flower and leaves are from the Silhouette store. You can also see the clock, the chevrons, and the Heidi Swapp ghost letters. The flourishes are from a Stampin'Up set.

Finally, the journaling about my grand-daughter, Rosalie at 7 years old.

I enjoyed working with this challenge, and I'm pleased with how my layout turned out. 

Thank you to SCRAP OUR STASH for pushing me to create pages using items that have been in my stash for years. 

Until next time, À la prochaine,

Jacynthe 😊

CAT PERSON - CSI Case File 313

It's time for the mid-month challenge at Color Stories Inspiration here.

Debbi found this St. Patrick's Day inspiration image for us to play along with.

The Scene:

The Evidence: 

·      Floral pattern

·      Dots

·      Stripes

·      gingham

·      Scallops

·      Pig or other animal

·      Ladybug or other insect

·      Hearts

·      Leaves

·      Flowers

·      Strings

·      Bows/ribbons

·      Border punch

·      Ribbon

·      Lace

·      People

·      Something curly or swirly

St. Patrick’s themed products

One of my scrapbooking goals this year is to use as many of my paper scraps as possible. I'm happy to say that every piece of paper on this layout is left over paper from other projects. The bottom piece of flowery paper had two circles cut out of it but I decided to use it just the same.

All five colours were used.

From the Evidence list : Floral pattern, dots, scallops, other animal, heart, leaves, flowers, border punch, ribbon, and people.

From the Testimony: Presentation - add hearts to your journaling.

I hope you will join us for this, or any one of the three monthly challenges.

À la prochaine, Until next time,

Jacynthe😊

Discover the Midland Ice Caves

Happy Scrappy New Year ! Another year is upon us and it's time for me to set scrapbooking goals.

Goal # 1 - Spend less than $75.00, which should be easily accomplished.

Goal # 2 - Create at least 4 layouts using nothing but scraps. At the end of the year, ditching scraps I didn't use. I'm tired of looking at them.

Goal # 3 - Continue using stamps on every layout, and my Silhouette on as many as possible. 

My first layout of 2020 is for the Scrap-Our-Stash "Bingo" challenge. http://scrapourstash.blogspot.com

I chose the fourth row across: 4+pattern paper, brad, stamp, doily, use a punch.

A stamp was used under the title work, a alphabet stamps set was used for the word M"idland", and one for the "here's the story" tag. 

Brads were used on the "seize the day" washi tape, and a doily as embellishment. You can see the punched border above the strip of washi tape. There are 6 pattern papers. 

Finally, the journaling attached to the back of my layout reads;

On New Year’s Day, Dave suggested we ask Dan, Geneviève and the kids to go see the Midland Ice Caves, a local attraction none of us had ever been to.

We all set out after lunch.  There was a steady flow of people who, like us, thought it was the perfect day for this activity, many with children and family pet. I had considered bringing Maggie but knew she could not handle the long walk. It gave us a chance to talk and laugh with Victor and Violet, Geneviève and Dan.

After a half-hour walk, uphill, through famers’ fields and wood trails, we reached our destination. We were all really impressed at the sight of the wall of thick ice, affixed to a steep rock outcropping, before us.  There was a tricky walk to get down to the base of the frozen waterfall. Luckily, there were anchored ropes to hold on to. The kids bypassed the ropes and simply slid down the hill on their bums. Once at the bottom, we could see the openings in the ice where you accessed the caves in behind. The kids loved going in and out of the caves, climbing back up the hill and sliding down. They had a great time. After an hour or so we hit the trail for the walk back to our vehicles.

We really enjoyed our afternoon discovering the Midland Ice Caves. We will be back. 

 Thank you for having a look, and for any comment you may care to leave.

Until next time, À la prochaine,
Jacynthe 😊