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 😊

GARDEN HELPER

It's time for the Pick-A-Side challenge over at the Scrap our Stash blog.

I chose the right-hand side for my layout.

I must say that I really struggled with this one. Not so much with the sketch as with the papers I selected for my base. I rarely work on a plain coloured background. I've had that sheet of green paper in my stash forever and really wanted to use it, or lose it. It took me days to find what pattern papers would go with it, and with my photos. I changed my mind dozens of times before I settled for this colour combination.

I followed the sketch by having a strip of pattern paper close to the left-hand of the layout, used two photos to mimic the vertical one, and a horizontal photo with two tags behind it. 

We also had to include scallop edging embellishment(s) which I did with the little round card and the jute ribbon under the photo. 

There's lots of OLD stash on here. That watering can cut-out is so old, I don't even know what company made it. 

It's not my best work but I'm glad I finished it. 

The photos are of my Grand-daughter working away with her Grand-Papa picking carrots.

That's it for now.

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

Until next time, À la prochaine,

Jacynthe😊

Minecraft Obsession

It's time for another fun challenge over at http://scrapourstash.blogspot.com/

Here's what we get to play with this month.

My layout:

The challenge called for the colour ORANGE. There is lots of it on my layout.
For CASPER:
Corner rounder, Alphabet stamps, Splat, Polka dots, Eyelets, Recollection pattern papers.

I stayed fairly true to the sketch, using three photos, paper strips under the photo blocks, a tag under the upper photo, and a small embellishments spanning the two small photos.

Here are a few close-ups.

The Splat is a Silhouette cut file. The Alphabet stamp is one of my favorite stamp set. The scrabble letters were cut from a sheet of pattern paper that I've had in my stash for years. I've also used my Fastenator stapler to hold down the ribbon, and three eyelets as a bit of an embellishment.


Finally, the journaling. My grand-kids are somewhat obsessed with Minecraft.

That's it for now.
Thank you for stopping by to take a look. I appreciate you doing so.

À la prochaine, Until next time,

Jacynthe 😊

11/1/2019  - My layout was chosen Top 3 💟