SEA, ROCKS & SUN

Second attempt at scrapbooking large pictures. It's pretty cool. Especially the -everything comes together so quickly- part. I'm in love with that background paper, clearly still not over chevrons! Also had some fun with some of my current favorite alphas: teal glitter, woodgrain and white. we have a winner!

Just added a bit of paper layering for my journaling (it's in french, sorry guys!) and then a few embellishments (mostly circles since everything else is so rectangular!) 

I also thought it might be fun to join in a challenge, so i chose SJ Craft Summer themed challenge. You can join here too ;)

Here are some detailed shots:

 Thanks so much for taking a look!

ACROSS THE OCEAN

As you're reading this, i'm on a flight taking me from Paris, France to Ottawa, Canada, where I will be living and studying for the next 4 months!

I've traveled a bit, but never outside of Europe. Yet I've just embarked on a 6000 kilometers flight across the Atlantic ocean on to a new Continent. I'm pretty excited! To say the least.

I've got a lot of traveling planned, all around Canada first (every major cities, the Niagara Falls and i would kill to see Lake Moraine, hope i will make it), and then probably on to the East coast of the USA: Boston, New York, Washington... I'm living the dream & will most definitely enjoy every second of it. I know many of you are from Canada & the USA, so any suggestions are more than welcome!

Blog related, i'm not quite sure what will be happening here. I'm not taking much craft materials with me (i already have more shoes and clothes that the 23kg limit lets me take so there really is no room for patterned paper) but i've created a 4x6 mini album that's going with me and will serve as a journal to record my everyday. So I'm guessing there won't be much layout sharing here (except for a few i made lately but haven't showed you yet), but many travel photos and thought along my journey. 

So if you wanna tag along, get in & join me in this incredible journey!

SUMMER BOOK PAGES PART II

It's been a while since i told you about my Summer mini book. The thing is, i had some kind of a change of heart about the design of the album. One thing i learned: i am not much of a messy, free style scrapbooker. i love patterned paper, clean layouts with pretty embellishments. So i redesigned the mini albums pages entirely, and i love the look of it!

Each prompt got two pages, not side by side but back to back. Not very logical, but i liked it that way, feels more like a real book. Every page as a A side made of patterned paper and a B side made of one of the book page. They're all stitched all around (which took foreeeever to do, since i don't own a sewing machine!), and with a cute doily on a side (i got the idea from Carrie lovely mini). The papers are all different and from various collections: some old sassafras (i'm still hoarding some pieces ^^), american crafts, echo park, studio calico... but look quite awesome all together! 

I'll share the next pages here soon and tell you more about the embellishments i used!

VAMOS A LA PLAYA

I don't know about you, but i think summer wouldn't be summer without at least a few days at the beach. I don't like hot weather that much, or sand stuck in every part of my body, but there's just something about the smell of salty water & the sound of crashing waves that makes me feel good. 

Scrapbooking related, it means one thing: i have hundreds of pictures of blue water, waves and sandy toes. Expect a lot more layouts.

There's probably no need to mention it, but yep, this is another layout made with The Perfect Collection.

THE STORY BEHIND

The place: Barcelona

The event: my sister bachelorette party

Everything was ready for a memorable night. We had planned cocktails & tapas, dinner and a night club by the sea. But when do things ever go according to plan? Not this night anyway. But even though with didn't go to the restaurant, or to the night club and ate some not so good tapas, well we had lots of cocktails and laughed for the whole night. Because all it really takes is good friends!

 

And one more layout from Shimelle's The perfect collection class. 4 more to go!

Have a great week,