Happy Easter!

Whether one is religious or not, Easter is a special time to spend with family, celebrate life... and of course, eat candy! This year for Easter i decided to make cute little candy boxes for my nieces.
It all started with some empty plastic packaging from punches that i had bought a while back. I saved them, knowing that eventually i'd find inspiration to recycle them into something nice. Why not fill them up with Jellybeans?! hehe

Since the boxes were a bit too big for the amount of jellybeans i had (yes, i must confess, i had to taste-test the jellybeans before giving them to my nieces!!!), i stuffed the bottom of the boxes with tissue paper, and then, in went the candy!

I looked for paper to match the colours of the jellybeans and i found none better than leftover paper from the KaiserCraft Utopia and Babushka Collections (sorry, i couldn't find the link for this one as it is quite an older collection). After a bit of cutting, punching, choosing ribbon, i came up with these...

Now all i needed was a little something to make them a little more 'Easter-y'.  What better than bunnies... so i found these old bunny stickers in my Easter stash container and sparkled them up a little with Stickles. I did the same with the Easter flower stamp (that i bought at Michael's for only $1.50 by the way!) after coloring it in with markers. I then added a flower to each, and there you go... 2 pretty Easter boxes full of goodies for Ella & Daphne! :) 

Forever - Pencil Lines Sketch 234

YAY! I got to play with some KaiserCraft goodies again! Have you ever seen all their wood flourishes? They're to die for! I made sure to use a lot on this new layout, kept them to their natural state, and it turned out just beautiful.  

I was inspired by the Pencil Lines sketch below. Hopefully i get to win an awesome prize sponsored by Noel Mignon just by playing along! Once again, i turned it into a double-page.

Forever

June 2nd, 2009 is the date when Yves proposed to me and i said YES! It was also our 3rd dating anniversary... a day full of love and happy surprises which i will always cherish in memory... and in scrapbooking :)

I decided to use KaiserCraft's Prairie Lane collection since it went so perfectly well with the colors in our pictures.
Now look at this gate... Beautiful, isn't it? 

I would have really wanted to use these beautiful Kaisercraft Paper Blooms on my layout, but my LSS didn't have them in stock - i guess i'll just have to order some! So, instead, i used Prima flowers (which i LOVE too!), some of which i've altered a little by adding some Stickles just to give them a sparkle or two and dabbing them with Distress Ink, both from Tim Holtz.  Because i didn't find they went with the overall tone of the page, i also removed the center of some of the flowers and glued in some brown pearls instead.

Thanks for looking! Hope you enjoyed and i'll be sure to keep you posted on when the wedding will be! hehe

Bonne Fete Therese!

Today is one of my friendly co-workers' birthday, Therese. By special request from her friends, I made this special card for her. I hope she has a wonderful day full of great food (we're going out to lunch - hehe), great laughs and even greater surprises!

Remember 2 Always Love Life - April Prima PPP

I'm so thrilled to share this layout with you today! I got to play with more Prima goodies recently... gorgeous paper, beautiful flowers and dainty ribbon... all for the Prima April PPP (Product Pick and Palette) challenge. I was also super excited at the beginning of the week when i received an envelope full of Prima flowers in the mail - i had won a $25 gift certificate at ScrapAttack Scrapbooking and spent it all, never even leaving their Prima section!

Without further ado, these were the gorgeous colors in the April Palette that i already shared with you in a previous post:

Stunning, aren't they?! There was no way i would pass on this challenge so i got busy browsing my Prima stash right away and came up with this one-page layout. Yes, i know, one-pagers are fairly rare on my blog, but i do like to make some now and then! Sometimes it just feels right :)

Remember 2 Always Love Life

You probably remember having seen this picture already. I had used a sepia version of it on the very first layout i posted on this blog back in January. There is such a sweetness to it, the way my nieces are walking away, hand in hand with their father, leading them to explore a sweet Summer's day.  I thought this colored version matched perfectly with the Prima palette.

The paper i used is Spring Tide (842475) from the Madeline collection (i made a card with the leftovers that i'll share with you tomorrow!) and different shades of cardstock. The majority of the flowers used are also Prima: Celebrate - Love Note Collection (548827), Sparkling - Marri Collection (548582), Annabel - Softies Collection (547936), Bright Mini Rose Mid Release (535544).  The pearly ribbon is the Pearl Cream Lace (537265): only, it was originally yellow and i dyed it a soft shade of brown using Glimmer Mist. The other ribbon was dyed from peach to green. I also used Glimmer Mist on the Dusty Attic bird cage, birds, vines, title and corner. The edge of my background was stamped using a Prima stamp (850739) and different shades of  Tim Holtz Distress Ink. The die-cut swirls are from a Niklin Designs prize pack i had won via Creative Scrappers, and yes, you guessed it, they were also altered with Glimmer Mist.

Hope i've inspired you a little today.  Please don't be shy to leave me a comment - they always make my day!!! Tell me what Prima product is your favorite. Also, send your scrap buddies to visit my blog if you think they'd like my style :)

Spring Fling

Well, i have been pretty crafty lately, let me tell you! If it wasn't for work and sleep, i can honestly say that i'd be scrappin' 24/7!

The layout i'm sharing with you today was based on this April sketch at Artful Delight.

Spring is finally here and what better source of inspiration is there than to see the tulips budding through the ground? Although around here, it's been quite cold these last couple days, making me wonder if Mother Nature might have played a trick on us by deciding to 'spring' forward right on to Autumn! The tulips are slowly but surely still coming out though. :)

Spring Fling

Once again, you see that i've extended the sketch to a double-page layout. There really needs to be more double-page layout loving out there!!! ;)  I wish i had more information to give you about the paper used in this layout, but the sad truth is that i've had it for quite a while now and in the past, in order to better organize my paper in 12x12 containers, i used to cut out the white strips on which the name and brand are usually indicated. All i know is that it's Christmas paper! Can you believe it? A Spring layout with Christmas paper! hehe If any of you do remember this collection, please do let me know in a comment and i will be more than happy to update this post with the information :)

As usual, all the stitching was done by hand. My technique right now is laying my paper over a long piece of styrofoam and punching the holes one by one. Sometimes i make an outline with a pencil beforehand. I don't think i could even do a straight line with a sowing machine, let alone write a word in script! I can't wait to get myself the Sew Easy tool from We R Memory Keepers!

Wishing each and every one of you a beautiful Spring!