Well I do have some good news! Emmanuelle who owns an online scrapbooking store here in Belgium has kindly asked me to be on her Design Team. She doesn't do monthly kits but the Design Team creates kits which she sells. The kits come with step by step instructions. I've got so many ideas!!! Thanks Emma!!

Et oui, une bonne nouvelle. Emmanuel de SCRAPFUTE m'a demandé de faire partie de son Design Team pour son magasin de scrapbooking sur internet. Le DT va créer des kits qui seront vendus. Il y aura une variété de styles et de kits. Des minis, des home décos, et d'autres. Un grand merci à toi Emmanuelle. Les autres membres sont aussi super talenteuses!!!! Il y a GRENOUILLETTE, LALAITH et CHRISTELLE.

And here's a sneak peek at a mini book I have made for my next crop in October. Only a peek!!!! I used American Crafts products and embossing folders. I really love the result. 

Et voici un aperçu du mini que je propose à la crop des pois rayés. Un mini American Crafts et beaucoup d'embossage à froid. 

Inspiration board 202

I am having so much fun at Colorcombosgalore. I just love working with the palette and the designer challenge. It really makes me think outside of the box and try out new things. Look at this yummy board! 

J'aime beaucoup travailler pour COLOR COMBOS GALORE. J'adore utiliser les combos et le challenge me fait sortir de ma zone de confort.  Voici celui de cette semaine!

AND this is what I made.

The designer challenge this week was wood grain. I could have used patterned paper but decided to try a wood-grain effect using gesso. I then layered my paper that I cut out as frames. To addsome dimension I stuck them on thick cardboard. I'm going to frame it and hang it up somewhere! I also made a tutorial for the wood-grain gesso effect, so hop over to colorcombosgalore and check it out.

Le challenge cette semaine c'était le bois. J'aurai pu prendre un papier imprimé avec un effet bois mais j'ai voulu essayer autre chose. Ici j'ai décidé utiliser le gesso et faire un effet bois. J'ai fait un pas-à-pas qui se trouve ici. Puis j'ai coupé mes papiers pour faire un cadre qui est collé en 3D. 

I also decided to make a card. The wood-grain here is made using an Craft concepts embossing folder. Love all the effects you can make with those folders! I finally got to use those spools from the Nook June kit. 

J'ai aussi fait une carte. J'ai enfin pu utiliser les bobines reçues dans mon kit de juin de chez the SCRAPBOOKNOOK!

I still have so much to show you. I'll probably be doing a post a day as I have a lot of catching up to do. Tomorrow I'll show you some sneak peeks of a project I've made for a crop. I used loads of AC products. You won't get to see the entire project as the crop is in October. Have a great day!

Pebbles

I LOVE their products but I can't seem to get hold of everything here. These are a few of my latest creations with their products.

 A simple card with some stitching for a little girl who's turning 8.

Isn't it fun to scrap a girl. And isn't she a cutie my niece. I used my favourite border punch (at the moment) and even use the borders of the patterned papers. Isn't is nice that one side has these cute prints. 

For this layout I was starting to run out of paper so I sewed two pieces together and added some extra stitching. Got my punches out again and my orange smooch (I'll have to get some more of that soon!!!). Some doodling (love doing that once in a while) and voilà! 

This must be my favourite! It is a wooden board with 9 wooden squares on it. It is now hanging on one of our kitchen walls. I cut out 9 squares of patterned paper and embellished them. LOVE the colours and I can still feel that kiss.
The wooden board is from Au petit bois. 
Et voilà. Aujourd'hui je vous montre des créations faites avec des produits PEBBLES. Ils ont vraiment des collections magnifiques mais je n'arrive pas à tout trouver par ici. J'ai fait une carte, deux pages et une décoration faite avec une base de bois avec 9 carrés en reliëf acheter chez Julie Petit (Au petit bois) il y a un certain temps. J'adore le résultat! 

Hip JUNE kit

This was yet again a gorgeous kit. I know Kimberly hasn't posted them on the blog yet but I still wanted to show you a little something of what I made. You'll get to see the remaining creations later on this week.

Le kit de HIP2BSQUARESCRAPBOOKING était encore une fois superbe. Je ne peux tout montrer mais je vous montre ceci comme avant goût. Pour voir le reste il faudrait revenir!

And the winner is ...

Congrats Jenessa. Email me at lilitheeckelsatgmaildotcom so that I can send you your prize!

American Crafts

I just LOVE their products. Here is a layout and some cards I made using them.
J'adore leur produits donc j'ai fait une page et deux cartes.

BLOG HOP: Colorcombosgalore

If you're hopping, you've come from: Kelly Holbrook. As it's the 200th palette what about some fun. Leave a comment and on Sunday, July 24 (10.00am EST) I'll randomly pick someone who'll get this prize from me:  

Welcome to the Color Combos Galore 200th "Anniversary" Blog Hop! We hope by visiting the CCG Design Team members' blogs, you will be able to pick up some fun tips and techniques. Many of the team members will be offering prizes, so you will want to visit all of the blogs to increase your chances of winning some fun scrappy stuff. We are also offering a chance at a Guest Designer spot for the month of August if you visit all of the blogs in our Blog Hop and participate in Challenge 200 by uploading your project to the CCG Gallery. It's so fun to get the colors before everyone else! Plus, who doesn't love to see their name in lights! The deadline for the chance to win these prizes is one week from today, Sunday, July 24, EST.

If this is your first stop at our Blog Hop, you'll want to start at Bente's blog, and follow the hop in order so you don't miss anyone. If you've been hopping in order, your next stop is Maiko Kosugi

Once you have visited all the blogs and uploaded a project to the CCG Gallery using Challenge 200, please make sure you check in at the Blog Hop discussion in the Special Announcements Forum at CCG. We will choose our August Guest Designer from that thread. Individual DT members will be choosing winners for the prizes they are offering. Good luck, and we hope you'll enjoy our blog hop!

As it's the 200th palette what about some fun. Leave a comment and on Sunday July 24, I'll randomly pick someone who get this prize from me: 

And now for this week's palette. I loved those colours from the start and I decided to make a layout and a card:

 

I love that blue patterned paper and really wanted to use it. I just love that little camera stamp and decided it would be the centre piece of my card. I heat embossed it to give it some shine. Next I added a sentiment stamp from Heroarts and to get all the colours from the palette on there I added two light blue brads.

And now my layout and it must be one of my favourites. 

When I created this layout I had different patterned papers lying on my scrap table. And in the end I didn't use them at all. I took out my Kesi'art stamps (French Brand) and stamp the circles with versafine Deep lagoon and sprinkled transparent embossing powder over it. I then heat embossed it. It gives it a nice shiny finish. The leaves I just stamped on and added some stickles. It's been a while since I used those. I added my photo, a border sticker, a rub-on from Lilybee and a stamp with the title. To finish it off I added some brads (lighter blue) and drew a border around my photo. Not a lot on my layout but that's how I like my layouts.

Thanks for stopping by and have fun with the blog hop.

Here's the full list

Bente Fagerberg - http://paperandglueheaven.blogspot.com/   

Cynthia Lloréns - http://cyndiscrap.blogspot.com

Debbi Tehrani - http://debbitscraps.blogspot.com/

Eva Pizarro - www.evascrap.blogspot.com
Fi Kenward - http://allthingscreativescrapbooking.blogspot.com/

Helen Tilbury - http://helentilbury.blogspot.com

Jasmine Shea - http://www.jasminesscrapvine.blogspot.com/

Kaori Fujimoto - http://scrapgarden-kao.blogspot.com/

Kaori Watanabe - http://chelseavn.blog43.fc2.com

Karen Watson - http://stop-breathe.blogspot.com/  

Kelly Holbrook - kellyrholbrook.blogspot.com   You came from here

Lilith Eeckels - http://lilithandscrap.blogspot.com/   You're here

Maiko Kosugi - http://maimaipiano.blogspot.com/  You'll want to go there...

Marilyn Rivera - http://marilynrivera.blogspot.com/

Melinda Thompson - http://www.minseverydaymoments.blogspot.com/

Milagros C. Rivera - http://www.paperboutiquescrapbookingstudio.blogspot.com/

Nancy Burke - http://www.nancyburke.typepad.com/

Ria Mojica - www.cakesnscraps.blogspot.com

Tomomi Nomura- http://blog.livedoor.jp/nomtom/

Susan Stringfellow - www.creativelysavvy.blogspot.com 
Tanya Tahir - http://www.sweetaboutme-tanya.blogspot.com/
Tina Walker - http://adogslife-thirteen.blogspot.com/

Wendy Kwok - http://captureeachmoment.blogspot.com/

Hip May layouts and cards

They've been finished for quite a while but I haven't had time to show them so here they are:
Voici les créations faites avec le kit de mai de chez Hip2Bsquare :

NUMBER 200

Yep. At colorcombosgalore palette 200 is up. 200 isn't that something to celebrate. Here's the palette and don't forget to stop by on Sunday at 16:00 as there will be a surprise waiting for you. You'll also get to see my layout for this week color combo. 

Combo numéro 200. Et oui, et ça se fête. Voici le combo et rendez-vous dimanche pour une petite surprise. 

Scrabble

Love this game and yes it also exists for scrapbooking. What? Well on the temporelles forum, the game this summer is based on scrabble. Each letter correpsonds to a certain instruction. Each participant gets 7 letters and we have to make a layout based on 7 instructions. Each week we get a new set of instructions. Here's my first layout.

Sur le forum des temporelles un jeu de scrabble  se joue cet été. A chaque tirage les participants ont 7 lettres qui correspondent à des éléments à mettre sur notre page. J'adore le principe mais ce n'est pas toujours évident. Voici ma première page.

My first crop

Today I had my first ever crop with the girls from the scrapcooperation. I was soooo nervous as I didn't know if they would like my project. I was so wrong to be nervous. They made me feel at lease and loved the mini book I had made. Here it is: 

Aujourd'hui j'ai animé ma première crop chez la scrapcoopération. J'ai été tellement nerveuse mais les filles étaient superbes et m'on tout de suite misent à l'aise. J'ai passé une journée inoubliable. Merci les filles. J'ai été ravie de passer cette journée en votre compagnie. Voici les photos de mon projet. 

Click on the photos for a larger picture.

Clquez pour voir plus grand.

Ad inspiration

Pam from Happy to be scrapping (go and check out her blog, she is sooooooooooo talented) came up with a great challenge over on the scrapbooknook forum. I immediately fell for this advertisement. I used the July Nook kit. I just love those kits. Thanks Pam for the challenge as I really love my layout.

Pam (Happy to be scrapping, allez y faire un tour) nous a proposé sur le forum SCRAPBOOKNOOK de nous inspirer de publicités. J'ai choisis celle-ci. Ma page a été faite avec le kit du scrapbooknook de Juillet. J'adore ces kits!

CCG 199

The palette is up at ColorCombosGalore and I LOVE the combo. It's fresh it's yummy and it inspired me. Have a look:

This week's designer challenge was to focus on typography. I used some Artemio small alphabet stickers that I overlapped abn finished it off with some thickers.
Ma première pour la DT de CCG et la combo de cette semaine est superbe. Une vraie combo d'été. Venez jouer avec nous ici.

Holding hands

Thanks for all your lovely comments. It has only been the last few years that I have become a confident person. I have always seen myself as unworthy, not pretty and having no special gift. I started to change the day I met my husband. He has made who I am now and today I can say I feel happy being me. Scrapbooking has made me realise I too can be creative. This post is to say thank you to my husband, my family and all those of you who have left me a comment: Each comment, encouragement has pushed me to discover who I am.

No post would be complete without some layouts. I have started playing with the HIP2BSQUARE May kit. Kimberly if you happen to read this, you make the most AMAZING kits. I am surprised every month at the range of products. 

I made a layout using a photo of my husband and our youngest on one of our walks. Elouan is a strong willed boy and always wants to try to do things alone and sometimes we have to put our foot down. Here we were walking very close to water and he didn't want give his father a hand but soon found out it was better to do so.

Two simple cards but I like them and that's all that counts. I have stopped scrapping to please others or to try to be published. I just want to scrap for myself and my family.  Thanks for looking.

Un grand merci à toutes celles qui passent sur mon blog et qui me laissent des petits coms. Chacun me fait plaisir. Voici une page et deux cartes faites avec le fabuleux kit de mai de chez HIP2BSQUARE.