Thursday, December 30, 2010

Dec 30th - Rudolph is having fun!

Rudolph is still on holidays and today he is playing a joke on one of his friend! He he... Good old Rudolph! ;-)

Rudolph est toujours en vacances et aujourd'hui il est en train de taquiner un de ses copains... Sacré Rudolph !

Digi stamp: Dustin Pike

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Dec. 29th - A warm bath!

Today Santa is enjoying a bath in the warm Pacific ocean... Beware of sunburns!

Aujourd'hui le père Noël poursuit ses vacances et profite d'un bain dans l'océan pacifique... Attention aux coups de soleil !

Digi stamp: Dustin Pike
Promarkers, sandpaper, chalk and distress inks.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Dec. 28th - In the tropics

Rudolph is also taking some holidays under the tropical sun... :)

Rudolph prend aussi des vacances sous les tropiques !

Digi stamp: Dustin Pike

Monday, December 27, 2010

Dec. 27th - Relaxing...

Today, meet Santa relaxing after the madness of these last weeks... As you can see he chose a far away tropical destination for his vacation!

Aujourd'hui, on retrouve le Père Noël sur son lieu de vacances en train de se relaxer après la folie de ces dernières semaines ! Notez la destination lointaine... Il a bien raison ! 

Digi stamps: Dustin Pike
Coloring: Promarkers

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Dec. 26th

My advent calendar goes on until the end of  the month.
Today Santa's elves start getting some well deserved rest... until next year!

Mon calendrier continue jusqu'à la fin du mois...
Aujourd'hui les lutins du Père Noël commencent leur période de repos qui durera jusqu'à l'année prochaine !

Digi stamp: Dustin Pike

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Advent calendar - Dec 25th

Merry Christmas, everyone!
Joyeux Noël à tous!

Digi stamp: Dustin Pike
Background stamp: Hero Arts "Bigp pine bough"

Friday, December 24, 2010

Advent calendar - Dec 24th

Up on the housetop, reindeer pause
Out jumps good ol' Santa Claus
Down through the chimney with lots of toys
All for the little ones, Christmas joys
Ho, Ho, Ho! Who wouldn't go?
Ho, Ho, Ho! Who wouldn't go?
Up on the housetop, click, click, click
Down through the chimney with good Saint Nick
 C'est la belle nuit de Noel
La neige etend son manteau blanc
Et les yeux leves vers le ciel
A genoux, les petits enfants
Avant de fermer les paupieres
Font une derniere priere.

Petit papa Noel
Quand tu descendras du ciel
Avec des jouets par milliers
N'oublie pas mon petit soulier.
Mais avant de partir
Il faudra bien te couvrir
Dehors tu vas avoir si froid
C'est un peu a cause de moi.

Digi stamp: Dustin Pike

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Advent calendar - Dec 23rd

Today in every house it's time to prepare a snack for the coming of Santa!

Aujourd'hui dans les maisons, on prépare une petite collation pour l'arrivée de Père Noël...

Digi stamp: Dustin Pike
Background stamp: Hero Arts "Big pine bough"

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Advent calendar - Dec 22nd

Today Santa is going on a scouting trip before D-day!!

Aujourd'hui, le Père Noël part en reconnaissance avant le grand jour !!

Digi stamp: Dustin Pike
Background stamp: Hero Arts Clouds
Coloring: Promarkers

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Advent calendar - Dec 21st

Today another little caroler comes to join the troop!

Aujourd'hui, un nouveau petit chanteur de Noël vient rejoindre la troupe !

Digi stamp: Dustin Pike

Monday, December 20, 2010

Advent calendar - Part 1

A few posts back, I showed you a work-in-progress... I've scanned each page of this advent calendar before I bind it so here they are. They all use Dustin Pike digi stamps as main images + some other stamps I used to make some of the backgrounds.
They are the size of a coaster (9 x 9 cm) that I will use to make the covers. I tried to tell a little story from Dec 1st to Dec 31st... yes this an advent calendar "with a twist" because it goes until the end of the month!

Here we go!

On December 1st, it's about time to mail our Christmas list to Santa...

... who is waiting for it at the North Pole...


His little helpers start receiving big bags full of mails...

... while in town some are choosing their tree...

Santa's elves are checking if we've been naughty or nice...

... while in town the house starts being decorated...

First thing: the star on top of the tree...




... meanwhile Santa's helpers are preparing Rudolph's sleigh...

...an elf is painting candy canes...

...Rudolph is ready!

...although in town the tree is not totally ready yet...

...not ready at all! Some little mice are getting into mischief under the tree!

Luckily there is a reliable guardian waiting outside in the cold winter...

... while some others are having fun in the tree in the warmth of the house!

A quick shot to remember this moment?



The fireplace is decorated too...

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without holly!




At the North Pole, the toys are packed up...

Gingerbread and candy cane, what else?? ;-)

The Carolers are in the streets... Christmas 's approaching!!


To be continued... tomorrow and every day until December 31st!

Hero Arts stamps on backgrounds #3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14 (Designer Woodgrain, Winter Pine, Big Pine Bough)
Artemio stamps on backgrounds #2, 20
Stampendous stamps on background #15 (Snowy Retreat) 
Main images coloring: Promarkers  
Backgrounds: scrapbook papers and/or several inks

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J'avais en tête de faire un calendrier de l'avent sur le meme principe que le calendrier perpétuel que j'ai fait il y a quelques temps. C'est fait ! Voici les 20 premiers jours avant de les relier avec my Bind-it-all. J'ai essayé de raconter une petite histoire chronologique avec les digi stamps de Dustin Pike et quelques tampons Hero Arts, Stampendous et Artélio pour les fonds. A suivre jusqu'à Noel et peut-être même jusqu'au 31 décembre !

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Bloh hop tomorrow at the Hero Arts blog!


Everything is in the title! The new 2011 Hero Arts catalog will  be released soon and to celebrate this there will be a blog hop tomorrow starting here. Join in the fun  to preview all the new stamps of the 2011 catalog! And also to have a chance to win a catalog and some brand new released stamps on the HA Flickr pool!

Pour fêter la sortie du catalogue 2011 de Hero Arts, un "blog hop" démarrera demain ici.  Des catalogues et des tampons de la nouvelle collection sont à gagner via le groupe Flickr de Hero Arts !

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Work in progress... sneak peek ;-)

It's not totally completed yet... This is something I had in mind for a while... I still have to add a few sparkles and a bit of glitter...


More infos coming soon!

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Ce n'est pas encore tout à fait terminé... C'est quelque chose que j'avais en tête depuis un petit moment. Je dois encore ajouter quelques touches de paillettes par ci par là...

Plus d'infos bientôt !

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Pet sympathy card

I made this card quickly yesterday evening for a coworker who told me she has had to put her dog to sleep last weekend. She was of course deeply moved by this. I understand so well...


I used my friend Cuttlebug :) to cut several square shapes. The colored framed is a "Max & Whiskers" paper by Basic Grey and the dog stamp is by Inkadinkado.

I wouldn't have thought I would use this stamp in such circumstances. So sad :(

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Une petite carte que j'ai faite rapidement hier soir pour une collègue qui a du faire "endormir" son chien le weekend dernier. Evidemment elle en a gros sur le coeur et elle redoutait ce moment. Comme je la comprends...

J'ai coupé plusieurs formes carrées avec mon amie Cuttlebug, en faisant un cadre avec le papier coloré "Max & Whiskers" de Basic Grey. Le tampon du chien est d'Inkadinkado.

Je n'aurais jamais pensé utiliser cette série de tampons pour ce genre de circonstances... :(

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Corner bookmark

I've been wanting to make this kind of bookmark for a while... Now it's done... between 1:00 am and 3:00 am Friday night! Yes, I'm a night owl!
I made two of these for two girl friends of mine when we met yesterday for a crafty afternoon at Laurence's, a very crafty friend.


I followed this tutorial and it was very easy to make. What took me more time was choosing the different papers and cutting them to size!

The image is a digi stamp by Dustin Pike.

I forgot to take a picture of the second one so I will show it later.

Thanks for looking!

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Cela faisait un petit moment que je voulais essayer de faire ce  genre de marque page. Ca m'a pris entre 01h00 et 03h00 du matin vendredi soir !! Oui, je suis une couche-tard qui a tendance à perdre la notion du temps quand elle bricole...
J'en ai fait deux que j'ai offert hier samedi lors d'un après-midi "bricolage/scrap" chez ma copine Laurence. J'ai oublié de prendre le 2eme en photo, ce sera pour une autre fois.

J'ai suivi ce tutoriel pour les réaliser, très facile.

L'image est un digi stamp de Dustin Pike.

A bientôt !

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Christmas card giveway at Scrapcollector's!

Yenni Natalia (Scrapcollector) is giving away some of the Christmas cards she has created lately and today I won one of her gorgeous cards!

This one:

Yenni Natalia's card at Scrapcollector
Isn't it gorgeous?? She used a Penny Black stamp that she colored with distress inks in a monochromatic way. I love the result. This is very unusual for a snowman but as I said to Yenni, this gives the scene a warm feeling, as if it takes place at the end of a sunny winter day.

Thank you Yenni! I will be happy to give a new home to this cute snowman... Moreover snow is not far over here... and I faaaarrr better like the snow on this card than the one that there will be in the streets!! :-/

Make sure to check Yenni's blog on a regular basis if you don't want to miss her next cards giveways!

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Blog candy at Wee Memories!

Run to Jenny's blog "Wee Memories" before November 30 to make sure you sign up to have a chance to win her fab blog candy!
Thank you so much, Jenny!

Friday, November 12, 2010

Fluffles in action!

This is a birthday card I made for a friend using one of my favorite cat stamps: Fluffles by Stampendous. This fluffly ball is always shown in comic situations or with a comic look upon his face.


Detail of the gift. I've added Frosted Lace Stickles on it + a ribbon and raised it with 3D adhesives.




By the way...I think I'm on the right path to collect all Fluffles stamps...... No comment! :-p

Stamps: Fluffles Gift (Stampendous), Happy Birthday sentiment (Cupcakes by Hero Arts)

Yenni Natalia's blog candy

To celebrate her birthday, Yenni Natalia has a blog candy at her blog Scrapcollector. Make sure to go there and add your name to have a chance to win before Dec. 10th!

Thank you Natalia!

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Sympathy cards

Here are several cards I made for a coworker. The goal was to make several cards and submit them to my other coworkers who would choose the one we would send her.

This is the first time I made a sympathy card and it's not easy to stay very simple, not too dark and not too cheery as well. They chose this one:


The other ones...

I don't really like this purple one. I think this looks more like a communion card than a sympathy one.


This one was my fav:

Stamps: Silhouette Fern (Hero Arts), Friend definition (Hero Arts), All I have seen (Stampin' Up)

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Happy Halloween!

No card today but something far better... 

 
Click on the picture to view full video clip of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'

Friday, October 29, 2010

Thank you and birthday cards + an ATC + a calendar

One of my online friends, Michelle from Sri Lanka, had her birthday lately. Here are a few things I sent her lately, both for her birthday and also to thank her for the fabulous prize I won on her blog in June.

Here is the thank-you card. You will probably recognize Betsy Bluebell from Penny Black.


I colored the stamped image with Promarkers and added a real tag to the bouquet.

Now, this is the birthday card I made using the pumpkin Nestabilities, embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder, and Marianne D dies for the leaves. As Michelle's birthday was on Oct. 24th I gave it a little (a big!) Halloweeny feeling...



The pumpkin bear is a digital stamp by Dustin Pike (DoodleDragons) colored with Promarkers. The sentiment is by Hero Arts and belongs to the Cupcake clear set I won on Michelle's blog.

Then I made an Atc, still Halloween theme, inspired my the card I made a few weeks ago:
 The ghost, the spider and spiderweb are from the Owl-oween clear set by Hero Arts. The spider doesn't show very well even though there's some Glossy Accents on it. The background is made with alcohol inks.

To complete this, I made a little calendar for "dates to remember", using my Bind-it-all:

Again, the owl is a digi stamp by Dustin Pike. I really love his drawings. The clouds are from Hero Arts. I clear embossed the stamp and heat it with blue embossing powder with my heat-gun. I run the green paper through my Cuttlebug to make the grass.

The printable calendar is a freebie I found on the PaperCrafts Inspirations blog.


Thanks for looking!

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Voici quelques petites choses que j'ai envoyées à Michelle (du Sri Lanka) pour son anniversaire dernièrement et aussi pour la remercier du "blog candy" que j'ai gagné sur son site en juin dernier.

Sur la carte de remerciements, j'ai utilisé le tampon transparent "Betsy Bluebell" de Penny Black et ai ajouté une "vraie" étiquette au bouquet.

La carte d'anniversaire est très marquée "Halloween" puisque l'anniversaire de Michelle tombe le 24 octobre. La citrouille est une Nestabilities, embossée avec la Cuttlebug. Les feuilles sont des dies de Marianne D. A l'intérieur, l'ours habillé en citrouille est un digi stamp de Dustin Pike. Le sentiment est de Hero Arts.

J'ai ajouté à ça une Atc faites avec des tampons du set Owl-oween de Hero Arts, inspirée de la carte que j'avais faite il y a quelques temps.

Et pour finir, j'ai fait un petit calendrier perpetuel pour noter les dates à retenir. La chouette est aussi un digi stamp de Dustin Pike (que j'ai retournée et un peu effacée pour la faire de dos). Les nuages sont un tampon Hero Art et l'herbe est faite avec la Cuttlebug.

A la prochaine !

PS : t'as vu Laurence, j'ai pensé à la traduction ;-)
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