TDC Blog hop!

Welcome to the French step of TDC's blog hop! You should have traveled aaaaaaall the way from Japan (Holly's blog) and your next stop is Michelle Batton's FB page. If you get lost along the way you can start back here.

My freebie is a quickpage / template pack. "Template" is a bit too ambitious of a word for this, actually. I just created the chevrons and the folded frame skeleton but the rest of the page is up to you. One thing that could be fun to do is to use this big white space for title, journaling, or even a blended pic, watcha think?

Just a word about the chevrons, since I'm at it! I created those as shapes and applied an inner shadow to create the "cut out effect" to them. That way, you can clip different papers to each of them (like I did in the quickpage), clip the same paper as the background one to increase the cut out look, or even ditch the inner shadow completely, apply a regular shadow and change the cut outs in paper pieces.

This is truely a perfect example of how versatile digi scrapping is, and of one of my main reason for LOVING this hobby of ours!

Anyway, hope you'll enjoy those goodies. Please shoot me a comment and link me up if you use those, I'd love to see your creations!!

Have a fun DSD and remember to hang out at The Digichick this weekend, we have even more fun planned for you. The shop is 40% off November 1st to Nov. 5th, it's time to get those paypal accounts ready! ;)

I'll host an International Chat on Sunday. It'll be at 11AM (Paris Time) = 10AM (England Time) = 7 PM (Japan Time) = 5 AM (EST). I won't post the PST time, it's indecent! LOL If you're around, please come hang out with us, it'll be fun!

ETA: sorry, I'm a dork, I forgot the link to download the freebie! DOH!!! I guess that's what you get for writing a blog post after your b'day party (with champagne!) LOL It's fixed, now!

EATA (edited again to add... yep, totally made that one up!): Apparently my box account is out of bandwith. I'll try to get this solved later today, please come back in a dozen hours and thanks for your patience!

EAATTA (edited again another time to add): Here is a new link to download the template. This one is via 4shared. Let me know if you have any trouble and THANKS for your interest in the freebie!!

Another month has come and gone...

... and I failed at keepin this blog up to date. Again. There's just too much going on in my life and in digi world for me to manage it. At least that's my story and I'm sticking with it! ;)

Bonjour, visiteurs francophones! Je vous invite à passer à la fin de ce post pour quelques mots dans notre langue natale! ;-)

So what happened since my last update? Let's see... My main news is definitely infertility-related: we'll have our second IVF attempt this July, and I got all the papers yesterday. This should happen during the week that my BFF Steph will spend here in vacation. She'll come to visit with her boyfriend Daniel, her almost-6-years-old son Tristan and her 2 1/2 yo daughter Ambre. It's both good and bad, good because it'll help me not get too crazy about the IVF thing, and bad because I won't be able to fully enjoy their presence, carry the kids, walk too much, etc. But even though I won't be fully participating in everything, I'm determined to enjoy this week. Then in early August, my dad and his girlfriend will come for a visit. And after that, if I can travel safely (=if I'm not pregnant), I will go to see my grandparents and mom. Pfew, this will be a fun summer! :D


Talking about fun, I've had a bit of a mojo-less time recently but I've still managed to scrap quite a bunch of pages. Here are the one I created since my last update. As I already did in my previous post, I'll just link them to my gallery so that I don't have to explain all of them. They are all created with TDC goodies.

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This last one is very special since I created it with Jenn's images and story for The Daily Digi's Play It Again feature. They request LOs from several scrappers to have a variety of styles with the same basic "material" (pix, journaling, etc.). It's incredibly fun to see how everyone's creativity is expressed in a different way. One thing that was very surprising to me was that I highlighted a different photo (the one with the two boys) than everyone else (most scrappers focused on the beautiful pic where he's looking straight at the camera). I think that tells a lot about what I love in scrapbooking: it celebrates love and relationships and my favorite pictures and stories are always the ones where peoples are shown happy together.

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It goes without saying, I was also thrilled to be featured in a TDD post. This site is a monument in my digi world and seeing my name up there, next to some of the most fabulous scrappers of this community, made me incredibly proud!

If you made it that far in this ginormous post, congrats and thank you!! LOL Before I'm gone (hopefully not for another month!), let me just say a word for my French visitors...

Bonjour et bienvenue, amis de France! Si vous arrivez sur ce blog depuis le monde du scrap papier, je vous souhaite également la bienvenue du "côté obscur de la force", à savoir le scrap digital que je pratique depuis plus de 6 ans déjà! J'espère que, malgré mes (longues) déblatérations en anglais, vous aurez plaisir à découvrir mon petit coin de web. J'écris dans la langue de Shakespeare car la plupart de mes scropines sont américaines. C'est ce qui arrive quand on a commencé sa carrière de scrappeuse dans un site anglophone! A l'époque (tout début 2006), il faut dire que le scrap digital n'était pas si répandu et il n'y avait rien en français. Le site en question est The Digichick, si vous voulez découvrir le scrap digital, faire quelques challenges et rejoindre une communauté hyper sympa (c'est pour moi presque une famille), vous savez où vous devez aller. Je fais partie de la Creative Team du site (ainsi que de plusieurs designeuses) et le lien vers ma galerie est ICI. Si vous préférez le scrap ou les loisirs créatifs hybrides, je vous conseille le site-soeur de TDC, The Hybrid Chick. Une mine d'inspiration même si, comme moi, on ne fait que regarder. Promis, un jour, j'arrêterai d'avoir peur de la colle et des ciseaux!


N'hésitez pas à me laisser un petit commentaire et/ou un lien vers votre blog, je vous lirai avec plaisir! Et si vous avez des questions, je suis votre homme... enfin, votre femme! A bientôt j'espère!

Photo-heavy catch up

7 weeks since my last post... That was quite a break, wasn't it? Let's see, what happened since I last wrote on this poor neglected blog of mine??

Well, first I had my mom visit  me for Easter. We had a blast, we visited some places but also spent some time just being together, doing nothing special but talking and enjoying being together. It was awesome!!

In April I also prepared an album in memory of our friend Hugues that passed away recently, and we gave it to his wife and son during a lunch we had all together. It was a bittersweet task for me, sad because every picture of him reminded me that he is gone and that his son (DBF's childhood friend) and wife (my collegue) are grieving and in pain, and joyful too because those pix were from happy moments and Hugues was definitely someone that enjoyed life. It was also a great reminder that there's no such thing as taking too many pix, that I should get in the photo too (there was no pic of me with Hugues) and that scrapbooking and preserving memories is not a regular hobby, that it has a deep meaning.

Since I'm at it, I've been scrapping a lot of pages since my last post. Let's see... I'll just post them with a link to my gallery so that you can check the credits and the description of the LOs if you're interested, there are too many pages for me to explain everything again! LOL

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BTW, this is probably my fave LO ever, technically, story-wise, I love it!!

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In other scrappy news, I'm now CTing for three awesome teams: site CT at The Digichick (and I not only love love love the designers and talented CTs there but also the awesome comunity), Amanda Heimann (who moved back to Scrap Orchard on NSD) and Charm Box Studios (Charla and Michelle joined their talents to create fonts, story boards, actions and other tools for photographers and scrappers). It's so exciting, but I have to find a way to organize my time and keep track of my assignements, because I'm honored to scrap for those amazing designers and I want to do it "right". It's still a work in progress!

On that note, I'm off to enjoy our beautiful and sunny Sunday, have fun!

Scrappy Sunday

First, a great news: my guest gig for TDC's CT became permanent! I'm so honored and happy to become a member of this fantastic group of ladies. They are so talented and inspiring and sweet! I had a big smile on my face and (literally) did the happy dance when I got the e-mail asking if I wanted to stay. Had to stop my hands shaking just long enough to answer YES!!! LOL

Anyway, I've had the pleasure to keep scrapping with the fabulous goodies from our designers and that's why you will still see many pages every week! Since I'm back to work I didn't scrap as much as I did the weeks before, but I was still pretty busy. Here are my most recent pages. First one using the March collab, "Someone Like You", that I created for the challenge I'm hosting this month.

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 Then here is this colorful LO with Dawn by Designs' new kit, very springy, featuring 2 or 3 years old me and my family and friends:

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Then there are three LOs for an online friend. I blurred their face for privacy reasons, but still wanted to show you the fun LOs I created!

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This is a LO of my then 2 years old brother reading a plane magazin while on his potty. I love those pix, they are so fun and cute... boy-typical, too! LOL I used a kit by TDC's march guest designer, Jenn Labre.

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And last but not least, two of my favorite designers, Amanda Heimann (for whom I CT) and Nicole from Sugarplum Paperie, united their talents to create a fabulous collab called "My Strength". It's gorgeous, as we could expect from those ladies, and I had a blast creating this LO:

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Voilà, that's it for the week. Words can't really express how happy I am to create for TDC. I get the chance to scrap those memories with gorgeous products and hang out with the coolest digi-family of all digi-land... I'm in heaven!! See you next time with more scrappiness!

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Can't. Stop. Scrapping!!

First, here are the last two week's P365 LOs: week 7:

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And now some "regular" pages... Well, a lot of them, actually!
First a page about my mom for a technique challenge @ TDC, using the January collab. LOVE!!

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Then 2 pages about my solo 1 month long trip to Malaysia way back in 1999. Can you believe I never scrapped this travel?? I used a new kit by Dawn by Designs, love her style!

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This is a page about something silly that my DBF said. I love his sense of humor! I used a new kit by Nicole Seitler (Sugarplum Paperie), love her designs too!

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We made a big remodeling 2 years ago and turned a garage / storage room into our living room. I used a new kit by Kimeric Kreations to scrap it. I didn't know her style but I love it!

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I'm really into scrap-therapy, journaling-heavy LOs recently, and this one is no exception. I used a fabulous kit by Katherine Nelson aka Flutter Expressions. Another new-to-me designer that I've become a fan of at my first try!

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This LO uses a kit by Karen Lewis. She is leaving TDC at the end of this month and all her designs there are 50%. I'm sad to see her go because she's an amazing designer (and a sweet lady) but the big sale is exciting, isn't it?

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And last but not least, another LO with Katherine's products. This one is about my cousin Noémie, she's just a sweet, smart and beautiful young lady.

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Okay, that was it. Pretty busy again, uh? I really loved being in this CT!!!