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Simply leave a comment on this post and you'll get a chance to receive this lovely kit in the mail! :)

I'll draw a winner on Sunday! :D

Take care!

Over 70 students, around 300 croissants & pains au chocolat, 350 very BIG kits, 70 goodie bags with loooots of amazing products from our generous sponsors, liters and liters of COFFEE, pain perdu (yeah, my dad made some for all students!), wine, good food, candies, hugs, friends, parents, boyfriend,... Dina, Karine and I.

Dina in the middle of her class...AMAZING project!

Karine and her students!

Corinne Delis came to take the classes and we were thrilled to have her around. She's just amazing and cracking me up all the time...

The magazine Design Team : Corinne Delis, Nathalie Chauchadis, Carine Penard, me, Dina Wakley & Karine Cazenave-Tapie...

Dina & Corinne...

Wanna win this awesome kit offered by Kits de Somni?

This kit will, for sure, inspire you and turn any project into a unique & vintage scrapbook!

Simply leave a comment here and I'll pick a random winner on MONDAY!

THANK YOU MIREIA and KITS DE SOMNI for your generosity!

love!

This weekend, Karine and I are organizing and celebrating our 3-year anniversary of our event {entreARTistes} in Montpellier and we came up with lots of surprises for our students!

New workshops, Dina Wakley is our guest coming especially from the US, some girls from the {entreARTistes}magazine Design Team; gifts, goodie bags, we're gonna have such a GOOD weekend!

In the meantime, we would like to thank all of our sponsors, who have been supporting for a while now and offered many gifts for our students, so THANK YOU VERY VERY VERY MUCH!

Take care!

See you next week for a new INSPIRATION TUESDAY!

I didn't have enough time time this week to prepare my Inspiration Tuesday project as I'm working on the organization of a BIG {entreARTistes} retreat this weekend :) But I still wanted to show you some layouts that I made using Kesi'art products :)

See you next week!

Have a great day!

Well, just DON'T GO THERE! :D

Ok here's the story...

I started going to the swimming everyday since July and I LOVE making my friends laugh! So, while I was getting ready in the changing rooms at the swimming pool, I took a picture of myself (yeah yeah it's me on the picture!) with my iPhone and sent them to my friends :D

Now I understand WHY there's NO mirror at the swimming pool now! :D

Supply list : Papers (Fancy Pants, October AFternoon, Pink Paislee, Kesi'art); Alphas (American Crafts); Stickers (American Crafts, Jenni Bowlin, 7gypsies); Brads (American Crafts); Stamps (Studio Calico).

ENJOY! :D

Hey everyone!

Today, you can enter the drawing and maybe win a FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO {entreARTistes}magazine, your dear quaterly Scrapbook magazine from France!

Every three months, our design team and I work hard to come up with a unique issue, fll of inspiration, techniques and scrapbook projects so feel free to post a comment here and you might be one of the lucky winners on Sunday!

Don't forget that issue #5 is available on newsstands in France, Switzerland, Belgium and Quebec! This issue is full of amazing projects, it's a must have!

Hi everyone!

Sorry for being a little bit late today, life has been very busy with the magazine lately and I haven't had a chance to write up my entry for this new Inspiration Tuesday! :)

This week, I was working on a layout with quite a tight schedule, but that doesn't mean I didn't try hard to make a very special layout for you guys! ;p I REALLY wanted, needed to scrapbook the other day when I made this layout and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out :)

No particular technique this week but I have to say that it's all about fun and sharing here! :)

I couldn't resist working with my Studio Calico September kit : this kit is very colorful. I have to admit that I wasn't really attracted when I first saw it on the website, but maaaan when I got my package...I just fell in love with it! The richness of the colors, the boldness of the patterns, the designs are just perfect : just LOVE it! :)

So to get started, you'll need...

• Studio Calico September kit or 3 Bazzill cardstock (one black, one kraft, one green)and one or two patterned papers
  
• black and brown Versafine inks
• the Crop-a-Dile corner punch (as seen on picture below)

Step #1 : First of all, you will need to cut one of your cardstock smaller than 12x12 (let's say you'll cut it 11x11 or smaller...) and then cut your second cardstock even smaller than that.

Glue a piece of patterned paper onto your kraft cardstock.

Step #2 : I wanted to find something that separates my kraft cardstock from the printed paper and I couldn't resist using the beautiful yellow ribbon that was in the kit, and that also reminds the yellow butterflies...

Step #3 : To keep your design relatively clean, I only used two cream tags that I glued parallel from my printed paper.

Step #4 : Use a stamp with brown Versafine ink (I only use this ink when I stamp onto paper because the ink is very thin and has lots of pigments, so you really get the print of the stamp you're using).

Step #5 : Here's a little tip! To get shadows with your stamps, simply add some ink on your stamp...(here I used Versafine ink)

stamp on surface...

...then, without cleaing the stamp or re-inking, stamp again on top of your first stamping image, but a little further down : the remaining ink on the stamp looks like a shadow!
 

Step #6 : Use another stamp (Studio Calico stamp here) with brown Versafine then cut out the design.

Step #7 : Use a butterfly punch into patterned paper...
 

Step #8 : Staple the butterflies inside the stamped frames (Studio Calico stamp).

TA-DAAAAA!!!! :)

Feel free to get inspired by the design, draw a sketch out of it, use the same color combo and pleaaaase : leave a comment here with a nk to what you've created! :D

and here are some close-up pictures...

Hey! :)

I hope you all enjoyed your weekend :) Mine was pretty good, I enjoyed some relaxing time, scrapbooked a little, had friends around and voilà! :)

I'm going to show you a cute little layout I made a few weeks ago, when I received my package with my new Sassafras products! I got crazy when I opened the package!

A layout made with the little Monstruosity line, just because my friend Val and I are just WILD when we are together! :)

Have a great day and see you tomorrow on this blog for a new Inspiration Tuesday!

CONGRATULATIONS MARIA ANGELES! You won't Thursday giveaway! :)

Send me an email to thegreenfrogstudio@mac.com and you'll receive your gifts pretty soon!

see you soon!

Simply leave a comment on this post and you'll be entered into the drawing that will be on Sunday evening!

Hugs!

4:37 of course!

click on the alarm clock to discover the website of a new French Scrapbook manufacturer! :) And I'm telling you : it's going to be AWESOME!

I just can't wait to get my hands on this collection! :)

hugs!

Hello to everyone!

Sorry for posting my new Inspiration Tuesday a little bit late today but I've been experiencing computer problems but everything was fixed this morning by Damien so YAY! I can finally post my IT #11 now! :)

So I couldn't resist making a new mini album this week! and I have to admit that I really like it! :) Another quick, easy, textured, colorful mini album this week :)

I used some left over pieces of October Afternoon papers, those that I used for a recent class I taught in France last weekend.

I also used some Studio Calico FabricStrips that I LOVE LOVE LOVE! Those are printed fabric sheets that you can easily cut and punch and they are adhesive! They came up amazing design with those, you should definitely check their website!

Here's the supply list...

Papers (October Afternoon, Collage Press); alphas (Cosmo Cricket, Kesi'art); Stickers (American Crafts, October Afternoon, Kesi'art); Self-adhesive fabric sheet (Studio Calico); Fabric stickers (7gypsies); Flair (American Crafts); Rubons (Cosmo Cricket); Color Wash & masking tape. WOODEN MINI ALBUM : PAUSE CREATIVE.

ok here we go!

Step #1 : Prepare your mini album. What I love with the Pause Creative wooden mini album is that the wood is very thick and tender at the same time but also the pages inside! The paper just soak the ink up and it's faster to dry! which is super important to me as I'm a very impatient girl! :)

I chose the STEAM blue for my cover here and once dry, you can start decorating the cover.

Step #2 : Prepare each and every page with spray ink. I tried to choose different colors for each page, to give more color and have a wider palette to match my papers.

Don't be scared to use the fabric stickers, or stickers, or any punch as a mask to spray on top : it will give texture and design to your white pages.

Step #3 : Once you have all your pages dry, you can start glueing your photos and papers.

I wanted to show you as well that I made a BIG beginner mistake. You know that you're supposed to CUT the design you want to use on a rubon sheet. Well I was too lazy and just wanted to use TWO letters. Well, one letter got stuck to my picture, just right on my eye! So I had to fix this and decided to punch a star into paper and glue it on top of my rubon mistake. See how a mistake turn into something you're supposed to have made on purpose! :D

Step #4: I always finish up my pages with one or two lines of black pencil around the edges.

Step #5 : Prepare small clouds into fabric.

A very simple and esay-to-make mini album as you're working with 4x6 photos :)

Feel free to leave a comment with links to your work so that I can admire your Inspiration Tuesday art! :)

See you on Thursday for new giveaways!

Congrats to NANIMAUX77...

and angie51...

You both won the kit from last week! :)

Send me your name and address to thegreenfrogstudio@mac.com and I'll get the kits out to you pretty quick :)

THANK YOU ALL and see you tomorrow for a new INSPIRATION TUESDAY! 

hey!

I was invited this month by the talented ladies from Crazy Daisy kit, a monthly kit club from the United States. They sell unique, HUGE, crazy scrapbook kits and I was lucky enough to get one of them! :D I got spoiled!

Even though, at first, the color combo was not one I would personnally pick myself, I love challenges and I was delighted by the results of my layouts :D

Is it normal that I'm actually DANCING in front of my computer, smiling from ear to ear and wanting to kiss every single person on the video (Oprah included)? I JUST LOVE THIS VIDEO!

TODAY IS GOING TO BE A GOOD DAY! :D

video found on Flojo blog...merci ma belle!