You can see a little interview of lil' old MOI on the American Crafts blog today! :D A sweet way to say THANK YOU as my term for them is almost over. I will SOOOOO miss designing for this amazing company. It's been two years that I've been lucky to be a DT member and I can tell you one thing : these guys at AC just ROCK!

I will miss everyone so much! :)

I'm off to the restaurant with my best friend tonight :)

hugs! c

I recently got some goodies in the mail from Hambly, My Little Shoebox & Purple Cows, and oh dear! I've been so inspired!

Issue #5 of the magazine is almost finished and now I wanna scrap like mad!

So yesterday I couldn't resist, I made two new layouts using Hambly & My Little Shoebox, those two perfectly match each other.

and talking about Purple Cows! do you have one of their AMAZING trimmers???! I got myself this one a while ago

and I recently got this one :

Oh dear! These are sooooo GOOD! What I really love about these two is that you can easily change the blades (and there are different shapes!), it is so safe, you cannot cut your fingers with those (and let me tell you, this is ONE big deal for me!) and it's ine fact TWO trimmers in one! I can easily put my second trimmer in a little suitcase (which is sold along with the trimmer) as it can separate in two pieces!

Honestly, people, you guys have to give it a try!

Me likes my Purple Cows trimmers! :)

Alright people, on the {EA} blog, you can see the new challenge this week, which is to be inspired by the color of the FRENCH flag : you US peeps won't be disappointed, it's BLUE-WHITE-RED :D

Go check out the blog to see my layout! :)

Have a great Wednesday all! :)

c

Happy Sunday all!

Today is my mom's birthday so we're going to spend the day together with my dad & family :)
Just wanted to share a layout I made yesterday with the beautiful Onirie papers and some of my favorite AC stamps & embossing powders...

Enjoy your weekend!

c

Papers (Onirie); Alphas (American Crafts); Stickers (Luxe Design); Ribbons (American Crafts); Flowers (Prima); Flair (Onirie); Stamps (American Crafts, Studio Calico, Florilèges); Ink (Versamark); Embossing Powders (American Crafts); Tags (retif); Spray (Glimmer Mist); Brads (Sassafras).

Rizières à Bali °American Crafts°, originally uploaded by thegreenfrogstudio.

Another layout I made a couple of weeks ago, using mainly American Crafts products (papers, thickers) and Prima flowers, Jenni Bowlin stickers and Pink Paislee rubons :)

Tomorrow is my mom's birthday so we're going to celebrate it with family :)

Happy weekend all!

c

Chicago 08 °Pink Paislee°, originally uploaded by thegreenfrogstudio.

One of the layouts I taught in Dublin, Ireland, last month! :)

I used Pink Paislee papers and stamps, along with American Crafts buttons and embossing powders :)

CALLS FOR ISSUE #6

• Challenge : We use letters in our everyday life, but ALPHAS are also one of our favorite embellishments! Use them the most unique way you can, as masks, embellishments and send your layout to us at challenge@entreartistesmagazine.com before September 1st 2009.
Title of your email : "Challenge #6 : Alphas".

• The readers'gallery : send us your most creative layouts for the readers gallery! Who knows? you might end up seeing your layout on the cover!

Send your layout to galerie@entreartistesmagazine.com before September 1st 2009.
Title of your email  : "Galerie #6".

• Photographies : our photography gallery theme this month is GO GREEN! May it be your favorite color or some green material worth being photographed,send us what brings this theme to your mind :)

MAx. size of your phot: 300K.We will ask for high resolution photograph upon publication. PLEASE NO LAYOUT FOR THIS COLUMN : it's a photography theme only!

Send your photos to inspiration@entreartistesmagazine.com before September 1st 2009.
Title of your email : "Inspiration Photo #6".

• Sketch : Share your favorite layouts inspired by this month's sketch!

Send your layouts to sketch@entreartistesmagazine.com before September 1st 2009.
Title of your email : "Sketch #6".

DEADLINE TO SEND US YOUR LAYOUTS : Septembre 1st 2009.

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CALLS FOR ISSUE #7

• Challenge : DOUBLE PAGE LAYOUTS, that is! May it be a 12x12 double page layout or a 6x6 one, enjoy the process of creating not one but TWO layouts for this challenge!

Send your layouts to challenge@entreartistesmagazine.com before December 1st 2009.
Title of your email : "Challenge #7 Double Page".

• The readers'gallery : send us your most creative layouts for the readers gallery! Who knows? you might end up seeing your layout on the cover!

Send your layout to galerie@entreartistesmagazine.com before December 1st 2009.
Title of your email  : "Galerie #7".

• Photographies : for this issue, the theme is SPARKLES OF...! It can be anything, so let the theme inspire you for this issue!

MAx. size of your phot: 300K.We will ask for high resolution photograph upon publication. PLEASE NO LAYOUT FOR THIS COLUMN : it's a photography theme only!

Send your photos to inspiration@entreartistesmagazine.com before December 1st 2009.
Title of your email : "Inspiration Photo #7".

• Sketch :  Share your favorite layouts inspired by this month's sketch!

Send your layouts to sketch@entreartistesmagazine.com before December 1st 2009.
Title of your email : "Sketch #7".

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DEADLINE FOR SENDING YOUR LAYOUTS : DECEMBER 1ST 2009.

hi everyone!

Here is a new serie of photographs from our trip to Bali in May...

This place has definitely changed a lot of things in my life, esp. the way of seeing life and enjoying it. Really, people are simply amazing over there, they always smile, they are open-minded, beautiful, kind, generous, respectful... I fell in love with that place, really :)

here's some pictures of the biggest Temple in Bali, in Besakih...

the street that goes up to the Temple...

Besakih Temple...

Pretty little girl that sells postcards...

Inside the Temple...

detail of a roof...

pretty little girls...

Young lady with baby... isn't she just beautiful?

so cute!

steps to the top Temple of Besakih...we did it, yeah!

and PARADISE... the Water Palace of Tirtagangga... the most beautiful place I've ever seen, REALLY.

ricefiels in the north of the island...

ordinary cliché in ricefields...

and two amazing ladies taking snapshots in the ricefiels! ;) beware of the moscitos! :D

I'll be back soon with layouts and mini albums to show you! :)

c

New colors, new labels, but same quality and shimmery look :)

ok you want to win some ?

Of course you'd love to! :)

Tattered Angels is running a contest over this weekend.. and this is how you can go into the draw:
For this giveaway we are asking people to do a simple post on their blogs or websites with the picture of the new bottles and the phrase, *Glimmer Mist** is the **same great product with a* *Fabulous NEW Look!*
Then you email the link to your blog to Liz at this addy:  liz@mytatteredangels.com  and she will verify and add your name to the list. Liz  will randomly pick 3 winners who will win a six pack of the brand new, never released WINTER 2009 colors!!! They are not on the market yet, and winners will be the first to receive them!

Now go upload this to your blog! :)

Céline

Finally!

I'm on vacation now, I mean, no more classes until mid-September, and even though we are working on issue #5 of the magazine, I had to show you my pictures from Bali! AT LAST!

So here are a few photos, I'll post more later on this week...I just need some extra time to photoshop them...

Discovering Ubud and its market...

Temples and offerings in Ubud...

Motorbikes in Ubud...

the famous BINTANG beer

Traditional Balinese show with gamelan music

The Hibiscus flower is my favorite flower but now I've got another favorite one : Frangipani flowers or sometimes called Flowers of Plumeria...DIVINE perfume...

See you later for more SCRAP stuff and more photos of Bali...

c

aaaaaaaaaah...

my suitcase is BACK!

When I landed in Dublin on Friday, no suitcase. I had to teach without any project (except my layouts which I was smart enough to put in my carry-on luggage), no stamps, no embossing powders, no NOTHING. No clothes, no toothbrush, no shampoo...etc...

but I got it back this morning! yooohooooo!

I will write more about my classes and the great day I had yesterday later!

HUGS to all!

c

edited post : I just noticed later on after this post that all the back of my suitcase has been CUT with some kind of a blade, making a L shape on several parts of the suitcase. That means, another mean email to Airfrance! grrrrr!

Here's a new layout I made for the Hambly scraplift challenge e had this month for the DT  we had to scraplift one girl from the DT and here's my layout! Had to scraplift Kara :) You can see everyone's stunning work here! !

here's a close-up of the picture I took - I really like it and the way I photoshoped it :)

Material : Papers (Hambly, Creative Café); Alphabets (American Crafts, Making Memories); Ribbons (American Crafts); Stamps (Les ateliers de Karine pour Alyssiane); Stickers (American Crafts, Hambly); Tags (Creative Café); Overlay (Hambly).

I'm off to Dublin, Ireland, tomorrow, to teach at the ScrapbookStore there! Can't wait to see you guys there! :) I'm so excited! :D

YAY! I finally received Karine new book yesterday! and she did a wonderful work AGAIN! this girl never stops amazing me! she's creative and a genius when it comes to design! you should definitely get this book, I tell you!

Challenges, inspiration, techniques, you will be inspired by Karine and her team of talented designers in this book! Go get it now! :)

And I made a new layout yesterday, inspired by the new challenges posted on the Kesi'art blog! This layout is for the second challenge, to create a layout or any project using mainly the color GREEN, and I couldn't resist printing one of the photos I took in Bali, where GREEN is everywhere, esp. in the ricefields...
The photo was taken near Karangasem, north of Bali, last month, and this place was soooo close to paradise... I will never forget that day there... breathtaking, lifechanging, in so many ways... :)

Supplies :

Papers (American Crafts); Cards (Sassafras); Stamps (Kési'art); Stickers (Kési'art); Alphabets (Kési'art); Flair (American Crafts); Flowers (Sassafras); Ribbons (Prima); Buttons (Jenni Bowlin); Rubons (Kési'art); Wooden embellishment (Riff Raff Designs).

OOOH and I just got an email from my favorite singer newsletter :  M ! he's coming up with a new album, out in September! yooohoooo!

here's the video of his new single, just LOVE it!

Have a great day!

c

Hey everyone!

today is Hambly day and I'm showing you new layouts I made for this month's gallery :)
enjoy!

Have a great day! :)
c

I love you, Mom.

Happy MOther's Day to all of you, Moms! :)

Hi everyone!

I'll be teaching 2 classes at the Scrapbookstore in Dublin, Ireland, on June 20th! I can't even tell you how excited I am about this trip! :D

Ok I've always loved Ireland...being born on March 17th makes you go celebrate your birthday at your favorite Irish pub every year! :D and I love the Irish culture, music, litterature, history, I mean, YEAH! I'm going to Ireland! :D
Well, oh, anyway, let's talk about the classes now :)

Here are sneaks of my two classes : one layout class (3 layouts within 3 hours) and one wall hanging class (work on a canvase and get dirty with paints!) :D

3 layouts in 3 hour class...

Wall hanging/Canvase class...

We're going to have a wonderful day together there so if you haven't signed up for the classes, go for it! :) I'll see you there! :)

take care!

Céline

hey everyone!

A nice wooden banner made for Hambly using a wooden banner from the french boutique la Pause Créative! I bought it last weekend while teaching in Nice and I wanted to scrap it as soon as possible!!! and I used, of course, a stamp from my sweet Miss KCT :D

thank you all for your sweet comments, it's always a pleasure to read all of them :)

Enjoy your weekend! It's supposed to rain in Montpellier this weekend :( ugh.

Hi everyone!

It's been a whiiiiile :D I have been sooooo busy lately with classes and stuff, you have no idea! I am so looking forward to taking a break this summer, to just relax and enjoy doing NOTHING! :D

But this weekend was soooo good, I can't thank all the students enough for their amazing welcome! I LOVED it! :)

Our {entreARTistes} event was a huge success and we would like to thank our friend Karine Bordon for always taking good care of us! :)

And here's a little layout I made a while ago but haven't had a chance to show you... :)

and another one I made last week when I was staying with Karine... using two of my Studio Calico kits..andone AMAZING Karine CT pour Alyssiane stamp! :D

Take care!

Céline

Finally, I can update a little bit more with photos! :)

So I got back from my trip to Singapore and Bali on Sunday.
What can I say about my trip to Singapore and my classes at MWL? First thing that Inoticed : this scrapbook store is PACKED with people EVERY SINGLE DAY! :D Singapore scrappers are just CRAZY! :D and just so so so adorable!

I got welcome the best way someone can dream of, everyone was super excited (not as excited as me! I was so excited during my classes that I forgot to eat and pee!).
The girls at MWL were just the best : very organized, the classroom was great, all the kits were ready, nothing was missing, everything was PERFECT!

I was so honored and proud to be able to teach there and I'd go back there in a heartbeat to teach again ANYTIME! :)

The weather there was beautiful but HOT HOT HOOOOOOOT! Over 34°c and VERY VERY HUMID! Let me tell you : you cannot live without AIR CON there! :D

About the food...YUMMMMMMMMY! Well, everyone who knows me well knows that I love food and love to try foreign food, and WOW! Was I impressed by how rich, diverse, excellent food is in Singapore! I can't even tell you the names of the meals I tried but, except one weird ice cream that I ate (which was in fact only ICE with corn and beans...yeah...I know), everything was YUMMY! :)
I haven't tried DURIANS, which is a very SMELLY fruit but excellent, some people say. NEXT TIME FOR SURE!

Singapore is a fun and attractive city, perfect for shopping, going out, chilling and enjoy time :)

I LOVED IT there! :)

Ok so here are a few photo from Singapore... I had to choose the ones I had to show you guys 'cause Karine and I took over 700 photos of Singapore :)

Enjoy!