germ central

Well, it's Wednesday and wer are halfway through one tough week.  It started with Marianne having a sinus headach.  Being a pharmacophobe (fear of taking medecine) being sick is no joke for her!  She got better but developped an ear infection so now she's on antibiotics (AKA as per Marianne "the worst medecine I have ever tasted).  Zoé has laryngitis, so she asked us to only ask her questions that she can answer with her head.  Poor thing!
 I managed to make a few layouts over the past week, mostly because of LCOM's challenges.  I love the ladies there!

from the 'challenge challenge'

CTMH Superhero paper - One of my 'challenge challenge'  Had to use puzzle pieces and blue paper

CTMH cruisin' paper - my February kit layout

Lucy WOTG- Feb 26th workshop

CTMH Wonderland paper - Dollar store challenge - had to use bobby pins and dollar store snowflakes

Basic Grey, Little black dress - Scraplift challenge

Getting mojo running..

I had the house all to myself today.  Got to sleep in and had loads of time to scrap, but I ended up staring at my papers, scaning through photos and not accomplishing anything.  So instead I I watched a Movie and relaxed.  I had lost my mojo for some reason.  I can't complain, I had a great run this week, I created alot of layouts.   I decided tonight to give it another try and success!  Thanks to a little inspiration from a Kristine Davidson sketch, I created this layout tonight

 

Victory paper, Evergreen cork shapes, Olive mini medleys, chocolate waxy flax

What do you do to get your mojo running again?

Sneak peek!

With the arrival of my sneak peak shipment last week, I've been scrapping almost every night and some afternoons while the kids are napping.  I'm on a roll!  LOL.  Here are some more layouts I did from the products coming out in the new Spring/Summer Idea book.  I love every single line!  6 down, only 2 more to play with! 

Footloose paper with coordinating dimentional elements, with Seaside wooden shapes, cork letters

Footloose collection - Creative scrapper' sketch # 189

Superhero paper

Pemberley paper with bitty sparkles, and bouquet assortment resin flowers and felt alphas

Stella paper with coordinating canvas shapes, durable studs

Stella paper with coordinating canvas shapes, durable studs, Paradise paper flowers, and a Little Bit of Whimsy mushroom

Routine

Well we're already in mid January.  Gymnastics ans swim classes have started, we are finaly back in the routine of things.  I find that comforting in some ways, to know what is planned in the next few weeks.  I like our little routine.

The new CTMH Spring/summer idea book has arrived and it becomes live February 1st.  I got to play with some of the new products over the weekend.  Here's what I came up with.  hopefully I'll be able to play some more over the week. 

Florentine paper, Bouquet flowers, Paradise paper flowers, Color-ready wood accents, Timeless charms, Bling assortment

Cruisin' paper, Silver foil stickers

Christmas withdrawls

First of all let me wish you all a great big Happy New year!  Hoping 2012 provides you with all you wish for! 

Let's start the new year by first looking back a little at 2011.  I've decided to share a few Christmas gifts I made.  I had help from each of the kids to make a desktop calendar as a Christmas gift for their parents.  They had fun playing with Jocelyne's "real" scrapbooking supplies, as apposed to my scraps and leftovers.  

The 2 last pictures are canvas art that I made for both my parents and my in-laws. 

Mélodie's calendar, side view to show ribbon and back

desktop calendar front view.  How cute are they!

My mom's canvas art using CTMH Key to my Heart paper

My mother-in-law's canvas art using the Dreamin' paper, dimential elements and the CTMH spritser with goldrush reinker

Christmas cards

What a great couple weeks it has been.  November is a hectic month in this house.  Marianne's birthday was the first weekend and 3 of the kids in my daycare as well.  We had cake at least once a week this month!!!  Zoé loves to help me bake them.  I had an Epicure party where Zoé won the bingo draw and purchased the kid's bundle, complete with apron and kid's size utensiles.  She is so cute! Today, we made a marble cake for Emily's birthday with...... Maple Syrup boiled frosting!!!  it was sooo tasty! 
Besides parties, I am so proud of a decision to clean my scraproom and put some of my stuff in a facebook auction.  It all started when my husband decided that he could not do Movember this year.  I though maybe I could raise a little money by selling some of my scrapbooking overstock and giving 50% to the Tree of Hope campaign.  I had alot more stuff than I had originaly imagined, so I kept placing pictures on my facebook page and taking bids.  So far I've raised close to 200$ and I still have lots of auctions still open.  It's a win/win/win/win situation : I get a cleaner scrapbooking room, Someone gets to make use of great products that I won't use, Money is going to charity and I get to have a little money for some Christmas shopping!  I'll post my grand total once all the auctions are closed after Dec 1st.   To take a look just visit my Facebook group.
This week I've been busy with LCOM online card crop.  I've completed all the card challenges so far, but might to revisit a few in order to finish all my Christmas cards.  Just hope I remember to mail them this year :)  Here are some of the cards I made this week :

Bling card, using Roxie paper, and bling assortments

Vintage feel challenge : using the wooden buttons, the pins from the Bling assortments and Perfect Day paper

Paper layers card : using Beleive paper and stickers.

Snowflake challenge, using Wonderland and Holiday commentary stamps

Filmstrip challenge : using Wonderland paper, bling and Dimentional elements

Die cut challenge : using Elemental paper, and snowflake dimentional elements with silver glitz glitter gel

Rested

Nothing like a good night sleep to put you in a great mood.  Since July, we have made a decision that we were going to live healthier.  I started the Simply for Life diet and am happy to report that I have lost 25 lbs so far.  The greatest benefit is how great I feel.  We recently went on a road trip, my husband and I for our 10 year wedding anniversary, and for the occasion I got to wear my wedding ring again!  It had not fit since before Zoé was born.  I hope to scrapbook those pictures soon, in the meantime, here are some layouts I did over the last weeks, one is from 5 years ago, on our 5 year anniversary road trip to Bar Harbor.  and, I finally got some Christmas layouts done! 

October workshop using Dreamin

Mistltoe

Mistletoe

Aspen