Don’t worry, you haven’t lost your mind, today actually is Wednesday and not Monday. I will be honest, I totally forgot that it was my turn to post. The amazing Holly and I post alternatively each week and my crazy busy workload recently fried my brain. I’m very sorry, when I realized it this afternoon I could have slapped myself. Anyway, better late than never, so here we go!
First, I want to bring the spotlight (spotLIGHT… notice a pattern here?? LOL) on Kristen who participated in last week’s challenge with this awesome LO.
What a great idea to have used the challenge’s prompt to scrap about her family’s favorite restaurant. I have to say, after reading her journaling, I want to go there and visit this place. And how awesome is it that the kids are safe allergy-wise? And she told this awesome story with a beautiful LO and a bunch of sweet pix (Have you seen this smile? Love it!!), which makes it even better. Thank you, Kristen, for this sweet page and for joining our challenge!
And now, let’s move on to this week’s challenge. Inspired by the photo challenge posted this morning by Charla, I took a picture of my window at work. My office is turned to East so I can enjoy the sunrise. In the summer, the light shines right on my computer and on me, which is why I have to shut the shades. This is something that says “summer!” to me. That and the squeeky sound of my summer shoes in the stairs, but that’s harder to photograph! LOL
I picked a simple design for this LO, but I worked on the stamped alpha used in the title to make it more realistic. Sometimes, it’s all in the details! I used the June collab “Summer Morning” and picked the bright papers to create this fun sun shape background. I also used an action (Evening Sun) by Charm Box Studios to “warm up” the photo.
Your mission this week, if you choose to accept it, is to scrap about light. Some ideas are
to use a photo with an interesting light and journal about what makes this photo special for you
to scrap about light in a more symbolic way: when you feel down, lost in the dark, what kind of light help you find your way?
where you afraid of the night as a kid?
in a more light (no pun intended) topic, you could write about your need for sun glasses or, on the opposite, you inability to drive in the dark (as I do!)
Here are the rules:
>> Scrap a page about light. Definitely, add a picture to your page if you have one that inspires you!
>> Use whatever scrapbooking supplies you have on hand. (You don’t have to use something from our shop in order to participate here.)
>> Come on back and share your work with us! If you do, your layout could be featured in next week’s post!
That’s it! Our rules are simple. There aren’t any other requirements aside from that. However, if you would like to earn points toward free products, this challenge does qualify for Chicky Points. (See the Challenges Forum for more details.) The deadline to get the Chicky Points is June 30th.
Date posted: June 27, 2012 | Author: Chloe | No Comments »
Living in a completely foreign country has its share of struggles. Language and customs are barriers for sure, but one of the more basic problems is just not being able to easily get the comforts of your home country. You can always adjust to local foods, but sometimes you just need a taste of home.
Comfort Food
In my case, a food that reminds me of my American home is cornbread. Its such a basic thing, but the things that we end up missing the most about our home usually are the most basic, simple things.
I went for years without cornbread. I found a few shops that I could import mixes from, but for incredible, unbelievable prices. Then one day a few years ago in my local grocery store I stumbled upon cornmeal. I’d never made cornbread from scratch but as soon as I saw the cornmeal my mouth started watering in hopes of a savory taste from home. I’ve experimented with several recipes now, still looking for the perfect one. But I am just happy to have the chance to eat cornbread again.
What are your comfort foods? Foods that you remember from your childhood? A family recipe handed down several generations? Maybe a food that you can no longer get where you live now? Foods that you just want to curl up with and enjoy every bite?
This week’s Challenge
For your scrap challenge this week, I’d like for you to think about what foods bring you comfort.
Here are the rules:
>> Scrap a page about your comfort food. Definitely, add a picture of it to your page!
>> Use whatever scrapbooking supplies you have on hand. (You don’t have to use something from our shop in order to participate here.)
>> Come on back and share your work with us! If you do, your layout could be featured in next week’s post!
That’s it! Our rules are simple. There aren’t any other requirements aside from that. However, if you would like to earn points toward free products, this challenge does qualify for Chicky Points. (See the Challenges Forum for more details.) The deadline to get the Chicky Points is June 30th.
Date posted: June 18, 2012 | Author: Holly | No Comments »
This month’s collab is called Summer Morning. This title and the yummy, bright colors of the kit inspired me to scrap about my morning ritual (and favorite meal of the day): breakfast. I’m definitely a morning person as long as I can eat a breakfast. When on vacation, I even enjoy the whole shebang: croissants, hot chocolate, fresh orange juice… Yum!!!
This week’s challenge is to scrap about your mornings
Are you a morning person? What’s your mood usually when you wake up?
Do you hit the snooze button or get up right away (or don’t use an alarm at all!)?
Do you have some morning rituals? Coffee, shower, breakfast? Something that says “the day has started, let’s get to work”?
What is your and/or your family’s morning routine?
What is something that can mess up your morning and maybe even ruin your whole day? And, more important, how do you avoid it?
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>> Scrap a page about your mornings.
>> Reflect your “morning mood” in your LO. For example if you like the morning, have a bright yellow kitchen where you love to eat yummy apricot marmelade, like me, make your LO sunny and cheerful (I even used a Charm Box action to increase the sunny-ness of the pix!). If you feel like living in the fog until your first cup of coffee, use muted colors and cloud elements. If you like being up very early to see the sun rise, why not try an ombré background to represent that? Have fun and be creative!
>> Use whatever scrapbooking supplies you have on hand. (You don’t have to use something from our shop in order to participate here.)
>> Come on back and share your work with us! If you do, your layout could be featured in next week’s post! That’s it! Our rules are simple. There aren’t any other requirements aside from that. However, if you would like to earn points toward free products, this challenge does qualify for Chicky Points. (See the Challenges Forum for more details.) The deadline to get the Chicky Points is June 30th.
Date posted: June 11, 2012 | Author: Chloe | No Comments »
How many times have we been told that it’s the little things, the little moments that matter the most? The big events of our lives are certainly important in our scrap pages. But the smallest, everyday moments can add so much warmth and character to our albums as well.
Just a little thing
We had been in the car for a few hours driving up to the mountains. Overall, my small children were pretty good for the long ride. As soon as we parked the car at our destination we all got out and did it ever feel good to stretch our legs! I looked up and saw this, my dad and my son holding hands, having a little chat, looking out over the river park. Just the site of them warmed my heart.
Living on opposite sides of the globe my kids don’t get to spend a lot of time with my parents. So when they finally do get to visit their grandparents its definitely a special time. Time together, just doing everyday things. Each moment a little treasure.
This week’s Challenge
For your scrap challenge this week, I ask you to go through your photos and find a memory. A memory not of an overall event, but of just one little moment from that day that you hold in your heart.
Here are the rules:
>> Think back over events in your life, where just one little moment from the larger time stands out in your memory.
>> Scrap a page about that moment. If you have a photo, by all means add it on your page!
>> Use whatever scrapbooking supplies you have on hand. (You don’t have to use something from our shop in order to participate here.)
>> Come on back and share your work with us! If you do, your layout could be featured in next week’s post!
That’s it! Our rules are simple. There aren’t any other requirements aside from that. However, if you would like to earn points toward free products, this challenge does qualify for Chicky Points. (See the Challenges Forum for more details.) The deadline to get the Chicky Points is June 30th.
Date posted: June 4, 2012 | Author: Holly | No Comments »
As you probably know, this month’s collab is called “Roots and Wings”. Once again, it inspired me this scrap challenge. If you’ve seen the journaling challengethat Laura posted on Friday, you might get a “déjà vu” feeling but I promise I didn’t copy… Actually we didn’t even coordinate!
This week’s challenge is to scrap about the roots of your personality, the foundation of who you are.
What are the caracteristic traits of your personality?
Are there some events or people that had a huge impact on who you are, that changed your life dramatically or that molded the person you are?
Solid foundations are very important to build a house that will last and be able to face the bad weather… What are the solid foundations that help you go through life’s storms without collapsing? Who and what gave you those foundations, and how did it happen?
I chose to scrap with “Roots and Wings” about the first prompt and listed a bunch of “typical Chloé” stuff, from very mundane things like being clumsy and hating shopping to deeper thoughts like my infertility, being a daughter, a girlfriend, a friend and much more than that.
—————————– Here are the rules: >> Scrap a page about your foundations, about what (or who) makes you, “you”. If you have a photo, by all means add it on your page! >> Use whatever scrapbooking supplies you have on hand. (You don’t have to use something from our shop in order to participate here.) >> Come on back and share your work with us! If you do, your layout could be featured in next week’s post! That’s it! Our rules are simple. There aren’t any other requirements aside from that. However, if you would like to earn points toward free products, this challenge does qualify for Chicky Points. (See the Challenges Forum for more details.) The deadline to get the Chicky Points is May 31st.
Date posted: May 28, 2012 | Author: Chloe | No Comments »
I love a good quote. There are a lot of great sites to find quotes. Some of my recent favorites are little “love letters” written by the Brave Girls’ Club. There are some for us grown-up chicks (At Little Bird Told Me) and for our daughters as well (A Little Butterfly Told Me). I love adding quotes to scrapbook pages for my daughter, even myself. I’m still hoping to find some similar quotes for boys so I can add them to my son’s pages as well.
When I saw the quote that I used on today’s page, it really spoke to me about how we go and grow through life. I thought it was perfect to match the “Growth” theme of this month’s Digichick Boutique Collaboration, Roots and Wings.
I find that when I use a quote on a page it seems to stay with me longer and I can recall it in my day-to-day wonderings and wanderings. This Week’s Challenge
Today, I challenge you to find a quote that speaks to your heart, a quote about growth – be it physical or spiritual – and use it to scrap a page. I didn’t have any photo to add this time, but if you do, by all means please use your quote to make a meaningful page about your photos.
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Here are the rules:
>> Find a quote about growth. The growth of your child or family, the growth of your garden or favorite town. It can be any kid of growth – spiritual, personal etc.
>> Scrap a page using that quote. If you have a photo, by all means add it on your page!
>> Use whatever scrapbooking supplies you have on hand. (You don’t have to use something from our shop in order to participate here.)
>> Come on back and share your work with us! If you do, your layout could be featured in next week’s post!
That’s it! Our rules are simple. There aren’t any other requirements aside from that. However, if you would like to earn points toward free products, this challenge does qualify for Chicky Points. (See the Challenges Forum for more details.) The deadline to get the Chicky Points is May 31st.
Date posted: May 21, 2012 | Author: Holly | No Comments »
Confession time: I’m the worst gardener you can imagine. For real, if I “take care” of a plant, no matter how resisting it is, you can be sure it will be dead within days, weeks at most. When I saw the TDC May collab “Roots and Wings” and saw that it would be garden-themed, I knew I would have to use it differently than how it was intended. Luckily for me, this collab (as all of them, actually) is very versatile and I’ve already used it a couple times for various LOs. Anyway, that’s not my point today.
Even though I don’t have green thumbs, I’m definitely “green”. I’ve been raised in Switzerland where recycling, energy saving, organic foods are very common. I remember my mom having a compost in her garden waaaaay before it was trendy. Since I moved to France 10 years ago, the environemental issues have gotten more and more important here too. The things that were completely normal in Switzerland are slowly getting normal here too, and I love this!
I created this LO about this topic using “Roots and Wings” from the TDC designers, including a template:
Your challenge this week is to scrap about nature and being green:
Do you consider yourself as a “green” person? How do you feel about that issue?
Have you evolved on that topic? What events made you change?
What green actions do you do? Use practical, specific examples. List things you don’t do yet but that you would like to start. Or things you do but that you would like to stop or do differently.
Do you try to “spread the green” around you? To your family, kids, neighbours, community? Do you volunteer for “green” actions?
Are you annoyed by all the “green” trend? Scrap about it!
I hope this challenge will inspire you and I can’t wait to see your pages!
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Here are the rules:
>> Scrap about being green.
>> Definitely, include a photo if you have one.
>> Use whatever scrapbooking supplies you have on hand. (You don’t have to use something from our shop in order to participate here.)
>> Come on back and share your work with us! If you do, your layout could be featured in next week’s post!
That’s it! Our rules are simple. There aren’t any other requirements aside from that. However, if you would like to earn points toward free products, this challenge does qualify for Chicky Points. (See the Challenges Forum for more details.) The deadline to get the Chicky Points is May 31st.
Date posted: May 14, 2012 | Author: Chloe | No Comments »
Do you have a green thumb? Or are you like me, with not such a green thumb. I don’t garden well. I love to look at flowers, but can’t grow them very well. I do better with potted plants.
Several years ago, when my daughter was just a year old, my English student invited us to go with her to a park that has a huge, sprawling, and very famous rose garden. The day before it had rained and rained. But the day of our planned excursion it was sunny and warm so off we went! Actually, it turned out to be hot and muggy.
My daughter was hot and miserable in her stroller. As soon as we came upon any rain puddle she’d want to get down and play in it. By the end of the day she was quite wet and a bit muddy, but that is what I will always remember that day by. Sure, I remember the beautiful roses. But I will remember that day as the day my daughter played happily in rain puddles, surrounded by a famous rose garden.
Do you have a special memory that somehow is connected with flowers? I would love to hear about it. This month’s Boutique Collaboration, Roots and Wings, is perfect for a page about flowers and gardening.
Here are the rules:
>> Scrap a page about a memory or experience with flowers.
>> Your photos should include at least one picture of the flowers.
>> The name of the flowers must be in the title of your page.
>> Use whatever scrapbooking supplies you have on hand. (You don’t have to use something from our shop in order to participate here.)
>> Come on back and share your work with us! If you do, your layout could be featured in next week’s post!
That’s it! Our rules are simple. There aren’t any other requirements aside from that. However, if you would like to earn points toward free products, this challenge does qualify for Chicky Points. (See the Challenges Forum for more details.) The deadline to get the Chicky Points is May 31st, midnight EST.
Date posted: May 7, 2012 | Author: Holly | No Comments »
I’m French, and we’re currently in the middle of our presidential election. Last Sunday we picked the two “finalists” out of 10 candidates, and next week we’ll elect the “Président de la République” for 5 years. This event got me thinking about politics, and inspired this LO using A New Me, the April collab by the TDC designers.
I scrapped about my hopes for a change and about how less involved I feel compared to the last election. Looks like I’m getting more and more cynical about politics. Not sure that’s a good change…
Your challenge this week is to scrap about politics and/or, more generally, about the news: are you interested in them? Are you involved in politics, in a party, do you volunteer? Why or why not? Have you always been that way or has it changed over time? Do you share your political views with your family or significant other? Do you vote? Why or why not? What are your thought about the political system of your own country? What are your favorite medias to get informed? Do you read a newspaper, watch TV (if so, which channels?), listen to the radio, read magazines, check social medias or websites?
I hope this challenge will inspire you to scrap this topic which, even though it’s often rare in our scrapbooks, still has a place in our lives and, hence, in our LOs!
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Here are the rules:
>> Scrap about politics or the news.
>> Definitely, include a photo if you have one.
>> Use whatever scrapbooking supplies you have on hand. (You don’t have to use something from our shop in order to participate here.)
>> Come on back and share your work with us! If you do, your layout could be featured in next week’s post!
That’s it! Our rules are simple. There aren’t any other requirements aside from that. However, if you would like to earn points toward free products, this challenge does qualify for Chicky Points. (See the Challenges Forum for more details.) ETA: the deadline to get the Chicky Points is May 3rd, midnight EST.
Date posted: April 30, 2012 | Author: Chloe | No Comments »
I promised myself at the beginning of this year that I would try some new form of art. I love scrapbooking, I love it mostly because the main point of making pages is to show off my precious pictures. This art is so very personal, for that very reason, to each of us scrapbookers.
As I watched mixed media art and art journaling become popular even amongst digital scrappers, I just knew I had to try this form of art too. Something I could do with my hands, something that I could use my leftover paper scrapbooking supplies as well as digital supplies for. Another dimension, another form of creative expression. Something New.
This week, I challenge you to stretch yourself to try a new form of art, something new from your creative side. Be it hybrid, a new form of scrapbooking, painting, writing a poem, photography, etc. Then come back here and show us your project.
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Here are the rules:
>> Try a new form of artistic expression this week.
>> Definitely, include a photo if you have one.
>> Use whatever scrapbooking supplies you have on hand. (You don’t have to use something from our shop in order to participate here.)
>> Come on back and share your work with us! If you do, your layout could be featured in next week’s post!
That’s it! Our rules are simple. There aren’t any other requirements aside from that. However, if you would like to earn points toward free products, this challenge does qualify for Chicky Points. (See the Challenges Forum for more details.)
Date posted: April 23, 2012 | Author: Holly | No Comments »
I used the June collab “Summer Morning” and picked the bright papers to create this fun sun shape background. I also used an action (Evening Sun) by Charm Box Studios to “warm up” the photo.
