A Little Christmas fun

Not much to say except for: I work too much, I don't scrap enough, and I LOVE making Christmas cards :) Here are a few of my Holiday creations... Starting with one of my favs (though I have no merit cause we made this one at our scrap-club meetings... the idea was from my Stampin Up rep: Stephanie )

 

This second one is sweet and simple. The stamp is Dasher from Stampin Up and I stamped him with a little champagne mist all-purpose ink from Tsukineko.

My snowman comes from Meljen's Designs`freebies and the papers are from Echo Park, Winter Park collection.

...and a little more Dasher...

Gotta love glimmer and shine for the Holiday season :)

I'll have more to share soon since I made a few more today, just  need to wait for tomorrow's daylight to take pics :)

Take care everyone and Ihope you are all having a WONDERFUL time getting into the Holiday spirit!!

Thanx a million for visiting!

Noukie



From Superwoman to Superwrinkled... all in the same card :)

Okay, once again I'm A LOT late in showing off my work and I sooo wish I had a better excuse than work... Oh well! :P

So here it is, my man's granny's birthday card:

open it up and here's Supermémé:

and the final surprise inside:

Superwrinkled!!

I made the border on the inside to fit with the one on the outside so that when you close it in 2:

Obviously, the humor came from my man but the stamps were from: superwoman: Kenny K. Downloads and the other 2 from a great place called Imag-e-nation where they have the funniest elderly stamps ever!

So that's it for now!

Thanx for visiting and leaving a quick hello!!

Busy-busy-busy Noukie :D

WOYWW? -118.... simply pooped!!

Been back to work for a whole month now and I must admit that I miss my scrappin corner more than ever! This week is a rough one, I'm starting to think that all the energy inside me is completely drained! If I don't set off to bed soon I'll probably end up like a Sims character and simply fall where I'm standing and snooze until my energy bar fills up again! :)  Nonetheless, I love my job and I know I'll get through this week just like all the others :)

So, WOYWW? Well, this week I finally finished my daughter's well-overdue birthday card, which I am rather proud of. You can visit my last post for the card details.

I've also been preparing my order for my first Stampin' Up club meeting at the end of the month. Just can't wait!!! There are soooooo many lovely stamps... but up to now I've got my mind set on the tiny tags kit with assorted punch... can't wait to spend a little dough! Hey! all this hard work has to have its good side! LOL!

This week I have a special order from my man's grandma in Belgium.  She must have told him 5 times on Skype that she wanted a homemade card for her 88th birthday. I guess I'd better get to work... but what stamps to use?? Hmmm, isn't that a fun dilemma?

Hope you all have a great week! And don't forget to visit Julia at The Stamping Ground to know what this is all about!!

Thanx a million for your visit and for encouraging my madness!

Noukie 

10 years...

10 years... I can't believe it's already been 10 years!! It's in occasions like these that you realize just how much you wish you could stop time. Andrea, my oldest, celebrated her birthday on August 2nd but with my going back to work, I only just finished her card today... I know, I'm an unworthy mom, but at least she gets another birthday surprise :)

The image is «Video Girl» by Mo Manning. She just happened to bare a slight resemblance to the birthday girl:

I added a little glossy accents on her eyes for a little shine :) and colored her with my prisma color pencils.

I even got to be a little creative with her cake (which is the easiest cake recipe to make AND is absolutely scrumptious!!)

Who doesn't like chocolate, whipped cream and raspberries??

I sure am lucky to have such a wonderful, healthy daughter! I just wish seeing her grow up didn't have to mean that I have to get more and more grey hairs :) LOL!!

Happy Birthday Didi, Mom loves you more than you can ever imagine!

In case anyone wants to try it: cake recipe here :) it's in french but if anyone needs translating just let me know :)

Thanks again for visiting :)

Noukie xx

Petites Mignonnes!

Enfin! je peux partager mes 2 petites mignonnes avec vous! J'avais d'abord fait celle-ci pour ma pseudo-nièce Chloé qui aura 2 ans dans quelques jours (pseudo car quand ça fait presque 30 ans que tu es amie avec sa mère, c'est plus qu'une amie, c'est de la famille!!)

J'ai utilisé une image de Gillian Roberts que j'ai trouvé sur Simon Says Stamp que j'ai embossé avant de colorié avec mes Prismacolor. Les papiers de couleurs sont tous de mon carnet Itsy Bitsy Baby Girl de K&Company. 

Après l'avoir terminé, il me restait un brouillon de l'étampe et je n'arrivais pas à la ranger dans mes enveloppes. J'ai donc créé celle-ci:

Les papiers sont de la même collection... J'aime beaucoup la douceur et la simplicité de ces 2 cartes. J'ai du me chicaner avec moi-même plusieurs fois pour ne pas rajouter d'autres embellissements, je les voulais le plus simple possible et je crois avoir bien réussi!

Bonne fête ma belle Chloé!!!

Maintenant, il ne me reste plus qu'à trouver l'inspiration pour confectionner la carte de ma grande qui aura 10 ans le 02 août :)  Je ne le dirai jamais assez souvent, le temps passe TELLEMENT vite!! Il faut profiter de chaque moment! Ce qui me rappelle que mon retour au travail arrive à grands pas: lundi prochain, déjà! Allez hop la grande, au travail!! LOL!

Bonne journée à vous tous!

Noukie xxx

WOYWW-112.....

Wow! What a week! My 29 years and going BFF (when you have a 10 year old girl, you end up talking in the strangest ways...) spent 2 nights with her lovely hubby and 2 girls here in my used-to-be tidy house :) lol! So basically, after spending a whole week in crutches and doing NOTHING in the cleaning category, I spent a whole day washing every nook and cranny of my 3-floor house and then... POOF! just like magic, every spec of dust and dirt managed their way back into their original positions and are now staring at me with a wide smirk going «HA! HA!» Nonetheless, we had a wonderful time and I especially loved spending time with my pseudo-nieces (and my own 2 rascals) while their parents spent the day at a spa. So WOYWW today? a lot more kids' crafts than my own :)

At a glance: my daughter's BFFFFFF's (lol) scrapbook pages which she forgot to take home, my never-ending to-do list, a beautiful digi stamp from Mo Manning (Sam in Trouble) which I  plan on using tonight to make a birthday card, my huge and much-loved cup of coffee to help me through my clean-up duties, and finally, my daugter's birthday gift: the Mod smashbook which she has started to alter :)

At first, I wasn't sure if it was something that she would like but when I showed her the intro video by K & Company : here , she went bananas and decided she wanted not only the Mod book but ALL the accessories too :)

a few pages she added :)

So off I go to do some fun! chores..... for those who may be in doubt, Yes! I'm sarcastic! lol! That is, after I post about the birthday card I made for the youngest of my friend's daughters who will turn 2 in a few days :) so be sure to visit a little later to have a peak :)

Oh! and why not visit Julia's Stamping Ground where you can sneak a peak at others' WOYWW? here but I warn you! It's addictive! :)

Thanx again for encouraging my madness and leaving a little piece of your own in the comment section ;P

Noukie xxx

Flutterbyes....

Just a quick page that I made with the Forever in Time: Glitter Garden paper collection.

I used the back-side of a page which was completely mat and cut-out the butterflies from the other side (of a second copy of the same paper.... obviously... lol) I also added some shine by using my Versamark pen and embossing some faint swirls that were already in the background all around the page.

 The green strip says: Love is the best gift in my life.... but we can't make it out on the picture. I also added a little liquid pearls and stickles for detail, cause you can never have enough shine and sparkle :)

Now off I go to make some August Birthday cards... Seems like all the kids I know were born in August :) LOL!  Including my oldest for whom I purchased a digi stamp from Mo's which is truly representative of my soon-to-be 10 year-old. Can't wait to share :)

More to come soon :)

Thanx for visiting!
Noukie