Simply Unworthy...

Okay, I must admit, I am such an unworthy Blogger! I post.... sometimes.... I comment..... rarely..... I storytell..... never..... AND I don't even notice when I have new followers.... So totally UNWORTHY!!  And yet, I have 2 new followers on my long list of 7... :P  thanx to Prisca G. and Thecrazycrafter for joining me in my paper frenzy :) I make no promises but I will tell you one thing..... nah! still not much interesting to say! LOL! So take a peek at whatever pleases you and leave a happy face once in a while, that'll definitely make me feel even cheaper... hihihi!

Enough with the blabla`s... Here's a little page duo I made this month.

The pictures were printed on regular white printer paper which makes for a horrible quality but 10 and a half years ago, we thought it was pretty cool!! I would have them re-printed but unfortunately, they're the only existing copies... My baby girl was only a few hours old on those!!!

Isn't she adorable?? the pink flower-print paper is from forever in Time and I used my Splotchy stamps from The greeting farm.

Completely exhausted but so proud!!

I made all the flowers myself using a heart punch and a little ink, added a few pearls and Voilà! gotta love paper hydrangeas.... hygrangeas.... hmmmm spelling-block :)

Once again, thanx a million for visiting!
Noukie xx

A Little Something for the Birthday Girl!

Here's a little something I crafted for a sweet 5 year old I know :)

Stamp: Pheobe by Ketto

I used paper-piecing for the dress, the flower and the hearts (which I also mounted on chipboard shapes). Also used a whole lot of stickles on her wings and a little on the borders.

On the inside, I added a little dimension with some 3-d tape. I used a little more stickles around the heart which you can't really see :(

So basically, a simple and sweet card with a whole lot of girly in it :)

Thanx for taking a peek :)

Love your comments!

Noukie xx

A few more Holiday wishes...

Happy New Year 2012 !!

Health and happiness: be thankful when you are blessed to have them, have faith and hope when they somehow slip away for a while, but most of all, never take them for granted... Have a great 2012 everyone!!!

So a few more cards for the season:

 a few stockings from Stampin Up... I scraplifted this model from a friend who came over to make cards with me :) thanx Kathleen!!

 Another card made with Stampin Up's Blitzen... LOVE this stamp :)

This is Snow Day by Mo Manning. I was totally inspired by Jak Heath's card: Winter Fairy . Had to try out the white embossing technique which is soooo beautiful :) Thanx Jak!!

All the stamps on this card are from the same set Folies de flocons by Stampin Up. I kinda went balistics on the glitter for this card but it actually didn't turn out so bad :) Besides, can there really be too much glitter on a Christmas card??? lol!

And finally, more of Mo's Snow Day, which is just too cute to live without :) A little embossing here and there and still a whole lot of stickles and glitter :)

Hope you all have had as much fun as me making all sorts of crafty goodness during this Holiday Season!!!

Thanx for encouraging my growing madness (which may be contagious, I warn you!!!)...

hugs,

Noukie xxx

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