Bouquet d'amour by Magali

I hope you are enjoying your Summer!
I have no particular favorite season, I think I love them all. Each one brings some new beauties!

During Spring and Summer, I love having a festival of flowers blooming in my garden. I try to choose flowers that will bloom one after another. The first ones to bloom are considered as awful flowers by most people, but since my boys love to gather them into some beautiful bouquets full of love, I love them too : I am speaking of dandelions!

And here is the layout I've made about this precious attention.

 

And some other pictures of it.

 

To create this layout, I used a tangle feather, heart confetti and love tabs.

Esprit Campagne by Ladybird

 

Today, I am here to share a Spring/Summer layout.
I tend to be quite reluctant to use flowers for my boys layout, but each time I do it, I wonder why I don't do it more often! Flowers and delicate colours have also their place on little boy layouts.

 I am in love with this flair, it's so... beautiful!

 And the arrow confetti are perfect to add some dynamism to the layout!

 For this page, I used:

Arrow Confetti

Daisy

Wild Flowers Set

And: Crate Paper + October Afternoon papers, Pink Paislee, Basic Grey and MME products.

An Easter layout by Ladybird

 

Hi everyone!

Already close to the end of March, it's now time to think about Spring!

Today I want to share a Easter layout made just for you.
I love this photo of my little boy with his duck costume... so adorable, but not so easy to capture!
And perfect for Spring layouts! ;)
I think I can definitely admit that yellow is my favorite colour these days.

I love the fact that the flair is not totally covered by the quote,
so it's easy to add a personal touch on it!
Here I found the perfect little duck to match the theme.

 Circle stencil and confetti chipboards are just perfect together!

I used a yellow Posca marker to add colour to the Celebrate Hashtag. That's a very easy way to add colours while keeping the rough effect of the chipboard. I love it!

 Here are the UWS products I used:

Circle Confetti

Circle Confetti Mask
Celebrate Hashtag Banners

From the Heart Flair

And I also used products from: October Afternoon and Lime Citron.

Spring Tag by Jen

Does it feel like Spring might never come to anyone else? It has snowed in Central New York for a month with 3-4 feet on the ground (actually up to my windows) and the air so cold it hurts to breathe when you step outside!  I am so ready for a warm up!  So to brighten my cold, dreary, winter day, I made a spring tag with some UmWow Studio lovelies. 

 I needed some gorgeous color so after priming the chip with Faber-Castell Design  Memory Craft Gesso, I added a rainbow of Gelatos®to the tag.  Gorgeous!

 So pretty with the raised texture from the stencil and Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft Whipped Spackle.   Adding some UmWow Studio Flower Confetti and Alphas to create a fun ode to Spring!

 Doesn't that chip just look amazing with the colored Gelatos®?  Makes it all tie together (with some ribbon and canvas threads, of course).

 So, HELLO winter... here's the "#Memo". We want Spring in the worst way!  Come on, pretty please?

 A little bee flair to give it some more spring and we are done!  I'm displaying this prominently on my mantel to remind me that it will be here sooner or later... sooner please!

Materials used:

 

UmWowStudio Thistles

 

UmWowStudio Feather Trio

UmWowStudio Soar Tags

UmWowStudio Alpha Two

UmWowStudio Flower Confetti

UmWowStudio DIY Printer Blocks

UmWowStudio Hexagon Mask

UmWowStudio Documented Hashtag Banners

UmWowStudio The Bee's Knees Set Flair

Faber- Castell Design Memory Craft Textural Accents Whipped Spackle

Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft Textural Accents Gesso

Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft Gelatos® colors in Bubble Gum, Metallic Melon, Lemon, Buttercream, Mango, Green Tea, Metallic Mint, Lavender, and Raspberry

Beacon Adhesive

October Afternoon flashcard tag book

Ribbon (not sure source)

paperHaus Spring 2013 Blog Hop!

Hi everyone!! Welcome to the paperHaus blog hop celebrating the release of the SPRING ISSUE!! :D :D

>>READ HERE<<

You won't believe how amazing this issue is, and I've said it a hundred times but I'm so honored to be a part of it!! Be sure to take the time to read it!! Also, don't forget to stop by and like PH on facebook.

You should be here via Shellye's blog.

Today I'm sharing an altered paintbrush with you! Every twoish months I host a swap for Viva Las VegaStamps! -- In January we opted for altered paintbrushes.. and they've been rolling into my office for two weeks.. they're ASTOUNDING! It's so much fun to trade art with other people :) 

Anyways.. here is the brush I finished to trade with some unsuspecting artist :) 

I don't know why, maybe it's the warming weather.. but when other people are thinking buds and greenery for spring.. I'm thinking THE OCEAN! Being able to play in the water, enjoy the sand, eat a hot dog at the beach! So I went full out for our Nature Inspired paint brush swap and altered this baby.

The base of the brush is gessoed and distress stained with broken china. I've then laid down some cheese cloth and shells. I covered the shells in Smooch and then finished them with gloss gel. While the gel was still wet I placed eBeads, seed beads and glitter all over. Finish off with a snail stamp from Viva Las VegaStamps! and a rope handle.

And I also have a giveaway!! I've just launched a brand new product line under UmWowStudio (keep an eye out for our website to be done soon!) -- laser cut chipboard pieces!! This giveaway includes a sampling of bits and pieces from different sets as well as a couple of my favorite stamps from VLVS!

Follow the UmWowStudio blog and leave a comment here to be entered to win!

And now head your way to Audrey's blog!!