Hello scrappers,

And the countdown is on for DISNEY...only 7 more days and we are off to Florida. We will be spending 9 days in Disney/Seaworld and we are going on a 3 day DISNEY CRUISE. I am soooooooooo looking foward to a VACATION. We are almost all packed...lol

So I have been going nonstop for the past weeks now trying to get ready for our SCRAPBOOKING GONE WILD crop last weekend. Well it was all worth it!!! I had such a wonderful time with all the girls that came. A huge thank you goes to my WONDERFUL HUSBAND, VANCE ANDERSON, who spend the entire time preparing the amazing food for us!!! I sure appreciate everything you do to make things so much easier for me...I love you lots!!! Another huge thank you goes out to BRENDA KERNIGHAN for all your wonderful help. It wouldn't be as successfull without all your help...thank you!!!

I just submitted another picture for my Photography course. This lesson was on Portrait Pictures. Well I got my grade today and I am quite happy with my 90%. I have an average of 91.27% and I have 1 last assignment which includes 6 pictures. This last assignment is to practice everything I learned during the entire course. It will probably take me a few months to get the 6 pictures, but I will have fun during the summer taking lots of pics. Here is the picture I submitted of one of my really good friend's daughter and father.

So I have also been pretty busy playing with my new camera. Yes, I actually bought a CANON 7D. OMW, what an amazing camera!!!! I still don't know half of what this camera can do but I am learning as I go. LOTS OF FUN!!! I always had a hard time getting great action shots with my REBEL. Well what do you think about this???? Such an amazing camera!!!

And I am off to Perth-Andover this weekend for a Scrapbook Convention. I am really looking foward to it...not the packing though...lol I am sure it will be a good time!!!

That is it for now. Thanks for stopping by.
Chantal

Creative Scrappers Reveal!!!

Hello scrappers,

You need to check out the Creative Scrappers sketch blog. They are celebrating their 2 year anniversary and the celebration is for the entire month of APRIL. I was lucky enough to have been chosen to be one of their READER'S REVEAL today. Here is the sketch I was given and the layout I made.

That is it for now. Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Easter weekend.

Chantal

Hello bloggers,

I know it's been a while...it's been quite busy here. In the past few weeks, we have bought a new truck, been to Bangor for a few days, went to birthday parties and I scrapbooked a little. I had never been to the kids Museum in Bangor. WOW!!! It's a great place for kids of all ages. We were in there for at least 3 hours if not more with 5 kids from 3 years old to 7 years old. FUN!!!FUN!!!FUN!!! I didn't have a chance to download my pics yet. Hopefully this weekend I can show a few.
I think I am ready to see the sun again...3 days of rain is enough for me. I guess we are supposed to have a gorgeous weekend. I hope it's a beautiful day Saturday because I have 12 kids coming for an Easter Egg Hunt...should be lots of fun. I will hopefully have nice pics to show.

Here are a few layouts I did last week.







That is it for now. Thanks for stopping by.
Chantal

Hello scrappers,

How are you enjoying this gorgeous weather??? OMW it is almost 20 degrees here in our backyard...YIPEE!!!! Is it really true???? Is Spring finally here???? I sure hope so!!!

Do you ever meet a person that you just click with??? You almost feel as if you have been friends with that person for ever...well that is the case with my friend Michelle. We met last fall and we just became friends right away. She came to scrapbook with me last Thursday and we had such a great time. I didn't get that much scrapping done because I think we were chatting more than scrapping but I still got this layout done.



I have been taking lots and lots of pictures lately. I finally started a Photography scrapbook album. I had so many pictures of landscape or places we have visited and I would never do anything with them. Well I finally started an album and I love it.

That is it for now. Thanks for stopping by.
Chantal

Hello scrappers,

I had such a great week's vacation last week. You know when you get to a point where you just can't get anything done at work because you just desperatly need a break. Well I was there!!! I relaxed, slept in almost every morning, took sunset pictures for my photography course, cleaned my scraproom and finished 3 layouts. I am enjoying taking sunset pics. I don't have that perfect picture yet to submit for my course. I would love to know what you think. These are my favorite so far.

St Andrews, NB

Canal, NB

Here is a little scrapbook inspiration.

Products used: pattern paper (Rose Moka), cardstock (prism), chipboard (Riff Raff), perfect pearls (Ranger).

Products used: pattern paper (Scribble Scrabble), cardstock (prism), letters (Thickers), snowflakes (cut with spellbinder die), distress ink (Ranger), stickles (Ranger), pearls (Kaisercraft).

Products used: pattern paper (Scribble Scrabble), cardstock (prism), letters (Thickers), snowflakes (cut with spellbinder die), distress ink (Ranger), stickles (Ranger), pearls (Kaisercraft).

That's it for now. Thanks for stopping by.
Chantal

Hello scrappers,

Not a lot of scrapping going on here lately!!! I have been practicing my photography. A few blogs ago, I showed you BW pics for my photography course. Well here is the one I decided to send for grading...WOW...100%. I am soooooooo thrilled that I got 100% on my assignment. I would love to hear from you...What do you think????

Here are a few more pictures I took.

I also took an Advance Flash Photography course with Noel Chenier. Here are a few pics that were taken during the course. I finaly learned how to use my external flash. I have been enjoying inside pictures since my course.

I am hoping to have a few layouts for you this week since I am on vacation.

That is it for now. Thanks for stopping by.

Chantal

Hello scrappers,

I had such an amazing time at our SCRAPBOOKING GONE WILD weekend crop last Friday and Saturday. I actually had a chance to scrapbook myself as well as doing demos of a few products. Here are 2 layouts I finished in the past week.

Don't you just love these flowers from Basic Grey!!!

I truly love how the title of this layout turned out. I used white Vinyl Thickers and added Alcohol inks over them. How cool do those look!!!!

And I painted the snowflakes with Smooch first, sprayed Smooch Spritz and then added Rock Candy Crackle Paint over the entire snowflake.

That's it for now.

Thanks for stopping by.

Chantal