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Incredible Capri...

Monday March 29th 2010, Capri, Italy

Edwige and I spent the day in Capri on Monday, a beautiful island in the south of Naples, known in France as a french singer sang he found his first love in this Island. Whatever.

We almost missed the boat to go to the island, but we finally made after a long trip walking down the cliff to reach the harbour.

When we get to Capri, we are in awe by the beauty of the city, built on the cliff all over the island, but still, we are wondering how the hell we're going to be able to walk up there.

We finally see the funicular. YEAH. Let's go!

When you get up on the upper Capri, the view is simply amazing and the streets coveres in stones, white houses and...CHIC boutiques : Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Chanel, well nothing I could afford buying. So I desperately (NOT) dive into a wonderful italian biscuit boutique and buy some to come home with (most of them made it home safe, just a few were eaten by a silly french woman.ME).

At 11:50, we walk by a nice pizzeria and decide that we might come back here for lunch. Later. We're not hungry now. Let's go walk again and get lost in these amazing little streets.

At around 2pm, we could feel our stomachs cry out for food. Even though we walked by some amazing pizzeria restaurants, we decide to go back to the first one we saw.

We ask for a table on the terrace. Unfortunately (and fortunately later on), they invite us to sit at one table, in the shadow. We get cold and ask to be moved to another one, right under the sun.

hmmmmm...we feel so good.

Let's order pizza now.

Margherita and Capriciosa pizzas ordered.

Beautiful pizzas coming.

and YUMMY YUMMY! They're delicious!

While I eat, I look at the customers getting on the terrace and there comes this lady. I say to myself "hmmm...she has a very special look but i LOVE her dress and her shoes are cool".

Then I look up at her face.

FIRST CHOC.

I say "Oh fuck".

I immediately recognize this woman, being a fan of her work for ages, and then I remember she is the wife of my FAVORITE movie director on Earth.

I look for him.

And here he is.

SECOND CHOC.

Second "OOOOOOH FUUUUUUUUCK".

Edwige says "what the hell is wrong with you?"

And I say "$ù$ù%%£*%%£*%% (rude words erased), Helena Bonham Carter and TIM BURTON ARE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?

MY IDOL!!!!

Seriously, Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter arrived in the restaurant with their children, friens and the girl that plays Alice in the movie Alice in Wonderland, and Edwige and I were scared to interrupt them during their lunch.

I simply TORTURED myself for over 30 minutes to know how the hell I was going to go and talk to them and TAKE A PICTURE with them!

I decide to write them a note, asking whether we could wait after they finish up their meal so that we can take a picture but I can't even finish it as they get up and are ready to leave the restaurant!

All of a sudden, I jump out of my chair, grab my camera, grab to Helena and ask for a picture, telling her how much I love her and blah blah...

Tim is busy paying for his bill so I'm waiting...and then, I ask him to take a picture and he smiles back at me and says "of course ladies! My pleasure!"

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

And I tell him how much I love him, that he's a genius and he is soooo nice!

We shake hands, he leaves the restaurant and Edwige and I jumps up and down screaming in the restaurant! :D

I was TOTALLY CRAZY!!!

I would have never thought of meeting my idol in such a unexpected way so imagine my face when I saw him! :)

I love him even more now that I saw how nice and simple this guy is :)

Ok now you can hate me :D

Jenni bowlin Studio Guest this month

hey there!

This month, I was lucky and honored to be Jenni Bowlin guest designer on her blog! I just love her funky vintage products, you can just use them with any kind of themed projects!

Here are some portraits Karine took of me while we were travelling in Sri Lanka :)

 

I'll show you more tomorrow!

Take care!

Masking tape, I love you :)

Hey there!

How's your doing going? I am in Italy, where I'm going to teach at the PACS this weekend - I SO can't wait! :)

Here's a layout I made for the Studio Calico blog last week - I printed on masking tape, one of my favorite mediums of all time!

So what do you think?

Have a great day!

STUDIO CALICO kit for giveaway!

Would you like to win this amazing kit and maybe be able to create a similar project to the one I did for my last Inspiration Tuesday post?

Leave a comment here on this post and maybe you'll receive this pretty in the mail soon!

THANK YOU to Studio Calico for this gorgeous giveaway!

I'll draw a winner on Sunday or Monday morning (depends on my internet connection as I'll be teching this weekend in Naples, Italy)

Hugs and have a great day!

Joyland sneak peeks ^^

Helloooo!

Here are some sneak peeks using the Studio Calico April kit JOYLAND. Oh dear...you're going to LOVE this kit! I just couldn't stop using it! I made 4 layouts and I think I'm going to make MORE! :)

 

Reveal night on the 28th midnight CST! ^^

Inspiration Tuesday with Studio Calico

Hello dear blog readers from all over the world! :)

Today is a new Inspiration Tuesday that has been inspired by SPRING! Ooooh how I was sooo looking forward to Spring...the allergies, sneezing, crying eyes...but also flowers, singing birds, the heat of the sun on our faces... :)

So HAPPY SPRING to all of you out there, wherever you are!

So, Spring has been my inspiration this week and I couldn't resist using this amazing add-on kit from Studio Calico (available here).

Not only the colors are bright and beautiful but I so wanted to play with fabric these days! PERFECT reason for me to dive into my stash of threads, photos and paints and think about a new project to show you.

This kit contains 4 different beautiful Heather Bailer pieces of fabric with which you can create yoyo flowers, ribbons, etc...

But what I truely LOVED in this kit was that HP photo transfer papers.

I'm used to doing transfers with gel medium or tape, but I really wanted to give this paper a try and guess what? I LOVED IT!

I'm not really used to using it so you might see my transfers aren't THAT perfect but hey! why doing a transfer is you want a perfect transfer? Print them instead.

To make this project, you will need this gorgeous kit, and the following items :

• an ink jet printer
• acrylic paints (I used Claudine Hellmuth for Ranger acrylic paints esp. those colors Landscape Green, Classic Teal and Dab of Yellow, that I used with the appropriate brushes) 
• Glimmer mist or Maya mists in turquoise
• ink (distress brown)
• threads (blue, green, turquoise)
• Studio Calico hot air balloon stamp
  

Are you ready to get started?!

 

 Before you even get started with decorating this cute banner, you need to prepare your photos.

#1. Open Photoshop and pick the photos you want to print on the HP photo transfer paper. Crop your photo size 4x6"by going under Image/Size of Image (you'll see below the French version of Photoshop but the buttons are located in the same place than the US version).

 

 

#2. Create a new document. File/New document.

This one has to be 8,5x11", as this is the size of the HP photo transfer paper.

 

#3. Use the arrow to slide each image into the new document. Click on your photo and keep it still until you slide it into the new document.

 

#4. Do so with every photo you want to print.

 

Once your photos are on the new document, go to File/Print. Select the bst quality possible for printing.

Put your HP photo transfer paper into your printer and be careful that the photos need to be printed on the WHITE side of the paper (you have HP logos on the back side of the paper).

 

Once your photos are printed, cut them and start your iron machine!

  

As you can see, the fabric on my ironing table is very ugly but I'm going to have to change it later anyway (explanations later in this post, you'll see why).

Put your iron machine on COTTON mode and press it onto your image for several seconds and repeat several times. Don't press for too long as you might burn the transfer.

 

Insist on the edges.

 

Get rid of the paper and VOILAAAAAAA!

 

Now you see why I need to change my table. Knowing that not all of the image is transfered onto my piece of fabric, the remaining image got transfered onto my ironing table! :D

 

Now let's get started with the fun part : creating the banner itself!

I glued my fabric with gluestick but you can use any glue especially spray glue. Avoid double sided tape or liquid glue as you may see it through the fabric.

 

Each triangle of fabric without photo has been covered with fabric and sewed with colorful thread.

 

In order to make my photos look as it they were part of the fabric, I simply use acrylic paint with water, just as if it was watercolor paints.

 

Just dip your brush into the paint and add water. You will get this cool and vibrant watercolor effect, just a little bit more colorful.

 

and TA-DA! Here's my cute Spring banner!

Close-up photos...

 

This is a cute flower I got in a Studio Calico kit last month...

 

 

The Hot air balloon stamp has been my favorite for months now :)

 

So sorry for the bad photos, the weather wasn't that good this weekend.

Hope you enjoyed this new Inspiration tuesday as much as I enjoyed making it :)

Take care!

and you have until midnight today to ask me your questions! See the post here! :)

Seriously...who the hell she is?

Let's play a littl Q&A game :)

Please ask your questions here in the comment sections and I'll reply ALL of them in a future post this week!  This could be fun! :)

Let's talk about scrapbooking, photography, life, music, make up, art, design, anything you wanna ask me, please do so! :)

Take care!

BULLE2SCRAP giveaway winner

ANGEL! You on the amazing kit from BULLE2Scrap! CONGRATULATIONS!

Send me an email to thegreenfrogstudio@mac.com and you'll receive your kit real soon!

Thank you ALL and enjoy your day!

SKETCHBOOK class with Kelly Purkey winner annouced!

BEATRIZ MONFORTE : you win a FREE ACCESS to Kelly Purkey's SKETCHBOOK CLASS, thanks to this absolutely CUTE picture...

(picture from My Milk Toof blog).

Email me as soon as possible and enjoy Kelly's class :)

Because I REALLY want to go see this movie...

I WANT TO SEE IT SO BAD! :)

I just found this amazing video on Christina's blog (which I LOVE) and it reminded me of Alice in Wonderland so much.

Enjoy your weekend!

I might show you some scrapbook projects this afternoon but not...otherwise, I'll post tomorrow! :)

hugs!