Ruelle des Coccinelles / Ladybugs Lane: March 2011

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Look what I got in the mail today, whoop!!! Aren't they totally FUN?

Winner of blog hop(on my blog)

I had 20 comments and put #s 1-20 in a jar and #2 was picked, that's Tara, whoop!! I am posting your RAK ASAP:-) Congratulations and thanks to all who visited and took time to comment:-))

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Capturing Spring Break Blog Hop at LCOM

Thank you for joining us as we try and Capture Spring Break!!

If you have happened upon my blog please pop on over to Let's Capture These Sketches to begin the hop.

Please join the new sketch team as we take a journey to a popular Spring Break location. Pack up your scrapbook goodies and hop along each blog. Be sure to keep your eye open for a letter posted on the blogs and be sure to post comments as you go. Once you are done, please comment here and unscramble the letters to find out our destination. Now... some of the members couldn’t make the trip and didn’t post a letter. Let us know who couldn’t join us for an extra chance to win! Email your answers to thynner5@yahoo.ca and put LCOM Blog Hop in the subject line for a chance to win some great prizes.

Grab a drink and let’s get this party started!

Hope you liked my LO on spring, our Blog Hop theme! I am totally into banners lately and it was certainly fun creating one for the LO and I always add a touch of nature in my LOs. I also made a homemade ribbon flower and added a brad in the middle. Have fun with the blog hop. I will draw for a RAK for those leaving me a message, tell me what piece of nature I added in my LO. Good luck and get inspired by all the talented ladies on LCOM

Gisèle Julien taught in New Brunswick for 32 years and has been retired since June 2007. She has taught in northern New Brunswick, Sackville, Moncton and Fredericton NB. A senator In Juniour Chamber International, a volunteer with Project Linus, Georges Dumont Hospital and at her church Marie-Reine de l’Acadie. Gisèle also supply teaches at l’école Anna-Malenfant.

As her 1^st trip after retirement, she took a scrapbooking cruise to the Caribbean.

Scrapbooking has taken over her passion to create and to preserve family memories. It has been a big part of who she is since 2005 when this craft was introduce to her by a colleague. She has always been involved in crafts of some kind so this has fed her creativity. Scrapbooking also involves card making as the same techniques are used in both.

Have taken scrap classes from several international scrap designers including: Trisha Ladouceur, Leica Forrest, Jill Hildebrand, Allison Orthner, Christy Tomlinson, Tena Springer, Deanna Hutchinson Wakelin, Dorrie Saya, Jen Starr, Kathy Thompson Laffoley, Tracey Taylor and more. Continues to attend crops (where scrapbookers meet and scrap together) and attended Scrap Gala 2007 and 2010.

An avid scrap booker who has been published in The Canadian Scrapbooker magazine in the Winter issue 2010 and an e-magazine Ready Set Create. Have also been a guest designer on an online scrap site: LCOM (Lets Capture our Memories) http://www.letscaptureourmemories.com/ in the past and now is fortunate to be part of the current design team. A demonstrator for Stampin’ Up (a scrapbooking and card company who sells materials used for scrapbooking and paper crafts).

ok now on to the fun, check my letter and check Anita's blog for another and don't forget to put a comment for a chance to win a RAK:-))

Gisele - http://giselejulien.blogspot.com/ **The letter l** That's me

Anita - http://www.happypapercrafthappenings.blogspot.com/ next blog

LCOM Blog - http://letscapturethesesketches.blogspot.com/

Monday, March 21, 2011

They are back, spring must be here!

Last fall I showed a field full of Canada geese in my backyard. This morning, it's the first I see them back. Must be a sign of spring! I believe that this is a pair, a female and male.