Histoires de Pages - Let’s talk layouts / Issue #53 - SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013 - (Page 7)

Lett ers from OUR READERS I have been a reader of Histoires de Pages since the second issue. This is the only magazine that I take so much time reading, so many ideas, techniques and tips it provides us with. Issue #52 blew me away so much with its content that I wanted to tell you about it... The items are very accessible and are a real source of inspiration for me. Congratulations to all the artists who put so much heart into their articles... Thank you for making me dream with every issue. layout, but one which I like very much and for which I used the labels by Denise Laborde provided in the same issue. This is real fun! Bélinda (Bas-Rhin) Twin boys, identical but so different... I used two different brands of papers and also a different positioning of the shapes so each of them could have his own! And their mom was very happy with the result. Thank you so much again. Natacha (an Internaute) Karine (an Internaute) Here is a page I made, scraplifting a layout by Marie-Christine Meersseman, which I became completely crazy about, in HDP51 (page 24 in the section about Polaroids). I have loved following this very original layout, composed of both graphic elements with very large strips of paper and a gathering of somewhat less ordered embellishments. Best wishes, roll on #52! Sophie (Haute-Garonne) As a faithful reader of HDP, I always look forward to the blind scraplift. It's too late to submit my layout, the deadline has long since gone, but all the same I am sending you the last scraplift which particularly inspired me and for which I tried an tangy Shabby style. Joëlle (Côtes-d'Armor) As many subscribers to your magazine, I am a scrapaddict! I allowed myself to scraplift one of your layouts, issue #52 (Article Are you a Beginner? by Karine Bizi-Bordon, p.9). This is my little nephew Clément during a family lunch to celebrate Russian Easter! I'm sending it to you and intend to scraplift many others because you are a real source of inspiration! This layout is part of an album with a combo uniquely in blue, black and white. Thank you for all your ideas! Clarisse (Isère) As usual, the latest HDP is filled with good and wonderful ideas. It is with great pleasure that I devour the magazine, on the lookout for a layout to scraplift or a technique to try out. But I also often return to back issues that allow me to discover and perform the various stepby-step techniques by Ingvild Bolme or use Powertex. Each time the result enchants me. This time, it is the technique proposed by Marianne Sterchi in #44 with overlapping layers and transparencies that I tried out. The only problem was printing in a 30 x 30 cm format (12" x 12), so I printed my design twice on a white Bazzill and I built it back up. The final result is a simple I am always inspired when I read your magazine! So, when I saw the colorblocking technique revisited by MarieChristine Meersseman, I immediately knew I would reproduce the layout. A few months later, when a friend asked me to scrap her twins, I immediately thought of it! HISTOIRES DE PAGES - SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2013 7

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Histoires de Pages - Let’s talk layouts / Issue #53 - SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013

Cover
Editor's note
CONTENTS
Rendez-vous
Letters from our readers
Let's play around with color - Tempted by transparency
Are you a beginner? This page is especially for you!
Readers' Idea Gallery - Summer activities - Combo
Tale of a sketch - Put the photo in the spotlight
Letter from our translators
Ideas
One page, three options
Matching decorations
Make-over session - for Christelle's and Emilie's layouts
U.S. tags - They are a must!
A mishmash of words
Honors go to photography
Graphic and stylish - Sew in your layouts
A mini-album with labels - to be downloaded on page 99
Techniques
A few little graphic rules - to adopt without delay !
Let's tame color
A background in 6 steps - Transform your patterned papers
Butterflies
Are you a tea - or a coffee person?
A background in 9 steps - Ink, paper, that's all!
A background in 9 steps - Flowers and colors!
A maxi-album - A floris't shop
Discoveries
We have tried out for you
Marseille - Provence 2013
Meet the artists - Delphine, Carole and Laetitia
It's on trend - Marine anchors
Scraptherapy - How about talking scraptherapy?
Rendez-vous on the blogosphere

Histoires de Pages - Let’s talk layouts / Issue #53 - SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013