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Scrapping in escape mode Journey to Canada and the Arctic by Véronique Chapuis, Karine Bizi-Bordon, Nina Ostermann, Elodie Touzet and Marie-Christine Meersseman In 1794, Xavier de Maistre, a promising young officer from Savoie, who was a little hot-blooded, was put under arrest, in his room, in the citadel of Turin, the capital of the kingdom of Sardinia to which, at that time, Savoie belonged. He had fought a duel with a fellow officer...! At that very moment he decided to take advantage of these 42 days of compelled follow a straight line: I go from the table towards a picture hanging in a corner; from there, I set out obliquely towards the door; but even though, when I begin, it really is my intention to go there, if I happen to meet my armchair en route, I don't think twice about it, and settle down in it without further ado. » seclusion to write his Voyage around my room, a kind of motionless journey where his fancy as a poet and a painter carries us along in a series of confidences and considerations on the difficulty for each of us to find our place within the world - a real Book of Me before the term existed!... About the way he travels in his mind, he writes: « There is nothing more attractive to me than that which consists of following the route of one's own ideas, like the hunter who, without pretending to hold one particular route, single-mindedly pursues the game. When I travel through my room, I rarely What if we did the same, roaming the world, without leaving our scrapping table? It is indeed the colors, materials and symbols of the regions of our planet which today we suggest you appropriate. Then you can change their use and integrate them into your layouts here, without the need of photos from over there... And because we need a beginning, what would you say if we moved towards North America this time and even the Far North with a trip to Canada and the Arctic? So, let's set off on a motionless journey towards the Northwest Passage! From the Arctic, we have taken wintery colors and materials which will make the wind of winter whistle across your layouts: structured snow and wood join together with lots of little glacial touches which, against all expectations, will warm up your winter layouts. From Canada, it's mainly the palet of colors of the Indian Summer which took the eye of the scrapper. Opposite ► Materials : cardstock (Bazzill), alphabet (American Crafts), stamps (Hero Arts), gesso, die-cut (Sizzix), punch (EK Success), Glimmer Mist (Tattered Angels), Liquid Pearls White Opal (Ranger), Ice Stickles Crystal Ice (Ranger), brads, gloves (EK Success), badge (Rouge de Garance), strass, wool, envelope 122 HISTOIRES DE PAGES - LET'S TALK LAYOUTS MARCH 2014 ISSUE 2

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Let’s talk layouts - Issue #2 - March 2014

Cover
Editor's note
CONTENTS
Ideas
One layout, three options - It's your choice
Back to basics - Rediscover brads
Volume on our layouts - 3D effects and superimpositions
Honors go to the square - DT challenge
Anti-crisis scrapbooking - Time for toys
Mail Art - Make your talent travel
Discoveries
Meet the artists - Nina, Stephanie and Nina
It's trendy - Geo tags
Scraptherapy - Layouts which soothe the mind
Our furry friends - in the spotlight
Meet the artists - Our new European recruits Valérie, Julie and Elena
We have tried out for you
Rendez-vous
Are you a begginner - Then this page is for you !
Rendez-vous - on the blogosphere
Meet us on the net
Readers' Idea Gallery - Life in blue - Back from holidays
Tale of a Sketch #1 - An effective page setting
Tale of a Sketch #2 - A geometric layout
Winter File
Winter is a promise
Zoom on the snowflake - A seasonal motif
A winter with - energising colors
It's on trend - Wood on our layouts
Scrapping in escape mode - Journey to Canada and the Arctic
A mini-album with labels
Color File
Let's tame color - Second part
Different color combinations
Life in Yellow - The emotional power of color
Let's play with color - Fire and ice
Techniques
Focus on the ombre effect - Decoration, fashion and scrapbooking
Finnabair's secrets - Meet designer Anna Dabrowska and learn her techniques
A background page in 9 steps - #1: Masking and cropping
A background page in 9 steps - #2: Gently splodging
A background page in 9 steps - #3: Texture and transparency effect

Let’s talk layouts - Issue #2 - March 2014