Histoires de Pages - Let’s talk layouts / Issue #53 - SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013 - (Page 99)

Letter from our translators Old words, new techniques When translating Histoires de Pages into English for an international audience, we found it hard to translate the word "patouiller" as used by French-speaking scrapbooking enthusiasts. But on discussing its meaning we thought about using the word "splodge'' which means a large irregular spot or blot or blotch. In English it is also a verb which means to get all muddy and wet in a puddle. This is what children love doing in their wellington boots in winter. It has the same ideas as "patouiller'' in French but in a different context. Thus splodging, splodgers and splodges have become our artsyscrapbooking type words for translating all things to do with "patouiller". Letter from the founder 18 years ago, January 1996... ... a fifth snowstorm in the Boston area where my husband, my children and I had just moved for three years decided of my future! When my husband told me to meet Michele and Ron Gerbrandt, Memory Makers' founders, who became great friends, and once back to France a total desert for scrapbooking in 1998 - he had to leave to California for 10 days end of January for his job, I answered him that I was also going to California to visit our friend Frances in Southern California. The night I arrived at Frances and Rocky Montelli's, I discovered scrapbooking. Frances' albums were incredible and I got hooked immediately! Back to Massachusetts, I called my local Creative Memories consultant, Nancy Dickey, who quickly became a great friend, and started spending much time with my other great friend, Michele Brock-Fisher, a rubber stamping enthousiast that I converted to scrapbooking! A few months later, Memory Makers Magazine was started and I began submitting layouts and being published. Among them, a very special one (that I had submitted as a quilting page) became the cover of their third issue. Thanks to that publication, I had the opportunity I started giving classes in Lyon. Four years later, together with all my students, I wrote the first book in French about scrapbooking and in 2004, Histoires de Pages started as a magazine. Today a new step has been taken with the English translation of our issue 53 a masterful translation done by a wonderful Franco-British team whom I thank from the bottom of my heart! I also thank the members of our Design Team who come from the four corners of France, but also from Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Germany and Greece. You have been able to discover their talent throughout these pages and we will introduce them to you on our blog and on Facebook in the coming weeks. Special thanks to Gaëlle Fauglas, Carole Maurin, Ana Bondu and Yannick Grosset who helped me make this project come alive in the last two months. I also thank our photographers, Patrick and Odile Chevrolat, who do a fantastic job to offer you so beautiful images, and my family for their patience and indulgence towards me. So, let's meet in a few weeks with our next issue (#54). You're welcome! Marie-Dominique Gambini Free downloads Meet us on the Net 4 sets of labels by Gaëlle Fauglas and Wistiti Design Blog Facebook Pinterest HISTOIRES DE PAGES - SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2013 99 http://www.facebook.com/HDPInternational http://www.pinterest.com/hdpmagazine http://histoiresdepages.international.over-blog.com

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