W00T! It’s Official!

Well, I can spill the beans because it’s official now: I made it into ScrapMatters’ Hybrid CT!! πŸ˜€
I’m so happy to be creating for this great community and cannot wait to get started! Yaaaaaaaaaaay! πŸ˜‰

Fridge Magnets

For a very long time I’ve wanted to try to make fridge magnets. I bought the fundamental material (glass marbles and magnets) months ago (at WalMart and Michael’s respectively) so this weekend I decided it was time to give it a try.


First off, I printed out the designs for my magnets. I used Amy Sumrall’s super cute kits, Oh So Happy, Berry Sweet and Little Bunny Foo Foo.


I printed on normal paper and cut the designs out. Then, I applied a thin layer of Mod Podge on the circles as I normally do for sealing, but this time I put a glass marble on top. I liked that you can still move around the paper to center it properly, but then the Mod Podge dries off pretty quickly as usual.


Then, I used some tacky glue to glue the magnets to the paper+glass marbles. I just put a drop of tacky glue on the magnets and adhered the paper+glass to them. These need to dry a bit longer than Mod Podge, but within 10 minutes my magnets were ready to go on the fridge!

Credits:
TOP: Oh So Happy by Amy Sumrall
BOTTOM: Berry Sweet by Amy Sumrall

The glass marbles magnify the design below and the final effect is so pretty! Even DH appreciated the final result! πŸ™‚

Credits:
Little Bunny Foo Foo by Amy Sumrall

I put off this project for a really long time because I wasn’t sure which glue would work for attaching the magnets, but in the end the glue I had worked beautifully! I’ll be doing more of these for sure. πŸ˜‰

Getting Ready

My mom is flying in tonight and will stay almost two weeks!! I’m so happy and I’ve been really looking forward to her visit!

This will mean I will have little or no time to scrap in the next couple of weeks, but I’ll be taking many pictures. πŸ˜‰

Last night I grabbed Pamela Donnis’s new kit, Backyard BBQ, which is just perfect for my grill pictures! πŸ˜‰

Credits:
Template by Juli Fish
Backyard BBQ by Pamela Donnis
Messy Stamped Alpha by wm [squared] designs
Summer Word Art freebie – Designs by The Werners
Font: Pea Roni Script

My Photoshop Elements has been really acting up since the latest update on my Mac. I started working on a page for a CT call last night but wasn’t able to save it.. :-S So, this morning during breakfast I finished it up and if it still convinces me, I’ll send it off this weekend. πŸ˜‰

What a Scare!

Last night I finished working on my 2 pages for the May monthly summary. After saving them, I hit the Save for Web button and my Photoshop Elements crashed. Then, my computer crashed too, so I decided to go to bed. But this morning I had a horrible surprise: both my psd files were 10 MB of size and corrupted… :-S
After a few minutes of despair thinking I had to do both pages all over again, DH saved my day thanks to his backup system. He retrieved my files saved to almost the final version (I always save the file several times as I’m working on them and the final step that was missing in the backup version was only the addition of the flowers). So, I just added the flowers in again and my pages are safe and finished! Phew!!



Credits:
Template by missrubikscube
Tropical Escape by Erica Zane and Mari Koegelenberg
Acrylic numbers from Hodge Podge 9 by Gina Marie Huff
Screws from Summer Fling by Britt-ish Designs
Font: Note this

I picked up this gorgeous collab by Erica Zane and Mari Koegelenberg at the 2 Dollar Tuesday at The DigiChick – what a steal! It’s such a gorgeous kit and I cannot wait to use more of it!!

Waiting…

I have a couple of pages to share done with Sugarplum Paperie’s latest kit, Summer Delight. I love all of Nicole’s kits and this one is no exception!

Template by Suzanne (sbaird)
Summer Delight by Sugarplum Paperie
Font: Pea Roni Script

I did this next page for a paper to digi scraplift challenge at The Digi Chick and I fell in love with the page I was scraplifting.. It’s just perfect in every way!
I love how my lift turned out because you can still tell it’s based on a paper LO, but it’s totally digi.. πŸ˜‰ I did all the shadows by hand and spent all the evening on it, but I’m happy with the result! I even did the faux stitching.. πŸ˜‰

Credits:
Summer Delight, ribbon from The Sweetest Thing, heart from Little Love Bits by Sugarplum Paperie
On the Dot Alpha (recolored) by Chelle’s Creations
Font: Pea Roni Script

And then, I’m all caught up with my Project 365 as usual. πŸ˜‰

Credits:
Hodge Podge 11 by Gina Marie Huff
Photo stamps from Project 365 #2 by Sugarplum Paperie
Font: Note this

I titled this post “Waiting” because I’m waiting, patiently or not, for many things this week! I’m waiting for the renewal of my visa (let me just say it’s been an odissey this year, and I’ll leave it at that..); I’m waiting for my mom’s visit and she’s flying in on Friday; I’m waiting for my 1 month CT guest spot at ScrapMatters (but that won’t be until July 1st, and I’m so excited!!!); finally, I’m waiting to hear who was accepted for the hybrid CT call at ScrapMatters, hoping to get a spot.. that would be fantastic!
And this evening the winner of the SYTYCD challenge at didiscrapaddicts.com will be announced, and I’m keeping my fingers crossed for Amy!! That girl really deserves to win!

Keyholder Frame

I worked on a very cute little project this weekend, inspired by Mari Koegelenberg’s project featured on The Hybrid Chick blog.

I showed Mari’s post to DH before creating my own keyholder frame and this is actually the first project that got endorsed by DH! But I anticipated this would happen, since DH always loses his keys in the house and not once, but twice has managed to lock himself out of the house… :-/

So, I picked up Amy Sumrall’s super cute Berry Sweet kit and prepared the digital bits and pieces.
I was super lucky because I found a white frame at the Dollar store and bought white hooks at Lowe’s, so I didn’t have to paint anything. Not that it would have been a big deal, but it saved me some time! πŸ™‚
I used my favorite material, frozen pizza box, πŸ™‚ to create the backing for the tags.

I used Mod Podge to glue the tags on the chipboard and some ribbon and eyelets to pretty them up; I had DH help to screw the hooks in and the frame was ready in no time! πŸ˜‰

Credits:
Berry Sweet by Amy Sumrall
Font: Scriptina
Here’s the detail of the tags: I created one for DH, one for me, one for the car keys and one for the shed, plus an unnamed one. πŸ™‚


It’s really cute and I think I might make some seasonal changes too. I chose summery colors which are perfect for now but I would love to change it in the fall, and for Christmas!

(Sorry about the poor quality of the pictures, but the frame is hanging in a poorly lit part of the house and today’s a rainy day.. Since I added 2 glue dots to the back to keep it more stable when keys are hung/picked up, I didn’t want to take the frame down just because I needed better pictures. πŸ™‚ )

Just A Sneak Peek

I worked on a very cute little hybrid project today, but unfortunately it was almost dark when I finished it so I couldn’t take good pictures of it. I’ll take a few tomorrow, and post more pictures of how I did the project, but for now I want to show just a little sneak peek of the final result:

Credits:

Berry Sweet by Amy Sumrall

Font: Scriptina

House Album

Well, it took me some 4 months, but I finally took some pictures of the hybrid album I prepared for DH for Valentine’s day, so I can show it off at last! πŸ™‚

It’s the very first album I ever did and I’m so proud of it!

I wanted to do a house album but I couldn’t find any chipboard albums in the craft stores around here, so I decided to build my own album out of cereal boxes, frozen food boxes, etc.
First, I started creating the pages on my computer and printing them out. I sized the pages so that I could print two each on a sheet of matte A4 paper I had at home.
Next, I cut the pages out and created a template from a cereal box simply outlining the printed page with a pencil.
Cut, cut, cut, cut…
I made 20 pages(!) so this means 20 printed pages plus 10 chipboard pages to be cut.. I did this over a few evenings: my hand would have hurt way too much if I cut them all at once! πŸ˜‰
At this point, I punched holes and added flower brads to some of my pages. Then, I Mod Podged them to glue them to the chipboard. I punched holes with my Crop-a-dile to bind the pages.
I debated whether or not to add eyelets, because the front pages would look pretty but theΒ back pages would have the back of the eyelets that aren’t as pretty, but I ended up putting them.
I also printed a cover on a transparency and used an electric wire to bind the pages. I found this wire in my office and I thought the colors were just perfect for the album, so I used it to create a flower embellishment for the cover too.
And here’s the complete album:

TRANSPARENCY (front)

Font: Scriptina

PAGE 1 (cover)

Paper by lilipruneau – ScrapMalin collab Enjoy Life

PAGE 2

Paper (recolored) by lilipruneau – ScrapMalin collab Enjoy Life

Key from Feels Like Home collab by B-Creative Designs and Ziggle Designs

PAGE 3

Paper (recolored) by lilipruneau – ScrapMalin collab Enjoy Life

wordart (recolored) by Veronica Hurly – Snap and Scrap collab Where the Heart Is

PAGE 4

paper (recolored) by Erica Zane – Snap and Scrap collab Where the Heart Is

key by Veronica Hurly – Snap and Scrap collab Where the Heart Is

PAGE 5

paper (recolored) by Erica Zane – Snap and Scrap collab Where the Heart Is

PAGE 6

wordart (recolored) from Home Sweet Home by Janelle Gustafson, Cafe J Designs

paper (recolored) by Veronica Hurly – Snap and Scrap collab Where the Heart Is

PAGE 7

paper (recolored) by Veronica Hurly – Snap and Scrap collab Where the Heart Is

PAGE 8

Paper (recolored) from Love Bytes Add On by Britt-ish Designs

wordart by Veronica Hurly – Snap and Scrap collab Where the Heart Is

PAGE 9

Paper (recolored) from Love Bytes Add On by Britt-ish Designs

wordart by Brianna Cox – Snap and Scrap collab Where the Heart Is

PAGE 10

Element from Home Sweet Home by Janelle Gustafson, Cafe J Designs

Fairchild Add On (some recoloring) by Britt-ish Designs

PAGE 11

Fairchild Add On (some recoloring) by Britt-ish Designs

PAGE 12

Fairchild Add On (some recoloring) by Britt-ish Designs

PAGE 13

Fairchild Add On (some recoloring) by Britt-ish Designs

PAGE 14

Paper from Welcome Home by Erica Zane

PAGE 15

Paper from Welcome Home by Erica Zane

Birds rub-on from Electric Pop by Britt-ish Designs

PAGE 16

Paper from Harvest Spice by Shabby Princess

PAGE 17

Paper from Harvest Spice by Shabby Princess

PAGE 18

paper (recolored) from Shrubberies by Erica Zane

Element from Home Sweet Home by Janelle Gustafson, Cafe J Designs

PAGE 19

paper (recolored) from Shrubberies by Erica Zane

PAGE 20 (BACK)

Paper (recolored) by lilipruneau – ScrapMalin collab Enjoy Life

wordart by Eirene Designs – Snap and Scrap collab Where the Heart Is

I Am Not the Queen of Scrap..

.. and there’s no big surprise there (though I had hoped till the end I could somehow get enough votes for that).. but I did make Princess of Scrap!! πŸ˜€

This means I’ll guest CT at ScrapMatters for 1 month!!! *doing the happy dance*
Now, I just hope they give us June off because my mom is coming next week for 10 days and I know I won’t be scrapping much while she’s here!

It’s Time to Vote!!

The entries for Week 5 of So You Think You Can Design have been submitted and it’s time to pick which of the 8 designers is your favorite.

You need to be registered to DigiScrapAddicts to view the kits and vote, but I strongly recommend it: the kits for all 5 weeks are still available and there’s some gorgeous stuff there!!
Here’s Amy Sumrall’s entry for week 5: she totally rocked an 80’s kit!

So once you’ve made up your mind, go and vote here!!
You only have time until Sunday to vote, so do it now!