Month: June 2011

New Week

| cristina

I’ve had a rather productive weekend: I did a couple of hybrid projects, a couple of LOs and worked on my P365. I’m still working on catching up, but it looks like I can make it. 🙂

In the meantime, here’s the next page of my mom’s visit. I did this for one of the monthly challenges at The Lilypad (the scraplifting one) and I really love how it turned out!

Mom's Visit Day 3: Fun Times

Lift of daydreamer by Keela

Journaling:
The dinner at Max’s was extraordinary! We only decided to eat here because the location was convenient,
but I’m so glad we did! We’d only been here once a few years ago and it hadn’t impressed us, but today
was another story!We will be coming back for sure!

Credits:
Fonts: Pea Pumpkin Peters, Traveling Typewriter

Come back tomorrow, I’ll have another page to share. 🙂

Finally Friday!

| cristina

I have a ton of new pages to share today! All are made with gorgeous new releases at The Lilypad. Let’s start with a fun and colorful kit by Gina Miller:

Here’s my page:

Mom's Visit Day Three

Journaling:
I went to work today, while my mom and DH stayed home. Then tonight we went for an early dinner before heading to a free concert.

Credits:
Blueprints #7-#12 and Fruit Punch by Gina Miller
Suzy-Q alpha by CD Muckosky
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

I also used these crazy templates by Amy Martin:

to make a matching page. Aren’t they super fun? 😉

Mom's Visit Day 3 (2)

Credits:
Set Apart Templates by Amy Martin
Fruit Punch by Gina Miller
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

Next, a great sports pack by Kate Hadfield:

doodles by one of my favorite artists, CD Muckosky:

and one of my most used alphas:

I used them to scrap an old picture of my mom and I, and I LOVE how it turned out!

Little Player

Journaling:
This is one of my favorite pictures of my mom and me as a child. It was my first summer and we were in the mountains.

Credits:
Background paper from Bundle Up by Kate Hadfield and SMJ Designs
School Sports by Kate Hadfield
Bubble Magic and Suzy-Q alpha by CD Muckosky
Blue and green papers from Around the World by Sahlin Studio and Britt-ish Designs
Alpha from Capture the Moment (sadly retired) by Kate Hadfield and Designs by Lili
Font: SS Whimsy

OK, almost done! Last are this pack of hand drawn by CD Muckosky:

and these colorful notes:

I love these colors!

Together We

Journaling:
Our fourth wedding anniversary fell on the Thursday before Memorial day, so we ended up spending a nice long weekend at home. Relaxing at home was what I needed after a crazy deadline at work!

Credits:

Almost There

| cristina

I’m excited for the weekend to get here, or actually even just Friday, because I have quite a few pages to share with new releases. 😉 In the meantime, here are the past couple of weeks for my Project 52 Cards. Two weeks ago DH and I celebrated our wedding anniversary:

P52 Cards - Week 22

You can see the Week 22 card here.

Last week I gave him the latest card I’d made. It’s actually a postcard and not a card (meaning that it doesn’t open up) because I used a scrap of paper to print it out, and I quite like this format! DH said he liked it to (that’s a first!), so I might be doing more.

P52 Cards - Week 23

You can see the Week 23 card here.

I have a TON of pages to share tomorrow, so make sure you stop by! 😉

Wibbit Wednesday

| cristina

I am having SO much fun with my guest spot at The Lilypad. It’s been a week already and I’ve been averaging one page per day. Here’s my latest pages:

Mom's Visit Day 2: Ooooops

Journaling:
At the end of a very long day of shopping, we were browsing the Anthropologie store, one of my favorites spots on earth to spend an hour or two. We tried a few things on, and eventually picked a few things to buy. The store was about to close so we stood in line waiting for a register to check us out. Then finally last customer was done, but as I moved to let her pass… CRASH! My bag got caught into the baubles on display and a couple of little ceramic places fell. Got smashed. I wanted to disappear!! But the store gals were so nice about it: one of them immediately appeared with a broom and picked up the broken pieces in no time. We bought a hefty bag of stuff and were happy. I am still ashamed about it if I think about it, but I can survive. The most hilarious part of this story is that the display I bumped into said “SALE Items: here today, gone tomorrow” – and I certainly made sure they would be “gone tomorrow”!

Credits:

These great Waterplay masks are on sale today for Wibbit Wednesday! They are super fun to use as masks for photographs or as brushes! This next page is my most recent favorite. I just love the bold doodled background and the alphas!

Mom's Visit Day 2: Everyone's Favorite

Journaling:
The creme brulee at the Bonefish Grill is always worth the trip!

Credits:
Photo strip from Vintage Carnival by Sahlin Studio and Jenn Barrette
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

I have now completed two days of my mom’s trip. Slowly but surely! 🙂

More Goodies!

| cristina

I have lots more to show you and more exciting news to share! Mari Koegelenberg is guesting at CatScrap this month. Her new kit is 20% off:

This is the perfect princess kit, but it’s so much more too!! Don’t believe it? Well, check out the page I made with it:

Me in May 2011

Journaling:
I have so many blessings in my life. In this moment I want to focus on the good things and not dwell on the things that should have gone differently.
I choose to be happy.

Credits:
Fairytale Dream: the kit by Mari Koegelenberg
Photastic Photoshop Actions by Scrap’It Designs
Font: SS Fun

The colors and patterns in this kit are just awesome! And it is positively HUGE!

Ju Kneipp also has a new collection at CatScrap today. This girl is amazing, her designs are always so inspiring, they make me want to scrap and create!

I started off with some hybrid. Here is a quick card I made last night:

Light Guides You Home card

I’m very glad it’s Friday, now if the weekend would just move and arrive already! 😉

June BYOC!

| cristina

I’m so very excited to be guesting for The LilyPad this month! Look at the fabulous June BYOC goodies! They’re 20% off through the weekend

I had so much fun mixing all these goodies!!

Running Feels Good

Journaling:
I’ve never been a runner, and I still am not one, but last year we started running. We tried to do the Couch to 5k, and failed miserably in week 3. But this spring, we started running again. The weather was cool and just perfect. And while I cannot say I have started to truly enjoy running, it does feel good to run. I am actually disappointed it’s getting too hot for us to run outside.

Credits:
Born to Run by Kate Hadfield
Sunshine Days alpha by Designs by Lili
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

Mom's Visit Day 2: Breakfast

Journaling:
Before heading to the outlet mall, we had breakfast at Starbucks.
{Me, toting my camera pretty much everywhere these days}

Credits:
Land of Awesome papers and elements by The Tattered Pear
Doodled Alpha… Two Ways by Emily Merritt
Label It Up by Amy Martin
Fonts: Pea Pumpkin Peters, Pea Noodle’s Girlfriends

Mom's Visit Day 2: Yummy Treats

Journaling:
After the first round of shopping at the outlet, we headed to the mall and had a snack. We’d never eaten pretzels here and they were so so yummy!

Credits:
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

Well, yeah, it appears that I am into yellow/orange lately. 😉 I hadn’t realized I scrapped 3 pages with yellow/orange backgrounds until I saw them all together. 🙂

I felt a thrill when I spotted my pages in a few of the store previews. Best feeling ever!! It’s going to be a good month. 🙂

I’ll be back tomorrow to share two gorgeous new kits from two of my designers.

Excited for June!

| cristina

I made this card for my MIL’s birthday last week. Her birthday is next Monday and I hope the card gets there on time!

MIL Birthday Card 2011

Credits:
My Happiness by Sahlin Studio

I’m so excited that June is here!! Be sure to stop by tomorrow: I have a ton of pages to show you, because I’m guesting at The LilyPad this month!! I’ve been wanting to be a Pollywog for years, and during iNSD I competed in and won the Kiss the Frog contest: apart from being so much fun, it got me this coveted spot! 😉 Plus I’ll have some other very pretty stuff to show tomorrow from my designers.

Done with Day One!

| cristina

Bree’s new kit is in the store, so I can show you the latest pages I’ve been scrapping. This kit is so pretty!

Check out all the sample LOs in the store, they are all just gorgeous! And they really made me want to scrap with this kit. So, here goes!

Mom's Visit Day 1: Aperitif

Journaling:
We tried out the new furniture and torches right away, having an aperitif on the deck. It was lovely! We accomplished a lot today and now we deserve some relax!

Credits:
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

Mom's Visit Day 1: BBQ

Journaling:
Tonight we had a BBQ, and everything was so delicious! DH baked some bread, and we had our first corn on the cob of the season, from Florida: it was the sweetest I’ve ever eaten! Then we had a piece of wagyu meat because we wanted my mom to try it. Yum!

Credits:
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

Hooray! I have finished scrapping day one! 🙂 Off to scrap the rest of the trip now! 😉