Author: cristina

Mac n Cheese

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Amy Sumrall has teamed up with Valorie Wibbens (the latest addition at the LilyPad!) to create a cheesy, super fun kit, Mac n Cheese:


It’s really a versatile kit and I found it so romantic!! Here’s the page I was inspired to scrap (finally putting some of the hundreds of food pics I shoot to good use! 😉 ):


I have quite a busy day ahead, but I’m really glad it’s Friday!! The weekend is near and I cannot wait to go out and shoot some pictures for my photography class. 🙂
Last night DH and I went to see a Cirque du Soleil show and it was phenomenal!!!!!! Too bad that no pictures are allowed, but I still want to scrap 1 or 2 pages to record the experience. I’ll have to do some searching for what elements to use!

10 Years!

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As you may know if you’re a regular reader of this blog, a little over a month ago DH and I celebrated out 10th dating anniversary. For the occasion, I worked on a little hybrid project and I can finally share it here, now that it’s posted as a tutorial on the ScrapMatters blog too! 😉

10 years is quite a long time, and I thought it would be neat to create a mini album with a page for each year we spent together. I tried to get a picture taken in summer, around our anniversary date, but I have to tell you, some years it was hard to find a picture of the two of us together at all! Luckily, this will never happen again, because since I started scrapbooking I’ve always made sure to take plenty of pictures of us. 😉

Anyway, here’s my little album: it’s tiny and it turned out very pretty! 😀


I kept the pages very simple: most of the space is taken up by our picture, plus I added a date stamp that bears the year and the anniversary number.

Credits:
Gretchen, Date Stamped and Minnie Alpha by Britt-ish Designs

$2 Tuesday!

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It’s $2 Tuesday and Mari Koegelenberg has SEVEN products for sale! Wanna see 2 of my favorites ever? OK, here we go! 😉

I just love this kit, Happiness. The bright colors always make me so happy!


And there’s another kit of Mari’s I really love, the sweetest kit ever, Hooty Toot:


Make sure you check out all of Mari’s $2 products here!

Girls Rule and Boys R Cool

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Amy has 2 new very pretty kits in the shop, one for girls:


and one for boys:


I played with both (obviously doing neither girlish nor boyish LOs – these kits are so versatile!), and here’s a page from our picnic on the lake, on Saturday, using the boy kit:

Credits:
Boys R Cool by Amy Sumrall

I also made a birthday card for my grandmother using the girl kit:

Credits:
Girls Rule by Amy Sumrall
Font: Revista

with some hearts on the inside:


You can also pick up the kits as a bundle and save some $$$!

Sweet Little Kit

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I got to play with one of Amy and Lauren’s new kits after the opening of the new store at Polka Dot Plum, and I’m in love!!!

Now, tell me, what’s not to love in this gorgeous, gorgeous kit?
I started playing with it last night and came up with this page
Credits:
Sweet Little Claire and alpha from Christmas Whimsy by Polka Dot Plum

Font: SS Whimsy

I’d love to scrap with it some more (because you can easily scrap 4 pages out of this kit without re-using the same stuff! It’s that big!) but I had an eye check today that left me with little computer time – my eyes are way too sensitive to light to scrap tonight – blah!

Sweet Treat

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Last week I was lucky enough to win this gorgeous prize, so I had to scrap a picture! 😉

Credits:
Cupcake by Mari Koegelenberg Creations and Sarah Jones
Font: Pea Olson

I used the perfect kit for such a sweet page: Cupcake by Mari Koegelenberg Creations and Sarah Jones:

Getting Serious

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I played with Jennifer Barrette’s latest kit the other day, Autumn Blush:


I just love the color combination, and the owl is so cute! 😉
I used it for a non-autumn page, but the weather here is starting to feel like fall.. I’ve had to break out my long-sleeved shirts and some sweaters too!

Credits:
Autumn Blush by Jennifer Barrette Designs
Font: My Own Topher

Yep, I am loving the photography course and I feel like I’m learning a lot, even though I’ve only started it this week! 😉

$2 Tuesday

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$2 Tuesday is back at the Digichick, and Mari Koegelenberg has 6 products for sale. You can save up to 71%!!!

I’ll just show you one that is perfect now that fall is approaching, Apple Orchard:


Isn’t is gorgeous? And it’s $2 today only! Make sure you check out all of Mari’s $2 products here!

Weeks 36 and 37

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Yes, I’m all caught up with my Project 365, and here are the last 2 weeks:

Credits:
Kicking up the Leaves little seeds kit and Hodge Podge 9 by Gina Marie Huff
Photo stamps from Project 365 #2 by Sugarplum Paperie
String and alpha from Back to School by Mari Koegelenberg and Melissa Wilson
Font: Note this

Credits:
Kicking up the Leaves by Gina Marie Huff
Photo stamps from Project 365 #2 by Sugarplum Paperie
Bunches of Flowers and Minnie Alpha by Britt-ish Designs
Striped Candy Alpha by Sahlin Studio
Font: Note this

I even worked on the monthly summary for August:


Credits:
Template by missrubikscube
Candy Sunshine by Sugarplum Paperie
Acrylic numbers from Hodge Podge 9 by Gina Marie Huff
Screws from Summer Fling by Britt-ish Designs
School Days Plastic Alpha freebie by Purple Tulip Designs
Font: Note this

I haven’t done July yet, but at least I got last month’s done.. 😉
Finally, a page that isn’t related to P365, but I still wanted to show off:

Credits:
Cottage Garden by Kaye Winiecki
Alpha from Nutty by Amy Sumrall
Fonts: Pea Olson, American Typewriter

I started my photography course, and yesterday I shot in full manual for the first time! 😀 (the only 2 other occasions I used Manual was for fireworks, to use the bulb function, so it didn’t really count.. 😉 ) I’m excited to learn how to use my camera properly!