I need your VOTE!

| cristina

Along with 4 fellow CT members, I’m competing in the Battle of the CTs at DigiScrapAddicts for Amy Sumrall’s fabulous team! We’re the Big Pimpins and we rocked the first round.
For the first assignment the team had to use negative space and pick a color theme: we picked the rainbow as our theme, but we did much more than that! We even coordinated our pages so that they all form a rainbow:


How cool is that?? 😉

Here’s my page:

Credits:
All by Amy Sumrall! (even the picture, LOL! This is her DD Sophie)
Paper from Children’s Day
Orange flowers from Whimsy Doodle (collab with Sugarplum Paperie)
Blue flowers and grass from Little Bunny Foo Foo
Brushes from Crayon Brush Set 1
Font: Pea Aimee

I scrapped a picture of Amy’s DD Sophie because we all scrapped pictures of children in the grass. 😉

So now it’s time to vote for the first round! Go here and vote for the Big Pimpins!!!!!!!!

All Is Quiet…

| cristina

I know I haven’t posted much this week, but this doesn’t mean I haven’t been scrapping! 😉
I just cannot show the pages just yet, but there’s one that I can show using the new collab by Mickey B Designs and Man in the Moon Designs, out today at ScrapMatters, Sprinkler Party:


I had lots of fun playing with whis colorful kit! And looked at that water filled alpha – adorable!!

Credits:
Template by Jeni Hopewell
Sprinkler Party by Mickey B Designs and Man in the Moon Designs
Font: Note this

There’s also some GREAT news at ScrapMatters: there’s a huge sale on all Christmas kits! AND there’s many new Christmas kits coming out today too, and those are on sale as well!!!

Calendar Templates

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Have you started thinking about a calendar for 2010 yet? If not, this is the right time! You don’t want to do it at the last minute, when Christmas is coming and you have thousands of urgent things to do.
Mari has a gorgeous set of CD calendar templates for you, to make things easier! It’s such a nice idea for a Christmas gift, too!

This release is 20% off today only, so snag it right away here! 🙂

ETA: you can find some inspiration on how to use these gorgeous templates here!

Lovely Weekend

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I spent a lovely weekend out of town with DH – it was just great, only too short! I took Monday off and came home mid-afternoon. We really had a wonderful time (and I took 3 GB of pictures in just 2 days – crazy!!), but I have so many things to catch up with this week!

Friday I managed to squeeze in the pages for my June monthly summaries for the challenge at the DigiChick, using Mari’s gorgeous Happiness kit – perfect for these summery, colorful pages.


Credits:
Template by missrubikscube
Happiness by Mari Koegelenberg Creations
Acrylic numbers from Hodge Podge 9 by Gina Marie Huff
Screws from Summer Fling by Britt-ish Designs
Font: Note this, Cooper Std

This is now the 6th month I’ve done with these templates, and I am not in the least bit tired of them! They’re just gorgeous!

Oh, some more news: I didn’t make it in ScrapOrchard’s CT, but I must confess I’m quite relieved! I entered the contest because I cannot resist a good competition, and I had so much fun playing along with those lovely kits, but I must say I’m more than happy with the CT spots I have. OK, I’d still love to land a couple more spots for my favorite designers (hello, Minna!) and would die for a spot at TDC (*sigh*), but for now I’m more than satisfied (*thrilled*, actually!) with the teams I’m on – each and every one of them was a dream come true! I wish I could do more for each of my designers, because I really love them all. Alas, my time is limited, and while I’m not overwhelmed by my CT spots, they sure keep me busy! 🙂

4th July Page

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When I saw the kit Old Glory by GG Digital Designs, I couldn’t wait for the 4th of July to arrive so I could use it!


It’s really a beautiful kit! And here’s my first page using it:

Credits:
Spread the Wealth Templates and Back to Basics Black Alpha by Denise Beatty Originals
Old Glory by GG Digital Designs
Date-Bits by Plum Dumpling Designs
Leaves from Girl Power by Chelle’s Creations
Ladybug from Totally Buggin’ by Britt-ish Designs and Mira Designs
Font: Pea Stacy’s Doodle Script

I plan to do at least another page with the fireworks! 😉

Comical

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Amy Sumrall has a new kit out today, Comical: a collab with Laura of Simply Scraps (and she’s a fellow CT member in Amy’s fun team, too!). It’s 20% off today and it’s a hilarious kit:


I did this page with it and I had so much fun playing with the kit!

Credits:
Template by gracesmum
Comical by Amy Sumrall and Simply Scraps
Brush from Children’s Day by Amy Sumrall
Font: BadaBoom BB

I didn’t actually take any picture while we were trying to retrieve my lens cap (too much drama!! 😉 ), but I wanted to record this memory and using the journal tags was the best way to do it.

The Final Round

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The final week of the CT contest at ScrapOrchard has arrived and I must say I’m glad it’s over. It was tiring and nerve wracking, especially because I had to work on the assignments during the week, and with work and DH I was always worried I might not have time to do my best. Anyway, I posted my last page yesterday morning, and now I only have to wait until next Monday, when they announce the winners.

Credits:
Lavender Morning by Lyndsay Riches, Megan Turnidge, Tracie Stroud and Wild Dandelions
Fonts: My Own Topher, Pea Stacy Fancy, Pea Stacy Doodle Script, Pea Olson

I don’t love this page as much as the others I did for the contest.. I spent more time on it than I did on the others, too! 🙂 I think because for the other weeks I had to stretch my creativity more, because I had to use kits I don’t usually scrap with, so I ended up with pages that were totally me but not my usual pages at the same time.
The gallery is bursting with talent so I don’t think I’ll make it, but I had a blast throughout the contest and I got to try out my style with fantasy kits too.

Two Dollar Tuesday

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It’s Tuesday, and this means there’s a new great deal at the DigiChick. Mari Koegelenberg’s brand new mini kit, Happiness, is for sale today for only two bucks!!

Take advantage of this amazing deal, today only!! Don’t you just love those colors? 😉

Also her adorable Field of Dreams is for sale today:

A Few More Pages

| cristina

I have a few more pages to share from this weekend.

I did a 2-pager for the new My Story Matters challenge at ScrapMatters, about summertime as a child. I use the fun and pretty new kit by Jeni Hopewell, Happy, Happy Birthday!

I scrapped this using pictures from my first summer, because as a child all my summers were spent in the same locations and I plan to make more pages with pictures from later years.


Credits:
Happy, Happy Birthday by Jeni Hopewell
Starfish and sand castle from Half Moon Bay by Chelle’s Creations
Font: My Own Topher

I also started playing with a gorgeous kit by Juno Designs, The Good Life:

and here’s what I created:

Credits:
Most Awesome Templates Ever by Denise Beatty Originals
The Good Life by Juno Designs and July Marie Designs
Font: My Own Topher

Finally, but I cannot share this, I did a hybrid project I’m very proud of. I cannot share it because it’s for the first challenge I’m hosting at ScrapMatters, and it’s starting on the 23rd. I cannot wait! 😉