Challenge Time!

| cristina

I scrapped this tonight for a challenge at Sugarplum Paperie for which you had to scrap about something new in your life. 

Credits:

Chilled Wine collab kit by Sugarplum Paperie and mgl Scraps

Date Bits by Misty Cato

Fonts: FG Bonnie’s, My Own Topher

I’m really loving this kit!!!

Speed Scrap at SM (Zoo LO)

| cristina

I speed scrapped last night and had a blast!!

I sure had a great night, because I finished this in little over an hour, and I love it! 😉
The speed scrap (at ScrapMatters of course) was hosted by haynay and these were the instructions:

  1. one solid, dark paper, used as the background. One patterned paper used in any way on the page (other than background). No more, no less.
  2. 3 photos: 2 must be the same size. The other one must be smaller than the 2.
  3. One frame only, but that frame needs to have a cluster on or behind it. (I want to encourage you to use drop shadows—especially with the clusters)
  4. Use a hanger anywhere on the page.
  5. Must use something shiny on the page: can be metal, glitter, bling. I don’t care; I just want some shine!
  6. Title: Use 2 alphas please.
  7. Date your page. And, you can journal…BUT, you cannot journal any more than 2 sentences. It will work if you have no journaling at all!

I used the beautiful kit I was RAKed with last week, Chilled Wine!
Here’s my LO, Fancy Birds:

Credits: Chilled Wine collab kit by Sugarplum Paperie and mgl Scraps
Dymo – It – Big Alpha by Anita Stergiou
Paper shapers by Britt-ish Designs
I used the beautiful kit I was RAKed with last week, Chilled Wine!
I just recolored the alpha & frame slightly to match the pictures, and that was it! I love how I was “forced” by the instructions to pick a dark paper – I might not have thought about it otherwise, and I think it looks great with these pics! I usually choose pictures first, and papers next, but this time, following the instructions, I picked the kit first, then stumbled upon these zoo pictures (yaaaay! Another LO done! 🙂 ) and tried them out: perfect! 🙂
OK, enough rambling.. But I’m seriously in love with this LO! 🙂

Winty – Brianna Cox CT Application

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Bree of Scrap’it Designs has had the greatest idea ever for choosing two new members of her CT: she’s having all the applicants send in a LO made with her stuff, and then her bloggers will vote their favorite! Check it out here!

So I did this LO and I’m very happy with how it turned out!

Credits:

Template by Meghan Mullens

I Luv U Beary Much Add On and Nasty Alpha by Scrap’it designs by Brianna Cox
Now I feel like I should do a page for each of our stuffed animals (yes, we have a big family!! 🙂 ) but that would take me forever (especially true, since we keep adding to the collection 🙂 ).
I have quite a few more urgent pics to scrap about now (you haven’t forgotten about the zoo visit, right? 🙂 I have 2-3 more LO to make with that!), but this project is certainly something I’ll do.

In the Choir

| cristina

I speed scrapped Thursday night at ScrapMatters (hosted by Bree!).
It was really speedy, because I had brought home some work, and was working and scrapping at the same time.
Here are the rules

  1. Choose a photo, 1 only!
  2. Choose your papers, you can have as many as you want, but you must have a least 1 solid and 1 patterned paper. One of the papers must be used to create a shape (any shape), you can use paper shapers, clipping masks….whatever, just as long as you create some type of shape from a paper.
  3. Take your photo and repeat it in some way. You can repeat it as many times as you like, but it must be the same photo. You can blend it into the background, stack it etc, as long as the photo appears on the page more than once.
  4. Frame your photo/s (if you have blended one, you do not need to frame it, but you do need at least 1 framed photo on the page. Hang your frame. If you have used multiple frames, at least 1 of your frames must be hanging.
  5. Embellish your page any way you wish!!
  6. Title your page. You MUST use an alpha for some of the title, but you can’t use it for ALL of the title. Mix it up!!
  7. Add journaling if you wish, date and save!!!!!!
The other night I didn’t do any journaling because I was in a hurry, so, today I added in the journaling, and here’s the result.

Credits:
Olde Skool by Kim Christensen Designs and Debra Tope Designs

Hanger from I’m a Dreamer by Britt-ish Designs

Lunch Time (zoo 2 pager)

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Between yesterday and today evening, I completed another zoo 2 pager.

I worked a lot on the pictures and the shadows and I’m really happy about it because I learnt a lot during the process.

Credits:

Downunder minikit by ksharonk

Natural Alpha by Vicki Stegall Designs
I loved this mini kit by ksharonk!!

Yet Another Zoo LO

| cristina

Busy weekend (lots of social events :)) but it was quite fun.

I scrapped another zoo LO yesterday.
(in case you were wondering.. No, the zoo LOs aren’t finished yet! 😛 I plan to do another 2-3 since I have some more cute pictures.)
Credits: I’m A Dreamer by Britt-ish Designs
Not your typical zoo colors, but then, why not? 🙂

Zoo Reflections

| cristina
I did another LO from the pics from our visit to the zoo in late August.

I’m very happy with this LO because we took a lot of pictures at the zoo, but I decided to put these 2 together and do a page on reflections.

Credits:
Paper and flower (some recoloring) from Crackleberry freebie by kskd designs

See Clearly Alpha by Misty Cato

Cloud from The Sky Is Falling by Krystal Hartley

Operation Spruce: the other LOs

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Following up on the LO I did the other night for the Speed Scrap, I scrapped 3 more pages about our adventure planting the spruce in our garden. I had fun doing them!

So here’s the 4 pages all together.

The credits are the same of the 1st page and can be found here.