sahlinstudio.com giveaway celebration!

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I am excited to announce the launch of Krista Sahlin’s new website for Sahlin Studio: http://sahlinstudio.com/ It will feature scrapbooking inspiration, as well as continuing to offer digital scrapbooking tutorials, freebies and journal starters. Be sure to stop by and take a look around!

There is a Grand Opening celebration this week (with lots of giveaways)!
** SAHLINSTUDIO.COM GIVEAWAY CELEBRATION**
Two giveaways have already been posted, but more are coming!

* WIN YOUR OWN CUSTOM FONT
* WIN A CUSTOM SLR CAMERA STRAP
* MORE GIVEAWAYS TO COME…
   INCLUDING THE FINAL GRAND GIVEAWAY  | One LUCKY person will receive $100 Sahlin
   Studio product.
Be sure to take a look at the wide variety of digital scrapbooking supplies in the Sahlin Studio store.

Blue Skies Ahead

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Jenn Barrette has a new kit in the shop today. It’s called Blue Skies Ahead, and it’s 20% off through the weekend.

Those birdies are so cute! I was inspired to make this card:

Birds Card, Blue Skies Ahead by Jenn Barrette

I was hoping to relax and have some crafty time this weekend, but I’ve got work to do instead. :/ I really needed some time off after a stressful week, too!

New Frames

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Leora Sanford has a new set of frames in the shop today. These are so versatile and fun!

The stripes come in a separate layer, so it’s they can be recolored in an instant. I used them to scrap my first Valentine’s page of the year. 🙂

Valentine's Day Breakfast

Credits:
Frameworks | Banned by Leora Sanford
Wishes Wings by Leora Sanford and Kitty Designs
Pink heart from Lovely freebie by Leora Sanford (retired)
Fonts: FG Jeana, Jellyka St. Andrew’s Queen

I have lots of plan for the weekend, I hope I can cut myself out plenty of crafty time! 🙂

Finally Friday!

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Sahlin Studio has a new collab with One Little Bird out today. It is gorgeous!

And for the next week, when you purchase the kit you get a pack of clusters for free!

I whipped up a quick mini album, and I had so much fun putting it together!

Timeless Mini

I used one of the pre-made clusters, and made more of my own. Here’s a closer look to the individual pages:

Timeless Mini

Have a good Friday! I have a ton of things scheduled, but I hope to make it safely to the weekend! I certainly need some time off!

Project Life – Week 6

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It’s time to share another week of my Project Life album! I did all the photo editing over the weekend, then put my spread together Monday night. I love how this week turned out!

Project Life 2012 - Week 6

On the left page I had papers from Crate Paper (the back of the ones I used last week), and I found that the Grandma’s Dresser kit by Sahlin Studio matched them really well.

Project Life 2012 - Week 6

I printed out some accents and a card, and I wanted to print out some papers as well, but I ended up not having room because I had so many pictures. 🙂 I really wish I had room to add some more touches of yellow on this page though!

Project Life 2012 - Week 6

I had fun sprucing up the journaling cards with digi labels from the kit!

This week more than ever, I am so frustrated at how poorly the pictures of my pages turned out. So let me show you the digi version of my photographs in this week’s spread. First off, I have to share my latest purchase.. a vintage Dymo label maker!!

Project Life 2012 - Week 6

I eyed this in action on Tim Holtz’s blog several months ago (Tim always has the coolest finds…), but tucked it to the back of my mind. But when I started PL, I started wanting one really bad. I used to have a Dymo label maker as a kid (a plain kind with just a fixed font), but my mom cannot find it anymore. Then, when I saw that the new Smash line revealed at CHA will carry a label maker (i.e., I will probably be able to pick up replacement tape at AC Moore or Michael’s), I decided it was time for me to hunt down a Dymo label maker. They do make a new model of this label maker, with 3 interchangeable font wheels, and it is really cheap too ($17.51 on Amazon), but I decided to go with the vintage label maker because as far as I can tell from the photos the cursive font in the new model is different from the old one – and I am absolutely in love with that cursive font. ♥♥♥ I got it on eBay and I couldn’t be happier! I’ve recently used it for cards too. Fun!

Here I got creative editing some pictures taken in very low light with DH’s iPhone:

Project Life 2012 - Week 6

These bagel pictures (free bagels from Bruegger’s for their 29th birthday!) were taken with my DSLR.

Project Life 2012 - Week 6

Again, a collection of iPhone pictures taken when we were out grocery shopping:

Project Life 2012 - Week 6

Finally, more DSLR shots:

Project Life 2012 - Week 6

Project Life 2012 - Week 6

DH requested a new portrait, so I was happy to oblige. While I was at it, I also asked him to pose for my P52 Cards shot – and if further proof was needed that DH is really a pain and always complains about me taking pictures, check out how he held the card in that middle picture. Upside down!! Like he couldn’t care less… sigh. 😉 And the funny thing is I noticed it only after taking the shot! 😀

Project Life 2012 - Week 6

All these photo collages were put together using digi templates by Designs by Lili (yes, the same designer who created the Clementine kit of Project Life!). They are such a time-saver! They also make the decision process of which photos to include much easier, since you can fit many photos in one slot of the page protector.

Here is what I used for this week’s pages:
Crate Paper Restoration kit
4×6 Photo Collages , 4×6 Photo Collages no. 2 and 3×4 Photo Collages by Designs by Lili
Grandma’s Dresser by Sahlin Studio
Winter wonderland word strip from Snow Bunny by Jenn Barrette
Dymo label maker
Smash date stamp and polka dot tape K&C company
Pens: Micron 03 + Faber Castell Pitt

Ten Things

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It’s time for Something Old, Something New at The Lilypad (50% off products!). I picked up these two products and I loved using them!

This is such a fun kit! I love these colors! And check out these fun dates:

Here’s my page:

10 Things I Love About You {Feb. '12}

Credits:
Template from Ambrosia Album by Sara Gleason
10 Things About Her by Jenna Desai
Betwined Love by Amy Martin
Fonts: FG Jeana, Strangelove

The funny thing is, after finishing this page, I realized I had made a similar one in 2009:

10 Things I Love about You

{originally blogged here}

How funny that many of the things I journaled about are the same. 😉 Clearly, I am not very imaginative.

I also forgot to show another page I made last week with the February BYOC:

Lunch Specials

Credits:
Love You To The Moon papers by The Tattered Pear
Ambrosia story elements by Sara Gleason
Mi Amore elements by Valorie Wibbens
Fonts: The Dry Ribbon font by Heather Hess and Strangelove

This BYOC’s colors make me so happy! I plan to use it in this week’s Project Life spread. 🙂

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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I had a morning date at Starbucks with DH this morning. 😉

Valentine's Day 2012

I’ll be at school till 9 PM so it was our only chance to do something together on Valentine’s Day. Plus, I really wanted to get their special Valentine cup (thanks Wilna!). 😉

Happy Monday!

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Leora Sanford has teamed up with one of my favorite designers, Kitty Designs, to create this gorgeous collab in the store today!

The colors are just so pretty!! I scrapped a picture of DH that I took yesterday.

New Portrait

Credits:
Wishes Wings by Leora Sanford and Kitty Designs
Font: FG Jeana

Happy Monday, and have a great start of the week!

Just My Type

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I am way behind on blogging this week! I had a very busy schedule this week, so I had quite a few scrappy projects that got pushed to the weekend. First of all, I used the gorgeous kit by Mari Koegelenberg that features a few of my latest obsessions: typewriters and gray+pink color combination.

And make sure you stop by One Story Down to read an interview to Mari and download a free add on!

I started off by making a page about my recent loves.

Ten Things I Love in Feb '12

And I also made two cards because I couldn’t resist printing out that typewriter and using those bright happy colors. 😉

Just My Type card

Just My Type card

It’s two cards in one, actually. 😉 I couldn’t do just one design, so I went for two, front and back! 🙂 And… is that a DYMO label I spot on there..? Hehehe, you’ll have to check back later in the week when I post my Project Life Week 6 to read more about that. 😉 [BTW, I am way behind this week on Project Life, but I have picked out my products and I’m so excited to see how it all comes together!]

This Is Our Story

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I just love it when some products inspire me to scrap a story I hadn’t planned to scrap. It was the case with this page. CD Muckosky’s element pack has a gorgeous word art piece that says “our story”… so I was inspired to scrap the story about how DH and I met. I never thought to scrap about it before, since DH and I know what went on and it’s nothing new, but it is great to have this story in my album. When I started writing about it, I almost used up all the space on the page, and I’d have more to say too! 🙂 (sorry for the blurred text, but there are some personal details I didn’t want to share)

This Is Our Love Story

Credits:
All from the Feb. BYOC!
All of My Love paper pack by Amy Jaz Designs
The Dry Ribbon font by Heather Hess

This is what scrapbooking is all about, for me – telling our story.

The photo of us was taken a few months after we met – I was definitely not into picture-taking back then, so I am very glad we took this photo, poor as it is! We were so young! 🙂 I scanned it a couple years ago to make a 10 years mini album but the quality was absolutely awful. I used RadLab to edit it, and it turned out quite decent, I think.