Bree’s CT

New Year Resolution?

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I usually never do New Year resolutions, because I never maintain them, and this year is no exception. That’s why I’m not even committing to do Project 365, even though I’ve started it and want to keep doing it. If I can do it, I’ll be happy, but I don’t want too much pressure if I fail.

However, I do have a goal this year: I want to use the fancy camera DH gave me for Christmas, and I want to use it well. I hope to improve my photography skills and especially to have fun in the process. I scrapped a LO for a challenge at SM:

Credits:

Template by Scrapmuss Designs

Pretty Grungy by Scrap’it Designs by Brianna Cox

Basic Felt Alpha (recolored) by Britt-ish Designs

Font: Note This, My Own Topher


I used the Pretty Grungy kit by Bree – I love how versatile it is!

Christmas Tree Ornaments

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Finally my super-busy schedule has relaxed a little and I was able to do a couple of ornaments this weekend.

For the first one I used Candied Christmas by Brianna Cox:


and I prepared 2 different sides for the tree ornament:

For the second one, I used Holly Jolly by Polka Dot Plum:
and I prepared these 2 sides:
I printed on photo paper, cut out the tree shapes with normal scissors and stuck them together with Mod Podge. If you use normal paper, you’ll need the ornament to be more sturdy, so you can cut out a tree shape from cardboard. Here are the ornaments:

I still need to punch a hole in them so I can hang them, but I don’t own a good puncher yet and I’m hoping to find one in my stocking this year! 🙂
-11 days to Christmas!!

LOs with Candied Christmas

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I couldn’t resist, so even though I should be working at my project for school, I ended up playing with Bree’s new kit, Candied Christmas!

I did a 2-pager for the Saturday Special challenge at Scrapmatters.
I used her new kit Candied Christmas, and her Flutter By Me Stamped Alpha.
Here’s the detail of page 1
and page 2
I really love the colors of this kit, and pulling up last year’s photos made me even more impatient! 🙂 -18 days to Christmas!

Lazy Weekend

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I’m feeling lazy this weekend, so spending it scrapping sounds perfect to me! 🙂

I did 2 LOs with Bree’s new kit, Pretty Grungy.
The second LO I did has 3 versions of the same picture of the previous LO, but with some different blending techniques applied. I did it for the Saturday Special challenge at SM.
Generally I don’t scrap much with grungy kits, but I love this one by Bree and I love these pages I did!

Pretty Grungy

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Bree has a new kit out! Can you believe that girl??? Not only am I delighted to have another kit to play with so soon, but it’s also gorgeous!!!!!

Check out those amazing worn papers!!

Go snag it at ScrapMatters  or at Snapandscrap!

Lavender Mint-Berry Cream Blog Train

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Welcome to my blog and to the 4th stop of the Lavender Mint-Berry Cream blog train!

To celebrate Bree’s new kit, Lavender Mint-Berry Cream, some of the Scrap’it Girls have created some gorgeous quick pages for you!
But let me remind you that you can get this fantastic kit
at Snapandscrap and at ScrapMatters, along with all of Bree’s creations.
So here’s the 2 quickpages I created for you:
you can get them here.
ETA (8/2009): thanks for your interest, this freebie is no longer available.
Please leave me a message if you download, and have fun! 😉
The next stop on the blog train is Rachel’s blog.
If you happen to get lost, just go back to Bree’s blog to find a list of all the stops.

Happy DSD

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Happy DSD everyone! I didn’t do much since I didn’t have much time to stay at the computer (DH and I spent a couple hours in the garden this morning to gather leaves!!), but I did get a couple kits with the special sales.

I also did a LO for the Saturday Special challenge at ScrapMatters, on white space.
I used Bree’s new kit, Lavender Mint-berry Cream, it’s just adorable!!

The page really came together in no time, but I spent lots of time on getting the photo presentable. The picture was really bad and washed out because of the strong light. After struggling to get the levels balanced, I had to give in and acknowledge I couldn’t fix it. So I just changed the saturation, duplicated the photo a few times and changed the opacity, and used a textured background for it.
I’m quite happy with the result and I think it’s really suited to this page!

Lavender Mint-berry Cream

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Bree’s new kit is out and it’s GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check it out here:

It’s just full of goodies (there are 2 alphas..!) and the colors are beautiful!
Go snag it at ScrapMatters or Snapandscrap!
Happy Halloween to everyone! 🙂
I’ll have my usual work day.. Ugh, I even have to take a midterm!  :-S OK, it won’t be graded, I’m just being the guinea pig for the professor I’m TAing for, and the students will take the midterm on Monday. But still… :-/
I can’t wait for the weekend to arrive to play with Bree’s new kit! 😉

Snow and two LOs

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Today we got snow here!!

And unlike last week, when we just had a few minutes of wet snow, this time it was the real thing!! I woke up to see white rooftops and bushes! It didn’t cover the street though.
Throughout the day, we’ve had some more snow showers, quite violent!

It looks like winter is getting here faster this year!
I did 2 LOs with Bree’s Fairtree Fairies and I love how they turned out!

These pages go with this one I did about the Butterfly Garden, always using this kit.