Silhouette
Natural Beauty
Jenn Barrette has a gorgeous new kit out today – and it’s 20% off today and tomorrow!
It’s a Fall kit, but with a very unique color palette! I am in love with it!! I used it to make a card:
I apologize for the weird colors in the picture – I put the card together Thursday night and haven’t had a chance to take a better one in natural light since then. π It also looks really flat, but there’s a lot of layering with the leaves.
Yay for Fridays!
Are you ready for another Friday of gorgeous new releases at The Lilypad? I admit I have gone a bit overboard this week, and I have a ton of new goodies to share with you today! π But you’ll soon find out why I couldn’t resist creating with all these products – they’re too gorgeous to pass! First off, this amazing store collab:
It is obviously perfect for school-themed pages, but it’s also an overall awesome (and huge!!) kit well suited to scrap just about anything. Here’s my first page with it:
And yes, that awesome brush alpha by CD Muckosky is included in the collab! π If you like this page, you might want to check out these quick pages because I have turned it into a quick page! There are also a bunch of fabulous add ons in the store today that coordinate beautifully with the collab, such as these:
So of course I had to make another page. π
I am so in love with this page! π Next, these awesome ABC products by Valorie Wibbens:
and a couple of very cool alphas
that I combined to make yet another birthday page. π
Then, there’s a gem of a kit by Sara Gleason. This kit is so unique and fantastic! The elements are all handmade and they look so dimensional!
And there’s also a very convenient super template bundle pack by Amy Martin. You can’t go wrong with her templates!
And here is what I did with them:
Then there is this totally fun kit and alphas by The Tattered Pear:
and these gorgeous embellishments (again, they are add ons to the Wicked Smart collab, but they go well with practically anything!):
I used them to make this crazy page. π Not my usual style, but this story begged to be told this way! π
Finally, this fabulous kit by Kaye Winiecki
was just perfect to make a birthday card for my grandmother, since Little Red Riding Hood was the one and only story I had her tell me over and over again! π So I fired up my Silhouette to make this:
That glitter took forever to dry, but I think it added the perfect touch! π
Off to Alaska!
This is probably the most last minute trip DH and I have ever done… but we’re off to Alaska!! We bought the tickets just 1 week ahead of the departure, which left me in serious panic mode to get ready. I decided I had to make a journal album to bring on the trip with us, so I had to put it together very quickly. I loooove how it turned out!
How to bind the book is what I pondered most. I love stitched books, but, alas, I do not own a stitching machine. Nor do I have a Bind-it-all or a similar fantastic machine. Since I already bound my previous travel book with rings, I wanted to go with something different. After much consideration, I found the simplest solution: use masking tape! It’s easy, quick, cheap, and fun!! The fact that it comes in a pretty blue too was an unexpected bonus! π In the process, I also finally fired up my Silhouette after a couple months of laziness and cut a bunch of cute elements for my album.
Here are a few details:
I used Mod Podge to glue down the tree and the title, but since I have now fallen in love with said masking tape and wanted the book to have a cohesive look, I added a few bits on the cover as well. π
In the inside cover, I printed a pretty map of Alaska.
The inside pages are done with the new ledger papers by Sahlin Studio from this month’s BYOC, printed on plain copy paper.
I bound the internal pages with regular masking tape. I love the look!
And here’s my favorite part! Lots of colorful word strips to glue inside the journal!! I am bringing a glue stick with me (sigh, Mod Podge is liquid and I cannot bring it with me) to glue them as I go. That envelope (from the post office) is what determined the size of the journal. π
Isn’t it cute that the tree continues on the back?
I don’t know if I’ll ever manage to follow up and print some pictures to put in the album after we’re back, but at least I will capture all the journaling while we’re there.
Recipe Book
Do you know that Jenn Barrette has started a very fun blog, full of curious finds and inspiration? Today’s post is by yours truly. I am sharing a yummy recipe – my favorite soup – and showing off this pretty recipe book I put together. It’s a $1 photo album turned into recipe book. π
Go check out my post! π
Monday
Less than one week to Easter, less than two weeks to my mom’s visit… and I have so many things I’d like to get done before then!! First of all get the guest room tidied up (=move all my craft supplies out of the way…), then catch up on some of my P365… Luckily, I have at least 4 or 5 weeks’ worth of P52 Cards done already, so if I can force myself not to do any hybrid for the next few days, I should have quite some time on my hands to get the other stuff done. π I gave DH one of the monkey cards yesterday. π
You can see the Week 16 card here.
I am waiting to hear about three important things today, 2 work related and 1 scrap related. I hope to hear some good news soon! Hearing bad news on a Monday is a sure killer. π Have a great week!
Monkey Business
I finished these cards on Monday and only just realized I haven’t blogged them yet. I am SO happy with how they turned out! But it’s no surprise, since I used this gorgeous collab by Jennifer Labre and Kate Hadfield:
Those monkey are adorable! (And I’m not even particularly fond of monkeys! π But these are just irresistible! π )
This card is so much more fun in person: I didn’t adhere the monkeys’ bodies to the card, so they swing around when you move the card. Too cute!
I told you I was in love with that wood paper. π
Easter Banner
I can finally share the project I did for the April ScrapMatters newsletter: an Easter banner!
I had so much fun cutting out all the pieces with my Silhouette, and the banner looks great now! π It’s not against the wall as in the picture above, it’s hanging freely over DH’s armchair! Here are some of the details:
I will have a hard time taking this down once Easter is over! π
Colors and Patterns
Juliana Kneipp has a new kit at CatScrap today!
I looove the patterns and colors of this kit! Here’s a card I made:
I am in love with this card!
Week 15
Last week I gave DH a card with matching bookmark for my Project 52 Cards:
You can see the Week 15 card here. Wow, week 15 already?!? Time sure flies when you’re having fun making cards! π