I’m about to start Day 3 of my 3-day exam so I’m almost done!!!
I must admit that I couldn’t resist and yesterday night I started working on a new LO. I should be able to give it the final touches later today, then I’ll post it. 🙂
Month: August 2008
Speed Scrap Wednesday 8/20
There’s a Speed Scrap at Scrapmatters this Wednesday at 9 PM EST. I’m not sure whether I can make it or not, but I hope I can!!
I just love speed scraps! 🙂
Online TV Shows
We don’t have a TV (and that is a real bummer now that the Olympics are on!!!!! 🙁 ) but we have lots of fun watching online TV shows.
Our longtime favorite is Dancing with the Stars. We’ve watched a couple of seasons of the Italian edition and this year we watched the American version for the first time. We were amazed at the level of dancing in the show!!! There’s no comparison at all with the Italian version, the dancers were much much better in the US.
Another fun show we watched is I Survived a Japanese Game Show, a really crazy show with crazy games.
But the weirdest of all, and the one we’re watching now, is Wipeout. 24 players get down to 1 who wins $50k through an incredible series of hilarious game. A real fun, no-brainer show to watch!
As we wait for another month to go by before Desperate Housewives comes back. 🙂
I did it!
I sent my application for the CT call at ScrapMatters!
I never applied to a CT before, actually, I never even thought about doing it before, but it would really be an honor to scrap for such a lovely community, so I decided to give it a try!
Here’s some info about the call. It’s open till next week!
My Scrapping Style
I’m not sure I have found my style yet, and everytime I browse the gallery I see so many talented scrappers and I feel I’ll never be as good as them. However, I’m very happy with my improvements over the past few months.
My first LOs were totally flat, but now I can see how important shadows are.
I also recolor things a lot because I found out how much better a page looks if you match the papers’ and elements’ colors to the colors in your pictures.
Something very important to me is journaling, because I scrap to preserve my memories. This is also a drawback sometimes, because I always tend to put in too many pictures and words to tell the story. But I guess your scrapping style reflects your lifestyle too, since in real life I collect many things and it seems I can never get rid of anything. 🙂
This is the simplest LO I ever did and I love it.
Credits: Paper by Paislee Press Font: WC Wunderbach
But most of the time, I put in journaling and elements on the page. It really depends on what story you want to tell.
I’m also an alpha sucker. I simply LOVE alphas and I think they can totally make a page!
Another LO from this week’s challenges at ScrapMatters
Here’s the LO I did for the Makeover Challenge and for the Scraplift Challenge.
Template by Cindy Schneider
Heart paper: EZ Shrubberies Add On by Erica Zane
Other papers and pins and stars: from I’m A Dreamer by Britt-ish Designs (all recolored)
Yellow ribbon and blue (recolored): Electric Pop by Britt-ish Designs
Red dot ribbon: Mermaid Lagoon Add On by Britt-ish Designs
Fuzzy Felt Alpha (recolored) by Misschifis
Fern Praire Inked Strip by Amy Elkins
Fonts: My Own Topher, FG Bonnie’s
I scraplifted Britt’s gorgeous LO Happy Birthday Mom & Dad.
LO from this week
Here’ a LO I did for this week’s challenges at ScrapMatters.
I did this for the Tuesday Template Challenge and for one of the Scrap Olympics challenges hosted by Britt.
Credits:
Template by Sya’s Blueprints
Sky Falling by Krystal Hartley
Brown Alpha by Erica Zane (recolored)
Fonts: FG Bonnie’s, My Own
I love this kit by Krystal Hartley. Actually, I love all of her stuff! You can check our her blog (pursuit of scrap happiness) in the list of my favorite blogs here on the right.
Why Do I Scrap?
I started scrapping to create a wedding album, and I fell in love with digital scrapbooking. I can’t think of a better way to preserve my memories.
I also love the scrapping community and I’ve recently discovered the pleasure of sharing my creations. Browsing the gallery of other scrappers is always very inspiring to me.
My favorite place right now is Scrapmatters and its name explains the reason why I like it. The girls there are just so nice.
And so kind, too! In just a week, I received a RAK from Erica Zane and I won a grab bag that Ellie Lash gave away.
Yes, the digi world is a nice place to be.
Busy week!
8/8/08 was not only the opening of the Olympic Games, but also the re-opening of ScrapMatters, which meant a lot of fun challenges and giveaways.
I tried to take part in as many challenges as possible, and did the record (for me) of 9 LOs in one week.
So here’s the first LO I scrapped last week:
Credits:
One Fine Day kit by Matahati (partly recolored)
Harvest Spice Alpha by Shabby Princess (recolored)
Brass Round Alpha by Curlywirlytwirlygirlies
Serenity staple by KsharonK
I did this in the first Speed Scrap hosted by Erica Zane (BTW I love her style, check her blog out here) and I’m really pleased for how it turned out. I love those colors.
Finally, I did the Speed Scrap # 20 hosted by Bree on 8/14 and I loved it so much that I had to do a matching page to go with it:
Credits:
Background heart paper (recolored) from EZ Shrubberies Add On by Erica Zane
Ribbons and bows (recolored): New beginnings by Raspberry Road
Glitter Heart: I’m A Dreamer Add On; Glitter Splotch (recolored): Summer Fling; Black Bead Alpha (part recolored); string from I’m A Dreamer: Britt-Ish Designs
Black paper and dotted paper (I used a font on the black paper to make is as it is now) and pin (partly recolored) from Friday Flea Market collaboration kit at ScrapMatters
Gifts and tag from Happy Birthday by Digiscrapbooking.ch
See Clearly Alpha by Misty Cato
I did the left page for the speed scrap and then did the 2nd page for 2 challenges at the same time.
I’ll open separate posts for some of the challenges I did this week.