Month: July 2009

Getting Ready for Christmas…

| cristina

Artscow had a sale a couple of weeks ago: a deck of personalized cards, only $6.99 including shipping. Since my parents love to play cards, I thought this would make a perfect gift for them! I’ll actually use it as a stocking filler for Christmas! 🙂

Here’s the cards:


I decorated them with pictures of my parents, their initials and a few elements in theme. 🙂
I used the gorgeous Jackpot by Britt-ish Designs for this – just perfect!


Now let’s see if I can resist until Christmas to give them to my parents.. 😉 I’m not sure when I’ll see them, so it does look like I’ll have to wait a few months.

Heron

| cristina

We’ve been living in this house for a year and a half but we keep seeing new animals. 🙂
Even though we’d spotted them before, this month was the first time we were able to take pictures of foxes.
And recently we’ve seen herons too. I took a gorgeous picture of a fox and a heron (must scrap that soon!) and here’s some closeups of just the heron. It’s really a big bird! 🙂

Weeds and Wildflowers has a new reward system: you get a point for each challenge you take part in, and 10 points are worth a $10 GC!
This is my first LO with the new system, it was a template challenge:

Credits:
Template by sbaird
Papers from A Better Me, Flowers from Playing with Wire – Spring, Stitching ABC’s Burlap by Gina Marie Huff
Font: My Own Topher

Inspired

| cristina

I’m here to show off two pages from last week that I’m very proud of. The gorgeous kits at ScrapMatters really inspire me!! 🙂

Credits:
Enjoy the Moment, Striped Candy Alpha and Worn Cardboard Strips Alpha by Sahlin Studio
Font: Pea Olson

This next page was done for the new My Story Matters challenge, about growing up:

Credits:
Fairchild and Teeny Tiny Christmas Alpha by Britt-ish Designs
Font: SS Whimsy

I have one more page from the weekend, I’ll post it later.

In the meantime, don’t forget to VOTE for the Big Pimpins here (see post below), today is the last day to vote so do it now! You don’t even have to be registered to vote, just click and you’re done!

I need your VOTE!

| cristina

Along with 4 fellow CT members, I’m competing in the Battle of the CTs at DigiScrapAddicts for Amy Sumrall’s fabulous team! We’re the Big Pimpins and we rocked the first round.
For the first assignment the team had to use negative space and pick a color theme: we picked the rainbow as our theme, but we did much more than that! We even coordinated our pages so that they all form a rainbow:


How cool is that?? 😉

Here’s my page:

Credits:
All by Amy Sumrall! (even the picture, LOL! This is her DD Sophie)
Paper from Children’s Day
Orange flowers from Whimsy Doodle (collab with Sugarplum Paperie)
Blue flowers and grass from Little Bunny Foo Foo
Brushes from Crayon Brush Set 1
Font: Pea Aimee

I scrapped a picture of Amy’s DD Sophie because we all scrapped pictures of children in the grass. 😉

So now it’s time to vote for the first round! Go here and vote for the Big Pimpins!!!!!!!!

All Is Quiet…

| cristina

I know I haven’t posted much this week, but this doesn’t mean I haven’t been scrapping! 😉
I just cannot show the pages just yet, but there’s one that I can show using the new collab by Mickey B Designs and Man in the Moon Designs, out today at ScrapMatters, Sprinkler Party:


I had lots of fun playing with whis colorful kit! And looked at that water filled alpha – adorable!!

Credits:
Template by Jeni Hopewell
Sprinkler Party by Mickey B Designs and Man in the Moon Designs
Font: Note this

There’s also some GREAT news at ScrapMatters: there’s a huge sale on all Christmas kits! AND there’s many new Christmas kits coming out today too, and those are on sale as well!!!

Calendar Templates

| cristina

Have you started thinking about a calendar for 2010 yet? If not, this is the right time! You don’t want to do it at the last minute, when Christmas is coming and you have thousands of urgent things to do.
Mari has a gorgeous set of CD calendar templates for you, to make things easier! It’s such a nice idea for a Christmas gift, too!

This release is 20% off today only, so snag it right away here! 🙂

ETA: you can find some inspiration on how to use these gorgeous templates here!

Lovely Weekend

| cristina

I spent a lovely weekend out of town with DH – it was just great, only too short! I took Monday off and came home mid-afternoon. We really had a wonderful time (and I took 3 GB of pictures in just 2 days – crazy!!), but I have so many things to catch up with this week!

Friday I managed to squeeze in the pages for my June monthly summaries for the challenge at the DigiChick, using Mari’s gorgeous Happiness kit – perfect for these summery, colorful pages.


Credits:
Template by missrubikscube
Happiness by Mari Koegelenberg Creations
Acrylic numbers from Hodge Podge 9 by Gina Marie Huff
Screws from Summer Fling by Britt-ish Designs
Font: Note this, Cooper Std

This is now the 6th month I’ve done with these templates, and I am not in the least bit tired of them! They’re just gorgeous!

Oh, some more news: I didn’t make it in ScrapOrchard’s CT, but I must confess I’m quite relieved! I entered the contest because I cannot resist a good competition, and I had so much fun playing along with those lovely kits, but I must say I’m more than happy with the CT spots I have. OK, I’d still love to land a couple more spots for my favorite designers (hello, Minna!) and would die for a spot at TDC (*sigh*), but for now I’m more than satisfied (*thrilled*, actually!) with the teams I’m on – each and every one of them was a dream come true! I wish I could do more for each of my designers, because I really love them all. Alas, my time is limited, and while I’m not overwhelmed by my CT spots, they sure keep me busy! 🙂

4th July Page

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When I saw the kit Old Glory by GG Digital Designs, I couldn’t wait for the 4th of July to arrive so I could use it!


It’s really a beautiful kit! And here’s my first page using it:

Credits:
Spread the Wealth Templates and Back to Basics Black Alpha by Denise Beatty Originals
Old Glory by GG Digital Designs
Date-Bits by Plum Dumpling Designs
Leaves from Girl Power by Chelle’s Creations
Ladybug from Totally Buggin’ by Britt-ish Designs and Mira Designs
Font: Pea Stacy’s Doodle Script

I plan to do at least another page with the fireworks! 😉