Month: January 2010

Fun with Cards

| cristina

I’ve had fun making a couple of cards this week! They’re all for the It’s in the Cards hybrid challenge at ScrapMatters. Every 2 weeks, you get a free template for your card! Anyway, I had fun trying out some new techniques/products. I was so inspired by Tim Holtz’s blog that I decided to pick up a few of the supplies he uses in his creations, since I am totally green for anything that’s related to paper scrapbooking. It turned out a great way to start! So, first off, this card, using stickles and foam dots:

Credits:


Template by LuAnn (wildblueeyez)
Day by Day : January mini-kit by Chelle’s Creations

Here’s a close up:

OK, I gotta confess: when I designed my card in Photoshop, I planned to print out the penguin along with the paper behind it, but when I prepared the page to be printed, I separated them by mistake. Since the scarf fringes and the ice skates are doodled, it would have been impossible to cut around them with a craft knife, so I decided to use stickles on top of them. And it totally makes this card! Having just the penguin on foam dots makes the card really adorable. 🙂

Have you seen how wonderfully sweet this new collab by Erica and Denise is???

I’m totally in the mood for Valentine’s Day, since I did a project for the SM newsletter this month (it’s going out as I write, so it’ll reach your inbox soon if you’re signed up to receive it) that is Valentine related, and I needed a card to go with it. 🙂

Credits:


Template by Sharon Dale
Heart’s Content by Denise Beatty Originals and Erica Zane

For this card, in addition to the foam dots, I used distress ink to ink the edges, for the first time!! 😉 I LOVE it!! 😉

Have you seen?

| cristina

Have you seen who’s guesting at ScrapMatters this month? I have to say I’ve loved all the guests we’ve had (and I’m very excited that some have stayed on at SM as permanent designers, like Gwenipooh Designs, Page Frocks and Designs by Sarah Bennett), but I’m really partial to this particular designer, Kaye Winiecki. She sells at the Lilypad and her creations are simply adorable. Having her at ScrapMatters is just wonderful! She made this lovely kit:

and I used it to scrap about my mom’s broken foot:

Credits:


Bumps and Blahs by Kaye Winiecki
JH Kari font – Designs by Jeni Hopewell

This is my first page for 2010 (since hybrid and P365 don’t really count as LOs, in my book! ;))!

ETA: this LO was featured on the Log Your Memory blog!

$2 Tuesday

| cristina

It’s $2 Tuesday, and a whopping 13 products are on sale in Mari Koegelenberg’s store!!!! Check them all out here!
You can save up to 67%!!

Still have some Christmas pictures to scrap? Check out this gorgeous kit:

and here’s a page I did with it for my 2010 calendar, and hadn’t posted here yet:

Credits:

Noel kit and Alpha by Mari Koegelenberg Creations

Christmas Card Keepsake

| cristina

I was inspired by the CK blog to create a keepsake for our Christmas cards. Every year, I never quite know what to do with our Christmas cards, and while I don’t want to throw them out, they all end mixed up in one box or another.. So this project was just perfect for my taste: it looks pretty, and it keeps all the cards together!

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I even created a gift log, thanks to these gorgeous prompts by Sahlin Studio:

A page for me, one for DH, and one for both of us, including the gifts we received and those we made.

I really enjoyed putting this together, using some of the goodies I got with my Christmas gift card at AC Moore! 😉 I am completely in love with glossy accents!

Gift Tags

| cristina

I was working on a P365 page with this adorable kit, and I realized I never posted the gift tags I made with it. So, here they are:

Credits:
Christmas Wonder by Kaye Winiecki and Cori Gammon

and this kit is simply fabulous! It makes me happy just to look at it! 😉

Almost There..

| cristina

Slowly but surely, I’m catching up on my P365. 🙂 I have under a month to catch up with now! Here’s weeks 48 and 49:

Credits:
A Day of Giving by Valorie Wibbens
Alpha from Everyday Thanks by Plum Dumpling Designs
Sketched Out alpha by Leora Sanford
Photo stamps from Project 365 #2 by Sugarplum Paperie
Font: Note this

Credits:
So Grateful by Sahlin Studio and Sugarplum Paperie
Lights and gold alpha from Season of Giving by Sahlin Studio
Photo stamps from Project 365 #2 by Sugarplum Paperie
Font: Note this

I thought I would keep doing P365 this year, but I’m not too sure anymore.. I switched to a new research group about a month and a half ago, and I’ve been working like crazy ever since. I will have much less scrapping time this year, so I don’t know if I can keep the P365 up.. I certainly will keep taking a photo every day, but I don’t know if I can scrap them as well.. Anyway, I’ll try, and we’ll see how it goes.
I’m excited that ScrapMatters is starting a P365 challenge! I hope that helps me to keep my pages coming! 🙂

Goodbye 2009.. Welcome 2010!

| cristina

Happy New Year!
While I haven’t kept an accurate count, I believe I completed 327 LOs in 2009.. That is, not counting the P365 pages, nor the hybrid projects, nor the calendar pages. Boy, that’s quite a lot! 😉
I didn’t do any resolutions last year, nor will I do any this year (I can’t stand the pressure!), but I am really happy about where my scrapbooking led me in 2009. I know I will have less scrapping time this year, but I hope to still manage to squeeze in some satisfying quality time. 🙂
It’s really impossible for me to pick one favorite LO of the year.. I really love them all, and am proud of several of them.

Credits:
Feeling Frosty by Jennifer Barrette Designs

(Sorry for the horrible picture.. I just discovered I accidentally erased the good pictures I took, after I’d already sent the card.. Ugh!)