Month: January 2013

More Christmas Scrapping

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Mari Koegelenberg has a fun add on to her lovely Christmas kit Baking Spirits Bright with Valorie Wibbens in the store today!

I used the add on papers and the kit to scrap a recent memory.

Milk & Cookies
Credits:
Baking Spirits Bright by Mari Koegelenberg and Valorie Wibbens
Font: Traveling Typewriter

Are you still in the mood to scrap Christmas memories? If so, this kit and add on are just perfect! I just finished my December Daily album (will post photos soon), and I have to say I am ready to move on to regular everyday pictures, and let Christmas be for a while. 🙂

January BYOC at The Lilypad!

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I am so excited for all the inspiration at The Lilypad! Not only is the January BYOC in the store, but January is the Month of Challenges: each day a new challenge is posted! I’m loving it and I’m super inspired! And this isn’t only a great motivation to start off the year well and get those memories scrapped – if you complete all 31 challenges by Feb 2nd, you could win a permanent Polly spot (best team ever!!)! Check it out:

I’ll be hosting the challenge for Jan. 16th, but I’m playing along in the challenges too – I want to see how many I can get done! 🙂

After several weeks of little to no scrapping, with the end of the semester and all the holiday activities, I am finally back on schedule and scrapping – and I love it! Here’s what I’ve done with the January BYOC so far.

First off, I was inspired by Valorie Wibbens’ new frames to make a compilation of all my favorite TLP pages from 2012:

2012 Favorites
Credits:
My Gallery by Valorie Wibbens
In Review elements by One Little Bird
Smudge Alpha by Gina Miller

ETA: this page was picked as a weekly highlight at the Club CK blog! 🙂
Fun!! This next page is for the Jan. 1st challenge – Clean and Simple – which is right up my alley.

Tomorrow
Credits:
Simple Things elements by Pink Reptile Designs
Yellow paper from In Review papers by One Little Bird
The Chickens font by Heather Joyce

And since I was loving the frames so much, I made another page with them. 🙂

Vacation Highlights

Not my usual style, but I love how it turned out! 🙂

December Daily – Days 15-23

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I am almost done catching up with my December Daily album – and it feels good! We were gone Dec. 26-30, but as soon as I got back home I got working on it. I just have 2 days to go before the album is done. December Daily is for sure my favorite project to work on. 🙂

DD 2012 - Days 16-19

This is probably my favorite spread in the album! The word art card is by Little Butterfly Wings.

DD 2012 - Days 16-19

The alpha stickers and the paper are by Basic Grey. The stamp is a digital element I had cut out with my Silhouette in 2010 for my DD album, but never used. 🙂 I’m loving the number stamp for the date.

DD 2012 - Days 16-19

The letter stickers are from Dear Lizzy. The number stamp is by Kelly Purkey. I covered the Studio Calico wood veneer arrow with Stickles. The green paper is a leftover from a previous page – I stamped the Studio Calico stamp and embossed in gold glitter zing, and then I sprayed Estate Green Mister Huey on top. And here comes my favorite thing in the album…

DD 2012 - Days 16-19

This is my first see through pocket ever, and I love it!! I did some sewing to create compartments, and put in sequins, chunky glitter, punched shapes (snowflakes and stars), wood veneer and micro beads to decorate. I stamped on the back of a digital element (more below) and I love how it turned out! Stamps by Martha Stewart and Kelly Purkey.

DD 2012 - Days 20-21

I really like this spread too. 🙂

DD 2012 - Days 20-21

Here’s the back of the pocket! Not sure which side I like more – I love them both! 😉 The word art is by Little Butterfly Wings. The star card is by Paislee Press.

DD 2012 - Days 20-21

The reindeer card  is by Paislee Press, and I added a red sequin for the nose. 🙂

DD 2012 - Days 21-22

The polka red dot wrap was from the chocolate basket pictured above – I love that you can see it peeking from the pocket in the previous page too!

DD 2012 - Day 23

The reindeer paper is from Kitschy Christmas by Jenn Barrette and Sahlin Studio, and I also used the Christmas Journal Cards and Ephemera: Trimming the Tree by Sahlin Studio.

Hello 2013

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Wow, 2013 is here already… I am not ready for it to be here yet, but I’ll make the most of it! 🙂 Happy New Year!! 2012 has definitely been a good year for me. I haven’t made any recap pages (yet), but there have been many things to celebrate and be proud of this year. Feeling very blessed…

Happy 2013 card

I wish you a fabulous 2013, filled with joy and health and all good things! I made two Happy 2013 cards – the first one (below) for a friend, while the second one (above) for DH. Both use many of my favorite crafty supplies of 2012 (which you’ll see plenty of in 2013 as well!): Studio Calico stamps, embossing, mists, glitter tape, vellum and sequins. 😉

Happy 2013 card

Happy 2013!