Author: cristina

Love the Cook!

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My husband is an excellent cook, so when I saw Erica Zane’s delicious collection I knew I had to make something for my favorite cook. 🙂

And here’s my little card. I’m so late posting this, I made this cards a few weeks ago already! 🙂

Love the Cook Card

I also made another pretty project with this kit, for the March ScrapMatters newsletter: an altered clipboard!

Altered Clipboard

This was my first clipboard and I had lots of fun putting it together! 😉 I actually made this first, then I liked the little cluster so much that I used it for my card as well. 🙂

Altered Clipboard

I am planning to hang this in the kitchen to hold menu ideas and shopping lists. 😉

Sweet Tooth!

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Britt-ish Designs and Sahlin Studio have teamed up for a very sweet collab! 🙂

The wordart is fantastic too:

I used this collab to make a thank you card for a new friend:

You Are So Sweet card

I think the picture doesn’t do the card much justice (as usual…) but the card turned out quite cute. I covered the bears in glossy accents so they really look like gummy bears! I cut out the alpha and the candy in 3 copies and layered them, so they have a nice dimension

Gorgeous free kit by MKC!

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If you love Mari Koegelenberg’s designs, you better head on over to her blog and subscribe to her newsletter right away, because she has a free kit waiting for you! And it is so pretty!! Here’s my page using it:

Captured Moment
Journaling:
I always have to force you to take pictures… but it’s worth it! I know you love them too! 🙂

Credits:
Just So You Know by Mari Koegelenberg *free newsletter subsribers’ kit!*
Font: CK Noak

I am in love with that bold background! 🙂

ETA: Woot! I got a GSO at Me So Scrappy with this page! 😉

Eonce moreTA: I got a GSO at ScrapMatters too!! 😀 BTW, do you know that ScrapMatters has its own gallery standouts blog as of this week?? Check it out! 😉 What a true honor for me to be picked in its first week! 🙂

Card Color Inspiration Challenge

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It is so true that challenges push you to do things you wouldn’t have tried otherwise! Yesterday I decided I wanted to play along with the color challenge at Paper Crafts Connection, but frankly I wasn’t inspired at all by the palette. I love bright colors and I never would have picked this combination on my own!

Paper Crafts Connection Color Challenge #2

But then, as I went through my digi stash, I discovered this very combination in one of my favorite kits by Jenn Barrette:

I tweaked the colors a bit in Photoshop to match the palette better, and voila’:

Wishes Do Come True

Isn’t this a pretty palette after all? 🙂

Wishes Do Come True card

I ended up with a card I absolutely adore! Yay for challenges and stretching your limits! 😉

Sahlin Studio

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Krista of Sahlin Studio is one of my favorite designers ever, and I am so happy to announce that I recently joined her team!! 😉

Krista's CT

She sells at The Lilypad and you can find her blog here. Make sure to subscribe to her newsletter on the blog, because she sends out beautiful inspiration. Every month, she picks one of her kits to be featured in Memory Lane: if you make a page with the featured kit and post it to Krista’s gallery at The Lilypad, you have a chance to win a $10 GC to her store! And the best news is that you can also just use her blog freebie. This month’s featured kit is Make a Wish, a collab with the oh-so-talented Valorie Wibbens:

With my mom’s birthday coming up at the end of the month, it was just the perfect timing to get her card done with this gorgeous kit:

Mom's Birthday Card 2011

Credits:
Make a Wish by Sahlin Studio and Valorie Wibbens

I had so much fun adding all the dimension to this card! After I finished putting it together, I was left with too much open space between the “happy birthday” word art and the music strip, so I added in some wrapping ribbon. It was just the perfect touch!

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I’m thinking I’ll probably take it off though, since I have to mail this card and the ribbon would get squashed. 🙁 I had lots of fun cutting out all the pieces with my Silhouette and inking them all up with distress inks. I glued three layers together to make the letters and the round bits, so they have a nice thickness. There’s glossy accents on the round bits too, though you can’t tell very well from the pictures.

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So I was all proud of my card until I showed it to DH. The only thing he said was: “I really don’t like the staples”. Yes, that’s all he had to say! 🙁 Ugh!

ETA: Since I got a comment that agrees with my husband’s criticism, for full disclosure let me specify that I added the staples for decorative purposes only, since the paper is glued down with Mod Podge. I thought they were cool and added some variety. And I still do! 🙂

Make Something Pretty Today

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I know I haven’t posted anything in quite some time, but I have been so busy with work lately that I barely have had any time to create anything! Sad, I know… So when I saw Jenn Barrette’s new kit, a collab with Kristin Cronin-Barrow, I knew just what to make: an inspirational piece to put at my desk, so that even when I cannot create, I can look at it and smile. Here’s the new collab (and it’s 20% off!):

And here’s what I made:

Make Something Pretty Today

And yay, it’s the weekend, and I think I will be able to make something pretty! 🙂

Photo Splits

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Have you seen the new photo splits by Molly DeCrow??

They are gorgeous! I love rounded corners! 🙂 I decided to use them for a P365 spread, and they worked beautifully!

Credits:
Photo Splits – Doubles by DeCrow Designs
Eastern Whispers by DeCrow Designs
Alpha from de*light by DeCrow Designs
Alpha (recolored) from Passion Fruit Bundle – Designs by Kat and DeCrow Designs
Rabbit from Easter Salutations by Studio Tangie and Britt-ish Designs
Font: CK Noah

de*light

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I’m taking a short break in an extraordinarily busy work week to show you Molly DeCrow’s latest kit, because – true to its name – it is absolutely delightful and you don’t want to miss it!

There’s also a beautiful coordinating pack of word art and little bits:

Both are 20% off right now, but if you purchase the kit you get the extras for free!! So don’ miss them! Here’s what I scrapped so far:

Oh So Pretty

Journaling:
Every time we go to the mall, I stop by the Anthropologie store. More often than not, some pretties come home with me!

Credits:
de*light kit and word art and extras by DeCrow Designs
Fonts: Firefly Castle, SS Whimsy

This kit is absolutely gorgeous and there are so many fantastic elements I wanted to keep adding them to my page! I will certainly scrap more pages with this kit because I am totally in love. (BTW, 2/2 of my Anthropologie purchases have been scrapped with Molly’s designs. Coincidence? 😉 )

Playing Catch Up

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No news here, I’m behind on my P365. 😉 But this year I’m going to keep at it. It’s too important to me to document these little things! I am 2 weeks behind now. I think this new idea of keeping in multiple pictures per day is making it really time consuming to edit and fit in all the pictures. But I do like to have many pictures to tell the story, so I’ll try to keep doing it. 🙂

Credits:
Background paper from Whimsicality by Jenn Barrette
Snowflakes and chilly wordart from Feeling Frosty (retired) by Jenn Barrette
Chocolate wordart from Snipettes: Easter by Sahlin Studio
Poinsettia from Hustle and Bustle by Britt-ish Designs
Spoon from Breezy Holiday by Britt-ish Designs
Goose epoxy, newspaper hearts, typewriter, alpha and wordart from Silly Girl by Jenn Barrette and Valorie Wibbens
Penguin from Say It Ain’t Snow by Erica Zane
Red heart from Robot Love by Jenn Barrette and Jenna Desai
Crocheted potato from 5 a day by Erica Zane
Flowers from Early Bird by Erica Zane
Font: CK Noah

Having many pictures and a ton of journaling makes it really hard to be creative on the design, though.

Credits:
Best Birthday Ever by Jenn Barrette
2 Cute Alpha by Penny Springmann
Font: CK Noah

But I really like how page 2 of my Week 5 turned out. 🙂 Oh, and have you noticed another rule I’ve decided to break? I am including pictures not by me this year, so I finally get to end up in the P365 book. 😉