Summer Squeeze

March 24, 2011 | cristina

Yes, indeed, we had a few inches of snow here yesterday. Today’s a beautiful sunny day, but the chilly wind reminded me of when I used to spend time on ski slopes, half a lifetime ago. 🙂 Really cold! Anyway, the new collab by Molly DeCrow and Tracie Stroud was just too yummy to pass:

It also comes in a huge bundle to get more goodies and save $$$:

And there’s an add-on too (and you get it for free if you buy the kit or bundle!!):

So I used it to scrap one of my favorite pictures from last year, that I hadn’t scrapped yet:

Credits:

Summer Squeeze bundle by DeCrow Designs and Tracie Stroud

Font: CK Hustle

Be back later to show you some more pretties. 🙂

Snow or Summer?

March 23, 2011 | cristina

It’s snowing here right now 😉 but the new collab by DeCrow Designs and Tracie Stroud coming out tomorrow has gotten me in the mood for summer! 🙂 Here’s a sneak peek:

and if you go here you can have a chance to win it! 😉 I will share the full preview and my page tomorrow, I can’t wait!

He Loves Me {Yes He Does}

March 18, 2011 | cristina

There’s a new great date pack at The Lilypad today by Sahlin Studio:

It is really cool and versatile! Here’s how I used it:

Credits:

Kaleidoscope papers, Colorful Bobby Pins: Sorbet, UPC Barcode Dates and Sweet and Skinny Alpha by Sahlin Studio

Flip Flops alpha by CD Muckosky

Font: American Typewriter

I’m so glad it’s Friday, I have not been faring well at all this week. I’m blaming daylight saving time… 😉

ETA: I got a GSO on the ScrapMatters gallery standouts blog for this page. 😉

Garden Whimsy

March 17, 2011 | cristina

Molly DeCrow has a new kit out today: it’s a collab with Laura Banasiak and it’s full of fun, fun doodles and cute elements!

I had so much fun using it for this page!

Credits:

Garden Whimsy by DeCrow Designs and Simply Scraps by Laura Banasiak

Font: SS Whimsy

Live Your Dream Today

March 12, 2011 | cristina

I swear I say this of every kit Jenn Barrette creates ;), but her latest collab with Dani Mogstad is the best kit ever!!! Check it out:

The colors and patterns are soooo amazing! I was inspired to do my very first ATC ever, for a challenge I saw on the simply ArTistiC blog.

I loved this design so much that I turned this into a card as well, but I am not finished with it yet (I’m doing more stitching on that one and I haven’t had time to finish it; we’re going away for the weekend so it might be a few days before I post it). Truth be told, I decided to make a card mostly because when I prepared the digital version of the ATC to be printed out and cut with the Silhouette, it covered only half the paper, and I somehow cannot force myself to print and/or cut if I’m not making the most of my paper (is there anyone else out there who does this?). I wonder if I’ll ever get over this! 🙂 And for this time I glad I didn’t, because as much as I LOVE the ATC, I love the card even more! 🙂 I added some distressing and I think it’s turning out really cool. Well, enough talking for now! 🙂 OK, no, there’s something else I wanted to tell you. Do you see the glitter on the one pinwheel? I wasn’t planning on adding it, but since I fought with glossy accents quite a bit (I was trying to use it to glue down the pinwheel pieces but it wouldn’t work, and it ended up tearing some of the paper) I decided to use it to cover the oopsies. I think it turned out really cute! It even passed the DH test: feeling wary after the staples incident, I showed him this ATC and asked him if it looked like there was anything amiss. He said everything looked pretty cool. Yay! 🙂

Jenn also has two new releases in her shop today (both are re-releases and they’re both gorgeous), go check them out! Here are two peeks of what I did with them a while back:

A Few Cards…

March 11, 2011 | cristina

I have not posted my P52 cards for a while, so here they are. Truth be told, I have been putting this off because I botched my week 8 card. 😛 I was envisioning a light brushing of bronze glitter blended with the digital stamp I used. But of course, what really happened is I turned out with a solid coating of glitter completely covering the digital stamp beneath it. 🙂 I tried to rub the glitter off with my fingernails, but to no avail. Even though I had other cards ready at hand, I decided to give the botched card to DH anyway. To my surprise, he did notice something was amiss, and even guessed I had made a few unsuccessful attempts at removing some of the glitter. 😉 It’s cool to know that he does understand a little of what I do and can distinguish between a good and a not-so-good card, I was starting to doubt it! 😀

You can see the Week 8 card – prior to the glitter overload – here. (I mercifully defocused it in the picture so you can gloss over how yucky it is 😉 )

Phew, OK, got that off my chest. We can now proceed to the newer cards:

You can see the Week 9 card here.

And yeah, I haven’t been succeeding in taking pictures of DH when I give him the card, because I usually give him my cards right before we have dinner, so a) the lighting is bad and b), we’re in a hurry to eat. 😉 But he’s been a good sport, posing for pictures later, so it’s all good. 🙂

You can see the Week 10 card here. This was last week’s card, and I haven’t handed out this week’s card yet, so we’re all caught up. Yay! 🙂

Love the Cook!

March 11, 2011 | cristina

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! 🙂

I also made another pretty project with this kit, for the March ScrapMatters newsletter: an 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. 🙂

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

Sweet Tooth!

March 11, 2011 | cristina

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:

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!

March 10, 2011 | cristina

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:

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

March 8, 2011 | cristina

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!