Author: cristina

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!! 😉

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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. 😉

Early Valentine Celebration

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Since I will be busy all day at work on Monday with a visitor, DH and I decided to have our Valentine Day celebration 2 days early. Actually, I pushed strongly for it because I couldn’t wait to exchange gifts! 🙂 So I gave DH his Week 7 card today: a Valentine!

P52 Cards - Week 7

You can see the Week 7 card here. 🙂 Happy Valentine’s Day/Weekend!

I’ll Love You Forever

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So…. have you seen the amazing baby collection Sahlin Studio has out today??

Let me show you the kit up close:

Isn’t it just adorable?! I don’t have kids, but this collection was just too pretty, so I made me some cards. 😉 I made them all in one night, I was on a roll! (and of course all the bits fit nicely on one sheet of paper… you know me! 😉 ) First off, a couple of mini cards that will go great to go along a shower gift:

It's a Boy / Girl cards

Then there’s this card. I am so in love with that teddy bear, it’s the cutest ever! I can totally see using this to make a pretty wall art for a nursery!

Love You Forever card

Finally, I made a simple love card. I totally see this collection working great to scrap LOs even for kid-less people like me!

I WIll Love You Forever card

I am going to try to add some gold glitter to this over the flourish, but didn’t have time during the week. Glitter can get messy and I didn’t want to risk a major spill on the kitchen table! 😉

Cold Winter

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This has been a very cold winter so far. I don’t mind, because the cold doesn’t bother me nearly as much as heat, and I love snow, but it has been pretty cold. The coldest since we’ve been living here. So I had to make a page. 🙂

They Lied to Us

Credits:
Scrap Like Me vol. 1 by Jenn Barrette
Bundle Up by Kate Hadfield and SMJ Designs
Alpha from Capture the Moment by Kate Hadfield and Designs by Lili
Font: Century Gothic

Have a nice day!

Roll, Roll, Roll…

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The number of paper scrapbooking blogs in my blog roll is steadily increasing, and I find myself drawing more and more inspiration from traditional scrapbooking. This week I was really inspired by this layout by Jen Jockish. So when I saw Jenn Barrette’s new release I immediately knew what to do with it.

This paper pack is a basic must-have for digital scrapbookers. But guess what? It is great for hybrid too. Check it out!

Card Roll 1

Inspired by Roly Poly by Jen Jockish

Credits:
All by Jenn Barrette:
20 Questions collab with Lauren Grier and Shawna Clingerman, Perfectly Krafty, Cuppy Cake Love, Doctor, Doctor collab with Pink Reptile Designs, Good Mother, New Year New Me, Perfectly Krafty, Pieces of You, Shabby Sweetheart collab with ScrapKitchen Designs, Silly Girl collab with Valorie Wibbens, Whimsicality

Rolling the paper was quite fun, and therapeutic too. I thought a bit while I was doing it and it did me good! 🙂 Paper is probably my favorite part of digital kits, and I just loved picking out all the pretty papers I used for this card!

Card Roll 1

ETA 2/23: I got a Hybrid Gallery Standout at Sweet Shoppe Designs for this card! 😉

I started out by making this card, using about a gazillion pretty papers from several of Jenn’s kits. And then I liked it so much that I went back and made another one just using all the pretty colors in the kraft paper pack.

Card Roll 2

Inspired by Roly Poly by Jen Jockish

Credits:
Perfectly Krafty by Jenn Barrette

I will write a sentiment on the card, but since I’m not particularly fond of my handwriting, I didn’t want to risk spoiling it, so I took pictures before that. 🙂

Card Roll 2

Yum!

ETA: I got a gallery standout at Me So Scrappy for this card.