Happy 2011!

Happy New Year card

Happy New Year!!! And what better way to celebrate than with a new kit? 🙂 Look at the gorgeous new kit by Jenn Barrette out today (and 20% off!):

I love it all! The colors and the theme are absolutely fantastic!
Here’s a couple details of my card:

Happy New Year card

Happy New Year card

Too bad you can’t really make out the glimmer mist I used on the flower and heart from the pictures.

Happy 2011!

December!

Wow, I cannot believe that December is almost gone! I have done very little craft-wise this month, because of a two and a half week trip back home for Christmas. The only thing I did was scrap 4 pages with the new December kit by Gina Marie Huff. I scrapped the first in the airport waiting for our connection, then did 3 more pages one of the first days of my trip. 🙂 This collection was perfect to scrap some of my December pictures! Here’s the new goodies Gina put together:

For an alpha junkie like me, these alphas are heaven!!

And here are my pages:

Home for Christmas

Credits:
Sweet and Simple #12 papers, elements, ornaments and alphas by Gina Marie Huff
Font: CK Ali’s hand
Photo action by Paint the Moon Photography

All I Want for Christmas

Credits:
Sweet and Simple #12 papers, elements, alphas and wordart by Gina Marie Huff
Font: Traveling Typewriter
Photo actions by Paint the Moon Photography and Pioneer Woman

I got a GSO with this one!! 😀

The Weather Outside Is Frightful

Credits:
Sweet and Simple #12 papers, elements, alphas and wordart by Gina Marie Huff
Font: CK Ali’s hand
Photo action by Paint the Moon Photography

Christmas Shopping

Credits:
Sweet and Simple #12 papers, elements, alphas and wordart by Gina Marie Huff
Font: CK Ali’s hand and Century Gothic
Photo action by Pioneer Woman

I had hoped to have more free time during my trip (I was planning to take detailed pictures of my December Daily album… but I haven’t been able to do that, so that will have to wait until I catch up with other things now that I’m back home!). But of course I’m not complaining, it was good to see friends and family! I love this last picture of my parents & me. 🙂

Christmas Cards: Mission Accomplished!

Last week I finished the last Christmas cards I needed. They turned out quite pretty! 🙂 Since then, all my (little) free time has gone in putting together the December Daily album (which is now 99% complete), so look out to see some pages of that soon. 🙂 I’m actually not looking forward to taking pictures of all the pages I made – there are so many! So the plan is to take pictures after I’ve added photos and journaling, not of the blank pages.
Anyway, here’s my 3 last cards:

Christmas Card 2010 (5)

Credits:
Joyful Christmas kit and Add-on by LDrag Designs

I actually added some liquid pearls to decorate the tree, but don’t have a picture of that. Sorry! 🙂
Then I made a print only card:

Christmas Card 2010 (6)

Credits:
Christmas Wonder by Kaye Winiecki and Cori Gammon
Free Spirit Alpha by CD Muckosky

And the last one:

Christmas Card 2010 (4)

Credits:
Holly Jolly Holiday by Chelle’s Creations
Paper shapers by Britt-ish Designs

This is my favorite; it was my first time using Martha Stewart’s micro beads – so pretty!

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December Has Arrived

December has arrived, and my December Daily album is not ready yet. 🙂 But it’s almost there! Yesterday I spent the day creating & cutting.

Dec Daily bits

Fun, fun!! 😉

50% Sale!

Today there is a 50% off sale in Molly DeCrow’s store!! And she has a new set of templates out today too!

If you’re a follower of this blog, you know I’m not much of a template person. Not at all. I like to just throw pictures on the page and let them go where they want to. 🙂 But I have to say I truly enjoyed using the new templates by Molly – they made it really easy and quick to scrap all these pictures from DH’s birthday!
They are also sold individually.

I combined them with this gorgeous kit (which of course is 50% off to today!):

Here are my pages:

Happy Birthday 2010 (1)

Credits:
Blueprints Bundle 13 and Everyday You by DeCrow Designs
Photo action by Pioneer Woman
Font: CK Ali’s hand and Traveling Typewriter

Happy Birthday 2010 (2)
Credits:
Blueprints Bundle 13 and Everyday You by DeCrow Designs
Photo action by Pioneer Woman
Font: American Typewriter

So yeah, this week instead of working on my December Daily album I scrapped. 😉 But now I’m going to focus on the album – I have just a few days to get it done!!

Black Friday!

Are you braving the crowds looking for the best deals, or are you lazy like me and prefer online shopping? 🙂
Either way, I hope you enjoy this Black Friday without getting stressed out.

Check out the new products Jenn Barrette has in her stores today: three fabulous collabs!
First off, a fantastic kit with Zoe Pearn:

I used it to make a card for DH’s birthday:

Birthday Card 2010

Credits:
Thankful for You by Jenn Barrette and Zoe Pearn
Fonts: Monotype script, Traveling Typewriter and JH Kari

Then a triple scoop:

This kit is adorable! Here’s a photo-less page I made with it:

10 Things I Love Right Now

Credits:
20 Questions by Jenn Barrette, Lauren Grier and Shawna Clingerman
Fonts: 1942 Report, Pea Stacy Fancy, Pea Noodle’s Girlfriends

I had fun creating the little monster! 🙂
Finally, a collab with Pink Reptile Designs – I loooove the retro colors and patterns!

It was perfect to scrap this picture of DH I had been saving:

I Don't Feel Good

Have a nice day!

Merry and Bright

Happy Black Friday! Have you seen the amazing deals at ScrapMatters?

Being on a Christmas mission :),  I picked this new release by geniaBeana scraps:

and got another lovely card done:

Xmas Card 2010 (3)

Credits:
Merry and Bright by geniaBeana scraps

3 cards down, 3 to go. 😉

O Christmas Tree

Since I decided to do Christmas cards after all (for family only), here’s another one I worked on during the weekend:

Xmas Card 2010 (2)

Credits:
Template by Jennifer (notes4theheart)
All I Want for Christmas by Connie Prince
Snowflakes from Dear Santa by Lawteeda Designs

Oh how I love Stickles!
It certainly looks like I’m only doing Christmas-y stuff lately: either cards or December Daily! 😉 And I am having so much fun at it! 🙂 But I also feel like I’m running out of time, so I am really glad for this long Thanksgiving weekend.

$1 Deals

Molly DeCrow has a bunch of products on sale for only $1!

Seriously amazing deals!!
Let me show you this one up close:
and here’s what I did with it tonight:
Mom's Visit - Day 9 (4)
And I will scrap with this one tomorrow:
Yummy, isn’t it?! 😉
ETA (11/26): here’s my page with it and the Sketched Borders (also on sale for $1):
Big Giraffe

Credits:
HE and Sketched Dividers by DeCrow Designs
Font: CK Chloe
Photo action by Pioneer Woman

Counting Down to Christmas

Jenn Barrette has a new kit in the store today (and it’s 20% off) and let me tell you – it’s absolutely fabulous!!

I love the color scheme! The papers are so yummy, and the elements are adorable! I made a card with it last night:

Xmas Card 2010 (1)

Credits:

I had decided not to make Christmas cards, but with such a pretty kit, I couldn’t resist. 🙂 So yeah, I will be making Xmas cards after all. 😉
This kit is just perfect for my Daily December album too!! I already printed out a few bits (the wordstrips are not all shown and they are so cute!! I printed out a few that are perfect for me: shopping, wrapping gifts, family recipe, craft time, traditions, family time, watching movies). I will make a couple of pages for my album soon. 🙂