At this point, I’m not at all sure I’ll ever see this project finished… but it has begun, and I’m loving it! 😉
Although I must confess that at times like these I wish I were a traditional scrapper, so I wouldn’t have to go through all the printing & cutting… 😉
Anyway, I bought some new Distress Stickles today… very yummy! You can see them in action on the “19”. 🙂
Back in August I worked on this project for the Sept. newsletter at ScrapMatters and I loved every moment! It was quite an endavour to get it done, but so worth it! I am literally counting the days to December when I can use it and show it off to my family! 🙂
But since I realize most normal people don’t get excited about Christmas in September, I decided to wait a while to share this project. Now that the leaves are falling and holiday season is in the air, it might be the right time to do it. Also, this month’s Getting Hybrid challenge at ScrapMatters is all about creating your own holiday planner, so I hope you’re inspired to join us!
I used this adorable kit by Stolen Moments for my planner:
and since I’m obsessed with pink and green for Christmas this year, I recolored the blue paper with the trees to make it fit my mental picture.
I created all the embellishments (minus the bells, the buttons and the beads of course 😉 ) from scratch. It was so much fun!
Sooooooo pretty! 😀 Posting these pictures now really puts me in the mood for doing my December Daily album! I have no idea if I will find time to complete it, but I sure want to give it a shot, starting this weekend! 🙂
October is here and I must say I cannot complain about this 50F weather. Especially after coming back last night after spending 4 days in Tucson, AZ, in 100+ weather. Ugh. So good to be home! 🙂
Anyway, I have 2 little somethings to share done with Friday’s new releases at ScrapMatters, both Halloween-y. 🙂
First off, I scrapped a pic of me from last year:
And next is a cute coffin treat box I made a few weeks back and I can finally share it! I used a kit by a new designer at ScrapMatters, Jennifer Labre.
I haven’t played with my Silhouette in a couple of weeks now and I’m so eager to use it! Busy busy busy life though… 🙁
For more Halloween inspiration, check out Craft Critique’s Halloween blog Carnival.
This week has been very rewarding for me scrapping-wise! It started off Monday when 2 (yes, two!) of my LOs were featured on the Daily Digi blog (this and this page): thanks to my friend Sunghee for letting me know!! ;). And then today I got a GSO on the GalleryStandouts blog for this page!
I am having another super crazy week at work (just sneaking in 10 minutes to write this post) and absolutely no free time. I had the idea for this page Sunday night and had been dying to scrap it since then! I’m off to a conference tomorrow and flying back next Sunday so I am doubly glad I squeezed in this page last night in half an hour between the laundry and dinner. 🙂
So I guess you want to hear more about the story? 😉 Well, our neighbor is a bit OCD about mowing his lawn. He mows it twice a week, which really is a bit too often. Of course, DH is quite the opposite: he mows it every 2 weeks, which is not quite often enough. 🙂 But our neighbor is so obsessive about his lawn that if my husband mows our lawn, than you can rest assured that the following day our neighbor will mow his, regardless of how tall his grass is. Anyway, Sunday we got home after Church and saw that our neighbor was mowing the lawn and had blown the leaves in our front lawn into a nice pile. He doesn’t have trees in the front, so all the leaves were coming from our trees. Since this was a pretty obvious hint, and since most of the work had been done already and all that was left to do was bag the leaves, I tried to convince DH to do it together. But he wouldn’t budge so I gave up – I wasn’t going to do it on my own. A couple hours later, said neighbor rang at the door: he said he had filled a couple bags with our leaves since he was already working in the garden and it didn’t take him long.
Now, seriously, this was embarassing. My husband even told him that he had been too busy to take care of it because he was leaving this week – but in fact he’s home all week! 🙂
But thinking back at it, this guy is really a bit weird for doing that! What do you think?
I have to add that their house is for sale so he obviously wants to make a good impression, but hey, it’s autumn, and leaves do fall. We already have a lot that have fallen since.
Anyway, that’s our story! 🙂
I got the newsletter from the Digichick saying today’s is the last $2 Tuesday… so take advantage of it, because you don’t see often such a great deal! Look what Mari has for sale today:
I love the patterns of this kit! I wanted to use it to scrap this funny picture of DH so I did some easy recoloring:
Have a great Tuesday!
I must say I am not a big fan of shopping. But when my mom comes to visit and we do go shopping, it’s always a fun time! And look at the new kit that Rachel of Captivated Visions has out (she’s a guest this month at ScrapMatters)! It makes me want to go shopping! 😀
The colors are so yummy!! As soon as I saw the kit I knew I wanted to use it, so I spent half an hour digging in my computer for some shopping pictures. 😉 I knew I had to have some since I’m so behing in scrapping my mom’s visit… and I did, from last year!
I did this for today’s Saturday Special challenge. The queen of shadows, Carly (snaggle7575) has revealed her secrets on shadowing, and I tried to follow her tips. What do you think of my shadows here? Do they look weird?
Happy Tuesday everyone! Look what’s for sale for only $2 today:
This collab is gooooorgeous! 😉 I used it a while back for this frame that hangs in my living room, and this weekend I made this pretty little card with it:
So cute! And I’m getting more and more in love with my cutting machine every day! Yes, the flower on the left of the bracket is cut out too.
Gina Marie Huff has the new Sweet and Simple kit for September in her store at Weeds and Wildflowers, and I’m completely in love with it!!
The colors are sooooo pretty! I love all the gray with pops of pink, blue and green. So inspiring!
And the alphas and wordart… to die for!!
Here’s what I scrapped with it:
Yeah, it’s been a rough few weeks and I just needed to vent. Scrapping is great therapy! 🙂
Then I made another page about my mom’s visit back in May – I wonder if I will ever finish scrapping those pictures! 😉
And one more:
Well, it appears that this is my blog post #501. I never noticed the number of posts, but as I logged in to write this I noticed my blog had exactly 500 posts. 🙂
Anyway, I’m here to show you a gorgeous collab that is in the store today, by Rachel of Captivated Visions and Jenn Barrette:
This kit is just perfect for all of us who love digi!!
Happy Friday everyone! I am completely beat and really need this week to be over soon! (I have tons of things to do this weekend too, but well…)
Today is Tuesday and it means Mari has a gorgeous kit for sale at the Digichick! It’s her Back 2 School collab with Mel Wilson:
I love this kit, it is seriously packed! I especially love all the papers.
And it worked great for recording the steps I achieved in my photography course too!
Happy Tuesday!