Erica Zane has a new kit out today and I fell in love with it as soon as I saw it! I just love the color scheme and those cardboard elements! Fabulous!
Here’s my page!
Credits:
What Say by Erica Zane
Happy Friday!
New EZ Kit
Author: cristina
A RAK!
I was RAKed by Joyce Paul with her gorgeous collab Mumbay Lullaby with Polly & Rufus and I loved scrapping with it!
Credits:
Mumbai Lullaby kit and add-on by Joyce Paul and Polly & Rufus
Fonts: Pea Olson, Blackmoor LET
And of course, while last Friday we had about 82 degrees, tomorrow the high temperature is expected to be 41. This is crazy!!
Happy Easter!
Easter’s Coming!
Easter weekend is here and I’m sure you’ll all have many Easter pictures to scrap once it’s over. I recently scrapped a page about last year using Sahlin Studio’s gorgeous Easter/spring products:
Credits:
Sunshine and Daffodils (elements), Drawn Out, Sunshine and Daffodils (papers), Watercolor Papers, Painted Alpha and Snipettes: Easter by Sahlin Studio
Monstrosity Bonus Alpha by Britt-ish Designs
Photo action by My Four Hens Photography
It was seriously too funny.. the surprise outside the egg?!? 😉
Amy is Retiring…
I have a very sad announcement to make…
Amy Sumrall is retiring from designing! 🙁 Her whole store is 50% off until Sunday and then all her designs will be retired. It’s your last chance to stock up on some of Amy’s incredible doodles and goodies.
SM rocks DC!
One of the best things about my trip to Washington, DC earlier this month is that I got to meet up with some ladies of the wonderful community at ScrapMatters! It was so exciting to meet the girls in person and I was overjoyed that they came over to see me! We had breakfast together and had a guy who was sitting nearby take a picture of us (well.. 3 pictures, since we had three cameras! ;)). He did a decent job! 😉 So here’s me, Court, Erica (and lil’ Kaylee), Denise and Jan!
Credits:
Around the World by Britt-ish Designs and Sahlin Studio
Extra! Extra! Alpha by Britt-ish Designs
EZ Date Spots by Erica Zane
I will do another page with some pictures of the girls and journaling.
I love all the products I used in this page, but let me show you these new date elements by Erica because they absolutely rock!
I realized I haven’t shown you my hybrid project for the March newsletter yet (are you signed up??).. I’ve been such a bad blogger this month! I’ll post it soon. 😉
Happy Birthday Mom!
Today is my mom’s birthday and I sent her this card:
Credits:
Let Them Eat Cake by [wm] squared designs
It’s not my usual card and I had so much fun putting it together! 😉
I started off printing out the embellishments on presentation paper (I had some room left over as I was working on another project): at this point, I had’t thought about what card I wanted to do so they just sat on my desk for a while. A few days later, when it was time to mail the card, I decided to design a card to print on a 5×7 glossy paper and add the embellishments on top of that, so I designed a funky card with my mom’s picture and drawings made with my tablet. Since I’m pretty sure my mom doesn’t want me to remind her she’s turning 62, I also added a suitcase+ticket for her upcoming trip to visit me, because I knew she’d appreciate the detail.
Of course, since things never go as planned, for some reason my printer didn’t do borderless so the card turned out smaller than it should have – thus the too big party hat and the white border of the card showing. 😉 But I think it’s still OK, if you don’t know it (I hope).
I inked the edges of the elements with Tim Holtz’s orange marmelade distress ink (I also wanted to buy the broken china, but can you believe my AC Moore only carried the orange marmelade?!? I hope it’s a temporary thing and they’re just reorganizing things..). I attached them with foam dots. I was afraid they would get squished in the mail, but even though I haven’t asked my mom explicitly, she was enthusiastic about the card, so I suppose it arrived there in good shape.
I had a left over candle that didn’t fit on the front, so I put it on the inside of the card.
I am really happy about trying out something different with this card! I asked DH if he liked the card, and he said he did. I then asked him (yeah.. usual mistake) if it looked different from the cards I usually make and he said he didn’t see any difference.. :-/
I have been admiring all the art journal layouts in the galleries and I hope to have time to expore this technique more. While this card isn’t an art journal, it certainly was inspired by it!
Blue Horizon
It has been several months since Bree came out with a new kit, but she finally did, and it’s soooo pretty!
All the blue was perfect to scrap this picture of DH from last Friday. 😉
Credits:
Blue Horizon – Scrap’it Designs by Brianna Cox
This page came together in no time, but then it took me forever to decide where to place the journaling!! I tried it under the picture, to the side.. I ended up putting it in the opposite corner. I’m sure the LO would have looked much prettier without journaling, but I had quite the story to tell! 😉
And then I made another page, because I just loved the tree element and the branch, and had to use them!
Credits:
Font: LB Lisa B
And this kit is 20% off until April 3, so make sure you grab it quick! 😉
P365 – Trying to Keep up!
I’m a bit behind on my P365 pages (no big news here ;)) but I realized I’m behind with blogging them too, so let me show you what I have so far! Weeks 3-6:
Credits:
Love Blooms by Jennifer Barrette Designs
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Friday Flea MarketScrapMatters collab
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Fly Free by Jennifer Barrette
Painted Grunge Alphas by Studio Tangie
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Orchid Elixir by Studio Tangie (some recoloring)
Alpha from Sweet & Simple Kit #2 – Elements and Celebrating Color – Red Painted Alpha by Gina Marie Huff
I really love this last page especially! I used one of the kits Tangie Baxter created during her March guest spot at ScrapMatters:
I also used it for this page about a painting I saw in Washington, DC.
Credits:
Tuck n Wave Templates v1 by Sahlin Studio
Orchid Elixir by Studio Tangie
Font: Pea Olson
I’m afraid that’s all for my P365 for now.. I have quite a few weeks to scrap, but I’ll catch up as usual. 😉 The real problem is how to scrap all the pictures from Washington – that will take me forever!
Signs of Spring
Although we’ve had a few rainy – and chilly (just above freezing!) – days this week, between last week and this one, we’ve had quite a few sunny, lovely days that were really worth putting up with the rain and the cold. Spring is in the air!
And Mari Koegelenberg teamed up with Jan Hosford to create a fabulous springy kit:
Here’s what I scrapped with it:
Credits:
Fru Fru by Mari Koegelenberg Creations and Jan Hosford
Fonts: SS Whimsy, Vintage Typewriter
It’s so nice to see the animals busying themselves around the garden. 😉
This kit is 20% off today and Friday, so get it quick!