Author: cristina

Finally Friday

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There’s a bunch of new products out today at ScrapMatters and I used one right away to make this page:

Credits:
Girl Power by Chelle’s Creations
Font: Pea Olson

I used Girl’s Power by Chelle’s Creations: it’s a Girl Scout kit but it works beautifully for other pages too! 😉 I fell in love with that blue background paper.. simply gorgeous!!

On another note: gosh, I miss my mum!!!! It was so great to have her here! I really wish my parents and grandmother lived nearby.. *sigh*

Giveaways

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I cannot resist entering a good giveaway, and there’s more than one out there! 🙂

Some hybrid goodies at Doodle Palace that I’m drooling over..

And some very cute projects at The Hybrid Chick too! I’m in love with these little mini albums by Mari Koegelenberg!!

Another Contest

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I got through week 1 of the CT contest at ScrapOrchard, but when I saw the kit for Week 2 I got worried because it’s not my style of choice.. But I gave it a try and I’m SO glad I did: I love the page I did – totally my style! 😉
This page came together in no time: I downloaded the kit and started working on the LO last night before bedtime, and finished it this morning during breakfast! 😉

Starry Night by Faith True, Sherrie JD, Designs by Sine and Decrow Designs
Font: My Own Topher

So, I really hope I make it to week 3: we’ll see! The didn’t cut too many people last week (we went from 130 to 99) so I’m expecting more cuts this week, since it’s a 4-week contest and we’re almost half-way through..
I’d love to stay in till the end, because I’m having much more fun than I anticipated!!

A Speed Scrap and 2 My Story Matters LOs

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My mom left yesterday and I’m back to my usual routine. We all really enjoyed her stay very much and we’re sad she left.. 🙁

I have some pages to show from these past few days.
This page I did for the daily Speed Scrap on Monday and I love how it turned out. These were the instructions:

  1. Go to your favorites folder and find a layout to scraplift. It doesn’t have to be an absolute scraplift, though. You could be inspired by photo placement, photo subject matter, element placement, color scheme, title work, etc. Don’t forget which layout you’ve chosen because I’ll want you to link us up in your credits so the rest of us can see what inspired you.
  2. Picture time!! You have to use a picture (or pictures) that you have taken this month. The month of June. The year 2009. 🙂
  3. Use at least 3 papers.
  4. Since this isn’t supposed to be an exact match scraplift, I can be a little bossy about embellishments, right? Put in some ribbon, some string, and some button(s).
  5. For your title, use an alpha only. NO fonts in the title.
  6. Journaling – be creative. Put your text on a path, on little strips, around the border of your page, etc.
  7. Creativity again – Date your LO, but no boring dates just typed on the page in Century Gothic (what I do almost all the time lol). Add shadows and any other finishing touches.

I lifted a page by Denise, and actually used her template based on that page! 😉

Credits:
Spread the Wealth Templates by Denise Beatty Originals
From the Grab Bag #2 available until 6.30.09 before it’s split up: Boy Wonder by gg digital designs and Button from The Cool Dad by Jeni Hopewell
Label Tape Alpha by Britt-ish Designs
Striped alpha from Independent by Britt-ish Designs
Font: My Own Topher

then there’s two pages for the My Story Matters challenges at ScrapMatters. The first one is about my style as a kid:

Credits:
Ribbon from Independent and Label Tape Alpha by Britt-ish Designs
From the Mystery Mix Grab Bag #1, for sale until 6.30.09 (then it will be split up):
Most Awesome Templates Ever by Denise Beatty Originals
My Happy Life Mini Kit by Haynay Designs
Iconology: Everyday by Plum Dumpling Designs
Buds and Blooms by Mickey B Designs
Font: Note this

and the other is about my favorite toys:

Credits:
Life’s a Beach by Sahlin Studio
Brown Town Alpha by Britt-ish Designs

I only have one more page to do about a holiday/trip when I was little, and then I’ll be caught up with all the My Story Matters challenges. 🙂

Speed Scrap Today

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There’s a speed scrap at 2PM EST today at ScrapMatters and I might even be there! I stayed home today too since it’s the last full day my mom is here – she’s leaving tomorrow. 🙁
Hope to see you there!
And.. did I mention there’s a great partecipation prize by Britt-ish Designs?? 😉

Vote for Me! :)

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I’m playing in the CT contest at ScrapOrchard just for the fun of it, and after every week the community votes for their favorite page (yes, I do realize the grammar is way off in this sentence, but I’m not going back to correct it! LOL). The top 3 pages will be turned into QPs, and I realize that mine certainly isn’t very suited for that, but still.. if you want, do vote for me here! 😀

Voting is open until Saturday so don’t wait, do it now! 🙂

Mystery Bags

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Starting today, and available until the end of the month, there are 6 new grab bags at ScrapMatters and they are huge! For each grab bag, 3 or 4 designers teamed up and the bags are an incredible deal! Go check them out!

I love it because every bag has something to scrap about guys and something for girls, and much more! They’re so versatile you’ll be using them for all kinds of pages.
I used the grab bag #2 to create the page with the text messages my Dad is sending us, to accompany the page I did the other day. 😉

Credits:

The Cool Dad and The Cool Dad Journalers by Jeni Hopewell

Font: Arial

Well, I’m staying home from work today to stay with my mom, but this means I might also have some daily computer time.. We’ll see! 😉

Summery Page

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I was RAKed by Krista (Sahlin Studio) with her gorgeous Life’s a Beach on Monday and I made a page right away, but couldn’t post it until now because it’s accompanying the I’ll Pencil You in challenge at ScrapMatters.
It’s one of the hybrid challenges and it consists of making one page a month so that by December we’ll have the 2010 calendar ready. 😉
Since I’ll have my calendar printed for me and won’t be assembling it by myself, this is actually hardly a hybrid project for me.. 🙂

Credits
Life’s a Beach by Sahlin Studio

I love this kit so much!! 🙂
I love the summery feel of this page. Actually, it’s hard to believe this picture was taken only 3 days ago, while today is such a gray and rainy day! 🙁

Something New

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I’ve been scrapping for well over a year now, and I’ve never done a page without pictures (excluding the little hybrid albums, but those don’t count).. All this changed yesterday, thanks to the scraplift challenge at The DigiChick. The gallery of the scrapper we had to lift had many pages that didn’t have any picture, so I decided to try this out myself:

Lift of excited by cherpea.
Credits:
Game On by Elise’s Pieces
THE – Scuffed Up Alpha by Sugarplum Paperie
unexpected – Teeny Tiny Typewriter Alpha
POET – Torn Out Alpha by Sugarplum Paperie
Font: 1942 Report

Well, I liked this so much, that I did another page! 😀 I did this page for the CT contest at ScrapOrchard, for which we had to use a beach kit. Since I don’t have any beach pictures, I didn’t have much choice.. 😉 So instead of using the beach kit for a non-beach LO, I did a beach page with no pictures. 🙂


Credits:
Beach Bum by Amanda Heimann, Lyndsay Riches, Wild Dandelions and Ziggle Designs
Fonts: 1942 Report, Painty Paint, SS Whimsy

Those little elements were so cute, and when I dragged them onto my page I got the idea of incorporating them in the journaling – I love how it turned out! 🙂

Whooops, I just realized I didn’t date my beach page!! 🙂 Will go back and add that in. 😉

A Lift

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It’s only been a few days since I joined the CT team at ScrapMatters, but I’m loving it already! No big surprise… 😉

I did a page to accompany the new Grand Theft LO challenge, in which the target to lift is the uber-talented melanie3boys.
I chose one of my favorite LOs of hers, Christmas Morning Catastrophe and did this page:

Credits:
Tropical Escape by Erica Zane and Mari Koegelenberg
Font: 1942 Report

The pictures were taken by my mom on Monday evening. My mom is no photographer and the pictures aren’t top quality, but I figured it would be better and faster to have her take a few shots while we were grillin’ rather than use the tripod. 😉