Author: cristina

No Scrapping..

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I didn’t get any scrapping done this weekend, but I still did a lot of things! 🙂  Spring cleaning felt really good!

But I also had my first experience with cupcakes, and fondant! And I’m very proud of the result! 🙂
Of course, this will be scrapped in a few LOs soon.. 😉

Sunset Pictures

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It took me a few tries, but I think I finally mastered sunset pictures.

Saturday evening we had a fabulous sunset here and I took some pictures. I wasn’t planning to scrap them because I always find it hard to scrap a gorgeous landscape picture, but I tried it out and I found some papers that really matched and enhanced the pictures. I’m very pleased with the result!

Credits:

Template by Cyndi Price

Tropical Daiquiri (some recoloring) – Scrap’it Designs by Brianna Cox

Glitzy Paper Dot Alpha and Bunches of Flowers by Britt-ish Designs

Font: Fluoxetine

The papers and ribbons are from Tropical Daiquiri by Bree, and it’s 60% off like her whole store until March 27!

Concert LO – How to Save a So-So Picture

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I wasn’t in the mood for scrapping tonight, but then I got inspired and ended up doing a page I’m actually very pleased with! 🙂

Credits:

Paper from Party Hat, buttons from Little Bits and date stamps from Project 365 – 2 (all with some recoloring) by Sugarplum Paperie

Font: My Own Topher

The best part is that this is not a photo I was planning to scrap because while (quite extraordinarily! 😉 ) DH turned out pretty well, all the members of the choir around him are either making funny faces or are moving around like crazy (there was very poor light so I needed a longish esposure – 1/20), or both!
Selective coloring and some cover-up elements really worked well here!
Had I cropped the picture, the impression of DH being in a choir would have been completely lost!
So, I’m really happy I took pictures at the concert, despite the poor light and the difficulty of shooting when DH wasn’t hiding behind the music or making ugly faces. 😉 Another major drawback is that I felt really uncomfortable taking pictures because of the shutter noise.. I’m pretty sure nobody even noticed, but that didn’t help me avoid feeling guilty as I was shooting. 🙂

Birthday Card

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I prepared a birthday card for my Mom today and it turned out super cute! 🙂
I used Cutieful Doodleful Youville by Polka Dot Plum and Amy Sumrall to prepare the card:
then I simply printed it, cut it out and mod podged it for finish. I gave diagonal strokes. 🙂
Finally, glued it to a blank 5×7 card with Mod Podge. Et voila’!
I used normal paper and of course when I mod podged it the color did bleed a little, but it didn’t bother me because it actually made the background paper pinkier. 🙂
It think it turned out really cute!! When the picture looks better than the digital version, you definitely know your hybrid project was a hit! 😉
Yep, I took these pretty pictures in our light tent, albeit still with our living room lamp and not the really nice one we bought for the tent – still need to buy a lamp holder for that! 🙂

Week 9

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I’m finally catching up with my Project 365 LOs! These past couple weeks I haven’t been in the mood of scrapping them, but I hope to get them all done today. 🙂

Credits:

Cutieful Doodleful Youville by Polka Dot Plum and Amy Sumrall

Photo stamps from Project 365 #2 by Sugarplum Paperie

Font: Note this

I used the super fun Cutieful Doodleful Youville by Polka Dot Plum and Amy Sumrall. I love those pinks!!

Last Valentine’s Day Hunt LO

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Tonight I scrapped the last LO about the hunt I organized for DH on Valentine’s Day. (I know, I have yet to take pictures of the house album I gave him and post them, but we have to buy a good lamp for our light tent before I can do that.)

I really love how this LO turned out!! The shadows look unexpectedly great on that dark background!

Credits:

Template by Linz

Beautiful Distraction by Tracie Stroud

Font: CK Cursive
I’m not sure that the title of the LO, Last Stop, is not mixed up with the paper strip that says “I Love You”.. But I don’t really care if it does, I just liked the look of it all together and I’m not going to change that paper strip! 🙂

TWO Lucky Kits by Polka Dot Plum

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Amy and Lauren have been busy and created TWO new mini-kits, in the stores today!
Pot O’ Gold is exclusive to ScrapOrchard,

while Irish Jig is exclusive to Sunshine Studio Scraps!


Whether you’re Irish or not, whether you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day or not, I’m sure these kits can work for scrapping many of your pictures: they’re so versatile!

My Baptism – A Couple More LOs

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I made two more LOs with pictures from my baptism. These pictures are so precious I couldn’t leave them out so I ended up scrapping them all! 🙂

Credits:
Flower Girl by Angie Kovacs and Megan Turnidge


I was 3 months old and the pictures depict me with my parents, maternal grandparents, paternal grandmother and maternal great-grandmother (only in the next LO).
The next page I did for a Roadmap to Scrap challenge at ScrapMatters, following these instructions:

  1. Choose at least 2 photos
  2. Your background must be a photo; feel free to blend it with a paper or alter it in any way
  3. Your main pic must have a cluster of elements next to it
  4. Add at least 4 circles
  5. Include at least one doodle or hand-drawn element
  6. Choose at least three ribbons
  7. Be creative with your date–no fonts!
  8. Use an alpha for your title

Credits:
Flower Girl by Angie Kovacs and Megan Turnidge
Date Bits 1 by Misty Cato
Scuffed Up Alpha Black (recolored) by Sugarplum Paperie
Font: FG Bonnie’s

I can’t wait for the next My Story Matters challenge, coming next Sunday!

My Story Matters #3 – My Hometown

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I’m all caught up with the My Story Matters challenges over at ScrapMatters now. Tonight I did a page about my hometown:

Credits:

Flower Girl by Megan Turnidge and Angie Kovacs

Bead-aholic Alpha and My Bead Jar (recolored) by Britt-ish Designs
Font: Note this and My Own Topher


I’m so glad my parents have been scanning all my baby pictures lately, it’s so precious to see them!