Author: cristina

White Christmas

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I was afraid we might not have snow for Christmas, but we indeed had a very white Christmas! 🙂

I did a LO for the Grand Theft LO challenge at ScrapMatters: I lifted this LO by sarahtawisha and came up with this:

Credits:

My Toes Are Cold! by Britt-ish Designs

Font: CK Cursive

It snowed a lot last week and it lasted for Christmas, but now it’s almost all melted away..

Merry Christmas!

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My wonderful husband gave me a beautiful SLR camera for Christmas – better than I could ever dream!! So soon I hope you’ll see much better pics from me. 🙂 In the meantime, this is a pic a took last night with my old camera.
Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve

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It’s Christmas Eve already!!! Time is just flying by so fast! I’ve been really busy the past week since my parents are visiting and we got ready for Christmas buying a gorgeous 7.5 feet (fake) Christmas tree – it’s gorgeous! I have yet to take some good pictures of it, though.

Our evenings are usually spent playing cards with my parents and grandmother, and we get some good laughs out of it! I did a LO with pictures of me and DH, and will eventually do a 2nd LO with pics of my parents+grandmother.

Credits:

Template Inspired by Kate by Britt-ish Designs

Holly Jolly Holiday by Polka Dot Plum

Font: FG Bonnie’s

So now everything is ready for Christmas at our house: we have the most gorgeous tree with a few cute presents underneath it (the calendars I ordered from Artscow have arrived – very pretty indeed! – and are wrapped). I got highlights and a new haircut yesterday. We have plenty of snow outside so we will have the most perfect white Christmas. 🙂
We will have a nice fish dinner tonight, then Midnight Mass, and tomorrow morning, presents, and a lovely Christmas lunch!
Merry Christmas to all!

Almost Holiday

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-8 days to Christmas!

I’m done with exams and major commitments, so it almost feels like I’m on holiday!
I’ve been really busy getting ready for Christmas, though, so I’ve gotten close to zero scrapping done lately! I managed to whip up this LO yesterday while I was proctoring an exam:

Credits:

Green paper from Christmas Whimsy by Polka Dot Plum
Hanger from Hang in There v. 2 by Britt-ish Designs
December 13th Alpha by Cuppycake Designs
Font: Note this

I don’t exactly love this LO, but I cannot figure out why..

Christmas Tree Ornaments

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Finally my super-busy schedule has relaxed a little and I was able to do a couple of ornaments this weekend.

For the first one I used Candied Christmas by Brianna Cox:


and I prepared 2 different sides for the tree ornament:

For the second one, I used Holly Jolly by Polka Dot Plum:
and I prepared these 2 sides:
I printed on photo paper, cut out the tree shapes with normal scissors and stuck them together with Mod Podge. If you use normal paper, you’ll need the ornament to be more sturdy, so you can cut out a tree shape from cardboard. Here are the ornaments:

I still need to punch a hole in them so I can hang them, but I don’t own a good puncher yet and I’m hoping to find one in my stocking this year! 🙂
-11 days to Christmas!!

At Last

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Yes, at last!! This isn’t only the title of the only LO I’ve managed to scrap this week, but also what I’m thinking right now!

At last the end of the week is near and I’ve almost done most of the things I had to do this week. And at last I’ve managed to find some time for me this week to scrap!
So here’s what I did for a Word Up! Challenge at SM (we had to create the title using a different alpha for each letter), At last:

Credits:

Almost Forks by April Staker (some recoloring)

Alphas:

a – Little Vixen alpha (recolored) by Britt-ish Designs

t – Spotty Dotty alpha by Misty Cato

l – In Print Black Alpha – Designs by Tater

a – It’s Only Natural alpha (recolored) by Vicki Stegall Designs

s – Razzle Dazzle alpha (recolored) by Britt-ish Designs

t – Gridworks alpha by Misty Cato

Font: Note this!

I like how this one turned out!! I did some recoloring (there was no orange/red originally) and it really changed the feel of it, I like it much better. This was my present for DH’s birthday this year. You should be able to read the story if you click on the picture to enlarge it, anyway, I decided to get him this because it’s something he really needed and even though we’ve been putting off buying it, he really deserved it because he’s been so patient (so this explains the title!)! 🙂
I have still a lot of work to do this week, but finally I’m seeing the end of it! 🙂
-14 to Christmas: two weeks!!!!

LOs with Candied Christmas

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I couldn’t resist, so even though I should be working at my project for school, I ended up playing with Bree’s new kit, Candied Christmas!

I did a 2-pager for the Saturday Special challenge at Scrapmatters.
I used her new kit Candied Christmas, and her Flutter By Me Stamped Alpha.
Here’s the detail of page 1
and page 2
I really love the colors of this kit, and pulling up last year’s photos made me even more impatient! 🙂 -18 days to Christmas!