Author: cristina

Pretty Grungy

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Bree has a new kit out! Can you believe that girl??? Not only am I delighted to have another kit to play with so soon, but it’s also gorgeous!!!!!

Check out those amazing worn papers!!

Go snag it at ScrapMatters  or at Snapandscrap!

Another Halloween LO

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I did another Halloween LO. I have two more to do and them I’m done.
I did this for a Roadmap to Scrap challenge at SM. These were the directions:

  1. Use more than one photo
  2. At least one photo needs to be framed or matted
  3. Build a cluster around your focal point photo (can include elements listed below)
  4. Use a 1:1 ratio of patterned paper to solid paper (for every pattern, you need to use a solid)
  5. Include one fall/Halloween element, even if it’s not fall-colored- a leaf, a pumpkin, a ghost, etc
  6. Include at least 1 ribbon
  7. Use an alpha in your title
  8. Journaling is a must!

and here’s my LO:
Credits:

by Britt-ish Designs:
Don’t Hold Back template, Date Stamp Classic, Razzle Dazzle alpha, black paper and button from I’m A Dreamer, white/orange paper from The Bright Side Add-on, ribbon and glitter from A Halloween Nightmare Add-on;
Orange solid paper from Treats by Becca Bonneville;
Patterned paper from Halloween Freebie by Syrin;
Orange button from Creativity by mgl Scraps;
Fonts: Nightmare, My Own Topher.

LO Backlog

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I’ve made a few LO in the past couple of days but didn’t have time to post them here. So I’ll remedy right now!
First let me show off a fun LO I did for the challenge at Sugarplum Paperie. I love how it turned out!
Credits:

Everything by Sugarplum Paperie:

Whimsy Doodle (collab with Amy Sumrall), Glitzy Bits, Little Bits.

Next, there’s a LO I did at the Speed Scrap hosted by Britt yesterday night at ScrapMatters.
I was very tired, but Britt’s unusual first instruction made me want to stay till the end. And it was totally worth it!!
These were the instructions:
  1. You have to use a template. Find one that works for the pics you want to scrap. There are no rules on number of photos.
  2. Place your photos and basic papers into the template. Use at LEAST one pattern paper.
  3. Add at least 1 frame. You can add more.
  4. Add something black. Anything black will do other than text. Text doesn’t count.
  5. Use a repeating word somewhere on your page. Be creative.
  6. Let’s title our page now. Use more than 1 alpha.
  7. Time to finish up!! Journal if you’d like to. Don’t forget to date your page. Embellish however else you’d like.
And here’s my LO:
Credits:

Don’t Hold Back template and Razzle Dazzle alpha (recolored) by Britt-ish Designs
Giant kit by Digital-crea.fr
Glitzy Bits by Sugarplum Paperie

Finally, I started scrapping our Halloween pictures, and I did this for the photo challenge at SM.
Credits:

Glam-o-rama Paper Pack, A Halloween Nightmare Add-on and Razzle Dazzle Alpha by Britt-ish Designs

Font: Leichenhaus

Yes. It took me forever to do the extraction. But that cute lil’ bat deserved it! 🙂
More Halloween LOs to come soon. 🙂

Lavender Mint-Berry Cream Blog Train

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Welcome to my blog and to the 4th stop of the Lavender Mint-Berry Cream blog train!

To celebrate Bree’s new kit, Lavender Mint-Berry Cream, some of the Scrap’it Girls have created some gorgeous quick pages for you!
But let me remind you that you can get this fantastic kit
at Snapandscrap and at ScrapMatters, along with all of Bree’s creations.
So here’s the 2 quickpages I created for you:
you can get them here.
ETA (8/2009): thanks for your interest, this freebie is no longer available.
Please leave me a message if you download, and have fun! 😉
The next stop on the blog train is Rachel’s blog.
If you happen to get lost, just go back to Bree’s blog to find a list of all the stops.

Fun LO and some news (coming up soon)

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I did a LO for the Tuesday Template challenge at ScrapMatters and I had so much fun!!

Here it is:

Credits:

Template by Jeni Hopewell

Funky Love add-on mini by Megan Turnidge

Razzle Dazzle Alpha by Britt-ish Designs

Font: My Own Topher

The news is that I created my first 2 QPs, with Bree’s new kit Lavender Mint-Berry Cream, and they will soon be available for you, along with some other gorgeous QPs by the Scrap’it Girls! 🙂 Just be patient and wait a couple of days.. 😉

A Lift

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I did a LO for the scraplifting challenge at ScrapMatters (it’s called Grand Theft Layout 🙂 ).
We had to lift our choice of LO by kkklatt, and I picked this beauty here.

Here’s my lift:
Credits:

Peace and Quiet – Britt-ish Designs and Andilynn Designs

I made this to match this page. I really love this kit!!

ScrapOrchard CT Contest

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ScrapOrchard is having a CT contest.

For the first assignment, we were provided a (very cute!!) kit and had to create 2 layouts.

Here’s what I did:

Credits:
June Bugs – ScrapOrchard Designers
Fonts: My Own Topher, WC Wunderbach Mix Bta.
I don’t know how many people will pass to the 2nd round, nor do I know how long the process is to get into the CT.. Anyway, since I love SO and I love challenges, I’m doing my best to stay in till the end! 😉

Happy DSD

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Happy DSD everyone! I didn’t do much since I didn’t have much time to stay at the computer (DH and I spent a couple hours in the garden this morning to gather leaves!!), but I did get a couple kits with the special sales.

I also did a LO for the Saturday Special challenge at ScrapMatters, on white space.
I used Bree’s new kit, Lavender Mint-berry Cream, it’s just adorable!!

The page really came together in no time, but I spent lots of time on getting the photo presentable. The picture was really bad and washed out because of the strong light. After struggling to get the levels balanced, I had to give in and acknowledge I couldn’t fix it. So I just changed the saturation, duplicated the photo a few times and changed the opacity, and used a textured background for it.
I’m quite happy with the result and I think it’s really suited to this page!

Lavender Mint-berry Cream

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Bree’s new kit is out and it’s GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check it out here:

It’s just full of goodies (there are 2 alphas..!) and the colors are beautiful!
Go snag it at ScrapMatters or Snapandscrap!
Happy Halloween to everyone! 🙂
I’ll have my usual work day.. Ugh, I even have to take a midterm!  :-S OK, it won’t be graded, I’m just being the guinea pig for the professor I’m TAing for, and the students will take the midterm on Monday. But still… :-/
I can’t wait for the weekend to arrive to play with Bree’s new kit! 😉

What a Day!

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I scrapped one more LO!

I believe this is the last one I manage to do for the October challenges at ScrapMatters.
Overall, I’m happy with myself: I did 14 challenges (4 of which hybrid), for a total of 21 points.
Still, I’m sorry I didn’t have time to do some challenges..
We’ll see how next month goes! 🙂
I did this for a Tuesday Template challenge.

Credits:

Template by Britt-ish Designs

Hoo-hoo-hoo by Karah Fredricks
Font: My Own Topher

Doing the mini-bucket with this kit made me want to use more of it! 🙂