Author: cristina

Day in the Life 2016

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Hello and happy almost Wednesday! It’s time for the weekly 50% sale at The Lilypad and this week I had fun!! I documented my Day in the Life (from a couple of weeks ago) and I love the result!

Credits:

Painted Leaves by Jacque Larsen

I don’t often participate in Ali Edwards’s Day in the Life, but this time I happened to have a number of photos for the day, so I went for it. 🙂 This page was totally inspired by the background paper, which I used as a guide for photo placement.
Have a great rest of the week! And get ready for some Christmas goodness coming on Friday!!

ETA: this page was featured on the Gallery Standouts (GSO) blog today.

November BYOC at The Lilypad

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Aaaaah, Friday finally. And I am SO excited about this Friday, because it’s the first Friday of the month, so the new BYOC (Build Your Own Collection) is for sale at The Lilypad. And it’s such a good one!! I seriously couldn’t stop creating with it! Here’s what I made with it.

Credits:

My Travel Journal Templates 2 by Scrapping with Liz

The template I used on this page is phenomenal. I love how this looks like a journal laying on my table!

Credits:

This background paper and painted elements are absolutely stunning!

Credits:
Merci papers by Little Butterfly Wings
Bestow Collages and Bestow Graffiti by Tangie Baxter by Tangie Baxter
Beautiful Mess Scatters by Etc. by Danyale
Eleven Element Pack and Eleven Alphabet by Amy Wolff Designs


On this page I used a really cool template and clipped some papers to the leaves. So fun!

My Travel Journal Templates 2 by Scrapping with Liz
Cozy On Up Papers and Cozy On Up elements by Paula Kesserling
Bestow Collages and Bestow Graffiti by Tangie Baxter by Tangie Baxter
Beautiful Mess Scatters by Etc. by Danyale
Eleven Element Pack and Eleven Alphabet by Amy Wolff Designs

Another page with the notebook templates… and more fabulous papers! This page is for the 30 Days of Gratitude challenge, I combined the first 2 topics here.

First Snow

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Hello and happy Wednesday! I had fun using some of the items that are 50% off through today at The Lilypad! We got our first snow of the season last week. Only a dusting, which appeared overnight. But it stuck to the ground for a few hours, so it totally counts as first snow of the season.

Credits:

Snow Templates by Scrapping with Liz
Quietude papers and Quietude stamps by Lynne-Marie
Alpha and embellishments from Mixed Media Monthly – November ’15 main kit from The Lilypad

Have a great rest of the week!

Studio Calico November Kits: Sonnet

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Hello and happy November! The Sonnet kits go for sale today at Studio Calico, and I got a head start using some of the digital products for this month.

This is an 8.5″x11″ hybrid page. I used the 12″x12″ Sonnet digital papers and the Sonnet 6″x8″ digital stamp on the background, which was printed on a piece of cardstock.

Then I added some embellishments from my stash – wood veneer letters, chipboard stars and sequins.

Also… did you hear about the latest stamp subscription from Studio Calico? It’s a 6″x8″ stamp set.

You can subscribe here.
It’s a really nice set, I see many used for the numbers – birthdays, milestones, year in review (like how I used it for the pumpkin patch, but with some photos that recap your year)…

Have a good start of the month!! Only 2 months left to wrap up 2016!

Boo!

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Hello hello! I spent most of my free time this weekend catching up on my Project Life album (I am currently 9 weeks behind), but tonight I sat down to play with creashens’ latest kit – and it’s 50% off right now! It’s called Boo but in fact it is very versatile, and I used it for this not-at-all-spooky page. 🙂


Credits:
Boo by creashens

So fun! I went to town with the pretty shades of orange and pink. 🙂 Have a great start of the week!

Sunday Sketch at Studio Calico

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Hello and happy Sunday! I’m happy to share a page I made for this week’s Sketch Challenge on the Studio Calico blog.
It’s a scrapbook page, but I made it entirely using Documenter kits, mainly the Story Board Documenter kit.

I didn’t have a use for the 4″x6″ card with the lips that comes in the kit, but I challenged myself to use it. So I cut it up with some circle punches.

I added some plastic embellishments from the Pool Party Documenter kit.

The gold alpha and the navy phrases with gold foil from the Story Board Documenter kit are fabulous!

I hope you’ll play along!

Memory Pockets Monthly from The Lilypad

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Hello and happy Friday! I am SO glad I was able to fit in a quick stop at the pumpkin patch earlier in the week, since it’s really gotten cold and wet (and snowy even!) around here, and I’d rather stay inside now. 🙂
And I am so happy it’s time for the latest Memory Pockets Monthly collection, because it worked perfectly with my photos!

Credits:
Press Plate no. 41 template by Paislee Press
Memory Pockets Monthly: Kindred from The Lilypad

Have a great weekend!

Hawaii

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I’ve never been to Hawaii, but when Sakuralala came out with this 365: Hawai’i stamp set, I dug out some old photos from my dad from the ’70s just so I could use it. 🙂 It’s just so cute! And I couldn’t believe how well the stamps matched these old photos.


I paired the stamps with the Studio Calico Pool Party scrapbook kit.

I stamped the islands directly on the background with blue ink.

I also stamped a few of the images on some blue labels with black ink.

I added some die cuts by Amy Tangerine to add a pop of color and tie everything together.

And since today we got our first snow of the season, I thought it was fitting to immerse myself in this island weather for a while. 🙂

Halloween Bash at The Lilypad

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Hello! I’m not especially a fan of Halloween, having grown up in a country where we don’t celebrate it, but since living in the US it’s something you really cannot escape. 🙂 I sure don’t mind receiving trick-or-treaters, and watching scary movies is always fun. But there’s yet another source of fun this time of year: the Halloween Bash at The Lilypad, which includes a 31% sale off Halloween products, games, and challenges! I played along in a couple of them, and made this page:

Credits:
Mansion Masquerade, Mansion Masquerade Clusters and Splatters, Mansion Masquerade Mixed Media by Sahlin Studio, Molly DeCrow, Britt-ish Designs and Studio Tangie

Do come check out all the fun at The Lilypad!

Sakuralala Shop Reopened!

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Hello hello! I haven’t been posting any projects I’ve made lately using Sakuralala stamps because the shop has been closed for renovation, but it is now back online and full of new products!
I find these stamps to be the best for traveler’s notebooks (TN) and planners, I know I wouldn’t be able to document using TNs without them!

Here are some recent weekly TN spreads I made using the Sakuralala stamps.

I LOVE combining different stamp sets to document my daily life. Here I used the new 365: My Town and “Hello, Small Things! – Say Cheese” sets.
I combined them with these sets that I use all the time: 365: Daily, 365: Emotions, 365: Nippon, 365: Food, 365: Activity, 365: Me Time, 365: Fukuro.

Here you can see some images from the 365: My Town and “Hello, Small Things! – Say Cheese” sets.

And in this spread I used the new YEARS – AUTUMN stamp set and the Hello, Small Things! – Autumn Home.

I also used the 365: Emotions, 365: Food, 365: Activity, 365: Hikari, 365: Aki and 365: Family and Friends.

These YEARS stamps are so much fun to use since they have several images that can be combined together.

Tip: since clear stamps are very flexible, you can bend the stem of the flower to give it different shapes.

This deer from the Hello, Small Things! – Autumn Home stamp set is my favorite!
Have a great end of the weekend! 🙂