Author: cristina

Never Too Late

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There is still over a month to go before Christmas, but Christmas scrapping is well under way here. 🙂 I never end up scrapping much of Christmas at Christmastime, but here I am now scrapping photos from last year. The deals in the Something Old, Something New (SOSN) sale at The Lilypad were perfect for this.

Credits:
Clearly Christmas and Hello Clearly Alpha by Amy Martin
Season of Joy by CD Muckosky

I have to say I really love how this page turned out!! For some reason my other page has a similar color background, but the feel is quite different.


Credits:

Tinsel and Tinsel Journal Cards 2 by Lynne-Marie
Masquerade no. 1 by Pink Reptile Design

I do hope we get a white Christmas this year too! I think we’ve only gotten one non-white Christmas in the 7 years we’ve lived here, and it was raining to boot – no fun at all!

That’s all I have for now, but be ready because some new Christmas products will be in the store this weekend for Document Your December!

I Am Thankful For…

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I love how Ali Edwards’s scrapbooking style is focused on telling stories. She is a huge inspiration for me, especially as I am tackling Week in the Life for my first time this year. A lot of her products are also perfect to tell the story. Like this brush set, for example..

 

I used Ali’s digital brushes to create my journaling prompts.

I had so much fun filling in the digital prompts with stickers!
In other news, this page was all about things I am thankful for in the fall, but it looks like our winter is coming early this year.. It snowed here today. Not enough to stick to the ground, but it stuck to trees all right. I ventured out this morning to take these pictures of my layout on the porch, but that won’t be happening for a while now. Sigh.. it’s so hard to take decent picture in winter!

Winter Is Coming

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As we transition from Fall to Winter (we did get the first snowflakes last week after all), I find myself still not quite in the mood to scrap Christmas, even though I am warming up to the idea. The products on sale 50% off this week for SOSN at The Lilypad were the perfect mix. I started out with a fall page.


Credits:

Oak Tree by Sara Gleason

And then I moved on to Christmas. 🙂

Credits:

I haven’t started playing Christmas music yet, but I am >> this << close! 🙂

Week in the Life

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I have never done Week in the Life before, but last week I followed along with Ali Edwards and as I was taking pictures all week I thought about all the stories this photos could tell. But at the end of the week, I wasn’t quite sure what to do with those photos. But then when I saw the new templates by Paislee Press for The Lilypad, I knew it was the perfect way for me to get started scrapping my Week in the Life. I paired them with the lovely November BYOC.

The first spread documents the places I’ve been. Mostly autumn scenes.


Credits:

Around Here 6×8 Templates by Paislee Press
Colored In Papers by Quirky Heart
Sweet November Journal Cards by Little Butterfly Wings

The second spread documents my favorites of the week.

Credits:
Faves 6×8 Templates by Paislee Press
Darker Marker Alphas by Amy Martin


Now, I can focus on writing some of the stories for this week.

Grateful Heart

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Speaking of DSD sales… did you check out what’s going on at Digital Design Essentials?? Everything is 40% off, and there is a gorgeous new collection called Grateful Heart that is just a steal! Grab it by Friday before it’s gone!
Here’s my first page with it. I loved all the pretty embellishments, so I covered my page with these little bits and pieces.

Have a great week!

More DSD sales

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Are you all DSDed out? I hope not, because I have some more enabling to do!! 🙂 Everything in Jenn Barrette’s store is 30% off, including this gorgeous new kit. I am so in love with that floral + bird print, that I made it the base of this card.

It is so easy to whip up a hybrid card when you have such pretty papers. Just add a sentiment for the focal point, and you’re all set.

Make a Wish

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The November challenges are up at The Lilypad, and I made a page for the template challenge using one of the lovely new kits released this weekend.

My mom sent me this picture of my dad blowing out a candle on his birthday. I am so grateful for technology and for a tech savvy mom! 🙂

Credits:
Fete and Fete journaling cards by One Little Bird

And I am SO happy to report that my wish is coming true and my parents will be here in a little over three weeks!!! Eeeeek!

DSD at The Lilypad

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Oh my goodness… I don’t even know where to start!! But there’s one thing I know. The Lilypad sure knows how to throw a DSD party!! There’s fun games and challenges going on; a store-wide sale and free with purchase collab, and some amazing new releases. And then… wait for it… there’s a new monthly subscription called Memory Pockets Monthly. Seriously, I was blown away with all the gorgeous new designs!
Let me start with the Memory Pockets Monthly. Here is this month’s collaboration kit.

And here’s my first page with it.

Credits:
Background paper from Documentary papers by Sahlin Studio
Pockets no. 3 the basics and Pockets no. 3 templates by Valorie Wibbens
The Dirty Dame font by Heather Joyce and Valorie Wibbens

Isn’t it funny how well our clothes matched the kit colors?? 🙂
In addition to the monthly collaboration, the designers also made coordinating add ons. The next page uses the add ons by Sahlin Studio.

Credits:
The Dirty Dame font by Heather Joyce and Valorie Wibbens

I left the page simple to let the word art and that lovely leaf shine.
The shop has lots of new releases as well. Here’s what I made with some of them.

Credits:
Nutmeg papers and Cut It Out: Gather by Valorie Wibbens
Sweet Boos by CD Muckosky
Layers of Leaves by Amy Martin
Monthly by Paislee Press
Font: CK Chloe

I will leave you with the gorgeous free with $15 purchase kit:

And here is a page I made with the fabulous free with purchase kit! Did you grab part 1 on the free hop?


Credits:

Currently collaboration by The Lilypad designers – get part 1 on the freebie hop and find part 2 in the store (it’s free with a $15 purchase over DSD weekend!)
Sweet Treat Cards by CD Muckosky
Font: gimme space

Happy DSD, and Happy Halloween!!

Hey Pumpkin

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Hello hello! As we are gearing up for DSD (Digital Scrapbooking Day) that is this Saturday, I will have lots of pages to share with the new releases over the next couple of days. To start the party, there’s this new collab by Mari Koegelenberg and Sugarplum Paperie.
It was perfect to scrap my favorite of the photos from the pumpkin patch.. and one of my favorite photos ever!!

Credits:
Happy Haunting by Mari Koegelenberg and Sugarplum Paperie
Font: Streetwear

I wanted to keep the photo big, so I just created a design that showcases the lovely papers in the kit. While the kit is Halloween-themed, as you can see it works very well for fall photos as well.

Also to get in the mood for DSD, check out the gorgeous free collab from The Lilypad, that you can collect on a blog hop!

Keep an eye on the special DSD forum too for more fun games and prizes.
See you soon with more DSD inspiration!

Fall Favorites

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I scrapped some more pumpkin pictures using a new release from The Lilypad.

This kit is 20% off through the weekend. The pops of orange and those cute pumpkins were perfect to scrap these pictures.

Credits:
Sweater Weather by Valorie Wibbens and France M Designs
Border It Up #1 by Studio Basic
The Dirty Dame font by Heather Joyce and Valorie Wibbens

I decided to make two matching pages because I wanted to keep the photos big.

Credits:
Sweater Weather by Valorie Wibbens and France M Designs
Border It Up #1 by Studio Basic

Happy Friday!