Author: cristina

Christmas Idea Notebook

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The new Christmas 2013 Idea Notebook is in the store at Digital Design Essentials, along with some gorgeous holiday products! Also, make sure you check out this awesome deal – it ends Dec. 31st!

Here is a page I made with the Christmas 2013 Idea Notebook and other goodies.

Credits:

These pictures are from two days ago, and I am super bummed because all of that pretty snow is now gone, melted away! I’d really love to have a white Christmas..

Merry Little Christmas

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creashens has an adorable new kit in the store today! I used it to scrap about my hopes for Christmas (… only 5 days to go now!!). I am so in love with all the hand-drawn elements and the pretty tape in this kit!

Are you having a white Christmas? 🙂

December Daily 2013 – Days 1-4

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Whoops I am a few days late with this post but it’s just been a crazy week. Here are Days 1-4 of my December Daily.

On day 1 I took a picture of our four advent calendars. 🙂 Our elf reminded us to open the advent calendars this day (he’s leaning back and pointing to the calendars, and not sleeping like DH thought! ;)).

I am using vellum numbers by Crate Paper to mark the days this year. I layered a punched snowflake and gold numbers to identify our advent calendars.

In the second spread I have four days (part of day 1 and days 2, 3, and 4).

 

Here are the details.

I am starting to freak out because Christmas is less than a week away and I have done close to zero holiday related events.. I have just been too busy with work, but it sucks because this is my favorite time of the year and I wish I could savor it more.

Hello December!

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I am excited to share my page for the December gallery at write.click.scrapbook! This month’s theme was holiday traditions, so of course I had to scrap our favorite one. 🙂

I had lots of fun stamping and embossing on this page! Here are a few details.

Red glitter Zing embossing powder is a must for Christmas pages! 🙂 I also bought the green one but haven’t used it yet.
These Christmas Blueprints stamps by Tim Holtz are from last year, but I just bought them and I am in love! The Santa is from this stamp set and it’s just too cute! I bought these stamps with December Daily and Christmas cards in mind. I am glad I got them!
Another purchase I made with Christmas in mind was Ranger Archival Ink in emerald green and vermillion. I love how smooth the stamped images turned out!
Hope you had a great start to the month!

Black Friday

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I’m a bit late in posting this, because Black Friday = putting up the tree for me! 🙂 But there are some very sweet deals to be had online today! I’ll start with a Christmas kit, since I am in Christmas mode now that the tree is up. 🙂

Seriously, isn’t this the perfect Christmas kit?? I made two tags with this gorgeous kit.

And I also made a free printable with a flattened version of both tags that is available on the Sahlin Studio blog. 🙂 Enjoy!

Check out all the sales and promotions going on at The Lilypad!

Next up, a kit by Jenn Barrette – I made a card with it,

and a page too!

Finally, a wintery kit by Mari Koegelenberg. And here’s my page – we got snow early this year!

How was your Black Friday? 🙂

One Month..

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Actually, today it’s one month minus one day to Christmas! I used this pretty kit by creashens that is 50% off today through Thursday to scrap the beginning of the season.
I used it to scrap a couple of snapshots of my December Daily preparations. (I haven’t done much at all, I just pulled out my Christmas supplies basically. 🙂 )

More December Daily preparation

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I have a couple more cards to share for my December Daily album. These are from a gorgeous Christmas collection by two of my favorite designers ever (isn’t it just awesome when they team up?? ;)), Mari Koegelenberg and Jenn Barrette.
Here are my mock pages (photos are from last year, but these cards will go in the 2013 album).

 
Credits:
Fa La La La La by Jenn Barrette and Mari Koegelenberg

The Santa + reindeer card is totally adorable!!

Are you going to put together a December Daily album this year? What are your plans? I’d love to know! 🙂

DYD 2013

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As I promised, here is what I have put together so far for this year’s December Daily album using the Document Your December products at The Lilypad.

Truth be told, I have an excess of Christmas paper products already, but as soon as I saw these digital cards I knew I had to get them printed out and into my album. They are just too cute not to use!

 

Credits: 
Joyeux: Documented Cards by Allison Pennington 
Clearly Christmas Cards by Amy Martin 
Counting The Days | Journal Cards by Pink Reptile Designs 
Santa Claus is coming {Journal Cards} by Little Butterfly Wings

This year I will make things simple and use a pocket page album. A Handbook album by Studio Calico to be exact. I won’t be premaking pages, but I did steal a few photos from last year’s album to show how these cards will look like in the album. 🙂

We have already gotten snow this year so I’m hoping in a whiter Christmas than we had last year.

I always love including a calendar card towards the beginning of my album.

The colors of this collection are so much fun!

These cards may very well be my favorites of the bunch.. although it’s hard to pick a favorite! 🙂

This definitely gets me even more in the mood for Christmas! Only a little over two weeks to December now..

I’ll be back tomorrow with a couple more DD things. 🙂