Author: cristina

February Challenges

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I want to share two pages I made for the February challenges at The Lilypad. Both use the gorgeous Hoppy Birthday collab that is free when you “like” The Lilypad on Facebook. The first page is for the Product Challenge (use at least 5 hearts on your page) – I scrapped DH’s birthday.

Happy 40th Birthday

Credits:
Hoppy Birthday collab by The Lilypad designers (including this template by Sara Gleason) – free download when you like TLP on Facebook!
Valentine Doodles by Jenna Desai
Music paper heart from Hope: a Lilypad collab
Font: CK Marissa

Then I made a page for the One Word challenge (love is the word), and I just love how this turned out!!

This Is Us

Credits:
Hoppy Birthday collab by The Lilypad designers – free download when you like TLP on Facebook!
Valentine Doodles by Jenna Desai
Gimme Space font by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin

ETA 2/6: I got a gallery standout at MeSoScrappy today for this page! 🙂

Love You to the Moon

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I played with more of the February BYOC today.. and I am confirming that this is my favorite BYOC yet!! Everything is so gorgeous! I made a card today:

Love You to the Moon card

Love You to the Moon card

Credits:
Template from Ambrosia Album and heart and flower Ambrosia story elements by Sara Gleason
Background and map paper from Mi Amore papers by Valorie Wibbens
I love you banner from You and I elements by Rachel Young
All the rest from Love You To The Moon elements and Love You To The Moon papers by The Tattered Pear

I’m also working on my Project Life week 5 (week 4 is finished, but not photographed yet – I’ll do that tomorrow). No digi this week, just paper supplies.

February BYOC!

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I am so excited to share the February BYOC with you!! The designers at The Lilypad are always phenomenal, but something about this month’s BYOC makes me swoon. I love this color combination and these products so much!! I have squeezed in all the scrap time I had this week, but there’s lots more I want to do with this BYOC – I seriously want it all!

But let me show you a few things I have done so far. First off, I used the gorgeous new products by Sahlin Studio to make a card:

Hello Love card

Credits

She also has some gorgeous coordinating washi tape, that I used in the following page, along with so many BYOC goodies that I cannot possibly show them all!

Love This Place

Credits:
Mi Amore elements by Valorie Wibbens
Only Love Journals by Sabrina Dupre
Lovey Dovey journal cards by Emily Merritt
You and I alpha by Rachel Young
The Dry Ribbon font by Heather Hess

And here’s another page I made, possibly my favorite so far with the BYOC goodies:

Love Together

Credits:
Lovey Dovey templates by Emily Merritt
Mi Amore papers and Mi Amore elements by Valorie Wibbens
Peely Paints and Ticket 2 Ride v2 by Lauren Reid
Betwined Love by Amy Martin
The Dry Ribbon font by Heather Hess

So… have I convinced you that this BYOC is a must have? 😉
Before I leave, I do have to share one more thing! Heather Hess has made three amazing typewriter fonts for this BYOC – and they are so cool! Here you can see them in action and swoon at Heather’s cool vintage typewriter!

I have yet to post a couple of pages I did for the February challenges, but I’ve already put enough images for today. 🙂 So watch for those during the weekend. I also need to print out a couple more photos to finish up Week 4 of my Project Life album (that’s last week!) – but this awesome BYOC took most of my spare time this week, so I’m a bit behind. It was worth it, though, don’t you think? 😉

Two New Kits Today!

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Mari Koegelenberg has not one, but two great new kits out today! The first is a collaboration with Danielle Engebretson:

I love the gray+yellow color combination! Here’s what I scrapped:

Be Happy

Credits:
Bee Happy by Mari Koegelenberg and Danielle Engebretson
Font: CK Marissa

Mari also has this adorable kit in the store today:

I have an obsession with typewriters, so I cannot wait to have some time to scrap with it!

Both kits are 20% off throughout the weekend!

Love+Grace

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I am excited to share with you a very special initiative today. It’s a collab kit in honor of a fellow digi-scrapper, Erica, and of her sweet 7-year old daughter Grace who sadly passed away this past December.

The kit is absolutely gorgeous, and I could not refrain from making more than one page with it, even though I was very pressed for time this week. It is that good!! Check out that incredible lineup of designers! Here’s what I scrapped:

You Make Me Happy

Credits:
Love+Grace collab
Markerific alpha by CD Muckosky

Sweet Love

Credits:
Love+Grace collab

And I turned both of these pages into quick pages that are included in a beautiful set that is free when you buy the kit.

Project 52 Cards – First Month Done

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Hard to believe January has come to an end already! Here are the cards from the past couple of weeks:

P52 Cards/2012 - Week 4

You can see the Week 4 card here.

P52 Cards/2012 - Week 5

You can see the Week 5 card here.

Moving forward, I have decided I will no longer “force” my husband to pose for pictures. My Project 52 Cards continues (we both enjoy it too much to stop! ;)), but I won’t have the weekly photos here on the blog.

After the excitement of a car accident I was involved in yesterday (not fun, I tell you! – but no major damage and no injuries, so at least that’s good), I am hoping for a more quiet rest of the week. I do have a busy schedule, though, and a very long list of things I want to scrap with this week! The February BYOC is coming out this Friday at The Lilypad and it’s absolutely delicious! In the meantime, make sure to stop by tomorrow for a huge collab.

Quick Card

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I made a quick card last night, inspired by my heart garland – it features lots of hearts and sewing.

Doily Hearts card

Credits:
Lost Without You by Jenn Barrette

When I finished sewing the hearts to the card, it felt a bit empty, so I added some splats of paint – not sure that I love them, but it was too late to go back! 😉

And yes, that’s my Project Life album used as a backdrop – I was working on it last night. Almost done with week 4, but it’s not likely that I’ll have pictures to share for at least a day or two.

Hearts Garland

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Yikes! I spent the whole morning helping out DH fixing some cabinets in the kitchen to the wall, and I was itching for some crafty time instead! I still have to begin my Project Life spread for this week… In the meantime, though, I made a heart garland with Jenn Barrette’s new kit, out today:

I printed out 8 different patterned paper on Epson double-sided matte presentation paper, cut out some hearts by hand, and sew them together with my sewing machine.

Hearts Garland

It turned out so cute!! I made 6 strands of 8 hearts each. The only problem is that they tangle easily, so you need to keep the strands separate once you’ve made them. I hung 3 to the new cabinet in the kitchen, and I will probably put the other 3 on my bulletin board.

When I have some spare time (yeah, sure…. ;)) I plan to punch out a few shapes from double sided paper and create garlands to use to decorate gifts.

With the paper leftovers, I made some confetti.. and I feel an addiction growing! I will likely find an use for them in my Project Life album.

ETA 2.4 – This project was featured in the MSA magazine.

Project Life – Week 3

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I’m very excited to share week 3 of my Project Life album! Once again, though, I have to apologize for the poor quality of the photos… I have no natural light available (it’s a gloomy, rainy day here) so this is the best I could do. Unlike the previous weeks, this week I didn’t have time to work on my album on Wednesday night, but I worked on it Friday night instead, then finished up Sunday evening. The process was very smooth.

Project Life 2012 - Week 3

Here is a closer look to the two pages:

Project Life 2012 - Week 3

Unlike the past two weeks, the design of this week was not inspired from a card; I got the color scheme from the breakfast picture and went from there. It was fun to see how the yellow recurred in subsequent pictures as well – I swear I wasn’t looking for it on purpose! 🙂

Project Life 2012 - Week 3

I did however draw inspiration from a card for the little banners here. 🙂 Having barely mastered straight stitches, freehand sewing does not come too easy to me, but I think it turned out well enough! 😉 I stitched down the leftovers from the banner to embellish two cards on the right page.

Project Life 2012 - Week 3

I didn’t use any cards from the Clementine kit this week, since my color scheme was pretty unique. But that’s OK. I had some of the digital bits already printed out, and printed out more to match. I went with DH to Lowe’s yesterday and stopped to pick up a few paint chips. It was just perfect to fill up one of the pockets (top right)! 🙂 I also got all excited when I saw some bigger paint samples, because it looked like they were 4″x6″, but in fact they are more like 4″x5.5″… annoying, but I’m sure I’ll find a good use for them. 🙂

Supplies:
Today paper pack and Today Journal Cards by Valorie Wibbens
Good Life tag by Lauren Reid
Digital washi tape from This and Thats by The Tattered Pear
Becky Higgins Project Life blank journaling cards
Smash date stamp K&C company + Tim Holtz distress ink
Mr. Huey mist
Pens: Micron 03 + Faber Castell
Washi and fabric tape from InTheClear