Author: cristina

Haunted by MKC

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I cannot say that I care much for Halloween. All I do is hand out candy, and decorate the house. This year, I won’t even be doing that, since I will be on a business trip (bummer!). But I do love Halloween kits! Too bad I never have enough pictures to play with all of them! Here’s Mari Koegelenberg’s new Halloween kit, 20% off throughout the weekend:

And here is my page, using the only 2 Halloween pictures I have from last year. (OK, well, I do have a couple of pumpkin pictures that still need scrapping)

Halloween 2010

Credits:
Haunted – the kit by Mari Koegelenberg
‘2010’ on potion tag uses Just the Basics: Stamped Alpha Vol. 3 by Mari Koegelenberg

I love the patterns in Mari’s designs, and this kit is no exception!

Autumn

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It’s my favorite day of the working week: SOSN day, with beautiful old and new products 50% off! Simply irresistible! Here are a few of the goodies on sale today at The Lilypad:

And here is my page:

3 Days of Autumn

Credits:
White and Black papers by Emily Merritt
Wax Werx and Funk-a-Dellic Falling by CD Muckosky
Girls Rule alpha by Kelly Schmidt
autumn moon papers by Sahlin Studio
Glue and Scraps element pack by Karah Fredricks
Halloween Kraft Alpha by Kelly Schmidt Designs
The Typewriter font by Heather Hess

Autumn is such a beautiful season. We’ve had gorgeous weather for the past week, although it looks like it will soon turn for the worse.

October BYOC and Special Saturday

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It’s BYOC time already!

I have had a very busy week, and more craziness to come in the next week, but I was able to scrap a bit during the first days of the week. I made this page with some of the BYOC goodies and I love how it turned out!

Mom's Visit Day Thirteen: They Love Her

Journaling:
After leaving the restaurant, we saw this gorgeous dog outside a shop, and DH approached it and tried to socialize, encouraging me to take a picture of them. But as soon as my mom got close, the dog went right over to her. There’s nothing we can do about it, dogs just love my mom! So I wasn’t able to get a picture of DH+dog, but plenty of mom+dog! 🙂

Credits:
ALL FROM THE OCT. ’11 BYOC!
Falling Leaves papers by Emily Merritt
Autumn Stamps by Jenna Desai
The Fall Breeze photo actions by Heather Hess
Quickly Outlined alpha by Kaye Winiecki

And as if all the gorgeous BYOC products weren’t enough, the designers have some more new products out today for Special Saturday! I grabbed these by CD Muckosky and one of the October guest designers, Micheline Martin:

And this is my last 2012 calendar page! I’ve ordered the calendars and I hope to get them well before Christmas!

May 2012 calendar topper

Credits:
Geek Chic and Sticky Tape v1 by Micheline Martin
Fingerpaint Frenzy alpha by CD Muckosky

I looove that sticky tape!

Sahlin Studio Goodies

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It’s Wednesday (yay!) and this means it’s SOSN at The Lilypad: select old and new products are 50% off! Including these gorgeous new flower pack by Sahlin Studio:

Check out the preview in the store – there’s a close up of the flowers and you can see how fantastic they are! I made this card last night:

Love You A Bunch card

Credits:
Background and tag from Grandma’s Dresser by Sahlin Studio

ETA: I got a gallery standout at MeSoScrappy!

Also, the October featured kit by Sahlin Studio is Art and Soul. This means the kit is 30% off and if you do a page and post it in Krista’s gallery at The Lilypad, you get a chance to win a gift card to her store! Details here.

Here’s a card I made using this gorgeous kit:

Be Yourself card

Credits:

and a detail:

Be Yourself card

I bought some Distress Stains by Tim Holtz and I had so much fun using them on this card!

ETA 10/19: I got a GSO at MeSoScrappy for this card too! 😉

Operation Calendar

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Lately I have been super busy and drained out with work, so I haven’t been scrapping much at all, but I’ve been concentrating the little scrapping I’ve done almost exclusively on getting my 2012 calendar done. For the latest couple of pages from the weekend, I’ve used designs by Allison Pennington, who recently joined The Lilypad and is having a grand opening sale:

Allison’s creations are really unique, and she also has some gorgeous doodled alphas (with brush file) that are a must-have! Here’s my June page; I made it for the October Formula Challenge.

June 2012 calendar topper

Credits:
Secret by Allison Pennington
Acrylic heart and doodled ticket word art from 100 Things by Lauren Reid
The Future Freaks Me Out font by Heather Hess

And check out the doodled tree on this page!!

Photobucket

Credits:

Last night I went on a roll and finished the last two pages I still had to do. Here’s one of them; I will share the other one later this week:

January 2012 calendar topper

Credits:
Along Came Winter by Valorie Wibbens and Rachel Young
Little Pockets by Valorie Wibbens
Be Merry alpha by Designs by Lili

This kit it so gorgeous! The color combination is unique and so much fun, and Lili’s alpha goes so well with it!

I only need to finish the cover now, and then I can place my order! Yay!

Mid-Week 50% Specials

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My life is still mighty busy, so I don’t have only one page to show you today for the SOSN sale at The Lilypad, but I did use a lot of products on it! 🙂 One of the (many) things I love about The Lilypad is that is is so easy to mix-and-match – all the gorgeous designs go so well together! So here are some of the 50% specials today:

I combined them all to make this page. 🙂

Fall Beauty

Credits:
Tiny Beaded Bits by Amy Martin
Flutterbies and Spooky Stitches by Valorie Wibbens
Scuffed Alpha by Lauren Reid
Delight alpha by Designs by Lili
The Future Freaks Me Out font by Heather Hess
Patterned paper from Hello, September by Kelly Schmidt

Finally Friday!

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This has been a crazy week for me, and I have only one page to share today. I’m so glad the weekend is almost here – although I will have some work to do. Ugh! But let’s think of something more pleasant, like Friday’s new releases at The Lilypad. 🙂 This week I scrapped with this gorgeous new kit by Kelly Schmidt:

It is 20% off throughout the weekend!

Hello, September

Credits:
Hello, September by Kelly Schmidt
Beautiful Earth by Sara Gleason
Finishing Touches 6 by Karah Fredricks
Font: The Thick and Thin by Heather Hess

I wasn’t quite sure what to title this page, so I stole the kit name! 🙂
ETA: I got a gallery standout at MeSoScrappy! 😉

Something Old, Something New!

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I do not have time for a proper blog post today, unfortunately, but I have to tell you about the new mid-week sale at The Lilypad, replacing Tadpole Tuesday and Wibbit Wednesday. From now on, on Wednesdays there’s the Something Old, Something New (SOSN) sale! Old and new products, all 50% off!! I have 2 pages to show off today, and they are using exclusively SOSN products, so make sure to check out the links in the credits and go shopping, prices like these are unbeatable!

Mom's Visit - Day 13 - Late Lunch

Credits:
Monday Morning by Jenna Desai
Font: The Thick and Thin by Heather Hess

What a View!

Credits:
Hello, September by Kelly Schmidt
Beautiful Earth by Sara Gleason
Finishing Touches 6 by Karah Fredricks
Font: The Thick and Thin by Heather Hess

Natural Beauty

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Jenn Barrette has a gorgeous new kit out today – and it’s 20% off today and tomorrow!

It’s a Fall kit, but with a very unique color palette! I am in love with it!! I used it to make a card:

Autumn Card

I apologize for the weird colors in the picture – I put the card together Thursday night and haven’t had a chance to take a better one in natural light since then. 🙁 It also looks really flat, but there’s a lot of layering with the leaves.

Yay for Fridays!

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Are you ready for another Friday of gorgeous new releases at The Lilypad? I admit I have gone a bit overboard this week, and I have a ton of new goodies to share with you today! 🙂 But you’ll soon find out why I couldn’t resist creating with all these products – they’re too gorgeous to pass! First off, this amazing store collab:

It is obviously perfect for school-themed pages, but it’s also an overall awesome (and huge!!) kit well suited to scrap just about anything. Here’s my first page with it:

Where to Next?

Credits:
Wicked Smart collab by The Lilypad designers

And yes, that awesome brush alpha by CD Muckosky is included in the collab! 😉 If you like this page, you might want to check out these quick pages because I have turned it into a quick page! There are also a bunch of fabulous add ons in the store today that coordinate beautifully with the collab, such as these:

So of course I had to make another page. 😉

Birthday Burger

Credits:
Wicked Smart collab by The Lilypad designers
Elementary My Dear by Amy Martin
Bubblies 2 by Lauren Reid

I am so in love with this page! 😉 Next, these awesome ABC products by Valorie Wibbens:

and a couple of very cool alphas

that I combined to make yet another birthday page. 🙂

Birthday Gifts 2011 (2)

Credits:
Now I Know My ABC’s papers and My ABC Stickers by Valorie Wibbens
Drawn Out by Sahlin Studio
News to Me Alphabet by Rachel Young
Circle Sticker Alpha by Emily Merritt
Font:The Typewriter by Heather Hess

Then, there’s a gem of a kit by Sara Gleason. This kit is so unique and fantastic! The elements are all handmade and they look so dimensional!

And there’s also a very convenient super template bundle pack by Amy Martin. You can’t go wrong with her templates!

And here is what I did with them:

Me You=Fun

Journaling:
We were out enjoying the weather and grilling, and you took a half dozen shots of us. None turned out well, but I like this shot anyway. 🙂

Credits:
Apple Tree by Sara Gleason
Hodgity Podgity 15 by Amy Martin, also included in the Huge Mega Template Bundle 2
Font: The Typewriter by Heather Hess and First Day of School by Heather Hess from the Wicked Smart collab by The Lilypad designers

Then there is this totally fun kit and alphas by The Tattered Pear:

and these gorgeous embellishments (again, they are add ons to the Wicked Smart collab, but they go well with practically anything!):

I used them to make this crazy page. 😉 Not my usual style, but this story begged to be told this way! 🙂

Here You Go

Journaling:
My mom sends me a card twice a year: on my birthday, and on my name day (July 24th). This year, come July 22nd, DH goes out to pick up the mail as usual, and then comes over to me with a big smile, handing me an envelope. “Here you go!” It was for me, from my mom. Putting 2 and 2 together, it was obvious that it was my mom’s card, but once again DH didn’t even remember what occasion it was for, and didn’t think it would have been nice to hide it for me until the 24th! Why do we always have to tell them everything?!? This was the face he made when I told him it was my name day card. 🙂 Be sure that by the time my birthday card arrived in the mail, this time he remembered to keep it hidden!

Credits:
Sass Mouth and Sass Mouth Alpha by The Tattered Pearl
Stacked Circles by Kelly Schmidt
Font: The Typewriter by Heather Hess

Finally, this fabulous kit by Kaye Winiecki

was just perfect to make a birthday card for my grandmother, since Little Red Riding Hood was the one and only story I had her tell me over and over again! 😉 So I fired up my Silhouette to make this:

Little Red Riding Hood Birthday Card

Credits:
Down in the Woods and Cherry Pop alpha by Kaye Winiecki

That glitter took forever to dry, but I think it added the perfect touch! 😉