Author: cristina

Off to Alaska!

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This is probably the most last minute trip DH and I have ever done… but we’re off to Alaska!! We bought the tickets just 1 week ahead of the departure, which left me in serious panic mode to get ready. I decided I had to make a journal album to bring on the trip with us, so I had to put it together very quickly. I loooove how it turned out!

Alaska Travel Journal

Credits:
Summer Camp by Kate Hadfield and Sahlin Studio

How to bind the book is what I pondered most. I love stitched books, but, alas, I do not own a stitching machine. Nor do I have a Bind-it-all or a similar fantastic machine. Since I already bound my previous travel book with rings, I wanted to go with something different. After much consideration, I found the simplest solution: use masking tape! It’s easy, quick, cheap, and fun!! The fact that it comes in a pretty blue too was an unexpected bonus! 🙂 In the process, I also finally fired up my Silhouette after a couple months of laziness and cut a bunch of cute elements for my album.

Here are a few details:

Alaska Travel Journal Cover

I used Mod Podge to glue down the tree and the title, but since I have now fallen in love with said masking tape and wanted the book to have a cohesive look, I added a few bits on the cover as well. 🙂

Alaska Travel Journal Inside 1

In the inside cover, I printed a pretty map of Alaska.

Alaska Travel Journal Inside 2

The inside pages are done with the new ledger papers by Sahlin Studio from this month’s BYOC, printed on plain copy paper.

Alaska Travel Journal Inside 3

I bound the internal pages with regular masking tape. I love the look!

Alaska Travel Journal Inside 4

And here’s my favorite part! Lots of colorful word strips to glue inside the journal!! I am bringing a glue stick with me (sigh, Mod Podge is liquid and I cannot bring it with me) to glue them as I go. That envelope (from the post office) is what determined the size of the journal. 🙂

Alaska Travel Journal Back

Isn’t it cute that the tree continues on the back?

I don’t know if I’ll ever manage to follow up and print some pictures to put in the album after we’re back, but at least I will capture all the journaling while we’re there.

August BYOC

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It’s the first Friday of the month, so it’s BYOC time at The Lilypad!!

The color scheme this month is very pretty! Alas, I have not had much time to scrap lately, but here’s a page I made with a variety of goodies:

Mom's Visit - Day 10: Another Perfect Day

Journaling:
Today was a good day. I went to the university because I had to attend a workshop, but when I came back, fairly early, we went out on the deck for an aperitif. The weather was glorious. My favorite weather, 60s-low 70s, with the sun shining strong. We’re off to a good start of the week!

Credits:
Pumpernickel papers by Valorie Wibbens
Ten Things Elements by Studio Baers Garten

I thought I wouldn’t have time to scrap anything else, but then I saw the new stamp frames by Sara Gleason and I had this idea, so of course I couldn’t rest until I got it done! 🙂

P52 Cards 1-30

Journaling:
This year I started a new project.I called it project 52 cards. Every week I give you a card done by me. We are past Week 30 already, and we are both loving it!

Credits:
Ten Things papers and word art from Ten Things Elements by Studio Baers Garten
Gladiolus {story seeds} by Sara Gleason
Sticker Flair Pack 1 by Gina Miller
A Summer Day alpha by Designs by Lili
Tempy Alphas by Amy Martin
Gimme Space font by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin

Do you believe it took me less than an hour to do this page? It was really quick to put together, thanks to these pretty frames and to the fact that all the pictures were already edited for my regular P52 Cards blog post. 🙂 It’s so cool to see all the pictures together! Not that I needed any more motivation to keep this project going, but it’s really nice to see this summary. 🙂

Interactive Card!

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Cathy (Scrappycath) is hosting the latest It’s In the Cards challenge at ScrapMatters, and she made a fabulous template for it! Here is the card I made to play along:

You Are My Sunshine card

Credits:
Template by Cathy (Scrappycath) for the 7/28/11 IITC challenge
Oh, Happy Day by Erica Zane and Jenn Barrette

It’s really fun to turn the wheel and see what appears in the window! 🙂

August Already?!

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August is here and the new monthly challenges at The Lilypad are posted! I made a page for the formula challenge, for which we have to make a page using only 1 paper, 1 element, 1 picture, 1 alpha, 1 font and 1 color.

A heart C

Credits:
Candyland alpha by CD Muckosky
Christmas Countdown by Valorie Wibbens
Gimme Space font by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin

I cannot believe August is here already! It’s going to be a busy month for me so I’m afraid there won’t be much scrapping/crafting from me this month. But apart from work, work, work, DH and I are planning an impromptu trip too, so it’ll be fun! 🙂

ETA: I got a GSO (gallery standout) for this page! 🙂

ETA2: I also got a GSO at Me So Scrappy. 🙂

ETA3: I got LOTW (layout of the week) at Me So Scrappy! 🙂

Circus Fun!

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I have scrapped these pages about a month ago, and was waiting to share them when the kit was in the store, so here goes, finally:

I love this kit by Scrap’it Designs! It is so versatile and fun! I used it to scrap my favorite picture from my mom’s visit.

Mom's Visit Day 8: Happy Day

Credits:
Sweet Surprise by Scrap’It
Designs
Fonts: Windsong, Pea Pumpkin Peters

And then I made a photo-less page.

Circus Freaks

Credits:
Sweet Surprise by Scrap’It Designs
Fonts: circus, CK believe, The Typewriter by Heather Hess

I’m sorry for not being able to share the journaling, since I’m talking about other people, but let me say that scrapping this page was very therapeutic!

Friday Releases!

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It’s Friday, and there are some fabulous new releases at The Lilypad! First off, a fantastic collab by Sahlin Studio and Kate Hadfield:

and there are some great additional packs too:

As you must have learned by now if you’re a follower of this blog, I don’t have any camping pictures, but that’s not a problem! This kit is very versatile and works great for any outdoor pictures or hybrid projects! Here’s a card I made with it:

Happy Trails card

Credits
Summer Camp by Kate Hadfield and Sahlin Studio
Summer Camp Snipettes and brad from Recreational Icons by Sahlin Studio

Next, a funky new kit by Emily Merritt:

and my page:

Rock It

Credits:
Rock It by Emily Merritt
Gimme Space font by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin

Sew Cute!

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Mari Koegelenberg has a new collab out today, and it’s so cute indeed!

I am in love with the patterns of this kit, Mari’s papers are always fantastic!

Mom's Visit Day 12: Crochet Flowers

Credits:
Sew Cute by Mari Koegelenberg, Sugarplum Paperie and Danielle Engebretson Designs
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters and CK Mama O

Christmas in July!

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There’s a great sale going on at The Lilypad on Christmas products, which includes today’s new releases! And there are fun games and challenges in the forum, make sure you check them out! Here’s a lovely new Christmas kit by Karah Fredricks that I used:

and I paired it with this new alpha by Sahlin Studio:

I used both to scrap a page about Christmas gifts:

Christmas in March?!

Journaling:
In the past few years I have to say I’ve always been pretty good at getting Christmas presents well in time, but this year I beat all records for sure: it was March when we bought these two gorgeous necklaces for our moms!

Credits:
Naughty or Nice by Karah Fredricks
Permanent Marker Alpha by Sahlin Studio
Gimme Space font by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin

And then  I used this Christmas kit to scrap a non-Christmas page: it’s the theme of one of the fun challenges running at The Lilypad for Christmas in July!

Mom's Visit Day 9: Cards

Credits:
Garland Templates 2 by Amy Martin
Naughty or Nice by Karah Fredricks
Permanent Marker Alpha by Sahlin Studio
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

BTW, make sure to check out those fabulous templates too, because they’re on sale as well! That’s all from me for today, have a great weekend!