Recipe Book

April 22, 2011 | cristina

Do you know that Jenn Barrette has started a very fun blog, full of curious finds and inspiration? Today’s post is by yours truly. I am sharing a yummy recipe – my favorite soup – and showing off this pretty recipe book I put together. It’s a $1 photo album turned into recipe book. 🙂

Credits:

Kitschy Kitchen kit and mixed media by Jenn Barrette and Sahlin Studio

Go check out my post! 🙂

Easter Bunnies

April 21, 2011 | cristina

Mari Koegelenberg has a new kit out today, an Easter kit!

It is totally adorable, full of bunnies and chicks. The papers are absolutely to.die.for!! Since bunnies are probably my favorite scrapping subject, and I had some brand new pictures to scrap, I made this:

Journaling:

I admit to having a moderate obsession with bunnies. While shopping for some essential craft supplies at A.C. Moore, I stumbled upon some adorable bunnies in the clearance section. But then I hurried to grab my supplies, and by the time DH joined me from another store and started telling me to hurry (as usual), I had forgotten all about the bunnies. So the following day I convinced DH that we really had to buy parchment paper (we’d been out for a month already, so it wasn’t really that urgent…) using a 50% coupon, and brought him back to the bunnies. He was equally smitten, and, somehow, we decided we could do nothing else but bring all four of them home with us, with a little dog thrown in for good measure. No doubt, we’ll be having a HOPPY Easter this year!

Credits:

Easter Bunnies by Mari Koegelenberg

Font: JH Kari

I had so much fun recoloring the bunny to match my bunnies. I think they turned out so cute! 😉

Monday

April 18, 2011 | cristina

Less than one week to Easter, less than two weeks to my mom’s visit… and I have so many things I’d like to get done before then!! First of all get the guest room tidied up (=move all my craft supplies out of the way…), then catch up on some of my P365… Luckily, I have at least 4 or 5 weeks’ worth of P52 Cards done already, so if I can force myself not to do any hybrid for the next few days, I should have quite some time on my hands to get the other stuff done. 🙂 I gave DH one of the monkey cards yesterday. 😉

You can see the Week 16 card here.

I am waiting to hear about three important things today, 2 work related and 1 scrap related. I hope to hear some good news soon! Hearing bad news on a Monday is a sure killer. 🙂 Have a great week!

Choose To Be Happy

April 16, 2011 | cristina

Jenn Barrette has a fabulous new collab out today with Lauren Reid (and it’s 20% off!):

All the word art pieces in this kit are so cool! I am loving all the pages with this kit in the galleries! I used it for an inspirational ATC, and, boy, did I need it on Wednesday evening when I made it: I’d had a pretty rough day at work and really needed to think positive.

As you can see, it’s already sitting in my artist printer’s tray along with this ATC, and when I’ve filled in the remaining 10 spots I’ll get it hung on the wall. 🙂

Monkey Business

April 15, 2011 | cristina

I finished these cards on Monday and only just realized I haven’t blogged them yet. I am SO happy with how they turned out! But it’s no surprise, since I used this gorgeous collab by Jennifer Labre and Kate Hadfield:

Those monkey are adorable! (And I’m not even particularly fond of monkeys! 😉 But these are just irresistible! 😉 )

Credits:

Monkeying Around by Jenn Labre and Kate Hadfield

New Growth alpha by Kate Hadfield

Font: Firefly castle

This card is so much more fun in person: I didn’t adhere the monkeys’ bodies to the card, so they swing around when you move the card. Too cute!

Credits:

Monkeying Around by Jenn Labre and Kate Hadfield

Background paper from Growing Something Good by Jenn Barrette

Font: Firefly castle

I told you I was in love with that wood paper. 😉

Sweet Collab!

April 15, 2011 | cristina

Juliana Kneipp has teamed up with Valorie Wibbens to create a super sweet kit new today at The LilyPad (and 20% off!!).

I had just the perfect memory to scrap with it:

Journaling:

We were so disappointed that the hotel only had availability for one night, but we decided to go anyway because with my crazy schedule we have to grab any opportunity we get. It turned out to be a fabulous weekend: even though it was short, we did so many things and had a fantastic time.

Credits:

Everyday Love by Valorie Wibbens and Ju Kneipp Designs

Fonts: JH Kari and CK Ali’s Hand

I’ll be back later to post a couple cards I forgot to post earlier this week. 😉

Still Behind…

April 14, 2011 | cristina

My mom is coming to visit in just a little over 2 weeks, and I just realized I’d really like to be all caught up with my P365 by the time she arrives. She will be here for 2 weeks and I won’t be scrapping while she’s here, so I don’t want to find myself with too many P365 weeks to catch up with when she leaves. I finished another spread last night, but I always seem to be 4.5 weeks behind… 😉 But I am committed to catching up now!

Credits:

Chasing Rainbows by Dani Mogstad and Jenn Barrette

Fonts: CK Noah, Pea MeeMee

We’ll see how that goes! 😉

Easter Banner

April 13, 2011 | cristina

I can finally share the project I did for the April ScrapMatters newsletter: an Easter banner!

Credits:

Shaped Cards: Spring, Egg Templates and Accordion Flowers by Krisi’s Kreations, The Carrot Patch by Chelle’s Creations

I had so much fun cutting out all the pieces with my Silhouette, and the banner looks great now! 🙂 It’s not against the wall as in the picture above, it’s hanging freely over DH’s armchair! Here are some of the details: