Weekend Recap

April 11, 2011 | cristina

I’ve had a quite busy weekend craft-wise:

Cards and hybrid projects completed: 4
Hybrid cards printed and cut out, ready to be assembled: 3.5
P365 LOs done: 0

I really need to set my priorities straight. The problem is that hybrid is so much fun it’s hard to stop! But this week I really need to catch up on my P365. In the meantime, here’s two of the things I got done this weekend. First off, the inspirational piece that has been printed for a while, but yesterday I finally bought push pins for my new cork board so now it is in place:

Credits:

Life Is Beautiful papers, elements and alpha by Ju Kneipp

(Of course, the cork board isn’t yet hanging on the wall, but one day or the other I will coerce DH into putting it up. 🙂 ) I actually ended up buying a cork board just because I wanted to hang this piece up, and square frames are hard to come by. Plus, the wallpaper in this room wouldn’t have gone well with the fun colors and patterns I plan to put up, so a cork board was the best solution.

Then I made this card:

Credits:

Life Is Beautiful papers and elements by Ju Kneipp

Font: Pea Stacy’s Doodle Script

The colors and textures in Juliana Kneipp’s kits are absolutely stunning! I got a GSO on the ScrapMatters GSO blog for this one. 😉

A Week Late…

April 9, 2011 | cristina

I’m a week late in showing you this amazing kit by Jenn Barrette:

It is such a stunning kit, and as soon as I saw it I knew I had to get those pretty papers printed. Putting together this card took some time, but I love how it turned out:

Credits:

Growing Something Good by Jenn Barrette

Font: Pea Stacy’s Doodle Script

I might use it as this year’s anniversary card, unless I get inspired to do something else. I also used this kit for a P365 spread:

Credits:

Growing Something Good by Jenn Barrette

Font: CK Noah

Yes, I am positively in love with that wood paper! 🙂
ETA: I got a GSO on the ScrapMatters GSO blog!

Flowers and Bunnies

April 7, 2011 | cristina

I have been quite busy lately and I’m struggling to find time to create – but don’t I say that all the time? 🙂 I think I am working on at least 3-4 projects at the same time, instead of focusing on one and seeing it to the end, so that doesn’t help either… 😉 But I expect quite a few will come together before the weekend is over. In the meantime, last night, since DH was late from choir practice (they stayed an extra half hour, until 9:30 PM, and I was starving… the best way to get distracted was to finish up a couple things), I put together these two little things. I used a gorgeous kit by one of April’s guest designers at ScrapMatters, Laurie Ann:

Isn’t it pretty? All those springy colors! Here’s a card I made:

And I also made a bookmark for DH because 1) I couldn’t resist that bunny and 2) despite having made several bookmarks at his request months ago, he claims he doesn’t have enough (and in fact he cannot locate a few of the old ones… sigh).

I haven’t given it to him yet though, I certainly did not want to endorse his being late home last night. 🙂 I think I’ll give him both the card and bookmark together for my Project 52 Cards this week.

Week 14

April 7, 2011 | cristina

Here’s last week’s card for my P52 Cards:

You can see the Week 14 card here. 🙂

Ready for Spring

April 5, 2011 | cristina

We’ve been having some nice sunny days here lately, but the temperature has been pretty low, in the 40s or low 50s. We went running Saturday AND Sunday and it was great. I’d take the cool weather over the heat any time, for anything, actually, but especially for running. 🙂 Anyway, despite the still chilly temperatures (the highs are in the low 40s this week…), spring really is in the air. The first crocuses have popped up this past weekend in our garden, along with many tulip leaves. So it’s the perfect time to use one of my favorite kits ever by Sahlin Studio, Sunshine and Daffodils. I made this card last week:

Credits:
Sunshine and Daffodils papers, Sunshine and Daffodils elements and Snipettes: Easter by Sahlin Studio

This is the featured kit for April, so this means that if you use it for a project or a LO and post it to the Sahlin Studio gallery, you get a chance to win a GC!

Sunny with Blue Skies

April 5, 2011 | cristina

Sahlin Studio is the featured designer for April at DigiShopTalk, and she made a gorgeous kit called Sunny with Blue Skies for DST Gold Members.

I love the soft colors and gorgeous patterns in this kit! I used it to scrap this page:

Credits:

Sunny with Blue Skies by Sahlin Studio – DST Gold Member kit for April ’11

Fonts: CK Ali’s Hand and Century Gothic

Have a nice day!

Jewelry Anyone?

April 2, 2011 | cristina

My mom’s birthday was this past week. Since we’ve been living far away for the past few years, I haven’t been able to give her a birthday present on her birthday. But this year, I found a way to send her a little something: I made her a hybrid pendant! It all started when I saw this gorgeous kit by Jenn Barrette and fell in love with the gorgeous patterns of the papers:

Bring in Tim Holtz’s facets, and you get a very light pendant that can be mailed easily:

Credits:

Free as a Bird by Jenn Barrette

Facets – Tim Holtz idea-ology

I will be making more of these for sure!

ETA: I got a hybrid gallery standout at MeSoScrappy with this project. 😉

Spring Album

April 1, 2011 | cristina

The new BYOC products by Sahlin Studio are soooo inspiring! Check them out:

As soon as I saw these gorgeous designs, I knew I had to print them out and make something pretty with them! So I made a Spring mini album.

I did lots of layering and used pretty lil’ things:

It’s just a darling little album and I love how it turned out! The inside pages are empty because I am planning to fill in the album with pictures and journaling about my mom’s visit next month, but I already printed and cut out the embellishments too (they aren’t adhered yet) so the album is ready to be assembled.

Credits:

A Spring Day papers, A Spring Day elements and Sponge Painted Alpha by Sahlin Studio

Butterfly shape from Sunshine and Daffodils elements by Sahlin Studio

The BYOC products are 20% off as usual, and The LilyPad is having the quarterly 30% off sale, so make sure you stock up on the other Sahlin Studio goodies while they’re on sale!

ETA: I got a GSO on the ScrapMatters gallery standouts blog for this project. 😉

No Foolin’ Around!

April 1, 2011 | cristina

No, this isn’t an April Fools’ joke… I joined a new CT! 🙂 I know I already had quite a lineup of fabulous designers, but when the sweet Ju of Juliana Kneipp Designs asked me to join her team, how could I possibly say no? Her bright, colorful, fun designs are right up my alley! So here goes:

And it’s the perfect month to join because she is guesting at The LilyPad this month! Here are her products for the BYOC:

So last night I started to make an inspirational piece to hang over my desk:

Credits:

Life Is Beautiful papers, elements and alpha by Juliana Kneipp Designs

Wet Paint Alphabet by CD Muckosky

I have to buy a frame before I can print it, but I cannot wait to hang this baby up!

Prioritizing

March 31, 2011 | cristina

I’ve been trying to catch up my P365 pages and making this a priority. I love to have these pages done and can’t wait to be caught up and start thinking about getting them printed!