10 Years!

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As you may know if you’re a regular reader of this blog, a little over a month ago DH and I celebrated out 10th dating anniversary. For the occasion, I worked on a little hybrid project and I can finally share it here, now that it’s posted as a tutorial on the ScrapMatters blog too! 😉

10 years is quite a long time, and I thought it would be neat to create a mini album with a page for each year we spent together. I tried to get a picture taken in summer, around our anniversary date, but I have to tell you, some years it was hard to find a picture of the two of us together at all! Luckily, this will never happen again, because since I started scrapbooking I’ve always made sure to take plenty of pictures of us. 😉

Anyway, here’s my little album: it’s tiny and it turned out very pretty! 😀


I kept the pages very simple: most of the space is taken up by our picture, plus I added a date stamp that bears the year and the anniversary number.

Credits:
Gretchen, Date Stamped and Minnie Alpha by Britt-ish Designs

$2 Tuesday!

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It’s $2 Tuesday and Mari Koegelenberg has SEVEN products for sale! Wanna see 2 of my favorites ever? OK, here we go! 😉

I just love this kit, Happiness. The bright colors always make me so happy!


And there’s another kit of Mari’s I really love, the sweetest kit ever, Hooty Toot:


Make sure you check out all of Mari’s $2 products here!

Girls Rule and Boys R Cool

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Amy has 2 new very pretty kits in the shop, one for girls:


and one for boys:


I played with both (obviously doing neither girlish nor boyish LOs – these kits are so versatile!), and here’s a page from our picnic on the lake, on Saturday, using the boy kit:

Credits:
Boys R Cool by Amy Sumrall

I also made a birthday card for my grandmother using the girl kit:

Credits:
Girls Rule by Amy Sumrall
Font: Revista

with some hearts on the inside:


You can also pick up the kits as a bundle and save some $$$!

Sweet Little Kit

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I got to play with one of Amy and Lauren’s new kits after the opening of the new store at Polka Dot Plum, and I’m in love!!!

Now, tell me, what’s not to love in this gorgeous, gorgeous kit?
I started playing with it last night and came up with this page
Credits:
Sweet Little Claire and alpha from Christmas Whimsy by Polka Dot Plum

Font: SS Whimsy

I’d love to scrap with it some more (because you can easily scrap 4 pages out of this kit without re-using the same stuff! It’s that big!) but I had an eye check today that left me with little computer time – my eyes are way too sensitive to light to scrap tonight – blah!

Sweet Treat

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Last week I was lucky enough to win this gorgeous prize, so I had to scrap a picture! 😉

Credits:
Cupcake by Mari Koegelenberg Creations and Sarah Jones
Font: Pea Olson

I used the perfect kit for such a sweet page: Cupcake by Mari Koegelenberg Creations and Sarah Jones:

Getting Serious

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I played with Jennifer Barrette’s latest kit the other day, Autumn Blush:


I just love the color combination, and the owl is so cute! 😉
I used it for a non-autumn page, but the weather here is starting to feel like fall.. I’ve had to break out my long-sleeved shirts and some sweaters too!

Credits:
Autumn Blush by Jennifer Barrette Designs
Font: My Own Topher

Yep, I am loving the photography course and I feel like I’m learning a lot, even though I’ve only started it this week! 😉

$2 Tuesday

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$2 Tuesday is back at the Digichick, and Mari Koegelenberg has 6 products for sale. You can save up to 71%!!!

I’ll just show you one that is perfect now that fall is approaching, Apple Orchard:


Isn’t is gorgeous? And it’s $2 today only! Make sure you check out all of Mari’s $2 products here!

Weeks 36 and 37

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Yes, I’m all caught up with my Project 365, and here are the last 2 weeks:

Credits:
Kicking up the Leaves little seeds kit and Hodge Podge 9 by Gina Marie Huff
Photo stamps from Project 365 #2 by Sugarplum Paperie
String and alpha from Back to School by Mari Koegelenberg and Melissa Wilson
Font: Note this

Credits:
Kicking up the Leaves by Gina Marie Huff
Photo stamps from Project 365 #2 by Sugarplum Paperie
Bunches of Flowers and Minnie Alpha by Britt-ish Designs
Striped Candy Alpha by Sahlin Studio
Font: Note this

I even worked on the monthly summary for August:


Credits:
Template by missrubikscube
Candy Sunshine by Sugarplum Paperie
Acrylic numbers from Hodge Podge 9 by Gina Marie Huff
Screws from Summer Fling by Britt-ish Designs
School Days Plastic Alpha freebie by Purple Tulip Designs
Font: Note this

I haven’t done July yet, but at least I got last month’s done.. 😉
Finally, a page that isn’t related to P365, but I still wanted to show off:

Credits:
Cottage Garden by Kaye Winiecki
Alpha from Nutty by Amy Sumrall
Fonts: Pea Olson, American Typewriter

I started my photography course, and yesterday I shot in full manual for the first time! 😀 (the only 2 other occasions I used Manual was for fireworks, to use the bulb function, so it didn’t really count.. 😉 ) I’m excited to learn how to use my camera properly!

Warning: Long Post! :)

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I haven’t blogged in a few days so I have quite a few pages to show off. 🙂

First off, I finally started scrapping the pictures from the baseball game we went to see almost 3 weeks ago. Of course I used the perfect kit for baseball pictures, Home Run Derby by Haynay Designs:


and here’s the first 2 pages I did:

Credits:
All Lined Up by Sya’s Blueprints
Home Run Derby by Haynay Designs
All Strung Out by Britt-ish Designs
Font: JH Cristina – Designs by Jeni Hopewell

Credits:
All Lined Up by Sya’s Blueprints
Paper from Home Run Derby by Haynay Designs
Glitzy Spills and Thrills by Britt-ish Designs
Peanut from Nutty by Amy Sumrall
Burger from Chillin’ and Grillin’ by Chelle’s Creations
Hot dog from A Perfect Picnic collab by the ScrapMatters Design Team
School Days Plastic Alpha freebie by Purple Tulip Designs
Font: JH Cristina – Designs by Jeni Hopewell

I have a few more good pictures but I haven’t scrapped them yet.
But since the gorgeous new kits that are coming out at ScrapMatters make me want to pull out old pictures, instead of catching up with scrapping the latest pictures (at least those taken since I started digi-scrapping!), I seriously doubt I will ever catch up! 😀 For example, Chelle’s Creations’ latest kit, History Lessons, made me want to pull out some pictures from 2007:


This kit is just fantastic! Perfect for any US historic site, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Boston pictures.. And of course I had some Boston pictures and a few good stories to tell about that trip:

Credits:
All Squared Away template set and Back to Basics: Black Alpha by Denise Beatty Originals
History Lessons by Chelle’s Creations
Font: Pea Olson

I made 2 matching pages using Denise’s gorgeous templates:

Credits:
All Squared Away template set by Denise Beatty Originals
History Lessons by Chelle’s Creations
Vellum Alpha by Sahlin Studio
Font: Pea Olson

I also scrapped a page for the latest My Story Matters challenge. This one is about the music we were into in middle school. The memories that this challenge brought back! I had completely forgotten about this teacher who let us listen to music while we worked on our technical design projects! So, once again, if you aren’t doing these challenges already, you have to start: it’s a great way to preserve all those memories from your childhood/youth!

Credits:
paper (recolored) from Home Run Derby by Haynay Designs
Back to School – Extras and Felty Alpha by [wm] squared designs
stencil picture by Luigi Chiesa
Fonts: JH Cristina – Designs by Jeni Hopewell and Charlemagne Std

Finally, I made a page with 3 products by one of September’s guest designers, Molly of DeCrow Designs. She has a new gorgeous set of templates


and a great autumn kit:


and here’s the page I used them for:

Credits:
Blueprints Special Edition, Autumn Delight and Autumn Delight Wordart by DeCrow Designs
Font: 1942 Report

Wow, this turned out to be a really long post! 😉
That’s it for now, but on a personal note, I want to add that my fantastic DH let me sign up for an online photography class, because I really want to step up my photography skills! So I’m having my Christmas gift early this year! 😀