Summery Page

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I was RAKed by Krista (Sahlin Studio) with her gorgeous Life’s a Beach on Monday and I made a page right away, but couldn’t post it until now because it’s accompanying the I’ll Pencil You in challenge at ScrapMatters.
It’s one of the hybrid challenges and it consists of making one page a month so that by December we’ll have the 2010 calendar ready. 😉
Since I’ll have my calendar printed for me and won’t be assembling it by myself, this is actually hardly a hybrid project for me.. 🙂

Credits
Life’s a Beach by Sahlin Studio

I love this kit so much!! 🙂
I love the summery feel of this page. Actually, it’s hard to believe this picture was taken only 3 days ago, while today is such a gray and rainy day! 🙁

Something New

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I’ve been scrapping for well over a year now, and I’ve never done a page without pictures (excluding the little hybrid albums, but those don’t count).. All this changed yesterday, thanks to the scraplift challenge at The DigiChick. The gallery of the scrapper we had to lift had many pages that didn’t have any picture, so I decided to try this out myself:

Lift of excited by cherpea.
Credits:
Game On by Elise’s Pieces
THE – Scuffed Up Alpha by Sugarplum Paperie
unexpected – Teeny Tiny Typewriter Alpha
POET – Torn Out Alpha by Sugarplum Paperie
Font: 1942 Report

Well, I liked this so much, that I did another page! 😀 I did this page for the CT contest at ScrapOrchard, for which we had to use a beach kit. Since I don’t have any beach pictures, I didn’t have much choice.. 😉 So instead of using the beach kit for a non-beach LO, I did a beach page with no pictures. 🙂


Credits:
Beach Bum by Amanda Heimann, Lyndsay Riches, Wild Dandelions and Ziggle Designs
Fonts: 1942 Report, Painty Paint, SS Whimsy

Those little elements were so cute, and when I dragged them onto my page I got the idea of incorporating them in the journaling – I love how it turned out! 🙂

Whooops, I just realized I didn’t date my beach page!! 🙂 Will go back and add that in. 😉

A Lift

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It’s only been a few days since I joined the CT team at ScrapMatters, but I’m loving it already! No big surprise… 😉

I did a page to accompany the new Grand Theft LO challenge, in which the target to lift is the uber-talented melanie3boys.
I chose one of my favorite LOs of hers, Christmas Morning Catastrophe and did this page:

Credits:
Tropical Escape by Erica Zane and Mari Koegelenberg
Font: 1942 Report

The pictures were taken by my mom on Monday evening. My mom is no photographer and the pictures aren’t top quality, but I figured it would be better and faster to have her take a few shots while we were grillin’ rather than use the tripod. 😉

Daily Download!

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Sorry for posting this a couple of days late, but there’s a new Daily Download at ScrapMatters and the kit is fantastic, so even if you missed these first couple of days you can still end up with a great kit!!
You just have to check in every day and download a portion of the kit, and you’ll end up with a wonderful kit for those 4th of July pages!


Just click on the ad to go to the Daily Download forum, and remember to go back every day! 🙂

Speed Scrap Today!

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There’s a Speed Scrap today at ScrapMatters:

I’ll be at work so I’ll miss it :(, but I recommend going if you can!! It’s hosted by Britt and it’s bound to be super fun!! 😉

BBQ Night

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Yesterday was a beautiful sunny but cool day (my favorite kind of day!), so we decided to grill. It was great, and my mom really enjoyed it too. 😉

Credits:
Template by Dana (missrubikscube)
Backyard BBQ by Pamela Donnis
Font: My Own Topher

And tonight we’re trying a new, fancy restaurant. 🙂

Almost Forgot!

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I forgot to post my latest Project 365 page this morning, so here it is:

Credits:
Paper from Lazy Days, Hodge Podge 11 by Gina Marie Huff
Photo stamps from Project 365 #2 by Sugarplum Paperie
Messy Stamped Alpha by wm [squared] designs
Glitzy Wordlettes 2 by Britt-ish Designs
Fonts: Note this, Pea Olson

Since my mom has arrived, I’ve been doing a photo of her every day.. Let’s see if I keep this up for her whole stay or if I get some pictures I cannot keep out of my P365. 😉

W00T! It’s Official!

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Well, I can spill the beans because it’s official now: I made it into ScrapMatters’ Hybrid CT!! 😀
I’m so happy to be creating for this great community and cannot wait to get started! Yaaaaaaaaaaay! 😉

Fridge Magnets

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For a very long time I’ve wanted to try to make fridge magnets. I bought the fundamental material (glass marbles and magnets) months ago (at WalMart and Michael’s respectively) so this weekend I decided it was time to give it a try.


First off, I printed out the designs for my magnets. I used Amy Sumrall’s super cute kits, Oh So Happy, Berry Sweet and Little Bunny Foo Foo.


I printed on normal paper and cut the designs out. Then, I applied a thin layer of Mod Podge on the circles as I normally do for sealing, but this time I put a glass marble on top. I liked that you can still move around the paper to center it properly, but then the Mod Podge dries off pretty quickly as usual.


Then, I used some tacky glue to glue the magnets to the paper+glass marbles. I just put a drop of tacky glue on the magnets and adhered the paper+glass to them. These need to dry a bit longer than Mod Podge, but within 10 minutes my magnets were ready to go on the fridge!

Credits:
TOP: Oh So Happy by Amy Sumrall
BOTTOM: Berry Sweet by Amy Sumrall

The glass marbles magnify the design below and the final effect is so pretty! Even DH appreciated the final result! 🙂

Credits:
Little Bunny Foo Foo by Amy Sumrall

I put off this project for a really long time because I wasn’t sure which glue would work for attaching the magnets, but in the end the glue I had worked beautifully! I’ll be doing more of these for sure. 😉

Getting Ready

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My mom is flying in tonight and will stay almost two weeks!! I’m so happy and I’ve been really looking forward to her visit!

This will mean I will have little or no time to scrap in the next couple of weeks, but I’ll be taking many pictures. 😉

Last night I grabbed Pamela Donnis’s new kit, Backyard BBQ, which is just perfect for my grill pictures! 😉

Credits:
Template by Juli Fish
Backyard BBQ by Pamela Donnis
Messy Stamped Alpha by wm [squared] designs
Summer Word Art freebie – Designs by The Werners
Font: Pea Roni Script

My Photoshop Elements has been really acting up since the latest update on my Mac. I started working on a page for a CT call last night but wasn’t able to save it.. :-S So, this morning during breakfast I finished it up and if it still convinces me, I’ll send it off this weekend. 😉