Preparing the Nest

April 18, 2009 | cristina

This week I took some very pretty pictures of birds preparing a nest in the birdhouses in our garden, so I scrapped 2 matching LOs.

Credits:

Happy to Be by ScrapMuss Designs

Fonts: Note this, Sketchbook, My Own Topher

Credits:

Happy to Be (some recoloring) by ScrapMuss Designs

Fonts: Sketchbook

This second LO I did for a Roadmap to Scrap challenge at SM; these were the instructions:

Choose an even number of photos, and plan to repeat one of those photos at least once to get your even number.
Choose an even number of papers, and one of them must be white.
Blend something onto your layout, an element, a photo. Anything.
Repeat an element (the exact same one) at least 3 times.
Use a word art.
Use at least one ribbon or a piece of string (or both).
Now, take your entire layout and mat it onto another piece of paper.
Add whatever other embellishments you want, add a date, and also some journaling if you’d like.

I was RAKed by Maria with this pretty kit and I really love the pages I used it for!! 🙂

Spring

April 18, 2009 | cristina

Spring isn’t here just quite yet, even though we’ve had our share of warm days and the flowers have started blooming; we still get occasional days with lows below freezing point.. But spring is near for sure!

Yesterday I finished a LO with the pictures of the first signs of spring in our garden I took 3 weeks ago.

Credits:

Template and elements (some recoloring) from Loverly by Sahlin Studio

Striped paper from Hodge Podge #8 by Gina Marie Huff

Other papers (some recoloring) from Paper Pack V.03 by Valorie Brown

Fonts: karabinE and Note this

Some exciting events are being planned at ScrapMatters for May: May 1 is National Scrapbooking Day and they’re having a sale, and also a big competition to elect the Queen of Scrap. I would really love to reach 60 points so I can get a nice GC to use during the sale, but this means I have to get 18 points by April 30.. a bit tight for sure!! 😉 We’ll see what I can do. 🙂

When DH Is Away..

April 16, 2009 | cristina

DH has been out of town for the past few days, that’s why I’ve been scrapping a lot of pages. 🙂 I sure miss him a lot, but I’m very happy with all the pages I’ve done this week!

I did this for the My Story Matters challenge at ScrapMatters; this one was about starting school.

Credits:

Hang ’em High Templates 2 and Sunshine in My Soul by Britt-ish Designs

Font: SS Whimsy

I even made it in the Gallery Standouts with this one! 🙂

Then I did a matching page for Easter Bunny.

Template by Sahlin Studio

Springtime in the Afternoon (some recoloring) – TheDigichick collab April 09

Glitzy Glitter Alphas Volume 2 by Megan Turnidge

Alpha from Adventures in Reading (recolored) by Plum Dumpling Designs

Fonts: SS Whimsy, karabinE

I know the colors don’t exactly match, but I just went with what the pictures inspired me. 🙂

Easter Cupcakes

April 15, 2009 | cristina

Now that Easter is over and I took some lovely pictures, I can finally play with Amy and Lauren’s Easter kit, Hippity Hoppity:

It’s soooooooo gorgeous!! I did 2 pages featuring my Easter cupcakes. 🙂

Here’s the page with a picture of all the cupcakes (they’re all different) I did:

Credits:

Hippity Hoppity and string from Occasionally by Polka Dot Plum

Template from Hang ’em High Templates 2 by Britt-ish Designs

Font: SS Whimsy

and here are some closeups of my favorites:

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Hippity Hoppity by Polka Dot Plum

I used the most Easter-themed elements of the kit for these pages, but there are many other spring goodies I have yet to play with, and they’re so cute! And the textures of the papers are fabulous!

Wordart

April 14, 2009 | cristina

I did a page for a challenge at ScrapMatters and it made me wish once again that I had Photoshop CS… I believe that if I had a program that allowed me to create text paths I would actually start loving wordart.. I sure love the one I did for this page.

Credits:

Lazy Days of Summer (some recoloring) by Gina Marie Huff

Text path by Anna BV

Font: Sketchbook

I gladly used the text path that was provided for the challenge, but I still wished I could tweak the path a little bit..

Easter Weekend

April 13, 2009 | cristina

Gosh, I am so tired!! I wish we had an extra day off for Easter… :-/

We had a great weekend, but I’m really tired. I baked Easter cupcakes (LOs to come) and did very few scrapping..

Friday we had a new addition to our family 🙂

Credits:

Template by Mari Koegelenberg

Springtime in the Afternoon – TheDigichick collab April 09

Glitzy Glitter Alphas Volume 2 by Megan Turnidge

Font: Note this

I’ve been catching up on Project 365 lately so now I have weeks 1-10, 14-15 done. Hopefully I can get weeks 11-13 done soon. I joined the community at Weeds and Wildflowers because there’s a great incentive program going on there: that’s why I’ve managed to do weeks 14 & 15 on time! 🙂

I will post the LOs here once I get the missing weeks done!

New Goodies!

April 9, 2009 | cristina

Yesterday night I started playing with the goodies I picked up at Weeds & Wildflowers on Sunday. I took advantage at the 2nd birthday sale they had last week and got a lot of absolutely gorgeous stuff by Gina Marie Huff, including a huge alpha collection. 🙂 I really love how this page turned out!

Credits:

Alpha and doodles from Second Spring, alpha from Stitching ABC’s burlap, doodle flowers from Lazy Days of Summers, wire flowers from Playing with Wire – Spring and papers from A Better Me by Gina Marie Huff

Font: Sketchbook, !Sketchy Times and Pea Summer Funkyness

I also did a matching page for the LO I posted in the previous post.

Lift of Provo Canyon by mperschon.

Credits:

April Dawn by Elise’s Pieces Scalloped mat shape from Paper Shapers by Britt-ish Designs

Ah, I really love my camera! 🙂

Busy (and Beautiful!) Weekend!

April 6, 2009 | cristina

This weekend DH and I have been pretty busy: we went to the opera last night (ah, we really must go more often!) and today we went to a museum. Lots of fun, but tiring too, and the weekend is over way too fast!

I only scrapped one page yesterday but I took many pretty pictures today. 🙂

Credits:

Template by Juli Fish

April Dawn by Elise’s Pieces

Even though I didn’t scrap much, this weekend was memorable: I got RAKed by Kelley Mickus, April Dawn (I used her kit for this LO) and Weeds and Wildflowers!! 😀