Polka Dot Plum Big Sale

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Amy and Lauren of Polka Dot Plum have a great sale (only for 5 days so make sure you don’t miss it) because they’re leaving Sunshine Studio Scraps and ScrapOrchard (and they’re going to a NEW, special place… more about that in the next few days 😉 )

So this is the perfect time for you to snag all those gorgeous kits you’ve been drooling over!
Here’s their store at Sunshine Studio Scraps and at ScrapOrchard.
The sale will show up only once you put the item on the cart and it will last only until Tuesday!!
Just in case you’re undecided what to get, let me show you Amy and Lauren’s newest creation:
Hippity Hoppity is just SO CUTE!!!!!!!! You can find it at ScrapOrchard until Tuesday, and it’s 20% off!

Happy Spring Banner

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Between yesterday after dinner and part of the evening today I have completed a very cute and simple hybrid project.

I created a spring banner with some 7 coasters I picked up at Red Lobster 🙂 (I had 7 coasters, since I picked 5 up when we went with my parents around Christmas, and 2 more on a later visit with DH, so it worked really well with the letters I planned to use: one coaster for “happy”, and one each for the 6 letters in “spring”). 🙂
Yesterday I designed the LOs, printed them out on normal paper, cut them out (cutting out circles is soooo boring! ;)), and stuck all 14 of them to the coasters with Mod Podge (of course, I made the banner double sided).
I debated whether to create a horizontal banner as inspired by jjstar, but I wouldn’t know where to hang it.. and I suddenly had the inspiration: create a vertical banner! We have a few hooks in the ceiling in our house (there’s one in the kitchen, one in the living room and one in the 2nd bedroom)  so it worked out perfect!
Today I finished the circles brushing them with Mod Podge: I applied 2 layers of Mod Podge perpendicular to each other as inspired by jjstar’s creation, and I love the texture!!
I punched holes in the coasters with my Crop-a-dile. Finally, since I only have very few ribbon at home (red, black, and autumn inspired!) I used twine to connect the circles – it turned out very cute!

Credits:

Bleached Cardboard, Monograms vol. 1 and 2, Tiny Paper Flowers (all with some recoloring) by Sugarplum Paperie

Paper shapers by Britt-ish Designs

White Vellum Alpha – Designs by Tater

I still want to buy some ribbon that matches the colors to embellish it a bit, but it’s already very cute as it is!
The most painful thing of the whole project was taking a picture, because of course the banner keeps spinning around and it was hard to get a shot with all the letters showing up! 🙂
It’s amazing how only a few months ago, when I first started hybrid, this project would have taken me days and days to finish! I’m really proud of myself – and so happy I got into hybrid in the first place! 🙂

What A Change..

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I scrapped another LO for the My Story Matters challenges over at ScrapMatters. This time we had to scrap about something about us before the age of 2, so I chose to document how I ate very little as a child. (Gosh, how do things change as years go by! :D)

Credits:

Happy Land by Mira Designs

Reuse Recycle Flowers by Britt-ish Designs

Font: SS Whimsy

This is the first LO I do using this kit and I just loved using it!! The page just came together in no time!

No Scrapping..

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I didn’t get any scrapping done this weekend, but I still did a lot of things! 🙂  Spring cleaning felt really good!

But I also had my first experience with cupcakes, and fondant! And I’m very proud of the result! 🙂
Of course, this will be scrapped in a few LOs soon.. 😉

Sunset Pictures

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It took me a few tries, but I think I finally mastered sunset pictures.

Saturday evening we had a fabulous sunset here and I took some pictures. I wasn’t planning to scrap them because I always find it hard to scrap a gorgeous landscape picture, but I tried it out and I found some papers that really matched and enhanced the pictures. I’m very pleased with the result!

Credits:

Template by Cyndi Price

Tropical Daiquiri (some recoloring) – Scrap’it Designs by Brianna Cox

Glitzy Paper Dot Alpha and Bunches of Flowers by Britt-ish Designs

Font: Fluoxetine

The papers and ribbons are from Tropical Daiquiri by Bree, and it’s 60% off like her whole store until March 27!

Concert LO – How to Save a So-So Picture

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I wasn’t in the mood for scrapping tonight, but then I got inspired and ended up doing a page I’m actually very pleased with! 🙂

Credits:

Paper from Party Hat, buttons from Little Bits and date stamps from Project 365 – 2 (all with some recoloring) by Sugarplum Paperie

Font: My Own Topher

The best part is that this is not a photo I was planning to scrap because while (quite extraordinarily! 😉 ) DH turned out pretty well, all the members of the choir around him are either making funny faces or are moving around like crazy (there was very poor light so I needed a longish esposure – 1/20), or both!
Selective coloring and some cover-up elements really worked well here!
Had I cropped the picture, the impression of DH being in a choir would have been completely lost!
So, I’m really happy I took pictures at the concert, despite the poor light and the difficulty of shooting when DH wasn’t hiding behind the music or making ugly faces. 😉 Another major drawback is that I felt really uncomfortable taking pictures because of the shutter noise.. I’m pretty sure nobody even noticed, but that didn’t help me avoid feeling guilty as I was shooting. 🙂

Birthday Card

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I prepared a birthday card for my Mom today and it turned out super cute! 🙂
I used Cutieful Doodleful Youville by Polka Dot Plum and Amy Sumrall to prepare the card:
then I simply printed it, cut it out and mod podged it for finish. I gave diagonal strokes. 🙂
Finally, glued it to a blank 5×7 card with Mod Podge. Et voila’!
I used normal paper and of course when I mod podged it the color did bleed a little, but it didn’t bother me because it actually made the background paper pinkier. 🙂
It think it turned out really cute!! When the picture looks better than the digital version, you definitely know your hybrid project was a hit! 😉
Yep, I took these pretty pictures in our light tent, albeit still with our living room lamp and not the really nice one we bought for the tent – still need to buy a lamp holder for that! 🙂

Week 9

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I’m finally catching up with my Project 365 LOs! These past couple weeks I haven’t been in the mood of scrapping them, but I hope to get them all done today. 🙂

Credits:

Cutieful Doodleful Youville by Polka Dot Plum and Amy Sumrall

Photo stamps from Project 365 #2 by Sugarplum Paperie

Font: Note this

I used the super fun Cutieful Doodleful Youville by Polka Dot Plum and Amy Sumrall. I love those pinks!!

Last Valentine’s Day Hunt LO

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Tonight I scrapped the last LO about the hunt I organized for DH on Valentine’s Day. (I know, I have yet to take pictures of the house album I gave him and post them, but we have to buy a good lamp for our light tent before I can do that.)

I really love how this LO turned out!! The shadows look unexpectedly great on that dark background!

Credits:

Template by Linz

Beautiful Distraction by Tracie Stroud

Font: CK Cursive
I’m not sure that the title of the LO, Last Stop, is not mixed up with the paper strip that says “I Love You”.. But I don’t really care if it does, I just liked the look of it all together and I’m not going to change that paper strip! 🙂