Happy Thanksgiving!!

| cristina

Happy Thanksgiving! I’m so happy I get to stay home for this long holiday! I have quite a lot of work to do, but it’s just good to be home. 🙂

Yesterday was DH’s birthday! Here’s the card I prepared for him (not my best hybrid production, I must admit..):

Credits:

Template by Scrappy Kate

You Say It’s Your Birthday add-on by the ScrapMatters Design Team
Funky Stems by Britt-ish Designs

but I’m quite happy I went for some experimenting for the inside of the card:
Credits:

You Say It’s Your Birthday add-on by the ScrapMatters Design Team

Template for pop-up by Claire Skeps

We celebrated with a nice dinner and a beautiful Thanksgiving themed cake:

Credits:

Shabby Fall and Harvest Spice by Shabby Princess

Got a Date Strips and Funky Stems by Britt-ish Designs

I did this for the Grand Theft Layout so I scraplifted this LO by One Happy Mama.
When I saw this cake at the store, I simply couldn’t come home without it!! This turkey is just too cute! 🙂
I scrapped this page quite in a rush, but I love how it turned out! Especially, I love the flowers + buttons!

One month to Christmas!

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Wow: -1 month to Christmas! I’m so excited!!

I’m actually happy Thanksgiving is almost here, so this means I can put up the Christmas decorations soon! 😉
I finished the calendar! Here’s the cover I prepared.

Credits:

Welcome home by Erica Zane

Funky Stems by Britt-ish Designs

Today however was a pretty bad day for us! We had a (minor) car accident: DH was driving, and an elderly lady backed up from a driveway directly into our car!! 🙁
Luckily, the damage is minor (we are so glad she didn’t hit the side of the car, but only the fender), and our car is really old, but still we were so upset!
Tomorrow is DH’s birthday!! I did a card tonight but it didn’t really turn out very well.. :-S I’ll post pics tomorrow!

Almost done!

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I did the missing 2 months for the calendar so I’m almost done now! I just need to finish the cover.

For the month of October I used a LO I did previously and replaced the pictures with a photo of us. I just loved this LO too much and I thought it would be perfect for an autumn month.
Credits:

Green paper from BeautyFall add-on and template by Scrapmuss Designs

Other papers and 2 leaves from Autumn Sweetness add on by Cécile Designs
Leaf from Beautiful Blessings add on by Haynay Designs
Razzle Dazzle Alpha (recolored) by Britt-ish Designs

Finally, May is done too. I did this one from scratch!
Template Inspired by Ashley by Britt-ish Designs

Orchard Blossoms (some recoloring) by Amy Sumrall

Font: Eutemia

If everything goes as planned, tonight I’ll finish the cover and place the order!

November

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I’m so glad this week is over!!! I’m SO tired and finally tomorrow DH is coming back home! It has been a long week indeed.

Tonight however I scrapped another page for the calendar and I have only 2 months to do now!!

I did this LO for the Word Up! challenge at ScrapMatters (we had to use words from  a given song in our page).
Credits:

Ice Garden collab kit at Digital-Crea (some recoloring)
Funky Stems by Britt-ish Designs
Fonts: Scriptina, My Own Topher

For the calendar, I obviously replaced “Love you more” with “November” and I also took out the buttons- they’re a bit distracting I believe. I was uncertain whether to leave them in the LO above, but I left them in in the end, maybe only because I lost some time recoloring them.. 😛 I’m still not sure whether I prefer them there or not – another good reason why I’m eager for DH to come back, because when he’s not home I don’t have anyone to ask suggestions for my pages to! 😉

April

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I was tired last night, but I did another month for my calendar!

I lifted jemenifer’s On the First Day of Christmas (so I did this for the Grand Theft LO Challenge at ScrapMatters). And I also double-dipped partecipating to a challenge by Sugarplum Paperie on using repeated elements! 🙂

Credits:

Whimsy Doodle by Amy Sumrall and Sugarplum Paperie

Little Bits by Sugarplum Paperie

So now I’m left with 3 months to do!! Yaaay!
I’m loving the weather here this week. We’ve been having lots of snow, and I just love it! Walking from the parking lot to work yesterday morning was magical, and I couldn’t stop smiling! 🙂
It looks like it’ll be the same this morning, because some fat snowflakes have started falling, and I’m about to get ready to leave.

Calendar

| cristina

Christmas is near so it’s definitely time to work on my Christmas gifts. I decided a few months ago that I would prepare a calendar for our parents and my grandmother, so I can give them something that I really like, done by me especially for them, and I can even have fun in the process of creating it! I will have it printed so I only have to prepare the figures I want for each month.

Until today, I’d been stalling because I couldn’t really imagine what I wanted the calendar to look like.
But now, I finally figured it out: each month will have a LO with a picture of us (so both our families will be pleased! 🙂 ). I’ve already found 7 LOs that can work and made the assignments to months.
But that left me with 5 months still to do, and not very many decent pictures of us (I already scrapped the best, and I only want to use pictures taken in the last year or so..). Anyway, now the goal is near and I feel it will be ready soon. I’m actually liking it very much!!

Tonight I realized I needed a page for the month of December, so I pulled up last year’s pictures and I sadly discovered that there is only one of me and DH together, and it’s out of focus! :-/
So I tweaked the picture a little, kept it smallish, and did a LO I’m *very* pleased with. (While I was at it :), I did it for the template challenge at Scrapmatters – we also had to journal at least 5 sentences).
Here it is:

Credits:

Template by Jeni Hopewell

Christmas Future kit by Linda Cumberland

Glittery stars and hearts (recolored) from About A Girl by Scrap’It Designs by Brianna Cox

Pinned and Dated (recolored) by Fei-Fei’s Stuff

Font: My Own Topher

Of course, there is no journaling on the version that goes in the calendar, only a pretty alpha writing “December”.
8 months done, 4 to go! 🙂
This week we’ve had quite some snow, and cold weather: winter is finally here. I love snow and I had forgotten how beautiful it is at night when there is so much light because of the snow. I really love to live here!

Wordart

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I did a LO for the Saturday Special challenge at Scrapmatters. We had to do a wordart for our LO. I believe I never did one before, and I don’t usually put wordarts in my LOs, but I love how this LO turned out!
I actually spent a lot of time getting the colors right, and then the wordart flowed out pretty quick and natural.

Credits:
Template Inspired by Ashley by Britt-ish Designs
Summer Lovin’ collab kit by Ellie Lash and Pineapple Plantation Designs (some recoloring)
Font: 1942 Report

The orange doesn’t have anything to do with the colors in the picture, but I tried it out and liked it, and could not force myself to take it out! 😉

Deer LOs

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This weekend I worked on 2 LOs about the unusual morning visits the deer paid me last week. 🙂

I used the beautiful kit Welcome Home by Erica Zane, which is given as a gift to all subscribers at ScrapMatters! 😀
I did the first LO for the Tuesday Template challenge:

Credits:
Welcome Home 
and template by Erica Zane

Heart border from Abundantly Blessed by Andilynn DesignsFont: FG Bonnie’s

and the second LO for the Roadmap to Scrap challenge, these were the instructions:

  1. 1 Edge to Edge Photo
  2. 1 Frame
  3. Stitching
  4. 1 or more Fasteners (paper clip, staple, etc.)
  5. 1 or more Ribbons
  6. a Brush or Stamp
  7. 1 Element of your Choice (choose wisely…there can only be one!)
  8. No alphas

I actually started scrapping this page first, but when I got to instruction #8, “no alphas”, I realized I needed to do a 2 pager, since I cannot do a LO without alphas! 🙂

Credits:

Welcome Home, deer brush from Woodland Fantasy Add-on by Erica Zane

Green ribbon, safety pin (both recolored) and frame from Peace and Quiet by Andilynn Designs and Britt-ish Designs
Font: CK Cursive, My Own Topher

We got the first snow of the season here today, and more is coming. The streets aren’t white yet, but everything else is, and it looks like it won’t be long before the streets get white too.

Autumn LO

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I did a LO for the Tuesday Template challenge at Scrapmatters. In addition to using the template provided, we also had to scrap about some of our blessings.

So I did a LO on the beautiful colors of autumn. We love living here!! 🙂

Credits:

Green paper from BeautyFall add-on and template by Scrapmuss Designs

Other papers and 2 leaves from Autumn Sweetness add on by Cécile Designs

Leaf from Beautiful Blessings add on by Haynay Designs

Classic Date Stamp, Bead-aholic alpha (recolored), Razzle Dazzle Alpha (recolored) and string from String Theory by Britt-ish Designs

Font: Note this

It took me forever to arrange every single leaf, but I love the result! 🙂

Deer Walk

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I lifted a beautiful LO by Nathy and I did a monochromatic LO. I love how it turned out!!

Credits:

Parisian Love Collection by Cinnamon Designs

Ribbon from Pretty Grungy by Scrap’it Designs by Brianna Cox

Swirly Alpha by Andilynn Designs