Clean and Simple

| cristina

I am hosting the January 4th challenge for the Month of Challenges at The Lilypad. Today’s challenge is to make a clean and simple page. Obviously this is right up my alley, but I have some tips for you if that’s not the case for you. Check them out here. Here’s my page:

Credits:

A Slice of Lemon papers and A Slice of Lemon elements by Pink Reptile Designs
The Serif’s Sister font by Heather Joyce

You have all month long to play in the Month of Challenges. I am blown away by all the gorgeous pages that have been created so far! Inspiration overload! So far I am keeping up quite nicely, with 3 pages made out of 4. Let’s see how far I can get. If you play in all 31 challenges, you get a free $20 gift card to the store, plus the chance to win a spot on the Creative Team!

Hello 2015!

| cristina

Hello, and Happy 2015!! I hope you had a great start of the year!

The January BYOC is in the store at The Lilypad, and I used it to scrap this page:

Credits:
A Slice of Lemon papers and A Slice of Lemon elements by Pink Reptile Designs
Lanky Alpha by Amy Martin

January is the Month of Challenges at The Lilypad: one challenge each day, and if you complete them all you get a $20 gift card to the store! And a chance to become a Pollywog like me (= creative team member.. best gig ever!!). 🙂 I hope you will play along! I am hosting the Jan. 4th challenge, so look for my post on Sunday.
I played along with today’s challenge.


Credits:

White Out Patterns and Backgrounds by Allison Pennington
Silver Linings elements by One Little Bird
Let’s Go overlays by Paislee Press
Sprinkles v31 by Valorie Wibbens

This is my first page scrapped in 2015, and I am in love with it!!

I also have a page to share from the January monthly gallery at write.click.scrapbook. This month’s theme was “decades”.. I was stumped at first, then I took this occasion to document something I don’t think I would have documented otherwise: my love for 50s music! 🙂

Credits:
Straight Up papers and These Are the Days by Kaye Winiecki
The Serif’s Sister font by Heather Joyce

I worked on my Project Life album today, but my printer is dying and I am unable to print pictures. So frustrating! I have my eye set on a new printer, but until that happens I guess I’ll have to stick to digital pages. 🙂

Goodbye 2014

| cristina

As the year comes to a close, I thought it would be fun to look back at 2014. It has been a good crafty/memory keeping year for me.

I took close to 5,000 pictures on my dSLR and ~2,000 on my iPhone – indeed, I love my big camera!!
I made:

  • about 115 digital layouts,
  • 28 paper layouts,
  • ~36 cards,
  • 3 mini books (a fourth one – December Daily 2014 – is on its way),
  • a dozen tags,
  • and 42 weeks documented in my 2014 Project Life album (slowly but surely, I’m catching up on those remaining 10 weeks).

Here are just a few of my favorite pages from 2014..

 
  

I tried new things: die cutting, letterpressing. I attended my very first crop and met up with some online friends.

It has been a good year. And now, bring on 2015! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

December MPM

| cristina

The December Memory Pockets Monthly kit at The Lilypad is just what I needed to get in the mood for starting a new year.

In truth, I am *so* not ready for a new year to start.. but with some scrap therapy I was able to focus on the good things and stay positive. I’m actually pretty excited for what’s to come.

Credits:
The Serif’s Sister font by Heather Joyce

What about you? Are you ready for 2015??

December M3 at The Lilypad

| cristina

I have a few pages to share today. One is a Christmas page, and the other two are made with the December Mixed Media Monthly kit and add ons.

Credits:
Woodsy Winterland by Stolen Moments Design and Wishing Well Creations
Doodled Borders no. 1 by Pink Reptile Designs

The December Mixed Media Monthly kit and add ons has such a lovely color palette!!

So refreshing! The theme is also very inspiring for the new year (less than 2 weeks away!!).

The fun painted backgrounds in the M3 make it so easy to build a page!

One more day of class before my winter class break. Yay!

December Daily Update

| cristina
I want to give you an update on how my December Daily album is progressing. Last month I talked a bit about what my plans were for this year, and it’s time to check in and see how I am doing.
My plan for this year included: handmade album, with pages of different sizes; one story per day.
As fate has it, this December has turned out to be by far the busiest I have  ever had. I thought it would be hard to top last year’s craziness, but it has indeed happened. In the past two out of three days I have been at the office from 8 AM to 10:30 PM. And I see no end in sight, yet Christmas is less than a week away. Ugh! So while I am not up to date with my December Daily album, given that I have very little time to work on it, I have made a little progress and I have been taking photos regularly and keeping track of what story I want to tell each day. I hope to get a good chunk of it done just before Christmas, because I know my inspiration dips significantly once Christmas Day has passed. 
I haven’t bought any new Christmas supplies this year, but I have a sizeable stash to draw from and it is fun to finally use all these pretty bits that I had been hoarding.
Now it’s time to show you some pictures of my album so far. I haven’t worked on the cover yet – I will do it at the end since I need to see what size my album will have. But I plan to include this pretty gold star vellum paper at the front. of the album.
 
And here’s what all my pages stacked together look so far. I have days 1-7 done at this point.
 
I love having pages peeking out. I think it adds a lot of interest to the album!
 
For December 1st, my story was about the tea advent calendar we got this year.
 
For this spread, I included a 3×4 pocket as a page to hold some journaling.
 
I like to include stamping in my album because I love stamps so much!

And now.. I’d love to hear from you! Have you been documenting your December? Leave me a comment and let me know!

Thanksgiving

| cristina

Yeah, yeah, I know… only 9 days to Christmas (!!!).. but I just scrapped a Thanksgiving page this weekend so I want to share it with you. 🙂

This page started out with the awesome Story Bubbles Brushes by Ali Edwards, and it quickly came together thanks to the fun background paper.
It was so awesome to have both my parents with us on Thanksgiving! I am so glad I took this photo of us with my tripod.