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August Already?!

| cristina

August is here and the new monthly challenges at The Lilypad are posted! I made a page for the formula challenge, for which we have to make a page using only 1 paper, 1 element, 1 picture, 1 alpha, 1 font and 1 color.

A heart C

Credits:
Candyland alpha by CD Muckosky
Christmas Countdown by Valorie Wibbens
Gimme Space font by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin

I cannot believe August is here already! It’s going to be a busy month for me so I’m afraid there won’t be much scrapping/crafting from me this month. But apart from work, work, work, DH and I are planning an impromptu trip too, so it’ll be fun! 🙂

ETA: I got a GSO (gallery standout) for this page! 🙂

ETA2: I also got a GSO at Me So Scrappy. 🙂

ETA3: I got LOTW (layout of the week) at Me So Scrappy! 🙂

Happy Chinese New Year!

| cristina

Last night DH and I celebrated Chinese New Year’s eve. I made him cook a nice Chinese dinner: I don’t know how authentic it was, but I can testify it was absolutely delicious! This is the year of the rabbit, and I’m very happy because I am very fond of bunnies. Here’s the card I made to celebrate the year of the rabbit:

Happy New Chinese Year card

Happy New Chinese Year card

Credits:
Sheng Xiao by ViVa Artistry

A very quick, print only card, but cute!

ETA: well, guess what?!! I got a GSO with this one!! Yipeeee! 🙂

Good to Be Home!

| cristina

Having spent most of December away from home, my creating habits have been thrown off a bit. It is so good to be home! This week I was able to sneak in a little time to be crafty and use my Silhouette. I had missed it during the holidays! 🙂
Jenn Barrette’s today’s new release at The LilyPad was just screaming ‘hybrid’ to me!

Isn’t this kit just adorable?? The patterns are so unique, and all the phone elements are too cute for words! And the best part is that it’s 30% off for the weekend!
So here’s what my Silhouette and I made:

And the fun part is that the dial spins for real! 😉

Phone Card 2

I just love the paper I used for the back of the card:

Phone Card 4

And here’s the inside:

Phone Card 2

ETA: I got a GSO for this card! (it’s my 1st hybrid GSO!)
Now check out what else Jenn has in her Sweet Shoppe store today, 20% off:

I have already cut some bits and pieces for a card, so look out for that soon.
I have lots of stuff to do this weekend: we bought some shelves and we need to set them up; I also really have to take pictures of my Dec. Daily album (it would be high time for that, huh??)! 🙂

December!

| cristina

Wow, I cannot believe that December is almost gone! I have done very little craft-wise this month, because of a two and a half week trip back home for Christmas. The only thing I did was scrap 4 pages with the new December kit by Gina Marie Huff. I scrapped the first in the airport waiting for our connection, then did 3 more pages one of the first days of my trip. 🙂 This collection was perfect to scrap some of my December pictures! Here’s the new goodies Gina put together:

For an alpha junkie like me, these alphas are heaven!!

And here are my pages:

Home for Christmas

Credits:
Sweet and Simple #12 papers, elements, ornaments and alphas by Gina Marie Huff
Font: CK Ali’s hand
Photo action by Paint the Moon Photography

All I Want for Christmas

Credits:
Sweet and Simple #12 papers, elements, alphas and wordart by Gina Marie Huff
Font: Traveling Typewriter
Photo actions by Paint the Moon Photography and Pioneer Woman

I got a GSO with this one!! 😀

The Weather Outside Is Frightful

Credits:
Sweet and Simple #12 papers, elements, alphas and wordart by Gina Marie Huff
Font: CK Ali’s hand
Photo action by Paint the Moon Photography

Christmas Shopping

Credits:
Sweet and Simple #12 papers, elements, alphas and wordart by Gina Marie Huff
Font: CK Ali’s hand and Century Gothic
Photo action by Pioneer Woman

I had hoped to have more free time during my trip (I was planning to take detailed pictures of my December Daily album… but I haven’t been able to do that, so that will have to wait until I catch up with other things now that I’m back home!). But of course I’m not complaining, it was good to see friends and family! I love this last picture of my parents & me. 🙂

Yay Me!

| cristina

This week has been very rewarding for me scrapping-wise! It started off Monday when 2 (yes, two!) of my LOs were featured on the Daily Digi blog (this and this page): thanks to my friend Sunghee for letting me know!! ;). And then today I got a GSO on the GalleryStandouts blog for this page!

Credits:
Houses and tree from Get a Move on by the ScrapMatters Design Team
Paper from Background Essentials by Jennifer Barrette
Leaves from Midnight Crow by Chelle’s Creations
Snow from Feeling Frosty by Jennifer Barrette Designs
Grass from Totally Buggin’ by Britt-ish Designs and Mira Designs
Free Spirit alpha by CD Muckosky
Font: SS Whimsy

I am having another super crazy week at work (just sneaking in 10 minutes to write this post) and absolutely no free time. I had the idea for this page Sunday night and had been dying to scrap it since then! I’m off to a conference tomorrow and flying back next Sunday so I am doubly glad I squeezed in this page last night in half an hour between the laundry and dinner. 🙂
So I guess you want to hear more about the story? 😉 Well, our neighbor is a bit OCD about mowing his lawn. He mows it twice a week, which really is a bit too often. Of course, DH is quite the opposite: he mows it every 2 weeks, which is not quite often enough. ðŸ™‚ But our neighbor is so obsessive about his lawn that if my husband mows our lawn, than you can rest assured that the following day our neighbor will mow his, regardless of how tall his grass is. Anyway, Sunday we got home after Church and saw that our neighbor was mowing the lawn and had blown the leaves in our front lawn into a nice pile. He doesn’t have trees in the front, so all the leaves were coming from our trees. Since this was a pretty obvious hint, and since most of the work had been done already and all that was left to do was bag the leaves, I tried to convince DH to do it together. But he wouldn’t budge so I gave up – I wasn’t going to do it on my own. A couple hours later, said neighbor rang at the door: he said he had filled a couple bags with our leaves since he was already working in the garden and it didn’t take him long.
Now, seriously, this was embarassing. My husband even told him that he had been too busy to take care of it because he was leaving this week – but in fact he’s home all week! ðŸ™‚
But thinking back at it, this guy is really a bit weird for doing that! What do you think?
I have to add that their house is for sale so he obviously wants to make a good impression, but hey, it’s autumn, and leaves do fall. We already have a lot that have fallen since.
Anyway, that’s our story! 🙂

GSO :)

| cristina

Wow, it’s hard to believe, but yet another weekend has flown by super fast.. This was a quiet but very nice weekend. It was also quite productive from the scrapping point of view – not quantitatively (I scrapped a mere 3 pages), but surely qualitatively, since this page that I did for the scraplift challenge at the DigiChick earnt me another gallery standout! 😉

Credits:
Flight of Fancy by Elise Hansen
Alpha from Click by Kelley Mickus

OK, seriously, I talked DH into going to this air show 2 months ago (well he was all for it of course, since he loves planes, but I brought it up!!) because I had this gorgeous mini hit by Elise’s Pieces Designs, and I finally had some time to scrap with it! It’s really beautiful!
I also did this page last night:

Credits:
Sketch by Deena
April Rain by Pamela Donnis
Font: SS Whimsy

The third page I did was for a challenge that’s about to go live at ScrapMatters, so I’ll post it later. 😉

Feeling Creative

| cristina

OK, so last week I applied for a spot on the DigiChick’s CT. Because I love the place, I’m pretty active there, and really wanted to be part of the team.
But on Monday I found out I was not picked and I felt sooooooooo bummed.. I know I’m not the best scrapper out there, but it really would have meant a lot to be picked, because I really feel part of the community there. I realize the competition must have been fierce, but that certainly does not sweeten the rejection.
Anyway, that evening I bought a couple of lovely bits ‘n pieces by Kaye Winiecki and used them right away to make a page. This page just came together in no time, and I love it.

Credits:
Cottage Garden and Coloured In alpha by Kaye Winiecki
Font: Bank Gothic

And today, this page was featured in the Gallery Standouts blog!!!!!! It’s my first ever GSO (I hope it’s not the last! LOL) and I’m just content now! 😀 I feel like a grown up scrapper. 🙂 I know I shouldn’t care about praises much, and in a sense I don’t because I’m just happy with how I scrap, but boy, does it feel good to see my page there! 😉