Hybrid

Cuppy Cake Love

| cristina

A couple of years I got into making cupcakes. I made only three batches after I lost interest (I’m very proud of how my cupcakes turned out, but making them is quite a bit of work, and I’d rather spend time paper crafting. 🙂 ) So when I saw Jenn Barrette’s contribution to the February BYOC (Build Your Own Collab) at The Lily Pad, I knew just what I’d use it for.

Isn’t this mini kit just adorable? So I made an adorable album about the cupcakes I made.

Cupcake Album

Credits:
Cuppy Cake Love by Jenn Barrette
Alpha from Best Birthday Ever by Jenn Barrette

I used stickles to add sparkle and glossy accents for the title.

Cupcake Album 1

Beads to make sprinkles.

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I colored some white flowers by Prima with worn lipstick distress ink (same color I used to ink all the edges).

Cupcake Album 3

A mix of digital flowers and real flowers. The ribbon from the kit is so cute!

Cupcake Album 4

Sooooo pretty! 😉

Project 52 Cards

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We’re a few weeks into the new year, and I feel it is safe for me to share one of the resolutions I made for 2011. This didn’t start out as a resolution, rather as a “wouldn’t it be nice if…”, but now I want to commit to doing it because I think it’s really cool. 🙂 So, welcome to my Project 52 Cards! This year I will give to DH 52 cards, one per week. Here is a recap of the first 6 weeks.

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See the Week 1 card here.

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See the Week 2 card here.

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See the Week 3 card here.

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See the Week 4 card here.

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See the Week 5 card here.

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See the Week 6 card here.

And yeah, in case you were wondering, I just took the 1-5 pictures today. From now on, I will be taking them right when he opens the card. 🙂 Off to work on a card for next week! 😉

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! 🙂

Jenn’s Rocking the Pad!

| cristina

Jenn Barrette is on fire this month! Today she has 2 new collab kits out at the Lilypad, and they’re both just amazing (and 20% off right now, which never hurts!)! First off, a collab with Val Wibbens:

I made this fun card with it:

Be Silly card

Next this all-adorable robot love kit with Jenna Desai:

Isn’t this the cutest robot couple ever? Hehe! 😉

I Love You to Bits card

And, believe it or not, Jenn has another kit coming out tomorrow at the Sweet Shoppe, so be prepared for more cuteness! 🙂

Penguin Cuteness

| cristina

My husband loves penguins, so I made him a card using the latest kit by Erica Zane:

Isn’t it adorable? Here’s my card:

Penguin Snow card

Get ready for more cards coming tomorrow. I’m on a card roll! 😉

Hybrid Wall Art

| cristina

I am really excited about the project I did for this month’s ScrapMatters newsletter. I made this with Valentine’s Day in mind, but this project is just a simple and effective home decor project good for any season. I hope you are signed up to the newsletter, because I made a free template of the shape I used for my wall art decoration. 🙂

Heart Wall Art
Credits:
It’s Gonna Be a Happy New Year by WM [squared] Designs and Jennifer Barrette

Isn’t it pretty? It really looks great in our living room!

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??)! 🙂

Exciting Month!

| cristina

I have some very exciting news to share: Jenn Barrette is guesting at The LilyPad this month!! Isn’t that cool?? New today in her guest store are the January BYOC products:

These pieces are just adorable! I used them to make this card:

I Love You card

Happy Friday! 😉 Stay tuned for more goodies from Jenn coming tomorrow! 🙂

Happy 2011!

| cristina
Happy New Year card

Happy New Year!!! And what better way to celebrate than with a new kit? 🙂 Look at the gorgeous new kit by Jenn Barrette out today (and 20% off!):

I love it all! The colors and the theme are absolutely fantastic!
Here’s a couple details of my card:

Happy New Year card

Happy New Year card

Too bad you can’t really make out the glimmer mist I used on the flower and heart from the pictures.

Happy 2011!

Christmas Cards: Mission Accomplished!

| cristina

Last week I finished the last Christmas cards I needed. They turned out quite pretty! 🙂 Since then, all my (little) free time has gone in putting together the December Daily album (which is now 99% complete), so look out to see some pages of that soon. 🙂 I’m actually not looking forward to taking pictures of all the pages I made – there are so many! So the plan is to take pictures after I’ve added photos and journaling, not of the blank pages.
Anyway, here’s my 3 last cards:

Christmas Card 2010 (5)

Credits:
Joyful Christmas kit and Add-on by LDrag Designs

I actually added some liquid pearls to decorate the tree, but don’t have a picture of that. Sorry! 🙂
Then I made a print only card:

Christmas Card 2010 (6)

Credits:
Christmas Wonder by Kaye Winiecki and Cori Gammon
Free Spirit Alpha by CD Muckosky

And the last one:

Christmas Card 2010 (4)

Credits:
Holly Jolly Holiday by Chelle’s Creations
Paper shapers by Britt-ish Designs

This is my favorite; it was my first time using Martha Stewart’s micro beads – so pretty!

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