Hybrid

Because I’m Happy

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Today is the last day to take advantage of the early bird sale on Digital Design Essentials’ new collection!

All this for $5.99? Yes please!!
I am crushing on kelly green lately, and I sure got my fix here! 🙂 And of course, you never go wrong with hot pink. 😉

Credits:
Because I’m Happy by Digital Design Essentials
Font: The Velvet Vixen by Heather Joyce

Hybrid Tip!

I picked up a tip on instagram and I feel it will be a game changer for my Project Life. I tend to rarely include hybrid cards in my album because I don’t want to bother filling up a full 11×8.5 sheet of paper to print out.. So using a 6×4 sheet of paper is the perfect solution! Granted, it’s more expensive per journaling card than the larger paper, but totally worth it for me if it gets me to print more!
What brand of photo paper do I use? I go with Canon – I find it has excellent value. I use glossy 4×6 for photos, and matte 8.5×11 for hybrid projects. And now I will also use the matte 6×4 for Project Life cards.

Playing with Paper

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After a couple of panicky work emergencies, I can finally take a breath and rejoice that the warmer weather has arrived! Granted, it is not yet here to stay for good, as we likely will be getting some snow later in the week, but I am choosing to ignore that for now. 🙂

I have been super busy with work, but today I carved out a couple hours for myself and got crafty. It was fun to play! I made a card using the lovely collection Sahlin Studio made for the April BYOC at The Lilypad.

I also grabbed the free April template on the Sahlin Studio blog and used it for my card. 🙂

Credits:

In my opinion, enamel dots are just the right touch for any project. 🙂 The same is true for mini alphas.

Lucky

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I love the greens and the navy colors in Jenn Barrette’s latest kits! I made a collage of my favorite bits of the kit on this card:

Hope you’re having a great weekend! I never enjoy the switch to daylight saving, but other than that I am enjoying some time off. 🙂

March BYOC

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Winter is most definitely still around in my neck of the woods, but I got my fix of spring colors with the March BYOC at The Lilypad!

I made a card using these gorgeous products by Sahlin Studio:

 

I added a couple of popped up flowers on top of that pretty journaling card to add some dimension to my card.

Credits:
Pure Happiness kit and Pure Happiness journal cards by Sahlin Studio

I also used the gorgeous products by Paislee Press

 

 

for this page

Credits:
About Us papers, About Us elements and About Us cards by Paislee Press
The Golden Friends fonts by Heather Joyce

Happy Friday!

Stretch Your Card Kit!

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After all the cardmaking with the Copper Mountain card kits, I was itching to create something else. 🙂 So I made a 12×12 page using some paper scraps from the card kits and some digital files.

I love how this page turned out! Here are some details.

This is a digi printable.

I love this little stamps from the Copper Mountain card kit!

Layering with the pretty star button.

Misting in the background, and another digi printable (the speech bubble).

These gems are so pretty!

Copper Mountain Sneaks!

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Happy Christmas Eve! I am quite thrilled that it’s snowing again, after the snow melted all away a couple of days ago. I am hoping we get a white Christmas!

In the meantime, I have some Instagram sneaks of the cards I made with the Studio Calico January kits. I’m very excited to be a card guest designer next month – what better way to start the new year?! 🙂 First off, I want to show you some sneaks of the Copper Mountain card kit:

 

I also got to create with the card add on, and I’ve got to tell you… those stamps are awesome!!

Apparently I cannot stop creating with these gorgeous kits, because I have a couple more cards to share in which I also used some of the digital elements to cut out shapes with my Silhouette. 🙂

For this last card I combined the whale and fish with some blue POW paper from my stash.. it may very well be my favorite card of the bunch!

OK that’s it for now! I have made seven cards so far, and I may have a couple more in the works ;), so come back on the 27th to see the full reveal!

December Daily 2013 – Days 1-4

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Whoops I am a few days late with this post but it’s just been a crazy week. Here are Days 1-4 of my December Daily.

On day 1 I took a picture of our four advent calendars. 🙂 Our elf reminded us to open the advent calendars this day (he’s leaning back and pointing to the calendars, and not sleeping like DH thought! ;)).

I am using vellum numbers by Crate Paper to mark the days this year. I layered a punched snowflake and gold numbers to identify our advent calendars.

In the second spread I have four days (part of day 1 and days 2, 3, and 4).

 

Here are the details.

I am starting to freak out because Christmas is less than a week away and I have done close to zero holiday related events.. I have just been too busy with work, but it sucks because this is my favorite time of the year and I wish I could savor it more.

Black Friday

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I’m a bit late in posting this, because Black Friday = putting up the tree for me! 🙂 But there are some very sweet deals to be had online today! I’ll start with a Christmas kit, since I am in Christmas mode now that the tree is up. 🙂

Seriously, isn’t this the perfect Christmas kit?? I made two tags with this gorgeous kit.

And I also made a free printable with a flattened version of both tags that is available on the Sahlin Studio blog. 🙂 Enjoy!

Check out all the sales and promotions going on at The Lilypad!

Next up, a kit by Jenn Barrette – I made a card with it,

and a page too!

Finally, a wintery kit by Mari Koegelenberg. And here’s my page – we got snow early this year!

How was your Black Friday? 🙂