Do you know that Jenn Barrette has started a very fun blog, full of curious finds and inspiration? Today’s post is by yours truly. I am sharing a yummy recipe – my favorite soup – and showing off this pretty recipe book I put together. It’s a $1 photo album turned into recipe book. 🙂
Go check out my post! 🙂
Jenn Barrette has a fabulous new collab out today with Lauren Reid (and it’s 20% off!):
All the word art pieces in this kit are so cool! I am loving all the pages with this kit in the galleries! I used it for an inspirational ATC, and, boy, did I need it on Wednesday evening when I made it: I’d had a pretty rough day at work and really needed to think positive.
As you can see, it’s already sitting in my artist printer’s tray along with this ATC, and when I’ve filled in the remaining 10 spots I’ll get it hung on the wall. 🙂
My mom is coming to visit in just a little over 2 weeks, and I just realized I’d really like to be all caught up with my P365 by the time she arrives. She will be here for 2 weeks and I won’t be scrapping while she’s here, so I don’t want to find myself with too many P365 weeks to catch up with when she leaves. I finished another spread last night, but I always seem to be 4.5 weeks behind… 😉 But I am committed to catching up now!
We’ll see how that goes! 😉
I’m a week late in showing you this amazing kit by Jenn Barrette:
It is such a stunning kit, and as soon as I saw it I knew I had to get those pretty papers printed. Putting together this card took some time, but I love how it turned out:
I might use it as this year’s anniversary card, unless I get inspired to do something else. I also used this kit for a P365 spread:
Yes, I am positively in love with that wood paper! 🙂
ETA: I got a GSO on the ScrapMatters GSO blog!
My mom’s birthday was this past week. Since we’ve been living far away for the past few years, I haven’t been able to give her a birthday present on her birthday. But this year, I found a way to send her a little something: I made her a hybrid pendant! It all started when I saw this gorgeous kit by Jenn Barrette and fell in love with the gorgeous patterns of the papers:
Bring in Tim Holtz’s facets, and you get a very light pendant that can be mailed easily:
I will be making more of these for sure!
ETA: I got a hybrid gallery standout at MeSoScrappy with this project. 😉
I’ve been trying to catch up my P365 pages and making this a priority. I love to have these pages done and can’t wait to be caught up and start thinking about getting them printed!
Week 10 is already halfway done, so I have about 4 weeks to catch up with.
I swear I say this of every kit Jenn Barrette creates ;), but her latest collab with Dani Mogstad is the best kit ever!!! Check it out:
The colors and patterns are soooo amazing! I was inspired to do my very first ATC ever, for a challenge I saw on the simply ArTistiC blog.
I loved this design so much that I turned this into a card as well, but I am not finished with it yet (I’m doing more stitching on that one and I haven’t had time to finish it; we’re going away for the weekend so it might be a few days before I post it). Truth be told, I decided to make a card mostly because when I prepared the digital version of the ATC to be printed out and cut with the Silhouette, it covered only half the paper, and I somehow cannot force myself to print and/or cut if I’m not making the most of my paper (is there anyone else out there who does this?). I wonder if I’ll ever get over this! 🙂 And for this time I glad I didn’t, because as much as I LOVE the ATC, I love the card even more! 🙂 I added some distressing and I think it’s turning out really cool. Well, enough talking for now! 🙂 OK, no, there’s something else I wanted to tell you. Do you see the glitter on the one pinwheel? I wasn’t planning on adding it, but since I fought with glossy accents quite a bit (I was trying to use it to glue down the pinwheel pieces but it wouldn’t work, and it ended up tearing some of the paper) I decided to use it to cover the oopsies. I think it turned out really cute! It even passed the DH test: feeling wary after the staples incident, I showed him this ATC and asked him if it looked like there was anything amiss. He said everything looked pretty cool. Yay! 🙂
Jenn also has two new releases in her shop today (both are re-releases and they’re both gorgeous), go check them out! Here are two peeks of what I did with them a while back:
It is so true that challenges push you to do things you wouldn’t have tried otherwise! Yesterday I decided I wanted to play along with the color challenge at Paper Crafts Connection, but frankly I wasn’t inspired at all by the palette. I love bright colors and I never would have picked this combination on my own!
But then, as I went through my digi stash, I discovered this very combination in one of my favorite kits by Jenn Barrette:
I tweaked the colors a bit in Photoshop to match the palette better, and voila’:
Isn’t this a pretty palette after all? 🙂
I ended up with a card I absolutely adore! Yay for challenges and stretching your limits! 😉
I know I haven’t posted anything in quite some time, but I have been so busy with work lately that I barely have had any time to create anything! Sad, I know… So when I saw Jenn Barrette’s new kit, a collab with Kristin Cronin-Barrow, I knew just what to make: an inspirational piece to put at my desk, so that even when I cannot create, I can look at it and smile. Here’s the new collab (and it’s 20% off!):
And here’s what I made:
And yay, it’s the weekend, and I think I will be able to make something pretty! 🙂
No news here, I’m behind on my P365. 😉 But this year I’m going to keep at it. It’s too important to me to document these little things! I am 2 weeks behind now. I think this new idea of keeping in multiple pictures per day is making it really time consuming to edit and fit in all the pictures. But I do like to have many pictures to tell the story, so I’ll try to keep doing it. 🙂
Having many pictures and a ton of journaling makes it really hard to be creative on the design, though.
But I really like how page 2 of my Week 5 turned out. 🙂 Oh, and have you noticed another rule I’ve decided to break? I am including pictures not by me this year, so I finally get to end up in the P365 book. 😉