Exciting Month!

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!

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!

Black Friday!

Are you braving the crowds looking for the best deals, or are you lazy like me and prefer online shopping? 🙂
Either way, I hope you enjoy this Black Friday without getting stressed out.

Check out the new products Jenn Barrette has in her stores today: three fabulous collabs!
First off, a fantastic kit with Zoe Pearn:

I used it to make a card for DH’s birthday:

Birthday Card 2010

Credits:
Thankful for You by Jenn Barrette and Zoe Pearn
Fonts: Monotype script, Traveling Typewriter and JH Kari

Then a triple scoop:

This kit is adorable! Here’s a photo-less page I made with it:

10 Things I Love Right Now

Credits:
20 Questions by Jenn Barrette, Lauren Grier and Shawna Clingerman
Fonts: 1942 Report, Pea Stacy Fancy, Pea Noodle’s Girlfriends

I had fun creating the little monster! 🙂
Finally, a collab with Pink Reptile Designs – I loooove the retro colors and patterns!

It was perfect to scrap this picture of DH I had been saving:

I Don't Feel Good

Have a nice day!

Counting Down to Christmas

Jenn Barrette has a new kit in the store today (and it’s 20% off) and let me tell you – it’s absolutely fabulous!!

I love the color scheme! The papers are so yummy, and the elements are adorable! I made a card with it last night:

Xmas Card 2010 (1)

Credits:

I had decided not to make Christmas cards, but with such a pretty kit, I couldn’t resist. 🙂 So yeah, I will be making Xmas cards after all. 😉
This kit is just perfect for my Daily December album too!! I already printed out a few bits (the wordstrips are not all shown and they are so cute!! I printed out a few that are perfect for me: shopping, wrapping gifts, family recipe, craft time, traditions, family time, watching movies). I will make a couple of pages for my album soon. 🙂

A Chance of Flurries

I have put together two new pages for my December Daily album this week using a fabulous new release by Jenn Barrette and Mandabean (20% off today!):

The pictures really don’t do these pages justice (they’re so pretty!!), but here’s what I made. Page 7:

Credits:
Line It Up: Templates v. 1 by Krisi’s Kreations

And page 8 (I actually haven’t printed the date insert yet so for now the 8 is just sitting on the right hand page):

The silhouette works really great for making alphas. I usually cut three copies of each letter and glue them together to get a nice thick alpha. So fun! I made the 8 this way. And for the mittens, I glued together 2 copies so they have a nice thickness.

Are You Ready?!?

I don’t even know where to start to show you all the fabulous products Jenn has in the store today!! And the best news is that everything is 30% off!
She is also guesting at Zig Zag Scrap this month, so she has a few kits there too. I will start by showing you what she has at the Sweet Shoppe.

The colors and textures of this kit are unbelievably yummy! Here is my page with it:

Credits:
Cup of Joy by Jenn Barrette
Font: Traveling Typewriter

Next, a Christmas kit, finally! 🙂 I’m all ready to scrap and create Christmas-y stuff! 🙂

I love the patterns and colors of this kit!

Credits:
Christmas Cheer, frame from Fresh Start: Layered Templates and Say What!: vol. 1 by Jenn Barrette

In this page I also used two of the fab CU products Jenn has in her grab bag with Lauren Grier:

I loved this kit so much that I got another page done:

Credits:
Christmas Cheer by Jenn Barrette
Date Stamp Classic by Britt-ish Designs
Font: SS Whimsy

Look out for something hybrid coming with this kit soon too! 🙂 Hopefully I can work a bit on my Dec. Daily album this weekend.

Ready for more? 🙂 Here’s a new collab kit Jenn has with Kristin Cronin-Barrow:

And my page:

Journaling:
As my life has gotten busier and busier during the past year, I find myself assigning priorities to the stuff I need to do and to the stuff I want to do.
Sometimes giving up something frees time for other things I care more about. And I am less stressed out because I accept that I cannot get it all done.

Credits:
Take Note by Kristin Cronin-Barrow and Jenn Barrette
Fonts: Pea Summer Funkyness and Schoolhouse Cursive B

Jenn is also finally re-releasing some of my favorite products of hers. This collab with Captivated Visions:

Here’s a page I did with this for my calendar:

Credits:
Online by Jenn Barrette and Captivated Visions
Fancy Flourish stamps by Jenna Desai
The Alpha Files no. 5 by Krystal Hartley

Finally (at SSD), here’s her fabulous shadow styles, back in the store! These styles are fantastic and I highly recommend them!

And there’s more! 🙂 Here’s what Jenn has at her guest store at Zig Zag Scrap:

OK, this is the one kit I don’t have a page for… 😉
And finally:

Credits:
A Shabby Kinda Love by Jenn Barrette
Font: SS Whimsy

I absolutely love how this page turned out! 🙂

OK, that’s all folks. I told you Jenn has been busy creating!! 🙂 Happy DSD!

Gearing Up for DSD!

DSD (Digital Scrapbooking Day) is coming up next weekend, and the designers are busy preparing new products for this great shopping spree! DSD is really a fabulous time for digi scrappers, who can take advantage of great sales and fun events.

At ScrapMatters, we’re having a week-long 40% off sale (the best deal ever!), fun games, a blog train, a beautiful kit free with $20 purchase… So much fun!

And Jenn Barrette is busy putting together so many fabulous kits you won’t believe your eyes! She’s up to four kits right now, but who knows if she will come up with something else too! 🙂 I cannot wait to share what she has in store for Saturday!

Collab Kits Galore

Jenn has two collabs in her store today! The first one is a great collab she did a while back with Meghan Mullens and I’m very happy to see it back in the store!

I made a pretty card with it:

Credits:
Press Play by Jenn Barrette and Meghan Mullens

Next, she has a brand new collab with Melissa Bennett:

I’ll be scrapping with this very soon! 🙂

More CD Calendar Pages

I put together a couple more CD calendar pages. I realize this isn’t exactly a priority right now, because I’ve decided to keep this pretty little calendar for myself, but I was eager to do some more hybrid with these lovely kits by Jenn Barrette since we’re in the right season, so I made the October and November pages. Here goes October:

Credits:
2011 Calendar Template by Mari Koegelenberg Creations
Nevermore by Jenn Barrette and Lauren Grier
Pumpkin from Pumpkin Spice by Jenn Barrette

I am completely obsessed with that owl paper. It is the best Halloween paper ever!
And a close up of the glossy and crackle accents I used:

And November:

Credits:
2011 Calendar Template by Mari Koegelenberg Creations
Pumpkin Spice by Jenn Barrette

Yum, I am craving chestnuts! I hope we find some at the store this weekend. 🙂

I Forgot!

I forgot to show you another new product by Jenn that was put in the store yesterday: this fabulous alpha!

I am a sucker for alphas, and this is an absolute must have!
I combined it with another of the kits Jenn released at SSD in the past few weeks that is perfect for this season:

Those owls are so adorable! I made a page for my calendar with it, but I turned into a LO as well because I liked how it turned out:

Credits:
Pumpkin Spice and Unseamly Stitched Alpha by Jenn Barrette
Photo action by My Four Hens Photography
Font: Vintage Typewriter

Only 1 more page to go for the calendar. Yay!