Welcome to my blog! I hope you’re enjoying all the fun celebrations at ScrapMatters. Make sure you check out the special forum section to know about all the games and speed scraps that are going on over the weekend!

I don’t know about you, but I really love the new collab kit, A Perfect Picnic. Hands down, my favorite summer activity is BBQing 😀 and I have many pictures to scrap – this is the perfect kit!

I have a 12×12 quick page for you, I hope you like it! I love to read comments so do write me something if you download! 🙂

Thanks for the interest, this freebie is no longer available.

The next stop of the blog train is Amber’s blog.
You should have gotten here from Kari’s blog, but if for any reason you get lost, check out the ScrapMatters blog!

The Birthday Weekend is finally here and there’s many fun activities planned at ScrapMatters!
I’ll try to list them all here, but I’m bound to forget a few (there’s too many!! 😉 ) so just check out the special forum section for all the latest news.

First of all, there’s a 30% sale on personal use products, a 10% off commercial products, and a 20% off physical products (yes, those gorgeous Kaisercraft albums you’ve been eyeing!!)! It doesn’t get any better than this so take advantage of this huge sale!

There’s a NEW fabulous collab kit by the ScrapMatters design team, and it’s free if you spend at least $15!!

And using this collab, we got a blog train ready for you, full with goodies (QPs, element clusters, wordart)!!!! The blog train starts tomorrow morning (Saturday, 9AM EST) from Andrea’s blog and yes, one of the stops will be right here! 😀

There’s another free with purchase package, and it’s a great one! If you spend $20 or more, you’ll get this incredible party pack for free!

Next, there’s a speed scrap marathon 🙂 and you want to check out the partecipation prizes for all these speed scraps – they’re all just gorgeous! I hope you can make a few speed scraps!

What party would it be without a chat?? There’s a chat tomorrow (1PM EST) and lots of gift cards will be given away!!

Then there’s a TON of fun games planned: a comment game (sign up here and check out the fab partecipation prize!), a bingo (actually, there’s 2 rounds of that, starting tomorrow morning! Go get your card ready here!), an Eye Spy game, a Name that Kit game:

So much fun! And so many chances to win some gift cards, too!
To make sure you don’t miss out on all the fun activities planned, check out the forum!

Have a good weekend and I hope you enjoy the celebrations! I know I will! 🙂

Don’t make plans for the weekend, because there’s a PARTY, and you’re invited!!! 😀

ScrapMatters is turning 2 and we have a lot of fun activities planned (not to mention the sale!!)!!

OK, I know you want to know more! Well, there are many fun games planned, a ton of speed scraps (with great partecipation prizes), a great blog train, a huge collab that’s free with $15 purchase, an incredible sale..! You don’t want to miss this great party!
I’ll post more details closer to the weekend! 😉

I have a few pages to show from the weekend, all done for challenges at ScrapMatters.

Starting this month, SM is having monthly guest designers! For August, the guests are Amber of Stolen Moments and Minna of Mira Designs. I used some goodies from both of them for this page (for the Saturday Special challenge):

Next up, the Inspiration Point challenge:

the Word Up challenge (I wrote my own haiku! 🙂 ):

the Tuesday Template:

and finally my favorite challenge at SM, the My Story Matters (this week we had to scrap about one of our relatives and I picked my grandmother):

OK, that’s it for now! 😉

I picked up an adorable mini kit by Britt for the mini album I’m working on, and I’m totally in love with this kit!

So I used it for a page that I can show off right now! 😉

I’m so glad the weekend is almost here! 🙂

Wohooooo! I cannot believe it yet but I have a new lens!!!!!!!!
I’d been thinking about getting a 50mm lens for several weeks, and yesterday DH brought me to try it out. We tried both the f/1.8 and the f/1.4. And then… we got the 1.4!!!!!!! The price was actually very good and we decided to go for the extra stop since I’m going to need it in low light situations.
I’m in heaven right now!!! 😉
So of course last night I scrapped some pictures taken with the new lens. This is for the new Roadmap to Scrap challenge at ScrapMatters, with these instructions:

1. I want you to choose 3 photos for this layout – ONE of them (the focal photo) should be turned B&W or sepia. Feel free to get creative with selective tinting, too, if you’d like.
2. Your background must be predominantly WHITE. It can have a subtle texture, but I want to see a white background!
3. Choose three more patterned papers to use as you wish on your layout.
4. The focal photo needs to be “hung” on the page from a metal embellishment of some sort.
5. You can embellish however you like, however, I want to see the same embellishment repeated at least three times. You can use different sizes of the same element, but the same one should show up a minimum of three times (think visual triangle!)
6. Please add some bling – I love bling and I’ve gotta see some of it on your page!
7. Title your page with a black or white alpha (or maybe a black AND white alpha).
8. Journal your page in a handwritten font of your choice and don’t forget to include the date!

I love this kit by Britt and Krista, it’s just gorgeous!

I also used 2 new alphas out today – I’m such an alpha junkie, and these are just so cute!!