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Yay Me!

| cristina

This week has been very rewarding for me scrapping-wise! It started off Monday when 2 (yes, two!) of my LOs were featured on the Daily Digi blog (this and this page): thanks to my friend Sunghee for letting me know!! ;). And then today I got a GSO on the GalleryStandouts blog for this page!

Credits:
Houses and tree from Get a Move on by the ScrapMatters Design Team
Paper from Background Essentials by Jennifer Barrette
Leaves from Midnight Crow by Chelle’s Creations
Snow from Feeling Frosty by Jennifer Barrette Designs
Grass from Totally Buggin’ by Britt-ish Designs and Mira Designs
Free Spirit alpha by CD Muckosky
Font: SS Whimsy

I am having another super crazy week at work (just sneaking in 10 minutes to write this post) and absolutely no free time. I had the idea for this page Sunday night and had been dying to scrap it since then! I’m off to a conference tomorrow and flying back next Sunday so I am doubly glad I squeezed in this page last night in half an hour between the laundry and dinner. 🙂
So I guess you want to hear more about the story? 😉 Well, our neighbor is a bit OCD about mowing his lawn. He mows it twice a week, which really is a bit too often. Of course, DH is quite the opposite: he mows it every 2 weeks, which is not quite often enough. ðŸ™‚ But our neighbor is so obsessive about his lawn that if my husband mows our lawn, than you can rest assured that the following day our neighbor will mow his, regardless of how tall his grass is. Anyway, Sunday we got home after Church and saw that our neighbor was mowing the lawn and had blown the leaves in our front lawn into a nice pile. He doesn’t have trees in the front, so all the leaves were coming from our trees. Since this was a pretty obvious hint, and since most of the work had been done already and all that was left to do was bag the leaves, I tried to convince DH to do it together. But he wouldn’t budge so I gave up – I wasn’t going to do it on my own. A couple hours later, said neighbor rang at the door: he said he had filled a couple bags with our leaves since he was already working in the garden and it didn’t take him long.
Now, seriously, this was embarassing. My husband even told him that he had been too busy to take care of it because he was leaving this week – but in fact he’s home all week! ðŸ™‚
But thinking back at it, this guy is really a bit weird for doing that! What do you think?
I have to add that their house is for sale so he obviously wants to make a good impression, but hey, it’s autumn, and leaves do fall. We already have a lot that have fallen since.
Anyway, that’s our story! 🙂

Shopping

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I must say I am not a big fan of shopping. But when my mom comes to visit and we do go shopping, it’s always a fun time! And look at the new kit that Rachel of Captivated Visions has out (she’s a guest this month at ScrapMatters)! It makes me want to go shopping! 😀

The colors are so yummy!! As soon as I saw the kit I knew I wanted to use it, so I spent half an hour digging in my computer for some shopping pictures. 😉 I knew I had to have some since I’m so behing in scrapping my mom’s visit… and I did, from last year!

Credits:
Retail Therapy Page Kit by Captivated Visions
Date Stamped by Britt-ish Designs
Font: CK Becky

I did this for today’s Saturday Special challenge. The queen of shadows, Carly (snaggle7575) has revealed her secrets on shadowing, and I tried to follow her tips. What do you think of my shadows here? Do they look weird?

#501

| cristina

Well, it appears that this is my blog post #501. I never noticed the number of posts, but as I logged in to write this I noticed my blog had exactly 500 posts. 🙂
Anyway, I’m here to show you a gorgeous collab that is in the store today, by Rachel of Captivated Visions and Jenn Barrette:

This kit is just perfect for all of us who love digi!!

Credits:
Online by Jenn Barrette and Captivated Visions
Exclamation point: Die Cut Vellum Alpha by Britt-ish Designs
Fonts: CK Becky, Pea Olson

Happy Friday everyone! I am completely beat and really need this week to be over soon! (I have tons of things to do this weekend too, but well…)

Rainy Monday

| cristina

It’s a rainy Monday here (even though the sun was out when I got up, but quickly disappeared!) so I need to share some of my creations to get rid of the gloom. 🙂

First off, I scrapped another of those hard-to-scrap pictures, and once again I love the result! I used a gorgeous kit by Sahlin Studio that was just perfect for this:

Credits:
Grunge and Snipettes: Enjoy the Moment by Sahlin Studio

I also used some Sahlin Studio goodies to create these book labels, just a little organizational tip featured in the September newsletter of ScrapMatters.

Credits:
Learning: Journaling Bits by Sahlin Studio

If you aren’t signed up to the SM newsletter yet, you can do sign up right here. There’s a great free kit every month, plus nice tips and articles, including a hybrid tutorial by yours truly. 🙂 Can’t miss it! 😉

Brittishdesigns.com

| cristina

You may have noticed that Britt of Britt-ish Designs doesn’t sell at ScrapMatters anymore: she has opened her own store at brittishdesigns.com! She is one of my 3 fave designers and I miss her, but I have still been scrapping with some of her goodies lately. This is the delicious and gorgeous cake DH baked for my birthday:

Credits:
Land of Fantasy by Britt-ish Designs and Sahlin Studio
Font: Pea Olson

Yum! And here’s a picture I took last Saturday on a photowalk – I took some shots I’m really happy about and I love how this page turned out.

Credits:
All by Britth-ish Designs:
Animal House, Tiny Prints, Stamp my ABCs, Hollywood! bonus alpha, paint splat from Fairchild

I usually have a very hard time scrapping great pictures but this time I’m very happy with the result. 🙂

Jenn Barrette

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I am so sad that Jenn Barrette is retiring from ScrapMatters. She is one of my favorite designers! She’s having a sale in her shop for the rest of the month.

Her latest kit is just beautiful:

Here’s what I scrapped with it last night:

Credits:
Vintage Charm by Jenn Barrette
Vintage Carnival alphas by Sahlin Studio
Font: SS Whimsy

I’m In Love!

| cristina

As I promised yesterday, I’m back to show you the amazing project I did thanks to my new cutting machine. 🙂

When I first saw this beautiful collab by Krista Sahlin and Jenn Barrette, I knew I wanted to do something hybrid-y with it. Especially with that gorgeous ferris wheel.

So since I’m an overachiever and a bit reckless at times, my 2nd project with my new Silhouette SD was this:

Credits:
Vintage Carnival kit and wordart by Sahlin Studio and Jenn Barrette

The result is just amazing! All pieces used above were cut individually. The wood paper is about 3.75×4.3 in size so I think you can appreciate the detail this machine was able to cut!
I’m looking forward to the long weekend so I can play more with my machine!

Zoo Pics Anyone?

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Amy and Lauren have new collection out today! Here’s the kit:

and here are the animals!

I cannot believe how cool the graphics are!
And there’s also a bundle so you can save some $$$:

I happened to have some zoo pictures from my trip to San Diego a month ago, so this was perfect timing too! I had so much fun using this kit! Here’s the first page I did:

Credits:
I Spy a Zoo Eye bundle by Amy and Lauren of Polka Dot Plum Designs
Font: SS Whimsy

ETA (9/2 9AM): I also made a 2-pager to fit all the pictures I took on my visit to the zoo. 🙂

Credits:
2 Page Party Pack template by Denise Beatty Originals I Spy a Zoo Eye bundle by Amy and Lauren of Polka Dot Plum Designs Fonts: SS Whimsy, CK Becky, Desdemona

Here’s a look at the individual pages:

So fun!

Sunflowers

| cristina

Happy Friday! This is my birthday week, and I don’t know yet if I will survive all the lovely dinners we’ve been having! 😉 The other night, on our way out to a nice crepes place, DH drove me by a gorgeous field of sunflowers, so of course we had to stop to take pictures. 🙂 The light conditions weren’t very good, so I’m still hoping to go back one of these evenings if the sun is out, since it’s fairly close to our house.
These new monogram journalers by Sahlin Studio were perfect for a sunflowers page!

So pretty!

Journaling:
Sunflowers. You really surprised me when you told me that while I was in San Diego, you went to the farm to ask when the sunflowers would be out. And then last night you wanted to drive by the field, and sure enough, there they were, in all their glory.
Credits:
Monogram Journalers by Sahlin Studio
Papers from Make a Wish by Sahlin Studio and Valorie Wibbens
Make a Date by Britt-ish Designs
Font: Pea Olson