OK, seriously.. I cannot believe I haven’t blogged about this yet!!! Shame on me!

It’s starting on Monday, Feb. 1! There will be 3 lessons each week, starting from the very basics; there will be homework (and little treats! 😉 ) to keep you on track. Hope to see you all there! 😉

I found time to play with three of the many beautiful new releases at ScrapMatters this week, and I loved them!
First off, this adorable bundle by Stolen Moments:

and this fantastic template pack by Pri Rocha:

Here’s what I made:

Then I couldn’t resist playing with this adorable kit by Kate Winiecki,

and since I didn’t have pictures to go with the theme, I did a no picture LO. 🙂

I also have a hybrid project to share – it was featured in the January newsletter, and I hope you’re subscribed because I made a printable freebie to make your own Valentine coupon book!

I’ve had fun making a couple of cards this week! They’re all for the It’s in the Cards hybrid challenge at ScrapMatters. Every 2 weeks, you get a free template for your card! Anyway, I had fun trying out some new techniques/products. I was so inspired by Tim Holtz’s blog that I decided to pick up a few of the supplies he uses in his creations, since I am totally green for anything that’s related to paper scrapbooking. It turned out a great way to start! So, first off, this card, using stickles and foam dots:

Here’s a close up:

OK, I gotta confess: when I designed my card in Photoshop, I planned to print out the penguin along with the paper behind it, but when I prepared the page to be printed, I separated them by mistake. Since the scarf fringes and the ice skates are doodled, it would have been impossible to cut around them with a craft knife, so I decided to use stickles on top of them. And it totally makes this card! Having just the penguin on foam dots makes the card really adorable. 🙂

Have you seen how wonderfully sweet this new collab by Erica and Denise is???

I’m totally in the mood for Valentine’s Day, since I did a project for the SM newsletter this month (it’s going out as I write, so it’ll reach your inbox soon if you’re signed up to receive it) that is Valentine related, and I needed a card to go with it. 🙂

For this card, in addition to the foam dots, I used distress ink to ink the edges, for the first time!! 😉 I LOVE it!! 😉

I was inspired by the CK blog to create a keepsake for our Christmas cards. Every year, I never quite know what to do with our Christmas cards, and while I don’t want to throw them out, they all end mixed up in one box or another.. So this project was just perfect for my taste: it looks pretty, and it keeps all the cards together!

I even created a gift log, thanks to these gorgeous prompts by Sahlin Studio:

A page for me, one for DH, and one for both of us, including the gifts we received and those we made.

I really enjoyed putting this together, using some of the goodies I got with my Christmas gift card at AC Moore! 😉 I am completely in love with glossy accents!

Happy New Year!
While I haven’t kept an accurate count, I believe I completed 327 LOs in 2009.. That is, not counting the P365 pages, nor the hybrid projects, nor the calendar pages. Boy, that’s quite a lot! 😉
I didn’t do any resolutions last year, nor will I do any this year (I can’t stand the pressure!), but I am really happy about where my scrapbooking led me in 2009. I know I will have less scrapping time this year, but I hope to still manage to squeeze in some satisfying quality time. 🙂
It’s really impossible for me to pick one favorite LO of the year.. I really love them all, and am proud of several of them.

(Sorry for the horrible picture.. I just discovered I accidentally erased the good pictures I took, after I’d already sent the card.. Ugh!)