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January 11, 2012 | cristina

I have been working hard on finishing up my mom’s spring visit album. Since I had a lot of pictures to scrap, I decided to use the Project Life-type page protectors. They make it so easy to scrap many photos! Here are the two latest pages I made, using all BYOC products plus a journal card pack that is 50% off today:

Credits:

Today paper pack and Pockets no. 3 the basics by Valorie Wibbens

Good Life by Lauren Reid

You Make Me Smile journal cards by Sabrina Dupre

Word strips from Customizable Journal Cards No.2 by Designs by Lili

Fonts: Pea Pumpkin Peters, Sugar Shock font bundle by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin

Credits:

Today paper pack, Today Journal Cards and Pockets no. 3 the basics by Valorie Wibbens

Word strips from Customizable Journal Cards No.2 by Designs by Lili

Only 4 pages left to go to finish this 60-page album!

The January BYOC Is Here

January 6, 2012 | cristina

Finally! The January BYOC is in the shop! I know many of us have been anxiously awaiting this new collection, and I know you won’t be disappointed! The products are all revolving around Project 365/Life/52 and they will really help you to stick to the project you choose throughout the year. This year, as I already mentioned, I will be doing a physical Project Life album. In 2011, I started and haven’t completed a digital P365 (but in fact it was more of a Project Life than P365 since my intention was to scrap the photos, not just take them). I have been doing 2-page spreads for each week, but have fallen behind. When I saw these templates by Emily Merritt, though, I have felt the urge to go back and try to finish my pages:

I started scrapping the latest page, Week 52 – the last week of 2011.

Credits:

Highlight of the Week Templates by Emily Merritt

Fonts: Pea Pumpkin Peters, Traveling Typewriter

As you may notice, I am having way too much fun with my RadLab – and this from someone who openly disliked editing photos! I love the format of Emily’s template – having square blocks for pictures make it easy to fit most pictures, be they horizontal or vertical. I am now debating whether I should go back and finish my missing pages using this week in a page format or stick to the week in 2 pages that I had been doing. I do like to keep my photos kind of big, plus in 2011 I had modified the P365 concept to include multiple photos per day if necessary, because keeping just one was too limiting, so it would weird to have multiple photos for the first part of the year and just one for the rest. I am still undecided… But let’s move on to more BYOC goodies! If you’re doing a digital version of Project Life, these page protectors are a must have!!

and these little bits are really useful too:

Then there are these cards, that are essential for both digi and hybrid:

I have already printed out a bunch to keep handy for my Project Life album. 🙂 In the meantime, though, I’ve also scrapped with them! 🙂

Credits:

Today Journal Cards and Pockets no. 3 the basics by Valorie Wibbens

Good Life by Lauren Reid

This and Thats by The Tattered Pear

Kraft paper from Highlight of the Week Templates by Emily Merritt

Fonts: Pea Pumpkin Peters, Traveling Typewriter

All the BYOC products work perfectly fine even if you aren’t doing P365/Life/52, and I especially loved these templates by Sara Gleason:

And this paper set by Amber Clegg:

Perfect to scrap a bunch of photos easily!

Credits:

Pansy templates by Sara Gleason

These Moments: the papers by Amber Clegg

This and Thats by The Tattered Pear

Wet Paint Alpha by CD Muckosky

Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

Well, as you can see, I am still working on finishing up the album about my mom’s visit last spring – only 7 more pages to go! They will be a breeze to scrap with these new products! 🙂

ETA: I got a GSO for my P365 page today!! 😉

Happy 2012!

January 2, 2012 | cristina

This month’s featured kit by Sahlin Studio is New Year’s Eve, a collab with Valorie Wibbens. Check out Krista’s blog for a discount and a chance to win a gift card! Here’s a Happy New Year card I made with it and the coordinating add on:

I added Stickles on the glitter alpha, it’s so sparkly! 🙂

2011 in review

January 2, 2012 | cristina

As a new year begins, it’s time to review how the old year fared. I have to say, 2011 has been a very good year for me, on all aspects. Scrap-wise, here are some numbers for 2011:

81 hybrid projects completed (including 52 cards for my Project 52 cards)
2 December Daily albums completed (well, still missing the cover and binding of one, but it still counts 😉 )
137 digital layouts completed (including 51 for my mom’s spring visit album – only 9 more pages to be scrapped for that!)
1 calendar (12 months+cover) for 2012 completed, and one page done for the 2013 calendar
A half-done P365: Weeks 1-11, 17 and 52 are completed; Weeks 13-16, 18, 23-32 are partially done (they have photos and journaling); the rest are undone.

Not too bad, I’d say. I am sorry for not keeping up with the P365; I am hoping to finish it up a bit, because it would be just a waste to let it lie like this, but realistically I will not have time to do it. I am embarking in a new project this year, Project Life, so it’ll be interesting to see if I can keep up with printing photos for my album. I sure hope so! 🙂

The topic of the journaling challenge this month at The Lilypad is very inspiring – scrap 11 highlights of 2011. Here’s what I came up with:

Credits:

Plant Your Story: Listed {Holly} by Sara Gleason

My Happiness and December Daily Numbers by Sahlin Studio

Messy Machine Grids by Emily Merritt

Finishing Touches 6 and Finishing Touches 2 by Karah Fredricks

Fonts: Century Gothic and Pea Pumpkin Peters

A very good year indeed! Nothing major, but many good little things.

Baby It’s Cold

December 30, 2011 | cristina

Leora Sanford and Valorie Wibbens have created a gorgeous new kit out today, Baby It’s Cold:

It’s available at Oscraps and at The Lilypad, and it’s 20% off this weekend. I love the colors of this kit! AND, there is a great free with purchase offer: if you buy the kit, you will get this quickpage+template set for free

Here’s what I made with it:

Credits:

Baby It’s Cold by Leora Sanford and Valorie Wibbens, available at Oscraps and The Lilypad

Font: My Own Topher

I only wish I had more snow pictures this year, but alas, the one depicted was the one and only snow we have seen so far this year.

I also made a page for my 2013 calendar (trying to plan ahead for once 😉 ):

Credits:

Background paper from Baby It’s Cold by Leora Sanford and Valorie Wibbens

A Month to Be Merry by Lauren Grier

I was loving this picture we took on Christmas day but didn’t feel like scrapping it with a normal page, so I decided to get started on the calendar. 🙂

Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2011 | cristina

Credits:

December Stories by Designs by Lili

Envelope and snowflake element from Snow Day by Crate Paper

Christmas Season

December 21, 2011 | cristina

I am really enjoying this Christmas season. Too bad it’s coming to an end already – it’s such a magical time of the year! This year I’ve put quite some effort in making sure we did some Christmas activities – baking, going to see Christmas lights and gingerbread houses. In the process, I took many pictures that I really love. I have been using them in my December Daily album, but I also wanted to make a digital page to show them, so I made this:

Credits:

Weekly Review Templates by Jenna Desai

Cheerful by Tickled Pink Studio

Sugar Shock font bundle by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin

Gimme Space font by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin

This kit is so pretty!! I loved using it!

Digital Stamps

December 17, 2011 | cristina

Digital stamps are something I’ve started to use only recently, and they’re fun! I still feel that designers do a way better job than me picking color combinations, but it is fun to play with them. 🙂 Here’s the latest set I’ve used (20% off throughout the weekend):

I made a card combining a few of these tags (all colored digitally using a simplified version of this tutorial).

Credits:

Colour In Christmas Tags by Kate Hadfield

Brown Paper Pack by Sahlin Studio

Hedgehog Card

December 15, 2011 | cristina

I just realized I never shared this little card I made last month, so here goes! 😉

Credits:

Tag from Everyday Storytelling Collection by Jenn Barrette and Kristin Cronin-Barrow

Wax Werx by CD Muckosky

Hedgehog from Autumn Afternoon by Kate Hadfield

December BYOC!

December 9, 2011 | cristina

It’s BYOC time at The Lilypad! I had a wee bit of time to scrap this week, and I loved playing with the new releases! Here’s what I grabbed:

These sketches by Kitty are much more than just templates! They come with a paper pack and are already loaded with finishing touches like brushes which make it very easy to put your pages together! I love this concept!