Thanksgiving Weekend

November 23, 2011 | cristina

As we’re getting ready for the Thanksgiving celebrations, Black Friday and the awesome Document Your December releases coming Friday at The Lilypad, I squeezed in another page for my mom’s previous visit’s album. 🙂 But first let me give you a sneak peek of what is coming. 🙂 I’ve been working on my Daily December pages for this year with these new products, so make sure you check back to see them on Friday. 🙂

Anyway, going back to today’s 50% off specials, I used these awesome templates by Amy Martin:

Here’s my page:

Credits:

Garland mini v3 by Amy Martin

Sass Mouth and Sass Mouth Alpha by The Tattered Pearl

Splatterific 9 – paint clusters by Karah Fredricks

Petalicious by Kaye Winiecki

Sugar Shock font bundle by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin

Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

Lots of Crafting Projects!

November 21, 2011 | cristina

I have been busy creating this weekend, since it will be a while before I can craft again, with my mom being here. I have started my December Daily album and i am loving how it’s coming along! Jenn Barrette and Krista Sahlin have teamed up to make this fabulous Christmas kit that inspired my to start on this year’s December Daily project. 🙂

It is available at The Lilypad and at Sweet Shoppe Designs. Plus there are some fantastic add on packs:

This is what my first pages look like. I recolored a few items to match my color scheme. More peeks to come towards the end of the week! 🙂

I have not decided what date these pages will be for yet, that will depend on what pictures I have for each day.

Another big project I have committed to for next year is Project Life. I am in the process of buying the binder and the paper kit, and I am excited to start. I will also be printing out digi goodies to fill my album, and the new collection by Jenn Barrette and Kristin Cronin-Barrow is simply perfect for this!

The colors are really versatile, and I am crazy about those journaling pieces! 🙂 I made this card to start with. 🙂

I also made a card for DH’s birthday this week. I had fun making this – it uses a digital stamp and it is my first time using one!

That owl is so cute! I followed a tutorial by Trish on how to digitally color stamps (well… truth be told, I skipped a few steps, but it worked for me 😉 and I will be using digital stamps again for sure! 🙂 ).

Credits:

Hoo-ray Digital Stamp by Kaye Winiecki

Background paper from Bring on the Cake by Karah Fredricks, Kate Hadfield and Kaye Winiecki

Candyland alpha, Stand Tall alpha and Serendipity alpha by CD Muckosky

Colored with brush from Finishing Touches 6 by Karah Fredricks

Have a great week! 🙂

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas(!)

November 18, 2011 | cristina

We got snow last night, really late this year. 🙂 Between that and all my crafty projects, I am all ready for the Christmas season to start. 🙂 In fact, I put on some Christmas music last night. 😉
All the gorgeous new Christmas releases at The Lilypad are making me want to scrap last year’s Christmas pictures, even though they are already in my December Daily album. I used these fantastic products:

Credits:

Christmas Is Here by Kitty Designs

Punched Alpha by Sabrina Dupre Designs

Sugar Shock font bundle by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin

Make sure to stop by tomorrow, because I have started my December Daily album and I have something inspiring to share. 🙂

Get Your Christmas Craft On!

November 16, 2011 | cristina

I haven’t scrapped any pictures from Christmas last year, since they are all in my December Daily album, but I wanted to make some digi pages too with my favorite pictures. And this week’s 50% off specials at The Lilypad were just perfect to scrap these photos!

These papers are to die for!! Seriously gorgeous!

And here’s my page:

Credits:

Falala papers and Falala elements by Rachel Young Designs

It Is Paint v2 by Amy Martin

Be Merry alpha by Designs by Lili

Gimme Space font by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin

I went to the mall to have breakfast with DH yesterday morning, and Christmas was definitely in the air! Christmas music was playing, and there were lots of reindeer and Christmas trees and Christmas lights everywhere. I joked that I should head over to the mall when I’m working on my December Daily album, to get in the Christmas mood! 🙂

It’s DONE!

November 14, 2011 | cristina

My 2010 December Daily album is finally done!! I only went up to day 27, instead of doing the full month as I’d originally intended, but that’s OK because it’s when our trip back home ended so it made sense to the album there. I am so happy to be done with it, and it looks so pretty! Unfortunately sharing pictures of my December Daily is a daunting task (I have to take at least 60 pictures, edit them, and try to round up the credits – I kept track of the things I used but I ended up mixing and matching some of the elements on different pages…) so I’m not quite sure when I’ll tackle that. Perhaps next weekend if I get some decent natural light. Now I can seriously think about what to do for this year. I’d love to do an album again, but one that requires less work. In the meantime, I have a card to share; I finally had time to play with the gorgeous collection that Krista of Sahlin Studio released for DSD weekend. I printed it out yesterday along with the last bits I needed for the December Daily album. 🙂

Credits:

Autumn Afternoon papers and Autumn Afternoon Paper Flowers by Sahlin Studio

Deck of Cards alpha by Valorie Wibbens
Heart from Paintstroke Chatter elements by CD Muckosky

The patterns of these papers are absolutely gorgeous, and I am so in love with that card alpha! 😉

8 days to my mom’s visit, and I have about 15 pages to scrap for the album of her last visit… I’ll do the best I can! 🙂

11-11-11

November 11, 2011 | cristina

Today is 11-11-11, what a fun date!! I wish I could say I am doing something memorable today, but no, I’m working as usual. But there is a fun 11-11-11 challenge going on at The Lilypad to make this day special. Come play along! You have the chance to win an $11 gift card!

I brought my point&shoot camera at work and will try to take a snapshop at 11:11 AM. If that doesn’t turn out well, I will stay awake late tonight and take a shot at 11:11 PM. 🙂

ETA: Here’s the page I made for the challenge! 🙂

Credits:

Grow With Love: Letters Edition {November} by Sara Gleason and Crystal Livesay

Things That Matter Most collab by The Lilypad Designers

Autumn Afternoon papers and Autumn Afternoon Paper Flowers by Sahlin Studio

Stripey Line alpha by Kaye Winiecki

Deck of Cards alpha by Valorie Wibbens

Sunshine Days alpha by Designs by Lili

Markerific alpha and Paintstroke Chatter elements by CD Muckosky

Finishing Touches 2 by Karah Fredricks

Needed More Stitching Bundle by Amy Martin

The Typewriter font by Heather Hess

DSD Recap

November 7, 2011 | cristina

So, have you survived DSD? I spent quite some time over at The Lilypad, chatting and playing the fun games. The sale (30% off) is going on through Tuesday so there’s still time to shop if you haven’t already. 🙂

I have not scrapped much because I am working on editing photos for my December Daily album (last year’s), but I did do one page with some of the new releases from this weekend.

Credits:

Pumpkin Butter Papers, Pumpkin Butter Spots and Pumpkin Butter Alpha by Lauren Reid

Pumpkins and word strip from A Hopping Halloween collab by The Lilypad designers

iDSD template by Micheline Martin

Fonts: Gimme Space font by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin and Flowerchild

Special Saturday Releases!

November 5, 2011 | cristina

To make the DSD celebration extra special, after the gorgeous November BYOC releases yesterday the Lilypad designers have prepared some fantastic new releases for today as well! There is no way I could possibly scrap with all of today’s new releases, but I tried to use as many as I could, because they are all irresistible! First off, I scrapped with this super sweet kit by Kaye Winiecki:

Chocolate is a must in our family 🙂 and I happened to have some very recent pictures of chocolate covered strawberries that begged to be scrapped. 😉

Credits:

Chocoholic by Kaye Winiecki

The Future Freaks Me Out font by Heather Hess

Then I used a gorgeous travel kit by one of the many talented guest designers, Fruitloop Sally, which was perfect to scrap our car ride when my mom came to visit:

Credits:

Roadtrip by Fruitloop Sally

Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

And more from guest designers Sabrina Dupre, Kitty Designs and Fruitloop Sally!

I love these bright colors!

Credits:

Everyday Memories by Sabrina Dupre Designs

There’s no Place like Home {Alpha} by FruitLoOp Sally

Heart Sprinkles Dust and Life Tale Sketches 4 by Kitty Designs

Also a Very Small Alpha by Allison Pennington

Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

Happy DSD!

November 4, 2011 | cristina

It’s Digital Scrapbooking Day! It’s one of my favorite times of the year, with great sales and fabulous new releases! The celebration at The Lilypad this weekend will be lots of fun. To kick off the party, the November BYOC is in the store, and there is a free with $15 purchase kit – it’s a huge and beautiful collaboration called Things That Matter Most:

I used it to make a page for one of the special DSD challenges that give you a chance to win a gift card:

Credits:

Things That Matter Most collab by The Lilypad Designers – free with $15 purchase over DSD!!

The Future Freaks Me Out font by Heather Hess

This picture was by no means a great picture, but I love how it turned out after the photo processing. :)! Here are some of the BYOC goodies I played with:

This pack is huge and truly fantastic. It is more than a template pack – the templates come with some very cool elements too (like paint splatters and frames), plus there is a paper pack and an alpha. A really cool concept!