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Operation Spruce: the other LOs

| cristina

Following up on the LO I did the other night for the Speed Scrap, I scrapped 3 more pages about our adventure planting the spruce in our garden. I had fun doing them!

So here’s the 4 pages all together.

The credits are the same of the 1st page and can be found here.

Birthday LO

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My birthday and my dad’s are only 6 days apart. However, a few thousand miles separated us this year and we couldn’t celebrate together.

In addition to that, this year my Dad turned 70, so it was an important birthday! I was so sorry not to be there! So I asked my Mom to take some pictures, and she did a pretty good job (she’s a hopelessly lousy photographer! :)).
Yesterday night I worked on a 2 page LO for our birthdays and I’m in love with it!
(sorry for the blur in the pic but I had to cancel the locations)

Party Hat by Sugarplum Paperie (some recoloring)

(I created the alpha with font: Rockwell Extra Bold)

The Big Blue Alpha (recolored) by Britt-ish Designs

Font: My Own Topher
I love Sugarplum Paperie’s stuff!!
Here’s a closer look:

Misty Cato CT Call

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Misty Cato, designer of one of the blogs I regularly stalk, and undoubtedly the tutorial queen, is having a CT Call. (See her blog for details – link in my blog list on the right)

So I decided to give it a try!

Singing Husband

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My husband joined the choir at our church!
I’m very proud of him and I know he’s very happy to sing there.
We’ve been going to our church for a year now, but my husband never inquired about joining the choir. Then, a couple weeks ago, one choir member heard my husband sing during Mass and asked him to join the choir.
So yesterday, 1st day after summer vacation, the choir was back, and my husband was in it!
It felt a bit awkward to sit in the pew without him 🙁 but I’m happy for him.
He sure looks handsome in the blue gown!

Defensive Driving and Aggressive Husband

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Today I went to a defensive driving course so I can get a discount on insurance. It was quite interesting, but I can think of at least 20 better things to do on a Saturday.. 🙂

On the other hand, we want to pick up our Mac – again – and brought it home. This time they put in the right 256 MB video card. But as soon as we turned it on it was plain apparent that something was wrong – the fan keeps running.
And this time my husband is really angry – and has every reason to be I must add.
So I’m still with very limited scrapping equipment – this is so sad! And I also missed Britt’s show off gift for this week. A beautiful paper pack! 🙁

Great News (Autocelebratory Post)

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I passed the Preliminary Exam and I’m now officially a 2nd year student.

And it feels good!!
OK, I can admit it now. I never thought I could not pass it, but it’s a big relief to actually get the results and know it.
Especially, it feels good to read: “Further congratulations are due, because you received a high grade on the exam”. 😀
Yaaaaay for me!!

Wordart, Bad News and Indiana Jones

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I was reading a few blogs this morning and on Misty Cato’s blog (great for tutorials too, you can find in in my favorite blogs’ list on the right) I found out about this funny website, Wordle, that creates a word composition with the words you input. I inserted my blog and here’s what came out.

And now the bad news: they didn’t take me for ScrapMatters’ CT call.. I was quite disappointed because although when I applied I realistically knew they would have a lot more talented scrappers to choose among, since it took so long to get the answer (9 looong days) my hopes inevitably went up.
Anyway, they have a brand new CT there (although I’m thrilled to see some names of the previous CT still there!) and I can’t wait to see what they come up with.

We went to see the latest Indiana Jones yesterday night. I thought it was fun; my husband said it made too much fun of itself.. Anyway, I’m happy they did it.

A Challenge (At Last!)

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After too much time I finally scrapped a LO for a challenge.

I’m not 100% happy with this LO; it might be because I started it on my husband’s notebook with very limited scrapping supplies.. Anyway, I couldn’t get anywhere with it so I finished it as it was.
I’m not 100% happy with it because although I love the title idea, I’m not really happy with how it turned out.
Anyway, still not a LO I should throw away, IMHO. The picture was really poor quality and I like how it turned out after I tweaked it a bit.
I did this following ScrapMatter’s 8/30 Saturday Special challenge hosted by Lina with these rules:

  1. only one photo,
  2. something bling (a jewel, glitter, etc),
  3. no less than 3 papers,
  4. a binder (clip, stapes, etc)
  5. at least 3 flowers and
  6. you must use an alpha!

and here’s the LO:

Credits:

Background paper + (recolored) bling safety pin from SM August Daily Download Kit: Say It With Bling, by Designs by Tater

Other papers: The Depths by Kara Fredricks
Cottage Arts Tear Template
Flowers by AneczaW

Outrageous (I Talked Too Soon)

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We’re about to go back to the Apple Store because we found out that they did indeed replace the malfuncioning VRAM, but instead of replacing the 256 MB we had, they put in 128.

Wasn’t that smart?
We really feel we’re a bit unlucky.