Yesterday was the launch of Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge, a great blog with cool challenges and sketches (and PRIZES) that the amazingly talented Anne Pennington has put together to inspire us to scrap. And guess what, I was invited (OK, I was almost begging to be added) to be a Guest Designer on the launch of the blog!!! Can. You. Say. Really. Excited?!?! I sure can!!! It was great! And the entries of the other designers... To die for! Pure inspiration!!! Check it out => Our Launch Post.
Anyway, this is the challenge:
The challenge is to make a layout that tells us about your dream! In your layout incorporate any two of:
cloud
rainbow
kite, or
symbols of your dream – you can use a photo or drawing that is representative of your dream.
And here is my take:
It is amazing how this challenge fitted what I am living right now. This past week was my wedding anniversary, 9 freaking years together! And I caught myself thinking about all the choices I had made during this time and remembered how, when I was young and restless, that I used to say (Gosh, right now I can hear Axel Rose singing "Live and let Die" in my head, lol) I didn't want to get married or have kids, that I would be an independent woman focused on my career only... At that time, I didn't know that my greatest dream would be to have a great man by my side, have a house on a quiet neighborhood, two amazing kids running around the backyard and be able to put my family in front of anything else... Funny how things can change, specially inside ourselves!
I thought about sewing the page, but changed my mind in the end. But, for those of you who would like to try to incorporate sewing to your pages, here is my favorite video:
Finally a lovely spring day! The sun is shining, the temperatures are really nice and warm and it is a Friday right before a long weekend! Pure Bliss!!!
I should have told this here early, but I was so freaking out happy that I forgot. Last week I received a truly happy e-mail, guess what? Scrapbook Trends magazine picked one of my LOs to be published on their October 2011 issue!!! How cool is that for an e-mail? I'm in HEAVEN!
Now, I'll head outside and enjoy this sunny day (thankful for wireless network and notebooks right now!). See ya!
If you are Brazilian (or understand Portuguese) and loves Scrapbooking, you KNOW (and if you don't, I'm telling you right now) there is only one place to go to when you wanna talk about scrapbooking => Scrapbook Brasil
It's a great community online and now they are planning to add more people to this passion we all share. How? Easy => 1, 2, 3... Scrap! . This is an event that will teach us all some basics of the papercrafting art, and guess what, it's absolutely FREE!!!
Quick post today. I love dry embossing, love my folders... So, I decided to use my favorites to do the background of a LO. The result was so cool that I only wanted to cover a minimal part of it, and that's the result:
My mom loved it so much that she put it on a shadow box and stole it, lol.
OK, I finally gave in to the Sketch world, lol... But there are sooo many options when using one, and I love possibilities. ;)
So here is a LO I created with one of the Studio Calico's sketch. And guess what, I used their April kit for that too! Did I mentioned I'm in LOVE with "Singin' in the Rain"? No? Really? Well, I am. What a great kit!!! So versatile (keep in mind = possibilities girl here!).
Anyway, here is the sketch:
And here is my take on it:
Sorry about the crooked image, I guess I can't take a STRAIGHT PHOTOGRAPH!!! Grrrr...
There is nothing better than a scrapbook event to bring us to cloud 9! Even better when we just got a happy mail box (Thanks, Studio Calico! and UPS for quick shipping/delivering) and a whole ring covered with Scrapbooking vendors all willing to sell!!!ScrapFest Canada in Kitchener happened this weekend and it was just AWESOME!!! As usual, I barely got anything done, but... Here is a LO I made using my Studio Calico "Singin'in the Rain" kit (loving this kit to pieces!!!):
There were deals, the crop was wonderful as always and I chatted a lot... Hahaha. The classes were good, but the one I took last year in Oshawa was way better...
