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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

"Laughter" and "Just Because"

This week at Practical Scrappers our challenge was to use brads in our projects. I did a 12x12 layout and a card for my Wednesday submission. :)

For the layout I used Basic Grey patterned paper for the back ground and other different kinds of patterned papers. Flowers and some Bo Bunny rob-ons. I used large size brads for the middle of the flowers as my flower centers. For the title I used Thickers ABC stickers. love how this layout turned out!!!

For the card I used one of my new and favorite stamp sets by American Crafts "Sentiments". I stamped the flowers 3 times in a row and used sugar coated brads for the flowers. I used some patterned paper from my scraps bin so I don't even know what brand they are, sorry. I added some jewels in the middle of the chipboard butterfly and some ribbon and the card was done. I really how it turned out. It's so bright and colorful!!! :)

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Don't forget to check out Practical Scrappers for more awesome layouts, cards and other projects. Your not going to want to miss next weeks challenge as well so head over there and get inspired!!!

HUGS!
Nadya :)

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Practical Scrappers week 6 and 7....

I was so excited that I had my project done for Practical Scrappers blog for week 6. Only to find out that I got my projects mixed up. So I didn't get to do week 6, instead I did week 7. But that's OK. I got something going that I ended up doing for last weeks challenge even if I didn't submit it. The only thing is that I can't show it to you just yet... :) You'll have to wait till next week.

I did have A LOT OF FUN working on this weeks challenge. We had Lacy cardstock... WOW! What fun!!!! I didn't really use lacy cardstock before but looking at all of the work that the Design Team ladies did on PS is just amazing and I need to go out and get my self some more of this lacy cardstock. So much inspiration going on at PS right now.

Oh and my the way did you all know that PS has a board now? Yep!!! And it's AWESOME!!!! You all should check it out!!!! Here's a link Practical Scrappers boards...

OK... back to this weeks challenge.

Here is my layout that I did. Yet another layout for our friends album. It's getting closer and closer to being done... :) Woohoo!!!! I hope they'll like it when it's all done.

Used:
Lace cardstock that I've had for some time now by K&Company.
Lyrical letters cricut cartridge for the title and the butterflies.
Scraps of papers.
Large brad.
Chalk.
Stickles.

Don't forget to go to Practical Scrappers and check out the rest of the Design Team. They have some AWESOME layouts and cards using lacy cardstock.

Thanks for visiting my blog!!!

God Bless!
Nadya :)

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Flower Soft and Practical Scrappers Challenge!

I posted yesterday that I got my first tin of Flower Soft and BOY do I LOVE IT!!!!? :) It's is so AWESOME!!!

I found these two videos that are very very helpful. The lady has a very nice teaching voice and she explains everything so nicely!!!!

Flower Soft video #1
Flower Soft video #2

Make sure you watch both of them if you want to learn more about Flower Soft and awesome ways to use it!!!! I'm just starting out with it so both of these videos have been so helpful to me.

I had a BLAST working with Flower Soft last night. My husband and my brother in law who is visiting us right now even liked the cards that I did.. LOL :) It was SO easy to use and so much FUN!!! Now I need to get more colors!!!! hee hee

So here are the cards that I did plus a layout using Flower Soft. It is so windy outside today that I could not get the layout and cards to stay still. I take my pictures outside for better lighting. So I'm sorry if the pictures didn't turn out all that great.

Used on both of the cards:
Flower Soft Heather.
Aleene's tacky glue.
Flowers stamp from Garden bouquet collection by Posh Impressions.
CTMH Ink pens, Hydrangea, Topiary and Holiday Red.
Scraps of CM embossed paper that I had left over.
Bazzill Olive green card stock.
White card stock.
Star dust stickles.
Eyelets by SU.
Rub-ons.

They layout is simple. Some paper STMH stamps and Flower Soft. I just had so much fun playing last night!!! :) The layout is also a Challenge page for Practical Scrappers. We had to use 5 eyelets on a layout. Go check out their blog and what their DT team came up with for this challenge.

Here is my layout. The 4 eyelets are on the two pink strips at the bottom and the 5th one is on a circle. For the title I used Lyrical Letters cartridge the Capital font.

Close up of the circle that has the flowers with Flower Soft.

Thanks for looking and I hope you liked my projects!!!

Nadya :)

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Lita's sketch #4 and Scrunchy Flowers...

I have two projects to show you today!!!!

First is the Scrunchy Flower or paper flower or the flower that everyone is making these days. :) I've seen them EVERYWHERE! There's a lot of great tutorials out there for these flowers. I found this tutorial at Christian Paper Crafts to be very easy and simply to follow.

I finally took the time last night to make couple of these flowers as I was waiting for my husband to finish up his home work. If you haven't done these yet, you have too. They are so easy to make and are so CUTE!!!

Here is a card that I made for a boy birthday for a friend with the first flower that I did.

Up close of the flower.

Second is Lita's #4 sketch. To see her sketches please visit her blog at Embracing Imperfection.

I had a lot of fun doing this sketch. I just love how these little scrunchy paper flowers turned out!!!! I started working on the Volume 2 album for our friends and the photos are of their oldest daughter. She is such a good kid!!!!

And the corners with the flowers.

I just LOVE how these flowers turned out!!! I see my self making more of these that's for sure!!!

Thanks for looking!!!!
Nadya

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Lita's sketch #3...

I finally got to do Lita's sketch #3. It's an awesome sketch and I see my self using it many more times. I had so much fun doing this layout. I even journaled and posting the layout with that journaling here.... so that means that you'll see my hand writing and non fixed or checked spelling... LOL :)

You can find the sketch here.

Paper layout:

Used:
Life is a Beach cricut cartridge. Crab, fish, sun and sand dollar.
Accent Essential cartridge. The circles, it's all one shape.
I had cut out before some sun's from the Life is a Beach cartridge and used the template the negative that was left from the sun and stamped it over with some yellow and orange ink pad on top of the white card stock.
The sun, I had painted with some orange Making Memories liquid acrylic paint. Cut two of them in 1/2 and layered on top of each other and put some start dust stickles on top.

Here is the close up of the sun with stickles..

Thanks for looking and I hope you like it. :)

Nadya

Monday, July 27, 2009

It is so sad and hard to see friends move away!!!

And we had to do that this week end. We said our "See ya later and we will miss you!" this passed Sunday to one of our most dearest friends. Brian and Jennifer and their kids have been a BLESSING to our family and our Church. But with tears on our faces we had to say Goodbye to them. I had prayed (I know that many have prayed the same prayer) that they would stay here in Hawaii. But God and military had a different plan for them. I know that it is God's will that they had to go... But it is still so hard to say that Goodbye! I get teary eyed just typing this out.

This week I got to scrapbook almost every day, during the day and some nights till 3am. I was determined that I was going to get a scrapbook album done for them before they go. I should have started it along time ago, but I'm such a procrastinator and I work so much better under pressure... LOL :) I am done with Volume 1 and need to start on Volume 2 now. I'm so glad that God had helped me to finish the album. I prayed on Friday before I started working on some pages that He would help me finish as much as I could, that He would send some creativity and take this scrappers block away... and He did. He did it because He is an AWESOME God!!!!

I was able to present the book to them on Sunday night after our Church service. From their face expressions I think they LOVED it... :) that does good to my heart! Even thought I already miss them terribly!!!!

I thank God for giving us such great friends. Friends that are more than just friends they are family and I pray that we will see each other again.

I did not keep track of what I used. I was working as fast as I could between going to camp, taking care of the kids, house and so on and on. But I did use A LOT of swap sets. So if you see one that you did PLEASE claim it!!!! All of the sets are beautiful, Thank you to those that were in my swap groups!!!! It was so much faster to do this album having these swap sets, it would have taken me twice as longer to finish the album if I didn't have them. Anyways, if you see your set please PLEASE take full credit for it and Thank you for coming up with such a beautiful set!!! :)

And here are the layouts that I did... I scrapbooked pictures during the 3 years that they were here. I also did 2 double pages spreads for friends and members of our Church to sign the book and leave their wishes and goodbyes for our friends.

So here are the pages that I did for this book.... Volume 1.....

Paper flowers, brads, CTMH swirl stamps, Life's a Beach cartridge for title and Accessories Essentials for the scalloped square.