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{guest blogging at CK…}

by on May 8, 2012
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I am pop­ping in early today, as opposed to my usual mid­nite blog­ging, because…

today I am guest blog­ging at the Cre­at­ing Keep­sakes blog!

I talk about using your paper scraps and punches on  your scrap­book­ing lay­outs :)

And you might want to head over there and leave a com­ment, because Fiskars is very gen­er­ously giv­ing away three of their brand new XXXL Lever Punches to one win­ner.

And if you are stop­ping by here from the CKblog and are new to my blog, a BIG HELLO to you :)

I have another lay­out to share today, using those XXXL punches, the bird one is my favorite (and evi­dently my daugh­ters favorite too!)

I punched a whole lot of the birds and adhered them on the XXXL sqau­res. This lay­out was another quick lay­out, becuase I used a coor­di­nated kit of papers, here SC’s board­walk kit.

Thanks for stop­ping by today!

 

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Posted by Smitha on May 8, 2012

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{a week of spring: day three: spring is in the air…}

by on April 18, 2012
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So for today I have another digi lay­out for spring,

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As seen in the March/April 2011 issue of Cre­at­ing Keep­sakes.  Copy­right Cre­ative Crafts Group.  Posted with prior per­mis­sion from the publisher.
 

This one is a two pager too, and a big thank you for all the  sweet com­ments you guys left about my ear­lier two pagers :) I am a lit­tle short­handed at home right now, but will def­i­nitely be get­ting back to all of you soon!

This page gave me a whole lot of trou­ble.  I lit­er­ally sat at my comp for ages, mov­ing things around and at the end was not really inter­ested to fin­ish the lay­out. It started as a one pager,

but I didn’t really like the title too much– (though I did like the square con­fetti I have cre­ated. I should try that again!)

So I worked onto ver­sion 2,

But that was too blah. I finally ended up mak­ing it a dou­ble page lay­out. Lots of yel­lows and greens, and that works well for spring layouts!

 

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Posted by Smitha on April 18, 2012

http://www.smilingcolors.com/2012/04/a-week-of-spring-day-three-spring-is-in-the-air/

{a week of spring: day two: spring blooms…}

by on April 16, 2012
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Hi every­one! It’s day two of spring projects, and here is a scrap­book­ing lay­out titled “spring blooms”

This one is a dou­ble page lay­out, and the pho­tos here were taken last year, when I was preg­nant (which seems like a long lost dis­tant mem­ory today!) My favorite photo here has to be the photo of the cherry blos­soms! And a near sec­ond would be the photo of my belly peek­ing from behind the tree :)

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As seen in Scrap­book­ing ideas for every sea­son.  Copy­right Cre­ative Crafts Group.
Posted with prior per­mis­sion from the publisher.
 

I used felt and punched flow­ers here,

This lay­out actu­ally appeared in a spe­cial issue of Cre­at­ing Keep­sakes mag­a­zine called Scrap­book­ing ideas for every sea­son which came out a while ago…

Thanks for stop­ping by today! Will see you all tomor­row with some more spring :)

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Posted by Smitha on April 16, 2012

http://www.smilingcolors.com/2012/04/a-week-of-spring-day-two-spring-blooms/

{sunny summer days}

by on August 11, 2011
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Sum­mer seems to be wind­ing down here, the days are slightly cooler and that reminded me that I still need to share this sum­mer lay­out with you all! It appeared in this July/August 2011 issue of the Cre­at­ing Keep­sakes mag­a­zine,

 

This is a dou­ble page lay­out, titled “sunny sum­mer days”

As seen in the July/August 2011 issue of Cre­at­ing Keep­sakes.  Copy­right Cre­ative Crafts Group.

Posted with prior per­mis­sion from the publisher.

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Baby N has grown so much, she is a lit­tle big girl now! In these pho­tos she is about 10–12 months old and had just learnt to walk. My favorite photo of the lot, is the one with the lawn mowers!

This lay­out is all printed and I have already added it to Baby N’s first year scrap­book. I have one dou­ble page lay­out– yes just ONE– to fin­ish and that would com­plete her scrap­book! I have started the lay­out, and selected the pho­tos (that takes the most time for me) and I know where the pho­tos need to go. But I am so sleep deprived, with Baby S get­ting up atleast 3 or 4 times a night to feed, that my cre­ativ­ity seems to have taken a vaca­tion… I need a good 5 hour block of sleep, then I should be back to nor­mal :)

Hope you are hav­ing a great day! Thanks for stop­ping by my blog!

Sup­plies used:
Soft­ware: Adobe Pho­to­shop CS4
Papers: Crys­tal Wilkerson
Font: CK Newsroom
Tree, elements,stitching and tags: Crys­tal Wilkerson
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Posted by Smitha on August 11, 2011

http://www.smilingcolors.com/2011/08/sunny-summer-days/

{just like that}

by on July 14, 2011
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Time to share some dig­i­tal good­ness today. This is a lay­out of mine that appeared in this Cre­at­ing Keep­sakes: Scrap­book­ing tips and tricks: Fab­u­lous Flow­ers edi­tion,

As seen in Cre­at­ing Keep­sakes’ 2011 Tips & Tricks: Fab­u­lous Flow­ers.  Copy­right Cre­ative Crafts Group. 
Pub­lished with prior per­mis­sion from the publisher. 
 

I have said this many times, that I am not a flower per­son. Atleast 6 months ago, I wasn’t. I like clean lines and bold col­ors in my scrap­book­ing lay­outs. To soften things I like to add stitch­ing. But cou­ple of months ago, I tried my hand at lay­er­ing some paper flow­ers together and I loved the result. And then I bought some felt flow­ers from Michaels and they have inspired me and made me a flower addict. I like explor­ing felt flow­ers so much now that I have a flower tuto­r­ial to share with you all next week.

For this dig­i­tal lay­out, I used flow­ers as my embell­ish­ments, but I used close ups of the flow­ers and cre­atively cropped them as my accents. This was a very sim­ple lay­out– a quick one too, and I love the orange color here– bright and bold!

I have been feel­ing this burst of energy of late and today I started a humungous project. I started a new quilt for the baby. I have been feel­ing enor­mously guilty that I have not made any­thing hand­made for the sec­ond baby. So with two weeks left to my due date, I am start­ing my quilt. This will be the third quilt I have ever made, and it is a pretty sim­ple design. I bought all my fab­rics, have sketched out my pat­tern (its not a sim­ple block pat­tern.. it involves a bit of math to cut each piece!) and tonite I ironed all the washed fab­rics ( I so dis­like iron­ing– but it had to be done)

Here is a peek at the fab­rics I plan to use for this quilt (I don’t think I will be using dark brown fab­ric though)– wish me luck!!

Sup­plies used:
 
Soft­ware: Adobe Pho­to­shop CS5
 
Papers, alpha, jour­nal­ing strips and sta­ples: Crys­tal Wilkerson
 
Jour­nal­ing font: Palatino Linotype

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Posted by Smitha on July 14, 2011

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