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{love you dad}

by on April 14, 2012
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Hello hello my crafty friends. Am back today with a quick mas­cu­line dad card to share…

This one, was a last minute card (really, all of my card sub­mis­sions are last minute!) that I squeezed in and I was SO excited when I got the happy email from Miss Opel for it :)

It appears in this new issue of Paper Crafts Mag­a­zine,

I got this issue in the mail a cou­ple of days ago, and man is it packed with a TON of amaz­ing projects. Loved read­ing it! (Psst: You really should like The Paper Crafts Magazine’s face­book page! They are so much fun!!!)

As amaz­ing as it was to get my card in the mag­a­zine, I have to say that I got a super super sweet email yes­ter­day from my new friend Patti, that was even more amaz­ing! She emailed me with a link to her blog, and said that she had seen this card in the mag­a­zine and was inspired to cre­ate one of her own. How kind of her to take time to actu­ally email me :)

Thanks Patti, I love your card!  And I know you all are inquis­i­tive, so click here to go her blog and see what she made!

PS: I have a super fun post planned for tomor­row!!! (tomor­row hap­pens to be just 10 min­utes away, so stick around and see what its all about!)

PPS: Things have been com­pletely out of whack for the past cou­ple of days, with my mother in law being really ill and hos­pi­tal­ized. Things are bet­ter now, and we are get­ting back into a rou­tine slowly. I missed my blog in those few days, and this also made me real­ize how ther­a­peu­tic typ­ing a blog post actu­ally is. Here is to blog­ging more!

 

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Posted by Smitha on April 14, 2012

http://www.smilingcolors.com/2012/04/love-you-dad/

{project life 2012: march}

by on April 10, 2012
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Hello Every­one! Hello fel­low Project lifers!

Am back today, with my dou­ble page spread for the month of March.

As many of you know, this year I am doing Project life dig­i­tally. And monthly instead of weekly (you can read more about that in my first PLpost here)

I was way ahead of sched­ule ear­lier– both for jan­u­ary and feb­ru­ary, but march was busy. I am still on track though but I can feel that creepy feel­ing that I will be lag­ging soon… But thats ok,  coz it felt SO good do make this layout!

(click on image to see enlarged version)

This lay­out came together really quickly: In less than an hour. For two sim­ple rea­sons: One, I knew that I wanted to blow up that pic­ture on the right side of the page. Sec­ond, I decided to use the rest of the space to form a 3 by 4 inch grid. After that, things fell into place quick.

I also love the white space that the “quote cards” pro­vide here. I was a lit­tle bummed that I had’nt got to play with my recent weekly free­bies, and I guess I used a lot of them on this one :)

Sup­plies for this lay­out: I used a cou­ple of Quote cards from my “spring series” also a 3 from the “water­color” series. I also used some of the “a lit­tle bird told me”  jour­nal­ing cards by Splen­did Fiins (which will be avail­able at www.jessicasprague.com soon)

For this page, I used ‘the every­day amaz­ing’ card from the “every­day series” and one large photo– 8 by 12 inches. That photo my hus­band took is so totally awe­some, worth every penny he paid for his new cam­era ;)

I am also join­ing in on the Project life Tues­day at The Mom Cre­ative! I love the energy they have here and I also love that it gives me a dead­line. Since  my Project life is going to be monthly, I will be post­ing on the sec­ond Tues­day each month…

The Mom Creative

 

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Posted by Smitha on April 10, 2012

http://www.smilingcolors.com/2012/04/project-life-2012-march/

{practical solutions challenges…}

by on April 9, 2012
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Squeez­ing in three cards for the chal­lenges @Mox­ieFab­World. Really really last minute here :)

The first one is for the DIY Embell­ish­ments Chal­lenge : My hand­made embel­lie here is the flower, that I painted roughly using my daugh­ter’ water­color paint and then out­lined with a black pen. Bright and cheery! The sec­ond one is for the Paper Scraps Chal­lenge : And here I used some left­over scraps, to make a mini card. The card is really tiny, about 2 by 3 inches and don’t we all have left­over card stock? Of late, every­time I have a lit­tle or lot of card stock left­over, I make cards out of them, and now have a tiny drawer full of  base cards– ready for me to dec­o­rate and embellish.

I also used the left­over neg­a­tive from a punched scal­lop. I trimmed around it, to form a rec­tan­gle and then used a cor­ner punch on it. The third one is for the Don’t Throw it Away Chal­lenge and for that I used some left­over alpha stick­ers. I always run out of vow­els, and this is a fun way to reuse them. Just cut around the neg­a­tive and stick it on pat­terned paper or card stock. I love doing this, and have used this tech­nique on a scrap­book lay­out of mine here too :)

Also enter­ing this card for the Paper Scraps Chal­lenge . I pulled out all scrap papers for this one, and trimmed them into one inch squares. As a mom of two lit­tle girls, it fig­ures I would  have a ton of pink pat­terned paper.. Am gonna be back in an hour with my Project life post! Stick around :)

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Posted by Smitha on April 9, 2012

http://www.smilingcolors.com/2012/04/practical-solution-cards/

{Freebie: Printable Photo themed cards}

by on April 8, 2012
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These have to be my favorite Quotes ever! I have fallen in love with pho­tog­ra­phy, and these quotes just speak to me.

Also, I tried a very sub­tle color palette for this week. Hope you like it and find some use for it!

So for this weeks free­bie, I have six 3 by 4 inch print­able cards with a “photo” theme!

Down­load here

If you are inter­ested in dig­i­tal free­bies, be sure to like/fol­low me on face­book or twit­ter to get the lat­est updates!

As usual, link me up to any­thing you cre­ate using these in the com­ments sec­tion below, I love mak­ing new scrapbooking/crafty friends!

Thanks for stop­ping by today! Happy Sun­day to you all! Hope you are enjoy­ing your week­end! :)

(You can stop by here if you are inter­ested in my pre­vi­ous Fri­day Freebies…)

 

PS: The stamp give­away closes today! Check it out here!

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Posted by Smitha on April 8, 2012

http://www.smilingcolors.com/2012/04/freebie-printable-photo-themed-cards/

{the post with all the links…}

by on April 6, 2012
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Yup, this post is gonna be full of links, places that I love and thought I would share with you all!

First, the new Spring issue of Scrap­street is out. I have an “Inspi­ra­tion Way” arti­cle in there, titled “Quote me” (which might fea­ture some of my dear blog read­ers works… {smile})

This also means that there is a new call for sub­mis­sions. For our next issue I am look­ing for…

Chevron Chic. Draw your inspi­ra­tion from the image below and let your cre­ativ­ity flow! Think out of the box and make a lay­out of any size, card, or altered item. Please include a line in your sub­mis­sion telling us how this image inspired you.

Dead­line is mid­night May 19th for all calls.

Please send your work to smikatti@gmail.com

Please send a sep­a­rate email for each sub­mis­sion you would like to be con­sid­ered for pub­li­ca­tion. Please keep the image size around 600 x 600 pix­els. Thank you!

There are a whole lot of other calls too, which you can find here. Good luck!

Sec­ond, I wanted to share the Cre­ative team call open at Jes­sica Sprague’s web­site. If you are dig­i­tal scrap­booker, this is an amaz­ing, truly amaz­ing place to be at. More details here.

 

Third, I can­not believe I have never men­tioned these amaz­ing women on blog yet. My fel­low Craft Experts from the Fiskars team. All of them cre­ate such beau­ti­ful projects, I am sure you will be inspired! (I still kinda can’t believe I am on their team!)

Kat­rina Simeck
Kendra McK­racken
Lisa Storms
Patti Milazzo
Valerie Salmon
Tania Willis
Lau­rie Cinotto
Emma Jef­frey
Mindy Miller

Fourth, these are some of the chal­lenge sites I love to visit. Noth­ing like a good chal­lenge to get your craft going!

Moxie Fab World
CAS-ual Fri­days
Cre­ate Blog
Club CK
Stu­dio Calico 
Mojo Mon­days

Some the new blogs I am fol­low­ing and lov­ing! (i had to clean out my reader, and purge out tons of blogs, but I felt bad two days later, and added some new ones)

A quilt is nice
A beau­ti­ful mess blog
Dou­ble­stick Heaven
Good­Bye City Life
The Play Date Cafe

 And lastly, but most impor­tantly, here is a the hash­tag that my friend Niru­pama and I came up with.

We both usu­ally stay up late at night to scrap and tweet. So we cre­ated a hash­tag #twit­ter­crop for all you to join us in this online crop.

What could be more fun than scrap­book­ing? Why, scrap­book­ing with friends!!

Last night, was our first online scrap­book­ing tweet crop, I didnt scrap much, coz the baby didnt sleep till really really really late (atleast her ear infec­tion has healed!) but it was SO much fun to hang out with other peo­ple, see­ing what they were scrap­ping and chatting!!

Thank you @LiveTeachCre­ate  @soap­house­mama  @johannahb_08  @2littlezsandme  @nirupama01  @SmithaKatti for com­ing to our crop! I am sure we will be plan­ning another one soon– as soon as we find some time :)

So there, I just jammed your day with pos­si­bilites :)

Have fun!

PS: Link me up with your favorite places to go! I will stop by today.

PPS: The give­away is still open. Click here for more info! 

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Posted by Smitha on April 6, 2012

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