Roma Envelope Album
Posted on | September 1, 2010 | Comments Off
I have these photos from our trip to Rome printed and the journaling written since… 4 years I think!
When I saw the new pack your bags collection from LYB I thought… oh, what a pity I do not have pictures to scrap with it, it is so beautiful… but wait, I have those Rome pictures lol and here they are, pictures and the album I loved when I saw in the store. It turned out wonderful! I added few extra pages of double side patterned paper and only few embelishments (I had lots of photos).
The cute envelope album kit comes with 5 envelopes, 4 pages made of double side patterned paper, 5 inserts where you can write your journaling, cover and back cover (chipboard) and 10 washers & eyelets, linen string & 2 binder rings. I decided to bind it with my zutter though.
A detail with the spinner chipboard sticker. So chic!
The first page, with a quote and a flower.
I can still remember how wonderful this trip was. We were living in Africa that time and a trip to Rome was something fantastic for our tired eyes and souls.
Life in the desert and in another culture was kind of killing us. Rome was our medicine.
Wait! you will se an overuse of my butterfly punch in this mini lol
I printed some digital labels with the places names:
For some extra pages I needed, I used a favorite from the Clothesline collection, also by LYB.
Again the butterfly, and the threading water punch. I can’t help myself. I love these two 
I did some embellishments using patterned paper, punches and some transparencies I had from a previous project.
Envelopes with inserts = cool!
As you see the snowmen were with us in Rome too. And we took pictures of them everywhere. In the Colosseum, Via Apia, eating ice cream in the Piazza di Spagna. In fact the trip was an idea from our snowman Geraldo (the one with the purple hat). But I’ll spare you the details lol I told you the life in the desert was making us crazy!
I used the envelopes as pages too, I had lots of photos printed and all quite large for a mini.
The last page:
This is the back cover:
And a side view:
and finally the inserts with journaling that are in the envelopes:
I can only recommend these envelope albums, they are so fun to work with! the paper is very hard, you can add and add things to it and it does just stay as it is. I love the inserts and the extra pages for more photos and fun stuff. Now I pnly need to find the tickets and other memorabilia I kept from this travel, I hope I can still find it, 6 years and 2 moves later ;(
A day like no other
Posted on | August 31, 2010 | Comments Off
I love to scrap about me, love to remember stories and write them down on paper. I hope my kids will find fun to read about me and my life when they are older.
The layout above is about the day I was accepted in the university of my dreams. In Brazil the results of the qualifying examination are published in a newspaper, and that year I was approved the results were out one day earlier. I wasn’t expecting that and was very nervous so I went out with a friend to a artisans market. I went to the bus stop to wait for her and suddenly I see my mother running and shaking her hands in my direction, she said: you are in, you were approved! I did not understand a thing and them she told me a friend from the work has called and said she saw my name in the newspaper, that the results were out one day earlier!
(by this time there was quite a bunch of people who stopped in the street and were looking after what would happen the next with us lol). We went to a newspaper stand, I got a newspaper with the breaking news “results out one day earlier” and oh God, I was almost crying when I openned it and read my name there.
Everybody started shaking hands and congratulating and asking what I was going to study and so on. It was so fun and such a happy moment!
I went to the church, said my prayers, called two of my aunts and got my documents ready to the presentation day.
Right after we present our documents in the university and go out, the old students are waiting for the new “animals” and we get painted. I felt so proud and happy to be painted lol I them met another student in the bus back to the city and we were kind of sad because we did not have a camera to take a picture of us in this memorable moment of our lives. So we decided to go to a professional photograph (in a studio) and pay to have our picture taken. Yes, it is the picture above. Yes it was the year 1994. I am that old lol
(if you like the products I used in the layout be sure to check my two peas gallery here)
Color room 21
Posted on | August 30, 2010 | Comments Off
I am not sure if I already shared here my love for a challenge blog called the color room. Every week they bring a new palette to scrap with and they are always great! I love to use the palettes because I have to search in my stash for the perfect items to complet a layout (no I do NOT recolor anything). I finally use products I would not use other way and I love it! Moreover, you know I love a good challenge lol
here is this week’s palette:
and my layout:
Almost everything here is retired product, only the awesome bracket frames by Scrap Originals are new, never used before stuff
New kits, sale and free with purchase at Scrapbook Graphics
Posted on | August 28, 2010 | Comments Off
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SBG is celebrating it’s 7th anniversary and giving away the wonderful colab Impressions of 7 for free with a $17 purchase!
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 I just added two new kits to the store too. For those who read my blog or follow me on facebook, you know that I just celebrate my two daughter’s birthdays two weeks ago and I am plenty of pictures of them to scrap. It was time to make a new birthday kit! I already scrapped 4 layouts with these and I am by no means ready I hope you like it and enjoy scrapping your birthday pictures too! |
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| my favorite day for the boys | my favorite day for the girls |
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| my favorite day quick pages for the boys | my favorite day quick pages for the girls |
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| my favorite day brag book for the boys | my favorite day brag book for the girls |
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and here is some inspiration by me and my girls
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Have a wonderful weekend!Me: The Abridged Version
Posted on | August 26, 2010 | Comments Off
Next month I’ll participate in the Me: the abridged version class, teached by Cathy Zielske at Big picture scrapbooking. It is going to be my first online class. I was back and forth about participating in it because we will have 5 days holiday mid-September but, on the other hand, I love ´Cathy’s style and approach to scrapbooking and I think it wil be a fun journey to scrap about me with her help.
So, today I got my pre-class notebook ready. It was a plain boring notebook I have for years in my drawer and it looks now fabulous covered with my fav studio calico paper and scraps of coordinating green yumminess.
The vintage girl is from my Happy Fall kit, the other papers are october afternoon and the b-side of the same paper I used for the cover.
I adhered the vintage card to a scrap of chipboard, for dimension.
I am not doing dimensional scrapbooking anymore, I am going flat but it is fun to add a lil piece of chipboard “just because” to a project sometimes.
now it is ready to hold my ideas for this book/class. I’ll start collecting words to use in this project.
I feel happy with the perspective of creating an entire album A-Z about me next month.
Lost in the webspace
Posted on | August 24, 2010 | Comments Off
After the move to a new server lot of info got lost in the web space. I need to re-organize my sidebar and work a lot in my pixels shop as all of the buttons from the shop cart are gone. #
I am also thinking about changing the look here, so if the blog looks weird for you don’t worry, it will be back soon
In the spotlight
Posted on | August 24, 2010 | Comments Off
come to read my interview and play along with me at Two Peas. My challenge is to lift a paper layout, I do it all the time My layout below is a lift of this wonderful layout by walesk!
credits here
My store
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