I had a wonderful year full of new beginnings and challenges, but a wonderful year. A lot has happened in the last couple of days, I will have to talk about it and post here when the time is right, but for now, enjoy your holidays, family and friends. I wish you all the best and wanted to thank everyone for their love and support over the last few months.

See you next year :)

xoxoxo

While we anxiously wait for the new Fancy Pants releases coming next week, the blog goes on with its schedule and I have the spotlight this week :) Check their website to read a litte more about myself.

I wanted to share the "all about me" page I created for the spotlight:

The photo on the corner was taken by Mateus, I *have* to scrap the outtakes, they are so funny!

Page created with the delicious All Fall collection from Fancy Pants (papers, die cuts, alpha and buttons); except chipboard from Mix-n-Match 12x12 Chipboard and crocheted poesies from Sassy poesies. I love the little details, I was thinking about making little blinkies or images for my blog with it, but there are a lot of images here as it is :)

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In digiland there are a lot of new projects coming up. There is even a new release at the shoppe, I will do a proper post with the release as soon as I have another minute! Oh, and there is a freebie coming up :)

xoxo

It has been a great couple of days, except for being sick, I had a LOT of people shooting good vibes at me and really pushing me forward on everything I want to do. Even the guys at work gave me a *nice* gift certificate to the craft store which I can use to make more art supplies to do what I want :) Spoke for hours with a good friend over the phone, got a ton of e-mails from friends supporting me and helping me. I mean, what more can I ask for? And now that I am not sick anymore, I just feel over the moon :)

Yesterday I posted my page for Pencil Lines Sketch 142 at Two Peas and got selected as featured layout:

got love that too :)

aaaand, if you head over to the Create Well... Create Often blog, I am the guest designer this week! Such an honour to be listed amongst the other guests, wow, what a line up! Thanks so much Jen for the opportunity!

I am still working on that alpha from the sneak peek, I realised it could be a pain to recolour it so I am making lots of coloured versions so people can pick and chose their favourite :) I really like how it is turning out. Check back soon for more news!

Hybrid can be something really simple, like adding text to your photos or printing your journaling, like so:

a page to make me feel warm inside (since I am freezing here!!!)  I really do love this song.

Credits

Bazzil paper; Buttons and ribbon from Doodlebug Designs; Flower from Bella; American Crafts Thickers; and the doodled journaling spot is from Designs by Lili.

Hope you are having a great (warm) week!

Oops, it has been a while since I have done a hybrid feature, which was something that was supposed to be a weekly thing :) So, let's get back into it?

This a little butterfly album I created for myself when I was close to turning 30. It is great to have something like this to remind me how loved I was and the innocence of that time. Here it is:

Credits:
Pink Chocolate Papers by Michelle Coleman.
Font is Honey Script.
Materials:
Butterfly album, pearls, paint by Kaisercraft.
Thickers by American Crafts.
Epson Premium Glossy photopaper.
Flowers by Bella.
Assorted buttons and ribbons.
Mod Podge.

and obviously, my very own template:

Thanks for stopping by :)    

I think it is the first time since I started this blog in January that I take a whole week to post again. Even when I was in Brazil I managed to get posts drafted and ready to go even with no access to the Internet.

This past week I had Internet, I had material/layouts/stuff/news/stories to post, I was at home the whole week, but just could not sit myself in front of the computer to blog, just didn't have the right frame of mind. Lucas was sick, then Mateus, than Lucas again, and Alex, then Mateus again, then finally it got me. Mateus was incredible, in the last 10 days he had headaches, earaches, asthma and a cold. All of each led to nothing and he was better in less than 24 hours each time. He is either very strong or very dramatic. Lucas is another tough cookie, the days he were home he actually did not nap in the afternoon like he should. He could barely breath but he would not rest. On Tuesday he passed out around 5PM and we tried to wake him up at 7PM so he could get some dinner and he just wouldn't wake up. The result was that he woke up at 1AM and didn't want to go back to bed... so stubborn, it wasn't a pleasant night.

Talking about Lucas, my layout for Pencil Lines Sketch 136 was about him starting toilet training last week. Obviously it didn't go so well this week and with him sick and being so cold around here I slapped his nappies back on for the days he was home. But in childcare on Friday he only had one accident, so that's great, I think he will do really well. Here is my page:

Everything by the uber talented Kate Hadfield except scribbles by Designs by Lili, date stamps by Michelle Coleman and (you might now by now) that alpha stamp is the Free Spirit alpha by CD Muckosky LOL

oh, and you got to be wondering where is the free template? hehehe I didn't forget, I haven't been THAT sick ;) Here you go:

Have a great week everyone, Finger crossed everyone here will stay well, I have a lot to catch up on.

Hello :) Hope everyone had a fantastic Mother's Day! Mine was nice and quiet (well, as quiet as the kids allowed), just the way I like it. Woke up to handmade presents from the kids and the Twilight DVD from hubby (movie I haven't seen yet of the book I also haven't read). Took photos (had photos taken, see below) then brunch at the local shoppes and shopping for a new handbag and boots. Then back home and everyone did exactly what they wanted. Matty played Batman Lego on the Playstation, Lucas watched a new Mickey Mouse DVD, Alex went to take a nap and I... was scrapping and editing photos :) Ended the day with a little TV we watched the finale of So you think you can Dance Australia that was recorded a couple of weeks ago. I was happy I still didn't know the winner and even happier that it was Tahlia, I think she did great and I can't wait to see her performance at the US Finale of So you think you can Dance.

Yesterday I thought I was going to buy myself a new lens or camera for Mother's day, but found out the prices went up so much the money we had saved was not enough (it was a major bummer). Even Alex was disappointed, now he had to think of something else to give me LOL. But, if camera gear is not available, the next best thing he could do was take photos and so he did.  Even though I put on a ton of weight over my vacation time and had my hair back, I still think this will be one of my all time favourite photos of me and the boys:

Thanks Alex!

(the sunflare was a complete fluke, we had no idea the sun was entering the lenses and we didn't plan for it. Some people would toss something like this but I absolutely love the feel of this photo)

xoxo

As some of you may (not) know, I have been away visiting family in Brazil for the last 3 weeks. It was short and sweet.. maybe too short. I certainly didn't do everything I wanted to do and didn't see everyone I wanted to see. But as usual I was crazy to get back home by the second week. I miss my routine, my bed (even though I need a new bed), my friends and my usual life :)

All the posts I posted while I was away I put together and saved as draft before I left. It was a pretty busy couple of weeks in March :)

Happy belated (inter)National Scrapbooking Day. Yet again I missed all the fun of this special day :( I was away last year too, we went to Sydney for the weekend. So I missed all the wonderful sales, promotions, challenges. I didn't even participate on the LDD collab for our birthday celebration (that got me sad) but at least I was part of the sale and I had my Kaisercraft Giveaway. By the way, I already send out the e-mails with the Kaisercraft Giveway winners. I will announce them as soon as they confirm their address so I can send them the albums :)

Ah, and once again I didn't nominate for DST's Scrappers' Choice Awards. Lucky people are wonderful and I got nominated for my hybrid projects. Thanks Laura, Léa, Jule, Monic, Dúnia and Christina for nominating me, you guys rock!!! I was just frustrated I didn't get to submit my own projects and specially because I didn't get to nominate some pretty incredible projects by some very talented people! Maybe I will have my own little awards post in the future :)

As you can imagine I have a crowded inbox to go through, so if you sent something urgent feel free to resend it to me so it doesn't get lost with everything else. I didn't take a laptop with me but I did take my camera. Talking about my camera... I have 2200 photos to go through. Not too bad, I figure it could have been worse. But now everyone is waiting for the photos and I have to edit all of them extra fast. Yes, ALL my photos have to go through Lightroom. And if I really like something I edit it in photoshop too hehehe.

Sorry about the eye candy-less post. Right this moment, I don't have photos or pages or projects to show you and I am way too busy to do a hybrid feature with an older project.. I have yet another load of laundry to get done and with the jet lag the kids are waking up in the middle of the night so what I really needed is a nap, but I have to go grocery shopping before picking the kids up in less than two hours! I hope to be back with photos soon, thanks for stopping by!

Todays is my sister´s birthday. Yes, my brother and sister have their birthdays really close :)

Happy birthday sweetie, you grow more beautiful each day! 

and here are two more photos of their birthday party, with my mom:

and with my dad:

mom and dad are divorced and even though they are good friends we ended up getting photos at different times :P

yep, family is complicated :) and important :)

see you guys soon!

Busy busy busy, quick post just to let you know that sketch 129 with guest designer Melissa Deakin is up on the Pencil Lines blog with this free template based on sketch by Anna Bowkis:

and here is my page:

too minimalist for my usual style... but I have been trying to "simplify".

Created with Little Dreamer Designs goodies: Papers(Funky Canvas) and frame(Photographics) by Julia Makotinsky, stamped alpha(Letterpress) by Michelle Coleman and handwriting was a LDD blog freebie by CD Muckosky. Font is CK signature.

I have a big announcement this week. I am taking a quick break from designing this month and I have a nice giveaway to make up for it :) Coming soon!