Deanna Patterson's Heart 2 Heart and Hopeful Kits

Deanna Patterson's (Shabby Scrap Designs) latest addition are Deanna Patterson’s Heart to Heart and Deanna Patterson’s Hopeful. Check out the layouts I made for them! :)

Credits: Deanna Patterson’s Heart to Heart, Arial Font, Tracy Stroud – Hemline Alphas

Credits: Deanna Patterson’s Hopeful and Dotty Chipboard Alpha, Arial Font

Sarah's back!!!!

I remember back in the day when I was lucky enough attend Lilith Fair 1999. It was held at the UBC football field. All I can say...it's like the reinvented "Woodstock" and I love it!!!! I wasn't able to get photos especially when I didn't a camera and even if I did it wouldn't have been a digital camera. :P
Lilith Fair is back and with a full force list of artists!
More information here.

Here's one recent offering is the theme song of the Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010. Check out the video below.

Starting the 2010 right

With 2010, it's going to be a year of "projects" for me. So far, I have the following:- personal/family/house projects, scrap works, and new career responsibilities. It's going to be once interesting year for sure!

To start it out, I know that getting back to the "swing of things" is toughest part. So, here's a few layouts that I recently got to finish. Here's to coming back to full-time scrapping again! I got a loadful of kits for you to view.

Leah Farquharson's new kit called No Apologie available at FunkyPlaygroundDesigns.com. I love the elements especially the beaded frame and the grey paper hues.
Credits: No Apologie by Leah Farquharson available at FunkyPlaygroundDesigns.com; Font - Arial

I enjoyed using Miss Mis Designs'(Misty Castellano) Wild One - available at DivineDigitals.com. I love all the cute animal elements and the numerous papers that come with this kit. The colors will fit any fun-loving, wild child of yours - boy or girl alike. I love also the numerous elements that can be used over and over again since it's a really versatile kit. A preview of the kit is located below.
Credits: Miss Mis Designs'(Misty Castellano) Wild One - available at DivineDigitals.com; Font - Perpetua

Another Divine Digital offerings is FleurdeLis' Be Natural. I enjoyed the "natural elements" like the flower elements with impeccable detail!
Credits: Divine Digital's FleurdeLis' Be Natural; Font - Arial Narrow; Alpha - Tracy Stroud's Hemline Alpha

Butterfly Craft Challenge #27

Butterfly Crafts Challenge #27 is up and it's all about one's favorite holiday. At first, I was going to scrap Halloween since it's my all time fav but with a new family tradition, it's hard not to choose Christmas (Eve) for this really fun holiday!

I used Leah Farquharson's Christmas Cookies available at FunkyPlayGround.com
Here is my take on this challenge and was a pure joy to create after coming back from Christmas Eve dinner! :D Little Jer performed some Chinese songs and we later played some musical chairs. Awesome awesome time!Title: Gathered
Credits: Christmas Cookies by Leah Farquharson; Arial Font
Journaling:This year, as part of my family’s Christmas tradition, My brother proposed to have Christmas Eve dinner at his home at Magallanes Village. It was a great idea since it would mean being able to comfortably stay there for as long as we want and my nephew, Little Jeremy, can go to bed whenever he wanted without having to break-up the dinner and go home. We all contributed in some way:- my brother ordered food, mom cooked and I brought appetizers to help ease the load.
It was a great night of food, company, gift-giving and the start of a great tradition!

MKC's Snow Much Fun!!!

Check out this wonderful Christmas kit with fun candy colors by Mari Koegelenberg Creations' Snow Much Fun! :D

Isn't it so yummy!
The elements are rocking and there are 4 types of alphas to fit any Christmas layout that you can whip out for this fun fun season! :D

Title: Pose for PAWS
Credits: Snow Much Fun by Mari Koegelenberg Creations (MKC), Font - Arial
Inspired by: Kate Hadfield's Pencillines Birthday template

Butterfly Crafts Challenge #25

Butterfly Crafts Challenge 25 is scrapping about what your child or children like to do. If you don't have children maybe a grandchild, niece or nephew or if you are a Godparent, talk about your Godchildren. Are they involved in sports, music, art or maybe the school play? Let's talk about it. Lets see your layouts bragging about the wonderful children in your lives!

This was a fun one! I haven't done this for awhile now since I scrap more random things than my family (aside from our little pet chi).
I used Divine Digital's Bless Our Nest (November Mega Collaboration Kit) to complete this challenge. See preview below.

Come join the fun here!
Title: Boy Faces
Journaling: Here are some of the many faces of my cute and funny nephew, Jeremy.
He’s now a bit older than 2 and ever since he learned to speak, we were able to understand and enter his fantasy world of marine life. He would assign people in the family names like “mama octopus” for his mommy, “daddy clown fish” for his daddy and “moray eel” for himself. After he gets tired of playing, “make-believe”, he would then tell everyone that they are all back as people family again.
That’s my nephew...a boy with a wonderful imagination. Jeremy, don’t grow up too fast, just yet. :)
Credits: Bless Our Nest - November Mega Kit from DivineDigitals.com; Font – Arial
Challenge: Butterfly Crafts DT Challenge #25

Christmas Hybrids & Digi and Chiqutta pressies

Christmas was a wonderful one especially for our little Chiquitta.
Check out the wonderful gifts that came from her Secret Santa, Aunty Maiko & Panini & Loki & Chowder!I super duper love the fur harness, the hoodies and basically everything!
Cute cute and we both can't wait to use them all up!
For now, happy holidays!

Scrap projects:
Digital Layout: Wrapped Around Christmas by Deanna Patterson (Shabby Scrap Designs)
Journaling: It's Christmas in the air! Snowflakes in December Children site with Santa's toys Their gloves wiping crystalline ice, Off shiny plastic Our breath thick like fog Mingles in oneness As we stand back to Look upon the completion Of our Christmas trees Giggling from heady wine And feelings shared It's Christmas in the air!
Credits: Wrapped Around Christmas by Deanna Patterson, Font – Arial

Hybrid Project: Golden Harvest - Printable Calendar Template by Mari Koegelenberg
Credits: Golden Harvest - Printable Calendar Template by Mari Koegelenberg, random kits of Mari Koegelenberg, Deanna Patterson (Shabby Scrap Designs) See below.
Kits:
All Spiced Up Paper Pack by Mari Koegelenberg
November Grab Bag by Mari Koegelenberg
Monster in the Closet by Mari Koegelenberg
Back to School - The Elements - a Collaboration between Melissa Wilson and MKC
Sky is the Limit Collaboration - The Elements by MKC and Courney Wilson
Reminiscince - Hodge Podge Element Pack by Mari Koegelenberg
Just the Basics: Metal Bits Vol.1 by Mari Koegelenberg
Wrapped Around Christmas by Deanna Patterson – Shabby Scrap Designs

Shabby Scrap Designs/Deanna Patterson: Confirmed Scrapinator Designer!

My goodness...I'm just in pure awe on how many kits Shabby Scrap Designs by Deanna Patterson cranked out after a few weeks' vacation!
I had a real field day in choosing the kits to work on. I picked the below 4 kits and 1 alpha set, namely Twas The Night Mini, Harvest Moon Mini, Dotty Chipboard Alpha, At The Beach Mini and A Day In The Life to start with. Previous are below. Tons tons more kits to offer and to know more of her new kits, please click here.

Credits: Twas The Night Mini by Shabby Scrap Designs (Deanna Patterson), Font - Birch Std

Credits: Harvest Moon Mini by Shabby Scrap Designs (Deanna Patterson), Font - Birch Std
Credits: At The Beach Mini by Shabby Scrap Designs (Deanna Patterson), Font: Georgia & Birch Standard

Also I would like to thank my blogger wedding pal, Cris for the award below. Thanks so much dearie! Here's the criteria of the award:
1. As a dedication for those who love blogging and love to encourage friendships through blogging.
2. To seek the reasons why we all love blogging.
3. Put the award in one post as soon as you receive it.
4. Don't forget to mention the person who gives you the award.
5. Answer the award's question by writing the reason why you love blogging.
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7. Don't forget to notify the award receivers and put their links in your post.

Flea Market Coutour by Wetfish Designs (DivineDigitals.com)

I got a funky kit this time around from DivineDigitals!
It's called Flea Market Couture by Wetfish Designs (Cyndi Wetmiller).
I love the pattern papers and the cute embellished frames that came with the kit. The layout came out faster than I expected because of the premade items that I basically place on the layout. Total blast to work with!
Check out the preview below...
Here's what I came up with.
Credits: Flea Market Couture by Wetfish Designs (Cyndi Wetmiller) available from DivineDigitals.com, Font - Estrangelo Edessa, Poem by Emily Dickenson

Random Cards

Heading back to good ol' scrapbooking. Here are some ATCs that a co-worker requested me to make for them awhile back now.
A card for a special friend of mine @ work:

A card for Chiquitta's good doggie pal, Thunder (son of a co-worker)