Fun in a box Process Video using Cliquekits

Hey there dear friends.

Here I am again already with another layout! Boy am I delighted to have a bit more time to scrap on my hands!! As promised I'm still using the gorgeous stuff Erica from Cliquekits Club sent me with a lot of beautiful paper and embellishments from Pinkfresh Studio.

This picture is of Laura when she was barely two.. Playing with a box on her head. She was just the happiest toddler you could ever imagine! I have to admit I was and still am one lucky mum. She's a bit more temperamental now, slight pre adolescent at 6 sometimes.. But she's still my beautiful smiling baby! I'm really enjoying scrapping these pictures of when she was younger. 

That's the magic of Scrapbooking. It works like a time machine. Pity Michael J Fox didn't know anything about it.. It would have saved him a lot of time and energy I'm sure! Hehe

This week I've challenged myself to detox from my iPad a bit, from Facebook and Internet and especially I've challenged myself to not use my iPad infront of my daughter at any point in the day. I am really concerned it's stealing away precious time that I can enjoy talking and playing with her. I'm on day two currently, frantically typing away at 6am before she even wakes up! A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do!

Hope you enjoy the process video and I'll be back with more soon!

Clique kits club

Hey there scrappy friends! How everyone doing?

A few weeks ago I got one of the nicest surprises ever! I had won a paper pack on the Clique Kits Club Facebook page and had not even realized it until on month or so later! Oh the shame! I contacted Erica the owner thinking it was too late but she was sooooo nice she sent it over and I got it within a few days. And not only that! Together with the beautiful My Minds Eye paper I had won I also got a fantastic package from Clique Kits! Your have to check out what they offer right HERE.

I made a video showing you all the goodies and you can check up on it HERE.

Anyways, after these busy busy weeks I was dying to dive into these goodies and so I finally did and came up with this first layout of sweet Laura. She must have been about two in this picture.. The happiest toddler you could ever imagine. I have had no trouble with terrible twos and tantrums with this angel. She's just been sooooo good!

Erica sent me paper from the April Kit which included cute Pink Fresh studio paper and then I had a great mixture of embellishment such a watercolour die cuts, sodalicious thin wooden words etc..

So, Erica, thank you so much again for your kindness! This is the very first time I have actually won something and boy was it big!!!! Hopefully I'll dig into these goodies a bit more this week and create a few more layouts with some of Laura's older pics as the papers go deliciously well with them!

In the meantime hope you all have a GREAT week! 

I can smell the summer!! Veranito veranito!

Hello dear friends, can you smell it? Can you feel it? 
Boy I sure can! We've been suffering an awful heatwave for the last week and a half with temperatures going beyond 40 degrees! Insane! 
So, at one week from my much desired holidays I have already prepared my mega summer project which I will share with you today. For the last two years I have used the XLARGE Smash book which has been great and you can see how they turned out HERE for 2013 and HERE for 2014,  but this summer I had something else in mind which help me cut costs a little bit and personalize it the way I really like! 
So I put together a great selection on 12x12 paper and cardstock and using heavy cardboard for my covers I made my own 12x12 project book. I love working on 12x12 surfaces and this will give me the possibility to keep doing "layouts" throughout summer and have them all on the same page! 
So here is the final result! With a bit of washi tape on the edges, lots of fun embellishment from some of the amazing summer collections which came out this summer and my album is ready to go! 
Shortly I will post a video with the summer kit I have prepared to take with me!
Hope you like the idea! 

Hola amig@s que tal!? Come se nota el verano y además con esta tremenda olada de calor! Que sufrimiento!
A una semana de que empiezan mis vacaciones ya tengo preparado mi mega proyecto veraniego que os voy a enseñar hoy. Los últimos 2 años ultice los smash books XL y podéis ver el de 2013 AQUÍ y el de 2014 AQUÍ.
Este año sin embargo he cambiado el plan y he creado mi propio libro utilizando unos papeles, básicos, cartón grueso para las tapas y voila! Libro hecho! Y además de tamaño 30x30 que es el tamaño que mas me gusta! Así todo el verano voy a poder seguir haciendo layouts como me encanta hacer! También utilizó un montón de adornos de muchas colleciones chulas que han salido este verano! 
En breve os haré un vídeo el kit de material que me llevaré conmigo!
Espero que os guste la idea!!!!

Los Lunes de Layout #17 - Aprovechándolo TODO

¿Hola amig@s que tal?!

Hoy os traigo la entrada numero 17 pero antes de decir nada os voy a mandar directamente a la NUEVA y FANTÁSTICA web renovada de Cuquicosas!! Es una pasada, ha traído muchas cosas nuevas y además los gastos de envío rebajadisimos a 1,99€ y gratis para los que viven en Madrid y pueden recogerlo en persona!!!!!! ¡Mejor imposible! Así que ya sabéis,. Para estos proyectos de verano que tenéis planeado o algún regalito especial.. en CUQUICOSAS lo vais a encontrar TODO!

El layout de hoy celebra al hombre de mi vida (o por lo menos, uno de los dos para no 
descartar al maridín!) ¡Y es mi adoradisimo padre! En Malta fue el día del padre el

domingo pasado y quise crear un layout sobre él y aquí esta.  ¡Y con esto os dejo con la entrada de hoy que podéis ver AQUI

¡Que no paséis mucho calor! Un abrazo escraperos y a escrapear mucho y hacer mucho shopping en CUQUICOSAS!! 

VR to Kitty Scrapper + Process Video in English + 530 subscriber giveaway!

Hey there scrappy friends,

I can´t believe I´m sharing two videos at one go with you today.. Actually.. there´s THREE of them! 

That does NOT mean that I have time to scrap.. these last few weeks of school are just crazy busy and my scrap corner has been a little bit neglected.. My only hope is that summer holidays are right around the corner! 

So the first video is a Video response to Kitty Scrappers Tag. Her orginal video can be found right HERE and basically she came up with 7 questions for us Youtubers to answer. So HERE goes my response! Thankyou Nancy for doing this, its been so much fun to put a face to all those wonderful hands who create so much art out there!

The second video for the day is a process video in English.. yep.. its been a while since I´ve done one of those.. and maybe I am getting a bit influenced by other ladies out there but I do ramble a bit in this videos about life stuff rather than the actual layout! Sorry! The subject was a sensitive one and I got carried away! 

I used the March or April HipKit for this one.. I am not sure which one of the two kits as I get them together and I somehow can´t say which one is which! I love the Spring colours in both kits and since this was a Mother´s Day layout I felt I could be really free in my use and abuse of pastel colours and made it as sickly sweet as possible! :)

Sadly enough though I am taking a tiny little break form my kits this summer and I will be skipping the July and August kit. I still have so much to work with and I can´t justify the purchase unless I use it so I have decided to stop the kits for two months and restart my subscription in September. Kimberly the owner is so nice and understanding and made the whole porcess super easy! Way to go Kimberly you are the best.. I secretly know I´ll be crying my eyes out when the July and August kits are revealed and I´ll definitely be kicking myself for this awful decision.. but... it´s what it is... 


Hope you enjoy both videos! Good bye for now and thanks for being there. Remember I´m also doing a GIVEAWAY on my youtube channel! Feel free to particpate wherever you are from!

Entrada para Los Lunes de Layout No.16

Los Lunes de Layout no.16 La regla de los tercios

Hola que tal?!  Estoy ya a fin de curso y para los profesores esto quiere decir muchísimo trabajo! También ha sido el cumple de mi LAURITA y entre pitos y flautas.... jejeje! 

Hoy vengo con una nueva entrega para Cuquicosas. Un layout donde pongo la regla de los tercios en marcha!

La colección que utilizo es la de Chickaniddy Crafts - Date Night al cual he dado mucho juego ya que es una colección muy versátil!

También utilizo las flores de resina de Winter Woodland y el Chipboard de ciervo de la hoja de chipboard de My Mind´s Eye - Just saying

Y eso es todo por hoy!  No dejéis de visitar la tienda online de Cuquicosas en http://www.cuquicosas.es/ con la novedad de que ahora podéis ir a recoger vuestros pedidos personalmente en Madrid así ahorrando los gastos de envío! 

Cuquicosas están trabajando para crear un nuevo espacio creativo y tendrán muchas novedades muy pronto! Si queréis estar al tanto buscar la pagina de Cuquicosas en Facebook! Un abrazo!

Podéis ver la entrada completa con el vídeo proceso AQUÍ

www.cuquicosas.es

Reto EGOSCRAP Kimidori Mayo 2015

Hola que tal!?

Hoy vuelvo a tentar la suerte y participar en el reto mensual de Kimidori que aparte que son retos que inspiran, el premio es INCREÍBLE! Si! 100€ euracos para gastar en la tienda! Todo lo que haría yo con 100€!!!!!!

Así que aquí estoy con mi participación! Hice un scraplift de mi misma ya que hace unos días hice un layout parecido con círculos y me gusto tanto que quise repetirlo! En el reto de este mes había que hacer un layout de nosotras! Algo que no solemos hacer mucho la verdad porque es más fácil o nos parece más importante escrapear a los que queremos!

Espero que os guste y desearme mucha suerte! :) y gracias KIMIDORI por esta fantástica oportunidad que nos das cada mes!

Los Lunes de Layout # 13 y 14

Los Lunes de Layout 13 y 14 con retraso!

Monday Layouts 13 and 14 for Cuquicosas with some delay!

Hola amig@s que tal?! Ya vino y paso Semana Santa y no solo no pude hacer nada de nada de scrap sino tampoco subí las últimas dos entradas que hice en colaboración con Cuquicosas y mi serie de Los Lunes De Layout! VAYA DESASTRE!!! Asi que aqui estoy hoy para rectificar!

Hey there friends how´s everyone!? Easter came and went and not only did I NOT have time to scrap at all but I just realized I haven't even updated you with the last two entries for my Monday Layouts series! What a mess! So here I am to give you a quick update of what's been going on!

https://youtu.be/W4fqp9r8VXE

En Los Lunes de Layout 13 donde podéis encontrar la ENTRADA COMPLETA AQUI hable de crear un efecto patchwork en nuestro fondo. Una manera sencilla y divertida de darle mucho color a nuestro layout.

In episode 13 which you can see HERE I spoke about creating a patchwork effect in the background resulting in a fun and colourful layout.


En los Lunes De Layout 14 donde podéis ver al completo AQUI le dedico una pagina a mi marido ya que se celebro el día del padre y para la ocasión hablé de como utilizar fotos de tamaño grande en un layout.

https://youtu.be/ZnFYREoq5Ks

In episode 14 which you can see HERE having celebrated father´s day here in Spain I show you how to incorporate bigger photos on your layouts!

Entrada corta pero con MUCHO contenido! No dejeis de mirar los links para poder así ver los vídeos completos de todo el proceso! Un beso y hasta pronto!

Short entry but as full as an egg! Please check out the link to be able to see the process videos and full blog entry at Cuquicosas blog! See you soon! :)

Hello there world.

How are we all this week? I´m having a weird week to say the least but coping through it. We have amazing Spring weather in Spain and I have found myself complaining of the heat at work! Insane! It´s only March! My classroom gets sunlight all morning and it turns in to an unbearable oven by the time it´s 1pm. Add 30 kids sweating and talking in class and you can bake yourself a chicken!

Today I will show you a couple of layouts I did and I also have a process video for one of them. I used my January Hip Kit to make them and am loving these kits so far. They are jam packed and come right on time. My only problem is that I have such little time to dedicate to scrapbooking lately that they are piling up and its making me feel quite nervous and uncomfortable to see so much pretty stuff and not have time to use it. I will hopefully catch up a bit with my scrapbooking ´duties´in the coming Easter holidays! Can´t wait!

So here is the first layout I did and with this I have particpated in the weekly challenge for Hip Kit Club members where we had to scraplift an idea shown by one of the designers. 

I actually enjoyed doing this a lot and it came out quite quickly compared to other layouts I have done in the past. We had to follow a recipe and use parts from a cut out sheet, a frame and other things! The pictures where taken in Italy, I posed with one of the human statues in a street in Venice and all of a sudden he moved and planted a HUGE kiss on my face! I was so taken by surprize. That´s Italian passion for you! hehe

The second layout took me a bit more time and I actually filmed it so you can see the full process video here if you click on the video link at the bottom. I used tissue paper behind the picture to add some volume and also becuase it created quite a dreamy look to the layout and coordinated perfectly with the background paper with the clouds. 

 This is another picture from my trip to Italy were I had the opportunity to meet a dear dear friend of mine and have lunch with him whilst enjoying a lovely chat. Soul inspiring I must say. I really wanted to document this day as it meant a lot to me!

And that´s all I have to share with you today! Thanks for visiing my blog!! Have a happy week! :)

 

Los Lunes de Layout 12

Los Lunes de Layout # 12 Nos inspiramos en el Project Life para crear nuestro Layout

 

Hola amig@s que tal estáis? Como va cambiando el día y el tiempo en general verdad! Poco a poco se van haciendo más largos los días. En el layout de hoy utilice una foto que tome en septiembre y me parece que solo fue ayer! ¡Pero NO! ¡Ha pasado ya lo peor del invierno! ¡Guau!

En el episodio de hoy hablamos de PROJECT LIFE: Project life es un sistema que invento la diseñadora Becky Higgins y es un sistema para poder conservar memorias de una forma cronológica y regular.

Hay taaaantas cosas bonitas que están hechas para el Project Life, estos álbumes tan bonitos, las tarjetas pre fabricadas que son un autentica monada y adornos que te ayudan a contar el día día. Ahora mismo en la tienda Cuquicosas estan todos los productos del Project Life MEGA REBAJADOS! ¡Aprovechad! 

Os enseño esta colección monísima de CHICKANIDDY CRAFTS que se llama Date Night y es una monada y además está a un precio increíble. Como siempre podéis pinchar en los nombres y os lleva directamente a la tienda de Cuquicosas y al producto que os interesa. 

Me inspire en un tipo de funda que han creado la marca Simple Stories que es esta que veis aquí y creo un layout utilizando tarjetas. 

Y aquí os dejo con la entrada de hoy patrocinada de la tienda Cuquicosas. ¡Espero que os sirva de inspiración!  ¡Un besito y hasta la próxima!