Cards with Pics...

Hello everybody! And Happy Monday!!

I'm up on the TGF blog today -- I'm there (& here) to show you a couple of projects using the Berry Sweet Daily Life and Berry Sweet Print & Cuts kits.

When I first started making cards, I used to incorporate pictures instead of stamps. That was before I discovered copics and images. For my cousin's and mother-in-law's birthdays, I decided to include pics and make them a bit more sentimental.

I love the Berry Sweet kits because they are so versatile! You could use them for any occasion and lots of different projects, and yet, the results look very unique in itself!

My cousin is turning 23 this year but I took this photo of her when she was a toddler. It is sepia-toned so I wanted a vintage touch. Added epoxy roses and pearls along with touches of gold. The cuteness of the kit balanced it out with some cuteness as my cuz is still fairly young.





My next creation is for my mom-in-law. The Daily Life kit is made mainly for Project Life, but I really adore how the the elements could be embellishments! And what's great about digital designs is you could size them up or down according to your needs!





Thanks so much for visiting! I'm happy to say there are new kits coming, and you will see the new one very soon!! In the meantime, you can view the current kits here!

Toot-a-loo,

The Last of my Berry Sweet Cut & Print projects.

Good Monday morning, everyone!! And if you live in the U.S., Happy President's Day!

I hope all of you also had a great Valentine's Day. My hubby and I had a relaxing and simple last couple of days dining at one of those fancy restaurants with a set Love Day menu, seeing a couple of movies at the theater, and snuggling on the couch (the kids were at my in-laws...nice! But I ended up missing them a ton). Usually, weekends are hectic with the chores and parties as I work every other weekend. But yesterday, I crafted all day and he was pretty laid back too.

Because of the Holiday and because of my long days at work, we are both off today as well. Time for more family fun!

But Mondays also mean a new project as one of The Greeting Farm's Guest DTs for their Berry Sweet line.

This week's theme is Anything Goes, so I did another Project Life-ish spread. I've always wanted to try one of those coin collector's sheets so I got some from Amazon. I used up random pics from last year that I didn't end up scrapping.



Because the pockets were only 2x2, I left them pretty much undecorated so I finished this page pretty fast. The Berry Sweet Daily Life kit is perfect for this because you could dress them up or leave them simple, they'd still look adorable with your pics!

My next project is a card, of course :). I used Amelia from Little Dreamer (OA). Also added some Amy Tangerine and Kate Spade washi tape.



Thanks for visiting! Make sure you head on over to the TGF blog and the rest of the GDTs - Claudie and Jerodelle.

See you soon!!

Blinging It Up at TGF.

TGIM!! What, you've never heard of that? Thank Goodness It's Monday?!! Haha! Well, you must not work during some weekends like I do. :)

Today, we are Blinging It Up at The Greeting Farm today! That is, use some bling along with the Berry Sweet Daily Life and Cut & Print kits.

Now when I was looking through my pics, I thought the detailed ones of this past Christmas were perfect for this challenge. There is already lots of gold and glitter and shiny bright things, including my pretty cousins, all dressed up!



Along with some epoxy stickers, there were some rhinestone embellies from Glitz Designs used.



Little Star blings were added too.



And a gold letterpressed card from Studio Calico made the scene!



And what better embellishments than my decked out sons and nieces! :)



I love taking pictures of decorations and details. I'm so glad I was able to scrap them, PL-style. I decided to take the simpler route and actually used less of the kits and more pics. But as you can see, the results were anything but basic! These kits are really versatile!

Don't forget to check out what Claudette and Jerodelle, my fellow Guest DT members did with the challenge! Hope you can join us!

Berry Sweet for Boys.

Good Monday morning to ya, folks!!

It's time to show you another fun project featuring TGF's new journey in the documentation world - Berry Sweet Daily Life, with its coordinating Berry Sweet Print & Cuts.

I challenged myself and the other Guest DT members to do a "masculine" project using this kit. Being a mom of two boys, I felt it was important that this kit also works for families like ours!



This is actually Week One of my Project Life. I depicted New Year's Eve and my son's recent testing using the Berry Sweet Daily Life. Even if it has hearts and butterflies, I was still able to incorporate some embellishments to my cards from the kit.



I stamped a couple of sentiments from the Oliver and Amelia set - Little Dreamers as well. Love how you could pretty much interchange different TGF products and they'd still coordinate with each other!

Next up is an anything goes challenge on a card. For my long time followers, you guys know that I pretty much make cards most of the time. So, again, I wanted to show the versatility of these print & cuts kits. And I also took it a step further and made this masculine as well! One, to challenge myself. And two, I needed more 'boy' cards in my stash :).



For the main image, I used Ian from Picture Perfect. This one goes out to my Godson!

Here's a closer look!



Well, I hope you get to visit The Greeting Farm's blog for the post. There's also a challenge on their for this new line so I hope you get to join! And please visit Claudette and Jerodelle, the other GDTs, for their take on this week's projects!!

Kisses,

A Berry Sweet 3-D Valentine and Project Life.

Hello, everyone!

It's time for another project featuring The Greeting Farm's new lines of Berry Sweet Daily Life and Print & Cut. The kits are so very cheap, especially for what you can do with them!

This week, our challenge was to make a 3-D Valentine Project and another Project Life Lay-out.

First, let me say that I'm so very sorry about the quality of light in these photos. I took them too late in the day, and the sun was setting. As for the project, I took an empty fruit snacks box (my kids' favorite) and turned it into a V-day gift box. The Berry Sweet kits are so perfect for Lub-a-dub Day (get it? Heartbeat!). See all the hearts, the "I like you" and "Love Story" quotes, and the cupcakes?! Yup!! It's truly 'berry' sweet!! :)



I added in a few non-TGF stamps (from Kelly Purkey) and hand-wrote "Happy Valentine's" and VOILA!



The box is to enclose my dear friend's birthday gift. The kits are so easy to use. You can use them with your Silhoutte or just print and cut like I did! I actually gave the gift last night and it was a big hit among my friends!!

Next is my Project Life lay-out for this week:



What I love about Project Life is its ability to document daily life yet allows you to see that moment in its entirety. This week, for example, we had celebrated my mom's birthday, a niece's birthday, a patient's mother's positive outlook, and life at the preschool... all in one page. The Berry Sweet Daily Life kit also contains journaling cards so that you could write the details that are not shown in the picture. It's such a neat way of scrapbooking!

I am really enjoying Guest-Designing with TGF, especially when it's about creating PL. I get to catch up on last year's album! I'm up to Week 28, btw. Haha! That's July 2013. Boy, do I have a long way to go. I may just forget 2013 and move on with 2014! :)

Don't forget to visit the other Guest Designer's blogs for more views and inspiration:


Jerodelle Trinidad


Claudette San Pedro

See you all soon!!! And thanks so much for visiting!!

Guest Designing for TGF's new Daily Life Kit!!

Good Morning, everyone! And Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day if you are from the U.S.A.

I've got some great news!! I have been squealing on the inside (and at home) since I found out -- I made it as a Guest Designer for The Greeting Farm's new venture on a different, but very familiar type of crafting. That is, scrapbooking!!!! The new items could be used for Project Life, but also for so many other things!

If you have not heard of Project Life, it is basically a type of documenting where you insert photos or cards/embellishments into page protectors. It is meant to be easy and fast. The concept was created by Becky Higgins, and you can learn more about it from her video:



Now, I tried PL last year. There are so many kits available. But I love that TGF came out with their own digital kit! It shows that they understand that there are so many people like me out there. That is, I not only stamp and make cards. But I also scrapbook! And let me tell you, this kit(s) is so versatile! And I simply am so enthusiastic about being a part of TGF's new scrapbooking line because TGF was the first stamp company I used and fell in love with!! :)

Anyway, sorry about all the blabbing. Please read more info below. Here's the verbage on the TGF blog:


'I am super excited to debut the follow up to the Berry Sweet Cut and Print Kit with the Berry Sweet Daily Life Kit! This kit features more daily life type files, like journal cards, cut tags and labels that still features our beloved sweet and cute TGF style! The set consists of 12 - 3x4 cards, 4 - 6x4 cards, 2 cut tags, 11 labels and 16 ephemera's. This kit is not exclusive to scrappers alone. When this line was created, it was created for card makers, scrappers, daily documenters, basically an all around versatile kit! Pair it with the Berry Sweet Cut and file kit and there is not limit to how you can use it!


To give this "Berry Sweet" kit the proper welcome that it deserves, and to celebrate that we are branching out into something NEW, The Greeting Farm is PROUD to introduce an amazing new team of Guest Designers, please welcome:


Corinne Mercado <-- You're here!


Jerodelle Trinidad


Claudette San Pedro


Please stop by the blogs of these talented ladies to welcome them to the Farm and also be sure to stop by the TGF Blog today to view their other projects and a chance to WIN the "Berry Sweet Daily Document" kit!!!


Here are a couple of my projects:

Some Project Life pages using the Daily Life kit:





In fact, the first one is my title page for my 2014 album (I also used Anya Strolls and Picture Perfect) . You can do your documenting in so many different ways... by week, by month, by event, etc. The second page was from a week during last Summer. You can also make your pages as simple or as elaborate as you want!

A traditional scrapbook lay-out featuring the Berry Sweet Daily Life kit, with some Berry Sweet Cut and Print kit, and stamps from Miss Anya Night Out.





As you can see, you can do so many different things with these kits! (Note: I also used additional products such as the alpha stickers (American Craft's Amy Tangerine) and the gold quoted card (Skipping 5).

And, finally, I've got a card featuring mostly the Berry Sweet Cut and Print kit:



Don't they look like lovely paper dolls to you? I love that these digital files and kits can be sized as you wish! And that they can be printed on varying papers! Also, please note that the flowers on the bottom are stickers that I've added.

Thanks so much for visiting and reading my (loooooooong) post! :)

Please visit the TGF blog and other DT's posts for more info and inspo!!

Tata!!

I Adore You.

Good morning, everyone!

For my last post as The Greeting Farm's February Guest Design Team member, I wanted to make a Spring-themed card. I thought Birthday Anya II would be perfect for the new & sweet papers of Dear Lizzy's Neopolitan.

I used the same rolled paper technique that I did on one of the cards for my first post. See below for my quick tutorial.

I created this card using my favorite design methods -- layering embellishments and creating lots of textures! The background of ruffled crepe paper actually came like that -- it's from Dear Lizzy's new line from American Crafts. It was a bit tricky cutting it (make sure you don't cut the part where it's glued), but the result was worth it. Every supply is from that line except for the two birdies -- they are from Imaginisce.

I'm also trying out new color combinations for hair and skin. The hair combo is E50, E21, E23, E27, and I got it from the talented Arabella. For her skin, I didn't quite have all of the Copic shades. Hence, the result is that Anya looks a bit like she overdid it at the tanning salon, a la Jersey Shore style. Before I colored her hair, my sis said she looked like Snooki. Hahahahahaha!!!! I tried to correct it by using a colorless blender -- you can kinda see where I tried to take off some color (ooops!).

Aside from her skin, I'm loving the way her dress and its pleats turned out. I taught myself how to color ruffles in. I must say that I'm pretty proud of it :).

Anyway, here's a quickie on the rolled paper. Pics were taken by my phone so they're a bit blurry/ grainy.

Cut slits on your patterned paper. Make sure it's double-sided.



Take a paper piercer or lollipop stick, and roll the paper around it. You have to roll several times using your fingers and work in the fibers of the paper to make it more pliable.



Try to keep the rolls on different levels for a better layering effect.




Anyway, it's time for this girlie to go! Hope you have a wonderful day!

Guest Designing for TGF in February..... AAAAAHHHH!

Hi everyone! Hope you're all doing well!

I am super excited to say that I'm the Guest Designer for the month of February over at The Greeting Farm! WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!! I am so thrilled and thankful to Jess and Marie!

I was asked to showcase a couple of stamps from the January release, and I chose the three lovelies from Miss Anya Garland. These ladies are just so very cute, and really very versatile. They're perfect for any occasion, so i decided to make three different cards.

I love dabbling in different card styles and techniques, although most of the time, I tend to be very cutesy. Here are my three versions of Valentine's cards for some dear friends.




My first card here shows a whimsical touch -- love Cathy's felt flowers and the mixture of bright design papers (Hearts DP- Pebbles Inc. Stitched paper DP- Amy Tangerine from American Crafts). I continued the theme of stitching by drawing on the black CS (Bazzill) with a white gel pen. The sentiment is an old Imagination Project coaster, and the ribbon is from my stash.




The second one shows a more shabby chic card with lots of layering. I love using tons of embellishments. The heart border, blooms stickers, and blooms DP are all from Pebbles Inc. The DP with diamonds is from Echo Park, and the buttons stickers are from s.e.i. The rest are from my stash.




Learned this rolling technique from just browsing in my LSS (local Scrapbooking store). Cut parts of your DP on the side and roll around a needle (or in this case, a bbq stick, LOL!). They add some fun, quick textures!




For my last card, here's my version of a CAS card. There's a lot of pattern-mixing, but the whole card is pretty simple and easy. I sometimes love cards that are very bold and ecclectic -- afterall, I think cards are such works of art!

The B&W chevron DP is from Echo Park. The yellow chevron and flower DPs are from Amy Tangerine. The flower is made by Amy Young. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches.

Thanks so much for stopping by! There will be a lucky random commenter here that will win a Miss Anya Garland set. Leave me a comment by Sunday, the 12th, 9 PM CST. I'll pass on the name to Jess, and she'll announce it on the TGF blog Monday morning. Good-luck everyone!!!

I'll be back with another TGF GDT post later this month...till then...Am so very ecstatic as The Greeting Farm started my stamping addiction!!! :).

Hugs,