Echos of NSD

NSD was a lot of fun around this parts, as I mentioned before we hosted a crop at our office (Diana´s and mine) since it has the perfect room, lighting and location and our boss is cool with it so it worked out perfect.

I made some goodie bags for our croppers and they were all gone, they had some diecuts, chipboard, ribbon, eyelets, sequins, and other fun stuff and I made them at 1 am on friday so probably thats why they could have looked better, but I like them, they are in spanish but they say "Happy Scrapbooking Day" and my blog address, Diana says there is no such thing as bad publicity lol.

(Goodie bags)


(Goodie bags, detail)

When we get together to crop honestly we don´t do much, we carry a ton of stuff and spread out in all the tables, touch everything but then finish pretty much with nothing done and I´m happy to say that yesterday everybody finished what they brought to do.

Doris made this cute banner, yes I have one similar, hers looks super chic cause it has glittered chipboard letters, me I´m poor I only had cut out letters lol.


Liz also made a banner but we forgot to take a pic because her stickles were wet and we didn´t want to mess with it, it looks super pretty too.

Diana finished a couple of cards that look super cute, they only need the finishing touches and I, well I didn´t finish anything but got started in a couple of albums.

(My pink and black I´m weird album lol)

This album is made with a little chipboard children´s book that I bought super cheap and still don´t know what is going to be but I like it!

Our favorite thing to use right now:

(Artistic shot to Liz stickles, Stickles we love you don´t ever leave us)

Then Liz brought the yummiest Potato souffle (sp?) and it was gooood! Perfect for a cropping session.

(Is that yummy or what?!)

It´s so much fun to see how we know a lot more than when we started about 3 years ago, how we work better, not afraid of making so many mistakes, and just plain confortable, I had a blast we got home after 5 a little tired but happy we had an awesome NSD.

I wanted to ask to the ones that take pictures of your layouts to post. Just how do you do it? Like where do you prop it so it looks good? The best result I´ve had is a corkboard at the office, I might get one for here just for that, I refuse to scan because I´m really bad at stitching it together so if you have any advice how to make your layout photograph better please let me know.

Have a great sunday and thanks for the nice comments about the blog, I love how it looks too.

Busy, busy, busy.....

But in a good way, most of thursday and all friday I spent it re-organizing the scraproom and while is not done by any means it looks a lot better now. Scrapping in a organized space without everything waiting to fall on you is a great feeling that I hope to continue having for years to come (one can always dream).

Today we had a craft meeting with our friends Erika and her mom Mary, they are representatives of Sizzix here in my city and of course have Sizzix dies to die for, and we went there to do some crafting, I took a canvas to alter with one of my favorite pictures.

Now if you know me very well you know I love Winnie Pooh, ever since I was like 3 he is my first love and all the times that I have been in DisneyWorld or Disneyland I had never had the opportunity to have my picture taken with him, now I also have a Pooh tattoed in my back at the height of my hip, the day we went to Disneyland I was determined to have my pic taken with him and the people that were with me were super nice and stood in line with me about 2 hrs, Pooh was leaving very soon and I was way behind, so my friends talked to the people and they let me get in the front and made me show him my tatoo, wich was a riot, he was super sweet and perfect and a little too friendly lol. And as you can see my pic with my first love was all I expected to be.

We had a great time crafting I managed to finish my altered canvas and semil altered a little can that holds my felt diecuts:

Here is Diana, Erika and Erika´s aunt Beatriz who was visiting from Mexico City, a very nice lady.

Doris and Mary working on their projects.

A die we got (is that not the sweetest thing ever!).

While we were crafting our friend Erika showed us her latest find the Press Stamp Kit by Fiskars and I wanted one well we all did, so after our meeting we went to Costco to get ours, if you don´t have one, go get one they are amazing.

I´ll talk more about this in my next post cause it deserves a separate post thats how cool that thing is!

Hope everybody is having a great week, crafting lots and having lots of fun.