Kian is 4!!!!

Yesterday was a big day because Kian tuned four!!!!! An important day with a great pirate party. The kids were enjoying the theme and parents could have a long chat because they were so into the pirates games. We made a cartboard ship and I painted it and put it in the garden with a pirate flag some garden net (for peas) for the boat net and Matej made the ship rudder out of an old bike wheel and thanks to the good weather the kids enjoyed it!!! We also had a treasure hunt and the kids found out a treasure chest filled with pirates coins, pirate chocolates and each young pireate fount in it a skull mini album that has to be completed with their names, photos and little pirate's special features and with the pirates rules - I'll probably make a post about it in the next days! Of course I had to make a pirate boat shaped cake too!
Kian was so happy and just had so much fun and I had so much fun watching him enjoying his bday party!!!

Newspaper pop out alphas tutorial

What you need:
- chipboard alphas
- mod podge
- cardstock
- paintbrush
- water
- newspaper, music or similar thin paper
- varnish
- hot gun (optional)
- glimmer mist or other liquid paint

Step 1:
Apply some modpodge on the cardstock and glue on the chipboard alphas. Let dry and then apply a coat of varnish on the alphas. This will protect the alphas from soaking the color at the end.









Step 2: Apply a coat of modpodge and spread it on the entire surface to create an adhering surface.








Step 3:
Cover the alphas with the thin paper and spray it with water and wait a little to let the paper soak the water and

Step 4:

Take the paintbrush and go over the alphas insisting slowly on the edges to make the alphas pop out. Don't hurry and tap on the alphas again and again.

Step 5 :

After some delicate work your alphas pop out perfectly. Let dry or use the heat gun.

Step 6:

Apply a coat of varnish on the top of the alphas and let dry. This will prevent the alphas get dirty when you'll glimmer mist them or when applying other color arround them.

Step 7:

Glimmer mist the alphas or drop some paint on the alphas and clean the top of the alphas with some paper towel or a wet paitbrush. And voila...here are your newspaper pop out alphas.

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and it will serve you in your creating!!!

Happy

This time a LO that combines two challenges:
On Scrapping the music this week a REM song inspires us: Shiny happy people!!!! A photo of my wedding was just perfect because everybody was happy and relaxed. Everybody was enjoying the picnic and sitting on the blankets and having fun. This is surely one of my best moments to remember...
I had to make this page also for The Color room as the palette was just the same as were the colors on our wedding day (except the lavanda) and also in this occasion the photo perfectly fit in...

Yes....I know.... I used this alphas again but I really love them very much. In the next days I'll post the tutorial. I hope you'll like it!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

What's your favorite band?

Another great challenge at the TAAFOMFT....FAVORITE BAND!!!!!!!!!!! I had no doubts and in fact anyone of my friends and family knows that I have a passion for Smashing Pumpkins. And it started a long time ago in high school years.
I scrapped this newspaper page and it's from the period before they split up and they were having a farwell tour in Europe. Matej and me went to Milan (in the pic below) and went to a great concert with a brilliant high quality performance and we are both huge fans of this incredible band and the song "Tonight, tonight" was our wedding dance song.

And now they are together again but honestly I regret that old line up: Corgan-Iha-Wretzky-Chamberlain!! And I have this frame on my living room wall and the pile of their cds that are just part of me.
On the other hand I can tell that nowdays we have a huge offer of (quality)music. Another band that makes me crazy? System of a Down. I can listen to their songs over and over again but I thought that I had to make this tribute to the Smashing Pumpkins...

So, what is your favorite band??? Just scrap it and link it to the TAAFOMFT and than you can hang the lo on the wall like I did and you can also win a great prize!!!!

I'm the STM winner!!!!

Yupppppiii! I'm so happy because I won on Scrapping the music!!!!! I love this place and I feel very inspired to create a page hearing a song because each song opens a drawer in your mind and brings out a specific memory or moment!!!!! And I'm glad that this Sheryl Crow's song brought me a great acchivement. Thank you soooooo much STM DT. You know how I appriciate your inspiration and admire your work!!!!!

The next thig is....gues what? Yeah, my contribution to The Color room. I loved the current palette with the red and two nuances of green - they are a perfect combo. The pic I decided to use is this Kian's photo (an exception :-)) and looking at him I couldn't resist ti put that title: "I love you more + more".

This is my new technique of alphas and let me know if you are instrested in this tutorial. You can see this alphas also on the LO "Soak up the sun" and i love the way they turn out. So, if you want them too just let me know!

I want to show you my new old friend. It's my grandma typewriter and it will be a perfect companion for my next LO. It has about 40-50 years and it still works perfectly and I love love love this kind of vintage hepels!!! You can be sure I'll use it in my next LO!!

Thank you for visiting and I hope you return to visit me!!

Soak up the sun

I'm taking part to Scrapping the music fun again. This time the song for inspiration is the Sheryl's Crow "Soak up the sun". This Matej's pic was just perfect for this title and it was taken on a very sunny day when we had fun with the sand...

Have a nice day and go and soak up some sun!:-)

Published!

I'm happy to announce that I've been pubblished! I'm on Scrapook magazine Issue 47 on pages 18 - 20. There are two layouts and my "No place like home" sphere and an interwiew as well. I love the feeling when my scrapbook reaches the paper. Maybe because I'm a scrapper and I just adore having in hands some paper sometimes and not the digi stuff!

I love this magazine because it's so well structured and you can find great ideas in it!!!

And here are my pages....

I feel veeeery inspired - I guess I'll scrap today :-) Have a wonderful day!!!