So, I have been thinking about this for quite a while and decided it would be great to have a team to support me. I invited some friends that I thought were talented and could really help me grow as a designer, some of them designers themselves. There are many other people I wanted in my team, so many good friends, so many people that have supported me, so many extremely talented scrappers, but I figure I should limit it a little hehe, I tried to stop at 10 but could not hold myself, so I would love to introduce you to my 12 very very talented creative team members, scrapping with love:

Amanda Resende

I'm Brazilian, 35 years old, single and SAHM to 2 boys (Pedro Henrique and João Marcelo) and one little girl (Rebeca). My mom visits us everyday and we live so happy here in Brazil! I started digital scrapbooking in December 06 I am inspired by my kids, their jokes, their toys, their clothes, their books...  

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Camila Maria

My name is Camila, I am 29 years old, live in Curitiba - Brazil. I am married with Edu and wit have two hairy companions called Max and Lola. I started scrapping in August 2007 and designing in September 2008. I sell my products at After Five Designs.

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Cathy Pascual

I am a SAHM to two daughters, Sofia (2004) and Zara (2009) and wife to Jamie, and spends almost every free moment I have taking photos and scrapping them. I love paper, digi and hybrid scrapbooking. I have been published in major scrap magazines and served on CTs including DAM, Marks Paper Company, ScrapinStyleTV, Primahybrid and others.

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Daniela Teixeira

I am a public servant, mother, wife, addicted to scrapbooking. Started scrapbooking digital in October 2007. It was researching about paper scrapping that I discovered digital. I never looked back but my paper supplies are still there in the wardrobe, waiting for a dedicated area and a little willingness. For now I am happy to "make art"  in Photoshop.  

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Dúnia Acauan

Hi! My name is Dúnia and I'm scrapbook addicted. I'm married about 11 years and we have a handsome 5 year old boy named Yuri and two dogs: Floquinho and Pantufa. Recently I discover that I'm pregnant of twins!!!  

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Juliana Kneipp 

My name is Juliana, I am Brazilian, 22 years old. I am scrapper since 2007, and since then I work as a designer with my friend Raquel. I am a graphic designer working in an agency and doing some volunteer work with deaf people. I love photography, music, and through scrapbooking I show what I love.

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Lia Lolito 

I'm Lia, a Brazilian living in Ecuador. I'm married and we have a beautiful son. I love to spend time with my family and register these moments in scrapbook pages. At the beginning of 2009 I was looking through some websites and suddenly I became a scrapper! It's my new addiction, just as photography, chocolate and coffee."

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Lívia Guimarães 

Carioca, clumsy, crazy, mom to two cute little guys, to a beautiful little  girl and also, to an insane labrador! In love with my kids, with my life, with the good things it has to offer. I love scrap, photography, wood painting, crafts. This is my world! 

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Nikki Hawkins

I'm 35 years old and married to Brian for 8 years. I'm a SAHM to our 2 children, DS Avery who is 4 and DD Ella who will be 9 months old in the next couple of weeks. I've been digital scrapbooking for almost 4 years now and I still love it as much as I did when I first started. It's been amazing to watch the industry grow into what it is today.

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Rúbia Padilha 

My name is Rúbia, gaúcha, 30 years old, married, no kids, I love "stealing" other kid's photos from my friends to scrapbook, is scrapbook is my therapy.

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Simoni Cristina

My name is Simoni Grigoli, I have been married 12 years, I live in Curitiba - Brazil and have a son called Henrique that is the inspiration for my layouts. I discovered scrapbooking in 2006 and haven't stopped since then, but it was in 2009 that I finally got the courage to accept CT invites and I am very happy to be able to "play" with such talented and friendly people. 

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Thais Palomares
My name is Thais, I am from Sao Paulo, Brazil. I live with my husband and my only son Pablo. Pablo was born in 2004. One day, in one of theses blogs, I saw a wonderful LO and then started to learn more about digiscrapping. My first LO was created in 2005, I have never stopped. My son is my inspiration and I love to capture all specials moments with my camera. 

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Now tell me, am I lucky or what? Even I can't wait to create another kit just to see their pages!!! please join me in welcoming them to this blog. You will be seeing a lot of their heart and soul here through their pages. I feel truly blessed to have such talented people join me in my designing journey.

Lastly, if you would like to join us as a guest in this creative team, all you need to do is use my products and post a link to your layout on this blog (on any post, doesn't have to be this one) OR send me an e-mail with a link. Nothing less, nothing more. I wonder who will be my guest this month?

Hope you are having a great week!

xoxo 

I don't know about you, but I have really bad luck when it comes to burning CDs and DVDs. They always get corrupt or don't work afterwards, that results in a big pile of scrap discs that I do not throw away because I know these are great basis for adorable little albums for any occasion. In case you are one of the lucky ones and don't have any scrap CDs you can buy a box of new ones pretty cheap nowadays, so don't use that as an excuse to not try this project hehehe

One of my latest releases at Little Dreamer Designs is a CD album template (if you are interested don't forget we have a sale at the moment):

The fun thing about the template is that I have included a couple of different borders, so you can mix and match for a fun album or use the same border throughout the whole album for a consistent look, it depends on the project.

I was working on my share of the Fresh Lemonade collab while creating this template so I ended up scrapping our day at the Royal Canberra Show this year. I even used my own photos as inspiration for my papers so it all came together really easily. Before I show you the finished album, let's have a look at the process.

Creating a CD album

Create your pages digitally using the template above, if you are pressed for time I have created some quickpages and printables, but with a template you can use any kit for any occasion.

Once you do that you will need your printed out pages, scissors, mod podge, ring, and CD/DVD discs (and embellishments such as buttons and ribbons if you prefer). Print out your pages on Glossy Photographic Paper, this is what I use for vibrant colours (if you go for matte paper or any cheaper alternative DO NOT use mod podge as it will warp the pages and make your life difficult, use double sided tape instead). Cut out your pages using scissors or a craft knife.

Before adding your album pages to the disc, scratch it a little if possible, just to help the glue stay in the disc which has such a smooth surface. Apply a thin layer of mod podge and place your pages one by one, doing your best to align front and back designs.

After you have all your pages done and BEFORE you start embellishing, mark the hole locations on your pages and punch them with the crop a dile. If one is not accessible you can ask hubby or someone to drill the holes for you (crop a dile is way easier though, I know from experience!).

I prefer to punch my holes on the sides. I am not comfortable with my other two albums that I have punched at the top, because I have created matching designs for the facing pages, but they don't sit next to each other. If you punch the holes on the sides than your album will read like a book.

After the holes are punched you just need to add a ring and some embellishments. I have left space on my album for real embellishments, including space for the title, but off course you can do all of that digitally and have the album ready as soon as you adhered the pages to the discs :)

Here is my finished project:

Credits

Hybrid Magic no 26 - CD Album Template 
Fresh Lemonade - spinning rides 
American Craft Thickers (alpha)
Doodlebug  buttons and ribbons (except big button in the cover by Fancy Pants)

Hope you enjoyed this hybrid feature :)

You are invited to come and play!

This is going to be FUN!!! I am still working on my hybrid project, hopefully I will have it ready by the end of the 3 days hehehe, but have a look to my contribution to the Fresh Lemonade Combo kit:

Certainly one of the most bright and colourful designs I have ever seen LOL but a lot of FUN!

I also made a CD album hybrid project (the one I am working on - still need to add journaling):

and TWO bargain priced new goodies at only .25 cents (sometimes it shows .33 cents but it really is .25 at the checkout).

and much much MORE, but go check it out for yourself at Little Dreamers Designs !

Happy Scrapping :)

Hi loyal blog readers :) Did I mention I am branching out with designing? Yeah, I have been *trying* to draw and *trying* to turn these drawings into pretty papers. After some play I have created my first kit and, let me tell you, it was a huge learning experience. I hope you like this and see it as a little sign of things to come (good things):

20% off till Wednesday - Includes 20 watercolour patterned papers; 1 lowercase alpha + numbers; 15 handmade watercolour doodles; 2 journaling spots; 3 watercolour strips; 5 frames; 2 lined grids; and 2 brush files (one with doodles and one with the alpha)

These papers coordinate perfectly with my Sweet alpha collection, but I LOVE how the alpha for this kit turned out, really do, the solid version and the brush. Here are a couple of pages I and some good friends created with the kit:

All made by hand, this is all mine, and that is why I am proud of it :) I actually went a little over board and created too many papers, I had a hard time selecting them for the kit and before I knew it I had 30 papers. So I have decided to give the solid papers away as a freebie:

Click on image above for link and hope you ENJOY :)

So after drawing the alpha with watercolours, I literally spent days extracting, cleaning, recolouring, cutting each alpha (that took the longest), packaging and uploading it to the store.... phew. Learned my lesson, learned to create brushes and I am not so sure I am going to recolour my next alpha.... so, please let me know your favourite colour for next time!!! Here is my Sweet Watercolour Alpha Series, for a dollar each:

I have also provided an option for people to buy the whole pack at once and save 50% :) My favourite one is sweet sunshine, and it was also the most painful to recolour, I felt inclined to just redraw the whole thing :) but figured it out in the end. But yellow is probably not very popular so, as I said, you got tell me your favourite!

Lastly, I made these alphas because I *loooove* the soft and perfectly imperfect look of the watercolours and I really wanted to find a way to bring that quality to digital, so, I created a brush set:

As you can imagine, this took much longer than I expected and I haven't had the time to play with my own design yet... eeck! That's ok, this was a LOT of self promotion for a day anyway :)

Thanks for stopping by... now go.... scrap!

So good to be back to designing :) It is also another incentive to get my pages done, you know I like to "test" everything I create so the first thing I do when I finish a template is use it. Here are the two pages I created with my latest set:

Journaling: We moved to the new house and had to take your little playground apart. I was responsible for entertaining you two while daddy finished moving the big things into the house and as soon as we got outside you saw the parts of the playground on the floor and loved exploring and looking through the bits and pieces. Shame mommy put it back together again.

Credits:
Playing with Paper Set 11 Template by Michelle Filo.
Let it Shine kit by Michelle Coleman.
Free Spirit Alpha by CD Muckosky.

Journaling: Lucas, you absolutely adore bananas. You want them all the time, one after another. I don’t even think you will ever get sick of them. Lucky you have good appetite and will eat other things too. It is so good to see you eating healthy!!! xoxo mommy Dec’08

Credits:
Playing with Paper Set 11 Template by Michelle Filo.
Let it Shine kit by Michelle Coleman.
Free Spirit Alpha by CD Muckosky.
Bananas and leaves paper pieces by Jacque Larsen.

Oh, here is the template set in case you are interested:

Thanks for stopping by and happy scrapping!!!

Since it is SUMMER for my friends in the US and I am freezing here let's see some sunshine, shall we?

A cool thing about this hybrid album (and very brave/out of the norm for me) is that I printed it on Matte paper. Now this might be normal for a lot of people, but matte paper has special uses for me. It is a lot riskier to use it with liquid adhesives like mod podge, so I avoid matte paper because of that, but sometimes I just want to have more texture instead of intense colours. In this case specifically, I wanted to add my own journaling, so I picked matte paper to make my life easier, as I would have to use specialty pens to write on the photographic paper and would still risk smudges (I pretty much smudge as I write, lol)

As promised, here is the finished album:

Created with the Summer Time Collab of LDD designers (me included); Basic Grey's scallop album, American Crafts thickers for the title in the cover and some doodlebug designs ribbon for the ring :)

Like it?  Here is the template for 50% off this week only :)

and talking about sale, when I did a Hybrid Feature on my Train Album I forgot to put it up for sale so, today only, I am adding it to LDD's One dollar Wednesday :)

Happy Scrapping!!!

I am taking a break from designing this month and a little bit of May, not for lack of inspiration or for need of a break, just because I can't possibly fit it in with all that I am doing :) Trust me, all good things! So, to "make up" to some of my very loyal costumers I will be giving away two Kaisercraft albums. Anyone who buys one of my templates based on a Kaisecraft Album can be a winner.

Possible prizes are shown below (and you can click on image to go to template):

(images are copyright of the kaisercraft website)

To be eligible you have to purchase one of the templates linked above. If you have already purchased the template of an album you would like to "win" you still need to make a purchase to be eligible ;)

All purchases of the templates above from April 5 to May 5 will be eligible to win (yep, I am going back a little)

Winners will be drawn randomly May 6th and contacted to choose their album. Winners will be announced on the blog May 9th.

GOOD LUCK :)

nah, I didn't really plan to have a sale on April fools' day, at LDD we have a 1 dollar sale EVERY Wednesday, so the only thing special about this Wednesday is... it is MY turn :)

Since I was talking about it in this post last week, today only, Fancy Flower Album for 1 dollar.

mmm I have news for April, I will be missing in action for most of the month, but I have an AWESOME giveaway coming up... but let's talk about that next week :) Suffice to say, April will be awesome :) What are your plans for April?

Before I go I wanted to share something kinda funny, a glimpse into the future?

Lucas in 2009:

Lucas in 2029:

LOL not really, April Fools' Day :)

This is my brother making fun of the whole scene I had with Lucas. I showed him the photo and was talking about how much I love it but have a hard time scrapping it and he said something like "wow, I like that, let's get one of me too" and I jumped into the opportunity, grabbed him by the hand and we walked up to the playground where I took the first photo. When we got there it was colder, later in the day (7PM as opposed to 6PM) and we had everyone waiting on us for dinner so I didn't really get what I wanted "photographically" speaking, but it is priceless isn't it? :)

EDIT TO ADD: TOOOOOOT

My album "Where is home?"  has been picked to be featured at the next Scrapbooking Trends Magazine Mini Album Ideas Book :) I am removing it from a couple of places I have posted the album. To celebrate let's add the Hybrid Magic no. 20 - House Album to the sale today - just 1 dollar. And nope, this is no April Fools' joke :) wohooo

2009 is really the year for new things, I lost track of the number of new things in my life. When I created this page for the Mix it up blog I had no idea how much that list was going to grow in less than two months. It has been crazy, but you know what? it has been rewarding!

We have changed our cart systems over at Little Dreamer Designs. So everyone needs to register in the new shoppe (which is just WONDERFUL from a designer's point of view). We know it is a hassle but of course we used the excuse to have a SALE of everything remotely valentines related, including a lot of new releases, everything is 25% off. And guess what you get just for registering in the new shoppe??? A stunning new collaboration kit:

My part in the collab is an alpha set, this is me having another go at designing LOL:

I am really curious to see if people will like it :)

I will be back soon to show you my new releases.