Ah, Love Fall, that could be a title post any time of the year, because I really do Love Fall. I am sure I already mentioned here, Autumn is by far my favourite season, specially since I moved to Australia 9 years ago. The weather is just perfect in this part of the world and the colours are amazing. But this post is not just about me rambling about how much I love Fall, it is a little more special. I have teamed up with Lili to create a kit that celebrates Fall and I am so excited to present you: Love Fall.

Ok, I know it my kit... but isn't it cute???? The colors are perfect for Fall and well, everything, because they are just YUMMY colours!! Here are some pages that my Creative Team and friends created with it:

These pages are as cute as the kit!!

We have also created these quickpages for those who need to scrap FAST:

If you have been around this blog at all you must have noticed how much I looove Lili's designs. They are fun and cheeky and clean and grunge all at once. So it was truly an honour to create a kit with her.

Lastly, if you are a newsletter subscriber check your inbox for a little gift:

If you are not a subscriber, well... there is still time!!! hehehe :) Subscribe to my newsletter for my freebie and Lili's newsletter for her freebie :)

I think that's it for today, working on other projects but I am still super excited about this kit! LOL

Hope everyone loves it as much as we do!

xoxoxo

Another week, another sketch :) This week's template based on sketch by Anna:

My page this week:

created with my From the Junkyard Papers, Vintage Treasures kit, Vintage alpha and watercolor brushes. Note the "sanded" edges on the photo, I used the brushes to create it, might have to do a step by step because I have seen a couple of people asking about it last week.

Check back soon for the announcement of my newest collab coming on Tuesday! In the meantime I hope you are enjoying the 25% off in the shoppe.

Quick page share for the One Little Word challenge blog, the prompt this week is invincible:

Created with my new kit and paper pack :D

My boys are soft little things, they don't think they are invincible at all, so I was at a loss for this word prompt until I saw the quote “In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer” by Albert Camus. LOVE it! I was going to scrap a photo of myself, but I have so many cute photos of Matty I want to scrap I ended up using his. Can someone please convince me to stop taking these "just for fun" photos? I have too many to scrap now LOL delicious photos xoxo

Hi everyone, hope you are well and enjoying my new releases ;) Today I want to spotlight my first ever guest creative team member. Picking my first guest ended up being an easy task. Please welcome Ann-Marie to the blog:

Ann Marie has been creating amazing pages with my designs and is usually the first to buy a new release. When she sent me a link to her layouts there wasn't really much to consider, she was the perfect first guest on my Creative Team. Let's hear what Ann-Marie had to say:

"I am a SAHM to my three kids and live in Melbourne, Australia.  I have been scrapping since 2006 and my other interests apart from scrapping include reading - especially vampire related novels LOL!, cooking and anything crafty!  I have been published a few times in Australia's Scrapbooking memories Magazine and am totally honoured and humbled to be chosen to guest on Michelle's CT!! "

No Ann-Marie, I am honoured that have found such a supportive fan out in the digi world! Thank you!

You can read more about Ann-Marie on her blog and see some more of her pages here.

Check out some of the beautiful pages Ann-Marie has created with my designs, which gave her the guest spot this month (please click on images for larger view):

First layout using the Snapping and Scrapping DailyDigi collab (my part will be up on the store soon) and the Sweet brushes. Second layout using Going hero, I just love that she created a Wii layout with it, I got so inspired, need to get one done too.

Using homework fun, these pages make me emotional for some reason, and I LOVE the design on the first one and the addition of paint of the second layout is perfect.

She created two adorable layouts using the new kit, Vintage treasures:

Her daughter is gorgeous and isn't this last layout just soooooo cute? I want to squeeze this little guy, lucky he doesn't live close by LOL!

and just because she is amazing, she created two more layouts with a mix of my kits, including the From the junkyard paper pack and textures:

I love seeing these kits in action and I am very grateful for people like Ann-Marie that really work them and support me in this little adventure.

If you would like to be my October guest CT, win all my releases for that month plus a 10 gift certificate to my store just send me an e-mail or post here links to your layouts using my designs. 

xoxo

*warning- image heavy post ahead*

So excited to show you this new kit. It is completely out of my style and still, I am in love with it. Thanks so much Sherry for the inspiration and help in creating this (she even took me to the Junkyard hehe) Here is Vintage Treasures:

Here is what me, my creative team and friends have created:

As you can see from the above layouts, I have created an extra vintage alpha (which my newsletter subscribers are getting for free with the purchase of Vintage Treasures):

And just for fun, I have made two quickpages available:

Off course a trip to the Junkyard provided me with more than enough inspiration and materials to last me a lifetime, so I just could not resist making a paper set that reflected the feel of that place:

and I would never keep all these wonderful textures all to myself, this texture pack is perfect for photos but is also what I have used to create the Vintage Treasures papers:

Here are the textures in action (click on images for larger version)

This was a lot of fun to put together and I hope you like playing with it!

Tomorrow I will be scrapping my guest Creative Team member for September, till them, happy scrapping :)

New Pencil Lines sketch is up on the blog with guest designer Janine and a sketch by Anna, check it out here. Our free template based on Anna's sketch:

My page this week was created using Lili's latest kit, School Crush:

It is SO DANG CUTE that Lucas says "I love you too" unprompted, Matty used to do the same thing. My boys are sooooo sweet!

It is really good they are like that cause Lucas is really testing my nerves lately, I'll have some "little monster" layouts to show you soon hehehe but for now let's enjoy his sweet side ;)

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Just finished my chat at ReneePearson.com and it was FUN!!! It will be available as video on demand later tonight. I felt silly though, and now everyone will be able to see me and hear my funny accent, but still, hope you have fun with it too LOL Congratulations Amy for winning the Epson printer and Dana for winning 10 dollars to my store :)

Anna from Pencil Lines put together a Newsletter that goes out every month exclusive to subscribers (you can sign up on the Pencil Lines website). In the newsletter she talks about the sponsor for the month, there is a recap of all the sketches in the month, plus the runner up reader gallery layouts. There is also an extra sketch, I had a couple of requests from digi girls that they wanted the template for the August sketch and Anna was happy for me to post it here for everyone, thanks Anna! Sketch by me, here is the free template:

Now, I know the sketch is mine but I quite like the design :) Might be using this again! Here is my page using it:

Created with Designs by Lili's B is for Boy kit, delicious :)

Happy scrapping!

I have an amazing announcement! I have been invited by Renee Pearson, former editor of the Digital Scrapbooking Magazine, to join her, Tiffany Tillman and Anna Aspnes teaching at Reneepearson.com. Here is my instructor page and later this year we will start offering classes in hybrid scrapbooking.

While my classes are not up, you gotta go and register. We are having a HUGE promotional week full of freebies and giveaways, in fact, it is not huge, it is super colossal as we decided to call it. There will be chats with all the instructors as well as Cathy Zielske and Ali Edwards. Join me for a chat on Sunday 13th, at 8PM Eastern Time.

Be sure to enter the Super Colossal Grand Prize giveaway of an Epson Stylus Photo R1900 printer, Needless to say I use Epson for all my hybrid adventures and I am stoked they are sponsoring the event. There are many more giveaways and the DAILY goodie bag with FIVE 5 kits each, plus discounts, and more. Everything listed here (after you register).

An amazing sketch by Irene is up on the Pencil Lines blog and here is the freeee template:

My page this week was also for the hodge podge challenge to scrap about what you need, created using Summer's Dawn:

This photo just makes you go "awwww" right? Once again inspired by Fathers' day :)

Happy scrapping!

If you are puzzled by this post's title, it is father's day in Australia. I know, lucky Alex has THREE father's days (America, Brazilian and Australian)! hehe. But I am happy to play along, specially when it is an excuse to create more scrapbooking pages. I love this photo of when I was pregnant with Matty, kinda like Alex's first father's day:

(credits: Homework fun add on, Summer's Dawn, Imagination alpha brushes)

The page above was also created using a template set I am releasing this Tuesday (Playing with Paper 15), but if you are one of my lucky newsletter subscribers you must have already got it for free!!! Sign up so you don't miss out on these little gifts (I am going to repeat that over and over until I get the same sign ups as the blog haha, sorry)

Back to the father's day, the Australian one is the one we really celebrate, Alex had a little wake up call in the morning with the boys giving him presents and then we went to a friend's place for lunch. I dropped the dessert at the door LOL, grabbed it before it hit the floor and it got all mashed and ugly, but everyone still ate it!!! The boys had a wonderful time with the jumping bed and we had a relaxing night.

I have been very busy lately and have some AMAZING news to share tomorrow. But what really kept me busy was this:

I can't really fit the whole thing in the photo, but this is the boys' new bed, one at the top and one at the bottom with the desk and everything included. We bought it on Saturday and it arrived on Tuesday, record time for any furniture we have ever purchased. But there was a little catch, it came unassembled, in boxes, and without instructions. We spent three night putting it together, well, Alex did, it was a real puzzle. But at least it is done and we don't have to worry about it. We also went to Target and bought new covers and shaped cushions, the kids were so excited. Now I just have to stop Lucas to going up to Matty's room when it is bedtime. They are LOVING it

Ok, gotta go :) I will be back tonight with the Pencil Lines free template.