Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Having a baby shower

I am about to have my second baby shower for my first baby girl. I am 36 weeks pregnant, very anxious to finally have my baby with me. As I had a baby shower in Brazil 20 weeks ago when I was on vacation there, I am using most of the ideas to help my friends here put a nice baby shower for me.




I am making the center pieces of the. My idea is a styrofoam flower vase. There is a similar idea in this link: How to make a Pomander Flower Ball.

Let me tell you how my baby shower in Brazil was.

When I was 20 weeks pregnant I had a baby shower in my hometown with all my family and close friends. I couldn`t wait to see everything organized and decorated.
I had been lucky enough to find most of the things I want to buy in the US before heading to Brazil.
I have found amazing ideas on the internet. I am having a girl, so I picked the colors pink and brown, white and green would be the second colors in the decoration.

The invitation: I bought the card and the envelope, the ribbons at Michaels, the pink and brown paper is from Brazil. I made this invitation in about a month.


Decoration


















I was inspired by some ideas I took from these videos:
favors: Lembrancinhas de nascimento e maternidade

The tips I needed to start the decoration and the scrapbook favors I took from here.

How to make a simple and beautiful bow: Como fazer laço

Bottle of water: Water bottle pocket tag

Baby shoe step by step: Lembrancinha chá de fraldas

Baby diaper: convite

Diaper bag: tutorial (video)

Box of chocolate: photo

Inspiring ideas

Picture of a girl: baila bailarina

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Sites de artesanato

Alguns sites são simplesmente fofos.

Como estou grávida de 7 meses e preparando um chá de bebê, há várias idéias que me cativam a criar o que eu quero ter no quartinho ou como lembrancinha de maternidade.
Alguns sites super inspiradores que achei:

Petit Poá

Pano Poá

Limao Flor

Portal de Artesanato 

Aproveitando o embalo, dois links para aprendermos a fazer flores de fuxico.

Olha que flores de fuxico mais lindas: rosas de fuxico

Flores para decorar seu cabelo: Quick n`Easy Flower Hair Pins



Monday, September 26, 2011

Stunning layouts

Hello dear friends, one more post for the day!!

Some layouts I want to do inspired by these beautiful pages I found in some new blogs. It`s also an opportunity to know more scrappers I found on the net.

From Paper and Glue Heaven, Flower girl

From Just Laura, What I am doing ( what a blog! don`t forget to check out her other layouts)

a boy layout

Flower tutorials

Hello dear friends, one more post for the day!!

I have been very busy these days trying to collect some useful tutorials and templates for us. Everything about flower which is one of my favorite embellishments.

The first card is from the mmmcrafts blog .Let`s make a flower card for the be loved ones. Check the card and the tutorial here. There is the template to be downloaded super cute and easy to make. Check the template here.
The second card is from Holiday Crafts and Creations. See instructions in Portuguese here.

I have some wonderful flowers for you, just on the word HERE and you will be connect to the link.

1) Four Scallop flower here

2) Paper flower bouquet here

3) Distress flower here, another distressed flower here

4) Scallop circle punch flower here

5) Going circles here, see video here

6) Paper Rose here

7) Paper cabbage rose here

8) Fringed flower here

9) Layered paper flower here, another option here

10) Box flower video here

11) flower from strips here

12) Flower with a brad on center here

13) Spring flower here

14) Template flowers here

15) Eyelet Border Paper flower, PDF file here

16) paper flower here

17) Poinsettia flower here

18) Accordian flower, here

19) Five petal flower, here

20) Strips of paper flower, here

21) Loop flower, here

22) Dear Lizzy fabric paper, video tutorial here

23) Ornament punch flower here

24) Dahlia flower here, another dahlia flower here

25) Fabric flower here

26) 6 petal Lotus here

27) Paper flower like a heart here

28) 3 layers flower, here. (instructions in Portuguese)

Video on how to use EK Success punches to make a flower, here.

DECORATION
28) Heart flower here
29) Vintage paper flower is almost like flower number 4 ,click here


How to make 45 paper flowers: click here

Extra links
http://pt.scribd.com/doc/25730784/Paper-Flowers-Tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g69S5q1-P8E
http://www.scrapbookupdate.com/2010/02/17/youtube-find-paper-flower-tutorial-video/

My favorite Stamping Up blogs and channels

Hello dear friends, one more post for the day!!

There are many Stamping Up demonstrators around the globe but my favorite girls are top of the line. Their websites are just refreshing with updated Linkideas and videos that enlight our creativity.

Dawn`s Stamping Thoughts

Boy Girl Boy Designs

Rubber Redneck


Card for the bride to be



What a cute card for any bride to be. Read the complete post on Dawn`s blog.


Thursday, August 25, 2011

Visitando a Zapp


Scrapbooking couldn't out of my mind even when I am traveling.

Back to Brazil, I went to see some friends at Zapp Papelaria in Asa Sul.

As I am planning my baby shower, I had some shopping to do.

My sister and me





Zapp's girls... Obrigada pela ajuda!

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Some new cards






I made some cards these past few weeks.
All of them were for family members.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Summer Ideas

Summer 2011 has been quite inspiring for the scrap world.
Link
Fairy Umbrellas or Drink umbrellas, click here.

Envelope with photos and title, click here.

Envelope with photos and tags inside, click here.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Creating pages

Hello dear friends, one more post for the day!

There is a weekly class video on Two Peas in a Bucket every Wednesday. I always login in to check Nichol Magouirk`s pages.

Click here to check it out: Two Peas in a Bucket Weekly Projects.

There is also a couple of videos on Youtube showing how to start and finish a page layout. I really liked many of them.

There is a list of many videos to watch here.

Another selection according to themes:

I selected one of my favorites, so you watch it right now.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Some inspiring links

Hello dear friends, one more post for the day!!

I have some links to inspire your layouts.

Scrapgourmet

Scrap by Adri Diegues

Chitter Chatter

Scrap by Lu Minoti

Link

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Mother`s day card

This is the card for mother`s day! I was on the way to work so I had to take the photo in the car.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Pregnancy album... to be continued

Hello dear friends, one more post for the day!!

I started a pregnancy album some weeks ago. I am not pregnant YET! It is just the beginning of a wonderful album I am designing for myself. I bought the Hopscotch collection from Basic Grey to start making the pages. Some other papers are Bazzil cardstock and pregnancy papers from Creative Imaginations. I will be posting the pages as I keep making them. The cover is just stunning but I will only show it when I finish the album. Keep in touch.


This page was based on a Page Maps sketch, so you can see here.




One of double pages.

Honeymoon album

We spent our honey moon in Miami. It was sunny and stunning!!
I loved being there for the first time in my life... and for my honeymoon... waw.. too good to be true!

I made this album about two months ago. It is not totally complete because i will put some tags and journalling. I still want to print some more photos I have but anyways... it is a clean album which not much embellishments. I wanted something more organized... not a lot of risks... I may add some more photos in a transparency page or smaller photo size that`s it!

Check it out.

I chose the collection Every day from American Crafts for this album.
Let`s start with the cover. I bought some stickers and cut out the clouds.




This is our arrival at the airport. I saved our tickets for this album.


The photos on the left are one the first things we saw in Miami.





Spending some time at the beach.






I still have to work on this page.






Photos of Key West.








I might be back with some more pages.