92 Kisses in Fathers Day Dad (wherever you are!!!)

Papito:

Espero que te la estes pasando muy bien, en donde estes! 

Nunca olvidare los pocos momentos, pero bellos e imborrables que pasamos juntos.

Sabes que siempre estas en mi mente y mi corazon y que le agradezco a Dios el haberte disfrutado aunque fuera 6 meses de nuestras vidas.

Te agradezco que en esos 6 meses hayas borrado la imagen que tenia de ti y hayas borrado cualquier mal pensamiento que tuviera.

Dios es muy grande y por algo suceden las cosas!  Le doy gracias por conocerte, por conocer a mis hermanos y hermana, conocer mis pueblos y haberte conocido como eres!

Estaras contento de que sigo en contacto con mis hermanos y parte de la familia!

Te mando un fuerte abrazo y 92 besos, los 46 que no te pude dar en vida por tu cumpleanos y 46 por los que no te di en el Dia del Padre!

Con todo mi corazon,

Tu hija la mayor:  Mary!

 

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Daddy:

I hope you are aving a great time, wherever you are!

I will never forget the few moments, but beatiful and unforgettable ones that we expend together.

You know you are always in my mind and heart and that am very thankful to God for being able to enjoy you, at least for 6 months in our lives.

I want to thakyou for making sure to vanish the bad image I had about you in those 6 months.

God is amazing and for some reason things happen.  I thank Him for getting to know you, for getting to know my brothers and sister, get to know my towns and all the family!

You should be happy that I continue in contact with them and part of the family members!

Am sending you a huge hug and 92 kisses, 46 for te ones I was not able to give you for your BDs and 46 for Fathers Day!

With all my heart,

Your older daughter: Mary!

Enjoy Life and Be Happy... and scrapbook about it!!!

Luisa

Sharing Friday - 8x8 Layouts

Hello there...

 

It's Friday!!!  TGIF...

 

Well, today am sharing 8x8 layouts... Not my normal size of layouts, but I bought this metal easel thing from Michaels to show-off some layouts at work.

And since it is at work, I decided to do layouts with pictures of work related events.

 

Am so not used to do small layouts. I can work perfectly with 12x12 or 4x6 or 3x4 PL canvaces but 8x8 are totally outside of my confort zone.

My first problem: pictures where very big for my small canvas.  How I overcome this problem: Using one (most of the time) and cropping them (which is not that hard for me, I must admit).

Here are the layouts...

XMAS 2012

We had so much fun at my first Xmas Party at my actual job.  We dance like party animals and at the end we took this funny picture.

I used blue tones because 1) is my fave color and 2) It matches perfectly with the grays and blacks of our clothes!

I handcut the ornaments from pattern paper.

 

XMAS 2012-2

We had a small Xmas gathering between Production and Human Resources departments and it was a blast.  We had excellent dinner and fun all the time.

I used some washi tapes for the border at the bottom and again I handcut some Xmas tress from pattern paper.

VALENTINES 2013

We gave Valentines to all employees at work and here is a group of people receiving their Valentines.

For this layout I decided to use banners in different sizes as background.

I still need to add some journaling.

LUPITA'S BD

This one was an easy one.  Lots of circles as background and handcut words as titles. Some banners on the top and voila....

ADRIANA'S H. BD

Another BD.  We celebrate BD among us in Human Resources and here we are celebrating Adriana H's.

For this layout I found this Bingo card and added some ribbon as borders plus some Stickers for title and that's it.

ADRIANA'S G. BD

Another one bites the dust!!!  This time is Adriana G's BD.

For this one I used SU paper that my friend Carmene gave me.

Used lots of washi tapes as border in the bottom and on top. A handcut "Celebrate" as title.

 

As you can see this layouts are simple but pretty.  I realized I can create pretty layouts which tell the story without many embellishments.  Guess am evolving...

 

Thanks for reading!

Enjoy Life and Be Happy... and scrapbook about it!!!

Luisa

Ideas to Share - Make Your Own Scrapbook Page Kits

Hello there,

When I go to crops or a retreat, my friends are always teasing me about how fast I finish a layout... Am fine with it and I actually enjoy it!

I normally go to a crop or retreat with goals in mind.  These goals could be:
1) Finish X amount of layouts
2) Finish a mini album
3) Complete X number of weeks of Project Life spreads (usually 4-5 wees or a months worth)

Base in what I want to accomplish I plan ahead.  Here are my FAST SCRAPBOOKER TOP SECRETS...

Basically what I do is Page Kits or Collection kits.

A PAGE KIT is basically a ziplock bag with the supplies to complete a 1 or 2 page layout.  Cardstock, Pattern Paper, Ribbon, Stamps, Stickers, Buttons and any other theme embellishment I want to use in the layouts.  Of course the pictures for those specific layouts are in the baggie too.

A COLLECTION KIT come more handy when am working with an Event pictures, like a BD Party, which I normally make 5-6 layouts (2 for me and 3-4 gor family members albums - Yes I scrapbook for them, since they don't scrapbook at all, but they appreciate my work for them).
What I do here, is I pick a 2-3 different collections that match and I add all other supplies (like in a page kit) but for more pages. 
Sticking to 2-3 collections simplifies the selection process, which in my experience watching my friends is the part they spend more time: finding the right shade of green or the right pattern paper that coordinates with another one.
Choosing 2-3 collections also helps to don't get bored with only one.
When am packing them I also do a quick search into my stash of pattern papers and pick the ones that match the main collections I choose.
This also works when working with a mini album.

A TOP MASTER TIP:  At crops I "make it work".  I don't stress out if I don't have the perfect cardstock color or if I don't have the perfect alpha stickers for the title.  I can always add the title later but I normally work it out:  No alphas? what about stamps or cricut?

To a 12 hour crop my goal is to finish at least 12 layouts.  Should be more, but I consider the chatting, eating, bullying times.  Am there to hangout with my friends too and I want to enjoy their company.

To a 2 1/2 days Retreat my goal is to finish between 30-40 layouts.  Yes I can sleep late, but I also wake up late or take naps or go shopping time...

There you go... you now know my super fast scrapper secrets.  And to provide you with some more info about creating your own Page Kits, here is an article from Get It Scrapped, which has very good instructions in how to create them:

MAKE YOUR OWN SCRAPBOOK PAGE KITS!!!


Hope you enjoy it... Let me know if you start creating Page Kits?

Enjoy Life and Be Happy... and scrapbook about it!!!
Luisa

PROJECT LIFE - WEEKS 15-17

It is Friday again and the weekend is here!!!  YAY...

 

Well, here are two more weeks of my Project Life Spreads:

 

WEEK 15 - ONE PAGER

4/08 A Train in Tijuana?  I barely seen one, but they do transit every now and then!

4/09 My calla lillies are amazingly pretty!

4/09 William resting after a hard day at work!

4/12 Baby Shower for Alejandra at work

4/14 Preparing Chile Rellenos!!!  Following my grammy recipe.. They were very good I should mention...

WEEK 15 CLOSE-UP 

Am working in a recipe album with pictures for my daughters.  These two definitely will get a page in this album.

 

WEEK 16-A 

3/15 Picking Val at Tijuana

3/17 Art journal from a swap.

3/18 William under blanket sleeping!

3/21 Family brunch meals: Desserts, Bake potatoe AND Mom flowers for her BD.

 

WEEK 16-B 

This whole page is dedicated to our family brunch at Sirloin Stockade Restaurant in Tijuana to celebrate my Mom's BD.

- Mom and Aunt Hilda!  Everytime they are together they have to fight for everything.  They do are sisters!

- Grammy enjoying her meal.

- Aunt Hilda brought flowers to Mom.

- Mom with her favorite grandughters (my daughters fo course... lol)

- Mom smiling to the camera.  We took 6-7 shots for this pictures.  It's hard to get Mom to smile to the camera.  She is camera-shy!

- Gorgeous Jaz enjoying her meal.

- Precious Val laughting out laught.  Love this picture!

WEEK 16 FAVE PICTURES CLOSE-UP 

These 3 ladies enlighted my life...

Mom, I know I don't say it oftern enough:  I LOVE YOU VERY VERY MUCH!!!

Isn't she gorgeous?  And she is a very good daughter and person!

My precious Val.  Love her hair and her positive way of living!  Great daughter and person too!

 

WEEK 17 - ONE PAGER

3/22 William above his sofa, looking at the window.  This is his fave part of the living room.  He sits there to wait for Jaz first and Me second!!!

4/23 PL Cards that I created for a swap

4/23 Jade PL Cards swapped with my friend Robin

4/23 PL cards received from swap

4/23 Grammy watching TV

4/28 Trip to Telcel (Mexican cell Company)

 

WEEK 17 - WEEKLY CARD: 

I love this weekly card.  I used one of my handmade PL cards: 3x4 card stamped with the numbers in the left border and washi tape arrow plus butterfly!

 

WEEK 17 - FAVE CLOSE-UP:

I totally adore these pictures of William on the sofa, staring at the window.

I also love that I used a PL card from the swap and used my pretty washi tapes!

 

Am planning to post Project Life layouts more often.  I will post on a weekly basis until I catch-up and then 2 weeks spreads twice per month!!!

 

Thanks for visiting and remember comments make my life happy!

 

Enjoy Life and Be Happy... and scrapbook about it!!!

Luisa

TUTORIAL - MY PROJECT LIFE PROCESS!!!

Hello my friends...

 

If you have been following my blog for a while, you now know that am a Project Life fan and being doing this type of albums for the last 4 years now.

Well... I think is is time to share my Project Life Spreads process with all of you.  It is not the more sophisticated, but is simple and effective for me.  Here are the steps:

 

Step 1

I created a Project Life Tracking sheet to write the pictures assigned for each day of the week.

If I don't have enought pictures for a week I know that I need to take random pictures and I start doing it.

You can see my PL Trackink Sheet with my printed pictures here:

 

Step 2 

I then print pictures.  Normally I print pictures one month at a time.  I either print them at Costco or at home with my Canon Selphy 4x6 printer.

 

STEP 3 

While or after printing pictures (depending if I printed them at Costco or at home) I start dating them in the back.

Guess you can skip this step, if you are good at remembering dates of the pics, but it has been helpful to me for next steps.

 

STEP 4

Start croppin pictures as needed.

 

STEP 5 

Using recycle bond paper, I cut them in half and write the week dates on the bottom.

 

While croppin pictures, I assign them to the corresponding week.

I do it ramdomly, because I do collages of mixed dates according to the sizes I want the pictures to be: 2x3, 3x4 or 4x6.

Here are two weeks worth of cropped pictures!

Other 2 weeks of cropped pictures!

 

STEP 6

I organize the pictures in chronologically order.

Next I fold the recycle paper envelopes and my pictures are ready.

 

STEP 7

When I have time I do this step ahead.  I insert PL cards into the page protector.  I just randomly position the ones that are appealing to me.

 

STEP 8 

Then what I do is I organize the pictures for the week in the page protector inserts.

During this step, depending in the ammount of pictures I have for each week I decide if it's going to be:

- A one pager spread

- A 2-3 pager spread

- If am going to use an insert for the week.

 

STEP 9

Embellish at my hearts desire!

I like to have a whole year in one album, that's why I limit myself to flat embellishments.

But that does not means my PLs are boring at all.  I use tons of:

- Thickers

- Mini Alpha Stickers

- Rub-ons (not a fan now, but use to so I have a good stash and being using them in PL).

- My lovely Washi Tapes

- Theme and Word Stickers

- Ribbons

- Stamps (got a few specifically for PL and trying to use them of course).  I can improve though!

- Die cuts

- Card fronts -I was involved in lot of card swaps and got tons of them, so I decided to use them as embellishments instead of having them collecting dust. And the backs have been used as cardstock.

- I printed some phrases in Spanish to incorporate them in PL to tell the story,

 

I still want to incorporate:

- Sequins (got a bunch of them!)

- Twine (have using them, but not as much as I want)

- Tags (got a bunch too!)

 

Here are the 2 pages created after following my process with the above pictures:

 

I will post a tutorial about how I edit and print my photos in a later post.

 

If you are creating your PL Album, share your tips to reate your pages.

If you are ot doing a PL album, well... You can see is not that difficult!!! 

Hope this tutorial is useful for you.

 

Enjoy Life and Be Happy... and scrapbook about it!!!

Luisa

PROJECT LIFE - WEEKS 13-14

Hello my friends...

 

Am continuing with posting Project Life spreads...  Getting there one week at a time!!!

 

WEEK 13 - 3 PAGER!

2/25 My job tote bag full of stuff (as usual).

2/26 Foggy morning.  On my way to work!

2/28 William watching Jaz and I leaving in the morning!  He does suffer...

2/28 Drinking coffee at my office

2/28 Driving Jaz to school, Dropping Grammy at my aunt's house, My uncle Manuel!

 

WEEK 13-B 

3/28 Getting pictures printed at Costco! After almost 3 months!!!

3/29 My office wall with work notes

3/29 My pretty Hobby Lobby frame plus my Calla Lillies

3/30 Bonita, CA Lake

3/30 Croppin Day at Stamp Addict - got some prety washi tapes!!!

 

WEEK 13-C 

This week I started to include the PL cards I got from the swap with some friends.

3/30 The whole spread is dedicated to our Mom and Daughters date

- Having lunch at Applebees before the movies.

- Val ordered a Raspberry Margarita

- Jaz ordered a Mojito

- I ordered a yummy Mojito too

- We order an Appetizer Sampler first and then Pasta different ways!

- At the movies.  We only bought popcorn because we were really full.

It was an amazing date with my beautiful daughters!!

 

CLOSE-UP OF MY FAVE PICTURES: 

Love these two gorgeous young ladies!  They are the happiness to my heart!

 

WEEK 14 

4/01 Self portrait before heading to my work.

4/01 My precious hair tools..

4/02 Jaz with an assingment for school.

4/03 Jaz getting ready for school:  Make-up, Hair, READY!!!

4/04 Random pictures of the week of our adorable William

 

WEEK 14 - Wkly card: 

I printed some phrases in Spanish to include in my PL spreads...

 

More to come soon...

 

Enjoy Life and Be Happy... and scrapbook about it!!!

Luisa

Project Life - weeks 11 and 12

Hello... THANKS GOD IS FRIDAY!!!

And am continuing with posting my Project Life spreads in order to catch up posting them...

 

WEEK 11 - ONE PAGER

3/11 My scraproom BEFORE and AFTER cleaning and organizing it for the zillion time!!!

3/13 We got a new iron

3/13 Strawberries anyone?  They are in season and very cheap now!

3/15 Taking grammy to do blood screens.

3/16 My bedroom calendar.

3/17 Preparing my luggage for my business trip to Wallingford, CT.

3/17 Jaz was very excited for my trip and she went and check the plain itinerary to findout exactly where I was going to be flying every single time.  Nice job gorgeous!

 

WEEK 12

3/18 Driving to the airport

3/18 Renting a Car at Hertz and Driving under an snow storm for the first time in my life

3/18 My hotel room and room key

3/19 Arriving at ARRIS building...  I made it!!!

 

WEEK 12-B

3/20 Snow sweet snow!  It was not bad but I certainly was driving very very careful.

3/21 Driving to Hartford CT to the Sheraton Hotel by the airport in order to don't drive in the morning under the snow. 

 

WEEK 12-C

3/21 Ariving at Sheraton Hotel... wow!

3/21 The coffee maker was well supplied

3/21 Best pizza ever... It was huge and I did bring it home.  It was so good I could not dispose it.  and the blueberry cheesecake, yummy!!!

3/22 Selfportrait before heading to the airport

3/23 William happy driving with her Mom...

3/23 My Thickers humble collection.  These are the new ones (non opened yet).  I always have around 12-15 being used at a time!  Yes am a hoarder!!!

 

Enjoy Life and Be Happy... and scrapbook about it!!!

Luisa