Luke, the lucky cat

May the 4th be with you!

Today is the Star Wars Day - the day where Star Wars fans all over the world show their love and appretiation for the George Lucas´ saga. I use to be in some kind of celebration, but this year I stayed at home - the biggest celebration in my town was the Star Was Run, a tematic street run at night. But it was on the other side of the city, I didn´t have a way to come back home after it... and well, I can´t run anyway :S

But, as it´s also iNSD I had fun anyway! And one of the pages I made this week was with an adorable picture that my husband took from our littlest kitty, which name is... guess what? Luke Skywalker! Although sometimes he behaves more like Anakin Skywalker, LOL. He and her sister, found me on my way to deliver a sign in the beginning of the year, and I simply could live those little fluffy things at the street, where someone abandoned them. They were just 40 days old or so back then... And they are more than adorable! Then, I was chatting with my geeky friends while I was setting up my craft booth in a geek event and one of then was with a Darth Vader´s action figure... Somehow I deceided at that moment to call them Luke and Leah Skywalker, and they have been rebels ever since, lol.

I made this layout for the iNSD template challenge from Love it, Scrap it at ScrappyBee (what? Haven´t you checked ScrappyBee iNSD challenges yet? Some of them are really easy, go to our forum now! If you´re too late for iNSD, we still have multiple challenges every month!). The kit I used is Feeling Lucky by Crescent Moon Designs:

It´s a fun Saint Patrick´s day because it is not like the traditional kits where everything is green. The papers are colorful and there are elements (like that cute rainbow and the coins pot) that, even being thematic, can be used for other kinds of layouts. They go very well with my cat´s pictures, for example.
Like everything at ScrappyBee, this kit is 50% off right now - but if you want it, run, because it will come back to regular price tomorow!

Happy Star Wars Day everybody!

Warm wishes for my USA friends

I heard yesterday throug a friend´s Facebook that there´s an allert for snow storms in United States. I know that lots of this blog´s readers are in US now, so, with this layout comes a wish: staw warm and safe these days.

These photos were taken in different days, around 6 months ago, in our Winter. fortunatelly, the sun is shinning bright on my place this week. I love Summer.

To make this layout I used a new release by Crescent Moon Designs called Winterland. If you want to scrap your snowy days, you can find it at her stores at Scrapbird and GoDigitalScrapbooking:

Santa Paws by Joyful Expressions

I´m back with exciting news. I deceided to try a guest position for Joyful Expressions, and I got accepted. Even better: today, they´re releasing a super cute kit that has two things that I really like: Pets and Word Play!  It´s called Santa Paws and have lots of cute cats and dogs dressed for Christmas:

I will for sure use this kit a lot, as it is the perfect kit to scrapping cute things pets do while they wait for Santa. Take a look on the layout I made today, using a picture from some years ago, when Messy was a spoiled kitty:

I´m really impressed with the variety of elements contained on this kit. It contains 38 papers; upper case, lower case, numbers and symbols paper pieced alpha; 12 word strips; and 96 elements including:

• 9 cats dressed up in their winter weather gear
• 1 pompom cat toy
• 13 dogs dressed up in their winter weather gear
• 1 epoxy dog
• 1 dog bone
• 3 gifts
• 3 ornaments
• 3 stockings (including 1 stuffed with cat toys and another stuffed with dog toys)
• 1 set of holly berries and leaves
• 1 string of Christmas lights
• 1 Christmas tree
• 1 bell
• 1 candy cane
• 1 banner
• 1 glitter berry branch
• 8 flowers
• 1 evergreen bough
• 2 leaves
• 4 frames
• 2 sweater material cutout shapes
• 2 brads
• 6 buttons pre-fastened with stitches
• 3 unfastened buttons with 3 separate button stitched for those who like to mix and match their fasteners
• 1 staple (available with holes and shadowing)
• 3 sets of stitching (including 2 that come with in a second version with holes and shadows)
• 4 tags
• 15 different trims including straight and curly ribbons, bows, strings, lace and ric rac

I loved all those cats and dogs. But I have to say that I really like the word strips. They are really fun!

To buy this kit, you must go to Joyful Expressions store at Scraps´n Pieces. If I were you, I´d do it fast. It  will be 50% off till December 19th, it. And, if you´re not a pet person, you can try Christmas Traditions kit:

I hope you find these kits as cute and useful as I did ;)