Bitten By the Bug Designer!!!!!

Woohoo!!! I just went on the BBTB site and realized that I have been chosen by Regina to be on her design team. Thank you so much Regina! This has totally made my weekend! I am so excited to be part of a group of ladies with so much talent. Every week, I am anxious to look on BBTB to see the new creations. Now I can't believe that I'll be seeing mine on there too!

Celebrating Love

Hello!! I am finally back...it's been a busy couple of weeks! I have been working on this LO for a while now and I finally finished it.

For Valentine's Day we go to a moonlight jazz concert at an old estate by our house. It's so much fun...you get to take your own picnic blankets, food, candles, etc and just lay out. I go with my cousins and we usually end up drinking the night away and eating some yummy crepes. And amazingly, this year we had a cold day in February here in the sunshine state!

My favorite part of the LO is the little picture book that I made...I sewed it together using a really neat scallop function on the sewing machine that I discovered! I made the tabs out of chip board and just added some sewing, rhinestones, and button. And... I finally got to use some grungeboard! I painted it brown and traced the swirl marks with stickles.

How the LO was made:
Title "Celebrating": Sizzlits alphabet and hearts- Stamped cart
Title "LOVE": Zooballoo cart
Tall flowers: Stamped cart
Chipboard and felt hearts: Cuttlebug hearts
Ribbon: American Crafts
PP: Stemma- Lots of Love
Cardstock- Bazzil Basics

Arte y Pico

I was always a little hesitant about starting a blog because then I knew that I would REALLY be addicted not only to scrapbooking, but to a wonderful world of amazing people. And boy am I glad to have started it!

I opened my comments yesterday and much to my surprise I had been awarded this by Michelle! She totally made my day! Thank you sooo much Michelle, this is the first award that I have ever received! Please be sure to go check out her blog so you can see all of her amazing talent at Michelle's blog.

I now have to award this to five other people, they in turn will do the following...
1) Pick 5 blogs who deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material and also contributes to the blogging community no matter what language.

2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to the blog to be visited by everyone.

3) Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and the link to the blog that has given her or him the award .

4) Award winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of "arte y pico" blog (linked in my title) so everyone will know the origin of this award. (Cut and paste the info into your blog to make things easier)

And the amazing blogs that I would like to award are:
TeriBeri
Regina
DeeDee
Sonia
Betty

Please make sure to visit all these ladies' blogs. You will definitely want to go back for more!

The 7 Grandkids!!

This is another LO that I finished last week. It is for my maternal grandmother and it has all of her grandkids with their significant others. It's always so hard to get the whole family together that she will be thrilled to see these pictures with ALL 7 of her grandchildren!

***Behind the picture on the first page is another picture pull-out tab!

Materials used:
Cardstock: Bazzil Basics
PP: DCWV spring stack
Flowers, leaves, and butterfly: WIMG cart
Title: Lil' Davis Designs
Buttons: Walmart

"Mis Hijos" ("My Sons")

I'm so excited because I finally got my computer back! I was on vacation for Spring Break and I stayed home and SCRAPPED soooo much! I was in heaven! I worked on both my grammy's albums for Mother's Day. This is one LO about my dad's mom with her 3 boys (the oldest being my Dad!) Hope you enjoy!!

Materials used:
Paper: DCWV, Bazzil Basics and I forgot to check for the PP
"mis hijos" ("my sons"): AMU
"amor eterno" ("eternal love"): Cuttlebug alphabet Red Tag
Photo corners: Jasmine
Hearts: DC cut at 1/2 inch difference
Tabs on pics: Fabulous Finds
Cuttlebug embossing folder: Swiss dots
Buttons and flowers: Misc.

Enter at your own risk

I made this LO to finish scrapping my '07 Halloween pictures. The party we went to was just so much fun!! We had to use the sign cut from George cartridge for the BBTB challenge ....and this was my take on it! Make sure to go and check out all the awesome projects all those talented ladies made http://regina-bittenbythebug.blogspot.com/.





Materials used:

Sign (George cartridge)
"Enter at your own risk" and tag (Stamped cartridge)
Spider, web, bat, skeleton, pumpkin (Paper Dolls cartridge)
Scalloped edges (Accent Essentials cartridge)
Corners (Jasmine cartridge)
Scrapper's Floss
Ribbon and stickles