Back again with 3 LO´s

Hello!!!! I´m back again after a busy week of travelling, we drove over 600 kms. in 6 days with a 17 month old!!!!! That was certainly well worth a lot of pictures!!!!!!! I have so many pictures to scrap I´ll have to use some multi-photo templates!!!!!! Last week I was the chosen one to be scraplifted at http://www.digitalfreebies.com/ and everybody did such a great job!!! I love that challenge! I finished 3 LO´s for 3 template challenges and the friday freebie challenge (I like to combine some challenges to make it more challenging!!!!!) I discovered some great challenges with great prizes at http://www.retrodiva.net/, many people of digitalfreebies over there as well ofcourse!!! So here they are:

These pictures show his grandmother of 82 years old who still washes clothes by hand, cleans the floor on her knees and also takes care of her granddaughter of 16, my husbands cousin. She was so happy to see us and meet her great-grandchild, and we were very grateful for this oportunity!

Made for the second half of the Double trouble Sketch challenge at digitalfreebies
· Kit: Thankful Heart, kit for newsletter subscribers of www.litteldreamerdesigns.com
· Template by Eva Kipler for the second half of the November Template challenge at www.digitalfreebies.com
· Font: Lucida Calligraphy

Also we visited some of his aunts and cousins together with his mom. they hadn´t seen each other in 6 years, they literraly live in the middel of nowhere, surrounded by mountains, their life is reflected on their faces, they immediately feel in love with our son (who wouldn´t??), and we were impressed by the hard working people that they are.

Made for the first half of the Double trouble Sketch challenge at digitalfreebies
· Kit: Harvest spice by Shabby Princess at ww.shabbyprincess.com
· Summerpicnic Alpha by Retrodiva,
· Template by Eva Kipler for the first half of template Challenge of November w / www.retrodiva.net
· Font: Lucida Calligraphy

This picture we took with friends, we hadn´t seen her for years, and hadn´t even met her husband yet, they were celebrating his birthday in a great Chinese restaurant.

Made for the templatechallenge of the second half of November at Retrodiva, and for the fridayfreebie challenge at digitalfreebies

· Template by Connie B part of the challenge for the second half of November at www.retrodiva.net
· Kit: Melanie Chenoweth´s Chocoberry Cream Friday Freebie and the read paper was part of a bonus of the same kit for participating in Maria´s weekly challenge at www.digitalfreebies.com
· Stitching: Liz Hutchison of Sweet Digi Scraps´ “ What Boys are made of” at http://sweetdigiscraps.blogspot.com
· Diamond Swirls Ruby by Flergs: http://flergsblog.blogspot.com
· Font: rickles and hawaiian killer from www.dafont.com

Another LO and freebie

This LO I did for this week´s scraplift Challenge, and also for Maria´s Weekly Challenge, both at http://www.digitalfreebies.com/

Journaling reads: Impact Juazerio Do Norte, October 2007. A great opportunity to meet old friends again, and to make new ones!

Credits:
Paper: Julaender grungy paper: http://juju-fotos.blogspot.com
Glitter Doodle: Raspberry Road Designs Moving Days: http://raspberyyroaddesigns.blogspot.com
Journaling: Tout simplement by Petit Moineaux: http://petitmoineaux.skyrock.com/
Pin: Vintage Florals by Shabby Princess: www.shabbyprincess.com
Frames: Grunged Frames 4 By Lindsay Jane Designs : http://lindsayjanedesigns.blogspot.com/
Font: Harrison from http://www.dafont.com/


And ofcourse it´s about time for another freebie!!!!!! I made this quickpage with a freebie that was available on June´s blog this week: Winter Whispers, I liked it so much, but no snow for me here on this part of the world......... so I made it into a quickpage!!!! Thanks June for your wonderfull stuff!!!! Let me know if you like it and show me your creations!!!!!


You can download this here

I´m in SDK newsletter!

I made it into the SDK newsletter again for the second time!!!!!!! How great is that, I feel so honoured!!!!!!! Take a look here: http://www.scrappindigikreations.com/shop/index.php?main_page=page_3/ (they have some great free kits as well). And I´m loving this new blog I discovered: http://www.sweetmade.net/ it has some free commercial use stuff as well!!!!! Also I loved the freebie they give out to the subscribers of http://littledreamerdesigns.typepad.com/. On Digital Scrapbooking Day I participated in some challenges at June´s blog http://censloft.blogspot.com/ and got some nice goodies to play with!!!!! I combined one of the challenges with the digitalfreebies weekly challenge. I made the page for my friend, she showed me some of her pictures and I just had to have them to scrap with, there´s a bunch of them so more LO´s coming up!!!!! I just love to scrap for friends, it makes such great presents!!!!

Credits: Strawberryfield add on by Danielle Engebretson at www.digitalfreebies.com

Template: Cen´s Stuff at http://censloft.blogspot.com

Also I made another page with Cen´s Stuff, New Baby Boy Kit, available at SDK here. It took me ages to get this finished, because there are so many pics in it, and my computer did not want to work along, but I managed to keep it 12x12 inches as I did not want it sized down.....

Alpha: In stitches white by Betsy Tuma, available at http://www.scrapoutsidethebox.com/ and/or www.plaindigitalwrapper.com"
Multi-photo-frame & wordart: Time Flies Template Brandy O´Neal : http://megadoodleinspired.blogspot.com/
Kit: New Baby Boy papers & Elements kit by June Schutrups Cen´s Stuff at SDK

Wanna have this QP? And I posted my 50th LO!!!!

Happy Digi Scrappin´Day!!!!!!!!! I just posted my 50th LO at my Digital Freebies Gallery!!!!! There´s lots going on today!!!!!!! Just take a look at this quickpage, do you like it? Keep on reading to see how you can get this goodie!!!!!!

I made this quickpage with another great kit of Cens´Stuff available at SDK. (There´s a freebie of this kit on her blog as well!). I just made a page using some pictures I had of my friends daughter. (Seen the fact a picture of my little boy would not fit very well in this LO…..hahahahaha!!!!!) Isn´t she cute? She´s about the same age as my son, I´ve known my friend Corien since we were about 4 years old, and she lived just right across the street. And now I live in Brazil, and of all my old friends she´s still the one who lives the closets by as she and her husband, and 2 daughter work as missionaries at the Netherlands Antilles (Curação)!!!!!How funny is that? You can get this quickpage participating in the challenge for Digital Scrapbooking Day at Cens blog here. Keep an eye on her blog as she´s posting 6 challenges througout the day and you can win great freebies!

This page I made for my best friend Marga. She´s a single mom of this gorgeous boy called Munda. The pics were taken on her brothers wedding.

Credits:

1. Kit: Vintage Dreams Retro by Michelle Coleman of Little Dreamer Designs : http://littledreamerdesigns.typepad.com/

2. Frames:Family Love by Sliva: http://heddesmama.blogspot.com

3. Font: Hawaiian Killer

LO record!!!!

Can´t believe it how many LO´s I did this week, I guess it´s because I´m Home Alone this week, as my husband is travelling with some people of the base to do evangelism at a huge catholic event, about 10 hours drive from here. So I had to distract myself a bit............ Take a look at what I´ve done: (I´m almost getting to my 50th LO) I have 48 so far in my digitalfreebies gallery.

These pictures were taken on a beautiful Sunday afternoon when my husband wanted to take a look at a second hand car´s show, (we really need another car, ours is getting too small and old…) and I decided to come along, it was on the parkingplace of the shoppingmall, so afterwards we had some great time walking through the shopping and to stop by SubWay to eat a great sandwich, we really had some great quality-family time!!!!
1. Template: Simply Sarah Layered Template 8 http://simplysarahdesigns.blogspot.com/
2. Kit: Tout Simplement by Petit Moineaux: http://petitmoineaux.skyrock.com/
3. Alpha: Embossed Gold Foil from www.freedigitalscrapbooking.com
4. Font: Bradley Hand ITC

These pictures were taken when my son had his first lollipop!!!! I have to admit that I ate the biggest part myself……
1. JillDZine My favourite Boy Quickpage http://jilld-zines.blogspot.com
2. Font: KidTypeRuled from www.dafont.com

I made a card for my husband before he travelled for a couple of days with our most recent familypicture and I liked it so much I also made one with a calendar to send to my friends and family at the end of the year: Both are cardsize so 4x6 inches.
1. Template: Di Hickman http://dihickman.blogspot.com store: http://www.treasurestoscrap.com
2. Paper: Scrapgirls SNU_SSPaper_Melange_PaperSpecial at www.scrapgirls.com
3. Flowers&Leaves: Shabby Princess Harvest Spice: www.shabbyprincess.com
4. Frame: JulieO Family History 09: http://stoneaccentstudio.blogspot.com store: http://www.stoneaccentsstudio.com
5. Tag: Two Turtle Doves add-on from Dielle Designs at www.digitalfreebies.com
6. Ribbon: Lemonaid Lucy Ribbons and shadows: http://lemonadeandmint.blogspot.com
7. Calender: http://scrapyardkathsfreebies.blogspot.com
8. Font: Hawaiian Killer & Bradley Hand ITC

Last but not least I worked on my 2008 calender, I am a big fan of Simply Sarah, she has so many great templates, I´m just loving the calender one, just check out her blog if you don´t know it yet. It´s here:

1. Template: Simply Sarah calendar template http://simplysarahdesigns.blogspot.com/
2. Kit: Another Boho Love Affair by Retrodiva: www.retrodiva.net

1. Kit: Be Neutral add-on by Eva Kipler http://www.digitalfreebies.com
2. Photo-frames: Alive and Kicking http://raspberryroaddesigns.blogspot.com

3. Template: Simply Sarah calendar template http://simplysarahdesigns.blogspot.com/

This last one I already made before, just wanted to put it together with my other calenderpages....

1. Template: Simply Sarah calendar template http://simplysarahdesigns.blogspot.com/

2. Kit: Jan Hosford´s Rustic Autumn add-on at www.digitalfreebies.com

Be sure to take a look as well at June´s blog, she is offering a great freebie: a quickpage, a template AND a page-kit, how great is that? Also I was happily surprised to see a LO someone sent to her using my little dude quickpage freebie I posted last week! Also there´s some freebies on fellow CT member Nexa´s blog. Maybe I´ll get to post another freebie this week!!!!

New LO of our purrfect streetcat!!!

So we did not get to travel as we missed our flight, read the whole story here (just scroll down for the English version). Yestardy I went back to work in the favela (slum) again, read about that here. So my friend Els is really good at keeping her blog updated about the work we do here, and she just put up a message about my work with the pregnant teenagers, also it has some great pictures and stories of the work my husband does at the restoration farm and in the youth prisons, check it out here.
So now let´s get back to scrapping. Not only do we work woth streetkids, we also have a streetcat!!!! We found him on the street when he was only about 2 days old, left by his mom, so we decided to take him home (even though I don´t really like cats.....) Anyway, we didn´t think he´d survive, he was so tiny and we had to feed him with a seringe and later with a little bottle, but he did survive!!!! This page I made for the second part of the Template Challenge of October at Digital Freebies.com. The template is courtesy from Eva Kipler, and the kit is by Cens´stuff available here at SDK

So happy scrapping for everyone, see you next time!!!!!

I´m away for a week and freebie!!!!!!

Hello, so this is just a very quick message before I´m off to the SouthEast of Brazil to visit my mother-in-law who has been quite ill the past few weeks/months, and she hasn´t even seen here first and only grandchild yet. So we were really blessed with this friend who blessed us with the tickets to be able to go there!!!!! ´It will be good to get back to Belo Horizonte where we met and got married, than we´re off to the country, Bela Vista de Minas!!!!! So here´s a LO I made this week, and also I´m adding a freebie.

Credits: Two Turtle Doves Add-on by Dielle Designs, available this week as freebie at http://www.digitalfreebies.com/ Frames by Thaty Borges from http://scrapkut.blogspot.com/

So this quickpage I made with a freebie of Cens´ Stuff Little Dude kit that is available at http://censloft.blogspot.com/, Also you can get a full kit at SDK.

Download here

This is what I made with it, the paper torns in my page are a bit diferent, but seen the fact June added some papertorns I decided to add those.

Please leave a comment, I´d love to hear from you, and have a great week, melanie