My daughter recently celebrated her 5th birthday and due to my very grave habit of procastination, I decided last minute to make some bunting banners for her. It would have been better if I made it all myself – there are a lot of pretty princess (and pink) kits at the shoppe and there is the scrappers’ toolbox by Dani Mogstad specifically for banners. But I had no time so I ordered these custom-made over at Etsy (I paid around $5 for it, not bad, considering it was personalized with her name, age and the black-haired princess). So while I was enjoying a movie from our wireless home theatre system I was cutting these out from paper:

Don’t they look awesome?

Wanto make one for yourself? This will help you – just click on the linked image!

It’s two hybrid projects in a month – may I say I’ve done a good job printing everything? (Because that was what I just did – printed everything!)

I printed these adorable printables from Dani Mogstad while I was studying about the Arizona car insurance quotes my uncle told me to check so I can give him a recommendation (as if I know anything about it!). I saw them used by a scrapper who shared it in the SSD forums and had the idea to have them for my Four People Times 12 Project for February.

I love how it turned out!

For those of you who are not familiar with scrapbooking, there is what we call traditional scrapbooking, where scrapbookers use paper and the usual stuff you see in traditional scrapbooks. There is also digital scrapbooking, the kind that I do, where everything is done digitally, with the help of a computer software. Both of them can get quite expensive, with expensive supplies like paper and paper flowers for traditional scrapbooking  and digital scrapbooking banking on equipment – you need a fast and heavy duty computer that can run on numerous layers of Adobe Photoshop. You would also need a large hard drive because digital scrapbooking kits take up a lot of bytes (space). The third kind, one which I have been longing to try, is a mix of the traditional and the digital, and we call it hybrid scrapbooking.

Hybrid scrapbooking is digital papers printed out and embellished with scrapbooking elements like ribbons and flowers. I love seeing projects from my computer come to life, but you need to invest on a good printer and it can take a lot of ink.

You might need to order several replacement printer cartridges and have them in stock, because nothing is more frustrating than having to stop a project for awhile because you ran out of ink. You can get your supply of printer ink cartridges at Printer-Cartridges.com. They carry all types of ink for all brands of printer and even offer replacement or refill kits. You also can bring your printer cartridge so you can be sure what type of ink refill kit you would need to order.

For sentimental mommies like me who love to shop, these personalized tote bags will be a sure hit as gifts come Christmas time. It can serve as a beach tote, diaper bag, grocery bag and an everyday bag for busy mommies with kids! You can print the names of your kids or your name and it comes in different colors too!!

I finally ordered this:

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I also got this and this, and hope they will arrive next week.

*sigh*
Scrapping is so addicting! If there were drug rehabs that involved scrapbooking (and scrap shopping), Im sure I would have been forcibly admitted by my husband! LOL