Like many women, I knew who would be my maid of honor before I knew who would be my husband. My dear friend Abby and I have been friends since we were just 16-years-old. We met at a prime age and have been best friends ever since. We’re the best kind of best friends too. The kind […]
Category: Cricut Crafts
Cricut Craft | XOXO Valentine’s Day Banner
By Mercedes Santana on February 13, 2021If you need a quick mini Valentine’s day banner, here you go! If there’s any year that celebrating every little thing makes sense, it’s this year.
A Very Colorful Christmas
By Mercedes Santana on December 21, 2020I needed to revamp my holiday decor this year and because I have a pink Christmas tree I wanted to lean into something really bright and fun. A Small World Holiday meets a toddlers dreams. I actually got a lot of my inspiration for my color scheme off a holiday mug I bought at Marshall’s […]
Christmas Craft: Clear Travel Ornaments
By Mercedes Santana on November 26, 2020I saved some save or pebbles from beach trips because I knew I wanted to make these. I also usually keep tickets and other memories for scrapbooking so I had items for some of the other countries. Maybe I’ll start collecting real ornaments when travel opens again, but for now these match my pink tree. […]
Past Papers: Quarantine Scrapbook Pages
By Mercedes Santana on October 4, 2020One silver-lining of quarantine has been that I have more time to craft and I’m okay with that. It also gave me time to reorganize my craft supplies, I love my improved little craft corner. I also finished all my pages from our trip to Greece and France last year! To view those European pages, […]
Inside my Scrapbook: 2019 Greece & France
By Mercedes Santana on April 5, 2020Well here I am writing from couch at the end of week 3 of self-isolation due to COVID-19. I have to say, despite the fact that the world feels a little scary right now I’m really enjoying my time at home. I am getting work projects done that I always put on the back burner, […]
Past Papers: HWY 1 Road Trip Scrapbook
By Mercedes Santana on February 2, 2019I finally picked some photos from our summer road trip up Pacific Coast Highway to highlight in this California scrapbook page. The drive up was slightly gloomy, but still breathtaking. Though the sky looked slightly dull in my photos the colors from the ocean and hills were still bright. So I knew that the paper […]
New York City Scrapbook
By Mercedes Santana on January 7, 2019Every trip inspires a page or two in my scrapbooks. There’s nothing more I love then crafting on a cold winter day. Which I’ve been doing a lot of the past few weekends. Yes, it does get chilly in Southern California. I also have to shout out my best friend Abby who helped me decide […]
Past Papers: San Francisco Scrapbook
By Mercedes Santana on June 20, 2018Even a weekend trip deserves to be preserved in scrapbook pages. I have so many pages from before I started blogging that I thought it would be fun to do a new series of articles dedicated to my past scrapbook pages, so welcome to the “Past Papers” series. This is a simple one page, three-photo […]
I try to craft something once a week, whether it’s a scrapbook, card, or something simple. I slapped together this quick DIY with my handy Cricut machine. For all my fellow-Cricut enthusiasts this ones for you. This DIY only took me maybe five minutes, it took me longer to decide on a font. I had […]