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Hi everybody! My name is Cristina – krikamertens on Scrapblog – and I am from Brazil.

You all may be wondering right now what I am doing here. Well, I´ve got to tell you that I was pretty surprised myself but oh, so honored to be invited to pick this week´s Friday Five!

I am very new to Scrapblog but from the numbers of Scrapblogs I have been posting you can guess I am a little addicted and I’ve never felt better about being an addict to an activity as I am feeling now. I think we all agree that Scrapblog is fantastic , isnt´t it?

I was welcomed like a family member and I say “family” because this is how I feel about the people here as I was received with so much warmth and affection that only a family can provide. So, thank you all, thank you Rebecca for your kindness and attention. Keep the excellent work!

Well now… What a hard task! So many tallented people and, countless wonderful works. The first question that came up was: What should my criteria be? As a true Virgo I had a hard time thinking and trying to narrow down the scrapblogs by subjects or themes but it didnt take me so long to realize that I should just let my heart speak. So, I am thrilled and honored to present to you my heart-felt selections for the Friday Five of this week:

The scrapblog “May” by Lien005 caught my eye as from the first page . The little girl is so cute! The incredible layouts and use of different stickers beautifully highlight the photographs, which by the way, are sometimes very funny with the couple making goofy faces.

The brown and light blue pages are really elegant . On page 24 the transparency gives you that magical dream-like look that makes you linger a little bit more for details. I just loved everything about this scrapblog.

Suziq60 presents us with a beautiful work of collage in “Angels” that I am particularly very fond of but had always thought it so difficult to do.

The choice of colors, matching all the pictures, images in a harmonic way was a feast to the eyes. Even though it´s only one page, it’s a puzzle-formed dream that I could look at forever.
Thanks Suziq for your romantic flare, you should check out all of her scrapblogs!

The first Page of “ Our garden in Spring” by Tuinkatjes looks like a water color painting and invites us to move further.
Beautiful layouts – simple and delicate, perfect to catch our eyes for the amazing flower, cat, nature pictures. On page 7 – the transparency of Gizmo was really a creative tool and gives that dream-like perspective I love so much. Extraordinary use of soft yet vivid colors. Just can´t wait to go back and browse more on your other pages. Congratrulations!

What a Lucky hair stylist little_m has. Her “Chasing Johnny” is not only a tribute to this spectacular actor but also a feast to our eyes.
As a big fan of Johnny Depp I could not leave this very creative scrapblog out. The use of the newest stickers Just matched the pages´energy along with the beautiful jazz song very well. What a great idea to finish it with that vídeo and the Johnny Depp´s song. Amazing!!! I also imagine the huge work it was to crop all those pictures but it was worthwhile.
As always, a great, great job.

At last, but not least, I fell completely in Love with girly mom´s - 2008 Spring Photo Shoot.
This scrapblog is Just wonderful. I Just loved the layouts and the pictures.
The use of touches of bright colors in the Black and White pictures highlights the girls´gorgeous faces as in pages 4 and 5 with the girls’ eye colors matching the dresses and the contrasting backgrounds. Fantastic work! And not to mention the precious last page where the caring and love for the baby sister is gently sealed with a kiss. I could really feel the protection and love passing through my computer screen.

Well, I hope you all enjoyed this journey through beauty, love, colors and creativeness. As for me I really had a great time checking out so many wonderful scrapblogs that I will for sure return very soon.
I want to apologize for any spelling or grammar mistakes but as you may have realized English is not my mother language. But, I am getting there….

Warm hugs from Brazil,
Cristina