National Scrapbook Day

Wow, there is so much going on for this special day. First even before this, is the celebration of Scrap-a-little first anniversary, BTW, have you commented in my post and became the follower of this blog for Scrap-a-little blog hope yet? Its going to end today!!

Then there is a crop challenge over at Scrapbook Deals 4u, then there is another in Creating Keepsake, and another in Scrapbook Challenges! There is a new palette over at the Color Room too! I love all those layouts that being done by their designers, so pretty! Buoy, I wish I have all those photos and time to follow all these celebration.

Happy Scrapbook Day!

Sweet chubby you

Love those sketches over at Creative Scrappers, what more I can use it together with my Studio Calico kit!

Here is one that I have done using CS sketch: 

Here is a close-up of the flower that I did plus crochet flower from Dear Lizzy line:

Yes, I do miss his chubby face when he was still little, he has lost all those baby fat now and in fact a bit too skinny to me. When I look at him, I just thought to myself, hey you grow so much and too fast! I wish I can still see your chubby face.

Product used: Studio Calico Joyland kit.

Scenic Route layouts

I get to receive one pack of Scenic Route paper from Helen (Scrap-a-little) few weeks ago and had been creating layouts using it. Those paper are super fun and pretty, plus those tags and stickers!

These are what I came up with, 3 layouts and I still have lots of paper to play with.

1st layout: (Girlfriends)

Some close-up:

A second layout: (You & Me through the years)

Some close-up:

And a 3rd layout from the same paper line: (Circle of friends)

I love how quick I can come up with a layout without much matching to do as the paper line can be used together and with those stickers and chipboard, they are fun!

Now, head on over to Scrap-a-little, 'cos Helen is giving away this pack of paper line for Scrap-a-little first anniversary celebration, go check out on how to get there here, and enjoy what other designers has done with the pack of paper. I hope we'll have fun together in the ning site.

It is official!

Yes, Scrap-a-little is having its own Ning site for challenges, sketches, forums and all the fun!
This is to celebrate the first anniversary of Scrap-a-little!
So, head on over to Scrap-A-Little.ning.com

The truth

Yes, sometimes a picture doesn't tell the true story behind, it needs journaling, it need the story itself to be written. There goes for these pictures of my boys with their breakfast. They didn't really finish off their American Breakfast of eggs, sausages, bake beans and toast. I was the one helping them with those eggs. This was during Easter morning.

I wanted to make this page as something from the news, some truth of it, thus I cut and tear out a peeping window from my cardstock and put those photos in the peeping window with lots of distressing. It took me quite some times to finish off this page, 'cos it was very blunt initially without the doiley flower and the journaling strip.

I love how it turns out. I have even changed my mind to move those fancy photo corner cut-out from the Slice.

Product used: Studio Calico kit, Maya Road journal line stamp, Prima swirl stamp, Slice design element.

Crop Till Ya Drop!

Scrapbook Deals 4U will be hosting a NATIONAL SCRAPBOOK DAY "Crop Till Ya Drop!" online challenges. The party will start on April 30th and continue through May 2nd with lots of scrappy challenges and prizes.


This will DEFINITELY be THE one place you will want to be to celebrate NSD! Are you ready to Crop Till Ya Drop!!?? And the best part, you can win prizes with your participation!

These prizes will be awarded based on challenges completed and overall participation in the crop.
Keep your eyes open for the challenges and head on over to their forum and sign up at the forum thread, do mention that I've invited you.

See you around!

Greatest

Happy Monday!

Mother's Day is next month, but I feel like celebrating it even now. Yup, mom is definitely the greatest! I'm even feeling it now for my mother-in-law. I wasn't having a good relationship with her before but we are getting better and I think she is getting along better with people better now.

This is my mom in the picture, a picture that I took of her without her knowing, but after this, I had another photo of her laughing out loud 'cos she knows I was playing with my camera.

Am using Creative Scrapper's sketch for this layout and Scrapbook Deals 4U April Kit # 3 April Showers kit . Which is filled with Jack & Jill Quite Contrary Collection Papers and cute embellishments! Should really check it out.

I'm loving the distressing look, even tear some bits and pieces off the page and PP to get the look. Oh ya.. and that pack of Prima flowers are gorgeous! Should try them out and if you can't decide on what to buy or how to mix and match your paper line, go for a kit, Scrapbook Deals 4U is offering great kits every month and you get to choose from 3 kits!

Been playing around

with my blog templates. So I've been changing my blog template all free from Simply Fabulous Blogger templates.
I'm not totally comfortable with the black background, but I love the header, so what do you think? Shall I stay with this one? Or if you have any suggestion, please let me know, but it has to be free or with less than US$5, really run out of fund at the moment.

Oh ya, weekend is just around the corner.. project project.. I've got myself some zips, foam/sponge and twine. Going to have some fun either sewing or scrapbook. At the same time, I'm hoping to catch some more sleep, to compensate whatever that I've lost during the week too.

Happy weekend!

My zipper bag

Yup, have done it and well.. it is not exactly like originally intended but at least this one is usable. The zip that I bought somehow is too thick to sew through and it is not exactly in the size that is intended for the zipper bag in Anna's blog.

Have bought more fabric from the curtain shop and am intended to make apron for mom's house as the one they are using is really ... *sigh*... dirty! A good reason for me to sew anyway. And I'm also intended to make another kind of zipper bag that I read in a book. This will be my weekend craft *wink*.

Featured in The Star Paren Thots

Just as a reminder for myself that I did get mentioned in ParenThots on 12 April written by Brigitte Rozario

Craft blogging - the new mummy therapy

Thank you Brigitte!

Creative Scrappers reader reveals

This is the layout that has been revealed over in Creative Scrapper's blog for their one month long celebration! I'm so glad that I get to do a layout base upon the sketch that Kristine gave me earlier. It seems to me that mine is so far the plain-ness one among all those gorgeous layouts that other readers revealed! Anyway, I had fun doing the layout with Scrapbook Deals 4U kit - Honey I'm home.

Here are some close-up of the embellishment:

The cut out flower from the PP with some blings in the center.

A cut out of the house in the PP with foam adhesive.

Those swirls that I've cut by using Slice.

Happy Wednesday!

Happy!

Oh gosh! I've just got my April kit from Scrapbook Deals 4U plus the Basic Grey page kit, plus (!!) a gift kit that I've won from the birthday party! Yippie!! There is so much to play with, now I felt overwhelm with all those kits! Gosh!
I still have a kit that sent by Helen from Scrap a little (which I've made 2 pages so far), the Basic Grey Origins page kit (un-touch!), Studio Calico kit and so much left over from the previous kit, plus (yes!!) those Scrapbook Deals 4U kits that I haven't finished using yet!
But now I'm crazy over sewing, definitely want to make a zipper bag tonight with the same fabric of this bag.
Oh, and I've a tutorial on those doily flowers that I've learned from Donna, go check it out in Scrap a little.
As for tonight (20th over in the US) , there is going to be a revealed in Creative Scrappers on a layout that I did using their awesome sketch.
Oh, have you checked out the blog hop for Scrap a little yet? Check here to win yourself a RAK from me and other DTs on their respective sites.

I think I'm crazy

over sewing now.
Ya.. have been checking on online tutorials from bag at first, to tissue holder and now to little girl shirt! Yes, I don't have a little girl to make that girl shirt for, but hey, I do have a niece, but then she is no longer little. She is tall! Way too tall to get into her father's shirt. Anyway, it was fun to go through those tutorials and enjoyed those cutie photos.
I've gone to get some zips, pins and stuff for my next sewing project which I hope to make a small cutie pouches. I did made a bag by the help of Anna's tutorial.

Oh ya, have you read about the Scrap a little blog hop yet? Go find out here.

Happy Monday!

Count down

Yes, ever since hubby is away for work, and once he has touched down, he'll start counting down for his next trip home. Just can't wait type. So here is a layout that is done for him - Count Down.

Did this layout base on a sketch by Kristine Davidson over at Scrapbook Deals 4u. This is the 2nd time I'm using the sketch, and 2nd time using it with Studio Calico's kit. I still have lots of stuff from that kit and yet I'm getting my 2nd kit today! The April Kit! Yes! Buoy, I have so much things to play with and so less time.
 I wish I'm on holiday now, scrap holiday would be the best, or maybe a scrapping escape!

Here is a close-up of the layout on the chipboard letter stickers that I've inked with blue ink to make them pop a bit. I'm using the PP with numbers 'cos this layout is to do with number, right?



So, have you all leave a comment in my post about Scrap a little blog hop? NO? Go ahead, read here.

Happy Wednesday!

Pencil Lines sketch layout

Created this layout using Pencil Lines sketch 181 and Studio Calico kit plus my Fiskars border punch, Slice die-cut machine and doileys! Yup, another doiley flower, just love that it is so easy to make.
The story about the picture: It was Easter morning right after church, we had American Breakfast and I've ordered 3 sets! Which I ended up eating all those eggs in their plates. And I was trying to take a picture of us using the timer, but this is what I got. Both the boys wanted to be the first to see what the camera had taken, so they grab it before I do! *LOL*.

I've adhered a crochet flower from Dear Lizzy paper line and those rub-on, it can go anywhere you like!

Since those letter sticker that came together with the kit doesn't pop up, I've inked it with brown ink. Oh ya, not forgetting my "Brick" Tattered Angel's glimmer mist. Still can't get enough of it yet.

As for the Slice die-cutting, I'm a bit worried about cutting swirls, somehow it got stuck half-way and the swirl become something else, something that I can't use. *sigh*. Anyone of you having that problem? Is it because my removable adhesive is not enough? Or I need to change the blade?

The blog hop
Have you commented on my post about Scrap a little blog hop? Are you following this blog yet? Haven't? Go ahead and comment in this post and you'll stand a chance to win this RAK.

Happy scrapping!

Easter kit

But not Easter layout. Here is one that I've done using Scrapbook Deals 4U Easter kit and Sketchy Thursday's sketch:

Yup, those are real bomb shell that the boys were excited to see over in Great Aunt's place. We had a great time there right before Easter, they got plenty of green place to run around with their long distance cousin.

I definitely love those colors in the PP of We R Memory Keepers Hippity Hoppity line. Just look at the embossed stickers:
So, how have your Easter go? Mine wasn't being filled with eggs hunting, in fact we don't have that over here. We did went for a breakfast together though and the boys had had enough of eggs that I had to finished up their breakfast scramble eggs! All 6 eggs!

Happy weekend!

Oh ya, I'm definitely going to do more layout using this kit and using those sketches over at Sketchy Thursday. And I still have those PP from Studio Calico! So happy!

Sweet spring

Using Dear Lizzy line from American Craft plus some other PP from Studio Calico kit and a sketch from Pencil Lines to create this layout.

Those crochet flowers are just so cute, aren't they? Here, first time ever to use pin as part of the embellishment, I hope they don't rusk on my page.

The Studio Calico kit comes with a mini cherry stamp which I've used here.

This is also another photo that taken during Chinese New Year.

Thanks for dropping and happy scrapping!

Have you done that yet?

Are you following my site and also leaving a message on my previous post to stand a chance to get the RAK that I've prepared? You have until the end of the month to do so, and to participate at the blog hop layout challenge over at Scrap a little to win Helen's RAK too.

There is another thing that I would love all of you who own a blog to do this: Carbon Neutral your site. Just check this out here and start helping the mother earth to get well by planting more trees to neutralize those carbon footprint that our sites created.

I hope all of us can do our parts for our mother earth.

F for family

This is one of the photos that taken during Chinese New Year, that's why all the red color! We had a photo session without my MIL 'cos she already went to the temple. This one was taken at home and I just love it when I can use those lovely paper from Dear Lizzy line which came in the Studio Calico kit. That kit is just filled with goodies, even those thank you tag and package backing are usable! The wood pattern that I used for the photo mat is actually the package backing for the wood vinyl, same goes to the sun pattern behind the photo, and the horizontal yellow PP is a notice tag that came together in the kit.

I've put a bit of lace from my stash in this layout and have cut those lovely flowers from Dear Lizzy PP as part of the embellishment.

This layout is done using the April sketch over at Scrapbook Deals 4U. Go have some fun with the sketch and you might just get to win something from them.

Happy Scrapping!

Product used: Studio Calico Quiting Bee kit, check out what the designers had done with the kit here.

Here is the RAK for blog hop

Hey you all, Thanks for dropping by my site and leaving me messages. I hope you are having fun and that you'll take some time to do a layout using those songs that the Scrap a little designers have chosen. If you haven't been to every designer's blog, go now and leave them a message to stand a chance to get their RAKs.

I have got ready the photo of the RAK that I've put together. I pulled from my supplies of things that I'm still using:

Like it? So, what are you waiting for? Be my follower and leave me a comment on the previous post to stand a chance to get my simple RAK. And go start have some fun and do a layout to win the RAK by Scrap a little.

Scrap A Little blog hop

Hey there, been wanting to do this which is so fun when I join in for other sites. Yes, a blog hop!
This is our first design team blog hop for Scrap a little, it is for April's challenge as well.

I hope you've come from the right place, if you are not, then hop on over to Scrap a little and start from there, you won't wanna miss anything and miss the real challenge for April!

The song that I picked is "Say what you need to say" by John Mayer.



Take all of your wasted honor
Every little past frustration
Take all of your so-called problems,
Better put 'em in quotations

Say what you need to say [x8]

Walking like a one man army
Fighting with the shadows in your head
Living out the same old moment
Knowing you'd be better off instead,
If you could only . . .

Say what you need to say [x8]

Have no fear for giving in
Have no fear for giving over
You'd better know that in the end
Its better to say too much
Then never say what you need to say again

Even if your hands are shaking
And your faith is broken
Even as the eyes are closing
Do it with a heart wide open

Say what you need to say [x24]

To me, this song means to really say it out rather than keeping it 'cos you might not have the chance to say what you need to say after wards.

I did a layout base on this song using Creative Scrapper's sketch #97 and I've used other quote for the journaling which read "Those who matter wont' mind, those who mind wont' matter."

My son just grow so much! I still miss his chubby toddler look.

Now, let's just choose a song and let's hop on over to the next blog - back to Scrap a little! Don't forget to link to Mr. Linky over at Scrap a little for your layout!

Have fun!

Edited: forgot to mention this:

If you become a follower of my blog and leave me a comment here, you'll be entered into a random drawing at the end of April for a little RAK that I've put together. Will show the contents soonest.

Product used: American Craft PP, Basic Grey Origins kit, Scenic Route letter stickers.