Some closed up pics from the previous LO

I totally heart this Chipboard title from My Mind's Eye. I use perfect pearls to add some shine.

And I adore this paper. Its soooo pretty that I didnt want to cover it. I glossy accent the hot air ballons & stamped a chandelier over it.

Cute scallops and the doily lace is heavily distressed with gold perfect pearls. So pretty.

My lovely owls!! (=

This may be my most favorite accent in the whole LO.

OooOooo, so in love with that punch.

Too cute!

SIL 4th challenge...

Here you go...my take on the 4th challenge.

I must say, I found this challenge very challenging. (eyes rolling, well yea, it is a challenge) LOL!

Main reason is because, while mixing up soo many different manufacturers I didn't want to clutter my LO.

Believe me, I was starring at the LO for hours just to make sure they were pleasing to my eyes.

Materials used:

1. Studio G - Love stamp

2. Prima - Chandelier stamp, flowers & ribbon

3. Making Memories - Kraft & Journaling stickers

4. My Minds Eye - 'So Sweet' title

5. Denton Magic Press - Alpha Rub-ons

6. Kaisercraft - While rhinestones

7. Maya Road - Owls & Just a quick note rub-ons

8. October Afternoon - My bliss & sentiment sticker

9. EK Success - Phrase Cafe sticker

10. Martha steward - Butterfly & Doily edge punch

11. Fiskars - Scallop border punch

12. Tim Holtz - Vintage Photo Distress Ink

13. Stazon - Black ink

14. Ranger - Perfect Pearls, glossy accent & stickles

15. Dymo - Dymo label

16. Uniball signo - White gel pen

17. Bazzil - Brown cardstock

18. Cosmo cricket - Material girl pattern papers

19. Webster pages - pattern papers

20. Autumn Leaves - Foof a la buttons

21. Twine - Local bookshop

22. Kokuyo tape runner

23. Tombo mono multi glue

23 different manufacturers? Wow, thats a lot!! but it was a fun challenge. (=

Delicious Goodies from Scrap-n-crop!

La la la la la la la laaaaa lalalala la la LA LAAA!!!

I'm a happy girl.

Look at these delicious goodies.....*slurp*

I keep staring at those cute cute stickers. I love October Afternoon, very high quality. Oh and those gorgeous papers from Cosmo Cricket....I've been waiting the longest time to get my hands on the Material Girl papers. OOoooOooooo......YEAY!

And not forgetting this punch which I've been dreaming for more than a month......

So beautiful....

...and its Finally MINE!!

HOORAY!!

(Shouts of Joy!)

xoxo,

Third SIL challenge this month

Meet my boys..Raul & Mikhail

Heart them to pieces.

Hand cut the monsters from October Afternoon paper.

I realized that since I'm not a mother yet, I have very few kiddies embellishments.

Strangely enough, i did manage to find some....hehe

Vibrant Colors..

Happy Patterns

Stamped this thickers with News print stamp (Prima)

Looks pretty cool huh? Kinda like how that turned out.

Painted the 'B' & 'Y' chipboard black, originally pale blue. Was not too particular about the strokes, which gave it a bit of a distressed look.

The birdie is a button, cut off the shanks and glued to the paper.

Oh now that I remember, I have not washed my paint brush yet....must have harden already. Haih!

"These are the two of my Favorite Boys"

They are my super cutie patootie cousins.

Absolutely too adorable for words....

Ahhhh, my heart melts everytime I think of them.

xoxo,

SIL challenge - LO no.2

Layout no.2 for SIL's April Challenge. For some strange reason, I am more productive with the 5 days deadline. Since I'm still a baby scrapper, it takes me around 4-5 hours to complete one..... but it does feel like my creative mojo is out and I'm in scrapbook heaven!

To enter SIL challenge, pls go to Scrap-it-lah.

One of the challenge was to incorporated butterflies on our LO. As my martha stewart punches are still in the wish list, I have zero butterfly punches *tsk, tsk , tsk*.

So to work around that, I stamp some prima butterflies on acetate and cut it out.

Purple flowers from Prima Ornaments, won previously from SIL. Added in some plum berries from local craft stores and some cut outs from Webster Pages.

Title for my layout : "The long awaited TEA"

Small doilies spritz with mud brown acrylic paint.

I love how this turned out (=

Tiny butterflies, stamped and cut out. I lost a few in the process of cutting.....

BLINGS!!!

.....and more Blings!!! One of the elements needed on our LOs.

I could not get hold of any Prima blings as the challenge only last for 5 days, so instead I picked up some handphone blings. Well it fitted in perfectly. *Smiles*

TADA!! The finished layout.

I love the color of this paper and the small birds.

To make the white birdies stand out, i stamped a journaling stamp around it.

{Aside to the embellishments and technique used on this LO, my favorite part is the journaling. Confessions of the little things I missed most.}

Two LOs down, 4 more to go.....

I'll be waiting..

xoxo,

Printable Freebies from Josie

Dear Readers,

Those of you interested in this printable freebie, please visit Josie's blog at Hearts & Arts. She has not posted her work yet, but let me tell you.....she is a gorgeous designer. Absolutely brilliant!

xoxo!

Scrap-it-lah challenge by Michelle

After winning the March challenge from Scrap-it-lah, I was motivated to join more challenges.

It was such a pleasant surprise. Yeay. I've entered countless RAKs & giveaways but I've never won anything.....but this month I was in Awe! Thank you SIL, you really motivated me to scrap more and also to buy more...LOL. Do check them out by clicking the link above or the side bar.

I sprayed the cream rose with my DIY spritz, trim it down and glued to the leaf. The victorian frame is from Prima...I just stamped on Transparency, cut it out and adhered 'friends' kraft sticker and raised it with some foam tape.

DIY embellishment

1. Made the flower from a paper doily,

2. spritz with color

3. inked the edges

4. Add flowers, butterfly, kraft stickers and pearl strip...

.....and vohla, a personalized embellishment.

- Part of the challenge was to have stamping and journaling on the LOs.

So I stamped the journaling box on transparency, journaled and had it cut out.

-Added some butterfly rub-ons and title to complete the LO.

Materials used: Kraft paper, Shimmer cream paper from Auzzie, Velum paper from Mookz, Prima stamps, Pink Paisley rub-ons, Black Staz-on, Friskars scallop edge punch, Marth stewart doily edge punch, Type writer font sticker, sakura gel pen.

xoxo,

My new love.....& a wish list.

My Wish list....

1. Classic Butterfly punch

2. 3 in 1 classic butterfly

3. Large butterfly punch

4. attich lace?

5. Scallop Dots

6. Flower Doily

7. Fiskars Apron lace

This came in the mail last week.....

Martha Steward's Doily Lace Punch

It is deliciously indulging...

I dream of owning more....

...but I am limiting myself to 1 every month?

P/S: How frequent do you use your punches? Worth buying??

Disorganized scrap space

At the moment, this is my scrap space.

My Mr. is suppose to drill some shelves to store my jars & embellishments and a metal rod to hang my punches. Really hoping we can do it by saturday. We have been running back and forth from KL visiting my grandpa who just went thru a major surgery. All is good now, his recovery is really fast. Praise God!

Coming back to my space, most of my scrappy things are stored in boxes...hmmmm to be exact, one huge box coz I don't have that many scrapbook stuff. (=

For my new readers, I just got married in January and both hubs and I just moved in to our very own crib. It is heavenly! *smiles*

This scrap space is in our so called 'office'. We thrifted this table from a hotel that was refurbishing for RM90 (less than USD30). Not bad a deal for a super solid table. Aaron was suppose to use the left side, and mine..the right side BUT because I have so many things, he gave his side up for me to pack for customers and now uses the dining table to work. Well it aint my fault.....hehe, he insisted.

He is the sweetest! *loves*

I am quite loving this area of mine, still plenty of work to make it pretty but this is........

"My Space".

The lighting in this room is quite nasty. Need to sort it out so I can take beautiful pics of my creation. So till I snap a prettier picture.......toodles!

xo

March challenge @ Scrap-it-lah

We met up to scrap our honeymoon/holiday pictures.

But when I found out that Scrap-it-lah was having a challenge on holidays, I told josie to join in the contest. So here we are scrapping for the challenge.

Josie's sis-in-law, Evelyn joined us as well. The more the merrier. Oh and she carried all her stuff from KL to PG. All in the name of scrapbooking! *Smiles*

Started off : Not very messy table

(Evelyn looking for inspiration)

Adding on more mess..

The Mr. was intrigue by the Big Bite and told me I should get one..."But i already have a crop-a-dile" says I. Aaron: "Well you would need one in the near future" (...........*speechless*)

Finally!! After 4 hours:: Our completed LOs

Josie's take

Magnificent Hong Kong : Evelyn's take

My DIY acrylic spritz instead of glimmer mist.

The beautiful mess we created

Once upon a time: My take

Some stamping, cutting, raising, sticking, distressing, rub-ons.

Thank you Josie for the lovely brad.

Relatively it was a no-stress day. So happy I got to use the file tab punch and my new stamps. Creating makes us happy!! After we were done with the LOs, we exchanged tools and just went wild with it. So so much fun......ahhhh the bliss of crafting. *big big smile*

xoxo,

Some scrap goodies from last week. Smidapaper was having SALES.....so pick up some of these. I have been wanting the File tab punch the longest time. The moment i saw it was 25% off, i caved in and bought it and the rest of the embelishments were secondary. I got those Teresa collins cling stamps 50% off - only RM20 per stamp. I regreted only buying 2.

And those sassafrass papers were only RM1.50 each. Not too bad a deal. (=

These goodies cost me RM170++ . Truly an expensive hobby.