Monday, April 25, 2011

Happy Girl

This week we are focusing on the wonderful Layered Embellishments from Pebbles! Here's my LO using the Green Butterflies and Purple Flowers sets...they are so perfect for my photo!!!


Pebbles supplies used:
Happy Go Lucky Cheery Varnish (751080)
Happy Go Lucky Splendid (751081)
Happy Go Lucky Glee Varnish (751082)
Happy Go Lucky Chirpy Varnish (751085)
Happy Go Lucky Dandy (751089)
Happy Go Lucky Cloud Nine (751090)
Happy Go Lucky 12" Border Stickers (732037)
Happy Go Lucky Dimensional Stickers (732038)
Layered Embellishments - Green Butterflies (747021)
Layered Embellishments - Purple Flowers (747061)


Other supplies used:

Cardstock (American Crafts)
Thickers (American Crafts)
Pen (American Crafts)
Mist (Tattered Angels)
Stickles (Ranger)

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Happy Easter!!!!

Here are 2 LOs of the kids before and after our annual Easter Egg Hunt! Last year, we forgot to bring our Easter baskets --- we usually go to my mom's vacation house in the province during this time where the closest mall is a 2 hour drive -- and all I could find in the sari-sari stores were these baskets used to carry fighting cocks!
The kids were happy though because they got to decorate the baskets (good thing I brought my Slice machine!) and they could hold so many more eggs!

BEFORE
Title: Eager Beavers
Materials: Patterned papers, stickers - Nikki Sivils; Pen - American Crafts; Ribbon - Pebbles Inc

AFTER
Title: Easter Loot
Materials: Cardstock - Wassau; Patterned papers - Nikki Sivils; Vinyl Alpha and pen - American Crafts; Transparency - Hambly; Cardstock - DCWV

Friday, April 22, 2011

Butterfly Crafts April Challenge

This month's challenge at Butterfly Crafts is a color challenge. We have to use 2 out of 3 given colors...but I decided to use all 3 of them -- pink, yellow and blue.


If you have the time, please join us for this month's challenge...you have upto May 14 and the winner gets to be our June Guest Designer!

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Pencil Lines Sketch 234

Here's my take on this week's sketch at Pencil Lines...
Title: Sweet Dancer
Materials: Patterned papers - Fancy Pants; Puffy Alpha - American Crafts; Small Alpha - Cosmo Cricket; Mist - Tattered Angels; Metal Plaque, Journaling tag, pen - American Crafts
Journaling: Nadya & Bianca at their ballet Christmas program...they just love to dance! 12-18-10

Do check out the sketch here and hope you can join us this week...

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Hey Crabby!

Challenge 38 at Sarah Hurley's is based on an April Showers theme...or anything related to water. Here's what I made using the new Mermaids and Sea Creatures release with the island tree from the Pirate Collection...
Title: Hey Crabby
Journaling: Bianca had to be the cutest little crab ever wearing a costume that Mommy and Yaya Jen made! Jan 31, 2011
Materials: Cardstock, pen, embossing powder - American Crafts; Ink - Clearsnap; Mist - Tattered Angels; Paint - Ranger; Images - Sarah Hurley, Glitter Alpha big - Pebbles Inc; Small alpha - Making Memories

I enjoyed getting messy with this LO, playing with distress paint, embossing powders and mists..all in one project!
If you get a chance, please do join us for this week's challenge!

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Enchanting Day

Here's my Spring-themed LO for Pebbles using the adorable Ever After line.
Title: Enchanting Day
Journaling: Nadya had a great time flying her kite today! If only every day is as perfect as this...Jan 1, 2011
Pebbles supplies used: Ever After Little Princess (751007), Ever After Enchanted (751008), Ever After Glass Slipper (751009), Ever After Sparkle (751113), Ever After Blushing Princess (751114), Ever After Royal Banner (751115), Ever After Word Dimensional Stickers (732047), Ever After 12" Border Stickers (732048), Ever After Icon Dimensional Stickers (732049), Ever After Buttons (747097), Ever After Layered Embellishments (747099), Ever After Ribbon (780008)
Other supplies used:
Cardstock (American Crafts), Thickers (American Crafts), Pen (American Crafts), Mist (Tattered Angels), Twine (The Twinery), Doily

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Life is Good

Here's the LO I made for Scrapfit Workout #42 which is to use a photo of ourselves from the past....this is one of the photos that comes to my mind when I think of myself as a child so I chose this...plus the fact that it's probably the one in the best condition as my mom used magnetic albums which are now yellowing and falling apart.

Title: Life Is Good
Materials: Patterned papers - The Girls Paperie, American Crafts; Felt - Making Memories; Chipboard, Pen and stickers - American Crafts; Ribbon - Pebbles Inc
Journaling: This is me at 4 or 5 yrs old. My messy hair was already a problem them...nevertheless, life was good to me then as it remains to be now... 040911

I hope you can join us for this workout!

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Sarah Hurley "Mum's the Word" Challenge

This week, Mother's Day is being celebrated in England and so this week's challenge  at Sarah Hurley's is to create a project related to this occasion. Here's my card for this week's challenge.


These flowers were very easy to make, using circle punches and good old scrunching. The stitched stems add a bit of homey texture.

Hope you can join in for this week's challenge 36!

Scrapfit Workout 41 - Stop & See the Flowers

The challenge for this week is to make our own flowers and this was the perfect excuse for me to finally figure out how to make my own accordion flowers!

Title: In the Clouds
Materials: Cardstock, Patterned paper and stickers - American Crafts; Mist - Tattered Angels; Chipboard - K & Co; Pen - American Crafts; misc buttons, twine, corrugated paper

Here are the links to the flower tutorials that I used:

Friday, April 1, 2011

Mr & Mrs

So, obviously, this LO is long-delayed...by almost 12 years...LOL! But when I was assigned to create a project with Pebbles Inc's new Mr. & Mrs. collection, I knew I had to use one of my wedding photos.

Like most scrapbookers, I started out with this hobby when I had kids, and wanted to document their lives. By that time, there was a ton of pictures already waiting to be scrapped so all I've ever done for my wedding was a very simple 8x8 album which I gave to my hubby 5 years later.


Pebbles Products Used:
  • 751092 Wedding Floral
  • 751096 Wedding Bells
  • 751098 Silver Lace
  • 751099 Wedding Cake
  • 751102 Love Birds
  • 751103 Wedding Veil
  • 732042 Dimensional Stickers - Phrases
  • 732044 Dimensional Stickers - Flowers
  • 747081 Stickers - Pearl Flourish
  • 747084 Layered Embellishments
  • 747085 Metal Flowers
  • 747086 Pins
  • 747088 Candy Dots - Pearl Silver
Other Materials Used:
Miscellaneous doily, lace