Happy Scrapbooking Week!

Sunday, May 2, 2010

In lieu of Scrapbooking week, i have another layout to share! :) Some leftover Xmas photos that were lying around (in the odds & ends stash of photos that almost never get scrapped) The best thing to do with them? Use them all! I find that if you cut them into the same size & put them together u maximise 'em! Feels so good to use up your stash (of anything! oh well, except perhaps some of those fabric 'dear lizzy' papers that i am sure looks better untouched, hee.)
Anyways, the photos here are trimmed to 3" by 3" and arranged unto a grid which is then matted. Also used some Christmas stamps here from Making Memories as well as some christmas tree epoxy stickers from an older Creative Imaginations packet. Background patterned paper is from Luxe (basics collection, huge love !!)

The top & bottom piece of red patterned paper (you make me happy) is from an old Cosmo cricket 8"x8" paper pad (not sure which collection) & I'm so loving the Tim Holtz ornate plate which I used to frame a stamped '2009' below.

Thank you for stopping by today, Have a great scrapbooking week!!

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Crabby Fun!

Friday, April 23, 2010

Got round to scrapping some photos from my Japan trip, here's one I did of me & my mum having a great time dining on Crabs :) I used my Silhouette SD machine to cut out the frame for the photos , then layered it on a piece of letter sized kraft cardstock. Patterned paper is from K&Co as well as Imaginisce. For the elongated vertical space on the right I decided to use some yummy adhesive backed printed canvas from an old EK success collection. Also added the title and some cute little crabs cut out using a cuttlebug die set.

My mum has this layout on her desk, a great way to remember those fun memories :)

Thanks for coming by!

Crazy Moments

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Sometimes I like to do self-reflective layouts (during those occassional moody moments). Here's one I did sometime ago...used some lovely Basic Grey goodies on this. Love those heidi swapp 'invisible stickers', great to ink them according to your colour scheme. The alpha ones i used has dots on them, yum! 'Moments' sentiment from a creative cafe stamp set. I used some vellum from PTI (really good stuff) under the title so soften the busy background paper.here's a closer look:

I also cut out a rectangular window, revealing the base kraft cardstock layer for my journalling. The notebook lines stamp is from Papertreyink's 'Journalling lines' stamp set. Makes it SO easy.

Also did some machine stitching at the bottom of the page + some adhesive-backed pearls.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Xmas layout

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Finally I got round to scrapping my Christmas photos..this one was taken @ Raffles hotel on Xmas eve where we had a great dinner :) Used my Silhouette for the snowflakes & title, simple & quick. Also did abit of sewing on top of the snowflakes, my machine was giving me problems either that or i'm rusty haha. anyhow i'm ok with how it turned out.

Used a white gel pen to highlight around the title because it wasn't standing out enough...

Thanks for stopping by!

Childhood Buddies.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Hello new Monday! I went up to Kuala Lumpur for Valentine's Day this year with T for a short trip as well as to celebrate my hildhood buddy's bday which falls on the 15th. Serene's mum and mine are Mahjong buddies back in the early 1990s and from then so were serene and me :) We went to the same primary school, even went to Japan & Australia for the first time together as kids. We somehow lost contact in the middle when I went overseas for studies for years and then found each other again by chance when I went to visit a 'friend's friend with a friend' at Beaufort college, Perth. There she was sitting there shouting my chinese name (which no one ever uses) , and we kept in touch from then on! The both of us cannot be more similar yet so different. Headstrong, wild and fun loving yet enjoy cooking & dogs. If you're reading this darling, I love ya :)
On to the layout, I started it off with a white base and built up the rest using the colours from our t-shirts in the photos. The part around the photos are pretty straightforward, stamps, alpha stickers, lace + scalloped border.

I had abit more fun with the top left corner of the layout though.

For this part I :

• stamped the corner with a 'wrought scroll' stamp from Stampington & co. in blue
• Die cut a flower from an old book then stamped over with some Technique tuesday stamps, added a threaded red button
• stamped a flower from papertreyink's 'garden of life' & attached a contrast colored pearl accent
• used a fancy brad with a red flower
• abit more stamping with a catslife press rubber stamp

The this black strips of paper were added last as I thought it needed abit more oomph :) Some enabling:

• Check out the June Basic Grey newsletter here.
• A great way to store those long nestabilities here.
• Some really cute note cards here (totally inspired me to make some for a friend who just had a baby) And check out the card box for it too (link on the post)
• a great tutorial for embroidered flowers & a downloadable template here.

I hope you've enjoyed my share today, thanks for stopping by!

Birthday Layout

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Here's my birthday layout, FINALLY ! My bday was back in march and i actually got this layout done some time back, just haven't got around to the journalling part yet haha. The colour scheme of the layout matches my bcbg dress ;) The photo collage is resized and arranged using Adobe Photoshop Cs3 & then printed out on a piece of A4 matte photo paper using my HP all in one photo printer. Quality is not too bad, I'm still aiming for the Epson photo printer! The white lines you see across the photos are actually strings, just thought they'd be a nice accent to enhance the photos.
Some stamps used are papertreyink's 'fresh alphabet' & 'wishing you'.
Thanks for coming by, have a great day :)

Hope in realness + altered frame

Thursday, May 7, 2009

More stuff (final instalment) for the Scrapbooking from the inside out guest designer stint! Here's the last layout I did:

love the journaling on this one, i actually found this written on a toilet wall at a restaurant @ dempsey hill *lol* well i guess inspiration strikes you everywhere huh? so anyways i knew this would be perfect for the 'hope' theme.

The journalling spot's designed by Nancy Doren herself! really pretty, and really talented that woman. She recently got on the GCD studios design team too , congrats girly ;) She's a huge part of Scrapbooking From the Inside Out too so you gotta check them out.

i green chalk inked the chipboard butterfly that came with the kit then stamped it over with the really pretty prima stamp (that also came with the kit!) i accent coloured the flowers on the butterfly with a pink copic marker (R22 i believe it was) and then UTEE-ed the whole thing.

After all the layouts + 1 card, I still had so much leftover! So i altered this Ikea frame for my cousin (she loved it, yeay!)

Isn't that photo too cute? obviously we were pretending to be flamingoes hahaha. the photo's taken over at Jurong Bird Park, tons of fun esp the aviary where you could hand feed the birds!
Have a great day! Off to work on some projects for My Stamp Box :)

Scrapbooking From The Inside Out

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

I'm baaaaaaaackkkk!!! Had a great vacation in Jakarta, how was your long weekend?? pics when I scrap them *lol* Couple of shares today from my guest designer stint with Scrapbooking from the Inside Out. Their theme for this month is 'Hope' and they really encourage journalling, so click on the photo to enlarge & read 'em ;)

Here's a close up of the journalling:
And a close up of the details:
Here's another layout:
Ok, lotsa errands to run now that I'm back so I gotta run. it's nice to be back ;)
have a great day !

Ali e digital + heroarts mayflowers

Thursday, April 30, 2009

I was so happy to find Ali Edward's 'loving words' digi over at designer digitals. It's on sale too! check it out. I couldn't get my hands on the technique tuesday stamp set but digi's good enough! Here's what I made with it: I recently bought A4 sized matte photo paper so I could print out my own larger photos using my HP all in one printer. The quality turned out pretty good, although I'm still aiming for the Epson photo printer.
The centre accents are cute dog themed brads which I got from Made With Love, not sure who the manufacturer is but I layered it on 2 punched out circles. The hearts are also punched out with 2 different sized heart punches and then machine stitched.

I really like Ali Edward's style! I actually emailed her to tell her how much i love the digi kit & she replied saying she liked me layout ;)

Here's a card for Heroart's blog 'mayflowers' challenge this week. I cut the shaped card using my colluzzle (the curved part) , stamped the flowers first then ink-washed the background with a sponge applicator , distress inks +water. check out their flickr group too, lots of inpiration!

Ok, i NEED to finalise packing. flying off tonight! No posts tomorrow but do come back on Saturday for Card Patterns sketch #13 :)

Have a great weekend!

Sleeping with Mr Froggy

Monday, April 27, 2009

Nope, not me. the dog, obviously *lol* Teddy has a lovey dovey relationship with his pet frog that T got him. It's a pet beanie thingy & he's been stuck to it ever since. The first thing teddy does when he comes up to my room/studio is find Mr Froggy. can i say cuteeee?? :) The photo on the left of the layout is yup *gasp* how he sleeps occassionally, never fails to give me a good chuckle. Aaah, pets. gotta love 'em. Ok, so i doctored the photo on the right (placed the froggy under his paw while he was asleep) But it was too cute not to! And a great photo op too ;) Papers are from October afternoon & cosmo cricket. Some zig-zag machine sewing on the edges too.
Here's a close up:
Its the start of a new week, counting down to my holiday on thursday YEAY! Have a good one! :)

Creative Therapy #57 + ointment pillows

Thursday, April 16, 2009

I haven't played along with Creative Therapy for ages so i checked in earlier today and loved their catalyst this week! 'What makes you laugh?' Easy one for me I must say, because the person who makes me laugh all of the time is my lover, best friend & best confidante T. ;) Not to mention he's really patient (especially when chocolate's running low in the household= crankiness) *lol* Lots of playing around with Gesso for this layout, and I tried a new approach today! Basically i took out all the co-ordinating supplies in terms of colours & went at it. I think it worked out great. Does anyone else do that? I know mishie does , but it's new to me. Normally I just 1. take photos out 2.pick matching patterned papers & work from there. I think the old way made me leave out using alot of my stash. So all in all, I'm feeling Geewwwdddd ;) another thing that made me feel good today was this video!

Anyhoos, here's a close up:


The photos were taken at my birthday party last month (the nail spa thingy) So love that bcbg dress!
And here's a pillow I made last night for T. Per his request.

I had a great laugh last night when he asked me to make him a little pillow (totally something your son or a young boy would ask you!) & he made a puppy face when asking *lol* Anyways, I completed the pillow (he loved it!) but asked me to sew on a pocket onto it. I was like "huh, what for??" And then I realised he wants the pocket to place his ointment in it so it's easier to find. OMG...I'm dating an old man *gasp* normally esp. in asia we tend to associate those wee bottles of ointment with old men who like to *sniff* at it like a drug of sorts. (it's not a drug, just something like a Vicks inhaler except in liquid form).

Let's just say i sewed the pocket (with zipper) & then onto the pillow with a huge grin ;)

And to all of you girls out there who're hoarding your sewing patterns (yes mich that's u) , get sewing! It's totally therapeutic after the part where you want to tear your hair out when the machine runs crazy on ya. haha

Have a great day , it's the weekend all over again! :)

excuse me, are you a model?

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Something fun to share today, I was asked to be in a tv ad back in february, it was my first time and it was great fun!! HAD to scrap about it :) It was a whole day shoot (10am to 5pm) and it was pretty good pay for a day's work if you ask me *lol* A chance like this doesn't come around everyday so it was nice to hang around a set & have fun when i wasn't up to be in front of the rolling camera :) It was really tiring towards the end of the day though, especially T since he had to be in most of the scenes. I swear his 'smiling' expression turned murderous at 5pm. It was HILARIOUS!

Ok, so i've got a crap photo of the flip-up part of the layout. I think i somehow shook my camera when I was taking it & didn't realise till later.Here's a close up of the sewing i did:


So loving the basic grey urban prairie on here, those patterned papers are actually from my 6x6 paper pad! i just cut them into equal strips & laid them out, looks like I used a 12x12 paper huh? love those paper pads :)

On another note, Amy is looking out for cards to be given to 2 very special ladies who are turning 90 (wow) & 100 (double wowser!) this year! She's so sweet in her post that I sent her some cards immediately. Help her out, send her a couple of cards and make 2 lovely ladies happy. She has blog candy giveaway too if you do :)
And Papertreyink has their senior dt challenge up today & it's all about buttons! check them out, lotsa interesting ways to use them :)

BTW, was anyone following the GCD design team event last night?? I was, and it was really exciting albeit I didn't get a call but it was fun nonetheless. I'm definitely heading back on the 6th to GCD to see who else won a spot :)
Have a great day!

Shhh...My 1st Idol!

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Ok so now this is embarrasing, I initially didn't want to post this but i though 'ah. why not?' haha. So some of you might or might not know him, he's Aaron kwok & he's a singer/actor from HongKong. Yup, he was my first love back when i was 11 or 12 *lol* When I had the opportunity to get a photo taken with him (his wax figure @ hongkong's mdm tussauds back in Oct last year), I did!

Brings back alot of memories for me, singing at the top of my voice & dancing along his music videos. (REALLY embarassing now that I think back about it. I'm literally cringing here!) This layout didn't turn out as much as I liked/imagined but it'll do as long as its telling my story :) I swear I gotta start scrapping more, USE up those 12x12 papers & brush the dust off my scrapping skills!!

So anyhoos, here's a close up of the details:

I played along with my cuttlebug embossing folders & 'coredinations' cardstock for this layout, so fun! You emboss the cardstock & then sand off the top to reveal different colours, well of course you get to pick what colours you want prior (the 'inside' colour is the whole backside of the paper) :)

I recently found Mary macashill, love her layouts! and she does great cards too..she's my new scrapbooking inspiration. check her blog out here.

Thanks for coming by , have a great day!

Flower Power

Thursday, February 26, 2009

hi all! i haven't been scrapping much lately & i have a stash of perfectly scrappable photos, so i did :) Plus, i just got news that i'll be the guest designer in May for Scrapbookingfromtheinsideout kit club so it's about time i brush the dust off those lovely 12x12 papers & played!

i must mention that i suck at taking photos for layouts, any tips?
here's a close up:
ck, drop me an email so that we can arrange for the mini sewing machine to be sent out k?

have a great day girls!

eta: i found my $100 pink & portable sewing machine at sim lim square, the shop is on the first floor and sells audio stuff & remote control helicopters. it's a corner shop near 1 of the entrances (can't recall which one sorry!)