Pencil Lines Sketch 264

Here's Pencil Lines' 1st sketch for 2012 made by none other than ME!!! I guess there were a few delays in posting because this was supposed to come out in December, but I'm sure most of you still haven't started on last Christmas' photos anyway...

It's a Floriade!

Floriade is a flower festival celebrated in Australia and this time, we were asked to do a "Floriade-inspired" LO using at least 10 flowers from Manor House Creations, and here's my take.

Title: Pool Fun

Materials: Patterned papers - Sassfras Lass, Crate; Chipboard Alpha - American Crafts; Wood Alpha - Pink Paislee; Mist - Tattered Angels; Flowers - Manor House Creations; Twine - The Twinery; Ink - Clearsnap; Pen - American Crafts; Sticker - October Afternoon; Misc - doily

Pretty Flowers

Manor House Creations has some really pretty flowers this season, some of which are featured in this LO of Nadya.

Title: Pretty

Materials: Cardstock & Patterned Papers - American Crafts; Die-cuts - Pebbles, Inc and American Crafts; Flowers & Leaves - Manor House Creations; Stamp - Fiskars; Mask - The Crafter's Workshop; Metal Embellishment - American Crafts; Candy Dots - Pebbles Inc; Die-cutting Machine - Slice; Border Punch - Martha Stewart; Ink - Clearsnap; Pen - American Crafts

I love the color of the big yellow flower and made it my focal point flower as it perfectly matches the trim on Nadya's dress.  The assorted white and cream flowers are perfect additions to add depth, dimension and texture, without taking away from the focal point.

Happy New Year!!!

The past month has been unbelievably busy, even more than usual for this time of the year. So here finally are my last completed LOs for 2011...I had committed to do more but I had run out of time...

Here is Burlap and Buttercup's December kit...

and add-on...

And here's my New Year LO...it was the 1st time for us to host our family's New Year's Eve celebration to welcome 2011. We usually go out of town for this to avoid the pollution from the fireworks but we were too lazy to drive out last year.

This LO uses pictures from Christmas Eve when the kids open presents from Mom and Dad and relatives who are present for our Noche Buena.

And here is Christmas Morning when the kids open check out what Santa left for them in their stockings. We have a special plate to put Santa's cookies (plus carrots for the reindeer) on, which the kids made a few years back.

I hope you all had a great 2011 and look forward to an even better 2012!!!

Cozy Christmas

Hope you all had a great Christmas! Here's a LO using the Cozy Christmas papers from Scrap Cake and Manor House Creations flowers...I love the soft colors and the beautiful poinsettia flower...

Title: Christmas Joy

Materials: Patterned papers, diecuts - Scrap Cake; Flowers & Leaves - Manor House Creations; Fanric embellishments - Prima; Metal Embellishments - Imaginisce; Pearl swirl - Pebbles, Inc; Mist - Tattered Angels; Letter Stickers - Crate Paper and Webster's Pages; 

Merry Christmas!

May Peace be your gift at Christmas

and your blessing all year through! 

~Author Unknown

Merry Christmas from our family to yours...

Manor House Colour Me Flowers

With the ever-growing trend of personalizing embellishments, Manor House Creations brings to you these Colour Me Flowers. These are made of crepe paper and are so easy to color using different media and techniques. For this LO, I painted on some Glimmer Glaze for the aquamarine flower and used a paintbrush to apply Glimmer Mist on the pink flowers.

Materials: Cardstock - American Crafts; Patterned Papers - Webster's Pages; Flowers and Leaves - Manor House Creations; Metal Embellishments - Making Memories; Fabric embellishments - Prima; Mist - Tattered Angels; Sticker - Basic Grey; Mask - Crafter's Workshop; Border Punch - Martha Stewart; Ink - Clearsnap; Tag - American Crafts; Misc - lace

Gingerbread Land

I love Nikki Sivils Gingerbread Land Collection! Very few Christmas collections mix red and pink, so this was perfect for last year's Christmas photos where my girly-girls wore pink dresses...

Title: Celebrate the Season

Materials: Cardstock - American Crafts; Patterned Papers, buttons and stickers - Nikki Sivls; Stamps - Technique Tuesday; Ink - American Crafts; Border Punch - Martha Stewart

Pencil Lines Sketch 262

Here's my LO for Sketch 262 made by the fabulous Leah Farquharson!

I used Nikki Sivils' new Gingerbread Land collection for this Christmas family photo from last year.

Title: December 2010

Materials: Patterned paper, die-cuts, buttons, stickers - Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker; Kraft Cardstock - American Crafts; Ink - Clearsnap; Pen - American Crafts; Punches- Martha Stewart; Die-cut machine - Making Memories Slice

Do check out this week's sketch and join our challenge before everything gets too busy for the coming holidays.

Christmas Countdown House

I've been making a Christmas Countdown craft for the last 3 years and decided to make this my tradition. Here's is my 2011 Christmas Countdown featuring Glue Dots adhesive.

Create your own Christmas countdown calendar!

Supplies

• 1" Glue lines
• Mini Glue Dots
• Micro Glue Dots
• wood model bird house kit
• Christmas countdown patterned paper with numbers (I used Imaginisce Cottage Christmas)
• other Christmas papers
• Acrylic paint (I used light blue)
• Border punch, for trim
• small metal L-shaped screw hook
• Cardboard for backing and flag stick
• Letter stickers

Instructions
Birdhouse:

• Trace the different parts of the birdhouse (walls and roof) onto the backs of desired patterned papers, cut out and adhere with Mini Glue Dots.
• Paint other wooden parts in desired color
• Drill a small hole at the top of one of the roofs and insert metal hook.
• Assemble the birdhouse using the Glue Dots lines to connect the edges.
• Optional: Punch trim from patterned paper and adhere around the roof.

Numbers:

• Take the Christmas Countdown paper and cut out all the numbers. If desired, adhere to cardboard to make them sturdier. 
• You may also ink the edges.
• Punch a small hole at the top of each number.

Flag:

• Cut out a 1/4" wide x 4" long piece of cardboard for the stick.
• Cut out a 2"x3" piece of patterned paper for the flag.
• Adhere letter stickers for title.
• Assemble flag and adhere the roof piece with the hook.

I wrote this blog post while participating on the Glue Dots design team.

Burlap & Buttercups Nov 2011 Kit

Here are B&Bs November Main Kit and Add-On Kit ...which arrived in the nick of time...meaning just before the end of November...LOL:)

And here are my LOs! Time constraints aside, this kit was such a pleasure to work with that I was able to create these 4 LOs within a 24-hour period...so much fun and so satisfying to be able to churn out this much in so little time!

You will also notice that I just got myself a new batch of border punches, and one of my favorites, Laurel Leaf is in this 1st LO.

Here's another set of border punches, using French Scroll this time. Photos were taken in Hong Kong Disneyland last summer 2010. Why do kids never tire of Disneyland? My hubby and I have practically memorized the LO of HK Disney having been there 5 times in its 5-year history...

Here is another Disney LO, as the girls posed with Eeyore. This Character Garden is unique to HK Disney, there really is nothing to do here but line up to meet and greet characters. Here I used the Wild Flowers border punches and layered my new Harlequin and Chicken Wire templates from Crafter's Workshop.

This next LO features 2 of my best scrapbooking buddies, Pia and Iris. We started out as DT for a local store and have been friends ever since. Aside from scrapbooking, one of our favorite activities is having our photos taken, so we have more to scrap! Here I used my Damask template from Crafter's Workshop and the Eyelet Lace punches from Martha Stewart. I also enjoyed playing with the Kaiser Craft crochet doilies and turned them into gorgeous crochet blooms!

I hope you enjoyed these LOs as much as I enjoyed making them, Head on over to Burlap and Buttercups to grab hold of the few remaining November kits, better yet, sign up for a subscription to receive the coming kits in advance!