My Private Happiness

I love the new lines from Manor House Creations and our partner The Scrap Cake.  Here's a LO I made using the My Private Happiness papers from TSC and new flowers from MHC.

Love that wire fencing background...will have to check if Silhouette has the background design already:)

Some Bunny Loves You

Advanced Happy Easter everyone!  Here's an Easter LO I made for Manor House Creations' new collections.

Manor House Spring Flowers

Here's a LO I made using Manor House Creations Spring Flowers. I love the variety of textures and colors, not to mention the dimension that these flowers add to my LO.

Manor House Products used: Cottage Garden – Morning Glory, Grandma’s Garden – warmth, Ballroom – Tango, The Tropics – Islander.

Other Products Used: Patterned Papers - Webster's Pages; Transparency - Hambly; Lace Paper - KI Memories; Paint - Making Memories; Foam Alpha - Pink Paislee; Diecut machine - Making Memories Slice

Manor House Products used: Magestic – Alissa & Tiana white.

Other Products Used: Patterned Papers - Webster's Pages; Stamps - Technique Tuesday; Ink - Clearsnap; Alpha - American Crafts; Misc - lace

Pencil Lines Sketch 258

Here's my LO for Pencil Lines Sketch 258. Can you tell I just got some new punches when I created this LO....teehee...I now have so many border punches that I have to reorganize my scrap room to make room for them...

I found Bianca playing by herself in her room one day. She had set up the kitchen and vanity playsets as the front and side of a bus and the kiddie chairs as the passenger seats, and was pretending to be a bus driver...too cute!

Nikki Sivils October Challenge

The challenge for October was to scrap black and white photos and here's what I came up with. I enjoyed coming up with this paper-pieced house using the "Get Well Soon" collection. I was inspired by the Sew Easy, which I don't have yet, and took out my Making Memories slot puncher, which I haven't used in years, to make the ribbon slots. Coolness!

Materials: Cardstock - American Crafts; Patterned papers, buttons - Nikki Sivils; Mist - Tattered Angels; Fabric die-cut - Pink Paislee; Transparency - Hambly; Ribbon border - Crate Paper; Letter Stickers - American Crafts; Twine - The Twinery; Fabric Border (blue) - Little Yellow Bicycle; Lace - misc

New Nikki Sivils...

Here are some LOs featuring the new collections from Nikki Sivils...

This 1st LO uses Get Well Soon...

This next one uses School is Cool...

And here's another one using You're a Hoot and Pencil Lines Sketch 248.

Go check out Nikki's new lines and I'm sure you'll have as much fun playing wit them as I did!

Pebbles "In Stitches" LO

This week on Pebbles, Inc, we are focusing on "stitches"! I love the effect of sewing in my LOs -- machine, hand or faux!

I so enjoyed playing with this LO...seems to me that so long as there are circles, it's almost a guarantee that my page will turn out to be FUN! On this page I used the Ever After line from Pebbles Inc.

Check out the other work by my co-DT here!

Burlap & Buttercups August Kit and LOs

Oh, you will love this latest kit from Burlap and Buttercups filled with yummy goodies!!!

12x12" Double-Sided Patterned Paper (1 sheet each):

• Simple Stories - Simple Pleasures, Hello Sunshine, 100% Summer Fun
• Lily Bee Design - Villa, Sun Soaked
• Pebbles - Dandy, Ticked Pink, Thanks a Bunch
• Fancy Pants Designs - Cards, High Tide, Sand Dollar
• Bella BLVD Sophisticates - Banana
• Bazzill Cardstock (1 sheet each): Ruby Red, Parakeet, Sea Salt, Straw, Kraft

Embellishments:

• Simple Stories Fundamentals cardstock stickers
• Bella BLVD Sophisticates alphas, Mustard & Apricot
• 1 package Little Yellow Bicycle canvas stickers, Words; 2 Little Yellow Bicycle 6x6" decorative edge paper, assorted styles; 2 Little Yellow Bicycle canvas borders, assorted styles
• Partial package Cosmo Cricket Bling Bling, Salt Air
• 6 white Kaisercraft paper flowers, assorted sizes
• 3 Pebbles fabric-covered brads, 2 Pebbles layered felt embellishments, assorted styles, Pebbles Floral Lane alphas, brown
• 2 Prima Whisper Flowers

Ribbon/Trim:

• 1 yard each May Arts scalloped trim, pink; and solid wrinkled ribbon, ivory

And here's the add-on kit:

• Pink Paislee Cushies alphas, Meringue
• Cosmo Cricket Odds & Ends cardstock stickers
• 1 package InkadinkaClings, butterflies
• 18" yellow plaid ruffle, May Arts
• 1 bottle Ranger alcohol ink, Juniper

And finally, here are my 3 LOs made using the main kit and the add-on.

This first one turned out better than I thought considering that the photos were taken using only my iTouch. "Storm" from Kopi Tiam is Bianca's favorite cold dessert and is what she usually asks for when she earns a treat for herself. And she won't even share it with anyone, not even me, as she can finish the whole thing all by herself!

Title: Sweet Summer

Journaling: Bianca & her favorite "Storm" from Kopi Tiam. Summer 2011

This next LO uses photos taken from our last trip to Boracay. To do the butterflies, I stamped with Versamark on a 3M transparency that can be heat embossed, and embossed with black embossing powder. Then I stained the back with alcohol ink and cut them out. I also layered 3 different sizes of the white Prima flowers, inked them while layered and then scrunched each layer for some dimension.

Title: Beach Day

Journaling: Boracay. is. our. favorite. beach. ever. 

This next LO again uses a photo from Boracay in 2009. This was the day before we were scheduled to leave and the kids had gotten really tanned after 3 days under the sun! This LO was a lot of fun to put together and I love how the kit had the exact colors I needed to match the photo.

Title: Happy Memories

Date: 12/31/2009

So hurry and get your own August kit before it rans out at Burlap & Buttercups!

CCG 201

Color Combos Galore continues its ice cream theme with another yummy color combo and an interesting challenge to boot!

Title: Crafty
Journaling: The girls love to do crafts like playing with air-dry clay. May 2011
Materials: Patterned papers, Foam alpha, Journal sticker, metal embellishment, pen - American Crafts; Paint - Making Memories; Burlap Button - Nikki Sivils;  Punches - Martha Stewart; Ink - Clearsnap; Embossing Powder - Ranger; Blue Button, fabric - misc;

Aside from the color combo, this week's challenge included a recipe that needed fabric. I was already late to begin with and the only fabric I had was a light denim-colored one so I quickly cut a strip, pleated it and stapled to form a flower. Then took my trusty paint and paintbrush to color it pink. I sprinkled a bit of holographic embossing powder before the paint dried up, then used a button for the center.

I hope you can join us for this week's challenge!

Scrapfit Workout 48

Here's my LO for Scrapfit's Workout 48...Put a Bird On It. Instead of using bird embellishments, I decided to use this adorable birds paper from American Crafts for my background.

Title: Swing
Materials: Cardstock, patterned papers, diecut tags, stickers, pen - American Crafts; Twine - The Twinery

I hope you can join us for this challenge for a chance to win a prize pack from Endless Inkabilities!

Pencil Lines Sketch 244

Here's my LO for Pencil Lines Sketch 244. I had a lot of fun putting this together, basically just challenging myself to do something I haven't done before and just randomly pick out things from my stash to add to the LO. I also downloaded some very fun Echo Park elements to use for this project.

Title: Best Friends
Materials: Patterned Paper - The Girls Paperie, Little Yellow Bicycle, American Crafts; Die-cut elements - Echo Park Digital; Chipboard - Making Memories; Pebbles; Buttons - Pebbles, Ribbon - Pebbles; Pen - American Crafts; Misc lace

I hope you join us for this week's challenge and check out the other amazing work by the DT here.

Mix & Match Monday at Pebbles

Here's my LO for this week's Mix & Match Monday over at the Pebbles blog. I so loved working on this LO...such fun and happy colors from the new collections...

And, Pebbles just put out the new DT call here. Do try out as this is an awesome team to work with!!!

Pebbles How-To Tuesday

Check out this post on the Pebbles blog where I have a quick an easy tip on how to alter stick pins and wire clips!

This LO uses the just released Floral Lane collection from Pebbles Inc. This one you've got to see to believe...each paper is printed on textured cardstock --- so beautiful to see and touch!

Two-thless!

Here's my LO for Pencil Lines Sketch 240. Loved playing with Echo Parks Springtime papers  and my new Hero Arts stamp here!

Title: Two-thless
Journaling: Bianca lost 2 teeth within a week of each other & the 1st thing she said, "A, I still cute?"...she is now taking care of the remaining front tooth lest she becomes "ugly." May 2011
Materials: Cardstock, Ink, Pen, Fabric and foam alphabets - American Crafts; Patterned papers - Echo Park; Stamp - Hero Arts; Mist - Tattered Angels

Hope you can join us for this week's challenge!

Pencil Lines Sketch 238

Here's my LO for Pencil LInes Sketch 238. This turned out to be a challenging LO for me...for the longest time I couldn't figure out how to make all the elements that I wanted to put to work together.

Title: Favorite Princess
Materials: Cardstock - American Crafts; Patterned papers, ribbon, die-cut stickers - Pebbles Inc; Thickers - American Crafts; MIst - Tattered Angels; misc lace; stencil - Prima; Punch - Martha Stewart

Hope you can join us for a chance to win a kit from Scrap Rat Kits!

What A Doll!

Here's my LO for Butterfly Crafts May Challenge.

Title: What a Doll!

Materials: Cardstock - American Crafts; Patterned papers - My Little Shoebox; Mists - Tattered Angels; Foam Thickers - American Crafts; Glitter Stickers - Making Memories

The challenge is to create something inspired by this Harajuku Lovers print ad.

Hope you find the time to join us this month!

Tink

I am so excited to share my current fave LO that is up on the Pebbles blog! Today is Mix & Match Day and I put together products from the Happy Go Lucky and Ever After collections.

I love how colorful this LO turned out...so perfect for the pics of my girls with Tinkerbell! I used a sunburst design here again (can't blame me if the weather is so hot right now, may as well let it inspire me...), played with some of my new border punches and added some of the new gorgeous chipboard flowers and brads from Pebbles!

Title: Tink

Pebbles supplies used: Happy Go Lucky Cheery (751080), Happy Go Lucky Carefree (751083), Happy Go Lucky Happy (751091), Happy Go Lucky Chipboard Flowers (747071), Happy Go Lucky Glitter Flower Brads (747076), Happy Go Lucky Fabric Brads (747077), Happy Go Lucky Candy Dots Boysenberry (747080), Ever After Royal Garden (751106), Ever After Little Princess (751107), Ever After Sparkle (751113), Ever After Royal Banner (751115); Other supplies used: Thickers (American Crafts), Ink (Clearsnap), Punches (EK Success)

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)

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

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!