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!

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...

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!

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

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!

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:

• Accordion flowers
• Paper flowers

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

There's Always Room for Chocolate!

Here's my LO for Color Combos Galore challenge #185!

Title: There's Always Room for Chocolate

Materials: Cardstock, Puffy Alpha and pen - American Crafts; Patterned papers, flowers, stickers, rub-ons - Pebbles, Inc; Twine - The Twinery.

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

Sweet Spring

Here's my LO for Color Combos Galore Challenge 184. This color combo looked much easier than it was to actually work with. I think it's because I didn't have a coordinated set of papers and embellishments so I had to make my own flowers...after much trial to get the right look and feel.

Title: Sweet Spring

Materials: Cardstock - American Crafts; Patterned Papers - Basic Grey; Mist - Tattered Angels; Velvet Ribbon - American Crafts; Journaling Diecut - Tim Holtz; Buttons - Nikki Sivils; Misc ribbon and doily; Pen & Rub-ons - American Crafts; Fabric Tab - 7 Gypsies; Chipboard - Scrapworks; Paint - Folk Art


I hope you get to try this pretty color combo this week.

Some great news...

I'm so thrilled to be part of the Pencil Lines 2011-2012 DT!!! This was one of those that I wasn't counting on getting in...really was just hoping for the best as I know many people want to be on this team..so the email I got the other day just about made my week! Here's the LO I made for my entry...

Title: Hello Sleepyhead
Journaling: I love weekends because I get to watch you wake up from a good night's sleep! Bianca, Jan 2011
Materials: Patterned papers - Webster's Pages; Die-cuts - SEI, American Crafts; Cardstock - Wassau, Coredinations; Mist - Tattered Angels; Punches - Martha Stewart, Fiskars, EK Success, Ink - Clearsnap; Pen - American Crafts; Alpha stickers - Basic Grey, Webster's Pages; Ribbon Tissue - Jenni Bowlin; Velvet Ribbon - American Crafts

Many of my recent LOs have a romantic feel to it...that's what happens when I look through my stash and see lots of Webster's Pages papers waiting to be used...which is what I love most about being on challenge blogs...the chance to dig through my stash and use them all up, up, up...

Side Note: The Scrap More with Pia and Ria Class has been tentatively moved to April 2, 2011 as the materials have not yet arrived. For our paid and confirmed attendees, please confirm that you are available on this day, if you haven't yet by sending us an email.

Happiness

Here's a LO I made using one of Nikki Sivils' new lines called Beatrice. This is my favorite of the new lines because of the bright and happy pinks and greens!

Title: Happiness

Journaling:...is having a big sister who shares her favorite ice-cold treat on a hot summer's day! May 31, 2010 Central Park, New York City

Materials: Cardstock - DCWV, Wassau; Patterned papers, buttons - Nikki Sivils; Transparency - Hambly; Metal Tag - Imaginisce; Fabric - Prima; Foam alpha and pen - American Crafts; Mist - Tattered Angels; misc cork; punch - Martha Stewart, Fiskars

Butterfly Crafts March Sketch Challenge

Here's my 1st LO for Butterfly Crafts for our March sketch challenge.

Title: You

Materials: Patterned papers, stickers, buttons - Nikki Sivils; Transparency - Hambly; Felt & Pompom Lace - Fancy Pants; pen - American Crafts

You can play along by leaving us a link to your layout in the comments or e-mail a photo to Butterflycrafts1@aol.com by 10th April. We will then pick a favourite layout and that person will be asked to be our guest designer for April.

Whip It Up Cards!

Here are 2 cards I created using Pebbles' New Arrival line, both completed under 30 minutes! The New Arrival line has a whole sheet ofr sentiments for boys or girls making card-making so easy!

 

Pebbles supplies used (Girl):
New Arrival Girl 3x3 Cards (751052)
New Arrival Girl Sweet Moments (751056)
New Arrival Girl Little One (751057)
New Arrival Girl Perfect (751058)
New Arrival Girl Bundle of Joy (751062)
New Arrival Girl Icon Dimensional Stickers (732030)

Pebbles supplies used (Boy):
New Arrival Boy 3x3 Cards (751064)
New Arrival Boy So Sweet (751068)
New Arrival Boy Little Angel (751069)
New Arrival Boy Precious (751071)
New Arrival Boy Congrats (751074)
Other supplies used: Punch (Fiskars)

Scrapfit Glitter & Glam

Title: Sweetie Pies

Materials:
Patterned papers - Webster's Pages; Cardstock - American Crafts; Die-cut stickers - Hambly; Die-cut - Autumn Leaves; Alpha Stickers - Making Memories; Rub-Ons - 7 Gypsies; Glitter - Stickles; Pen - American Crafts; Stamps - Hero Arts; Ink - Clearsnap; Misc - Bling, lace, lace blooms

Workout #39 of Scrapfit is to show Glitter and Glam! I loved working on this LO of my 2 girls before they had their ballet Christmas presentation. Join this challenge for a chance to win an awesome kit from The Paper Trail.

CCG 181

Title: Everyday

Materials: Patterned papers - Sassafras Lass; Cardstock - Bazzill; Die-cuts - Daisy Ds;  Flower & Bling - Prima; Butterflies - Jenni Bowlin; Twine - The Twinery; Pen - American Crafts; Misc - Doily Lace; lace; Punch - Martha Stewart; Ink - Tsukineko

Journaling: Bianca @ 5 yrs; Sept. 3, 2010

Here's my Lo for Color Combos Galore Challenge 181. I love the soft colors and how my LO turned out. But what I really love most is that I was finally able to use these Sassafras Lass papers  sitting in my stash since 2009, I think.

So please do join us for this week's beautiful color challenge!

Furry Friend

For this week's Pebbles Inc. blog posts, we were asked to scraplift a LO from one of our co-DTs. I chose a LO by Jennifer Yates featuring the Cats & Dogs line. I love Jennifer's scrapping style...always fresh and fun and happy...

Title: Furry Friend

Journaling: Bianca with one of her furry Webkinz friends. 072010

Pebbles Supplies Used: Cats & Dogs Cat-i-tude (751046), Cats & Dogs Sassy Cat (751049), Cats & Dogs Kitty Condo (751050), New Arrival Girl She's Here (751055), New Arrival Girl Sweet Moments (751056), Charming Glitter ABC Stickers (732000), Twitterpated Journal Stickers (732003), New Arrival Girl 12" Border Stickers (732024), Cats & Dogs Tags (743701), Green Glitter Candy Dots (744215); Other supplies used: Thickers (American Crafts), Pen (American Crafts), Punches (EK Success, Fiskars)

For this LO, I particularly loved how she used circles to create a border and made my version using one of the Pebbles border stickers. I love how the papers perfectly matched my photo, right down to Bianca's beaded bracelet! You can view Jennifer's original LO in the Pebbles blog here. Thanks for a great idea Jennifer!

The Candy Man

 

Title: The Candy Man
Materials: Cardstock - DCWV; Patterned papers, buttons, stickers - Nikki Sivils; Pen - American Crafts; Punch - EK Success
Journaling: Luis isn't much of a candy-eater. except when it comes to lollipops...he just can't say "No!". Easter 2010

Here's a LO using Nikki Sivils "Something for Everyone" collection. I love the soft blue colors in this collection! Luis is growing up so fast, I don't even notice it until I take a look at his pictures...soon my little boy is going to be a little man...sniff, sniff...