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:)

My Girly-girl

Here's a LO I made of my fast-growing not-so-little Nadya girl...using Manor House Creations flowers.

At 9 yrs old, she wear nail polish whenever she could (on no-school days), wears more accessories than I do and never leaves the house without her lip gloss!!!

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.

Burlap & Buttercups Oct Kit

Here are my LOs for Burlap & Buttercups' awesome Oct main kit...

and the add-on kit...

I loved working with burlap on this LO of my god-daughter Ysabella on her school field trip...isn't she adorable???

This next LO uses the sketch included in the kit and I am so happy to have finally been able to scrap these pics.  This was the last proper Thanksgiving we've had in our home as last year, as well as this year, DH was and will be out of town on Thanksgiving.

My 3rd LO features Nadya in her Alice in Wonderland costume. We went Trick or Treating in my mom's neighborhood and they had a wishing well in the park which was a perfect backdrop for her outfit!

I so want to tell you to rush to get the Oct kit now, but I just learned that we have actually sold out of the October kits so maybe you'll want to take a subscription so you're sure to get the Nov kit???

Pencil Lines 252

Here's my LO for Pencil Lines Sketch 252...used Nikki Sivils' new "Get Well Soon" line....love how versatile it is even for "ouchless" LOs!

Title: Captured Joy

Materials: Cardstock - American Crafts; Patterned papers - Nikki Sivils; Rub-Ons - Lily Bee; Mist - Tattered Angels; Mask - Prima; Stamps - Glitz, Tim Holtz; Punch - Martha Stewart; Pen - American Crafts; Fiber - misc

Check out the sketch here.

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!

Pencil Lines Sketch 242

Here's my LO for Pencil Lines Sketch 242. I finally got to use the "It's Your Day" collection from Nikki Sivils Winter 2011 CHA. I love how this LO turned out...

Our family tradition is to have a birthday cake ready when the celebrant wakes up....I suppose you can call it a Breakfast Cake. That's why you see my daughter in her school uniform and with her hair still wet from her morning shower. This is a practice I picked up from the "Yaya Sisterhood" book and sometimes, late at night, when everyone is asleep and I'm slaving away downstairs finishing decorating the cake, I wish I didn't even start it....But I am determined to do this so my kids will grow up and say that on their birthdays, they always woke up with a cake that Mommy made...

Title: It's Your Birthday

Materials: Patterned papers, stickers - Nikki Sivils; Cardstock - Wassau, DCWV; Felt - Fancy Pants; Twine - The Twinery; Pen - American Crafts; misc - jewels

Hope you can join us at Pencil Lines 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!

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)

Celebrate The Simple Things

Here's my LO for Color Combos Galore Challenge 192. I love the colors of this palette and even if I didn't have any lilac patterned papers, I was able to make a LO using cardstock and with the help of my punches and Slice machine.

 

Title: Celebrate the Simple Things

Materials: Cardstock - American Crafts, DCWV; Patterned Papers - Basic Grey; Fabric Sticker - Webster's Pages; Rub-ons, Pen - American Crafts; Stamp - Glitz; Ink - Clearsnap; Punches - Martha Stewart, EK Success; Slice Machine; misc chipboard, lace

This is a beautiful color combo and I hope you get to try it out!

Charming Girl

This week at Pebbles Inc, we're doing a swap with sister-company American Crafts to show how beautifully the products from these two wonderful brands work together! Wonder if anyone can tell which papers are from Pebbles and which are from AC?

Title: Charming Girl

Journaling: You are beautiful inside & out...Nadya Feb 2011

Materials:

Pebbles supplies used: Happy Go Lucky Carefree (751083), Ever After Little Princess (751107), Ever After Enchanted (751108), Ever After Sparkle (751113), Ever After Blushing Princess (751114), Happy Go Lucky Layered Embellishments Flowers (747073), Ever After Jewel Candy Dots (747102), Mr. & Mrs. Pearl Candy Dot Flourishes (747081), Ever After Word Dimensional Stickers (732047)

American Crafts supplies used: Confetti Holly Hazelnut (35323), Confetti Archie Angel Food (35329, Confetti Lucy Lemon Twist (35331), Hello Sunshine Delight (35399), Hello Sunshine Bliss (35395), Peachy Keen Made in the Shade (35379), Thickers Sunset (53183), Peachy Keen Flair Good Golly (70068), Hello Sunshine Sunbeam Butterflies (72011), Peachy Keen Bits Tags (85543), Campy Trails Ribbon (89396), Memory Marker Chestnut (6107)

Other supplies used: Ink

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...

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

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

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.

Nadya's 1st Communion

Here's a LO of Nadya's 1st Holy Communion that I made using Pebbles Inc's New Arrival Girl line. The whole event was a short and sweet affair. I loved seeing all the girls look so holy and demure in their long white dresses and floral headdresses.

Title: 1st Holy Communion
Pebbles supplies used: New Arrival Girl 3x3 Cards (751052), New Arrival Girl She's Here (751055), New Arrival Girl Little One (751057), New Arrival Girl Perfect (751058), New Arrival Girl Bundle of Joy (751062), New Arrival Girl Rock-A-Bye (751063), New Arrival Girl Baby Love (751061), New Arrival Girl Chips (744115), New Arrival Girl 4x9 Rub Ons (735003), Charming ABC Stickers (732001), Dog Chalk Stencils (742096), Earth Tones Chalks (742003); Other supplies used: Cardstock (American Crafts), Rub Ons (American Crafts), Pen (American Crafts), Ink (Clearsnap), Mist (Tattered Angels), Punch (Fiskars), Die Cut Machine (Making Memories)

Sweet Dancer

Title: Sweet Dancer

Materials: Cardstock - Wassau, Bazzill; Patterned Papers - Websters Pages, American Crafts, Prima; Chipboard Alpha - Chatterbox; Alpha Sticker - Basic Grey; Paint - Plaid; Die-cut sticker - October Afternoon; Misc - bling, lace

Journaling: Nadya at rehearsals for their presentation at Kids' Expo. Mar. 6, 2010

Here's my LO for challenge 169 of Color Combos Galore. I loved this week's colors and I'm sorry that I didn't strictly stick to the colors as the paper had green on it -- I did try to cover it a bit with some gold glitter paint.

Speaking of which, have you ever tried Plaid Folk Art Extreme Glitter Acrylic Paint? I saw it in Wal-Mart the last time I was in the US and grabbed a few bottles --- it's the easiest way to add major, major glitter to your craft projects without heat embossing! I wish I got all the colors.

So here's this week's challenge, I hope you do try to join in as this is such a joy to work with.