Summer Flowers

Summer is coming up in the land Down Under and we are featuring Manor House Creations Summer Flowers. I love this photo of my kids with their cousins Anna and Katherine taken when we last visited them in Chicago.

Manor House Products used: The Tropics - Getaway, Sunbake and Seaside.

Other Products Used: Cardstock - American Crafts; Patterned Papers - Webster's Pages; Fabric Diecuts - Pink Paislee; Mist - Tattered Angels; Ticket - Jenni Bowlin; Stamp - Tim Holtz; Ink - Clearsnap; Chipboard - Maya Road; Paint - Making Memories

Pencil Lines 250

Here's my LO for Pencil Lines Sketch 250. This sketch called for a 5x7 photo, and while I would normally use any size photo I want to use for a sketch, I'm glad I decided to go through my 5x7 photo box and found this insanely adorable and unbelievably unscrapped photo!

Title: So Loved
Materials: Patterned papers - Crate Paper, Making Memories; Die-cuts: Crate Paper, Making Memories, American Crafts; Flair buttons - American Crafts; Jewels - Making Memories; Alphabets - American Crafts; Ribbons - Pebbles Inc; Twine - The Twinery; Fabric - Maisy Mo Designs; 
Journaling: Everybody agrees that Bianca is the cutest baby in the world! Oct 2007

Check out the inspiring sketch by Anna and the work of my co-DT here and I hope you're able to join us this week.

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!

Pretend Play

I created this LO for Nikki Sivils' April Challenge "Are You Foolin Me?" which is to make a LO about funny things.

Title: Pretend Play

Journaling: The kids had a great time when we visited Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum at the Peak in Hong Kong. They met Tiger Woods, Mozart, Hitler, watched Shakespeare as he wrote and even got a chance to be in a painting! Jan 2010

Materials: Patterned paper, stickers, buttons - Nikki Sivils; Foam Alpha, pen, foam tape - American Crafts; twine - The Twinery

I hope you can join us for this month's challenge. You have until May 28th to link your Lo up on the blog for a chance to win some Nikki Sivils products!

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

Sugar Cookie

Here's a LO using Nikki Sivils' Valentine collection called Sugar Cookie. Photos were taken last Mother's Day -- Other than having good food, my only other requirement for where to go on Mother's Day is for it to be in a place where we can take good pics with good natural light :)
I made my own flowers using paper strips, a circle punch and Nikki's burlap buttons. If you want a chance to win the full set of burlap buttons, head on over to Nikki's blog now!!!

Title: I Grow Children
Journaling:...in my garden...Mother's Day 2010
Materials: Cardstock - Bazzill; Patterned Paper, stickers, buttons - Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker; Transparency - Hambly; Pens - American Crafts

Halloween Sweets

It's Whip-It-Up Wednesday on the Pebbles Blog and this is where we show you how easy it is to create LOs in less than 30 minutes using Pebbles products.
In addition, I created this LO to show how versatile Pebbles products are for different seasons. I used the Twitterpated collection here to create a Halloween LO!

Pebbles products used:Twitterpated Journal Stickers (732003), Twitterpated Stackers (740000), Twitterpated Epoxy Brads (744217), Twitterpated Delight (751001), Twitterpated Giddy (751005), Twitterpated Cute (751009), Twitterpated Smitten (751011)

Other supplies used: Cardstock (American Crafts), Thickers (American Crafts), Pen (American Crafts), Mist (Tattered Angels)

Hop on over to the Pebbles Blog to see the other quickie projects for today and leave a comment for a chance to win today's give-away!!!