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...

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

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

Boo Banner

Here's an easy Halloween project using Glue Dots and Nikki Sivils "Boo-tiful" collection.

Supplies:

• 3 pieces Ghost 6x6 Chipboard Album ( used Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker)
• 3 pcs black 6x6 patterned papers (used Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker Boo-tiful)
• chipboard letters - B, O, O (used Heidi Swapp)
• acrylic paint
• embossing ink and distress embossing powder (used Ranger)
• optional: googly eyes
• Mini Glue Dots

Instructions:

1. Cover chipboard with ghost cut-out made by tracing it onto the back of the patterned papers.
2. Paint the chipboard letters orange. Optional: ink edges with embossing ink and add distress embossing powder for added texture.
3. Attach letters to the ghost figures. Punch holes in hands and string together.
4. Embellish with googly eyes.

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

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.

Spam Love!

The August challenge for Nikki Sivils had us doing a LO on a subject that we don't normally scrap about, using the School is Cool collection.  For my LO, I decided to scrap about my family's favorite food for breakfast (or anytime, for that matter)...Spam...yes, the one in the can:)

I know this is weird for most Americans but in places where the US Forces were stationed, particularly during World War II, Spam has become a staple food as they were part of the rations -- like in Japan, Hawaii, Guam, and the Philippines.

My husband, who grew up in Minnesota where Spam is made (and yes, ate Spam because he is Filipino) tells me that his American best friend asked him once incredulously "How can you eat that???".  Even my American sister-in-law who has been married to my husband's brother for 20 years, had never eaten Spam and asked me "What is it, anyway?"  Too funny, especially when I've seen people (myself included) buy it by the case when it goes on sale here! 

Well, here in my house, we get our Spam fix at least once a month....maybe even more, and so finally, it has gotten the attention it deserves....a LO of its own...

Title: We Love Spam

Materials: Cardstock - Wassau, DCWV; Patterned papers, diecuts, stickers - Nikki Sivils; Vinyl Alpha - American Crafts; Pen - American Crafts

Journaling: Spam is, hands-down, our family's favorite breakfast food, be it sugared, sticks or plain pan-fried...it goes so well with garlic rice!!!

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!

Blessed

Here's my Mother's Day LO I made using Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker's Max & Mollie collection. I love this photo with my kids taken over a year ago. I really feel blessed in all aspects of my life and thank God everyday for it. I don't know what I did to deserve this life but maybe in a past life...I must've done something good...

Title: Blessed

Materials: Patterned papers, buttons, stickers - Nikki Sivils; Cardstock - Bazzil; Pen, Foam Thickers - American Crafts; Punches - Martha Stewart

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!

CCG 190

Here's my LO for Color Combos Galore #190.

We are featuring Nikki Sivils' "It's Raining, It's Pouring" line this week, as well. For locals, this line is now available at Lasting Impression. I hope you get the chance to join us for this week's cool color challenge.

 

Enjoy!

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

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.

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...

Summer in the Big Apple

Here's a long over-due LO from our trip to New York last summer. We're lucky that my 2 sisters share a huge (by NY standards) apartment and they let us stay with them for a week...I have a feeling though that the invite is only open if we have the kids with us...

It's funny though, because if you ask my kids what they love most about NY, they will tell you that it's the apartment -- they got so tired of all the walking to the subway and back (it's 5 blocks to 57th and Lexington) -- they were excited to go out each morning but were more excited to get back home asap where the doting aunts would let them watch TV, play games on their laptops and let them eat whatever they want.

Title: Summer in the Big Apple

Materials: Cardstock- DCWV, American Crafts; Patterned Paper- Nikki Sivils; Making Memories Slice machine; Foam alpha - American Crafts; Buttons - Nikki Sivils; Small alpha stickers - Nikki Sivils

Journaling: We spent a week in New York and can't wait to get back. May 2010

This LO uses the new Summer line from Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker which has a really fun color palette...I hear all of Nikki's new lines have sold out and she has had to re-print already...woohoo!!! I also followed a sketch from Sketches for Scrapbooking by Allison Davis and Debbie Sanders.

The apples were the last things I cut from my Slice machine before it unceremoniously died on me -- not really, but started cutting really weird shapes and the Making Memories Customer Service says since it's past the warranty period I would have to pay $19.99 for check-up on top of shipping it to the US and then an unknown amount if it is fixable...tsk tsk. So I will have to do a "big think" on this one as I have almost 30 design cards, but am not keen on investing in another MM machine if it only lasts 2 years...what to do, what to do....and I did love my Slice machine to bits until this all happened...

Ballet Love

Here's another LO featuring Nikki Sivils' Sugar Cookie collection. This is Bianca at her ballet Christmas program last December. They featured dances from The Nutcracker and she's supposed to be doing a soldier dance. She was sooooo adorable, and I'm not just saying that because I'm her mother:)

Title: Ballet Love

Journaling: I love that you love ballet! 121810

Materials: Cardstock - Provocraft; Patterned papers - Nikki Sivils; Jewel brad - Creative Charms; Transparency - Hambly; Mist - Tattered Angels

Scrap More in 2011 with Pia and Ria

This year, Pia (Lopez) and I are spreading our wings and going to venture into teaching a scrapbooking class. Some might think this is an easy task, but not when the only other scrapbooking teacher, rather guru, in this part of the world is our good friend Iris Uy....such a tough act to follow...

Scrap 4 LOs in one afternoon using Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker's new "We Are Family" collection. Learn tips and tricks to:

• scrap multi-photos and 4x6 pics
• stretch your materials to create more LOs
• add dimension and texture with less mess and less fuss

Date: March 19, 2011, Saturday
Time: 12nn to 5 pm
Place: Lasting Impression (26-D V. Ibanez St., Little Baguio, San Juan)
Fee: Ps650
Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Please reserve your slot by sending an email to pia_zobel_lopez@yahoo.com and/or ria_mojica@yahoo.com. Payment details will be sent when we confirm your reservation. Limited slots available.

So if you're free on that day and want to have a scrappin' good time, please join us for the class! And before I go, I leave you with a LO I created using Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker's "Sugar Cookie" collection.

Title: One Sweet Thing
Materials: Patterned papers, die-cuts, stickers - Nikki Sivils; Cardstock - Wassau; Pen - merican Crafts; misc ricrac
Journaling: One of Bianca's favorite snacks -- quickie smores!

And the Winner Is...

Mama Mia Castrillo!!! Mia, PM me your address so I can send you your package...perfect for your 4 lovely girls!

Mia Castrillo said...

Ria! Nabuhay ako! Sana I win so I can start scrapping again. :-) Posted the "It's Your Day" badge at my blog: http://mcastrillo.blogspot.com/

10:49 PM

And here is a real sneak peek at 2 of Nikki's new lines...

Here's Max and Mollie...

and here's It's Raining, It's Pouring...

Promise, they look even better in real life...they smell good too...doesn't all new scrapbook paper smell so good???

That's it for now...

Nikki Sivils Winter CHA Sneak...

Beatrice	It's Raining, It's Pouring	It's Your Day
Max and Mollie	Summer	We Are Family

...well, sort of...here are badges representing each of the six new lines debuting this month at CHA.

Leave a comment on which collection you think you'll like best and you'll be in the drawing. Grab at least one of these badges and post it on your blog, and link back here to double your chances of winning!

Comment before Monday, Jan 10, 2011 for a chance to win the whole Sugar Cookie paper collection plus a few other goodies...perfect for your Valentine's Day projects! Sorry, this give-away is open to local Philippine addresses only. So go and grab a badge now!

Happy New Year!

And to start the New Year off, here's a LO I made for Colorful Creations for their Guest Designer Sketch Series. Colorful Creations is a wonderful community of scrapbookers with several regular challenges.

I used Nikki Sivils Blueberry Hill for this project and drew and cut the balloons myself.

Title: Plastic Balloon Fun
Materials: Cardstock - DCWV; Patterned Papers, die-cut and letter stickers - Nikki Sivils; Thickers and pens - American Crafts.
Journaling: Nadya discovers the joy of plastic balloons. April 2010, Canyon Woods, Batangas

2010 was a very good year for me in all aspects...got our house renovated...kids are all doing well in school...Bud is doing well at work...more scrapbooking opportunities for me...got to travel a bit...but the start of a new year is always exciting...so many things to look forward to...

I hope 2011 is a great year for everyone too!