Live, Laugh & Love

One

Ok so, my daughter's first birthday was months ago! (January 4) Still it was only today that I was able to make a layout for her birthday. But it's never too late to scrap some more. I might be making more LOs of her birthday soon. But for now here's what I've done:

I used a plain red cardstock for my background & did a lot of doodling with my handy dandy white gel pen. I placed a small cut out of her birthday cake at the left bottom corner of the page. The main picture is of course Marcie, the birthday girl. This was taken before we started opening her gifts. You could see how excited she was. Cut the picture with my circle cutter to make it llok like the letter "O". The letters "N" & "E" were plain chipboard alphas which I then painted with acrylic paint & doodled with white stars. The pink star burst cut out was made from my wishblade. Journaling: "
I can't believe you've turned 1 already. It seems like you were only born yesterday. Time does really fly fast. You were quite sleepy during your party but when it was time to open the presents, you were finally charged again. You started to laugh so cheerfully & even started dancing. Those sparkle in your eyes show how much fun you had turning one."

It's Magic When I'm With You...

I had a blast creating this LO! I experimented with chip boards & nail polish. Who knew the two were a perfect pair. =) I painted the flower chip boards & the letter M with different colors of nail polish. I loved how they turned out since they had that glimmering effect. I then used a white gel pen to add polka dots on the chip boards. Buttons were perfect flower centers. The letters "agic" were cut from my Wishblade machine. For my journaling I used a transparency film and used rub-on alphas & flowers. I attached the journaling with 2 brads to make sure it would hold perfectly. Here it is:

Going Digital

A few months ago I ventured in the world of digital scrapbooking. You can get a lot of digital freebies online making it easier for digital scrappers to work on their LOs. Here are some of my digital creations:

Love...

Journaling: "I love you so much though it doesn't always show. But be assured that in my heart, my love for you will always grow."

An experimental LO for me & my hubby. A lot of distressing methods used here.

I hold you dearly...

Scrapping till 2 in the morning... (yes that's 2 a.m. I couldn't sleep since Marcie didn't want to sleep yet either!) I managed to finish this LO. The picture I used was edited back in 2007. Took a picture of my little girl in an angel get up. I used a white cloth diaper & shaped it to look like wings. Hehe. Then took a separate picture of my hand & finally after some cropping & editing, put the 2 pictures together & there you go! My big hand holding my little angel.

Still a little rusty...

It's only been a week since I reunited with the scrapping world again. I must say my skills are still a bit rusty. I still have a lot of learning & practicing to do. I've been viewing different blogs lately & found a lot of interesting scrap challenges. I've been locked up inside the house for almost a week now because of the colds Marcie & I caught. Well to my boredom I decided to try joining one of the challenges. It was from "Scrapping the Music" Blog. Their theme for this week... Girls in Their Summer Clothes. I had some pictures of little Marcie in her summer clothes so I pulled out my stash & tools and started scrapping. It took me a few tries, changing things from time to time. This evening, I finally finished it. Well I still think it's not that good yet but maybe it will do for my first challenge. Well here it is...

Hmm... Still a little rusty huh?