Crop Party Sneak Peaks

I'll be holding my first mini crop party this Sunday & I've got a few projects in store for my friends. I'm quite excited because my best friend who is not into arts & crafts will be joining us! I am hoping that she'll catch the scrap bug after this mini crop party. Here are some sneak peaks of the projects we'll be creating. I'm sure this will be fun!

First Project:

Second Project:

Third Project:

In case you'll be around my area this Sunday afternoon, you're very welcome to join us. :)

Kaya!- Pure Joy

The second Kaya Challenge for November is up & it's all about negative space or white space. According to wikipedia: Negative space, in art, is the space around and between the subject(s) of an image.

So here's my take fr this week's challenge:

Pure Joy

Journaling:
It's amazing how someone who's as little as you can bring so much joy to everyone especially to me & daddy. We love you little one!

Here's a closer look:

Materials:
*Cardstock-American Crafts (white & sunflower)
*Patterned Paper, Heart Rub-Ons & Rainbow die cut-Crate Paper
*Journaling stamp-Maya Road, Title Stamp-Fancy Pants
*Pen-Marvy Uchida
*UHU glue
*Baby Pink & White Paint- Apple Barell Colors
*Foam Hearts-Creative Hands
*Misc- girl die cut, baby tab, staple wires

Techniques Used:
Painting, stamping (I used white paint to stamp on the title), Paper tearing & cutting, doodling

TFL!

Pic of the Week

My sister was in the mood to take pictures the other night & her favorite subject... Marcie! Hehe. My little girl loves to dress up & sometimes she would even raid our closets to get a shirt or dress & wear it even if it's way too big for her. Well that night, she did it again. She took this white sleeveless shirt & wore it. My sister said Marcie looked like a "pulubi" (street kid). Lol!

"Ang batang yagit"

Well a street kid with an iphone? "Sosyal!" Hehe. Oh yes at 1 year old, she knows how to operate this gadget. I never taught her how t use it but somehow she knows how to. Her favorite thing about the phone is that she can watch her favorite movie there. She watches Alvin & the Chipmunks movie about 3 or more times a day! I think I've already memorized the lines. Ask her to show you her pictures & she'll navigate through the phone like an expert. My oh my! Kids learn so fast these days! I won't be surprised if I see her surfing the net one of these days. Haha.

007

There's a new Bond movie coming up! Well I'm not really a big fan of Mr. Bond but I thought of scrapping this photo of my hubby with the Aston Martin car from Casino Royale. He was quite excited when he found out that the aircraft he was handling that night had his dream car in it. So he went inside the plane to take a photo of him & the car. Haha. Feeling James Bond huh?

There's also this new challenge blog called Ad This, every week they will be featuring an ad which we'll use as an inspiration to create a LO & there are a few extra add- ons which they set. For this week, it's to add some bling on our LOs. Here's their first ad:

And here's my take:

Not too good with masculine LOs so I kept this quite simple. The bling I used are quite small but if you look closer at the LO, you'll find them on the tips of the swirls. The journaling is written around the LO.

Materials: Bazzill Basics Cardstock, Fancy Pants Simpy Stated Stamps, Thickers-Platform, PP-unknown (forgot the brand), Marvy Uchida pen, Inkssentials Crackle Accents, Whispers Ink-Black, Misc-plastic gem stones


And if you're interested for some blog candy hop on over to Lisa's blog. :)
Thanks for looking!

God's Gift

I was just watching President-elect, Barack Obama's speech this afternoon. My was I teary-eyed! I felt goosebumps all over my body as I listened to him. He looks like a nice person & I am hoping that he would do his best to bring back America's economy. I know, I am no American girl (though I did live there for a while) but as I see it, our country also depends a lot on the U.S. economy that is why I, too am concerned about what's happening abroad. I'm happy for Obama & I join him & the rest of the world in saying, "Yes we can!"

Ok, now back to my real world... I just finished my LO for the Kaya Challenge. One requirement was to use a bow in our LO. I enjoyed creating this LO where I was able to use my stamps & scrapboss. I even made a card from the left over pieces of PPs & lace but I can't post the card here just yet. It will be my submission for Card Sketch a Day blog where I will be a guest designer later this December.

Here's my finished entry for Kaya:

God's Gift

Journal: It couldn't get any better than this...me holding you & seeing your little smile. I can't ask for more! xoxo

Materials:
-PPs: Crate Paper & Polar Bear Press
-AC Thickers
-Stamps: See D's, Maya Road, Pink Paislee
-Cardstock: The Paper Company, Bazzill Basics
-Fiskars Scrapboss
-Making Memories brads
- Gel Pen-Sakura
-UHU glue
-Misc: Safety pin, silk ribbon, lace

Little Lady

My my it's November already? October flew by so fast... I must say October was quite a productive scrappy month for me. Thanks to the Scrapping Kids marathon too. I've never finished so many LOs in a week until I joined it. Plus it helped lessen some of my stash which have been piling up. I promised myself that I'd use up my stash before I start shopping for more supplies again. So far it's working... Lol! I was inspired to scrap last night & I managed to finish my 1st LO for November.

Little Lady

Journal: Each & everyday I look at you, I say to myself, "This little lady is so beautiful, she'll probably break a lot of hearts when she's older.." Hehe.

I purchased a Fiskars Scrapboss a few months back which arrived last week & I've been loving it! See those flowers & leaves on my LO? I made them by dry embossing them on the Scrapboss. I used plain cardstock & then traced the embossed parts of the flowers with white water color pencils & the leaves with green water color pencils. I made a butterfly with the Scrapboss too.. I then cut them into their respective shapes.

Here's a closer look at the flowers:

the butterfly:

Guest Designer for NZ Dares

I felt honored when I saw this post a few weeks ago on NZ Dares asking me to be their guest designer for their challenge #57. Just last week, Lianne sent me an e-mail for the new dare. Challenge 57 was to use birds on a LO.
We were given this cute little vintage bird to print and add to our LO:

Here's my finished LO:
Nature Walk

Do scrap something featuring birds, and link it up to the NZ Dares Blog by Wednesday 12th November and you will be in to win a generous prize. It doesn't have to be the bird above so go on & search your stash for those birds.