Meaning of Life

Cabbie says, KAYA!

Life has many challenges and the most difficult ones are not only curved into one ball but I think they are all interrelated. And so i decided on making a mini brag-accordion book to compile them into one whole challenge in my life...the meaning of life for me.

The Heart symbolizes strength and love. It is because of love that we learn to sacrifice.






Journaling:

Sacrificing for my kids is the most difficult challenge I have to endure. This entails my time to them and leaving my career life. Until now, I still could not accept not working and just staying at home. I know God will lead the way for me.

The Heart is a symbol of endurance, passion, sacrifice only a mother could give to her family.

Aedan's vision made me realize that he needed me more than anything. He has to bear so much but we have to understand.

cardstock sticker- fill in the blanks: Cabbie always wanted to have a small family. Well, she got what she wanted! With 4 superactive kids, her hands are full!

Thanks: for giving aedan a chance with his vision; staying at home is a big sacrifice; letting go of one's career.

Materials used:

colorbok brag about kit album ( given to me by babette); wrmk chipboard; MM acrylic paints and alpha foam stamp ( philadelphia); rub ons -- crate paper, fancy pants rubons, melissa frances; technique tuesday textile sticker; autumn leaves stamp and buttons; staz on; MM heart chipboard; Creative imagination epoxy sticker; dcwv adhesive ribbons; cosmo cricket blackboard chipboard; kaiser craft flower; MME buttons; maya road swirl chipboard; krylon leafing pen; stickers- rouge de garange/7 gypsies/KI family/webster pages/melissa frances; heidie swapp stamp; pebeo fabric paint; stickles; zig pen; abaca string; AC chipboard

Techniques used:

stamping; painting

About me:

i am cabbie lopez, mom to 4 boys. you can visit more of me and my works here i am currently designing for an altered challenge blog (artzdescrap) based in singapore. I also enjoy reading books, surfing the net. i love journals, cafe, tincans too! i have been scrapbooking acid frees since 2006. i am also the co-moderator for pinoyscrapbookers egroup.

Mrs. Solitary Butterfly's Book of Wonders main collage

Nina says, KAYA!

I've been working on collages and wanted a way to make it more three-dimensional. Inspired by a diorama in my mom's house, I wanted to alter a box and make a collage in it, sort of like the simple shoebox "TVs" we used to do in school.

I had to beg the KAYA! core team to let me do an altered project for this challenge. Hehe.

As there are too many photos of this project, if you'd like to see the rest of the collage in a box, kindly take a look at my new blog.


Materials used:
8 x 8 Papemelroti recycled paper box, 1972 newspaper page, white acrylic paint, All About Scrapbooking blue handmade paper, various patterned papers, stamps, ink, foil, copper wire, metal wire, beads.

Techniques used:
Altered the box by decoupaging it with old newspaper. Then, painted with watered down white acrylic paint. Pasted blue handmade paper and handcut stars from foil. Then added the layers of patterned paper. Stamped moon face on four different colors of a single patterned paper and layered with foam tape. Stamped lines to look like electricity lines. Stamped swallow, fish, and dog on patterned paper and added with foam tape. Played with metal wire, copper wire and beads and added with foam tape covered by the strip of patterned paper.

About Me:
Renegade scrapbooker. I've been making ATCs, cards, collages and various meanderings of a stay-at-home mom's imagination.