Some more layouts

Here are some more layouts I made over the month

I used WRMK's Geohectic paper for this one. I made this in less than 30 minutes and I love the outcome of this very simple layout. I got the flower and the vine embellishment from Morning Glory.

David loves to make faces when his yaya takes photos of him and of course, being his mom, I can't get enough of it! So here's another layout with his many facial expressions. I used WRMK Geohectic and White Out Explore papers.

What I love about Graphic 45 papers is that despite the fact that they are vintage, their colors still pop out. I mixed Jillibean staples paper here.

Materials for the above layouts are available at Lasting Impression

Book of ABC

My sister, May Ann gave David a set of alphabet flash cards. In order to prevent losing the cards, I decided to do what Cabbie did with her set of flash cards for her kids....bind them.

Materials used in this layout are available at Lasting Impression

More layouts

Here's 2 more layouts I made a few weeks ago.

This one is a photo of Meng and Me during our day trip to Tagaytay. I used Jillibean staples and Fancy Pants' Vintage love papers.



The photo on this layout was also taken on the same day while Meng and I were at Gourmet's Cafe. I was playing around with my camera when I took this photo. This cellphone was been very useful for Meng since he got it because he could always check for his emails and surf the net through his phone. Nowadays, I usually catch him on his cell talking to clients no matter what day or time it is. Having your own business usually means you're on call 24/7 in case some issues arrives that needs to be addressed immediately. But then, it has been Meng's dream to have his own business. So far, things have been picking up with meetings scheduled for prospect clients almost everyday. He's quite stressed out these days, but happy with the chance to introduce his products to prospective clients. We hope and pray everything will work out for Cid Systems.



Materials used are available at Lasting Impression

Thankful

Bea and Lala had a joint birthday treat last February 5 at Lasting Impression using Prima's Kit for a Cause. Iris made a demo on how she made her sample layout using the kits materials and afterwards, I fell in love with glimmer mists, alcohol inks and stickles! Thanks Bea and Lala for this wonderful treat and thanks Iris for teaching us!

Photos of Me

Often times I would take pictures of my kids or my husband or me with either my kids or husband, but rarely do I get to have pictures of myself taken. So I decided to do what most people are doing right now...taking photos of themselves ala Facebook profile style. It took quite a few tries to get the right angle (meaning to hide my double chin!). meng was amused with what I'm doing, he took photos of me taking pictures of myself.

Photos were taken last January 9 at Bag of Beans in Tagaytay

I used Scenic Route kraft paper from the Garden grove collection and papers from Prima's Blooming Retro collection. All materials (except for the alphas) are available at Lasting Impression

Layouts for 2010

It's been almost a month since my last post. January has been very busy for me especially in the office. My assistant was on vacation for the 1st 2 weeks and we are preparing documents required for ISO certification so everything was needed ASAP..government deadlines, manuals, payroll.....

January is also a month of celebration for our family as David and Meng's birthdays both fall on January.

My way of destressing nowadays is to scrap. Since I usually have insomnia when I'm stressed, might as well put the time to do something productive like scrapping!

So far I have finished 8 layouts since January..and I hope to finish more. I still have digital albums to finish and loads of unscrapped photos in my photobox and my hard disk!

Here's what I've done so far...










Most of the materials used in my layouts are available at Lasting Impression specifically Basic Grey Nook and Pantry, Fancy Pants Rough and Tough, Graphic 45 (new arrival!), Jillibean Soup, Webster's Pages

Christmas Ornaments

I made these ornaments using Making Memories' Mistletoe line from Lasting Impression.

One of the papers had printed tags as pattern and I punched out almost all of the tags using the Large circle punch of Fiskars (also available in Lasting Impression)

20 circle diecuts can make 1 of these...






This is another accordion photo bag I made using Fancy Pants' Christmas Magic line. For instructions on how to make this bag, visit this site. I altered the size a bit so there'll be extra space inside the bag. I also added chipboard to the top and bottom part to make it sturdier.





Merry Christmas everyone!

Sassafras Lass - Monstrosity

Here's a layout using Sassafras Lass - Monstrosity line.



This year, we are unable to go trick or treating because we were expecting a typhoon to come. We decided to just stay home and stay safe. However, it was all bright and sunny on the morning of October 31! A day before, we had a mini Halloween party in the office and I made these decors. Austin and David decided to hide behind Frankenstein and Jack o Lantern while I take their photos.

Personalized Journals

I was so in the mood last Saturday that I was able to make 2 journals aside from the Christmas countdown project.

The first one is a gift to my hubby's kinakapatid's niece who's visiting from the US.



I used my old papers from Sassafras Lass and Love Elsie to make the cover. I also doodled over the letters

The second one is a gift for my niece, Sheniah, who's turning 12 on the 25th. She loves to draw so I think this journal will be quite useful for her.




I used Sassafras Lass - Life is beautiful -Wall of fame paper as well as the backside of Webster's Pages Sweet as a Cherry Pie - fly a kite paper. For the lock, I also used Webster's Pages which I folded to make it sturdier. I also added glossy accents on the name and circle frame for dimension.

Christmas Countdown!

I finally got to make my Christmas countdown project. I've been wanting to make this since last year but never got around to do it. I used Making Memories' Fa-la-la collection last year mixed with this year's Mistletoe collection. I also got to use my Kaisercraft wooden album from last year's purchase too. Painted it with red and stamped some polkadots with paint too.

I used Making Memories shimmer alphabets for the word Christmas and their mini alpha for the word Countdown...tied the 2 wooden album pages together with ribbon. I punched out the round tags from the Mistletoe collection and placed it on both sides of the wood to extend the area where I placed the word Christmas.


Here are the cards I made for the countdown numbers. I cut out the numbers from the Fa-la-la collection except for the number 12 which I have already used in another layout.




All materials are available at Lasting Impression.

Cosmo Cricket's Earth Love

I made a project and a couple of layouts (and still have some more papers left) with Cosmo Cricket's Earth Love.





I made this quickie gift for my mom last weekend for her birthday.




This layout is for my niece, Sheniah. The photo was taken last October 25 when she was a junior bridesmaid for the wedding of Meng's cousin, Cathy to our batchmate, Eric.




In this layout, I used Webster's Pages' alpha stickers which is quite a bargain at Php 200. It has 4 sets of alpha stickers in 1 12x12 sheet. Each sheet has 4 colors so you could mix and match alphas.



Here's another layout using Earth Love. The photos were taken a few days ago when we visited my niece, Selina with David and my parents. I cut out the birds and the clouds to add some depth to the layout.

All materials are available at Lasting Impression. Also available: Cosmo Cricket's Jolly by Golly and The Boyfriend lines.

Fancy Pants' Rough and Tough

For those with sons like me, you're going to love Fancy Pants' Rough and Tough line. This paper line is so fun with doodling and since it mostly used primary colors, they're perfect for all those boy photos.

Here's a layout of David using the Rough and Tough line...


I put what I learned last Scrapjam to use. Since I'm too lazy to bring my paints out, I distressed this arrow chipboard using Tim Holtz' Distress Ink pads. Then I added the arrow rub-on from Fancy Pants' About a boy line. Finally i get to use my leftover rub-ons from last year.



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Here's a layout using one of the new arrivals of Lasting Impression, Sassafras' Me Likey collection.

Aside from the bright colors, what i love about this collection is that you can maximize the paper by cutting out the elements.

The butterfly, apple, arrow, watermelon, frog, letters C and L, pear and candy were cut out from the Happy Tunes paper. I still got a lot left that Liza was able to use some of it for her own layout.

And as Liza pointed out during our last scrap day, it's easy to mix and match the different lines of Sassafras!

The bottom borders of the picture were punched out using EK success' newest punches, Single Embossed Curve and Single Diamond Lace. (Thanks Anj for lending me your punches). I have already placed my reservation on these punches at Lasting Impression as they sell out really fast!

David's starting to like taking photos of other people (in this picture, he was trying to take a photo of his cousin, Selina) more than posing in front of the camera. He already knows how to operate my camera phone so there are times I'd get surprised that there are new photos in my phone's image gallery.

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October Afternoon's Night Light line

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I love the colors of this line that I made 2 layouts out of the papers I bought.

Title: Brothers make the best friends

This photo was taken last September 7 at the PICC grounds (near Gloria Maris and Jumbo floating restaurant).

Materials: Papers from the October Afternoon Night Llight line, Fancy Pants felt shapes, Dymo tag, Doodlebug and Heidi Swapp alpha stickers and doodlebug rub-ons



Title: I-pod baby

Materials: Papers from the October Afternoon Night Llight line, Fancy Pants felt shapes, American Crafts alpha stickers, Heidi Swapp chipboard letters and brads


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Holy Cow!

We had dinner at The ChopHouse in Trinoma last August 30 with David (Austin was in Anvaya with my in-laws).

He liked this cow sofa inside the restaurant that he keep going back and forth from our table to the sofa.

Materials:
Weathervane collection from October Afternoon, alpha stickers from Pink Paislee, Signo pen, ribbon

Materials available at Lasting Impression.

Turning turning

After dining at China Palace in Mall of Asia, my sis-in-law Jene urged David to try out the mini ferris wheel outside the restaurant, to which David obliged.

Since it's his 1st time to ride something like this, he didn't know what it's called. So he decided to give it a name. He called it turning turning referring to its movement.

Before we left, he waved goodbye and said "Bye turning turning!"

Materials: papers from the French Couture and Three little birds collection of Lily Bee Design, felt from Fancy Pants, alpha stickers from pink paislee and making memories

Materials available at Lasting Impression.

One Scrappy Night

Glad scrapping mojo's still here and hope it will not leave me anytime soon as I'm going to Studio Azul's Scrapbook Buffet! Will be going there with my friend, Arlene and hoping we'll be able to finish a lot of layouts.

I got inspired by the sketches I was downloading yesterday, that I made 2 layouts last night.

Title: Computer Whiz

I scraplifted this layout from a layout i saw in the Fancy Pants blog by Ronda Palazarri entitled Logan. I love how she stamped the circle journal stamp on top. I got to use both old and new papers in this layout (Pia, nagagamit ko na mga luma kong papel at scraps!)



Title: Life at 32

I made this layout for the Coordinates Collection sketch challenge. I think I'm gonna follow sketches for a while so I can get more layouts done. Conceptualizing on how the photos should be placed takes a lot of my time and a sketch really helps when I couldn't get balance the placement of my photos.

I used papers from Dream Street and Collage Press (leftover from the mini album last saturday) for this layout.

Materials used in these layouts are available at Lasting Impression