Hand painting

Hello peeps, how you are all doing on Sunday? Hope you are having a great day.
Here is a sketch from Liz Qualman which is being used as the sketch challenge over at Scrapbook Daisies that you can join in the fun too. Just head on over to the forum and look for April sketch challenge.
My version or implication from the sketch? Here is it, a page that is done for my DS for his enjoyment of hand painting during the school sports day of 2nd DS last year.
He himself loves to draw. What more if he can get his hand painted? Absolute fun for him. That satisfaction smile of his is priceless and he even came home trying to draw it himself!
I’ve used Webster’s page kit from Scrapbook Daisies to do this page, plus some gold charm, doilies, Humbly print overlay, Prima swirls’ stamp and Martha Stewart butterflies punch.

I’ve used Golden gel medium (gloss) on those butterflies and that two strips of misted white cardstock is because I can’t find any pattern paper to match my layout.
Thanks for all your lovely comments and blog love. I love to read all your comments. Thanks for all your concern on my recent D&C too.
Happy Sunday!

Resting and did a layout or two..

I’ve been resting at home after this and this.

Well, I guess if you are a real scrapbooker, probably rest means able to do some more scrapbook layouts!

That’s what I did! One that it can help to clear off any stress and 2nd it feels good to be able to create.

So, this is what I’ve done during my rest:

A layout done for the lift challenge over at Scrapbook Daisies. Am using Webster’s page, one that I’m not so familiar with, especially when the paper itself is so pretty that I felt a bit guilty to spoil it with my scrapping style.

I’ve tried not to cover much of the pattern paper and have used swirls stamp, distressed pattern paper to punch out butterflies, misted doilies and Prima flowers, hoping to create a vintage feel for the layout. But I’m not sure, does the page look vintage to you all?

Here are some close-up of the embellishments and stamps that I’ve used:

I’m definitely going to get more vintage looking stamps like wordings, birds or watch into my collection.

Well, I’ve actually done another layout which I’ll share in another post.

Have a great day and happy scrapping!

March Kristine Davidson Sketch over at Scrapbook Daisies

There are actually 7 challenges over at Scrapbook Daisies each month. 3 of them are sketch challenges, the rest are color, journaling, stash and lift challenges. You’ll have to finish up those challenges within that month once they are out. The reward? A kit from Scrapbook Daisies!! Isn’t great!?
Today I want to share about the layout that I did base upon one of the sketch challenges over at Scrapbook Daisies:
I came up with this layout:

Which I’ve used Basic Grey Max & Whiskers kit, which is also one of the monthly kit from Scrapbook Daisies. The swirls are from Slice maching, and the white flower is from Prima and my own doily. The rest are all in the kit.

Isn’t that puppy sticker cute? Oh, and I love the brad with a paw.

So, if you are looking for a kit club to join, I would highly recommend Scrapbook Daisies. Every month Martha will pick kits that are filled with yummy goodies that you can make a few layouts and cards.

Happy Scrapping!

CS #148 & journaling challenge

How are you all doing? Yes, my creative juices are back again, yay! And this time I’ve made another layout using Creative Scrapper’s sketch #148 plus using the challenge idea of journaling over at Scrapbook Daisies. This is what I came up with:

I’m using this sketch:

 All things are from Scrapbook Daisies Happy Together kit, except the doilies which are from my own stash. Just love the bling swirls that came with the kit. Swirls always make me think of butterfly, so here goes:

The pack of Prima flowers with glaze / thickles are just so pretty:

I’ve hidden my journaling behind the bottom left photo, which I’ve put another photo below too. A good way to include more photos in one page without jamming up the whole page.

The challenge over at Scrapbook Daisies is to use journaling spot in our layout, the best is of course do our journaling on those journaling spot.. Here I’ve used them for embellishment, title placement and journaling (date).

I love how the whole layout turn out, it has a soft feel with those misted doilies. And guess what? I put those doilies last into the layout! Thank God that they didn’t tear easily and the adhesive haven’t stay permanent yet. Ha!

Happy scrapping and I hope you’ll have an awesome weekend!

Our little breakfast and something else

Check this out! My layout is being chosen as the layout of the week in Scrapbook Daisies, yay!! Thanks for spotting me Michelle.

Today I want to share a layout that I did yesterday. I’m so glad that I did some creative things, ‘cos I was really having bad morning sickness, felt so weak before that. And guess what? After I did the layouts, I was totally fine and I can even cook!

Here is one of the layouts that I did for a sketch challenge over at Scrapbook Daisies.

I’m using this PageMaps sketch in the challenge:
I love to use bits and pieces of thing sometimes, this time even down to the Paper line name – Life is good tag is actually the paper border, it is just so cute to throw away. Here I raised it with form adhesive.

I did those punch out retro flowers again, thanks again Kristi for teaching how to make those flowers.

Sorry for the bad photo quality though, I just can’t, so I took it right after I’ve done the layout late afternoon while it was raining outside.

Another thing, if you want to lend a hand for our Japanese friends, read this and share your creation. Tomoko is trying to raise some funds by selling crafts created by us all, so head on over to her blog and check out with her.

Happy crafting you all!

CS #145 – our little escape

Love this sketch once I saw it in Creative Scrapper and right away know that I need to scrap the photo that we’ve taken while we had our short trip to Sandakan. It was a trip to attend our friend’s wedding.
Here is the sketch:
And here is what I’ve done with the sketch together with the stash challenge over at Scrapbook Daisies:
The challenge is to use 3 buttons, 2 die-cut and 1 photo. I’ve use MM Slice machine to cut out the swirls, ink and mist them.
As for the buttons, they are from BoBunny, clear buttons, which I’ve glued them with PP behind to coordinate with my page.
When I saw the circle in the sketch, I knew that I would love to use doilies in my page and I did! Which I’ve mist it with Twilight color. Made some more flowers using doilies which also being mist.
Still love those butterflies punched out from Martha Stewart’s punch and the MM brads.

Thanks for stopping by and I really appreciate all your responds and comments in my blog, thanks for the blog love that you’ve sent you.
Hope you are having a great weekend.
Oh ya.. the PP is from Studio Calico. Hmm.. I’m really bad in keeping record of things that I’ve used, sorry that I am not able to provide all those products info for you all.

Valentine’s Cards

As promised, here are the only 6 cards that I’ve made for Valentine’s Day, given to some single ladies in my office, hope they have created some happy mood.

They are all being inspired by Making Memories Slice’s project card. I’ve mimic the size and also the idea from the love layout.

Am using American Craft PP and ribbon, Echo Park – Everybody loves Christmas PP, MM Design shop love struck stickers.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for all your blog love.

Sketchy Thursday – March DT

I thought I was late again for Sketchy Thursday challenge, but it turns out that the due date is 19th Feb! Yes~~!
So, here is the sketch for March DT member challenge:

Here is my take with some distressing, inking and layering:

I love this photo of DS, I purposely shot half of his face and had him laughing in front of the camera to show his growing front teeth.

Everything is from the Scrapbook Daisies kit.

Happy Friday and wishing you a great weekend ahead.

Have you prepared for Valentine’s Day yet? Have you made any cards? I did! Will share about this later.

Simply Perfect

Yup, these two are just too cute to miss (in these photos only LOL).

Those Simply Perfect papers are really hard to use, they are too pretty by themselves! I felt guilty to cover them up actually and each paper has glitters on them, breath taking to just look at them, so how can I just cut them up or cover them?

This paper that I chose to use is with a bird on the side, so I can still put my photos in the center and cover up those wordings which I was thinking if I should cut a hole in the middle so that I can use that PP again for cards maybe.

I used it anyway, and along the way I kept on telling myself it will be even prettier with my photos and memories on it. Everything is from the Scrapbook Daisies kit except the black Making Memories journal pad.

Happy Tuesday! And thanks in advance for all your blog love!

Happy Together using Pencil Lines #222

Pencil Lines is having some great sketches to be used. I’m using their sketch #222 for the layout below:

This layout is done using Fancy Pants Happy Together PP from Scrapbook Daisies October kit. Yes, I only got it a few days ago, wonder what happened to the delivery postman.

Am using the EK Retro flower punch to create more flowers again *teehee…*

I’ve cut open the Prima bling and the journal card that came together in the kit to be the embellishment in my layout:

Here is another tag that came along in the kit that I’ve tugged behind the Prima flower
Here is the look of my late Scrapbook Daisies October Happy Together kit:
Am intended to do more with this kit of course since I’ve only used two PP from the kit. Wish there are more such cute tags in the kit though.
Happy scrapping and have a blessed weekend.