Shutterfly Giveaway: Holiday Cards

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I have heard of Shutterfly and seen its advertisement in Scrapbook magazine and had since noticed Ali Edwards mentioned about it and even seen her Shutterfly book of Daily You.

Shutterfly is not only about Photo Book, you can also custom made your Christmas Photo Cards, holiday photo cards, Halloween photo cards, Thank You Cards and even party invitations or Birthday Invitations. Isn’t it great?
All you need to do is to upload your favorite photos, choose a design that you like and you’ve cards that is custom designed for you. You can even get them to post it for you, if however you don’t want them to send over to you! It save up all that hassles in making them and posting them. It also making sure that your friends and family get your greeting cards on time, but make sure you do that earlier.

Shutterfly is doing a promotion right now that they will email me promo code and I can use them for a give-away. Please note: “each code is for 10 free 5×7 flat stationery cards! Offer ends 12/31/2010.  Please note, only 1 set of 10 cards is redeemable per Shutterfly account.”

How to enter for the give-away? Just leave a comments here by telling me if you’ve started preparing for the Christmas or simply comments on anything at all.

Happy weekend!

Edited: So sorry.. I forgot to mention till when is this give-away, right? Bummer.
Okay, here is how it goes, I’ll have this post open for comments till end of October and draw a winner on 1 of November. Any question, please contact me at fonmee at gmail dot com.
TQ!

Why don’t we all try it out?

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I’m not sure what will happen to this ‘cos I’ve seen that my member list gone from zero to 40 over just within an hour.
I got this email from a total stranger, that’s why I said I’m not sure what will happened, but I’m seeing that people around the world is joining the network.

Try to understand it yourself here.
If really, it is just a scam, well, at least now I’m not paying anything to be a member. So think there is no harm joining in.
Maybe you all will join me? And we’ll see what will happen next.

Palette #23

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I did a layout using the sketch for Color Room Palette #23 instead of the colors:

Found this photo of little Mervin when he was just about 4 months old in an album that my FIL was keeping. So I quickly grab it back and scrap this photo. Miss those chubby cheeks and toothless smile.

Everything is from the Basic Grey page kit except the doilies. I did some fuzzy cutting from the PP and came up with the embellishment:

I’ve used some glitter stickles on the flowers and glitter pen on the pedals.

Happy scrapping!

PageMaps Sketch Challenge

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Yes, I love sketches from PageMaps, it always look so neat and filled with details. Sometimes include things that I would normally won’t do on my page, such as stitching for this sketch. I came up with this:

And yes, I did sew those borders on. First line on the right was sew on by machine but after, the sewing machine gave up on me and just won’t stitch, so I had to hand sew the rest on. This is also trigger my son’s love in doing what I do and made this card which I’ve posted in my other blog.

Well.. other that it was a bit tedious to do all those stitches by hand, it turns out not bad. I had to doodle on those butterflies to make them pop a bit.

So, what are you waiting for? Join in the PageMaps sketch challenge, and you might even win the RAK above.

Well, that’s it for today. Have fun on your Sunday night!

With Scrap-a-little

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First off I wanted to talk about the layout that I did for ScrapStreet using Helen’s sketch number 16. 
Here are a close-up of those hand-made flowers using doilies:
I even used one big doilies for the background embellishment:
Yupe, this is my father-in-law, one who is soft-spoken and well, a bit too skinny:

I’m using Basic Grey Kioshi paper which is mostly in purple color. I’m not a big fan of purple, that’s why I seldom use purple in my layout. Purple in itself is pretty, but it is hard for me to scrap using purple color. But I think this layout turn out okay.

Next is about the layout using Helen’s September sketch, one that to me is very easy to work with:

I’ve ink those letter sticker with white ink to match with my layout and have stamp swirls on the cardstock to add a bit of interest:

I just love Martha Stewart’s butterfly punch, can’t get enough of it and yes, I’m not tire of it yet, hee..
Distressing, distressing, lots and lots of distressing for this layout.
Here is the whole layout:
I’m using Basic Grey Max and Whisker’s paper for this layout.
Both pattern paper is available in Scrapbook Daisy. And do use Helen’s sketch to join in the challenge for the month.
Check them  out!

Can’t get in

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So, we were “just outside” and that became the title of my layout. We went to a local Korean Restaurant on one Sunday morning, but we were too early and they were not open yet, somehow the boys discovered the cute miniature car just outside the entrance and wanted to snap photos with it.

I did a layout using a sketch from PageMap which is being used as the Sketch Challenge #66:

Here is my take for the challenge using Max & Whiskers PP which is meant for pets!

See how easy is it to use pets’ line of PP for normal day to day layout? I’ve used my green mist, distressed ink and lots of distressing on the edges.
Here are some close-up of the layout:

The ribbon is being sewed up together first before I adhere it on my page.

Oh ya.. Scrapbook Deals 4U is going to have a new site: Scrapbook Daisy pretty soon, and I’m loving the fresh new look of the forum!

Color Combo Challenge 156 with a sketch

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Did a layout using a sketch from Color Combo Galore, my first for their challenge.

And their color combo challenge:

With their instructions, it is easy to finish off this layout especially when I’ve got the right photo and pattern paper. This is what I came up with. 

I’ve cut out a cute little house overlay and adhere a red PP behind, you can even see the glue dot liner on the house! Not really the kind of glue for overlay I suppose.

Probably I’m too late for the one hour challenge over at their site, but I had fun using the the Tree House kit from Scrapbook Deals 4U, you really should check out their monthly kit, it is filled with coordinating PP and cardstock, plus those cute embellishment.

Little snowman

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It is fun on what you can make with your left over scrap pieces of paper from a kit that you just can’t finish using from making layouts and it is just too little for another layout, so here is one that I’ve used left over little pieces of paper to make a Christmas card.

Again, that cute little brad is from Imaginisce, a gift from Grace Tolman. The chocolate swirl is from Pebbles chips, filled with 20 pieces of cute chipboard. The fabric flower with the center button taken off is from Basic Grey Max & Whiskers.

Yup, start making Christmas card now so you’ll have lots of time to prepare other things and it also help me to used up all those little pieces of left over.

Season’s greetings card

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Yes, it is not too early to prepare for Christmas right now, and yes that include making cards for friends and family members.

I’ve started mine, have you?

That little Santa brad is from Grace Tolman, thanks Grace!

The Season’s greetings stamp is from Hero Arts that I’ve just got from Scrap-n-crop, and the paper is from Cosmo Cricket Early Bird mini deck, a gift from Scrap-n-crop. And those flowers are from Prima.

Happy card making!