So thrill !!

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Yes, though it is not my blog who got the award, but hey, I’m involve indirectly with one of the blog!

I’m talking about 2010 top 45 scrapbooking blog awards. Check it out! It has those sites that I’ve been visiting and including Scrap-a-little! Where I am one of the designer! Yay! Hurray and congratulations for Helen!

I know I’m not doing a great big deal of things for her site, but I’m still thrill to be in her design team.

Everyone, go over and congratulate her and you’ll discover what a lovely lady she is plus all her great sketches and layouts!

Oh, and if you are new to scrapbooking or if you are looking for inspiration or ideas on what to scrap, I’m sure it is a great place to start in the winning list. Have fun!

Wanna sell and buy kids’ stuff?

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I’ve a site to introduce to you all if you are looking for kids’ stuff and also trying to sell some over the net – Kidzola. Go over to Kidzola now and get yourself register with them, and also do put FM101 in the Referred By (Username) column.

Once you do that, you get a chance to enter in a monthly drawing for a US$25 Kidzola gift certificate.

“Kidzola is a great marketplace filled with everything kids need to fit a wide variety of budgets.  They’ve got new, handmade and resale items from sellers all across the States. Some of the sellers even ship to Canada.

If you intended to sell over at Kidzola, they’ll need you to key in your credit card details. You can also create your own storefront complete with logo, URL, banner, store description and feedback ratings.

So, do go over to Kidzola now and get yourself register with me as the referral (FM101), happy shopping!

disappear

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Yes, I felt like I’ve lost touch with my site, my scrapbook, my creativity, my me-time. I felt that I’ve no mood to do scrapbook after a tiring day and needed sleep so much. I felt that I’ve been deprived of sleep. Partly due to the fact that I was doing something else instead of scrapbooking. I was baking! Yes! I’ve baked Suzanne’s funeral cake, Suzanne’s chocolate chips cookies (‘cos I’m reading her book – Muffins and mayhem), some other pumpkin soup that I learnt from the net and even beef stew that I learnt from Martha Stewart’s show. So out of the ordinary me.

Yes, I love every bit of that and I’ve enjoyed doing all those cooking and baking. I intended to do more cookies, I love those chocolate chips cookies and I’ve got all those ingredient ready. Just there for me to bake anytime when I felt like it. Just like the other night. After talking to hubby over the phone, I didn’t go straight to bed, instead I’ve bake some muffins / cupcake out from the funeral cake recipe.

For the past weeks, I was even lazy to read others’ blog post and I’ve been skipping here and there, till today. Then only know that I’ve lost so much opportunities in free give-away! Anyway, I seldom get them even when I’ve entered.

So, now, tonight I wanted to do a layout for a friend, finger crossed that I don’t get too tire and my mojo is back.

I think I love this baby more…

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than my own son! Just look at him, so adorable! So cute!!
Introducing little Elijah!

This bundle of joy belongs to Aunty J. I stole one of her photo (with her knowledge) and made this page. I fell in love with that chubby cheek and beautiful eyes. Then it is just nice for me to scrap this for a challenge over in Scrapbook Deals 4U. This is also a layout that I stop worrying about if I should use flowers or doily in a boy’s page. He is just too adorable for not having any flowers there!

I have given this layout to Auntie J on Wednesday and really.. I felt like keeping it instead..hehe.. just too cute!

By the way, I’m using the Thrift shop kit from SD4U. Those cute crochet doilies are from Sweet Vintage.

Happy weekend! Mine now the boys are cleaning the drain!! Without even needing me to ask them to do so and I won’t get them to do that either. It is just that Mer saw the next door maid do that and probably he thinks it is interesting and thus he started to clean our drain now. Hope they are not making a big mess out there.

It is true..

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That your love for each other is unmeasurable!

And of course I love seeing them sharing a cup of soft-drinks. Of course I love that when they share, when they are not fighting, when they are having fun together, laughing and teasing each other.. But it always has to stop somewhere before they overdoing it.
The ribbon is actually the left over from the doily trim backing which I’ve tied up with twine and add some blings:


I love the sentence that says “We do not remember days, we remember moments” It is so true.

Love how everything just came together in this layout using Studio Calico kit, plus the challenge from Scrapbook Deals 4U.

Oh ya.. Auntie J has posted about a layout that I did for cute little Eli, will post about it later.

Happy scrapping!

Celebrate mini-album

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Updates:
Auntie J already post up the after photos of this mini album in her blog here.

Okay, here is one mini that I did, first time ever for a friend’s new baby. These are all the before photos of the album, as for the after album look complete with cute photos of the baby and those precious moment, you’ll have to bug Auntie J to post up those photos in her blog.

I’m glad I’ve made her this album as it can be a brag book for her and of course hopefully Eli will love it when he grow older.

Yes, this album is a mixture of everything that I’ve in my stash of paper, mostly left over from monthly kits and some are those that I save for special layout and they ended up in this mini-album.
One thing, I wish I can have those photos ready before I together this album, it would help me a lot in arranging it plus putting those embellishment in the right place.

So, go over to bug Auntie J and you sure can see little Eli in her site. *wink* I must warn you though, you might just fall in love with this little guy.

Lady Gaga inpired

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Yes, we are to do a layout base on Lady Gaga’s songs’ title or relics over in Scrapbook Deals 4U Summer Camp Rock challenge, which I’ve picked “Boys, boys, boys” as the title, though I don’t remember listening to this song in the radio. But it was fun doing a layout using that title plus all those misting. I’ve used 3 different colors mists here! Fun!
Here are some close-up:

I’m using Scrapbook Deals 4U June’s kit. Love those Pebble’s chipboard and stickers. They are just so cute! I wish I had more of them!
I just had to try on some dotted doodling for the dragon fly, to make it looks like it is flying up.
Happy weekend and happy scrapping you all!
Oh ya.. these photos were taken under low light at night.

Yong forever

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I did a layout for the Summer Camp Rock in Scrapbook Deals 4U, but a bit too late to load it into the gallery before due time. Anyway, I am glad that I managed to do a layout base on the challenge, else I will not even scrap those photos. You can read about the challenge here.

Here is what I came up with using Basic Grey Kioshi Paper.

Photos were taken on 29 Dec, 2007 in China. Those cute crochet flowers are from Dear Lizzy line, aren’t they just cute!? I’ve bought more of such crochet flower from an Etsy Shop here.
I got this idea of using a frame for those crochet flowers from Piradee on this layout of her. Thanks Piradee!
To make the title pop up from the busy background, I’ve doodle around the letters to make them more prominent.

Now I’m off to solve the Scavenger Hunt over in Scrapbook Deals 4U.

Happy Scrapping!

Product used: Basic Grey Kioshi PP, letter stickers, ribbon doilies, K&Company die-cut stickers frames, AC Dear Lizzy crochet flowers, Pink Paislee Queen Bee bella brads, October Afternoon Trift Shop label stickers, Tim Holtz distressing ink and Doodlebug DesignIinc. pigment ink.

Oh.. no…

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I thought those stamps in Studio Calico can wait. But no, they wait for nobody!

I’ve been eying for this “coffee stain” stamp:

Studio Calico - Clear Acrylic Stamps - Coffee Stain, BRAND NEW

I’ve already been thinking on where and how to use it in my layouts. But it is all gone now. I guess I’ll have to really use a real cup for the effect.

There is another thing that I’m eyeing for – Martha Steward butterfly punch:

Martha Stewart Crafts - Double Craft Punch - Large - Monarch Butterfly

It is definitely worth it to buy together with my monthly kit, since they’ll be shipped together. As for now, if I buy them, they’ll work out more expensive than getting it from the local scrapbook store, even though it is still another online store.

I’m happy though, ‘cos today I receive my June kit, and Joy is so kind to get me some goodies together with my purchase of the red mist, ‘cos they run out of the pink mist that I wanted, they have even refunded me and yet still giving me goodies, so sweet of them.

I’m looking forward to play with kit, together with my Scrapbook Deals4U June kit, Basic Grey page kit, wow! I’ve got a handful actually and I’m out of inspiration and photos to scrap.

I’ve been so lazy lately to take photos .. and I’ve just missed the chance to earn some point from the Summer Camp Rock in Scrapbook Deals 4U, ‘cos I forgot to load my layout in the gallery. I’m looking forward for another challenge.

I am in the middle of doing a mini album for “Today You” as well, one that I hope my boys will love and cherish. But I haven’t decided what photos to use yet. Finger crossed, and sure will share about it here.

Camp Rock #1

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Scrapbook Deals 4U is going into the second Summer Camp Rock Challenge now. While I’m putting a thinking hat on that one, let me just share with you what I’ve done for the challenge #1.
The layout must contain 3 things…

  1. One pic only….a photograph of YOU
  2. Your favorite color must be dominant followed by least favorite color. (you may use other colors but minimal)
  3. Your nickname.

Here is what I’ve done:

My favorite color is green and the one least favorite color is purple, which by the way, I’m wearing that color today..hmm.. Monday blue maybe *LOL* Actually I don’t have a least favorite color. It is just that purple to me is harder to scrap and it is harder to match with other color. As for my nickname, yup, Honey. I was being called that during  my senior high, ‘cos I was sitting with a bunch of guys who were ever so talkative and I was like being cornered. Somehow I get along well with them and they started to give me this nickname – Honey. Even till now, some of them still call me that. I kind of like it too, especially if hubby is the one who call me that *wink*.

I’m using Studio Calico kit plus some Prima and BoBunny flowers. My Fiskars border punch come into used and my Slice too. That little birdie is cut using Slice.

Well, what are you waiting for? If you haven’t join in the fun yet, head straight over to Scrapbook Deals 4U forum and get yourself registered for the camp rock.

Happy Monday you all!