Scrapbook challenges

January 28, 2008Leave a comment

cScrapbooking challenges are fun. Before this, I thought to myself, well.. I’m not even a pro in doing scrapbooking yet.. why want to join in any challenges. When I first found out about what really are challenges in scrabook.etc magazine on my pool fun LO, to my surprise, I love it once I’m into it. It actually give me a guide on what I should use or do in my page in order to join in the fun.
Sometimes I just can’t start a page without some limitation.. the creativity part is just too wide especially when coming down to choosing my pattern papers and the most basic one – Layout, what scrappers call LO. So if there is some guidelines or I call it limitation that set out in the challenge, it would help me to start thinking on that line, also start to be creative on that line too. The fun part is to share with others my work and get lots of comments from people. I did it in scrapbook.com, which is really a nice place to be with all those that having the same interest with me. Another site that I love to check out is ScrapScene which updated me with all the latest things that is happening in the scrapping world.
Just recently, Itty bitty Scrap Shack is holding a challenge on “Get in the mood for love!“.

Got this from their site:
Here are the details: Create a layout (12×12 or 8 1/2 x 11) about the love(s) of your life. Maybe it’s a person, maybe a place, animals, etc. Whatever you love, we want to see it! Send your entries to designteam@ittybittyscrapshack.com by February 1st. The winner will receive the February Itty Bitty Kit!
Tiffany

Ya.. go ahead and have some fun, I surely am joining this even it I can’t .. I’m going to do this challenge for my LO.

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January 25, 2008Leave a comment

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Joining My Blog Log and some challenges

January 24, 2008Leave a comment

From now on.. that is after the verification, once I drop by to anyone of you who got mybloglog template.. my cute little face will show there. 😀
It is fun to see my pictures in other people’s blog site, and in a way also telling people where I am.. so now I’m Undergoing MyBlogLog Verification
Finger cross that this will work.
I’m also in the middle of joining some challenges in srapbook.com. I’m submitting my “Promise” page to their “We love flower challenge”, and also submitting “Shower fun” to their “Everykid should challenge”. Before this, I’ve submitted “Grandma” to their “Multiple pics challenge”, wish me luck!

The LO that my sister loves

January 23, 2008Leave a comment

I haven’t got any photo of my son on his first day at school, the only one that I have so far is taken by my sister when Cal is over in her house after school. Where were I? Well… I went off to fetch my 2nd son from school and guess what.. during that time, they had a great time, I mean Cal and his cousin, they had shower fun! They can’t do it in my mom’s place ‘cos we don’t have a shower head, they always had a bath but we still call it shower anyway – one that without the head.
When Cal and Rod is having a good time in the shower room, obviously taking longer than they should with all those splash of water, my sis grab her digicam and snap them. Not many that she took though, her reason is she doesn’t wanna take the whole body, and since the room is small, she’ll have to use her untrained photo skills to take these gorgeous photos.
So, I’ve scrap it..
Love to see their expressions in these photos, really show how much they enjoy the shower. I wish my sis got more photos on this. Now it is being displayed in my scrap area, just feel that I should show it off and enjoy it first before I put it into my album.
This is actually done at the back of “3 rascals”. So I can’t poke any hole in this LO too, all embellishments are being attached with zots and glue.

Chinese new year is coming

January 22, 2008Leave a comment

Ya.. pretty soon, Chinese new year will be here.. the year of rat is coming.. another new year for us Chinese… and I still haven’t shop for clothes for my boys.. oh dear.. wish I can do it online using any online shop which offer fast delivery service maybe plus with a trustworthy shopping cart system and is hassle free.
Sometimes I wish I can just like “Bewitch”, with the twist of my nose and I get everything in hand, including nicely matched clothes for myself.
Well.. at least one thing I’ve done to welcoming the new year.. got my hair permed, well.. not like Gabriella in High School Musical that I talked about in my other blog, but as “si lai” as my hubby puts it.
Coming back about this shopping things.. hmm.. how I wish.. I have a butler to do all those choosing things, provided he/she really knows what I want 😉
For those of you who is doing online business, try out ashop.com.au to get a trustworthy online cart to get more clients first.. and let me know.. so I can visit your online store one day.. have a butler service even better…

Promise LO

January 22, 2008Leave a comment

Have been drag on to this this LO too. It is a promise that I’ve made for Cal, well.. it happens that one day he said to me that I don’t love him, that is after I’ve punished him for doing something wrong… it strucks me and it hurts me too.. so I’ve been asking myself “am I really that bad as a mom?”

So here.. this is for Cal.

Pattern paper is from Dream Street Papers, flowers from Prima, photo corner from Heidi Swapp, brads from Hot off the press, alphabets from Basic Grey.
Initially I wasn’t sure what embellishment to put on this page. The first flower is the one on the bottom right corner of the photo and it is right at the end of the swirl. After I done that one, I figure maybe I can put flowers on all the swirl’s end, so I did. I’ve use a little heart brad from Queen & Co. too.
The journalling:
Cal, One day when you were only over 4 years old, you have been told not to do certain things but you still carry on, thus I’ve spank your hand and punished you to stand on the corner, suddenly out of nowhere and out of my expectation you said: ”You don’t love me… you really don’t love your child!”
It really hurts me and hurt me deep. It made me ponder if I have done anything wrong in the way in disciplining you, if I haven’t been hugging you more enough, if I haven’t been giving you enough attention everyday, if there is anyone that have been telling you some dreadful lie about me.
Later I start telling you how I love you, why I discipline you and find out why you don’t listen to me. Every night before sleeping, I gave you a big hug and you always demand me to whisper something on your ear like “Be a good boy, don’t be naughty, don’t push your little brother..” Then only you are satisfied and fall into your dreamland.
I may not be a perfect mom to you, but all I want to tell you is: “I do love you, you are still my precious one and I promise that I’ll love you all through my life.”Mummy, Dec 2007

split.. shall I?

January 22, 20081 Comment

I’m moving.. emm.. not exactly.. I should say I’m splitting.. emm.. is this the right word? I mean I’m having another blog .. splitting from this one, so that this will entirely be my scrapbooking blog.. probably not entirely.. probably the mix of two … but this blog has been more about scrapbooking than about life.. about reminding myself how gladeful I should be with my life.. having 2 boys.. having a family and friends.. but then again.. scrapbooking is doing that too. When I scrap, I constantly reminded about how gladful I am on my life, on my daily living.
However.. above all these, I still think I should have a blog entirely talking about scrapbooking. Maybe I’ll just start another blog now.. and decide later, see how it turns out later.. what do you think? Shall I?

Sweet 16

January 21, 2008Leave a comment

Did a page that has been long overdue.. well.. no due date actually.. but the photos have sat in my closet for a month after I’ve crop them. They are my niece’s 16th birthday pictures. She keep on complaining that she doesn’t like those photos and said that they are so ugly (I hope she doesn’t mean herself, ‘cos she is lack of confident on her look), well.. to me, they are precious, ‘cos you’ll never get a 2nd sweet 16 again, so no matter how bad the photos have been taken, they are still part of the memory.

I’ve used lots of different flowers for this page, I thought to myself since I may not have lots of other chances to use those flowers that I bought from Prima, they are in black, grey and white. I’ve used flower from Heidi and mini flower brads from Making Memories. Love to use all those pretty flower and they are pretty easy to lighten up a plain page.

Another thought was that I’m thinking to submit this page for the “We love flower” challenge in srapbook.com. Will see if I can make another page that I like more.

I didn’t poke any hole in this page too, I used zots to adhere all flowers which already got brads on.

Since the page colour is greyish, I tried something new, I used white gel pen to do the journalling, but it still doesn’t pop up.. so I’ve to layer my writing. I’ve cut up some pattern paper and stick up as the line for my journalling. Got this idea from one of the challenge in scrapbook magazine.

Since I don’t wanna poke any hole in the paper, so using flower embellishment is a good way to hide away the zot and it secure my ribbon even more.

So here it is.. happy belated birthday, Qin..

Photo shooting technique of this page is not so right ‘cos the page tilted.. I miss the digicam

I’m curious…

January 18, 2008Leave a comment

I’m curious.. I get email about gambling online, about online casino.. but do people really gamble online? I mean how? Can you just flee like that if you loose? Would they be able to track you down? Would they be able to get the police to catch you if you flee? hmm… there is this casino site, pro360, which not only offer online gambling, they even listed out all the other sites that you can go! OMG.. there are so many of them. It got me thinking, what if the credit card fraud group gamble there? haha..

More LO

January 17, 20082 Comments

Done a page last nite from a photo taken just last weekend in my in-law’s. Photo taken by my sis-in-law who were trying out her digicam.

This LO is inspired by a member in Two Peas.
I’ve used all American Craft paper again.. and also Apricot Bazzil Cardstock bought from SoCalScrap, those that were offer 😀 (USD.44 each)
I just love those American Craft papers that I bought from TwoPeas. The stars are just very nice to make boy’s page. Oh and the vinyl too.. they are just so fun to just stick up as title.