I’ve made 4 more Christmas cards in two different designs but almost the same with the previous ones. Again, I used the dry embossed snowman, plus a dry embossed star. Feel abit reluctant to give them away, but a gift is a gift, it is something that you would love the other person to have.
Everyone is using digital Christmas card now-a-day, so I only got 3 real card this year, maybe more is coming, but am not so hopeful for that. So I’ve made 3 cards to give them back. At the same time I’ve received my month kit from Paperwishes Personal Shopper, so I’ve made full use of the kit and made 2 extra cards other than the one that they showed in their kit.
The most part that I love doing is the snowman. I’m suppose to use the brad buddies snowman for the card but instead I use white card stock, trace, cut and emboss the snowman, then put eyelets as the buttons. I love how it ends up and am thinking to make more.
Done some pages over the weekend. Almost all using the papers supplied by Scrapbook Delight. Wanna show Jazz here on what I’ve done on those pages that I’ve ordered.
I’ve used the photo frame overlay and ribbon which came together with the gift – My Mind’s Eye Kit. I made the tag by copying the phrase from another sticker pack, and I wrote some swirling at the bottom. Tied a ribbon and adhere with small zot.
I love the swirl on the pattern paper and tried not to hide it with photo, that’s why I can only fit in two 4R size photos. The one with overlay frame is actually being trimmed so that the swirl on the frame is showing. I fix the frame corner with copper round brads and adhere to the pattern paper. The photo below is being matted with green and then white cardstock.
As for this one, I copied the layout from Simple Scrapbook Magazine Nov/Dec issue’s winner for their challenge that month. It was a challenge which need to include the following things:
I’ve copied the winner’s layout but changed the pattern paper to ribbon instead. This is the first time that I’ve used many brads on my LO, they are all in all 30 different brads here. Love this LO, it is so easy to do.
I don’t have a specific room or space for scrapbooking. I normally would use the space outside of the living room, we call it the front area of the house, it is not exactly is a porch, it is just the front area. Other than that, it will have to be the kitchen table. Doing scrapbook over the weekend is the best time of the day, that is when I can sit down, look at my photos, examine what I have or what I can use for the page then start my hobby. It is normally more productive or creative during that time. You would be surprise to see what is infront of me.. it looks like a jungle to certain people 😉
Yes, that is a papaya tree. Does it look like a jungle to you?
I’ll be going away for more than a week next weekend, to a place that I have no access to blogspot, so I’m looking for any alternative way to update my blog. Here I’m using google spreadsheet which I’m sure I can log in and start typing from there. I’m now using it and trying it out and it is just brilliant.
Do you have a veranda? One is with a little view? One that is just outside of your room? Even if it is upstairs, do you have it? It is actually a space that you can do lots of decoration in it with pots of flowers, so you can have your quiet time there everyday. Small space like a 3 x 1 metre corridor would do the trick already. You’ll just need small high chairs, some narrow shelves for the plants and some creativity on the color scheme.
If it is cement floor, you can change it into wooden floor and add some pepples to make it more welcoming and thus use wood for the rest of the decoration. You can make full use of the space on the wall by adding more shelves or simply hangs the plants from the ceiling down. You can hang pots sraight from the ceiling in the middle part too, this is especially suitable for those plants that are drap style. Oh ya.. and you don’t need big potted plants as it use up too much space unless you have the space for them, little pots with little plants are good enough.
The sad thing is.. I don’t have a veranda, but I’ve the whole front garden to decorate 😀
For those of you.. (like there is any..hahaha.. no no no.. I’m referring to myself actually :D) who is waiting to see my finished page on Cal’s first birthday, here they go..
I’ve journal around the photos on both pages, add the alphabet B and number 1 cut from cardstock. Put a few brads and ribbon on them. Punch 8 red eyelets on the corner of the middle photo and weave ribbon through them. Journal on computer and printed out on the cardstock, cut and inked them.
Had enjoyed doing the pages.. Sorry that they are a bit blurry and dark cos I took them at night.. should have taken them on broad daylight.
Just got my scrapbooking material from scrapbook delight in Brunei. This is their first time shipping outside of Brunei and being the first client of their, I get special treatment of course 😀
I’m still excited for having all those papers from Dream Street, they are thick and the design are adorable. In a way, it is also giving a time to crack my head to do new layout, one is to preserve the beautiful design on the page and another is try to fit in all my photos into the layout. And guess what? I just did it.. well.. almost done two pages of layout about my son’s first birthday using D.St papers, which I scraplift it from Simple Scrapbooks Magazine (Nov/Dec). I’ve fit in 9 little 2.5″ square photos on one page, and another page with 3 coaster size photos and one little photos which I’ve matted into coaster size in another page. I just love the swirl on the passion fruit design paper of D.St, so I’ve trim out some of the initially would be covered swirl and let them show on top of my photos. I’ve accented two photos of me and my DS with square brads.
I use Heidi Swapp big flowers and Kellly Panacci Sandylion flower stickers as the embellishment. Now what I will do maybe is some doodle and use more flower stickers. Another thing left is the journalling.
Let you have a sneak preview of what I’ve done and once I’ve finished the two pages, surely gonna post them up.
It has been a very productive weekend, I’ve made 5 more scrapbook pages, mostly for Cal’s album, should be 7 pages, another 2 is done very quickly from Almost done pages kit, so it doesn’t really count.
Other than that, I’ve got our Christmas tree up! Yupe. This is a mini Christmas tree as it made up of the top most part of our 5′ tall Christmas tree. The rest of the tree already got rotten and thrown away, so I just made do with whatever that I’ve. I use my mom’s flower pot to “plant” the tree with newspaper beneath and just decorated with the old stuff, which only left what you can see on the tree, still I’m proud of it 😀
I’m just saving some time in taking it off.. 😀
Now it is just sat nicely next to our TV
Merry Christmas!
ya.. that’s the right word for me now.. really exhausted till I fall asleep on the salon chair. Imagine that having a turning machine, the one that is on top of your head and not quite touching it, then it turns and giving out heat, probably to “activate” the color liquid on my hair.. and yet I still fell asleep there.. almost touching “that thing” when I accidentally “drop” my head 😀
Then woke up for awhile.. embarrassed on what had happened, but fall back to my little nap time again.. goodness! Anyway, I can trust the hair-dresser and nothing is a real change for me now ever since I had the “dramatic” hairstyle (my colleague put it that way, and yet the next thing is she followed that style before she goes off elsewhere for a long stay. hahaha…)
so do whatever u like, be it highlight, colored it, cut it, trim it.. I still fall asleep, I still love my dreamland…
Hannie Craft - Finding Joy 