SIL 2nd Anniversary Hop - 2nd Challenge - An altered folder

I am currently loving the challenges available at SIL.  It is making me scrap more and this is my take on challenge no 2 here.  Dear Yatie has come up with this brilliant altered challenge and I must say that we don't have enough of altered challenges at SIL.  

I chose to construct my wallet sized folder.  I found a piece of jeans looking material which has been in my wardrobe for years now.  I am so glad that I am taking it out and using it.  Scrapping euqals destashing and I am very happy indeed.

This is the front of the folder.  Love the cute buttons that I added the Pink Paisley Soiree paper and embellishments which I bought in Scrappingville - simply divine.

The folder opened up.

The whole inside.  I left it empty as I was going to send it over to Yatie for Nadiah's birthday.  :)  Happy Birthay Sweetie in advance.  Hugs from Auntie M,  C and S.

The back of the folder.

If you are interested in joining in this challenge,  do head over here for challenge details. You may win the Studio Calico Babbling Brook RAK.  :)

Reach for the Stars and SIL Ongoing Challenge No 2

I am nearing the end of using up all of the Websters Pages Hollywood papers which I bought the other day.  I am very happy that I have used them up and not let them rot in my scrapping wardrobe in vain.  They are simply too beautiful to be hoarded.

Another simple cut and paste layout.  I have to say that Websters Pages papers are so well designed that you do not need much in order to create a beautiful page - well - for me at least.  

Love how the page turned out - simple and yet so me. I have also been hoarding this photo of Clarissa and Sasha for the longest time.  I see a lot of potential in these 2 kids and I really hope that they will go far.

Yes,  heart heart this Unity stamp and it's the second time in days that I have been using it.

As usual,  I would like to end this post with a shout out for the SIL ongoing challenge No 2 by DT Yatie.  Hop over here for details.

April Memories

I was at Scrappingville with the ladies yesterday and Shar was showing us how to to mist and use texture paste in a layout.  Although I must say that in the end my layout did not turn out anything like hers but I had a great time scrapping and catching up with the ladies.

Here is a slightly grungy and very messy layout but I love how it is so different from my usual layouts.  Check out Shar's version here.  

Check out all the techniques here.  Love the distressing on the Embossed Coredinations Cardstock!  They are one of my favourites.  Misting using TH Masks and Mists,  Hambly rubons - the paint splatters - LOVE LOVE them,  Beaded Gel Paste,  Gesso,  some stamping using both inks and acrylic dabbers,  destashing of the sentiment sticker equals to a destressing layout.  :)

Clarissa's friend April will be leaving at the end of the school year.  I thought it would be nice to scrap a layout for her to remember Clarissa by.  

Delight and SIL Blog Hop 2

Some say that Happiness is Over - rated.  Others say that its all in the mind.  For me, everyday I forge ahead :  carrying on my responsibilities,  enjoying what I love and to me that is happiness.  I delight in the little things.  When I drive - when someone gives way even when the traffic is horrible.  I delight that when I go to the market,  the vegetable seller greets me with a smile and tell me what is fresh.

I delight when my kids do and say something sensible.  After all - I am thankful that under all that awkwardness of "tweenage-ness" ,  I did penetrate some goodness through.  LOL... What do you delight in?  What are your thoughts?

I just want Clarissa to delight in the moments.  Here it was just enjoying herself on the rock. Have the strength to be alone and delight on being alone and stay strong. This is a simple layout again utilising my old scraps which I found lying around.  Luckily I had enough to layer the whole layout - plus I manage to hide all the cut parts with the photo .  :)

On another note - have you checked out the the latest SIL Challenge here?  I am certainly ready to tackle it soon.  I am positively drooling checking out the Studio Calico Babbling Brook RAK up for grabs.  

It's a beautiful hot Sunday in Malaysia and I am enjoying my lazy day.  Have a great day everyone.

SIL Blog Hop No 2 and Create Your Own Bliss

I can never resist:

1) Good Food

2) Scrapbooking stuff

Sad to say that my waistline is ever expanding and so is my scrapbooking stash.  There is always no end in sight to my over eating and my hoarding of scrapbooking stuff.  I guess thats how I am built.  

I met Yuzz at the Curve yesterday,  to Sean's chagrin- I had to visit the LSS there - Papier to do some shopping.  The little monster was very hungry after a football work out and yet his mother could not resist stopping by the LSS.  Poor child.

I was looking and browsing and I stumbled upon the Websters Page Hollywood papers.  I know they were not new but I just couldn't let them slip by.  Next I found these new Prima blings,  had to buy that and then the Prima alphas and it just went on.  Sigh...  Here is the layout that I finally scrapped using the papers.  Well - at least they will not be waiting in the cupboard to be scrapped.

Love the circle transparency by Basic Grey.  I made a little 3D frame using pop up foam. The cardboard was from a package that I received.  It was total happiness when I get to recycle some things.  :)

Love the different dimensions.

Heart the photo so much cos C looks great in it. Thanks Sarah.

Wanna win this?  This is such a yummy RAK yes? Just check out the ongoing challenges at SIL (Scrap-It-Lah) this month?  SIL is also having its first-ever DT call - for more details,  hop over here.

Friends layout

I am still going through my stash and I have found a lot of remnants pieces of paper which I have used previously for some other layout. Here is a simple layout using 2 pieces of balance paper and a Prima packaging.  

Check out the very old felt borders that I have hoarded for at least 3 years?  I really don't get myself - why buy if you are not going to use it at all.  Sigh...  Some old Prima pearl swirls - another oldie in the stash.  Last of all - the one I really need to hide my face are those quilted flowers.  Faint - they have been with me like forever.  Oh,  I nearly forgot about the sentiment sticker - more hoarding from Perth - exactly more than 5 years?  Sigh...

Glad I finally took out some of my old chalk inks - they were all drying up.  I had to press really hard to get the green out.  The pink was still ok but reasonably dry.

Photo was taken by Jessy.  I was with a couple of my friends and we decided to hire Jessy to be our photographer.  This photo brings back so many memories.  It was taken on the 1st Jan,  2008.  Such a momentous moment for all of us.

Challenge No 2 is up at SIL and an Altered Canvas for Yuzz (*updated*)

Wanna win this?  This is such a yummy RAK yes? Just check out the ongoing challenges at SIL (Scrap-It-Lah) this month?  SIL is also having its first-ever DT call - for more details,  hop over here.


Foraging into my artsy adventure,  I have decided to make a little gift for Yuzz.  She has emailed me a couple of weeks ago and told me that she made an album for me.  She is just too sweet.  We managed to meet up today briefly and exchenged our gifts.  :)  This is a simple canvas which I made for her:

Well,  Sharon Chan - you asked for a grunge feel - here it is babe.  The grunge was using done using embossing ink and guess what - dragging my nails across to give it those lines.   I love the whole effect of the canvas.

I have used some regular alpha stencils which I bought at the hardware shop and just painted the alphas using white acrylic paint.

Heart heart my Unity stamps - they are so useful.  I mucked up the stamped sentiments a bit.  It was quite hard to stamp clearly on canvas.  One has to be so careful.  Well - thats my signature - imperfections abound in my layouts.  :)

Have a great day and I hope to be back with more projects soon.