Sonshine

 Have you checked out the ongoing challenges at SIL (Scrap-It-Lah) this month?  If,  not head over here. SIL is also having its first-ever DT call - for more details,  hop over here.

Do check out what is in store for you if you participate in the challenge.  You may win the Studio Calico Mossy Knoll Kit if you are lucky.  What are you waiting for?  Head over here to join the challenge.

Another artsy layout and I am totally in heaven. :) Another simple one as I haven't really tried to add layers for I fear that I will muck it up.  However I decided to play with a bit of subtle textures and see if it works. 

Love the whole simplicity of the layout and how it turned out.  I finally destashed using up some old yarn and little Davis chipboard alphas.

Check out the transparency in the left corner underneath the photo.  I ran it through the cuttlebug and added some acrylic paint to it.  I do love the effects.

Love how the yarn is the correct colour and wound it in a circle to simulate the sun. Ah well,  the sun should not comprise of blue,  green but heck it's an artistic sun.  LOL...

My years of hoarding these Lil' Davis alphas - finally to an end.  Phew...  Check out the detriments of hoarding rub-ons - they don't work as well anymore but nevertheless I added it on.  Love love the Jenny Bowlin felt birdie in the corner.  

I guess the reason I love artsy layouts so much is that even if I made a mistake - I can still call it art ;)  Till the next one - toodles.

Learn to pause

When the children were younger, I kept hoping that they will grow up faster.  Now they are both tweenagers, I find that time just flies by.  I wish I could just hit the "PAUSE" button and reverse them back to when they were younger.  I really miss them then.  

Trying my hand at another artsy layout.  Using my 2 year old - and just opened tubs of Claudine Hellmuth paints.  Sigh...  I am such a HOARDER - Guilty as charged.  Maybe they should have a reality show about scrapbookers who hoard.  I am sure that would be fun to watch.

Another happy accident from this was I have learnt how to emboss sparingly as you can see from the black areas and it was fun how immediately the layout turned really arty.  

Love how I have used a lot of the older things lying in my stash.

Love the messy blackened embossed area.

Heart my Tim Holtz stamp - "Learn to pause or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you."  Lovely saying huh?  Toodles - catch up tomorrow. 

Adore

Still scrapping and feeling good about it. I have had a busy day but when I come home to creating this layout - all my tiredness dissolved and I am estatically happy.  I have always long admired the arty layouts and I thought I would try my hand at it.  The modelling paste was bought like a year ago **shame-faced** to try out this type of layout. Well - at least better late than never.

I bought this beautiful Tattered Angel stencil from Scrappingville.  I have decided to use it with the modelling paste and I love the effects of it.  I have decided to outline the whole stencil to bring out the whole layout more.  Oh yeah - I have used the Claudine Helmuth Sticky Back Canvas for this layout.

I was never famous for my patience.  I tried to speed dry the modelling paste with my heat gun.  That worked and after that I added some Claudine Helmuth yellow paint bought 2 years ago *faint* and the rest was acrylic ink watered down.

I then decided that I would add some Prima flowers and a simple title by tracing out my Maya Road alpha chipboards.  I have also used my very old Daisy D's heart shaped stamp in place of the "O".

Love how the whole layout came together.

Love the dimensions.

The photo says it all.  The 2 of them adore Sabby so much.  :) Love how the photo is sitting on a bed of gauze to soften the whole look.

Love how the simplest title looked quite good.  The heart is stamped on a piece of vellum and I added some faux stitching using my Zig Pen.

Enjoy - a destashing layout

Another groundbreaking event this year -blogging 4 days in a row.  Hee hee... I am so happy that I have the time to scrap again.  This time I chose some very old papers and embellishments from the Making Memories Noteworthy Collection.  Feels good to destash further. Another simple layout just using what I have.  

I have always enjoyed looking at artsy layouts and I have tried it whilst scrapping this layout.  Its a bit messy but I think I quite like the effect.  I slapped on the paint by using the credit card technique.  Green and purple is one of my favourite colour combination.  I added the purple chalk ink on using my Tim Holtz stamps to break the monotony of the white acrylic paint. Going back to my old regular scrapping style, I decided to hand sew the edges.  I decided to end it with some simple journalling and title.

81 layouts more to go!

Peekaboo

3 posts in 3 days - how about that?  I am so glad to be spending time here. :)   Have you checked out the ongoing challenges at SIL (Scrap-It-Lah) this month?  If,  not head over here. SIL is also having its first-ever DT call - for more details,  hop over here.

I was rummaging through my collection of old photos and I just found this one below.  It was taken by friend,  Simone.  I thought it would be nice to scrap about her peek-a-boo pose.  I am glad that I managed to destash further.

I love the colours that I managed to incorporate here.

Going back to dimensions. Still enjoying what I used to love.  I was introduced to paper tole when I was studying in Australia.  I was instantly hooked and every since then - I do enjoy adding some dimensions in my scrapbooking.  :)

Glad that I have used up the balance of KI Memories lace cardstock that has been lying around for ages. Check out the ancient foamy Thickers too.  Destashing is great!  :))))

Love this doiley which I bought off Leanne Pearce at her Chip Chop Etsy Shop.  Sorry I don't have her link here.  Do google her and she has some amazing doileys for sale.  I just ordered my 2nd batch yesterday.  

I gotta go.  I had a busy morning and afternoon and managed to get loads of things done.  Visited the hairdresser and coloured my hair and gotten a hair treatment as well.  Came home for half an hour before going out to send Sean for football practice.  I was out the door again after I got home to send Clarissa for her swimming lesson.  I just popped home to cook dinner and finish this layout and blog it before I misplace this layout and forget about it.  :P  Talk about a busy life.  I wish I could stay but it's time to pick Clarissa up.  Have a great rest of the day everyone.  I have to run.  

82 layouts to go.

Cheeky

2 posts in 2 days - I am doing very well indeed in the blogging world.  The kids are on holidays and I really have more time to spare :)  translates happiness.  Have you checked out the ongoing challenges at SIL (Scrap-It-Lah) this month?  If,  not head over here. SIL is also having its first-ever DT call - for more details,  hop over here.  

This is a hald done layout that was lying around which I incidentally found when I was trying to tidy up *shame-faced*.  I decided to finish it and here it is - a fairly simple layout - it might have been from a sketch but I really can't remember where - my apologies to the sketch artist if I did use your sketch.

Love these cheeky photos of Sean.  All I did was just to use up some of the old chipboards which have been lying around for ages.

I love this Technique Tuesday bracket frames.  I always make sure when I am in Singapore or Australia to get some and most of the shops here do not carry them.  They are a personal favourite of mine but I used them sparingly as I do not have much.

Heart heart this Cosmo Cricket rub on - its just my sentiments exactly that Sean is always up to Monkey Business.  Hee hee...

That's it for today.  I am feeling a rush of adrenaline to scrap.  Need to go and scrap something before it goes away.  

83 more layouts to go.

Exciting News from Scrap-It-Lah (Updated)

It's a whole 2 months of excitement at Scrap-It-Lah with not ONE but SEVEN  RAKs to be given away.  Yes,  you have read it RIGHT.  We have 7 brand NEW exciting challenges and YUMMY RAKs to be given away - this is NO April Fool's joke.  Do head over here to join in the Blog Hop Challenges and a chance to win lots of yummy RAKs.

Why?  It is just simply because SIL has just turned 2 this April and we have decided to celebrate it with a BANG!  The challenges are run very simply.  Each DT will post a challenge up on her blog and the challenge will ONLY run for 7 days.  There is only ONE running challenge each week and when the challenge closes,  the next talented DT will take over with another brand new challenge. Sounds very action-packed and fun doesn't it?  Do join us here if you are interested.

Here is my take on the first challenge:

I am sure most of us has unscrapped birthday photos lying around.  Well I do have loads and this was a great opportunity to restart my scrapping.  Here is a layout of Sean's 7th Birthday at Petrosains. You may not have guessed - this is my first time using a banner on my layouts.  I must admit that I am quite a slow person when it comes to scrapbooking trends.   Like I mentioned before,  I scrap as I want to document my kids' stories and not anything else.  Hence,  I tend to focus on  that and not keeping up with what is the latest.   I wish I could but I simply have no time to notice anything else.

The little munchkin looks so happy just with blowing out the candles on his cake that was made by a friend of mine.

I love how the twine gives the whole layout a bit more texture and interest.

Gosh,  what do we do without Thickers?  Love the Jenny Bowlin calendar and the buttons.

Do check out what is in store for you if you participate in the challenge.  You may win the Studio Calico Mossy Knoll Kit if you are lucky.  What are you waiting for?  Head over here to join the challenge.

Next,  we would like to invite interested scrappers to apply for a Design Team position at SIL. For more details,  please head over here to see if you have what it takes to work with SIL.

Now, I have to turn off the computer and start scrapping and do a take on the latest challenge.  I think it would be fun to do all the challenges and catch up with my scrapping.  :) Hope that you will participate in our challenges too.   I have finished my take on the challenge and can't wait to see yours!

84 more layouts to go.