Exciting News & Project Life :: Weeks 1 & 2

I'm super excited to be part of the Crate Paper family again this year and will be joining the project life team along with 3 other amazing ladies. Hope you guys come and visit us every Friday for a little PL inspiration.

And sharing my PL for week 1 & 2 here.. (don't forget to also stop by my post on the Crate Paper blog HERE for more details and close ups)

For the cover - I kept things simple and used a hambly print to highlight 2013 along with the super cute wood cut from freckled fawn. Definitely Hello 2013!



Also put together my first set of cards using photoshop (finally learning how to use it and having tons of fun loading various free fonts from the web). For the grid cards, I purchased a digital kit from Three Paper Peonies HERE (Everyday Collection) and added my own text and/or various brushes that I found or purchased.



And used the sweet Fourteen Collection from Crate Paper on a few of the cards. Just love the combination or colors and adding in a bit of gold here and there... just I'm in a "gold" crazy phase!

Week 1:

• Celebrating New Year!
• Creating/Putting together my own PL cards (slowly giving digital scrapbook a try)
• Discovered caramel lava cake (there's no turning back now)
• Brushing up on my cooking skills; don't think I cooked at all last year
• Checking out MAAD

One of things that I'm planning to do for each week is have a status check on where I am on my resolutions - got to loose those kgs and also need to control my scrapbook spending (last year was really out of hand and ended up buying a lot of things that I didn't use).  By the way, if anyone (in Singapore) is interested in my grab bags again, please drop me an email as putting some together at the moment.





And for week 2, I used the same set of papers along with some glitter paper from american crafts (been hoarding these for a long while now and love how it looks on the spread); glitter and gold :)

Week 2:

• Stocking up on sequins in Chinatown (@ Golden Dragon Store)
• Yummy stamps that I bought from SSS finally arrived (love these)
• Got to meet Helen and her family and also having some chilli crab
• Finally decided on which typewriters to keep and rehome (shocked at how many I have)
• Having some "Me" time, honestly don't remember when was the last time I got my nails done here

Thanks everyone for stopping and do check out my post HERE on the crate paper blog. Would love to hear what your thoughts are and especially if you prefer pictures taken page by page or as a spread (like the last one here).

Webster's Pages Love

And another favorite of mine are these amazing collections from Webster's Pages. I just love what Brandin & Allison have put together. How fun are these color combinations and design... yay I spy typewriters and cameras!!  Can't wait to get these and start cutting into them... already got tons of ideas for those cute pockets/bags!





And these gorgeous collections - oh my look at those trims. Absolutely divine!





So which ones are you guys getting? ALL right?  *wink*

Crate Paper Love

I don't know about you, but I'm drooling all over the new gorgeous Crate Paper collections for this CHA-W 2013. Seriously, the collections are absolutely amazing and love love the collection that Maggie has put together.  There's total of 3 new collections being released and could resist sharing these here... (before I disappear to play with some Crate Paper goodies)

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Can't wait to get my hands on everything and will definitely need doubles!!

CK Creative Spaces Magazine Winner!

Hi Everyone!

Hope you guys had a great weekend!
This past weekend, I spent most of my time cleaning up my scrapping area and trying to re-organize everything. With all the new amazing collections coming out - seriously need more room!!! LOL

SO hopefully this magazine will also come in handy for one lucky reader here...
and the magazine goes to...

CONGRATS to....


Please email me your address details and the wonderful ladies at CK will be mailing out your issue. Thanks everyone for stopping by and stay tune for some of my CHA favorites!

I'm a C.S.I. Special Agent

Excited to share that I'm a special agent this month at Color Stories Inspiration C.S.I. Challenge site.  If you don't already know them, I would really recommend that you stop by their forum HERE. I just love the challenge concept that they have, how each challenge is a case file filled with fun challenges to be investigate!

And here's my take on the current Case File No. 54 

• review the crime scene - checked
• evidence bagged - checked
• testimony collected - checked
• special classified sketch - checked

For my layout, I used a mix of products from Fancy Pants (Love Note Collection), Teresa Collins (yellow pattern paper) and Pebbles (blue pattern paper and black speech bubbles & text stickers).



In addition to a super fun case to investigate - the detectives there are also providing tons of clues... in the form of C.S.I Coordinates. There's pattern papers and die cut elements that you can print out for projects - here below I included the cute "Today is the day" die cut element and in the next picture, one of the ticket die cut.





So put on your detective hat and hope you guys join us as we rock this case file HERE (don't you just love this concept that Debbi Tehrani has put together).  Also do join us for the rest of this month as there's tons of activities celebrating C.S.I. birthday and awesome prizes to be won!

Thanks again for stopping by and check back soon for the Creating Keepsake magazine winner details.

Creating Keepsake Vol. 2 Giveaway **CLOSED**

I'm back to share that Megan Hoeppner's latest edition of Creative Spaces Volume 2 from Creating Keepsake is now available!  This magazine couldn't come at a better time as for the past 2 weeks I've been trying to re-organize my scrapping storage room (it's pretty much where I hide all my scrapbook supplies as to not clutter the living room too much) and most importantly purge!

I've had the opportunity to share my scrapping area in the first volume and can't wait to get a hold of the second volume, love seeing everyone's scrapping space. Also there's tons of ideas and fun ways to store all those scrapping supplies and get those must have - I need that turquoise cart in the corner there from Ikea!  Plus as I'm re-organizing my scrapping area at the moment, any ideas are welcome. Found a few interesting ones on Pinterest that would definitely help me (and within my budget *wink*)

ReUse!  = a great way to label the different shelves but also can easily be changed anytime
ReCycle! = got love this idea and plus got tons of boxes that can be put to good use
ReMind! = yeap, I should have this sitting on my table, not only would it act as a awesome container but also a reminder that only buy what you really really really need. do not hoard! LOL


Chalkboard idea, Re-use those boxes, Weigh them in

Need more ideas and interested in taking a peak at what's in the new issue --> check out the details HERE. Also don't forget to grab your copy HERE and if you haven't gotten the first issue yet, just head on over HERE.

Also the wonderful ladies at CK have given me a copy to giveaway to one lucky reader here. Just leave me a comment here on the blog by this Saturday Jan 12th sharing any tips or ideas on storing your supplies or ideas on how to self-control when you go scrapbook shopping. LOL

Thanks everyone for stopping by!

Hello 2013

Hi Everyone!

Finally an update  I know it's been a while since I posted here and have tons to projects to share along with some exciting news (one being Webster's Pages Announcement HERE).

With the new year starting, I can't help look back at last year. Boy was it one crazy year for me with all the traveling that I  had to do. I think I was pretty much traveling every single month if not week since January till December. It's funny how at one point in time, I didn't mind traveling for work and was super excited to be able to fly here and there, jumping from meetings in one country to another. But times have definitely changed and sadly traveling becomes exhausting at times (guess if you have to fly every week for 8 continuous months, it eventually gets to you although I applause those who can do it for 2 years).

As much as 2012 was a crazy year for me, it was also the year that I finally decided to take matters into my own hands. There's no point complaining about things if you're not going to do anything about it, right. Also there eventually comes a time when the sacrifices that we make out weights the benefits. Therefore...  decided that it's time for a career change (or at least a change in work place). Although I haven't figured out what I want to do or where to work, at least I know what I don't want.  So here's to 2013, the year of uncertainty but happiness!



And my one little word for this year is... STRENGTH
Have strength to make those tough decisions, have strength to search for what you love, have strength to do what you want and not what others want of you...



And using some Crate Paper goodies here, mixing products from On Trend, Acorn Avenue and Sleigh Ride collections. Also using my silhouette and design file from Loni Stevens for the title - yes, I do believe that everything happens for a GOOD reason.



So have you guys all selected your one little word for this year? Would love to hear about it and especially if you are planning to do any projects about it through out the year...

Thanks again everyone for stopping by and will be back to share some past projects that I have created in the past few month and also my start on Project Life.