a hello & goodbye...

Hi everyone!
The third post of the week, I think I'm on a roll again. (or I hope so - and a big thanks for stopping by always).  In the past few weeks, work has got the better of me especially with the weekly flights and having to spend the week in the hotel and only weekends at home.  Finally after several months of traveling, I'm so looking forward to November and some major down time (more details on that later)...

First off... I got some {super}exciting news to share.  If you have been following me on facebook, you'll know that I've been jumping up and down and this amazing opportunity to be part of the Maya Road Design Team.  This came as a surprise and with my love for their product... I was definitely screaming at the top of my lungs YESSSS!

Thank you Maya Road, Caroline & Ronda for this amazing amazing opportunity...and also a big congrats to Leah & Mandy. And here's sharing a mini album that I recently created with some yummy maya road goodies along with the sweetest thing collection from MME.

Having lots of fun with the maya road kraft embellishments, just loving those butterflies and the kraft tags (especially the ones with the white outlines).  Also the wooden embellishments can be easily altered with ink or mist (here with the heart one, I used the mustard colored mist to paint on the embellishment and on another one, I lightly tapped with on the ink pad). 

I've always been a big collector of maya road kraft envelopes and these new ones are just the perfect lenght to be included in their album... plus tons of room to store all those love notes... Also putting one of my typewriters to good use here... got out the hermes baby in script font!

and on a sad note... the Made With Love scrapbook store has closed its doors. although we are eagerly waiting to hear when they will re-open their doors again (refusing to believe that it will be a permanent decision), I'm already dearly missing everyone.

For me this is where my scrapbook journey started... 4 years ago when I came to Singapore and discovered this friendly store and the endless supplies of scrapbooking products. I still remember my first class on how to create a mini album using a chipboard album (seriously I didn't know what I had to do with chipboards). Then there was the Scrap Idol Challenge that gave me the opportunity to be part of their design team (a first for me).  And yes there's where it all started....

Thanks everyone for stopping by and hope you guys are having a great weekend!

and more Pink Paislee inspirations...

as you can probably guess, I've been having tons of fun with the new pink paislee collections and totally went crazy here with the new artisan collection. sharing my assignment for pink paislee this month (more detail on the pink paislee blog here) and I just loving the new mistable pattern papers.  Also how can I not mention the awesome color shine mists (from heidi swapp); seriously these mists are jammed packed with shine (the most of all the brands out there) and are gorgeous and vibrant in color.

and here's close up of one of the leaves cut from the new artisan mistable/resistable pattern papers and misted with georgia peach and mustard color shine. To get the two tone effect, I first misted the pattern paper with the georgia peach color shine and then quickly soaked up some of the mist with baby wipes. this created a watercolor like effect and then I added a few sprays of the mustard color shine... 

like I said, these mists are packed with shine... just look at all that glitter. the best part is that you only need one spray for a gorgeous color coat. also the new artisan chipboard elements are super fun to use. loving the fun designs on these and especially how well they take the mist... 

Thanks again for stopping by everyone!

sharing some Pink Paislee Portfolio...

hi everyone, hope you guys had a great weekend... I know that I did as I got a chance to catch up on some long over due scrapping. Over the past few weeks I've had the chance to get my hands on some of the latest collections and have been eagerly waiting for some down time from work. I think in total I complete around 6 layouts (that's a new record for me, given that I also did some major scrapbook shopping, visited my favorite japanese restaurant, caught up with some old friends and still made it to the airport with an hour to spare).

unfortunately I can't share any of the layouts that I recently created, promised some sneaks soon, but wanted to share this layout that I had completed earlier using the new Pink Paislee Portfolio collection. Don't you just love the color combination in this collection. Also have you seen the new Artisan collection - especially the fun elements and stamps... fun!!!

and here's some close ups of the various embellishments / die cuts that you'll be able to find as part of the portfolio collection....

also the new designs of the artisan element collections are definitely a must have... there's a lot of really fun and cute designs included (what do you think of that cute arrow)...

and I'll be honest, one of my favorite items from this release are the artisan element words.... these are perfect for titles and also looks great when you trace over the middle part with a marker (I used a black sharpie pen here)...

Thanks again everyone for stopping by & happy scrapping!

a little card & some fancy pants hopscotch love

Hi Everyone!

Happy World Card Making Day! Hope you guys have been hopping around the blogs the past few days, as there's so much inspiration everywhere and loving everyone's cards. Just in case you're in need of more inspiration... do check out Fancy Pants Blog as they're participating in the blog hop. And sharing a card that I created for my Fancy Pants assignment earlier this month... using the sweet Hopscotch collection!

And pretty much once I started creating with this collection, I just couldn't stopping and created this layout in no time. Keeping things simple but yet having fun with layering and layering and yes more layering. I absolutely love that floral pattern paper (it's those cute blue daisies) and thus opt to use it as focal point for the layout. Then where color meets natural (kraft), I wanted to use that area to highlight my picture and all the fun layering details (putting my sizzix machine and hermes baby typewriter to some good use here too).

Thanks everyone for stopping by and hope you guys are having a great weekend!

Today...

hello everyone - sharing a layout that I created a while back capturing the moment that I was in (and still am as I'm trying to figure out what to do about my job) and also having some fun using the new My Minds Eye collection - the sweetest thing.  With all the new CHA summer goodies rolling in... couldn't resist going crazy and grabbing everything I could get from this collection... don't you just love the combination of the sweet colors?  (and sadly hate to admit, but I've been doing more scrappy shopping than scrapping...ooops)



I creating this layout, I had challenged myself to only papers from the 6x6 pad; who said that you had to use 12x12 papers to create a 12x12 layout {wink} and once again putting my silhouette SD to some good use; and can't stop thinking about getting the cameo. someone please convince me that I don't need it...



Not only do I love the colors in MME new collections, but I've always had a soft spot for their embellishments... from the chipboards to the layered stickers and pretty much everything!



Thanks again for stopping by!!

Looking Back @ New Zealand

Hello there....

Sharing another layout that I created using some yummy goodies from Echo Park, Studio Calico, Fancy Pants and Maya Road; for this past week Made With Love assignment.  The topic for this week was travel and I choose to document the various cities that I had an opportunity to visit when we were in New Zealand...



I have to admit, given that we were in New Zealand for about 2 weeks... we really did manage to squeeze in quite a bit! LOL...

Also just loving those wooden embellishments from Studio Calico, especially those super cute bicycles (definitely need to stock up on these somehow).  Also another embellishment that I find myself turning too to complete my projects are the super cute buttons from Fancy Pants (gotta have those small tiny ones)!



The new Maya Road Hexagon Chipboard release are definite must have... I think I grab about 3 packs of these... a girl can never have too many hexagons right?  **wink**






Thanks for stopping by everyone and hope you guys are having a great weekend!

Also just a quick reminder that the CK Jul/Aug Issue Giveaway HERE is still open, for those interested in getting their hands on the latest yummy issue! (giveaway open till tonight).

Sharing Some AC Shoreline Love

Wow - time just disappears, it's already Sunday morning over here and still there's tons to do before I catch my flight later this evening to Jakarta again. LOL (better get a move on those laundry and need to squeeze in a bit of shopping, especially with the Great Singapore Sale going on... Orchard here I come!

But before going {shopping} crazy... have you guys seen the new collection from American Crafts Shoreline? Seriously, this is one super fun collection!



Just loving the fun bright colors - especially this yellow and coral .... and more chevron....



And the new thickers are a must have... (will definitely be doubling up on these foam glittered ones)



And one of my favorite thing about this collection, is that vintage effect on the pattern papers... (perfect with a few drops of mist)



Thanks again for stopping by everyone and hope you guys are having a great weekend!
And now, I'm off to do some shopping!!!