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!

My Favorite: Scrapbooking

Back to share a layout I created for my MWL assignment this week - using the gorgeous MME Nostalgia collection. I'm just in love with the shade of colors and vintage designs in this collection; I think this might be my favorite collection of the year from them.



The topic for this week assignment was to focus on things that I like and needless to say... it's all things scrapbooking. LOL





And on the topic of washi tapes - ooooooh loving the new washi tape designs/selections from MME. Couldn't resist grabbing a few!



Also dusted my typewriter for this layout... I always love the effects of typing, how each letter can have different effect/wait based on how hard you press the keys. And put to work my silhouette machine for the title work - made with {heart}...



Thanks for stopping by everyone!!

Also there's still time to enter the giveaways if you haven't already:
1. Win a spot in Megan Hoeppner's Washi Workshop Class (closing Wed. May 23rd)
2. Win a spot in Maggies Holmes Photography Class (closing Wed. May 23rd)
3. Pebbles Inc Giveaway (closing Fri May 25th)

finding inspiration...

its funny how this layout was created and it started by chance when I saw this month sketch challenge over at MME.  Then digging into my MME stash, I found that I had purchased some of their latest kraft collection but haven't had a chance to use them just yet... and then within in minutes, vola! had this done. don't you just love when everything just comes together and sometimes its all about having fun with the products and exploring your creatively...



the theme for the sketch challenge is "new" and for me, its having the opportunity to explore new places and experience different culture, like our long weekend in Lombok, Indonesia. especially here in this picture, we finally reached the main destination of our hike and simply was enjoying the waterfall in the background.



and don't you just love these embellishments, I couldn't resist piling a few pieces here...and was super excited when I saw that MME had these wooden sayings, at the moment I'm just crazy for all things wood and grab a few packs of these... also finally getting out those stamps that I've been collecting (these are also from MME - same collection)



I really do wish now that I had bought a few pieces of these pattern papers - both the white alphabet and flower sheets - just love the effect of the white one (especially when you stamp on it) and also the fun colors in this collection and how it contrast with the kraft color... oh, gotta to see if my LSS still have these...



Thanks for stopping by everyone!

Celebrating Christmas...

this was one of the best christmas ever (although it would have been perfect if our entire family was there - wonder what it would take to get everyone to fly to Halong Bay, Vietnam - to spend christmas night on the boat???) yeap, that's what we did.



I created this layout as part of my guest DT assignment for My Minds Eye - using the lovely Lost & Found Collection. Oh I just can't get enough of this collection - its absolutely gorgeous and the glitter, its perfect for capturing our christmas celebration is past year.

Also once again, my crepe paper flower (which I thinks goes perfectly with this collection). This time around, I used distress ink to distress the edges of the flower and completed everything with a die cut from the collection.



Still drooling over this collection... the design, the details, the glitter, the everything... lol



And as part of the assignment, we had to create a journaling spot... for which I create a flap book on the page... for the extra pictures and allowing me to capture details about the trip...



A big thanks for stopping by everyone and don't forget to drop by the My Minds Eye blog for more eye candy from their amazing designers. Nite Nite!

Looking back at december...

Not sure if you guys had seen this yet, but had to share here this fun layout that I created as part of my guest DT assignment for My Minds Eye this month. I had used the Lost & Found - Market Street Collection and feel totally in love!!! I just adore the sweet and vintage colors and especially that shade of turquoise and the stamp set from this collection is a must have!



and here is how it looks when the tags are pulled out. I used the tags to capture the highlights of each of the pictures...

• our trip to halong bay, vietnam
• watching the new year fire works along the marina bay, singapore
• having lunch with Tania Tahir (with two other amazing scrapbookers also), when she visited singapore

and loving those die cuts from the collection, just the perfect amount of glitter and glam!



and yes, this stamp set is a must... aren't those details on the stamped image just gorgeous...





thanks for stopping by guys and do check out the My Minds Eye blog for amazing projects by their designers (still can't believe that my layout is there!!! & please do leave some love for me there too **wink**). and please do check out my post below on the winners to the giveaways.

thanks again everyone!!!