~ On Display! ~

It was laundry day today! Cleared 4 baskets of unfolded clothes (thankless task) and ironed a mountain load of clothes. And despite chucking clothes into the washing machine today, I still have a basket full of clothes to wash! Seriously, where do they come from?!!

Anyway, in the evening while watching I'm A Celebrity, managed to create this LO:

LO done for a Web Inspiration and AnnaLift challenges at the Oscraps. I'm using entirely Anna Aspnes supplies. 

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~ On Display! ~

Spent the afternoon and evening helping my SIL. She engaged me to help her sort wedding favours, table planner and place card holder etc. Well, it was fun to see it all coming together but it was hard work getting it together. We are due another meet up to finalise everything before the big day!

Managed to create a LO late last nite. These days, it's so hard to scrap during the daytime as there is so much to do.

Created this for a Colour Challenge at Oscraps using mainly Anna Aspnes supplies.

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~ It's Official!~

The cat's out of the bag:

Yup, I'm on the Oscraps Creative Team.... what it means... apart from forum duties, I get to play with all the designers' digital supplies there! OMG! I'm thrilled to bits. It's also a great opportunity to discover other designers too.

I discover the Oscraps forum last month as I've been looking for a digital forum to join. My favourite designer, Anna Aspnes moved there in September and I started looking around there. Then in October, I took part in challenges and slowly made the forum, my home. By chance I came across the CT call announcement in the forum and decided to throw my hat in.

Well, got the email last Wed offering me a position! Talk about shock and disbelief but totally delighted! Well, I certainly look forward to creating now... got an excuse to do it! TTFN!

~ On Display! ~

Haven't had the chance to play as I was doing some housekeeping... the trouble with digital supplies is that they do take up a lot of disk space. So I hunted down an external hard disk and moved my digi supplies over there (my entire iPhoto library of digi supplies). Have to make sure I backed it up regularly now! At least it has freed 50+ GB off my MacBook. 

Today, I managed to do a few LOs. I was dying to use my new digi supplies that I bought over the weekend!

 I downloaded a kit from the designers of DHD while blog hopping their blogs. An awesome kit with tons of lovely elements!

LO created using a free kit by Jen Allyson of DHD!

Finally, a LO created for 2 challenges at Oscraps, AnnaLift and 'What You Bought' Stash challenges. 

Gosh, it feels good to create again! If only there was more than 24 hrs in a day to just create and play!

Oh and I received the most exciting email today! Will reveal later in the week! Just had me smiling from ear to ear! TTFN!

~ 365 Cards: Day 253! ~

Today's challenge is the 3Ts. I'm given Trinket and Teal. The last choice is chosen by me and I went for Torn Doily. Here's my card: 

Created the trinket as I don't have one available for use. 

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~ Happy Digital Scrapbooking Day! ~

Didn't realise that it existed but hey, it does and there are loads of sales going around! Well, when you have a sale, you gotta take advantage of it! And I did! Stocked up on supplies with my favourite designer, Anna Aspnes at Oscraps! Ongoing is the Hobbycraft show at the NEC but no desire to visit as I'm into digi now. Still, I did spend a fair amount on digi supplies although considerably less than what I would have spent on paper stash!

Anyway, I leave with some digi LOs....

LO done for an AnnaLift Challenge at Oscraps!

Based on a template for a Nov CopyCat challenge at Oscraps!

 LO created for a Member Spotlight challenge at Oscraps!

Just messing about with a Rock Star kit by Anna Aspnes. Paying a special tribute to Amy Winehouse!

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~ Gem Of A Babe! ~

Well, it was time to say goodbye to my car of nearly 10 years, my Renault Clio Dynamic. It served me well and I had a lot of fun with that car. Best of all, it gave me no hassle nor trouble. It was truly a fab car!

And late today, I picked the keys to my new babe, Kia Soul Shaker. Hubby surprised me last Saturday. He went to the Kia garage and found this gem of a babe which literally ticked all the boxes that I wanted in a car, namely, Bluetooth (for mobile photo), USB port (for my iPhone) and a sunroof (I need it as I feel quite claustrophobic if there isn't one!) And the car came with additional extra like a rear view camera (to aid in reversing!) Bonus! Oh and did I say it sit high, like a 4x4 (another of my likes too)!

Lots of reflection from the lighting above but this was taken at the back of the garage's. 

As I said goodbye to my old car, I did shed a few tears... call me a sentimental fool! It was my first car when I moved to the UK so not surprising I was quite attached to it! Anyway, I'm not in a habit of changing cars, so this one will be with me for the next 10 years I guess. It's not brand new but it's barely a year old and has done 5k miles. However, the price was right for what hubs was prepared to pay for it! My dad told me the car would have cost about S$110k (£55k) in Singapore!!! I guess this is one advantage of living in the UK, no COE to pay nor exorbitant price for cars!!! TTFN!

~ 365 Cards: Day 246 ~

This week we are sponsored by Robyn Fetish digital stamps:

Today's challenge is 'Peekaboo'. Basically create a pocket for an image to peek out. Here's my card:

The basket and the bear were two separate images from Robyn Fetish. Kinda merged them in this card. 

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~ Happy Halloween! ~

We had 3 visitors tonite for trick or treats. Those kids look so adorable in their costumes. My boys were moaning they did nothing for Halloween... well, not my fault, their aunt was supposed to organise a Halloween party but she chickened out! Enough said!

Anyway, recently discovered some challenges at Oscraps, a digi forum I've been hanging out lately. So had a play and came up with these:

 A Creative Technique challenge based on Selena's gallery. I chose her Magic Circle LO and lifted her title. 

 A Colour challenge using either Halloween colours or Autumn colours. No guessing which one I chose!

 A Copycat challenge based on a template.

 A Camera Corner challenge asking for a collage of photos. Well, made use of my Project 365 app.

A Web Inspiration challenge based on a given picture. I chose to focus on the autumn aspect instead of the Halloween accessories.

 An O Stash challenge. 10 'ingredients' were given and you had to use 7 to create a LO. I used 9. Incidentally, this LO was also chosen in Gallery Standouts Blog. What an honour!

Can't believe we are at the end of October! Time is sure passing by quickly! TTFN!

~ On Display! ~

It's half term, very much awaited for and it's so nice to just chill out at home in PJs and not be rushing about. Can't say for the next few days as we have visitors.

Anyway, got some time for myself and created a few stuff...

This LO was based on a scraplift by Anna as seen here. As usual, added a bit more touches to it and played with blending modes.

I bought a Rock It kit from Anna Aspnes and was wondering how best to use it. I loved the images in that kit. Then, it struck me to use it as a tribute to singers. First on my list is Freddy Mercury. I happened to be listening to Queen and the page just came together! Image of Freddy Mercury was sourced from the net as well as the quote.

I'm in the process of creating another photobook but this time with photos. Can't say I'm having an easy time as it's a very tedious process and haven't found a way to do it manually. At the moment it's slotting in photos for me which I thoroughly dislike! Will persist and see how it goes... TTFN!

~ 365 Cards: Day 239 ~

Today's challenge is about creating a generic card. Here's my take:

Stamped images from Unity. 

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~ On Display! ~

A few LOs done for challenges in the past weeks...

This was done for a template and using 4-kits challenges over at Design House Digitals.

Another 4-kits challenge.

An art journaling piece. I'm enjoying the digi process of creating it.

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~ Busy Weekend ~

So we decided last minute on Friday night to book a trip to Legoland. We searched and found a hotel for Sat night and 4 tickets to the theme park the next day for a bargain price. On Saturday, we headed to Windsor and decided to visit Windsor Castle. I thoroughly enjoyed it. We had a earphone guide to explain what was going on and it was so helpful. Definitely worth a visit if you haven't been there. We also managed to get our tickets upgraded to a year's visit too. Then it was off to Sheraton's hotel near Heathrow airport. Gosh, every 2 minutes, there was a plane coming down. Talk about non-stop noise! Luckily, once in the hotel room, it wasn't so bad. But I do feel for the houses in that area. In fact, while we were at Windsor, it was along the flight path and therefore, we could hear a plane heading towards Heathrow almost every 2 minutes! Even Windsor Castle wasn't spared from that!

Sunday saw us at Legoland. I have to admit, I got very bored and didn't enjoy it one bit! My boys didn't fancy many of the rides either. I think it's because they are now slightly older and some of the rides were more for kids below 8. We did go on some rides namely The Dragon, The Dragon Apprentice, The Viking etc. We did visit Alantis. We queued for a good 40 minutes before being told due to technical difficulties, the ride was canceled but they did give us a ticket for fast access to other rides or to return at a later time. We did return. The ride was sitting in a submarine and seeing sea creatures underwater. I think we were in it for less than a minute before we were out again. Frankly to queue for an hour to see something for a minute... I think I'm better off visiting the Sealife centre. The queue for that particular attraction was rather long most of the time so much so that there was even a booth selling refreshments in case people needed a snack. The highlight of the event was the fireworks which started at 6.30pm. We were lucky to be there for that particular weekend they were having the fireworks. It was spectacular.

Would I go back to Legoland... definitely not! I think my boys have outgrown that particular theme park. TTFN! 

PS... photos to come later...running out of space in my Macbook!

~ 365 Cards: Day 232 ! ~

Today's challenge is based on a colour scheme:

Here's the card:

Card was digitally created (it was printed out from digital images and assembled together). One of those weeks whereby I was so pressed for time!

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~ On Display! ~

Had a glorious lie-in today. After picking up my boy from orchestra practice, we headed to the Chinese restaurant for tim sum, one of my fav meals! Then we had to stock up on rice and noodle at the Wing Yip.  The evening saw us watching Johnny English at the cinema. Man, he's a scream. He had me laughing from the beginning to the end. My boys had been begging us to bring them to see that movie. Definitely worth a watch! They are now waiting for a DVD release. 

Managed to squeeze in some time to create. Been getting a few digi kits and wanted to try them out:

This photo was snapped while my boys were posing for the Ikea catalogue! Using Anna Aspnes' ArtPlay Palette Autumnal 1&2 as well as Oscrap's Bold kit. 

This LO was created for the The Pumpkin Challenge at Oscraps. They are having a Halloween weekend at the moment. They combined with The Lily Pad and have come out with a Halloween collaborative kit. They are also having a blog hop whereby you can download some freebies along the way. The kits are lovely but I've got wayyy too many Halloween kits at the moment. They even have a special category on its own in iPhoto. This LO made use of mostly Anna Aspnes' ArtPlay Palette Wicked & Spirited. The photos were taken at Paris Disneyland in Oct 2008.

Got an art class tomorrow to conduct! Need to prepare my materials. TTFN!

~ On Display! ~

Had a really busy day today but managed to squeeze time to do a bit of art journaling. It's getting quite addictive. 

Ok, this is rather weird but hey, it's art journaling and I can chuck whatever I want onto my page!

Anyway, my reason is to show that Autumn signifies death... i.e. dropping of leaves, getting less daylight hours etc. Not my favourite season. Hence the skeletal image. Then I found this quote and somewhat added more meat onto the skeletal frame! My logic... TTFN!

~ On Display ~

I'm having fun with art journaling at the moment. And it's addictive. Here's another page I created using a new kit I bought from Maya de Groot.

I made use of elements from other designers, stuff that I couldn't put on LOs, they are perfect for art journaling! Designers include Jodie Lee, Audrey Neal, Katie Pertiet & Lynn Grieveson.

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~ Art Journaling Anyone? ~

Well, while surfing around digiland, I came across a lot of art journaling pages, all digitally done. It was too good not to give it a try and I did! I managed to download a free Art Journaling kit by Maya de Groot (Oscraps) and give it my first try!

A mixture of Maya de Groot and Anna Aspnes kit in this page. I must say, it's quite fun doing it as it's art in its free form! You can basically chuck anything onto it!

Decided to do another based on Halloween: 

This page consisted of kits from Anna Aspnes (ArtPlay Spirited, Wicked & Monster Treats) and papers from Maya de Groot's BackPacker Set 4.

These pages are done in 5x7", just in case I wanted to print them out and store them. It's easy to find 5x7 albums in the supermarkets. I think I'm bitten by the art journaling bug. The best part... no inky fingers! TTFN!

~ 365 Cards: Day 225 ~

Today's challenge is 'Stencil It'. Basically use a punch and turn it into a stencil to use on the card. Here's mine: 

Used a butterfly punch and applied distressed inkpad on the negative part. Patterned paper by Basic Grey's Kioshi collection. 

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~ On Display! ~

Had a busy weekend, all devoted to my boys' music activities. On Sunday, we attended one of their concerts. The wee one went off to a theme park with his Cubs group. Now need to download the photos taken at the concert to have a play!

Created this particular LO based on a scraplift challenge at Oscraps. My favourite designer Anna Aspnes set up her store there and well, I kinda followed her. She used to be at Designer Digitals. I absolutely adore her kits. Here's my LO although it looks nothing like the scraplifted LO (I did lift the circles though!)

Food takes a very special place in my heart especially chilli crabs! Ahhh, miss it dreadfully! Although there are more ways of cooking them now, I still prefer the traditional taste!

On the mundane side, sorted out my ever-increasing baskets of laundry! Did two loads of washing and ironed my mountain high of clothes! It had to be done. So now I can indulge in creating for the next few days! At least I don't feel guilty! Sorted out my car insurance too. Amazing what you can find online. My current insurance company wanted me to pay about £900.... they gotta be kidding. Anyway, a quick search using gocompare.com (who can forget that singing chap!!!) lead me to find a more reasonable amount of £300! So I'm a happy bunny! Car tax check! Car Insurance check! Next MOT in November! Yuks! TTFN!

~ Is It Or Is It Not! ~

My boys on the cover of Ikea catalogue. 

How cool is that! Well, I'm the only one owning that particular catalogue! We were there last week and as we walked into the store, a lady invited my boys to be photographed so they could be on the catalogue. They recently renovated the entrance and did a lot of improvement to the Wednesbury store. I guess they were celebrating the changes to the store. There was even a balloon chap about who made a sword balloon for my boys! Anyway, while she was shooting them, I quickly took a snapshot of them as well. 

While surfing the App store, I found this app called My Sketch (free app) which changes photo to sketches. There were a variety of sketches to choose from. Quite like this particular one!

On the creative front, my favourite designer came up with a musical kit! OMG! Exactly what I been longing for! So I got to work as soon as I downloaded it...

Anna Aspnes: ArtPlay Palette Concerto kit. 

Been waiting for the perfect kit to scrap these photos. 

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~ Ohhh, It's Here! ~

My Summer Vacation Album!

I had to go to the PO to collect it. Typical! It has to come when I'm at work so I had to wait a good 24hrs before being able to collect it from the PO. Why 24hrs, b'cos it's mentioned on the slip! I did once try to go on the same day but at a later time and was gently pointed to the 24 hrs mentioned on the slip!!! Oh well!

Anyway, I'm so pleased with it! It looks great to see your creations in print! Here are some sample pages:

 The cover of the album

 First page. I decided to do a black border all round as opposed to having the LO fill the whole page. 

Other pages. With the black border, it divided the pages better. I did try with the LO filling the whole page but thought it looked rather messy.

I'm now hooked on these Photobooks. I've got another Groupon offer for another which I've yet to decide what to fill it with! TTFN!

~ On Display ~

A couple of LOs done for challenges...

 Using 4 kits from Design House Digital (DHD) to create this LO. (Name of school in the journaling has been wipe out)

A colour challenge at DHD using a free kit from Agnes Biro and kits from other designers. Found this cute photo of my youngest while looking at my photo album. The title 'Barmy' is a typical Brit slang. 

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~ 365 Cards: Day 218 ~

Today's challenge is to create a 'Beautiful Bouquet' i.e. to resemble a bouquet on a card. Here's mine: 

Can I say I'm glad to have used those Prima flowers, you know the ones when they first came out.... I still got tons of them lying around!

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~ On Display ~

Phew! All assignments done! Such a relief when you finally email off the last of the assignments that is due!

In between all those assignments, I've created a couple of LOs for challenges...

This LO was based on 4 Play challenge at Design House Digitial whereby every Monday, you can buy 3 kits for $1each and also get 1 kit free and you use those kits to create a LO. Have to say, it's so hard to scrap based on the kits given but a challenge is a challenge!

Another LO using 4 different kits to create. Again, so not my style but I've done it. I stuck to those four kits!

This month's objective is to clear out my scrap room as I need to turn it into a bedroom for my youngest son. Not giving up completely but it will now share a space in the lounge cum guest room cum study room! Anyone wants a 3 seater leather sofa, still in good condition? Need to get rid of that! TTFN!

~ Christmas Cards All Year 'Round ~

Here are some Christmas cards that I've done for the Christmas Card All Year 'Round site. This month's challenge is to have at least one of what are considered Halloween colours (orange, green, purple, black). Also included isa punch or die cut somewhere on the card eg. regular punches, Spellbinders dies, border punches, something that was purchased pre-done, etc! 

Here are my cards: 

Made use of Basic Grey papers and Unity stamps. 

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