~ 365 Cards: Day 274 ~

The challenge today is "Keep It To Yourself". Basically have a winter theme on the front of the card but with no sentiment. Instead, the sentiment can be on the inside of the card. Here's mine:

Card created using digi supplies from Anna Aspnes.

TTFN!

~ Black Friday! ~

Well, in the US, it's the day after Thanksgiving which translate to sales galore! We don't celebrate Thanksgiving in the UK but any sales are welcome!

Lots of digital stores are having sales at the moment. Trying my best not to splash too much as I did quite a bit at the Digital Scrapbooking Day sales. Oscraps is offering a free Collaboration kit if you spend US$10 and above. 

Oscraps' Collaboration: We Are Family

A LO I did using the kit

The individual designers there are also having individual sales too. Jessica Sprague is offering 20% off classes and 35% off supplies. Got my eye on a particular class!

Anyway, I leave with a LO done today using Anna Aspnes' new stuff!

LO created based on an AnnaLift challenge. Lifted the use of a quote.

I've got tons of autumn kits but no LO done on autumn yet! So here's my take on autumn! Prefer to focus on the colourful nature of early autumn where the leaves are still around! TTFN!

~ On Display! ~

I came across Paislee Press through recommendations from digital friends. Her kits are adorable. I'm lucky to have the chance to play with them and this one is no exception:

This Much: Paislee Press

Here's my LO: 

My boys taken by the school photographer last year. The only year both of them were in the same Junior school. 

Had fun playing with this kit. This kit is available here. TTFN!

~ On Display! ~

Finally finished off my assignment for Scrap 365. Couldn't wait to dip my hands into some new kits at Oscraps.  Created an art journaling page based on the theme of Santa, with a twist:

Supplies by Anna Aspnes:

ArtPlay Palette Weihnachtsbaum, LoopDaLoop Arrows No1, Winter Frame Transfers No1, Christmas Word Transfers No1,  Twiggy No1, Multi Media Santa No1, Artsy Clock No2, Font: Impervious

Certainly had fun creating this page! TTFN!

~ On Display! ~

In the midst of completing an assignment, managed to find time to play with 2 kits by 2 designers. The first one:

Awkward Moments by Creations by Tinamarie

My LO created using the kit.

Here's the second kit: 

Gratitude by Jennifer Labre

I went for the subtle colours on this LO. 

These kits are now available at Oscraps. You can find Gratitude here and Awkward Moments here. TTFN!

~ 365 Cards: Day 260 ~

Today's challenge is to have 4 items on the card. So here's mine:

Using Anna Aspnes' supplies.

My 4 items: paper, ribbon, snowman and ticket. TTFN!

~ 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. 

TTFN!

~ 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.

TTFN!

~ 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. 

TTFN!

~ 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!

TTFN!

~ 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. 

TTFN!

~ 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. 

TTFN! 

~ 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.

TTFN!

~ 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!

TTFN!