~ On Display: Val C. Designs ~

This month I'm in charge of Val's March challenge and the theme is on circles. Here's my artwork:

Supplies:
Val C. Designs: Artsy Paper No3, Basic Nature Flowers, Dream
Font: KG Tangled Up In You

The challenge can be found in Oscrap forum as seen here. TTFN!

~ On Display: Val C. Designs ~

Val C. Designs is having a challenge over at Oscraps on the theme of 'What you want to try'. Here's my take on it: 

Val C. Designs: It's Cold Outside, Art Inspired Month, All Directions, City Soul
Font: Tangie AJF Mock Turtle

TTFN!

~ 52 Weeks Selfies Challenge ~

I decided to embark on the 52 weeks Selfie challenge this year as I thought it would be more doable than Project Life. I didn't quite complete mine for last year. I initially followed a selfie group on FB and then decided to extend it to my group of besties. I introduced the idea to them and they loved it. So now, each week, we have a theme to do the selfie and so far we have been enjoying the process. It has certainly got us talking far more on Whatsapp too. 

Not satisfied with merely doing a selfie, I wanted to do a page to accompany the selfie too. So here are my first few selfie pages: 

 Week 1. Theme: Selfie

Anna Aspnes: ArtPlay Forester, Multi Media Flowers No1, Multi Media Frames No1, Multi Media Flowers No1, Project 366 Word Art No1
Cinzial: Date Stamps
Fonts: Rough Typewriter, Punkassbitch

 Week 2. Theme: Interesting background.

Val C. Designs: The Best Of
Fonts: RutmerHand, Rastalib

Week 3. Theme: Partial face.

Mye de Leon: Blush
Fonts: L.C. Smith 5 Typewriter, Pea Julie, KG One Thing

Yet to complete Week 4 & 5. I'm having so much fun doing it and it's not as stressful as Project Life. Hoping I will be able to finish it by the end of this year! It certainly helps taking it using my new iPhone 5S. The camera is so much better than my previous 4. TTFN!

~ On Display: SAS Designers ~

Pages done using kits by various designers from Scrap Art Studio (SAS).

 Vicki Robinson: The Journey

 Aria: Life Line

 Courtney's Digiscrappin: My Funny Valentine

 Courtney's Digiscrappin: My Funny Valentine

Les Idees de Christine: Valentine 2014

TTFN.

~ On Display ~

My pages done for this year using kits by various designers. 

 Pink Reptile Designs: What I Like About You

 Pink Reptile Designs: Dinner Date

Maya de Groot: Bric A Brac 

Val C. Designs: Inner Voice, Expression Of The Soul

 Val C. Designs: Basic Nature

Jenni Bowlin Studio: Modern Mercantile, Days of the Week, Bird And Branch, Country Fair, Edges And Headings, Watch Faces, The Writer's Collection, School Days Alpha
Anna Aspnes: Doily Edge Overlays No3

TTFN!

~ SAS: Color Play 17 ~

They came in January and can be found here in the SAS store. Here are my pages done with the various kits that came out: 

Les Idee de Christine: Color Play 17 - Reverie3

Les Idee de Christine: Color Play 17 - Reverie 3 

Elysah's Art: Color 17 - Loving Hearts

 T For Me: Color Play 17

Elysah's Art: Color Play 17 - Loving Hearts

Les Idees de Christine: Color Play 17 - Reverie

Elysah's Art: Color 17 - Loving Hearts

Had fun creating them. TTFN!

~ GIS: Hybrid ~

OMG! I actually did a hybrid layout!

Kit: Crazy For You by One Little Bird

This was done for Get It Scrapped as part of their Hybrid article. I made use of an entire digital kit and came up with this page! I actually designed it digitally first then got the various elements on an A4 page to print out. 

Have to say, I rather do it digitally anytime! TTFN!

~ On Display: Mye de Leon ~

Oops! I've been taking a hiatus from blogging as a lot of changes have started coming my way. What seem like mere talk is now fast becoming a reality and I'm not sure if I'm gonna like it. Anyway, it has taken a slight toll on me and as a result, I'm a little slower than usual in creating. 

However, once I did get down to creating, there was no stopping me! Here's some hybrid projects that I did with Mye de Leon's kits:

 Kit: Blush

Kit: Blush

 Kit: Live Love Laugh

Kit: Unscripted

And some digital pages: 

Kit: Blush

Kit: Live Love Laugh, Painted Journal Cards, Veneer Journal, Wood Journalers. Also made use of Simply Tiffany Studios' Pocket Cards Set 2.

TTFN!

Gong Xi Fa Cai

Wishing my family, relatives and friends a prosperous, healthy new year! TTFN!

~ SAS: Color Play 16 ~

Scrap Art Studio designers came up with an amazing Color Play 16 kits based on this palette: 

As usual, I had a whale of a time playing with the kits based on Christmas theme. They will certainly come in handy for my December journals. Here are some of the pages:

 Using Vicki Robinson's kit

 Using Cilenia Curtis' kit

 Using T For Me's kit

 Using Courtney's Digiscrappin's kit

Using all the designers' kits

 Using Angie Young's kit

 Using Vicki's Robinson's kit

Using Les Idees de Christine's kit

The kits can be purchased from SAS store here. Luv the colour scheme and I can see myself using it over and over again! TTFN!

~ 365 Cards Blog Hop ~

Welcome to 365 Cards blog hop.

The team was given a challenge for this blog hop. Before that, we were sent a package to play with. The theme was to make a card that represents my style. Now I had to scratch my head as my style has changed tremendously over the past few years. Firstly, I switched from being a paper scrapper/card maker to a digital one i.e. I rather print out digital images and create my card as opposed to using physical papers and embellishments. So when I saw what was in the package, I had to think real hard how to use them. I decided that I would use them as I saw fit. I was glad that I had washi tape and twine in the package. I knew I was going to play with them as those are my favourite items. After a good hour or so, I came up with this card:

Here's what I did. With the washi tape, I tore strips up and laid them on the card stock. Then I punched out a border and laid it in the centre. The centre piece with the word 'LIFE' was cut out from a piece of paper. Added a bit of embellishment and I'm done. Left the sentiment on the cloud blank (for future use...)

I certainly enjoyed what I did although it was hard work as I'm so used to creating my card digitally for print out and to assemble them altogether. It's easier to see the finished product on a laptop than to try and imagine it. Not to mention once you cut up papers, that's it! It's gone! Digital papers are much easier to play with!

For a chance to win a package of goodies from Pam, just leave a comment about how do you go about creating your card? Do you sketch it first? Or do you make use of sketches. Or do a particular embellishment dictate how you card would look like? Or maybe it's a particular paper?

Enjoy the rest of your blog hop. Your next stop is Carla. Have a great weekend! TTFN!

~ Happy Halloween! ~

An American tradition which is fast being adopted by the British, judging by the number of halloween costumes, halloween decorations etc. being sold in stores. I did get some sweets ready but sadly, no one came to trick or treat at my place. Oh well, looks like my son will be one happy boy! 

Hubby did carve the pumpkin and we had it lighted all night. He made pumpkin soup with what he scraped out. 

Happy Halloween to those who celebrate it! TTFN!

~ OS X Mavericks ~

My Macbook alerted me to the latest operating system, Mavericks. After checking the reviews (mostly favourable) on the App store, I downloaded it. Did I say it was free!!! Then, after backuping my Mac, I went ahead and download. The entire process was simple. I downloaded just before having dinner, came back to it ready for me to install. Installation took about 45 mins. 

What's new? The OS added a iBook & Maps icons at the bottom. Calendar had a different look. In Finder, you can now tag folders and files (probably need to learn how to use it effectively). 

The good thing about Mavericks is that it has sorted out my Adobe Bridge! I was having problems accessing images in Mini Bridge but not anymore. 

I'm looking forward to exploring more of the new OS. So far, I'm loving it and it has actually freed up more hard disk space for me! Yay! TTFN!

~ On Display: Scrap Art Studio ~

The designers at Scrap Art Studio recently released Color Play 15. I had a field time playing with the kits and created lots of pages!

 Supplies:

Angie Young: Color Play 15

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Aria: Color Play 15 

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Les Idees De Christine: Color Play 15

Font: Pea Missy With A Marker

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Cilenia Curtis: Color Play 15

Font: The Unseen 

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Val C. Designs: Basic Nature 

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Greeneyed Lady Designs: Color Play 15

Font: Throw My Hands Up In The Air

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Cilenia Curtis, Les Idees De Christine, Greeneyed Lady Deigns, T For Me: Color Play 15

Font: Writing Stuff, Xenography 

Supplies:
Courtney's Digiscrappin: Color Play 15
Fonts: Lexographer, Lansbury FG

Supplies:
Angie Young, Courtney's Digiscrappin & Aria: Color Play 15
Val C. Designs: Basic Nature Flower #1
Font: Pea Amy

I've probably surpassed myself this time!  But when you have such fabulous kits to play with, one can't help but simply create! TTFN!

~ On Display: Get It Scrapped ~

If you ever in need of tips and ideas on scrapping, be it digital or real, check out the Get It Scrapped blog. There is a free area where you can get inspiration from various themes posted on the blog. Then there is articles you can subscribed to learn from and finally classes if you want to learn more!

As for me, I love the various themes I'm given each month. They certainly challenge me to think outside the box! Here are some pages done:

Embellishing pages with series cluster

Supplies:

Julianna Kniepp: Woman In The Mirror, Learn & Grow, The Perfect Fan, All The Time

Font: Pea Angedawn 

8 voice to capture in scrapbook journaling and titles

Supplies:
Julianna Kniepp: Made To Fly
Rebecca Mcmeen: Wren (thought bubbles)
Anna Aspnes: Page Foto Blendz No8
Traci Reed: Thickabets Vol7
Font: My Underwood

Create a page with design tension when you snuggle & separate

Supplies:

Traci Reed & Meghan Mullens: One Of The Guys, Slipins 9 Hexagons

Anna Aspnes: 10 Things 2 Heart

Font: Pea Charlee

Loving the Project Life scrapbooking approach

Supplies: 

Anna Aspnes: ArtPlay Palette Tangier, Distressed Dates No1, Script Tease Adventure Frames No1, Journal Transfers No2, Project 366 WordArt No1, 52 Weeks No1; Mye de Leon: The Good Stuff Today; Celeste Knight: Noted; Font: Pea Chris In A Hurry

Scrapbooking ideas inspired by glamping's juxtapositions of nature & elegance

Supplies: 

StudioMix47: Be Bold; StudioMix40: Life Is A Journey; 

Anna Aspnes: Foto Blendz Overlays No5; 

Traci Reed: Thickabets Vo5; 

Jenn Maddocks Designs: Let’s Ride; 

Font: Pea Marcie

Ideas for using botanical patterns on pages

Supplies:

Jenni Bowlin Studio: Magpie Collection

Julianna Kniepp: Beautiful Day, My Sunshine, Love Is All You Need, With All My Heart

Celeste Knight: Watercolor Overlays

Charity Collaboration: After The Storm @ Oscraps

Micheline Martin: TLP Collaboration Jump For Joy Alphabet

Katie Pertiet: Clipped Stacks No4, Carded Stacks No1, Ledger Paper Piece Journalers

Font: A Year Without Rain

Adding pinwheels to your pages

Supplies:

Anna Aspnes: ArtPlay Palette Go See, Go See WordArt No1, Antiquated Frames, Painted Flutterbys No1, Doily Edge Overlays No1

Julianna Kniepp: Beautiful Day

Mellybird Designs: Asian Summer

Traci Reed: Summer Of Fun

Sara Gleason: Bucket List

Font: Amanda's Script

Watercolour treatment on pages

Supplies:

Anna Aspnes: ArtPlay Palette Concerto, ScriptTease Life Overlays No1, Rock Star Frames No1, Warm Glows No1, Watercolor Foto Blendz No1, Artsy Paint No4

Studiomix 49: Soulful Sinfornia

Jen Maddox Designs: Nature Journal

Font: Pea Chickie Shannon

Scrapbooking ideas for using full page die cuts and stencils

Supplies:
Splendid Fiins: Knockout Vintage Wallpaper
Courtney's Digiscrappin: Your Life
Font: Sue Ellen Francisco

Using trendy cityscape motif on pages

Supplies:

Jen Maddocks Designs: Urban2

Katie Pertiet: Messy Stamped Alpha

Font: Pea Cindy

I've included the links to the various articles. They showcase both digital and paper layouts! TTFN!