Iris Babao Uy

Updates

2009-11-01T19:34:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone! I have noticed that I still get a lot of hits here. I would just like to let you know that I have moved to a new blog and would love if you could visit me there. MY NEW BLOG: MY WHITE SPACE

Iris Babao Uy

2009-09-22T09:48:00.001-07:00

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I have moved!

2009-09-17T01:19:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! I have moved to a new blog. Please visit me HERE

Two Peas Featured Layout

2009-09-06T17:00:00.000-07:00

I was so happy to see this layout of Cheska as the featured layout at twopeas! This page is special to me because it tells about the character of my 8 month old baby that we are slowly discovering. I just love the cute looks she gave me when I was trying to save my husband's phone from her chubby little hands, and curious little mouth.

And here is a layout about how Nicole shows off her "stars" that she earns at her pre-school. The OA wild card at the left flips up to show another picture.

Both pages are for October Afternoon. The first one features the "Cherry Hill Line", and the 2nd one features the "Ducks In A Row Line".

2009-09-04T02:57:00.000-07:00

We have a new guest designer at Inspire Me this month and it is none other than the talented Stacy Cohen! This month was a crazy busy month for me but I just could not pass up participating in the GDT lift this month cause I just love her work. Here is my page inspired by one of her layouts which features intricate crochet work. I can't do that so I just used a ruffled lace instead!:)

A Wall Canvas and a Prima Give-away! (Updated with winner)

2009-08-31T08:20:00.000-07:00

It's time again for the Prima Build A Page, and this month's sketch by Annam Stubbington will really allow your creativity to flow. I followed the sketch loosely and created a canvas frame for our room.

Ok, time for another give-away! Just post a comment here and I will randomly pick a winner to receive some beautiful Prima flowers and embellishments. I will however have to limit the participation to Metro Manila residents only. Shipping overseas costs so much specially for bulky packages and I don't have extra funds for that. Hope you understand. Ok, I have updated this post with a winner, and the PRIMA flowers rack goes to... RACHELLE TOLENTINO! Congratulations!

Fund Raising Auction

2009-08-29T11:33:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! You must be all familiar with the wonderful and talented ANAM STUBBINGTON. She is a very talented artist and she moved to Canada a few years ago. Their family encountered some problems with their work permit in Canada and needs help to raise funds so that they can stay in Canada. They have organized a fund raiser and there are a lot of wonderful items up for bid! Please visit her blog to join in the auction and to read about her story. If you can also tell your friends about this, you will be helping her in your own way too. Thanks so much!

OA Road Map RAK Goes to....

2009-08-25T04:45:00.000-07:00

SCRAPGURL! Congratulations! My four year old daughter did the random picking again. I'll bring your package to the Scrapfest this Saturday. Please email me how I can get in touch with you.

And here is a layout I made for October Afternoon using Cherry Hill Die-cuts...

I have always been a softie when it comes to my children. My husband and I love to go to Starbucks for coffee and cake. And our daughter Nicole loves to come with us. She always runs to the counter to get a lemon or cherry lollipop. She never finishes it and only manages a few licks before putting it down, but she just likes the idea of picking a treat for herself. I know I have to start saying no to most of her whims and fancies, but I still keep saying “yes” all the time.

And here is a layout for Webster's Pages using the Sweet As Cherry Pie Line... for the August lift challenge of guest designer Toni Kelly. Her work is fabulous!

Just Photos

2009-08-20T08:52:00.000-07:00

I have never posted photos before, but I just love these recent ones of my two girls...

Road Map

2009-08-16T08:49:00.000-07:00

I love October Afternoon's Road Map collection. This was from the previous CHA so this is an old line to most of you. But I just had the chance to use these papers now and I am just loving all the colors and patterns. I made this layout for Creative Therapy's Catalyst # 75 "What’s the hardest decision you ever made?"

I have always been an independent person who valued her identity. This is one of my struggles as a married woman. I have always been comfortable in the place where I grew and felt that it was the best place for my children too. My husband has a business which has been doing fairly well but it requires him to travel for several hours a day to get from our home to his place of business. We had tried to delay moving our family nearer to his business but it was just not working. One of the hardest decisions in my married life was whether to stay at our home town which was safe and comfortable but would take away some precious time from my children and their Dad – or to move to the busy, chaotic, city but allow them to be with their Dad longer during the day. We decided to make the move. We still miss being in our place of comfort, but having more family time makes it worth it.

Please join us at Creative Therapy and get a chance at winning a RAK.

I'm also giving away a RAK. Leave a comment here and I'll enter your name to get a chance to receive a pack of Road Map papers and Tags.

2009-08-16T08:40:00.000-07:00

There is a lot of new things going on at Webster's Pages! And to celebrate this with all the fans of Webster's, there will be a huge give-away over at the blog. Check this....
Leave a comment on the blog & Brandin will randomly select {TWO} lucky winners to win the entire paper line of new {Postcards from Paris} the entire paper line of new {Nature's Storybook} the coordinating {Days of the Week Journaling Cards} the coordinating {Vellum} {Alpha Stickers} and {Shape Stickers}.

2009-08-14T03:41:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! I have been busy creating projects and pages but I can't post those yet. I'll be teaching an on-line class very soon and I'm also scheduled to go to Brunei to teach for a couple of days there. I'll be posting details soon. I'm also arranging for a few blog give-aways. Watch out for that:) In the meantime, here is a page I made for Prima's booth at the Summer CHA, featuring my little fairy Cheska. I loved the felt gate so much and I only had one piece of that. So I used it as a mask instead for some misting so I can use it over and over again.

Tim Holtz - Guest Designer at Creative Therapy!

2009-08-03T00:31:00.000-07:00

I recently joined the design team of Creative Therapy and the 1st catalyst I worked on was "Create and art piece about a recent dream come true for you". Here is my take on the catalyst.

I have recently given up my events management business to be able to take care of my two children. Little did I know that along with the time that I can now spend on my children, I will also be blessed with the opportunity to create pages and projects, and at the same time earn some extra cash along with the pure enjoyment of creating. It has always been my “DREAM JOB” and now I am given the privelege to live that dream.

Ok now that I have posted this, I realized that I just had another dream come true! And that is to have a work of mine appear in the same site as that of Tim Holtz' work! Tim Holtz is an artist I admire so much. If there was only one scrapbook celebrity I could scrap with for one whole day - or even one hour for that matter - I would choose Tim Holtz. Please please take the time to visit the Creative Therapy site and look at the work of Tim Holtz and read about his dream come true. The work of the other design team members are so amazing as well. Please check it out.

New Webster's Pages

2009-07-26T17:45:00.000-07:00

Here are a few layouts I created for Webster's Pages using the new "Postcards In Paris. The papers are beautiful and so are their new lines of embellishments. We are waiting for the three other new lines. You can view the complete collection at the Inspire Me site.

New Prima Flowers

2009-07-21T22:17:00.000-07:00

Have you seen flowers these stunning before? The texture and details of the new Prima flowers are just amazing. I'm almost afraid to use it on my layouts cause it's just too pretty!

Moments Recorded Charity Drive

2009-07-20T05:05:00.000-07:00

Hi there everyone. Ems, a friend of mine here at home told us about a little girl who needs help. Charmaine is a 4yr old girl with neuroblastoma, a form of cancer and is at her 4th stage of chemo now. Her condition is very serious as the cancer has spread to her bone marrow and bones. Dorcas is gathering cards to be sold so that the funds generated may be given to the family. Please visit her blog for more details.

2009-07-09T08:26:00.001-07:00

Hi everyone! Just wanted to share a layout I made using the new PRIMA Summer CHA release. Used "Indeed" papers with Say It In Pearls and new flowers. YOu have to see the new flowers of Prima! It is the best I have ever seen! The texture and details are just amazing.

Picture A Man of Faith

2009-07-03T21:29:00.000-07:00

I am so blessed to have a husband who is a man of faith. He blesses people every day through his generosity and his faith and I really pray that my Children will grow up with the same values and strength of character as their Dad. This is a layout I made for VISUAL CREATIONS using Teressa Collins "Family Matters", Hambly, K and Co "Que Sera Sera", Tim Holtz Grunge Board, Fancy Pants Daily Grind Chipboard, Making Memories Stickers, Maya Road Microfelt Birds, and my favorite stamp by Inkadinkado. All materials available at Visual Creations.

Journaling Reads: Picture a man of faith. Imagine what he can accomplish through God's grace.

2009-07-01T07:03:00.000-07:00

Hi! Just sharing a few layouts. Here is one from the latest line of Webster's Pages "Sweet As Cherry Pie". I love the vintage look of this line. I have here a picture of Nicole with her two cousins. Listed below are my 8 top ingredients for having sugar sweet kids on a photo session:)Take a look at the cool trims of Webster's. Those red pom poms are a perfect match for the cherries!

This one is for the Prima July Build A Page. Did lots of stamping here. Hope you can try out the sketch created by Anam for the BAP. Upload your layouts to the Prima Gallery for a chance to win some fabulous prizes! I am so loving the flowers of Prima. But wait till you see what they have for CHA Summer! The flowers are divine!!

And for October Afternoon, here is a layout using some of the older lines. I'm still waiting for my DT box and I am itching to play with the "Ducks In A Row" and "Road Trip" lines.

Finally, here are a couple of layouts created using the February Kit of Studio Calico.

I hope everyone is well! I'll be MIA again for a few days. Have to create projects for CHA. Have a happy scrappy week everyone!

Creative Therapy

2009-06-30T07:17:00.001-07:00

I am honored to be a guest at CREATIVE THERAPY this week. This site was created by group of artists who wish to inspire people by using "catalysts".

Here is the page I made using the catalyst...

Did your life turn out how you imagined

I would like to invite you to visit the site and see the work of the talented design team. I think you will be inspired to create using their catalysts.

2009-06-25T21:54:00.001-07:00

Hi everyone!! I really enjoyed creating the Prima Canvass Album for the class at Visual Creations. If you have time, please check out some of the canvass pages posted at the PRIMA BLOG. Thanks!

2009-06-19T03:48:00.000-07:00

It's good to be back!! Don't get me wrong, I loved every minute of our vacation at my parent's house - but I sure did miss my computer and my internet connection! I'm sure a lot of you would go crazy over dial-up networking.

Anyway, here are a couple of layouts I forgot to post. The first one is about the "brown tips" of my baby's hair. And the second one is a layout about how my elder daughter seeks assurance of my love. She has been this way since Cheska's birth but is now slowly loving the role of big sister. Both pictures are by Meng Lim.

2009-05-27T08:41:00.000-07:00

First of all, I'd like to thank everyone who sent me warm wishes and greeted me. Thanks also to those who took the time to peek at the new layouts I created for Visual Creations. I'm still vacationing at my mom's and we are on dial-up network. So please forgive me if I have not visited you on your blogs. Will be able to do that by mid-june when we go back to Manila.

Now for the yummy part.... here are the sneaks of Fabric Album class kit...

The class is filled as of now, but there is a waitlist. So for those interested please get in touch with Mitch Sy of Visual Creations.

2009-05-25T20:03:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! I'm happy to announce that I am now designing for Visual Creations. This is one of our local scrapbook stores here in Manila and it is owned and run by Mitch Sy - a wonderful person and an amazing artist as well. It will be my privelege to be in the same team with the 1st Scrappin Mom's idol Cabbie Lopez! I'm so looking forward to this.

In the meantime here are the layouts I designed using My Little Yellow Bicycle Baby Safari Girl Line, together with some gorgeous Hambly, and a little from Teresa Collins' Family Matters.

In my previous post I mentioned about a couple of techniques I have used here which has saved me from spending on scrap supplies. I have been a huge fan of mists but I could not afford to get it in all the colors I wanted (naturally I wanted it all!). So I tried to find an alternative. I bought a set of twinkling H2Os which I use as watercolor. A set has several shades in it. I broke off a piece of the cake and dropped it in a mister filled with a little water. I just had to wait for the cake to melt and it was ready to spray some beautiful sky colored shimmer on my page:)

Another embellishment I am crazy about are fabric, felt, or cloth items. I also wanted to try embroidery but I did not have the talent for it, nor did I have the money to purchase a machine. What I did in this layout was to get some inexpensive embroidery floss. I slowly covered the chipboard with glue as I wound the floss around it. It was easy to do and I loved the hand-made and textured look of the chipboard tree:)

2009-05-21T20:10:00.000-07:00

You know how it feels like to be back home? Well that's how I feel now that I have started to design for a local scrapbook store here in Manila. It feels great! I will also be co-teaching a class for the store very soon and it will be featuring products from one of the manufacturers I also design for - wink wink:) Can't say much for now, but details will be up soon. In the mean time, here is a sneak peek of the layouts I made for the store. I have used a couple of techniques here that will help scrappers save money. Will share those techiniques once the DT post is up.

And here are a couple of layouts for Prima's "Seeing Double" feature at the blog. The DT was asked to do double pagers. Please check the blog to see the amazing work of my co-designers.

Up Up Up!

2009-05-17T21:17:00.000-07:00

I just realized now that I made two similarly themed layouts from our recent summer outing. The first layout is about my baby girl Cheska's hair going nowhere but up. Her uncle Mark jokingly refers to her as "spiky". People notice her hair because of how thick it is at such a young age (3 months), the brown tips, and because it just goes straight up!

The second one is about my 4 year old daughter Nicole on the swing, asking her Daddy to push her harder and harder so she could go higher! She keeps saying "UP!" and I keep saying "NO!!!".haha. Shows how old I am getting huh.

Both layouts are for October Afternoon. The one of Cheska uses papers from Good Cheer which is actually a Christmas Line. But the papers are so versatile and the colors are so sweet it can even be used for baby pages.

For my scrappy friends here in Manila, the October Afternoon papers are available at Visual Creations. Go get them now!

Webster's DT Upload

2009-05-10T17:18:00.001-07:00

Hi everyone!! Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful moms! I'm back in Manila for today cause Nicole is going to have a check-up with her doctor. Then we are going back home to my Mom's again later today. So I have a short time to do my uploads and check on some sites. The design team of Webster's have been working on some projects using the new papers and we are all scheduled to start uploading today. So if you have time, please drop by INSPIRE ME and create with us. We would love to see your Webster's pages there!

Here are the pages I made using the two fabulous new lines...

Missed blog land!

2009-05-04T18:16:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone!! I have missed surfing the net and I have missed blog land! We are on vacation at my mother's house for the whole month of May. I am enjoying every minute of it, but the one thing I do hate is the fact that we don't have internet connection there. I'm on a short visit to our home now so I got a chance to sneak in some computer time.

Would like to share these layouts with you...

This is one of my favorite layouts. It shows a picture of my daughter blowing me a kiss. She gives me ten kisses on the cheek everyday and she counts them off with her fingers. So sweet! This was featured on two peas and I only found out about it through the comments! Was so giddy with happiness when I found out about it.

This is a quick page to make. Played with the autumn leaves oval shaped chipboard here... used it as a journaling spot shaped like a tree :)

Here is another one for Prima. Used the new small stamps they just released. I created the text border with the stamp. I love how Prima has come up with a wide range of scrapbook products.

I also love this one. The pictures are one of my favorite shots of Nicole with her Dad. This layout was featured in Becky Fleck's Page Maps for May 2009.

Webster's Backside Challenge

2009-04-22T21:27:00.000-07:00

Webster's has come up with a really fun challenge. I am used to hand cutting and lots of layering but I really enjoyed this challenge. Scrappers are asked to create a layout without any hand cutting and too much layering using the backsides of the new websters papers. You can view the details here:
BACKSIDES CONTEST

And here are the two layouts I made for the challenge.

2009-04-03T13:18:00.000-07:00

Anam created a FABULOUS sketch for Prima this month! There is room for four photos, along with a HUGE title, and some FUN swirls! To participate simply upload your take on this month's sketch to the Prima Gallery by April 25th (put "April BAP" in the title please). If your layout is chosen as the winner you will receive a Prima paper pack! Open to all countries! Here is my take on the sketch...

And here is another layout I made for Prima. This time using the Duo Stamps. It's a stamp that coordinates with the Times Chipboard Letters and adds a beautiful flourish pattern as a base for the chipboard letter.

My Princess.... My dearest Cheska

2009-03-20T02:46:00.001-07:00

These are pictures from the pictorial Cheska had with her sister. Cheska is 2 months old here. Look at her head full of hair! the tips of her hair are light brown and people always comment about how pretty and thick her hair is. She is such a sweet baby and I am just crazy about her. Materials Used: Prima

2009-03-02T07:49:00.000-08:00

I am so happy today! I got an email from Bookoto today announcing that I won the Diva challenge and that I'll be getting my copy of "Designing with Divas" really soon. YAY! AND... my baby Cheska, kept giving me cute smiles today. She has been smiling lately, but today she really went all out on me.

Anyway on to scrapping.. Here is a couple of pages I made for My Little Yellow Bicycle. They sent me a box filled with gorgeous gorgeous new products. And the timing was perfect because one of the new releases included the Baby Safari Line.

This one features the Zinnia line. Lots of oranges and purples and bold prints. Fun!

Finally, here is a page featuring the photos of my friend April's son - David. I created this for Prima's Build a Page for March using the sketch of the talented Anam Stubbington. Papers include the new "Signs of Spring" and "Mommy and Me", as well as rub-ons and stickers from the "Dude" line

"Diva Valentine on www.bookoto.com"

2009-02-20T20:51:00.000-08:00

Bookoto is having a post valentine challenge and give-away. They are giving away "Designing With Divas" book! You can visit the site for more details.

Anyway, I would not pass up on the chance to win that book so here is my entry...

I made this layout so that my children would know that I am NOT high maintenance at all. My husband would always joke that I am - but honestly I AM NOT! I don't buy jewelry. In fact I only have a few pieces and that includes my wedding ring already. I am not into designer clothes, bags, or shoes. But I do splurge on food. That is one thing our family indulges in. And so with that - also comes gym memberships and gym outfits... haha... so do you think I'm high maintenance??? Nah - not at all!

October Afternoon's FULL REVEAL!

2009-02-17T09:59:00.000-08:00

I'm so excited about October Afternoon's full reveal. Even us DT members have yet to see the full line. Please head on over to the BLOG today. It will be updated several times today with the new lines and some other fun stuff.

In the meantime, I'd like to share with you a new layout I made using papers from the previous lines (Weathervane and Night Light).

and here is my take on the skecth by the fabulous Celeste Smith! Do join the sketch challenge to get a chance to win a STAMP SET from October Afternoon.

My Two Girls

2009-02-16T06:46:00.000-08:00

My 4 year old Nicole Breanna as an angel in the nativity play in their school.

Materials: Papers: Webster's Pages; Stamps: Prima, Autumn Leaves, Inkadinkado

My baby Cheska Pauline - only two weeks old here and giving me a sweet smile already...

2009-02-02T08:51:00.000-08:00

Nicole is really a big girl now. She used to be afraid of going on kiddie rides alone, but she surprised me when she eagerly rode the kiddie trucks at Star City on her own - not just once but three times in a row!

Materials: All October Afternoon goodies, plus Fancy Pants Overlay

Prima Winner

2009-02-02T08:45:00.000-08:00

I asked my husband to give me two numbers from 1 to 80. I planned on having my daughter participate again but since she only knows numbers 1 to 30 now, it would be unfair to those who posted late! LOL! Ok so my DH gave me the number 11 and 30. 11 for Nicole's birthday which is Dec 11, and 30 for Cheska's birthday which is Dec 30.

So the 11th blogger who posted is : CANDY
and the 30th blogger who posted is: Snazzyjazzy

Congratulations and please email me your address. Thanks for playing everyone!

2009-01-23T08:06:00.000-08:00

Prima will be giving away an assortment of the new Mommy & Me papers (including GLITTERED designs), along with a HUGE assortment of their newest flowers...Scribbles, Wildwood, Caboodles, Dandies, Fiesta, Essentials 6, Bonnet Blossoms, Prairie, and Artful flowers! Just look at that pile of Prima Goodness that YOU can win!

These are not available to the public yet, so the winner will be the FIRST to get them!!

Simply leave a comment on the blog to have a chance to win. Just post which product(s) caught your eye. One comment per person please. Open to all countries.

Drawing will take place next Friday, January 30th, at NOON, EST.

I'm also giving away some of my extra papers and embellishments. I will be randomly selecting two winners again. Just leave a comment here. Open to Asian residents only please.

October Afternoon Goodies Goes to....

2009-01-23T00:32:00.000-08:00

I'd like to thank everyone who played along. Check the OA blog for another sneak peek. This line is soooo cute and perfect for baby pages. I'm excited to get this line for Cheska's pictures.

Ok so I got my daughter Nicole to pick the winners and she drew the names from my Maya Road Tin Can. That is after she made me agree to give her the tin can because she insists that she needs it as a container for her candies. haha.

The Night Light Line goes to...

The Weathervane Line goes to...

And the Good Cheer Line goes to...

... sorry about that. After the two draws, Nicole already refused to hold out her hand with the name she picked. Anyway the winner is PURPLE SEA.

To all the winners please email me your address so I can mail the prizes to you.

Hugs!

Iris

Webster's Two New Lines

2009-01-21T07:07:00.000-08:00

Have you seen the two new lines of Webster's pages? Brandin herself designed these papers and we are all very excited to start creating with these beauties...

Here is a recent project I made with the Webster's Pages Old World Cards, Journaling Cards, and trims. Maya Road provided the DT with some wonderful mini albums and flowers.

October Afternoon Blog

2009-01-20T14:38:00.000-08:00

The October Afternoon Blog is now live and there will be some fantastic prizes for grabs for the opening of the blog. Visit it here to find out how you can win some October Afternoon goodies.

The sneak peeks of the new products will begin soon so watch out for that.

I'm also giving away some October Afternoon Paper packs and sticker sheets from the Night Light and Good Cheer Line. Just post here what your favorite October Afternoon Line is and I'll pick two random winners on January 23. For Asian residents only please. Shipping anywhere outside Asia will take me forever and will cost more than the paper packs and stickers! LOL! Sorry. Hope you understand.

Sneaking in some sneaks....

2009-01-18T22:30:00.000-08:00

Prima's latest lines are gorgeous...

2009-01-11T07:08:00.001-08:00

Webster's Hello Beautiful Line and Trims. Did this page a few days after giving birth. The whole family went out and I had to stay home with the baby to rest and to nurse the baby. Saved me from an afternoon of self pity! LOL! Thank goodness for scrapbooking!

2009-01-08T05:25:00.000-08:00

First of all, I would like to thank you for all the warm wishes you have sent me and my family. I am so blessed to be part of this community and I can't tell you just how much I appreciate your kindness and thoughtfulness. I'm taking a short break to post the layouts I made for the January Kit of Badgirls. I made these before I gave birth but of course we had to wait for the reveal day before posting in our blogs.

This is the last kit for me as a Badgirls Designer. One of the most difficult decisions I have made was to stay on or leave the team. Badgirls has been my online home for about two years now and it would be difficult to go. But I had to go because I need more time now for work and for my family. I will miss designing with the kits but I'll still be part of the community there. Only difference is - I'll now be among those eagerly waiting for reveal day:)

This one is special to me. The challenge for this month was to create a project about the one resolution we kept. Mine was to make an extra effort to stay in touch with friends both in real life and with the ones I met over the internet. This ATC card represents the first trade I ever made with my friend Celine Cochrane. She is a wonderful person and a talented artist and I am thankful to have met her through this hobby.

2009-01-01T04:32:00.000-08:00

Hello there! First of all, I just want to thank you all for your prayers and your thoughts. I just got home and would like to share this picture of my baby with you. I was lucky that my anesthesiologist happened to be a photographer hobbyist too! So he took around 70 pictures of Cheska right in the delivery room...

I'll just rest and recover for a few days. The wound from the C section still hurts but I'm moving around to speed up recovery. The little one is breast feeding every two hours! Hope everyone had a great new year! Bry and I spent new year's eve with Cheska in the hospital and saw fireworks from the t.v. screen. Nicole visited us early in the afternoon and we sent her home before dark to be sure that she would have a safe travel back home (minus the fireworks in the streets). We had some food sent over from home and it was a wonderful New Year's Eve for us.

Merry Christmas everyone!

2008-12-26T07:05:00.000-08:00

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! I sure did! Forgot all about my healthy pregnancy diet ( as if I ever stuck to it!) and ate lots of fruit salad, cakes, chocolate ice cream, native sweets, and huge platefuls of wonderful carbs!! Love it!

Oh this is the closest I got to a preggy pic - taken last December 23. I'm 23 pounds heavier and just a few days away from giving birth.

I want to thank everyone who dropped by here in my blog, sent emails, and texted me wishing me a Merry Christmas and praying for a safe delivery of a healthy baby girl. I appreciate it so much and if only I could have enough time to surf the net and visit everyone's blog now - I would. Right now though I am still cleaning up some cabinet space for the coming little baby, preparing my hospital bag, completing DT deadlines, and most of all spending quality time with Nicole so that she will not feel insecure when her baby sister comes.

I'm posting here a layout I made for Prima's Christmas Fancy line. It features a picture of my friend Isabel and her daughter.

I may not be able to blog again for a while so please forgive me if I'm not able to visit you in your blogs. I'll be giving birth on December 30 via c-section and I'll be breastfeeding her exclusively so I'm not really sure when I can get back to my normal schedule. With all that said... I should also wish you an advanced HAPPY NEW YEAR too!

God bless you all this coming new year.

2008-12-21T10:22:00.000-08:00

I got my DT box from October Afternoon last week and so I got to spend my weekend playing with the new products. The papers, stickers, and the stamps are beautiful!!

This first layout features the "Weathervane" Line.

For this layout, I used the "Night Light" line. I cut patterns from the paper and attached it to the edges of the cardstock to create my own die-cut cardstock.

This last one was made with the "Good Cheer" line. This page is about how my little girl was bent on undressing our Christmas Tree. She would pull out the ornaments and use them as props for her Christmas Carols!

Badgirls and Graphic 45

2008-12-13T22:41:00.000-08:00

Badgirls Kits featured Graphic 45 papers for the month of December. They are featuring the layouts of the BG designers using their beautiful vintage papers. If you can, please check out the Graphic 45 blog here.

Here are my layouts for the December Kit...

This is a project for my daughter for her to practice her ABC's and the words that go with the letters. The graphic 45 paper in the kit had blocks and I just cut them out. I used letter stickers for the missing letters, punched a hole on the corner of the blocks and secured everything with a ring clasp.

This one is about how creative and silly children can be. I painted the background with yellow paint and used the Graphic 45 tags to highlight the journaling.

This is a layout about my daughter's version of "Dressing Down". Well she does it literally. She opens her cabinet, takes down all the clothes, climbs inside the cabinet and poses. I put all the clothes back in - and then she does it all over again when I'm not looking!

This month's challenge is about what brings us peace. This page is about finding faith in one's self. I found peace when I found faith in myself and I wanted to impart this to my daughter who is at that stage where she is insecure and very unsure of herself.

I loved the embossed texture of the cardstock and wanted to bring out the patterns. I applied watermark ink on the areas I wanted to highlight and then layered gold and teal pigment powders with a soft brush on the embossed patterns.

12 Treats of Christmas

2008-12-09T14:44:00.001-08:00

Here is something I made for Webster's Pages and for the Christmas Workshop at Badgirls Kits. This is an old box that I have altered to hold silver rolls of paper inside. For the 12 days leading to Christmas, I'll ask Nicole to pick one silver roll so she can see what her Christmas treat will be for the day.

If you want to get the instructions on how to make this, you can head on over to the forum at Badgirls. Here is the LINK.

Iris

2008-11-20T07:41:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone! Hope you are all doing great. Just wanted to share a few layouts for Prima. And if you have not heard about it yet, Prima is having a design team call! So head on over to the blog to find out about the details. It's one great company to design for and they are so so generous with the product they give their team!

This is special to me. I'm five months pregnant in the pictures here and Nicole was starting to show signs of being jealous. So I made this layout for her, telling her that no matter what happens, I will always have time for "just us".

I used here a picture of Nicole taken during the Chrismas of 2006. Used the new Prima Christmas Fancies paper. You will notice that the line can be used even for non Christmas themed layouts.

This one is a layout of my friend's daughter - Julia. Made this one for the "fall" themed layouts for Prima.

2nd Christmas Workshop at Badgirls!!

2008-11-11T07:51:00.000-08:00

It's that time of the year again! And Badgirls Kits has something really exciting and fun prepared for all of us scrappers this coming Christmas season. The Christmas Workshop is loaded with a lot of great classes and of course - really fantastic prizes!!

To help spread the news, Wendy will be giving out a
BLOG CANDY. We need help in spreading the news, and as a thank you we will draw one lucky winner who will get a 50$ gift certificate to the Bad Girls Store!! Just visit the link here to find out how you can participate.

You have until November 21st for this Blog Candy :)

Oh and here is a sneak peek of the class I will be teaching. It is something new that I think you will enjoy creating, and your little ones will enjoy going to every morning of the 12 days leading to Christmas!:)

Thank you :)

2008-11-06T07:08:00.000-08:00

I have fallen in-love with the latest paper line of Webster's Pages "Hello Beautiful". Here is a layout of Nicole where I used the papers together with "Old World Cards" and the new trims.

Finally, here are the layouts I made for the November Kit of Badgirls.

SCRAPMAGIE

2008-11-01T05:26:00.000-07:00

I am so honored to be a guest designer for Scrapmagie this month. The kit was huge! There were so many papers and a good amount of embellishments too. Thanks Marina for the beautiful kit. Here are a few of the layouts and a project I made for the kit club. If you have time, please do visit their site. The kits are beautiful!

2008-10-31T19:01:00.000-07:00

My internet connection is finally fixed! So now I'm back to share some October Afternoon creations. The first one is of my daughter with her friend Ethan. The picture was taken by my friend and talented photographer Jeff Lopez.

This 2nd one is of my friend April's son David. Pictures were taken by her equally talented husband Lumeng Lim.

2008-10-28T11:06:00.000-07:00

Just a quick note to say hi. I want to thank all you wonderful people for dropping by my blog. My internet connection at home has been terrible for the past few days so I can't surf much. I just sneak in some computer time when I get a clear connection and then its gone again. I miss visiting your blogs and will hopefully have my internet problem fixed very very soon.

2008-10-25T09:24:00.000-07:00

I have never really been excited about halloween... until I had a daughter of my own. Now I can't wait for trick or treat! I had so much fun last year with Nicole and she is looking forward to this year's celebration. The holidays will be busy so I thought of making a Halloween album in advance so that I just need to print the pictures and adhere it. "My Little Yellow Bicycle" sent me a complete line of their Frightful Collection, and I made this little book from their wonderful products. I'll post the entire album, when I have the pictures in it already. Thanks MYLYB!"

And here is a layout for Prima, using the Little Boo papers. I love this picture of Nicole. We were practicing "Scary Face" last year and this is the best that she could come up with. We have to try harder this year huh?:)

One more thing before I go... I was so honored and happy to have been invited by my friend Pia Lopez who designs for Daisy Bucket, to create a layout using Daisy Bucket products together with 7 of my scrapbook friends here from the Philippines. All 8 of us Filipina designers were featured in their Blog. Here is my creation. The picture was blurred because of the low light and because Nicole kept moving... and because I'm not a very good photographer at all!! LOL! But I loved that smile on her face. So I just enhanced it a bit, cut the image out, and recreated the play house by making one from paper.

October Kit at Badgirls

2008-10-05T08:52:00.000-07:00

So who loves Pink Paislee, Rose Moka, and Basic Grey? Well I do!! And the October kit has those papers in them! I loved my kit and I was able to use a piece from everything inside the kit. Just sharing the layouts I made...

I was also tasked to do the lecture hall over at Badgirls for this month... not an easy task when you have a gallery full of the most beautiful pages ever seen. So I just thought of talking about the process I take when I create layouts for kits. It's really different when you create pages using stuff that you have versus creating from a kit where you want to maximize the use of the kit. If you want to read this simple entry of mine, please click HERE.

October Challenge at "Inspire Me"

2008-09-30T02:35:00.000-07:00

I'm excited to be hosting the October Challenge for Webster's Pages "Inspire Me" site. Hope you can join me for this fun challenge. The idea is to scrap about a favorite or memorable object and embellish your page with cut-out patterns. You can check the details of the challenge HERE
The winner will get a Websters Pages collection pack of their choice! See you at the site!

Materials used for this layout: Webster's Pages papers; Prima Felt Gate, pebbles, flowers, and Say It In Crystals; Digital elements on photo from Primahybrid.com (designed by Trish Jones and Weeds and Wildflowers Design).

HAPPY TEACHER'S DAY!!

2008-09-24T03:16:00.000-07:00

It's Teacher's Day on September 26 and I think we should all try to show some appreciation and love to all the wonderful teachers ... especially those who take that extra bit of time to help out our Children. My daughter has been blessed with two wonderful teachers who have been so very patient and kind with her. So along with a small gift for them, I also made two notebooks for Teacher Au and Teacher Factor. I hope they will like it.

This was made using scraps of cardstock (for the pages), a couple of Prima papers (the other one does not show here), Prima Glittered Transparency, Prima Flowers and Swirls. Of course bound using my new favorite tool - the Zutter Bind-It-All.

By the way, the first picture is also a sneak peek for the Badgirls kit for October! Loved this one. My favorite so far!

Iris

2008-09-18T06:35:00.000-07:00

I love the new papers from Prima! It's so different from the previous release. This one has papers from the "Pulse" and "Makes Me Happy" line. Everything else is by Prima too.

And here is one layout I made for Scrap-N-Crop's September kit.

2008-09-03T06:40:00.000-07:00

Using up your rub-ons...

If you love rub-ons then I'm sure that you have had the usual problem of ending up with some that stuck to the plastic backing already because it has not been used for a long time. Well, I have had that problem and I realized I had to start using my rub-ons soon. So for this PRIMA layout, I made a page with no patterned paper but just used all rub-ons to create the design. It sure was fun! You should try it too....

Multi-Layered Transparencies...

Here is another addiction of mine... transparencies!! I love that you can layer so many, yet keep the page from looking so heavy. This new paper release from WEBSTERS PAGES went so well with my Hambly, MME, and Making Memories transparencies...

An October Afternoon Album done in one afternoon...
I love the new chipboard album of OCTOBER AFTERNOON. It came with lined and scalloped pages. I simply adhered the pages over the patterned papers from the new "Hometown" line, added some embellishments, applied rub-ons over the journaling pages, and I was done!

REVEAL DAY AT BADGIRLS KITS....

2008-09-01T01:45:00.000-07:00

"Monologue"
I love the fun and bright colors of the paper. The pattern from the "Everyday (HI)" line of American Crafts was also very useful in allowing me to record my daughter's monologue.
Additional materials: AC felt embellishments and Ribbon, Hambly Overlay, Shaped cardstock and AC paper (black polka), Junkitz mini felt flowers

"Swim"
I cut out the pattern from the AC paper to create waves. Journaling was written around the white border of the photo using the AC Slick Writer in purple.
Additional Materials: AC paper (green and white checkered), AC thickers, Jeni Bowlin Ticket
For the challenge this month, Dena suggested we lift a member's layout.
My inspiration for my layout was Elizabeth R's beautiful layout....

I was drawn to the photo, the way it took center stage, and the way it was so beautifully framed by her embellishments and well planned design. Elizabeth always makes beautiful pages and this one is no exception. It's probably my favorite so far among her gorgeous work.

"Silly Doctor"
My daughter finally got over her fear of doctors. Here she is trying to act like her pediatrician and ending up looking very silly.
Additional Materials: AC paper (flower and stripes), Creative Imagination Stickers (word strips)

"C.E.O. In Training"
I used the patterns from the AC paper to create paper clip and paper pin embellishments.
Additional Materials: AC paper (green scallop, flowers, and brown photo mat), Maya Road (sheer office tabs), Prima Flowers, Tim Holtz Grunge Elements, MM Mini Letter stickers, Stampers Anonymous (number ledger stamp)

TOP DESIGNER CONTEST AT BADGIRLS!

2008-08-30T01:15:00.000-07:00

TOP DESIGNER is 6 weeks worth of Classes, each one taught by one of the very talented BAD GIRL DESIGNERS. Each class will focus on a Principal of Design. At the end of the 6 week semester one student will emerge as BAD GIRLS TOP DESIGNER with a prize package amounting to over $650.00 ...take a look at the gorgeous prizes and the details of the contest HERE... and while you are at it, why not register and join the contest too! See you at Badgirls!

2008-08-23T07:54:00.000-07:00

I went to my first Pinoy Scrapbookers Exchange EB (Meet-Up) and I was really glad I did not miss that event. Au did a tutorial on photoshop and I learned a few neat tricks from her. The make and take project was so worth it. Cabbie did a demo on ATCs and ATC Tin Can Holder. I have been curious about these little works of art and I'm glad I got to try it. Here is my first (and most likely not the last) attempt at an Artist's Trading Card and an ATC Tin Can Holder.

Thanks to the PSE moderators and to the host of the event, Mitch, owner of Visual Creations Store.

Prima BABs

2008-08-20T22:07:00.000-07:00

When we were first told the Prima was sending out BABs to us, I had no idea what the term meant. When I opened the box, I realized that BAB stands for "Build A Book". It's a new concept by Prima where you can combine the different shapes of the clear albums. Here is what I came up with.

I think my friend Cathy La Hay, does the best job in clear mini albums. Mine is nothing compared to her masterpieces. But I'm glad I got to try my hand at this stuff.

It's been a while...

2008-08-05T10:42:00.000-07:00

since I have posted here... since I last made a scrapbook page... since I have blog hopped... I'm taking a short break from work now and I mean really short - maybe two weeks at the most. I hope to spend more time with my daughter and get back to scrapping when she is busy or sleeping. I am so way behind with my DT duties. I miss creating too. Anyway, here is a page I created a few weeks back. Totally forgot about sharing it. The papers are a mix of old and new - from Autumn Leaves, Basic Grey, Pink Paislee, and Heidi Swapp. Rub-ons are by 7 Gypsies and the chipboard is from Scrapping Outback.

Rewind...

2008-07-28T17:52:00.000-07:00

Ok, these are not the new CHA release of October Afternoon. These papers are from the Winter CHA 2008 collection. Because of my location, I just got the box containing the Detours and Daydream line when all of my Co-DTs are already playing with the new line of OA! Ugh talk about being jealous! But I'm still glad I got my hands on these beautiful papers.

Other materials: Riff Raff Chipboard, Junkitz mini felt flowers, K and Co Die-Cut words, 7 Gypsies ATC card, MME Transparency (red line), Jeni Bowlin ticket, and a beautiful hand-made felt flower by my co-Filipina scrapper Alidz!

Photo by my friend Lumeng Lim! Other materials: Hambly overlay, Fancy Pants Felt, Scenic Route Chipboard, brads, twill letters.

"Inspired"

2008-07-18T22:49:00.000-07:00

I am so in-love with the new line of Websters which is "Inspired". Here is a layout which I created for the CHA show. I would also like to share with you a scrapbooking store in Australia which carries beautiful chipboard. The flower chipboard here and the bird and flourish chipboard I used in "Looking Out" was from that store. The designs are fantastic and the material is very sturdy. It can withstand lots of paint and heating so you can really experiment with it. Here is the link to the store.

Looking Out

2008-07-02T04:01:00.000-07:00

Here is a picture of my DD looking out the window on an early Sunday morning. We checked in a hotel for Easter Sunday and she was so excited to see what the day has in store for her...

Papers by Websters Pages, Cardstock by Basic Grey, Rub-ons by 7 Gypsies, Chipboard by Scrapping Outback. Others: Chipboard letters: Creative Imagination, Letter stickers: MMM

BADGIRLS TURNS ONE!

2008-07-01T00:09:00.000-07:00

Just a quick post to invite you to check Badgirls Kits this month of July. Badgirls is turning one year old and Wendy has some fun things for everyone.

And here are a few layouts from this month's kit...

Prima Build A Page

2008-06-29T08:01:00.000-07:00

First of all I want to appologize for being MIA in the blog world, the forums, and the boards. This first trimester thing is not very fun for me right now. I'm always nauseous and sleepy. I can't eat so much but I have to eat every now and then otherwise I feel sick. I miss visiting your blogs and I promise to visit you soon once I'm feeling a bit better. Right now, I have to devote the time I'm ok during the day to taking care of my family and to work.

Anyway, I managed to create one page for Prima this month and it's for the Build-A-Page, using a sketch by the super talented Anam Stubbington!!!

Here is my take. Please visit the Prima blog to see the other beautiful creations by the wonderful DT and I hope you can join in the fun. There are prizes to be won!

Easy To Be Green Contest

2008-06-17T06:24:00.000-07:00

Prima's "Easy To Be Green" contest is underway, but there is still plenty of time to dig out your Prima containers and re-purpose them! Here is a direct link to the contest rules: Easy To Be Green Contest Details

Here is something I made from the wooden box of the Naturally Flower collection (507336).I just painted the box white, added some torn strips of the Angelique paper, a few Prima embellishments (Elysee lace, Voila felt, Say It In Crystals, Painterly Petals flowers and Renaissance flowers) and it's done.

Contest is open to legal residents of all countries. And the 1st prize is valued at $600 worth of Prima Products! WOW!

Deadline for entry is June 30, 2008 Midnight PST. By the way, a Prima container must be used in a recognizable fashion and the color green must be included on the project in some manner.

Good luck!

2008-06-14T20:45:00.000-07:00

Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful fathers out there. A special thanks to those fathers who are so supportive of our craft and who are now beginning to understand that paper to us is "precious".

Here is a layout created with the "Papa" line of Fancy Pants. Other materials are Maya Road chipboard circles, MAMBI letter rub-ons, Fancy Pants rub-ons, Karen Foster Metal, 7 Gypsies sticker, buttons, Daisy D's sticker, burlap, and fabric.

This one was created using the Father's Day Kit of Scrap-N-Crop. Other materials Love Elsie stickers, 7 Gypsies rub-ons, Daisy D's sticker, Autumn Leaves Buttons, Fancy Pants Felt, white pen, burlap, Magic Mesh (used to stamp the grid patterns)

2008-06-06T08:38:00.000-07:00

Just sharing some layouts I made for the June Kit of Badgirls. Here is Nicole in her sweetest "Mommy can I?" look. How can I resist right?

This one is special. Her grandma had a bed custom made for her and Nicole loved it. It's her first big girl bed.

And this one is a layout of the DH of my friend Liza who happens to be an amazing scrapper. Nelo is very supportive of Liza in her craft and we admire him for that.

WIN 3 MONTH SUBSCRIPTION TO BADGIRLS

2008-06-04T08:33:00.000-07:00

FREE 3 MONTH SUBSCRIPTION to BAD GIRLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, what do YOU have to do to be in the running for this FAB PRIZE????

Create a LO with your JUNE kit, "Malibu Pop Shop" using a WONDERFUL sketch created by Anna Bowkis and interpreted by Ania. Upload it to the appropriate labeled gallery with Sketch Challenge in your title.

You will have until June 30th to upload.

You will be judged on creativity, interpreation of sketch, photography, and attention to detail. Very Happy

Everyone is able to particiapate...US and International. If the winner is International they will be responsible for thier shipping charges, as will the US winner also.

Click on this link for more info.
If you do not have a Badgirls subscription, the kit is available in the store.
HAPPY CREATING!!!!

Days To Remember

2008-06-01T05:24:00.000-07:00

The workshop over at Badgirlskits is turning out to be so much fun. Here is a project I made for Ania's class which makes use of toilet paper rolls to make a mini album!! Seriously! Go check it out...

And here is my workshop which makes use of small calendar sets and a wooden picture frame.

Join us! There will be RAKS given out to the winners of each class. Just log on to badgirlskits and head on over to the forum. Click on "Summer Workshop Classes". You will find everything you need there.

Inspire Me

2008-05-29T09:49:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! First of all thank you to everyone who sent me warm wishes about my pregnancy. I really appreciate it.

I just wanted to share with you that "Inspire Me" the social network site of Websters Pages is launching today. Please come and join us there. Here is the LINK

Here is the first DT layout I created for Websters Pages. I am just in-love with the soft patterns and colors. I cut out part of a patterned paper and used it to look like a die-cut sheet at the back of the lined paper. This is a picture of Nicole early in the morning... still sleepy and fresh from dreaming:)

Other materials: Making Memories metal, Foofala Letter stickers, Prima Hybrid Clock element (Gina Marie Huff)

2008-05-27T06:36:00.000-07:00

Hi friends!! I have something to tell you....I SAW...

YAY!!!! It finally happened. I hope I have a boy this time. I'm five weeks pregnant so I'm trying to take it easy now trying to balance everything. I'm also loaded with several events to organize and complete plus of course I NEED to scrap!!! Anyway I'm just really happy. Hope you all have a great day!

By the way, the papers, tape, flowers, bird, and the felt die-cut under the photo are by Prima and this layout is based on a sketch by the super talented Janine Langer!!! The photo itself has some digital elements from Prima Hybrid (A Little Magic by Vera Lim and Painted outline Font by Kim Christensen)

2008-05-22T05:50:00.000-07:00

I love to use acrylic paint in my pages but I wanted a more textured look. I recently got a bottle of gel medium and tried to mix equal parts of the medium with paint. The result is paint that goes on thick without sacrificing the color of the paint. I waould like to share with you a layout I made using gel medium and acrylic paint. You can see the texture at the edges of the layout. I also tried this for stamping and I loved the texture and dimension of the stamped image as compared to an image stamped with ink.

Workshop 2 at Badgirlskits

2008-05-16T05:12:00.003-07:00

We are having another workshop over at Badgirls and there will be free classes for everyone.

Here is a sneak peek of my workshop...

I hope you can join us on May 30 to June 1 for lots of creative fun.I have received a lot of inquiries about the workshop. You may join even if you are not getting the monthly kits from Badgirls. There will be a class supply list posted so you can prepare in advance. Check this link for more info. You do have to be a registered member of the forum to be able to post your projects and participate. Check us out at www.badgirlskits.com if you can.

Layout for a friend

2008-05-14T09:15:00.000-07:00

I am so honored and thrilled that Kristina Nicolai White spotted this layout and selected it as the featured layout at the members gallery of twopeas. I made this layout for my friend Arlene David. I used the Mother's Day kit of Scrap-n-crop and just added some bits and pieces from my stash. Arlene was a beautiful pregnant woman! We were all so envious of how pretty she looked even when she was just a few weeks due to giving birth. Here she is with her husband Doy.

2008-05-10T16:08:00.001-07:00

We are still doing some Go-Green projects over at Prima so I decided to make a mother's day project using one of the packaging tin cans of Prima. This was so easy and quick to make. Just sharing a simple idea for a project which you can make for your mom or for yourself.

Happy Mother's Day!

And here is a layout I did of myself and Nicole using the new Morning Song papers from Prima. I wanted to make the layout look more childlike so I hand drew some clouds on the papers and cut them out. This was the featured layout at Twopeas last May 22. I was grinning from ear to ear when I saw it. A lot of times, the layouts that I'm not so crazy about are the ones that get noticed.

2008-05-06T08:38:00.000-07:00

I am very honored to be a guest designer for Scrap-Idees. This is a blog that features sketches and I enjoyed creating this layout for the blog...

2008-05-01T06:42:00.000-07:00

I have been such a lousy blogger these past weeks and I am so sorry for not being able to catch up on everyone's blogs. I miss finding inspiration in the blogs. I just have so much work now with our events business that my days seem to keep getting shorter and shorter.

Anyway I just hope everybody is doing great.

I'm sharing a few layouts I made with the May kit of Badgirls. We worked with a lot of Prima Papers and American Crafts products.

2008-04-19T19:15:00.000-07:00

I made this layout for my friend Maybelle Ngo. These are pictures of her son Gabriel with an "Ouchie". The star was stamped using the Prima Build-a-Frame stamp and I added 7 Gypsies rub-ons. Papers are from the new Dude Line of Prima.

Bits and Pieces

2008-04-17T02:25:00.000-07:00

This was so much fun to do! I always keep extra cut-outs of patterned papers in a small box. I mean, I went through the trouble of cutting them so I better keep them and use them - right? For this layout, I just grabbed the bits of paper I have collected in that box and created a collage. The only paper here that was not from my scraps is the background cardstock.

2008-04-15T09:09:00.000-07:00

Prima is having a "Go Green" feature over at the blog. We are trying to create projects from the packaging materials. Here is what I did with the Painterly Petals container. I loved that it came with a black and white printed backing paper so I used that for the background. Next, the flowers were held by a plastic container that was slightly lifted from the box. I used these as holders for my pictures. I just added some flowers and crystals.

Here is a layout featuring Urban Cosmos papers and the new Crystal Centers.

Here is one of my husband's aunt and niece. I used the new Tea and Silk papers.

And this one is a quick and fun page I did for our Disney album. The papers are the paintables and I just added the rub-ons of Daisy D's.

2008-04-09T09:03:00.000-07:00

I have not been able to update this blog and I have not been able to blog hop either for quite some time now. I have been caught up with work. We are doing a business/ franchising expo and it is pretty tough to put together. Anyway, I still got to crop - YAY! Some of the girls at badgirlskits had some challenges for the weekend crop and I managed to create a few quick pages. Here are some...

And this is my challenge- to include product merchandise in your layout. I love the postcards and tags from Starbucks and wanted to do something with it. So here goes...

From A Vintage Comic Book

2008-04-01T01:52:00.001-07:00

Wendy always surprises us with her kits at Badgirls. For this month, she included in each kit a page from a vintage comic book and some vintage tickets! I love it! I would never have found something like that on my own. Here is a couple of layouts I created with the comic book page and the tickets.
Here is another surprise... in the same kit is some of the new AC papers and Bampop frames! Again, who would think that you can combine vintage finds and something as modern as Bampop in one kit? I just love Wendy's style.

Prima Angelique Papers

2008-03-28T07:02:00.000-07:00

I love Janine Langer's work. And she makes great sketches too. She did the first sketch for Prima's "Build A Page". Each month Prima will post a new sketch on the blog and in the newsletter from very talented sketch artists- Janine Langer and Anam Stubbington (along with a few surprise sketch guests!).Here is my take on the sketch using the new Angelique papers. These are old photos of Nicole. This was on a Sunday afternoon, right before going to church. We had some dog figurines in the garden and she was pretending that they were real. So my journaling goes... "There was a girl who believed that her toys had life, and that stone dogs would become real at her touch." My daughter loves dogs, but having a dog in the house may trigger her allergies. So sadly she would have to content herself with stone dogs and balloon dogs for now.

2008-03-26T06:32:00.000-07:00

Do you want to know the artist who makes refreshingly beautiful layouts and at the same time paints like this....

WOW right? Well I just recently discovered her blog and it is pretty new. There is so much inspiration to be found there. I know you will love her and her blog. Here is the link: NANCY

2008-03-23T19:11:00.000-07:00

I am so honored to be a guest designer for Pencil Lines this week! My super talented co designers at Badgirls Ania and Tracie are DTs there and all the other designers there are so talented that I am just in awe at all of their creations. I'm not really much of a sketch scrapbooker but I find myself looking forward to the next sketch all the time in that site. So you can just imagine how thrilled I was when Annie emailed me about the GDT stint. Annie made a great sketch and I had so much fun interpreting it that I made two layouts instead of just one!

And please take the time to visit the site. The layouts of the DT there is awesome.

Harmony

2008-03-21T09:23:00.000-07:00

This is one of my favorite lines from the Winter CHA release of Prima. I only used one sheet here and the Prima Build-a-Frame stamp set. The frame is digital from Primahybrid.com (designed by: Gina Marie Huff - Cherishing Every Moment Add-on Kit).

This picture of my daughter was taken when she just recovered from her eye infection. She also has allergies which explains the swelling. She was going to be a flower girl at a cousin's wedding and we almost didn't go, but we could tell that she really wanted to wear the beautiful dress. She was not contagious or anything anymore so we decided to bring her. I love the photo of her being being held by the hand by her cousin Miguel. He is her hero!

2008-03-20T10:26:00.001-07:00

I enjoyed making these cards from scraps. I realized that when making a folded card, you still needed a big enough cardstock. Well I had lots of smaller sized ones and I wanted to save the bigger ones for layouts. So I tried making cards using the smaller cardstocks I had. Here goes...

1. Folder shaped card
(the two pieces are held together by a tab.

2. Pocket type card
The note card at the back will hold my message

Hope you all have a good holiday!

2008-03-14T08:41:00.000-07:00

Kimberly thanks so much for this. You are an inspiration to me as well! So this goes right back to you. LOL! Does that mean you have to do it all over again? :)

The rules for the You Make My Day award are to re-present it to 10 people whose blogs bring you happiness and inspiration and make you feel happy about blog land. Let them know through email or by posting a comment on their blog so they can pass it on. Beware you may get the award several times yourself, and if you do, consider yourself really, really loved.”

Here is my list. Not in any particular order. I love all of them.
Kimberly Garofolo - I love her fresh designs. Her Sassafrass Lass layouts make me drool
Au Lim - This scrapper creates detailed gorgeous artwork which leaves me in awe.
Michelle Guray - Seeing a page by Michelle always make me want to look for more of her creations.
Anne Jo (Ania) Lexander - Ania is the total scrapper. She makes fabulous pages with stunning photography
Tammy Kay - I have always loved Tammy's romantic pages
Chrissy Lee - This gal has so much talent! She designs beautiful pages and stamps too!
Linda Albrecht - I am a fan of Linda's vintage papers. I loved her work from the first time I saw it.
Bethany Kartchner - Vintage, artsy, detailed, funky, graphic - she can do it all!
Christiane Müller - I love how Christiane takes the paper and embellies I normally use and turn it into something different and wonderful! So unique and stunning.
Rita Weiss - My ultimate inspiration for flower designs. She and Prima are perfect for each other.

My First Prima DT Layout

2008-03-14T01:33:00.000-07:00

My box from Prima came and I was so pleased with what I found inside. Prima has papers that are so unlike their previous products. And I think it's great! So to celebrate, I made my first Prima layout which is also so unlike my other layouts using Prima... yep, NO FLOWERS!!

I used the Dude line. Mixed a bit of the Harmony paper (cut-out strip with the heart).It's actually a boy line but the patterns and colors are so versatile that you can use it even for a girl.

2008-03-11T03:39:00.001-07:00

Here is a couple more layouts from the March Kit of Badgirls...

"Labas Ako!" - which means I'm going out! My daughter would always pull this trick on me. Sometimes at night, when I'm busy on the phone or, on the computer, my daughter would sneak up on us and quietly push the chair near the door. She will climb up, pull the latch, go down, push the chair away... and when everything is set, would shout "LABAS AKO!". I used the packaging of the MM chipboard for the photo corner (black polka dot) and I also cut the strip from the Daisy D's Wonder line paper label (small circles) and used it as an embellishment.

This is one of my favorite photos of Nicole. This swing is her favorite resting place in the afternoon. After the long march during the Trick or Treat, she was so excited to go to the swing and rest - only to find out that a skelleton (The owner of the swing) beat her to it. So she just had to content herself with sitting at the sidewalk! Poor baby.

Tagged!

2008-03-05T08:46:00.000-08:00

I have been tagged by Chris and Kimberly. So here are 7 random facts about me.

1. I can eat cold spaghetti
2. I can't end a meal without something sweet, then right after that I go get something salty again like some chips. never ending cycle of munching...
3. I took photography classes but still could not get out of P mode.
4. I love sad and sweet movies and I cry watching the telenovelas (soap operas).
5. I run marathons (or at least I try to)
6. I love my patterned papers to a point that I sometimes just take them out and look at them. My husband thinks its wierd.
7. I am probably the most forgetful person you will ever know. And I'm just in my 30's so when I get to my 50's I'd be really really worried.

So now I tag: Jeni, Ania, Lucy, Sarah, Christine, Wendy, Mia. I'd really love to read 7 random facts about you

SCRAP - N-CROP..

2008-03-02T09:39:00.000-08:00

asked me to be their guest DT for the month of March. I was honored to be asked to join a community of talented scrappers in Malaysia, and I was also very moved when I read about the focus and goal of the store which is to provide gainful employment to friends and families of brain-injured children. Can you imagine that? That is just beautiful. So I invite you to visit their online store if you are not yet familiar with it. They are also having a DT call! Here is the link

Oh and here is a layout I created for them. I got to use some Autumn Leaves papers. This layout is very special to me cause it is about my first Design Team. The friendship I found in this team is something really special so saying goodbye after two years was difficult.

2008-03-01T04:25:00.000-08:00

The March kit has been uploaded at badgirlskits and the DT gallery is up as well. I am so amazed at the creativity of my fellow DT members. I think this is my favorite upload so far.

Here are the layouts I made with the kit. You can view the work of the other designers here.

I had fun doing this layout for Nicole. This is a first for me. I have always been a fan of vintage pages and it was nice to be able to create one.

This one is another first. I have never a picture this small in a layout. In fact in this page, the focus is really more on the journaling.

I honestly was not all that thrilled with the new line of Daisy D's (Wonder Years) when I first saw it online. But I was actually surprised to see how pretty it really was.

Oh and the guest designer for this month is Shimelle Lane! I love her work. You can view her creations here.