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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

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!!

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 :)

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

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!