Two For The Night

It's October Afternoon time again. Made two layouts for the night. Just sharing...




I'm really trying to get most of my DT commitments done so I can enjoy the holidays. It's almost Christmas!! Yippeee!! Hope everyone has a Merry Merry Christmas!!

Scraplovers December Sponsor: Cosmo Cricket Be Good

I managed to finish three layouts for Scraplovers tonight. The sponsor for this month is Cosmo Cricket featuring "Be Good". Here is a picture I took of Nicole during our recent trip to Disneyland. Here she was telling Mr. Snowman to "SMILE"! :)


This one is of me and Nicole also at Disney... she is sleepy here...


Here is another one of Nicole and her dad at Ocean Park

Fun Fun Fun!!

It's been a while since I have posted here. And I have not been able to visit other blogs too. That's because we just got home from a family vacation and I had to double up on work before leaving for our vacation. Now that I'm back, I have over 800 unopened emails in my inbox, about 14 layouts to finish before the year ends, projects to post, and 2 more events to finish. Yikes.

I probably won't be able to get back to normal till the end of the year so I really appologize for my absence in the forums, egroups, and blogs.

Anyway, just want to share with you a picture from our trip to Hongkong Disneyland.


Iris

Natural Beauty

I made this layout for a friend I found through this wonderful hobby. I made it using the December kit of Badgirls.



Journaling hidden under photo:
It is amazing how this craft and the internet can bring together two people who live in different corners of the world.


It is amazing to know that true friendship can be found in places you would never think of.

It is amazing how one simple act of kindness from a person could bring courage and inspiration to another.

Alicia you have been an amazing miracle in my life. You gave me a gift of an "angel charm" and at the same time have given me the gift of courage and acceptance. You have been a friend even though we have not yet touched each other's hand. You have lifted me up and encouraged me at times of doubt even though I have not proven myself to you yet. For all these things I am grateful... grateful to have known you ... grateful to have the privelege to call you my friend.

You are a natural beauty... an angel on earth.

A New Challenge at Scrappinkids

I am honored to be the guest designer at Scrappinkids for December. The challenge this month is to do a layout of your little one with their name as a title.

I have posted this earlier but this is actually the layout I made for the challenge.


Please do try their challenges. It is a great site! Check it out here:
SCRAPPINKIDS

Cover Girls... Finally!!

It has been my mother's life long dream to see my face in a magazine. Well that never happened during my youth, but it has now that I'm in my 30's!! LOL! I can now finally share this layout of me and Nicole which landed on the cover of Memory Makers Magazine January Issue.

The reason for this post is to share with you guys that an "unknown" can actually get on the cover of a major scrapbooking magazine. I started sending layouts to MMM last year and it took several months for me to get their attention. After a few pages in the reader's gallery, they wrote me to try and submit a layout for consideration for the cover. They wrote to several scrappers and I really thought I had no chance. But I still made a couple of layouts. The second one was for the same call but they needed a simple layout. All of these happened even before I sent in my entries for the Master's Contest. So what I'm saying is, to those who want to get published, just keep sending your layouts. Your call-back may take just a few days to several months but just keep sending them. MMM is always looking for new artists and they will definitely look at your submissions.

Here is the other layout that did not get picked...

To give or not to give...

Here is a layout I made of Nicole from the trick or treat last October. She loved the activity so much! I was tired and ready to quit from the long walk but I never heard her complain not even once. The candies you see here are only a fraction of what she got. I would regularly transfer her loot from her basket to an extra one I carried so that the load would not be too heavy for her.

Loving The Slant

I am loving the slanted placement of pictures and no matter how I tried to straighten the placement of these pics, I keep slanting them again! So I just decided to go along with it. I guess that's because I did this page immediately after doing the boy page I posted below. Here are some more October Afternoon goodies.

A Boy Page!!

Yes!!! I made a boy page!! This is my second one and I had a really tough time staying away from flowers. It's so hard when you are used to doing girly pages and you are used to grabbing embellishments for girly pages. But I liked how this one turned out mainly because this is a layout for my nephew who my daughter adores so much.

Now I know that even if I do boy pages I will still use cut-outs and fabric or fiber of some sort. I made this layout using October Afternoon Products with the exception of the buttons and the felt which is Fancy Pants.

Another Scrapper Friendly Photographer ...

I made this layout using Luxe Designs for the November upload at Scraplovers. This photo was taken by .... LUMENG LIM!!! Yup, we have another photographer for our scrapbook community in Manila. This guy really has talent. His wife April who is also a talented scrapbook designer made pages using photos taken by Meng from a cellphone camera! And those layouts won awards! So you can just imagine the quality of her work now that she has pictures taken from a DSLR.

I'm so happy to have friends who are kind enough to take pictures of me with my family and Nicole. Cause if not, I would not have pictures with myself in them! Thanks guys!



Materials: Luxe Designs Paper, Luxe Rub-ons (Circle rub-ons used to create the circle patterns, Luxe Swirly Overlay, Hambly Overlay (brick), Fancy Pants Felt, Love Elsie chipboard buttons, Urban Lily rub-ons (flowers), American Crafts Thickers, Stickles