Oh, Snap!

Hello everyone! Happy Sunday.

I've created another project for 2Peas NSD Challenges. (I swear this is the last challenge I'm going to do for this NSD) This one is for the first challenge, Focus on Photos. The theme is to use any photo-inspired products, which I have a few in my stash that needs to be used for they have been there for almost a year. I had my Sydney trip photos printed out in Instax format, and I had to layer them on top of one another like a photo strip because there are a total of 12 photos on the layout. 12, that's a record! Other than that, there's the photo-strip chipboard sticker from October Afternoon Boarding Pass Chip n' Stick that I've been planning to use for a while but couldn't find any idea on how to use it.

How do you like it?

The patterned paper base is from Echo Park Oh Snap Collection Kit. After layering down all the photos, I used Freckled Fawn Chalkboard Arrow washi tape to divide the layout to 2 sections. The top is for the photos, and the bottom will be the title and journaling. Then I added the photo-strip chipboard sticker from October Afternoon Boarding Pass Chip n' Stick. 

After that, I pulled out a lot of embellishments to decorate inside the photo-strip and on top and around my photos. 

 

Supplies (Embellishments):

• Simple Stories Sn@p! Stickers, Icons and Letters
• Amy Tangerine Sure Thing Dimensional Stickers; Cute Overload Tiny Matte Puffy Accents; Pigment Fabric Stickers; Bits Die Cut Cardstock Shapes
• Basic Grey What's Up Die Cut Cardstock & Transparencies
• Fancy Pants Swagger Sticker Fundamentals

Actually I didn't finish the layout on the same day. After decorating the top part, I stopped. Then on this afternoon, I spent some time on the bottom part, which is the title. Now, the photos already took a very large part on the layout and the title is quite large too, so I decided to skip journaling to make it less crammed. 

I used Amy Tangerine Lovely Thickers and a chipboard alphabet stickers (couldn't trace the source, the name on the packaging is incorrect) as well as October Afternoon Key Caps Sticky Keys to spell out the title. Added 2 tags on the right side of the title and on the left, a camera accent cut out from one of the PP from Echo Park Oh Snap Collection Kit and the 'location pin thingy' from Studio Calico Chipboard Shapes Stickers. Oh, and I used a black marker pen to color the Amy Tangerine Lovely Thickers because the cream color blends in with the background too easily. The cut out photo strip behind the title was added afterwards too, because even after making the thickers black, it's still difficult to read it.

I thought the photo-strip with various embellishments in it will be my favorite part on this project, but it turns out I like the title section more.

So that's all for my last layout for NSD Challenges. Now I'm gonna enjoy the remainder of my Sunday and try not to think bout Monday blue..

Good night!

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2Peas NSD Challenge

Hello, happy Friday everyone! 

I have to be honest, this week I don't think I did anything important at work. There are times the work seems to be like a burden and I don't know what to do with it. Then I got the flu bug which makes things more miserable. So I'm really really glad it's Friday, and I'm not working tomorrow, so this long awaited weekend is so much sweeter. 

I've made another layout for 2Peas NSD Challenges, using one of the sketch they provided. Again, their challenges is open until this Sunday, so there are still time to participate. 

With the sketch on hand, it's really a lot easier for me to start putting stuffs down, however it still took me 2 days to get it done, but I only spent a total of less than 3 hours, maybe. First day I did the overall layout, second day for journaling, a poem. That's right, I wrote a poem. I know when I look back at the layout again in a few years time, I will either LOL or 'Oh God why'. 

Mother's Day is on this Sunday and I have chosen to make a layout about that important woman in my life.

This is the FIRST layout I made for a family member

The sketch is very easy to follow, though I did change some parts accordingly to make my overall layout look better.

Supplies

Layout Base: Recycled Cardstock Paper from local bookstore

Patterned Papers: Basic Grey Paper Cottage 6x6 Paper Pad; Simple Stories Harvest Lane 6x6 Paper Pad

Various Die Cuts: Kaiser Craft Hummingbird Collectables

Banner Die Cut: My Mind's Eye Love Me Paper Kit

Alphabet Letters: Red Letter Stickers from local bookstore; Fancy Pants Trendsetter Sticker Fundamentals; Fancy Pants Swagger Sticker Fundamentals

Love Stickers: Fancy Pants Trendsetter Sticker Fundamentals

Washi Tape: Freckled Fawn Chalkboard with Arrows, With Love (Red) & Orange Polka Dot with Heart

Flower Embellishments: Paper Die Cut Flowers from local bookstore

Others: American Crafts Knock Out Scalloped Punch; Pop Dots; Paper Scraps

Hopefully my flu will magically vanished tomorrow and I will be crafting after running some errand around noon. And now, I really need to rest. *sniff*

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Me, Dolled Up Version

My scrapbooking topics aren't the usual kids (don't have any), holiday (don't celebrate much here) and family/friends gathering (don't have much pictures, if any). What I scrapbook about? My trips and travels, but they usually are made into mini albums rather than layouts. Me and my boyfriend. And other odd stuffs such as my miniature collection, some food I ate, and other topics that are self-centered (a favorite card I made, my crafting process, my bucket list and so on). Therefore, scrapbooking about ME is not a big deal, though I don't take much selfies, but there are still a few that I could use for scrapbooking. And usually, I will only take selfies for special reason or occasion so there's always a story behind them.

Shimelle's scrapbook about yourself challenge is not really a challenge for me, and to make things interesting, I used other challenges on her blog to help me complicate things. Such as the first challenge, scrapbook in pink. Though I always tell myself and others I'm not a girly girl, but I can be seen with a pink handphone case, pink wallet, pink bag, pink sandal and so on. In my craft stash, pink can be found on some of my embellishments too. However, the only pink/girly patterned papers that I possess are from My Mind's Eye Love Me Paper Kit (which I bought to be used on all those lovey dovey photos of me and my boyfriend). The other challenges I incorporated in this layout include fabric and the power of three and of course, smaller photo.

My initial idea was to scrapbook my photo on a 6x6, and mount it on an 8x8. I forgot where I got the idea of using leftovers alphabet stickers for background, but it was a unique idea and I ♥ the look!

Initial Idea

But then, my title took up too much space and I had to trim down my 6x6 to 4.5x5. Still, the overall layout seems a bit crammed to me and I decided to mount that on a 12x12 layout. Plus, I don't have 8x8 sleeve to store my layout.

A Side?

Or B Side?

Finally I chose the not-so-busy B side and put down everything as shown. 

Decided to add a hello sticker on the photo at the end

Supplies

Patterned Papers: My Minds Eye 12x12 Love Me Paper Kit; Glitz 8x8 Love You Madly Paper Pad; My Minds Eye 6x6 Nostalgia Paper Pad

Alphabet Letters: Wooden Letters from Typo, Sydney inked with ColorBox Cat's Eye Pigment Ink, Papaya Cream; Simple Stories Sn@p! Stickers Letters; Red Letter Stickers from local bookstore

Stickers: Fancy Pants Trendsetter Sticker Fundamentals; Simple Stories Sn@p! Stickers Icons

Washi Tape: Freckled Fawn Orange Polka Dot with Heart

Fabric and Flower Embellishments: Received from swapping

Others: American Crafts Knock Out Scalloped Punch; Pop Dots

Voila! Alice, Dolled Up Version.

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Shimelle's Third Challenge: Mist!

I bought the Heidi Swapp Mustard Color Shine on my last craft haul. It's the first mist that I bought and I ♥ the color and the shiny effect it creates. Misting is a new technique I tried this year and I'm still in the process of experimenting on what I can do with it. 

My first attempt was using it on a dark background. I don't think I sprayed it evenly and it created blotches all around. 

Anyhow, the overall effect of the yellow on grey background is not bad and I'm happy with it.

I saw Shimelle has a mist challenge on her blog for NSD and I think that's another great excuse to play with my mist. On my second take of mist, I tried misting using a mask by The Crafters Workshop, Mini Life Strips 6x6 Template.

The word 'Awesome' is from the same mask too, but I inked this one with ColorBox Cat's Eye Daffodil Pigment Ink instead of using the mist.

The journaling spot is created using mist and mask.

My journaling spot took me a few attempts to get the look I want and I made 2 mistakes while trying. Firstly, I used my hand to hold down the mask and sprayed the mist. Well, bad idea. My hand was all glittery after that. The second mistake I made was spraying too near the paper. It gets too wet and I threw that away. There are still a lot about misting that I need to learn, especially with the mustard color I bought, I really need to experiment to see how it will look on background of different colors, and other ways of using it too. 

Supplies 
Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye 6x6 Designer Paper Pad, Away We Go
Mist: Heidi Swapp Mustard Color Shine
Mask: The Crafters Workshop 6x6 Template, Mini Life Strips
Ink: ColorBox Cat's Eye Pigment Ink, Daffodil
Alphabet Letter Stickers: October Afternoon Sticky Keys, Honey
Washi Tape: Freckled Fawn, Chalkboard Arrow
Embellishments: Simple Stories Sn@p! Stickers, Icons
Others: Star-shaped Punch & Pop Dots

And that's all for the first layout I made for NSD. Hope you like what I did and any comments is appreciated. 

Up next, is the second layout I made for another of Shimelle's challenge too.

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National Scrapbooking Day 2013

(I know I'm late, still..)Happy NSD everyone! It's a long weekend here at my place due to the General Election, and I thought I will be spending all my time to craft and craft and craft. But the truth is, we were all so nervous about the GE results that I ended up stuck in front of the TV until I had have enough of all the BS. It's kinda happy sad weekend. Happy because there are many NSD challenges to inspire me as well as all the great prizes they're offering, sad because the disappointing results of the GE. Well, enough of politics.

Two Peas in a Bucket has 10 challenges lined up for us to get inspired. You can read about them here. I don't know about you, but I'm interested in the first, second and sixth challenge. Hopefully I have enough time and energy to take down all 3 challenges! These challenges are open through Sunday, May 12th, at 11:59 pm CST, so there are still plenty of time for those who missed it on Saturday.

At Shimelle's blog, there are a total of TWENTY FOUR challenges! Here's the first post of her first challenge. I don't think I can make 24 layouts in a week. I might just chose a few that caught my eyes and try to conquer them. Oh, by the way, you can make a layout for each challenge, or you can combine first four challenges and make into one layout and so on and so forth. These challenges are also open through Sunday, May 12th. 

I believe there are more blogs or websites that are having different challenges for NSD, but I didn't go look for them specifically. The few that I intended to participate will be enough to keep me busy for the whole week.

So now, it's time to get crafty! 

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My First 12x12 Layout!

Happy 1st of May!

I just came back from a short trip with my family few days ago and still feeling exhausted. Spent the whole afternoon sleeping, with no regrets! Thought I should do something 'meaningful' before the day ends, and so here I am!

I completed my first 12x12 LO in early April. It took me a few days to visualize my project and I was afraid to take the first step, you know, wanted to be 100% sure about it. After 3 days of moving all the photos, patterned papers and embellishments around and around and around, I told myself 'the heck with perfection, I'm gonna glue down stuffs RIGHT NOW!' And so, I finished the layout in 2 hours.

Presenting my very FIRST 12x12 LO

12x12 Patterned Paper from Echo Park Enjoy the Ride Collection, Big City.

Sydney Opera House & Harbour Bridge

The word 'icons' are alphabet stickers from Amy Tangerine Lovely Thickers; the camera Fla!r is from Amy Tangerine as well (AT Metal Disc Mix Flair); the letter 'F' is an alphabet stickers I bought from a local bookstore and lastly, the word 'Sydney' are wooden alphabet I bought from Typo in Sydney.

Me + Harbour Bridge

Harbour Bridge wood flourish by Kaiser Crafts, Sydney Icons. The 'I WAS HERE' speech text is from October Afternoon Boarding Pass Chip n' Stick; Pink camera sticker from Amy Tangerine Cute Overload Tiny Matte Puffy Stickers; Washi Tape from Freckled Fawn, Polka Dot with Heart.

Him + Opera House

Manila tag with green border from October Afternoon Boarding Pass Miscellany (I used the back of the tag instead of the front); Camera icon stickers from Simple Stories Sn@p! Stickers Icons backed with pop dots; 'Been There Done That' stickers from Echo Park Enjoy the Ride Collection Sticker Accents; Letter 'M' and 'Y' from Fancy Pants Trendsetter Sticker Fundamentals. Washi tapes from Freckled Fawn Chalkboard Arrow and Red with Love.

Bucket List #3: Go to Sydney, take picture of Sydney Opera House - Nailed it!

There are still a few dozens of photos from Sydney that I haven't have the time to scrapbook yet, and the ones from my Kyoto-Osaka trip, I haven't even get them printed out, and the Bangkok trip in last February and the Hat Yai trip last week. Oh em gee, I'm so behind the schedule. I think by the time I get all of those done, it'll probably be the end of 2014. *facepalm*

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