A Graphic LO

Anybody has any good allergy tip? My poor hubby is in pain. He’s been sneezing and sniffling all day and the medication isn’t helping any.

My poor little M. She’s such a klutz (like her daddy, ha!). They were out, taking a walk, I heard her say, “you can’t catch me” and then a cry. When they got back, M had to show me her bloody chin. Ahhh… I plan on scrapbooking it. I’ll show you then.

This is a page that I did really quick. Hubby took the picture. Pretty nice, eh? This was enroute to Indonesia last summer. It was a trip that I thought would never happen but it did. If you listen to the news from the last few years, you’ve probably heard about the bombing and ethnic riots that have been going on in Indonesia. It’s such a sad thing. Because of the instability we haven’t been able to go until last year. It was the first time that my parents or my huge family really (except my sister who lives in CA) met my little family. I also felt like it was a miracle that we could go because I am bad luck when it comes to planning. Every time, 90% of the time, that I make plans to do something, it always gets canceled. We almost didn’t get married - he got called in to work. The only way we can do stuff is if we’re spontaneous or if it’s a major holiday and he’s scheduled to be off with the rest of the world. I feel like there’s a bug in the house, listening in. Hmmm… are they reading my blog now? I have no plans! I swear!!!

Ok, for the page, I use Tara Sroka’s Word Art. The brushes were found online and I have no clue where. I think DeviantArt.com but don’t take my word for it. Just simple, another graphic style LO.

I Can’t Follow Directions

Here’s the limited supplies challenge from Split Coast last Friday:

1. Make a square card. (Any size)
2. Use only scrap pieces of paper. (The base card doesn’t have to be a scrap.)
3. Use ribbon or fiber scraps.
4. Use only ONE other embellishment.
5. Use any colors, stamps, and tools.

Guess what? I made a RECTANGLE card. I got #2 and #3 and on #4… well, I missed that one because I can’t read English. I thought the ribbon was the ONE embellishment. I missed the “other.” URGH!!!!!!!

My husband wants this in writing, so here goes: I can’t read and follow directions. BUT… when it comes to work related direction following, I am awesome. I mean if not, I’d have half a** installed and running web apps, right? Selective? Who knows!

The material:

Paper: Soft sky, Kraft, black, and white cardstock with the Cutie Pie and 7Gypsies DP
Ribbon: Pomegranate
Tool: Paper piercer (I LOVE that thing, can’t you tell?)
Stamp: SU Lovely Labels

I have some pages to share too. These are my last pages for Dana Frantz (City of the Arts kits were used for the two LO). After tomorrow, I will not be in her CT team anymore. My three months will be over. Sad but at the same time I’m ready to try something new. But, I think I’ll take a little break from CT-ing for individual designers. My job at The DigiChick will be enough to entertain me. I have so many options! So fun, fun, fun!! I’m still a CT at Tara Sroka and so you’ll be seeing a lot of hybrid with stamps besides the good ol scrapbook from now on. I’ll still do digital (maybe not as frequent) and of course videos (which has been around Tuesday/Wednesday when I get to them).

The Country Girl page was just a quick layout that I did with a small portion of the kit. There are so many more elements in there that I couldn’t use because it didn’t quite fit the theme that I had in mind and the photos that I have. They’re all lovely though, check them out!

The second layout, Dreams, was super easy and super quick and I never thought I’d do this but I used Dana’s Quick Page. What’s a QP? Well, a QP is basically a page that’s already been set up for you and all you have to do is plop in the photo.

That’s pretty much what I did, I grabbed this photo and layered it under the QP layer. Voila. Isn’t this QP awesome? That’s why I went ahead and used it because it’s so pretty (some QP are not this nice, ha!). Better than what I could have done with all the elements.

Hope you all have a great night! There’s frost warning though, I need to get my plants in before I go to bed. Laters!

Walking on Ice

It’s been a while since I made this type of layout. Nothing fancy, just me and Photoshop. I did this fairly quick too, maybe 30 minutes. I really like it because it reminds me of the good old days in graphics class over 10 years ago. Back in the days I wanted to work at either an advertising company or a magazine. Obviously none of the above happened but I’m quite happy. I get to do this for a hobby, no pressure!

I know that there are so many terrific kits out there and I myself just want to buy, buy, buy, and try them out. But, once in a while, sit back, relax and see what you and your application can do (this can be challenging, especially for those who relies a lot on kits or love to fill up the page). If you have a hard time, grab one of your favorite magazine (I love my Country Living) and get some inspirations from there.

If you have nothing interesting to do this weekend and have about an hour, I challenge you to create a graphic style layout. Leave your kits, elements, fancy paper, etc. behind. It’ll be fun. I think you’ll like it {::SMILES}.

So Yellow

Can’t you tell I want summer to hurry up and get here? It’s in the 30’s tonight and suppose to be cold tomorrow. Ahhh…

So here’s a digital page that I did using Dana Frantz kit, Daisy Lemonade. The kit is very cheerful and fun. Love it! As usual, I only used one kit for this LO — maybe one day I’ll go all crazy and use papers and elements from different folks, for now… one kit at a time.  There’s nothing fancy here, no technique to share, just drag and drop {::SMILES}.

Today I had good news and bad news. The bad news wasn’t bad really but I was hoping… I submitted some work to A Million Memories, a scrapbooking kit store and found out that I didn’t make their creative team. I know that there are so many great scrapbookers out there and it’s my first try at submitting to a paper store but I was hoping for the 1% chance that I’d get chosen {::SMILES}.  But, the next email I read was great news I’m accepted to another place… can’t tell you yet until a few weeks. SUPER excited about this store!

I’ll be scrapbooking when this post. Have a great Saturday and I’ll share some of my items that I submitted to AMM this coming week and the next.

My Butterfly

Wow, the weather yesterday was crazy! I think if I weighed 10 lbs less I could have been blown away! We have a damaged screened in porch. Not much, the screens in a few places were torn because the 50+ lb futon was blown against the north side of the porch. Crazy! It’s really not bad compare to our neighbors. One had to call the roof guy because their shingles, a few, were blown away, and another neighbor doesn’t have a shed anymore… it collapsed. At least there was no tornado… this is one big reason we’re not 100% loving this place. Without the tornado, this place is great.

Back to my page… I’d probably have other things to scrapbook about if I didn’t have this little gal but since I do, she’s the star of my pages. I LOVE this layout. It took me two days to do it. I put the picture, window, and flower, and stared, and stared Saturday evening. I think I ended up watching Ugly Betty (rerun on the ‘puter since we don’t have cable/antenna service at home) and got back to it Sunday night. See, stopping does help. It took me about an hour to finish this page. All of a sudden my creative juices started flowing and here it is…

I used the new collaboration kit, Expressions of Healing and Calm, from Scrapbook Graphics. Awesome kit and it’s on sale today for $9.99! Check out their blog to see what other CTs did with this kit. I used a lot of what they have… wish I can use more… but they just didn’t fit the theme. I used three pieces of paper for this, just layered it on top of each other. The third piece is actually just that little piece of verse in the bottom. I erased the rest of the paper. I tried to give it a feel of a traditional scrapbook page. What do you think?

Ok, got to go. Big party to go to today at work… I have to be there by 7:30 a.m. — urgh — not an early person {::SMILES}.

Once Upon a Time

This is the other page that I did for the Scrap Artist challenge. I thought I was suppose to do two pages from whatever kit and not one from my own kit and one from the freebie kit. Last night at midnight was the cut-off date and time. I’m just waiting to see what the results are. You can see the submissions in their gallery. Quite a bit, huh? Not hoping much, but we’ll see. Like I said, I had fun, got some LOs done, AND got a free kit. What else can I ask, right?

The Internet is a BAAAAD thing for me. Especially now that I’m so into challenges and contests AND blog candies. I’ve never gotten anything from the last but it was still always fun to participate in all and hope that maybe one day I can get some cool freebie. I can’t do them all but I’m trying to do something from the different ones that I love. Prima has a new monthly sketch contest now. It’s called Prima’s Build-a-Page. You get prizes. Just don’t forget to submit your layout by the 25th. I love the sketch and I have the perfect photos — just found them last night {::SMILES}.

Do you know that PaperTrey has a blog hop contest each month on the 25th? I just found out today but I might try it for next month. I love their stuff. If you have a blog and either have or will be getting some PTI stuff, watch our for April’s hop. Should be fun. I should put it in my calendar, huh? {::SMILES}

Ok, have a great day. We just did our taxes yesterday and I feel so good (although both our muscles were tense during the process). I hate tax time. It was also nice too that we didn’t have to pay. I think the tax people made a mistake but whatever, they did check two-three times. I’ll let you know if we go to prison, ha! It might not be bad… more time to scrapbook and make cards… ha ha ha… I wonder if I’d be able to blog too… ok… enough of that… laters…

Youer Than You

Ok, this is a bit different than my usual style but thought I’d go a bit nutty since I was inspired by Dr. Seuss. Thought I’d try a Scrap Mojo challenge (#11). I used “The Cat in the Hat” sketch for this layout. I’m still trying to figure out if I like it or not. Yeah… I’m hard on myself. The kit I used is from Scrap Artist and the leafy floral on the left was extracted from one of the background paper. Although I will blend here and there still, I just love it if I can digi scrap just like how I would paper scrap. Just an update if you’re new to this blog: Last week I submitted a layout for a contest at Scrap Artist (I blogged about it Saturday) and from that submission I received a free kit. I have to create a LO with this kit in order to be fully eligible for the prize which is guest CT. There are a lot of awesome submissions so I’m not sure if I’ll get the spot but what I’ve done so far was worth the work. I got three great LOs done and a free kit.

I have to do one more digi layout for this month and then I’m done. I want to do more traditional LO since I have so many new pretties that I want to use. After this month I will only be the CT for Tara Sroka and guest CT for Dana Frantz for one more month. Unless I get the Scrap Artist guest spot, I won’t look for any new ones. I want to try for some scrapbook kit CT or card CT position after I’m done CT-ing for Dana. I think having a hodge podge of things, paper and digi, will be fun and also keeps me motivated in both departments.

I have a conference at the end of next week that I’m presenting at and I have one PowerPoint done. Yeah!! I’ll probably add more to it but at least the basics of it is complete. I just have to prepare for one more; I have two different sessions that I’m leading. A bit stressed but I think I got it. M will be going with me; I found a drop-in center (actually the YMCA). She’s soooo excited. We did this before and she loved it. My friend might also go with me, we’ll see. So either the Y or my friend will be with Emma for a couple hours each day. Hubby was suppose to go but his work has something in store for him — of course! There’s a good outlet mall there and a scrapbook store. I guess it’s a good thing hubby can’t go {::SMILES}.

Have a great day!

Happy Easter!

This is a layout that I did last weekend at the girl scout crop. I’ve been wanting to post this earlier but there’s been more interesting stuff to share it seemed. 

There’s typo on this lo but I never got to uploading the updated version. It’s We and not Wee {::SMILES}. This layout was created using Dana Frantz kit that you can find in her store. It’s called Whisper. I’ve only used five of the kit content, there are a bunch more! It’s a fun kit, you should check it out. But the five that did use are my favorites and the reason why I was drawn to this kit.

Now, have you been on Flickr? If you haven’t, this place is an awesome source of inspiration and resources. From Flickr you can find people and their work, maybe a blog, and maybe some other sites that they love to go to that you don’t know about that’s listed on their Flickr or blog. If you have an account, you can favorite different work. You can join groups and send your work/photo very easily to the different groups. Love this place!

Hope you’re enjoying your time with the family! Happy Easter.

Happy Saturday!!

Prima has a blog candy. Check them out. Subscribe to their blog if you haven’t. They do blog candies quite often! A winner will be chosen on Monday around 4 p.m.! If you’re wanting something to do this weekend/next week and love Dr. Seuss, check out the Scrap Mojo challenge for this week. As usual, I’m going to try a Beate sketch and do a few more LO. I am on track for my 2008 scrapbooking goal!

Another page that I did last night. There’s a contest at scrapartist.com. If you submit a LO, you get a free kit. With that free kit, you need to create another LO and after you submit two LO, you are eligible to win a spot as one (out of three) Scrap Artist’s guest CT. Go ahead, give it a try. If nothing else, you get a free kit {::SMILES}. Oh, you do need to use their products. If you don’t have any, check out their store. A LOT of awesome stuff. The ones I used for my LO are my favorites! I’d be great if I can be a guest CT, but if not, the freebies alone AND the layout that I can now print, is worth it. I love all these challenges and contents, they help me get motivated and try my best.

This year M’s going to get an Easter basket. The bunny told me. M’s so funny, she’s been going to the middle of our field and wishing, “Bunny, I’ve been a good girl, I want a little chicken and some stickers, mommy wants a little book and a pencil, that’s it. Thanks, bunny.” I love her, she’s so precious. I’m so glad I was chosen to be her mommy. The other night at dinner, we were pretending that we were in a ship. Emma had one little piece of chicken left and I said, “Oh, I see pirates coming our way, M, eat your last chicken. If you don’t eat it, the pirates’ are going to get it.” She looked at me and seconds after I completed my sentence she stuck the chicken to her fork, shoved it on to dad’s plate and said, “daddy, eat my last chicken so that the pirates won’t eat it.” We had to turn around so that she won’t see us laughing. Then hubby said, “No, you eat it, if not the pirates are going to cut your leg off.” She fell for that and shoved the chicken in her mouth. Great parenting skills, huh, leg cutting and pirates {::SMILES}

Hope you’re all having a great Saturday. I’m not expecting a lot of you to visit today but if you do, happy Saturday!

A Digi Page

Here’s a quick page that I did today using Tara Sroka’s kit and elements:

- You Shamrock Kit
- Nutritional Facts #1
- Word Frames #1
- Never Forget Stamps

Love this kit. Looks real and it’s clean. I love this page that I did. I think the green color really highlights the photo.

Today (or Thursday) I received my  goodies from SIStv. Yeah!!! Love my loot!

I think I should quit writing. I think I have very short and choppy sentences. I hope Friday is a better day. I had back-to-back meetings all afternoon and after the last one (which I didn’t know I was going to be pounced on) I was just pooped! I’m surprised that I was able to whip out three layouts today — in 3 hrs!! I’ll show you the others over the weekend. I have them on queue to post Saturday and Sunday since I’ll be spending Easter weekend with the family and maybe squeeze in a bit of work.

Have a great day, it’s Friday. WHOO HOO!!!