My Sweet Girl

Hello everyone!!!

I've been really busy working on a few layouts and a couple of canvases, but I'm only able to reveal 1 LO today. Today's layout has lots of glitters and flowers, giving it an apt interpretation to the Bollywood papers I used from Far Flung Craft.









It's one of my favourite photos of Nadiah; just woken up from sleep and rolling around on the bed.

I got the idea of the sticking down the fiber along the circle from Marion Smith of A Piece of Craft. She does beautiful work and her videos are great.

Materials used:
Cardstock: Core'dinations. Patterned papers: Far Flung Craft. Flowers: Prima Marketing. Chipboard scrolls: Maya Road. Alpha stickers: Momoyo. Fiber, gold trim & metal charms: Scrappingchix. Pearls: Basic Grey. Others: Velvet leaves, Ranger stickles, rhinestones.

Target: 100 layouts
Done: 22 layouts
To do: 78 layouts

Scrappingchix 1st Anniversary Celebration - Update

Last Saturday was Scrappingchix's 1st Anniversary celebration. I was there really early just to catch up with Nad and also do some shopping :D. I was also suppose to teach a mini album class that day. We had 3 people taking the class and I hope they all had fun making the album and trying out new techniques.






The food was great and look how cute these cupcakes that Nad made... SC logo printed on the cuppies. SO cute!!!


And this is the album that I taught:









Thank you to those who took the class. And thank you, Nad for a splendid party!!

Scrappingchix 1st Anniversary Celebration

Scrappingchix will be having a crop party in honour of its one year of being in the scrapbooking business. There will be a free mini album session, preview of new arrivals, special discounts, lucky draw and lots of fun, fun, fun!!!

Details are as below:

Date: 4th July, 2009
Time: 10.30am - 1.30pm
Venue: A1-8 Gardenia Court, Jalan SG9/21, Taman Sri Gombak, 68100 Batu Caves, Selangor
Please bring with you: Adhesives and cutting tools

I've already booked my flight tickets and will surely be there. So come and have some good cropping time!!

Love You

I didn't plan to scrap today but not all things planned go the way we want it to. In this case... I just felt like it..:D

Decided to make a layout for February challenge in Scrappingchix. The challenge is:

Create a LO of your loved ones (parents, husband/wives, kids, girlfriend /boyfriend, friends or even pets), it can be of any size. You can submit as many entries. But here's the catch, in the LO you have to use at least 1 product from Scrappingchix, it can be the paper, cardstock, embellishments stamps etc.

I didn't only use one item from SC, but everything in this LO comes from the shop. Well.. except for the photo, of course! And the Pink Paislee border strip paper. Oh and Tsukineko Brilliance ink pads I used to ink the dragonfly. Ok, so ALMOST all the items used comes from the shop...

My take:






Materials used:
Pattern papers: DCWV, Pink Paislee. Flowers: Prima Marketing, Rub Ons: Maya Road. Cork alphabets: Bella!. Chipboard dragonfly: ScrapFX. Journaling card: K&Co. Brads: Don't know the make but got it from Nad too! Ink pads: Tsukineko Brilliance.

Target: 100 LOs
Done: 26 LOs
To do: 74 LOs

Cherish

Ok, ok, I know it's been ages since I updated this blog. The simple reason being that I have not been scrapping all that time. After all the Raya preparation and the beading and the after Raya dos, I just wanted to chill out and do nothing except read a book.

But I thought it's time that I start again. So here's the first of (hopefully) many more projects to come....

This on is for the GREEN challenge over at Scrappingchix. We're to do a layout or an altered project with a green theme. So this is my take.

I tried to use as many different brands, materials and accents as possible. I have paper, chipboard, flower, felt, rub ons, blings, ribbons, stickers and a button.

My Precious

Ok, here's a layout I'm very excited to have done. It's my first time using a clear acetate sheet. I got that Maya Road Black Sheer Sheet from Scrapingchix. So you might wanna check it out there if you want to grab some. I've had it for months and have been contemplating what to do with it. I thought of cutting it up but it's too beauiful to cut up. Then yesterday while I was looking through my stash, I came upon my Perfect Pearls and I just knew they would be the perfect choice!! So I just started dabbing several colours of PP on the sheer sheet and it came out so beautiful.

I kept the rest of the layout simple to emphasis on the background but I just can't resist my new Prima Say It In Crystals (love, love, LOVE those!!), a Riff Raff butterfly, flowers which I diecut with my Big Shot (finally I use the thing!!), wording strip from Bo Bunny and a chipboard frame from Fancy Pants Designs.

Close ups of the layout below:









* Note:
If you would like to know how this effect is achieved, please hop over to Scrapping Inspirations
for the Tips n Techniques.

Where Has All The Curls Gone?

When Nadiah was born, she was blessed with the loveliest curls ever to grace a head (ok, this is her mommy talking so of course I would think so!!). As she grows older, her curls started to straighten and once she had her first haircut, it began to totally disappear. So much so that I've been asked by my in laws if I had her hair rebonded. Yeah... like I would let people mess around a four year old girl's hair with chemicals... not to mention that she wouldn't have sat long enough for them to put clips on.

Anyway, her hair is now as straight as can be with a little curl on the ends. So I decided to scrap about this with a picture of her when she was about two a a half years old and her hair looking like maggie mee :D.











I used the new Core'dination cardstock. Each piece of cardstock has a core colour which "coredinates" with the surface colour. That means when you sand it or tear it, a different colour will appear. In this layout, I tear the edges of the fuchia cardstock. Then I scrunched it up and stick it onto a black Bazzill cardstock. Sanded the peaks developed from the scrunching and lightly ran a charcoal ink pad. The effect looks cool!!

You can purchase Core'dination cardstocks from Scrappingchix. There are soooo many other colours available.

Scrappingchix

Another good friend of mine just launched a scrapbooking online shop. It's called Scrappingchix and was officially launched on the 12th July. You can visit the online shop at www.scrapping-chix.com and read up on what's new on the blog scrappingchix.blogspot.com.

For the opening day, I made a canvas for her. I'm very glad that she loves it because let me tell you.. staping on a canvas is not a fun thing.. hehee. But I managed. I used a lot of paint, embossing and Perfect Pearls. Very happy with the result.

Why I Scrap

A good friend of mine started a new blog last month with the sole aim of promoting the art of scrapbooking in Malaysia. I think this is a wonderful step towards giving all scrapbookers a place for getting together exchanging ideas and inspiring each other. You can visit the blog at Scrapping Inspirations.

Recently SI launched a Circle Journal on Why I Scrap and I contributed a layout. You can read up more about circle journaling here and if you would like to take part, please email Chowchow at chowchow138@gmail.com.