Scrap Space New Look

I've done nothing these past three days but arranging and rearranging my scrap space. It all started because hubby wanted to trade my single narrow shelves with his lower wider one. But because the one I got was broader there wasn't much space to squeeze in the original position. So I decided to turn my scrap table to the side and It is now facing the window, rather than being perpendicular to it as it was before. Here are some before and after pictues:

BEFORE

AFTER

As you can see, Nadiah has already marked her place right in the middle of my space with her cat and watercolour :D

The one thing I have to worry about is to not leave any unfinished work on the table because if it rains, and I forget to close the window... then there would be disaster!

My Wall of Canvases

Swim & Slide

Ok, another quick one I did yesterday of Nadiah swimming and sliding (or wriggling around is more aptly put) in 2 inches of water on our flooded balcony one rainy day. I love the pictures that turned out from that day.

Love that DCWV glittered paper that I used.

You Are

I managed to do 2 layouts yesterday. I have not been scrapping for so long that I have loads of pictures piling up waiting to be scraped. I also have not done a layout just for the fun of it. Lately my layouts or projects are done either for a challenge or for DT work. So it was great having to scrap some layouts just for the fun of it for a change.

The first layout I did is called YOU ARE. It's a picture I took of Nadiah in the car on our way back from school and she was just gazing away out the window hugging her cat.







The second layout I made is called YOU * ME. A picture of Nadiah and myself taken during the Eid celebration. I'm always busy taking pictures of her that I don't have that many picture of us together. I love the black Bo Bunny paper that I've used. It's so beautiful. And it's double-sided too. It's ashame that I could only use one side.

Treasure Box

I made this box for a friend's birthday.






As it is a treasure box, of course there should be treasures inside. Yes?


And so I made mini canvas layouts for her which I must say are really, really cute. Scroll down to see how tiny these canvases are.

Eid 2008

I made a clear album for Scrappingville from a kit that I received. It is a 6x6 album and I tried to use lots of paint and limit the embellishments so that the album was as "see thru" as possible.

I think the part that I'm most happy about this album is that I managed to keep the colour theme going which was red, black, white and gold with a touch of green here a there. Incidentally, those were also the colour theme for our family during Eid celebration.

Altered Journal Swap

Last month, I took part in an altered journal swap. There were two swaps. One was for SNC and the other was for ScrappingGlitz.

The one in SNC was for Jessy and this is the journal that I made for her:

The one in ScrappingGlitz, was for Ija. I made this for her:







I received these
from them. The one on the left is from Ija and the right, from Jessy. Thanks, ladies. I hope you like yours as much as I like mine.

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.

I Got Another Award!!

I received this award from two of my lovely friends, Mich and Nad. Thanks, ladies. You guys are real sweeties..

The rules for the award are -
(1) The winner can put the logo on their blog.
(2) Link the person you received your award from.
(3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
(4) Put links of those on yours.
(5) Leave a message on the blogs of the girls or boys you’ve nominated.

I hereby nominate:

1) Ida
2) Nadhrah
3) Jaz
4) Vivs
5) Leah Fung
6) Johanna Peterson
7) Donna Salazar

Thankful 4 U

About the time when I'm suppose to be working on my beading, that's when my mojo for scrapping keeps coming. Sigh... I seriously cannot spend time scrapping if I don't want customers come running after me. But I just couldn't resist. I just had to come up with something for Mod challenge #4 in SNC. We are to create anything, be it a layout, a mini album or anything with the word THANKFUL in it.

I decided to make a canvas LO albeit a small one (4x4). Here's my take:

Very quick and very simple take. Since I had to go out, I just slap some texture paste on the canvas before I left. By the time I came home, it was dry enough to start painting on it. Texture paste is my favourite thing at the moment although I have not the time to explore more with it.

Once the paint is dried, I just add some rub ons, trims, a photo and a scalloped frame. Then titled it with some Thickers alphas and I'm done. But after a while, I decided to add some crackle medium on some parts. You can see some cracks but not that much. I used Jo Sonja Cracke Medium for that but I think I need Ranger Inkssestial Crackle accent as I've seen that it cracks better and easier to use.

And the shoping list goes on and on and on...... oh dear!

The Artist

This is my take for Jaz's Mid August Challenge in Scrappingglitz Forum.

The challenge was to include doodling in our layouts. Honestly, doodling is my worst ever technique. I simply don't do doodle. As you can see, I kept doodling to a minimum for this layout.

ScrappingGlitz's First Online Crop

Last Friday, ScrappingGlitz held it's first ever online crop hosted by Miss Chowchow. It was fun and fast. As usual, I was late coz we were in Sungai Petani for Nadiah's weekly swimming activity. But even so, I managed to finish two layouts.

Here are my takes:

1st challenge:
1) You must incorporate the colour BLUE.
2) Must use buttons
3) Must use stamps


2nd challenge
1) Journalling
2) At least 2 pictures - if you wish to use more - pls feel free
3) 3 types of paper - pls mix wither cardstock with patterned paper
3) At least 2 types of embellishments - anything , ribbons, buttons, chipboards etc


To save time, energy and paper, I used the same pattern papers for both LOs. At least I didn't have to search my whole paper stack for the right ones, and thus i was able to catch up :-D