"Happy Day" and "We Were 17"

Hi everyone!! I'm back again today with a couple of layouts to share. I am really on a roll, here, aiming to finish at least 6 layouts by Wednesday.

Ok the first layout I want to share is one I did using stuff from Swirlydoos July kit. It's an awesome mixture of Basic Grey Capella line with Kaisercraft and gorgeous laser-cut chipboard from Dusty Attic. I based my layout on this month's sketch that comes with the kit, although I only used half of what's in the sketch.



Don't you just love those rocky roses from Prima? They're gorgeous!! I just couldn't help putting a bunch of them together.


Here's another one over here.


Those flat backed buttons are from Webster's Pages. Just lovely!!



The photo I used for this layout was taken on my engagement day. It's one of the happiest days in my life. Such a precious photo taken with my three brothers, my little uncle and my nephew... all the favourite guys in my life!!

Materials used: Patterned papers: Basic Grey. Flowers: Prima Marketing, Kaisercraft. Pearls and journaling card: Basic Grey. Chipboard element: Dusty Attic. Leaves: from local store. Butterfly: Prima Marketing. Buttons: Webster's Pages. Foam alphas: American Craft. Others: Tim Holtz Distress ink pads, Alpha acrylic paint


The next layout I want to share is one I made for Scrapping The Music challenge #143 with the song Santa Cruz by Pearl Jam.



Gorgeous beaded flowers from Prima!! The journaling card is from the the packaging that comes with that Prima swirly pearls that I used.






This time I scrapped about me and my BFFs. Those three have been with me ever since we were 10 years old. This year marks our 25th year of being friends, staying together and being there for one another even when we are all miles apart. Here's to our friendship and hopefully there will be many more years to come. I love you guys!!

**This marks my 50th layout for the year. 50 down and 50 more to go!!!

Materials used:
Patterned papers: GCD Studios. Vintage script paper and rub ons: Luxe Designs. Flowers and swirly pearls: Prima Marketing. Alphas: American Craft. Metal heart: Making Memories. Bingo card: from Nad. Ribbon tape: 7Gypsies. Journaling card: Prima packaging. Others: Tim Holtz Distress ink, Glimmer mist and doiley paper.

Target: 100 layouts
Done: 50 layouts
To do: 50 layouts

No Guilt All Pleasure

This is a layout I made this morning for Challenge #124 over at Scrapping The Music. This week's song is "What's So Bad About Feeling Good" by Ben Lee. There are so many scrappable lines in the lyrics that I was hard pressed to choose just one. In the end I decided to go with "no guilt all pleasure' to go with this picture of Nadiah on the swing.

This is my take:












That black patterned paper is from Chatterbox. It's flocked and just so beautiful. I bought a few of them... red, white, black, flocked, glittered. I can't get enough of 'em.

Layout was based on another Begahhuna sketch. Although I turned and flipped the original sketch.

The flourishes are stamped on transparency. I stamped a bunch of them and just cut one or two out whenever I need them. So much easier than cutting out swirly paper. Again, I managed to used scraps for most of the papers. I'm going to try and use at least half of my paper scrap collection by the end of the year. Hope I can do it. But it's usually use one tiny bit and dump in three big pieces in one sitting. Sigh....

Anyway, thanks for dropping by and have a good weekend ahead!!

Materials used: Patterned papers: Chatterbox, EK Success, 7Gypsies. Basic Grey, Collage Press. Border strips: K&Co. Flowers: Prima marketing. Stamps: Stamp-It, Fancy Pants Designs. Journaling card: Collage Press. Alphas: American Craft. Brads: Making Memories. Others: StazOn ink pad, pearls

Target: 100 layouts
Done: 19 layouts
To do: 81 layouts

A Right To Your Dreams

On this last day of February, I decided to make one more layout, making it 8 altogether this month, which gets me right on track of creating 100 layouts for this year.

This is right off the scrapping table and it's for Scrapping The Music challenge 123, with the song 'Better Way' by Ben Harper. Although I didn't actually made the dateline, but thought I post it here anyway.







I used my one and only border punch for that beautiful black border. I've had it for the longest time but seldom use it, and certainly not this way. The upper part of the title is also punched out from Core'dination cardstock, which I lightly sanded before punching to get a soft distressed effect.The green circle I cut out by hand from a thin chipboard sheet. Then inked with Pine Needle distress ink and embossed with Shabby Shutters distress embossing powder.

I also stamped the flourishes on a tranparency and cut out, which is way simple than stamping on paper with black ink and cut out. The doiley papers were spritzed with Maya Road Mists; one light and the other with very heavy misting. Cut out the border of one and stacked them together. And inked the edges with Black Soot distress ink. I love how they turned out.

The layout was made using one of the sketches by Beggahuna. She makes beautiful sketches and I feel like making LOs based of all her sketches. This one I used is one from her 2009 file. Please go check it out. I'm sure you'll love them.

Thanks for dropping by and have a good week ahead!!

Materials used:
Cardstock: Bazzill Basics, Core'dinations. Patterned papers: Scenic Route Paper Co, Prima Marketing, Bo Bunny. Alphas stickers: Collage Press. Stickers: 7Gypsies. Flowers, stamps and blings: Prima Marketing. Brads: Making Memories. Journaling card: Jillibean Soup. Others: Tim Holtz Distress ink pads, StazOn ink pad, Tim Holtz Distress embossing powder, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, border punch, alpha punch, doiley papers, Maya Road Mists.

Target: 100 layouts
Done: 16 layouts
To do: 84 layouts

Regardless Of Who You Are

I found this challenge blog, Scrapping The Music some time ago and thought that it's really interesting and have always wanted to try. But I always miss the deadline. The challenge is to scrap to a song that is given, either the title or any part of the lyrics. Today, I was just browsing around online and decided to see what song is being played. It's If Today Was Your Last Day by Nickelback which is one of my favourite songs.

There is a paragraph in the lyrics that goes:

"If today was your last day
Would you make your mark by mending a broken heart?
You know it's never too late to shoot for the stars
Regardless of who you are"

I like the last line and decided to use that as my title.










That photo of Nadiah is a little dark as the sun was behind her when I took the shot.

Journaling reads:
"It does not matter who or what you are. Even if people think that you are not perfect, you are perfect for me. I love you regardless of who you are..."

And I love the rub ons from Autumn Leaves on the right side of the photo which reads: Looking is a gift but seeing is a power.


Materials used:
Patterned paper: Crate Paper. Paper strip: K&Co. Rub ons: Crate Paper, Autumn Leaves. Alphabet stickers: Basic Grey. Journaling card: Collage Press. Butterfly cutouts: Bo Bunny patterned paper. Mask: Tim Holtz collection. Color mist: Maya Road.