scrapfest

Yesterday was a day a lot of girls from the Philippines looked forward to for several weeks. A scrapfest always means meeting up with friends, scrapping, and of course, shopping! I dropped Ian off at Mela's place and headed for Makati Parks and Gardens at around 915a.

If an event doesn't start on time, well, what's a girl to do? Shop, of course =) I got the latest issue of Simple Scrapbooks magazine and 'some' supplies (papers, brads and assorted other embellishments, rub-ons, ribbons, ink pad, and yet another acrylic block... yea I think that's about it). I hadn't really planned on getting lots of stuff, but I still ended up being about 3K poorer! Great! Anyways, I actually get to shop locally mostly during scrap events only so I merely took advantage of the one-stop-shop opportunity, hahaha, and at least I won a raffle prize (a kraft album-in-a-box) and got a present from Babette. Thanks, Babette :)






















here are the supplies that came in our kits

The class/demo consisted of several techniques (embossing, paper folding, hidden journaling, etc) to help us work on the album-in-a-box project. For some reason, I had no mojo to scrap! :o Maybe it was because I felt there was little time allocated for everything we had to do... or maybe it was due to the fact that the seating arrangement wasn't that conducive for scrapping - there were several long tables and it felt a bit cramped. The fact that the venue was a bit warm didn't help either.
here are sample pages set up on each table

After having a quick boxed lunch, we shopped some more and worked on the altered box challenge. I felt uninspired but I worked on my box anyways. Supplies: Sassafrass Lass papers, ribbon I bought from the Yellow-Violet house, altered flower from my stash, Sizzix circle die for the tag with a hand-written title (I was going to use rub-ons, but the letters from the pack that I bought from Buzy Bee wouldn't come off the sheet!! Que Horor! I had to exchange it for several sheets of papers instead)

There was another challenge for a 6x6 page but I simply didn't have the time to work on that anymore :(

At around 3pm, we started on our 12x12 page challenge using Cherry Arte supplies. The paper designs in my kit didn't quite match my photos so I had to shop for more paper. Perfect excuse, huh? Haha! Babette and I were so engrossed on our pages, we failed to have our snacks on time - so we missed out on the good stuff - again! Haha!
Supplies: Cherry Arte papers and chipboard, Karen Foster brad, Lil Davis rub-ons, Zig pen, ribbon from Yellow-Violet House, Colorbox chalk ink.

Oh, fun surprise! We were asked to look under our seats for a token and hey, what do you know, I found 1! =) I got a pair of flip-flops in exchange.

Headed back to Mela's place and we decided to eat out at The Fort.