saturday afternoon crop

Mia invited me to join the GNO girls (Au, Cabbie, Mitch (the gracious hostess) =), Nina, Nita and Sym) for one of their usual mini crops last saturday. Unfortunately, Nina and Sym had to leave right away =(



I don't usually get anything done during mini crops but hey, I got to work on 2.5 pages! One of them being a page I submitted for the BG sketch challenge

wasn't too happy about the way this turned out. oh well. it's time to move on to the next page I need to be scrapping anyways =) the other pages I worked on are for SA, using the yummy June kit.

It was time to pack up at around 7PM. For dinner, we headed over to the girls' favorite place: The Rolling Pot. YUM! I had not been to a shabu-shabu restaurant in about 9 years! :o I didn't realize how much I missed it until I sat down by the counter to prepare these:

Hmmmm-mmmm. Definitely something to look forward to again!

Thanks for having me, girls! Needless to say, with such a fun group to crop with, I had a great time =)

DDD challenge 18

I thought this was never getting done on time! I'm glad I was able to pull this one off. The challenge was for us to use products from different manufacturers, without duplicating any. thanks to Mia for coming up with this challenging challenge! haha!


materials: pink paislee, mme, basic grey, sassafras (front and back of the same sheet, gotta love that!) papers; teresa collins journal card, zig pen


So there. TFL!

Have a fun weekend! I know I am :) Looking forward to the scrapjam happening later today! fun!

SA pages

Another month of yummy scrap goodies in SA's May kit! =) Definitely had fun playing with the kit and here's what I came up with:

additional materials used: Dymo tape


other materials used: bling


other materials used: MM acrylic paint


other materials used: Bazzill brad


other materials used: cotton thread

DDD challenge 17

Had 3 weeks to work on this page as we had to pick out a photo, edit it into a B&W version with a punch of color and then use it on a page.

Here's what I came up with:

Used Bad Girls June kit plus some Heidi Swapp bling bling and MM stickers. Also used LT, SA Prima stamps, Nick Bantock and Stazon ink pads, and vellum paper. Love how this one turned out =)

puzzled

by the fact that my SC June kit somehow didn't land on my doorstep this month and ended up in the Las Pinas PO despite the fact that my address label indicated Paranaque! eek! last i heard, customs people assigned over there can get really nasty and just slap tax amounts they grab out of thin air onto people's parcels. as usual, i had G pick it up for me, and as he won't tell me how much his messenger had to pay for it, i really can't pass judgment on Las Pinas customs at this time. It was probably a modest amount as G didn't bother to pass on the cost to me! LOL! Thanks G =)

oh, but i was in for a treat! i was eyeing the picket fence add on but it got sold out on me so i had to opt for the berry picking add on instead. luckily, SC decided to put together a suitable replacement so I made arrangements to order it. when a dear friend found out, she graciously picked up the bill for it and even sent me a surprise gift - and only because i did a very minor favor for her!! thanks so much, girl! you're much too nice! =)

the latest issue

of the scrappinmoms ezine is up! check out my humble contribution here

TFL!

60 pages

yep. that's how behind i am on my scrapping!! decided to get back into gear somehow and here's what i ended up with several days ago; I only managed to find the time to add titles and journaling this weekend:
haha. several months ago, i had the mind to have these photos printed but soon after, i had a 'what-was-i-thinking-having-these-photos-printed' moment! LOL!!! well obviously, i finally decided to scrap them - gotta use up the photo stash! there's more where that came from! *groan*

thing is, i can't really say if discovering photoshop was a good or a bad thing. now, before i can even scrap a page, I get to thinking if I should be editing my photos before printing them out! and this just slows down the whole process, KWIM? instead of scrapping, i tend to sit in front of the computer tinkering with my photos (which aren't all that great, so I spend much time with them) and then I see all my recent photos and I get overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the task ahead. then i get distracted. No photos edited. No photos printed. Ergo, NO LOs DONE.

so then i decide to just scrap my previously printed out, unadulterated photos (which we know aren't all that great either) and then I'm not happy =( oh the headache of it all! how do you girls do it? how do you find the time to edit those photos into 'awesomeness' and never seem to run out of time to scrap them?

should i just stop taking photos? oh but I don't think I'd have the heart to do that.

ah well. maybe i'll try to maintain the status quo for now and just use up my 'bad' photos to get those pages done.

Here's another completed page using a couple of photos from my seemingly 'never-diminishing' pile.


another random thought. last night, as i was going through my art of doing nothing routine, i got to thinking: here i am, trying to rid myself of my photo stash and what do i end up with? even bigger piles of paper to showcase my photos on. now how do i find the storage for all of those pages and albums? hmmm... maybe i should just scrap more photos on a page like i originally set out to do (just so there'd be less pages to store) but then again, how do i get to use up my stash? aaaargh. i am in deep sh*t, i know! please just ignore me! =)

three's company

after about a couple of weeks' planning, Mia and I finally had the pleasure of meeting the lovely Leena Loh in person! She was absolutely wonderful, and the three of us had an enjoyable evening chatting and dining at Pepato, which happens to be owned by Mia's aunt.

Mia and I initially thought about taking Leena to one of the restos in Serendra, but we decided to head over to Greenbelt instead. Food was scrumptious and the drink, divine :p Credit goes to Mia for picking out the hors d'oeuvres, the desserts and the drinks! YUM!!

asparagus with cheese and barquillos with chive cream. really good choices!

since everybody decided on pasta, i went for linguine scampi. i wasn't disappointed. hmmm. i can't quite remember now, but i think i must've cleaned this plate up! LOL!!!!



ok, i don't know what these are called, but they were positively heavenly and yep, sinful :o

hmm. can you spot the uhu glue in there somewhere? haha. yep. somebody got craftly that evening *wink!*











oh and wait. here's a surprise from Leena - buttery and delicate hazelnut & black currant cookies. mmmmmm-mmm. these are very addicting. Thank you for being so thoughtful, Leena, and for taking the time to meet us. Hope to see you again soon! =)

getting crafty

i've had a sewing machine on my wish list forever. uh actually, i've wanted to own one since i started scrapbooking. for some reason, i feel that it's another one of my must-haves. hahaha! uhm, well i finally got my wish. kinda. (thanks for the tip, Nita!) it's nothing fancy, but for now, i think it'll do. yeah huh, this'll be good enough for someone who has never used a sewing machine before (read: my mom did all my home ec projects, hahaha!!! thanks, mum!)


here is my first attempt at sewing: it isn't so bad, is it?

i'd really love to have this or this in the not-so-distant future.... but maybe i should get some mileage out of my new baby first or the husband might kill me! *wink!*

care

here's what i came up with for last week's word. did you know how difficult it is to find a really nice quote about care? lol! i'm glad i stumbled upon this one - couldn't be any more true!

shopping expose

uhm ah... the things i would do for the love of scrapping and shopping. yep. i have had to get up at 430 in the morning despite having only 2 hours worth of sleep because i had to rush to the airport to pick up a box of my goodies :) unfortunately, my yaya and i have had to sit and wait and be anxious as we didn't get the box until about 730am. oh well. all's well that ends well, as they say. a box of goodies is still a box of goodies, no matter how late you get it. hehehe. of course, the faster you do, the better.

i had to go home to drop the box off and get ready for work. oh but because i was running late, i had to ignore the box =( finally managed to check and sort everything out at around 1am the following day :)

i don't know what possessed me to get 2 sets of the CK kit of the month - (school kit) by Becky Higgins but i'm guessing it's probably because this particular kit sold out really quickly the first time it came out and the only reason i have these now is because Lisa Bearnson decided to offer it again and I just had to have it. lol!


a girl's gotta have her tools. let's hear it for the scor-it mini (again!) - i think my first one turned out to be a dud so I'm giving this product another chance.


my love affair with stamps never seems to be over. there's always something that wants to be adopted *wink!* i've barely inked these and already, i'm dreaming about the newer designs in the market.


miscellaneous stuff.


idea books.


RAKs and prizes

bad girls workshop/challenges

Been looking forward to the Bad Girls Workshop but unfortunately, I didn't get the chance to do all the projects. I only managed to find the time for this class, and I only picked it because I had to do so for the DDD challenge for this week =) This is the first time I got to work on a corrugated cardboard medium for my scrapbook and I must say, it was pretty fun :) Here's what I came up with

supplies: UPS cardboard, BG May kit, lace trim (from Rachel's DDD), tissue paper from Scarlet Lime Jan kit, Tres Jolie card, K&Co 3D sticker, MM acrylic paint, Mod Podge, Zig pen

Earlier this week, I also worked on this challenge at BG. The challenge is to use a quote. I picked one by Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful. I had an idea and I had a good purpose and that's why I made works of art.
supplies: BG May kit, Zig pen, Making Memories tiny alpha stickers

TFL and enjoy the rest of the weekend :)

YITL 22

can you guess the word for the week? =)

had to do this one right away as school will be starting in a week's time and i didn't want to have any more backlog than i already do! :o

sharing

i couldn't resist inking my latest stamp so I had to make a card =) it was just as well, as I have a tita who's celebrating her birthday soon. perfect excuse, huh?

here are also a couple of LOs among several which I submitted to Studio Azul using the yummy April kit.