Homemade Pizza Night

Hi there. Here's my third layout for the week. This one goes back to clean and simple designs. I have to have a good balance of the two.

Homemade Pizza Night

I chose a polka dot paper to highlight the dots on the pizza. It just seemed to work with the colours and made the pizza pop. We don't usually make our own pizza but this was so much fun and I let Miss C go to town on the design, although she didn't really eat the olives - that's for me - I love olives.

 I heat embossed the journalling in gold. I also stitched on the layered papers to add more details.

 I also heat embossed the 'homemade' with a bronze embossing powder. It was a little messy as the pigment decided to stick to the paper and left a smear where I had some glue present. Hopefully it's not too noticeable.  I finished the page with splatters of gold and white paint.

I love this cluster of embellishments and accents. The mini square journaling cards are so cute.

Products Used

Background paper from Carta Bella Soak up the Sun collection
Blue patterned paper from Pink Paislee Atlas collection
Cards from Bella Blvd Candid Cards
Wooden ampersand from Shimelle
Brads from October Afternoon
Gold Thickers from American Crafts
Stamps from Technique Tuesday and Kelly Purkey
Embossing powders from LSG and Ranger
Spray Inks from Ranger

Thank you for dropping by,

Christmas in March...Again

The last couple of days, I've been very conscientiously tidying up the study and my scrap space. Reorganizing and labeling my stamps and dies into Avery Elle pockets, my punches into different brands and photos into folders and even doing a ton of filing and paper sorting.

I was certainly on a roll and decided to get my Christmas layouts done and out the way while I was still in the mood to get things done. By now, you might know of my love for doing Christmas layouts (not!) so it was a great time to plough through them. Looks like I may make it an annual habit of scrapping Christmas in March.

All I Want For Christmas

For the whole year, Miss C has been asking for a Snoopy toy and she was such a patient girl, willing to wait for Santa to send one. I have her actual hand written Santa's wish list hidden behind the false list on the right. The little snow flake acts as a pull tab.

This kit from MCS had so many elements included, I didn't have to do much. I did add silver ink to the wooden snowflakes before embossing with glittery clear powder. I also used Wink of Stella to add some glimmer to some of the sticker accents.

 I cut out the string of lights and think they look so cute at the top of the page.

Products Used

Papersm die cuts and stickers from American Crafts Be Merry collection

Wooden snowflakes

Wink of Stella

Silver ink from Avery Elle

Glitter embossing powder from Stampendous

Build A Gingerbread House

As a contrast to the previous green layout, I wanted a bold red one. I love the large chevron background paper. Every year Miss C gets to decorate a gingerbread house. We never eat it though - I don't think they taste that great but she gets to gobble down the sweets that don't get used up.

 The die cuts are just too cute and so appropriate.

I love the mini letter stickers that come in the kit and also the glittery foam alphas.

Products Used

Papers, die cuts and mini letters from American Crafts Be Merry collection

Gingerbread stickers from Pebbles Home for Christmas collection

White glitter foam alphas from American Crafts

Christmas Cheer Happy Celebrations

Time for a double layout. I did a patchwork background with several patterned papers. We had a pretty big Christmas day lunch with eighteen around the table. Even Molly fur ball got in on the action.

My sweet Molly was right in the middle of all the present opening and loved all the tinsel and ribbons. I love the glittery red alphas I used for the titles.

 Love the chipboard 25 which I back with a green tag.

Cute paper flowers to put together.

Products Used

Papers and chipboard from Carta Bella Christmas Time collection

Brads from Simple Stories Cozy Christmas collection

Flowers from Bo Bunny Christmas Collage collection

Red glitter foam Thickers from American Crafts

Distress inks from Tim Holtz for Ranger Inks

So there you go. Ho ho ho layouts in March.  Until next year.

Thanks for dropping by,

September Layouts

Apologies for the lack of posts - I've just been plain lazy about it, which is unforgivable. On the other hand, I haven't had that many layouts to show. I've only scrapped one layout a week, during our weekly crop sessions; daily life getting in the way.

As I sit here and type, I'm watching history take place in my home town. Hong Kong is fighting for democracy and thousands are on the street, in a peaceful protest, asking the Chinese government to honour the promises they made to Hong Kong and its people. Last night, the demonstrations escalated into a shocking debacle, whereby police were using pepper spray and tear gas to "control" the crowds. It was like a scene taken from some apocalyptic film and has caused the city to grind to a halt, with schools and banks around the hot areas closed for the day and public transport scarce. Miss C's school is within the districts affected, so she'll be home for the whole week.

It is at the same time a sad and awe-inspiring spectacle. Sad that things had gone the way they did last night and awe-inspiring the way Hong Kong's citizens and residents have united together to support each other for this worthy cause. Praying that a resolution will be found and Hong Kong can retain its identity in these trying times.

On to the layouts which I feel I should finally post before I completely forget.

First Holy Communion

 Well overdue layout considering the communion took place in June. I was saving this kit from MCS for this particular layout, which is a representation of a sketch that came with another kit.

 A simple layout with a cluster of flowers along one side. I love the flower sprays jutting from both sides of the cluster. This kit came with die cut angels which were perfect for the theme.

I edged the semi circles with lace and the die cut roses were edged to give them more definition.

Products Used

Papers, stickers and die cuts from Kaisercraft Key to my Heart collection

Flowers from Prima Marketing

Alphas from Doodlebug Designs

Distress Inks from Tim Holtz for Ranger Inks

Cardstock from stash

Lace

Yummalicious

 Miss C loves her chocolate shakes and I had to capture her mid slurp, of course.  I love how the colours in the paper match the colours in her outfit. This layout was also inspired by a sketch from MCS.

I love the contrast of multi-colours with the grey background paper - it makes everything else pop so much more. The cute words were cut from from one of the papers.

 This little camera die cut made me giggle as I felt it went with the photo well - Miss C slurps those choco shakes so quickly, they're gone in a blink. The ice cream sundae die cut was kindly given to me by one of my crop mates to complete this layout. Thanks Mandy.

The coloured balls was a sticker strip which I fussy cut. Yummalicious is a word that I use to describe the most yummiest, delicious foods, naturally.

Products Used

Papers, stickers from My Mind's Eye Creative Agenda collection

Brads from My Mind's Eye Now and Then collection

 Brother & Sister

The hubs is the youngest of four siblings and as you can see he's also the only male, which means he was thoroughly spoilt as a kid. This photo was taken at his sister's wedding last summer. I like the subtle gold tones in the paper and tried to mimic that around the page and borders.

I love the gorgeous flourish stencil which came with this kit - it really helps give dimension to the background paper. I layered horizontal strips of different patterned papers behind the photo.

 Funnily, I didn't look carefully at this kit before picking it for the photo and didn't know it had the words Brother and Sister (wish it was sisters) until I was halfway into using it. Lucky pick. I patted gold rub n buff into a chipboard ampersand to tie the title together.

I love this phrase and seeing their relationship with each other, quite befitting.

Products Used

Background paper and die cuts from Authentique Harmony collection

Other papers from Carta Bella Moments & Memories collection

Flourish stencil by Prima Marketing

Light molding paste by Golden

Ampersand chipboard alpha Thickers from American Crafts

Tarnished Brass and Black Soot distress stains by Tim Holtz for Ranger Inks

Gold Rub n Buff

So there we go, the last three layouts I did. My next post will feature the HKMC October kit, so stay tuned.

Hope you enjoyed looking and see you soon,

HK Memory Chest Kit Club - May 2013

Hello there,

The weather is heating up over here and summer is just around the corner. To compliment the season, the May kit is all about summer fun. Blue skies, bike rides and lots and lots of ice cream.

May 2013 Kit
2 sheets Carta Bella Cool Summer "Midsummer Sky" papers
2 sheets Carta Bella Cool Summer "One Scoop" papers
2 sheets Carta Bella Cool Summer "Summer Words" papers
2 sheets Carta Bella Cool Summer "Summer Season Cards" papers
1 sheet Carta Bella Cool Summer Alpha Stickers
1 pack Jillibean Soup White Frames
1 pack Little Yellow Bicycle Cling Word "My Happiness" Stamps

Add-On Options
Carta Bella Cool Summer Aqua/Brown Paper
Carta Bella Cool Summer Cloud Cream / Garden Green Cardstock
Jillibean Soup Kool Kraft Corrugated Alphas
Hampton Arts DecoRunner - Cloudy Skies


May/June Combination Sizzix Die
Sizzix Movers & Shapers Die - Pocket Envelope plus one pack of selected embossing folders (2 folder per pack)

Water Fun

 Don't you love the bright summer colours? There's a good mix of blues, greens yellows and pinks to go around. I love the instaframes, which comes in a full sheet of 16.

 There are word stickers and corrugated cardboard stickers, so you can be a bit more creative with your title.

Cut out some of the elements to add more details.

Yum

So much pinkness, so much fun. Makes me want to dive in and take a slurp.

I glittered the clouds here to give that extra shine. I die cut the envelope and turned the flap the other way round to show the other side of the patterned paper.

Cut out some of the ice cream images to add more yumminess to the page.

Extra Elements: Glossy Accents, clear glitter

Other DT Projects

My Happy Place by Angela Collingwood

 Family Time Australia by Angela McDaniel

 Ice Cream Delight by Angela McDaniel

 A Perfect Summer Day by Erika Lui

 Life Is A Bowl Full Of Cherries by Erika Lui

Here are the kit crop times:

Sheung Wan Crop
14th May (Tuesday)
10:30am - 12:30pm
Hosted by Grace Wong

14th May (Tuesday)
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Hosted by Erika Lui

Discovery Bay Crop
9th May (Thursday)
10am - 12pm
Hosted by Angela McDaniel

Looking forward to seeing all the kit club member projects from this kit.

Thanks for dropping by,

 

Finally, A New Layout

Hi there,

Does anyone else feel like this February is longer than usual? Not sure why. Maybe because CNY seems to be stretching out forever. I finally got to do my first ribbon spool class. What fun that was and everyone left with the most beautiful mini album. What a lovely gift this one will make for someone special.

 Almost finished album by one of the girls

 All lined up, looking pretty

 Everyone with their wonderful spools

Thank you to my first batch of girls who joined me for this project. I can't wait to meet the second lot. Reminder that the next class is on Tuesday, 26th February at 7pm.  If you wanted to do this project but there was no space, as long as you can get together four to six friends, we can work out a private lesson as well.

On to my layout. I usually have a crop session at my place on Friday mornings and it's great fun to sit with friends, catch up and have a few nibbles and lunch. I don't always get a whole layout done in one session, but I do try to finish it the same day. I'm one of those people who can't leave a layout alone until it's finished.  Anyway, here's the layout. Pretty simple, but I love the colours together.

Remember This Day

 I've previously used a black and white version of this photo on a tutorial layout, but have not yet scrapbooked it for my own album. It's part of a series of photos taken by a good friend of ours a few years ago.  As for the papers; aren't they beautiful? The primary colours of the papers coordinate so well together and the patterns are simply gorgeous.

 You know I love my flowers - have to have them somewhere on my page.

The papers came with a whole sheet of tags to cut out, and I couldn't stop cutting and ended up with a pile of them, so I used them like a matt instead. Each tag is different and so pretty.

Products Used
Papers, chipboard labels, sticker borders and buttons by Carta Bella Traditions collection
Sticker word labels by Teresa Collins Now and Then collection
Flowers by Prima Marketing
Distress Inks in corresponding colours by Tim Holtz for Ranger Inks

I'm now working on some new layouts, especially for the HKMC March kit club, but hopefully will be able to squeeze in a few extras before the end of the month.

Thanks for dropping by,