Looking Through The Bubbles

Happy Wednesday everyone!!

I'm back again to share another layout made with Swirlydoos Lavender Escape kit. As the name suggested, it's full of shades of purple and I had just the right photo with Nadiah wearing a purple top.



The papers and vellum are from Webster's Pages Hollywood Vogue collection. I cut out the bigger filmstrip and the teal border from 2 of the papers. Then added some Tim Holtz filmstrip



Randomly applied the crystals just to give that coloured bubble effect.

Photo is of Nadiah playing bubbles. She blew lots of bubbles and was just running around in the midst of them. I just started snapping pictures and love how clear the bubbles came out in the photo.

Materials used:
Patterned papers, vellum, alpha sticker & journalling card: Webster's Pages. Flowers, leaves & crystals: Prima Marketing. Metal vintage frames: Creative Charms Others: Tim Holtz filmstrip and Tim Holtz distress ink

Target: 100 layouts
Done: 66 layouts
To do: 34 layouts

That's You

Here's another layout I did this morning using mostly things from Swirlydoos kits, either from the September kit or previous ones.

I love these patterned papers from My Mind's Eye - Lost & Found Union Square line. They are glittered and so beautiful. One of the diecut papers has "You should know that you are Charming, Adorable and ever so sweet" printed and glittered on one corner, and that's just what I want to say to Nadiah.

This is the layout that I came out with:



Those writings are rub ons from 7Gypsies. They look so real.. although my handwriting is never that beautifully done :(.



I cut around half of the glittered wordings and slipped the paper and photo underneath it.

Chipboard chandelier from Dusty Attic, which I coloured in using Smooch! pearlized ink from Clearsnap.... you know, those that come in the cutest little bottles that usually belongs in a makeup bag :D

This beautiful bracket frame is from Pink Paislee - Artisan Elements which I had spritzed with Glimmer Mist, rubbed with distress ink and outlined with distress stickles and yet the colour was still too pale for my liking. In the end I combined Red Pepper and Salmon alcohol inks and dab, dab, dab. It came out this beautiful brilliant red which I really love. Then just added those rub on quote and little birdie and voila!!

Materials used: Patterned papers and clear stamps: My Mind's Eye. Flowers, crystal swirls and flower centers: Prima Marketing. Glittered foam alphas: Creative Imaginations. Rub ons: 7Gypsies. Frame: Pink Paislee. Chipboard scroll: Bo Bunny. Border tape: 7Gypsies. Wooden bingo number: Maya Road. Others: TH distress ink, TH distress stickles, alcohol ink, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Tsukineko inks.

Target: 100 layouts
Done: 63 layouts
To do: 37 layouts

Tea Leaves

After a long hiatus, I am back in the scrapping world with a vengeance... tee hee!! I managed to do 5 layouts in just 2 days. Woohoo!!

The first is of our vacation to Cameron Highlands in June, where we visited the breathtakingly beautiful BOH tea plantation.









I used mostly pieces from the September Swirlydoos kit which is full of the gorgeous My Mind's Eye's Lost & Found - Union Square collection. I know that Eiffel Tower is a long way away from Cameron Highlands but.... owh why not? It's a beautiful piece!! Nobody said I HAVE to scrap only pictures on Paris with this line.

Not much on techniques for this one. It's mainly just cutting and pasting. Although I did stamp the date on those Maya Road kraft tickets. And I did spritz a little glimmer mist on the diecut paper. So that's basically the end of my technique requirements :D

Materials used:
Patterned papers, paper flowers and brads: My Mind's Eye. Flowers and pearl swirls: Prima Marketing. Alphas: American Crafts. Chipboard frame: Bo Bunny. Kraft tickets: Maya Road. Journaling tag: 7Gypsies. Others: tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Tim Holtz distress ink.

Target: 100 layouts
Done: 60 layouts
To do: 40 layouts

Sand & Water

Here's a simple layout I did of Nadiah's name written in the sand and being slowly wiped away by the sea water. I didn't feel like an elaborate layout for this with too much embellishment and kept it fairly simple and clean.



That watery clear crystals looking like they are being washed up by the see onto the paper is actually crystal granules which I sprinkled on wet glue and left to dry. It gives a nice effect, I think. Added a couple of fabric flowers from Prima to give a finishing touch.


I love that film strip ribbon from Tim Holtz, layered with a kraft ticket from Maya Road on which I stamped "in dreams we catch glimpses of life larger than our owm", also from Tim Holtz. Although I have to say that my stamping was appalling with blurry image. I definitely needs to stamp more!!

Most of the items I used came from a mixture of Swirlydoos kits, except for the kraft ticket and the glittered alphas. I think I should have title the layout Sand & Sea, which has a nice right to it. Unfortunately I've already glued down 'water' before realising my mistake. Well... just go with it, I tell myself!!

Materials used:
Pattern papers: My Mind's Eye, Creative Imaginations. Flowers: Prima Marketing, Swirlydoos. Tim Holtz film ribbon. Tim Holtz Stampers' Anonymous stamp. Kraft ticket: Maya Road. Crytal granules: Swirlydoos. Others: Tim Holtz distress inks, Tattered Angels glimmer mist.

Target: 100 layouts
Done: 58 layouts
To do: 42 layouts

"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

Reflection

Here's a layout I made out of this month's Swirlydoos kit. This month the kit is called La Vie en Rose and it's a beautiful black and red combo with music and symphony theme. Very bold and very dramatic.

Unfortunately I don't have that many musical themed photos and those that I have, have already been scrapped. So I went with a non-musical photo.










The photo was taken at a lunch date that the Scrap-It-Lah girls had as a farewell for Mazlina. The photo is this layout is a little blurry because we took it through a mirror, hence the title.

Materials used: Patterned paper: Heidi Swapp. Stickers (tags, tabs and borders): Creative Imaginations. Musical notes overlay: Creative Imaginations. Flowers: Petaloo. Flower center: Prima Marketing. Flower vines: Prima Marketing. Glittered alphas: American Craft. Word cards: 7Gypsies.

Target: 100 layouts
Done: 40 layouts
To do: 60 layouts

Cat Love

I got my Swirlydoos kit this month full of beautiful embellishment but unfortunately I've been so busy that I've only came out with one layout so far. It's a shame because I got some pretty papers and lots of flowers.

But I am happy that I managed to create another layout based on the sketch by Beggahuna that comes together with the April kit. See the sketch HERE.

This is my take:



See that frame? That's from Pink Paislee Artisan collection. If you haven't tried it, I suggest you do. It's so versatile and I was quite surprised that the texture is actually soft and rubbery. I had imagined it hard. Here I spritzed it with Glimmer Mist and blended in some distress ink, giving it a soft peachy colour.



Here's another product from the kit that I love. It's Prima's dimensional alphas. The letter itself is cream in colour and is made of a shiny lacquer that is soft, somewhat gel-like, and fused onto a piece of white felt. Left on it's own, the letters would have been swallowed by the colours of the papers. So I stick them on my craft sheet and started spritzing generously with my Glimmer mist. Then just dab the access from the letters and leave the felt to dry. And voila!! The colour matches the frame and that big beautiful peachy Prima flower. Nice huh?

I can't wait to use more of the alphas, using different colour mists....

Materials used:
Patterned papers: Webster's pages. Flowers, pearls and alphas: Prima Marketing. Frame: Pink Paislee. Others: Glimmer mists, TH Distress ink, lace trim.

Target: 100 layouts
Done: 33 layouts
To do: 67 layouts

The Kiss

This is a layout I made for Swirlydoos Round Robin forum challenge for the month of March. I was team #4 and so went last, lifting the layout of the person before me, Maria. Please go HERE to see Maria's beautiful layout.

So here's my take:



Photo of Nadiah giving that baby duck a kiss. But she's actually sitting in the car while the duck is outside with the window safely between them :D

I cut out strips of SEI velvet paper to make the ruffles around the circle. Love that velvet paper!!

Another stamping on acetate, which I'm loving at the moment.

Materials used:
Patterned papers: Prima Marketing, SEI. Alpha stickers: American Crafts. Flowers: Prima Marketing, Making Memories. Pearls: Basic Grey. Stamps: Stamp-It. Inks: TH Distress Ink, StazOn. Journaling card: Collage Press. Swirly chipboard: Unique Press. Ric Rac: may Arts.

Target: 100 layouts
Done: 27 layouts
To do: 73 layouts

Your Favourite Hat

Finished this yesterday for another forum challenge over at Swirlydoos. Basically the challenge is to ink, spritz, colour and dye everything. Or rather, to change the original colour of the items that we use in the layout.

Here's my take:

I spritzed the die cut paper with Maya Road Mist (Pink) and Glimmer Mists (Key Lime Pie and Timeless Lilac) and did the masking thing using Tim Holtz masks. Then I added those Maya Road clock rub ons. Cut out some velvet paper (did I tell you how much I LOVE that velvet paper? Well, I DO!!!) and distress the edges a little.

The flowers are all originally white. I spritzed more Glimmer Mist and Maya Road mist.

Inked 'HAT' with Tim Holtz distress ink (Blak Soot) and also a little on the mesh which was originally white too. But the black on the mesh turned out a little light so I spritzed tons of Glimmer Mist in Graphite to get a darker colour.

Swirly blings are my absolute favourite!! If I have tons of them. I would put swirly blings on ALL my layouts.. :D. These ones were a combination of crystals and grey and very light pink pearls. I decided to use alcohol ink (Terra Cotta) on the pink ones. It was a little tricky applying the ink as I had already laid down the blings. But I managed using the end of a pin.

Spritzed more of the green Glimmer mist on white cardstock and punched out the alphas.



Photo in the layout is of Nadiah in her absolute favourite hat. She goes everywhere in them except to school. Only because it's not allowed though or believe you me, she would don the hat in school too. When she goes to bed every night, the hat would be at the end of the bed. It's a precious hat. I wouldn't want to imagine what it would be like if we somehow manage to loose it. Uh-ah... hopefully that's not going to happen....

Materials used:
Die cut paper: Creative Imaginations. Patterned paper: Prima Marketing. Velvet paper: SEI. Cardstock: Bazzill Basics. Rub ons: Maya Road. Jounaling card: K&Co. Flowers and Blings: Prima Marketing. Others: TH masks, TH distress ink pads, Glimmer Mists, Maya Road Mists, velvet leaves, trinket pins.

Target: 100 layouts
Done: 24 layouts
To do: 76 layouts

Nadiah

Hey everyone!!

Here's a new layout I just finished for another Swirlydoos challenge that's being hosted by Peggy. There are a few conditions to the challenge, which are:
- based on a sketch in the gallery and turn in 90 degrees either way
- use 3 flowers
- use 2 butterflies
- use 1 large ribbon
- Layout has to be at 50% from Swirlydoos kit

So here's my take:











This time I scrapped about Nadiah's name. haven't done that before. Her name means 'giving' and 'honoured' in Arabic.

Two of the flowers are from Prima and I added one chipboard flower from ScrapFX which I ran some stickles on it. I hope that counts as the third flower.

I am loving stamping flourishes on transparency and cut them out. It's a great way of using my stamps. This time the flourishes are from Hero Arts clear acrylic stamps; of which I have not used in simply ages.

Ok, thanks for coming by and do leave some love for me.... :D

Materials used:
Patterned papers & flowers: Prima Marketing. Velvet paper: SEI. Chipboard flower: ScrapFX. Chipboard alpha: Creative Imaginations. Stamps: Hero Arts. Ink pads: Tim Holtz distress ink pads, StazOn. Others: Tim Holtz Distress stickles, glittered butterflies, organza ribbon.

Target: 100 layouts
Done: 21 layouts
To do: 79 layouts