Old photos of me!

I have not been scrapping for the past 1 week plus, because I have been busy with work and stuff at home....Thank you for those of you who visited my blogs during these period, I really do appreciate your time.

Last nite I manage to complete a layout for a challenge at Scrap-n-Crop. The challenge is to scrap the old vintage photos that include myself in it. On top of this, to use only Basic Greys paper and journalling to be include in any form.

It was a tough one for me, because this is my 1st time scrapping an old photo....and at the sametime, I'm trying to scrap a vintage style... in the end, I was satisfied with it.. because I', scrapping a memorable piece of information here...which is the most important reason of all. So, thanks for looking.

Mother's Day layout!

This layout was done for a challenge at BadGirls as a tribute for Mother's Day. We were provided a list of quotes/titles to use for this challenge.

And I picked this quote:
~ I never knew how much love my heart could hold until someone called me "MUMMY" ~

Love this picture which was taken at Appolo Bay when we were on our way to visit "The 12 Apostles" in Melbourne.

Scrappers, you must read-on....

Wow!!!! Bad Girls DT team is going to conduct a summer school...err!!!! for scrapping, of course!!!
This summer school (because its a US website, so its summer for them now... but it's winter here in Perth... freezing cold!!!! grrh!!!!) ......ok, the school will take place over the weekend of Friday 30th May - Sunday 1st June. There will be 10 classes and each class will be conducted by the designer there, who are talented and artistic in their very own ways...

But the most important is part to this is that it's "FREE"...nope, this is not a typo!!!... yes, you're not reading this wrong.. it's really FREE!!!! .... What you need (besides all the supplies) you will need to register as a member to read the Forum... Trust me!!! Its going to be a great weekend!!! I'm gonna join them too!

The designers and the members have very wonderful layouts... so don't missed out! Come and join us at Bad Girls and have some Bad Girls fun ...

Explore & Wonder

This week I am really excited about my scrapbooking,... hence I've completed my 2nd layout in one nite... :-) ..and of course, it has to be with a picture of my dear daughter, Jasmine! I received my Stamping & PaperCraft(S & P) magazine yesterday and saw some stamping ideas from one of the section... and its really interesting. At the same time, I've decided to take up a challenge at the BadGirls forum, which fit in perfectly.

The challenge was to stamp around the background creating my own design, then scrap the rest of the page as usual. Fantastic!!!!! And this is the end product below :

The technique that I learned from the magzine was to stamp using bleach. So, I did it with flower swirl in the layout above. When its dried, the bleach lighten the puple cardstock to a light blue... and then I stamped on top of it with Versa ink - Old Rose. This gives the 2 tone effect above. And to give the swirls some dimension, I have added some glitters on them (the pic is not very clear, isn't it?).

The jounalling says :
" When you pause to explore & wonder, it's a blissful moment for me to see how much you have grown. Love, Mommy"

Love this picture when she is enjoying her french fries and looking out of the window, her eyes wondering in deep thoughts. Sometimes, I wonder what's on her thought...

YOU : Pencil Lines Sketch #83

Hello, I'm back with another layout based on Pencil Lines. I really do love their sketches, just can't stop scrapping!!!!
For this layout, I have used 2 black&white photos (again of my daughter!), and for one of the photo, I din't do a good job, there was a glare (I think, this is the right term to use!!!!... still not familiar with photography yet!!!)... But anyway, this time I wanted to try out black& white, so I just proceed with the photos.

I have titled this layout : You are adorable sweet daughter

Looks like all the layouts that I have done so far, are all my daughter's smiles and laughters!!!! Hmm... its a good thing ... she is a happy contented gal !!!... Mommy here is very happy with it!! :-)

Mother's Day

To celebrate this special ocassion, my daughter's child care organised a morning tea for all the mothers.... and the whole idea is to get the children to serve their mothers and play host to their mothers in school....

So, I was served these delicious food!!!!With the fruits and crackers, looks quite a balanced meal, isn't it? And obviously, I enjoyed every piece of these yummy food...

After the food, my daughter surprised me with a present... aawwww!!!!!!! I was so touched... she made me a beads necklace....

and of course the card, Mother's Day card...

When I open the card, she drew me on the left page and on the right, it says "Happy Mother's Day". This has really make my day!!!!!

And this is not the end of it, she has also made a table placemat for me from dried flowers...Hibiscus... and behinf the placemat, my daughter printed her hands and the teacher fill-in these words:

These are my hands

So tiny and small,

Cherish them carefully

Until I am tall,

Sharing, caring as

Years go by,

Watch how we grow

My hands and I.

It was a day that I will always remember.

cute FIFI : Pencil Lines Sketch #82

I wanted to scrap this week, so I tried to use up my BG Apr kits items as much as I can.
And with last week's sketch from Pencil Lines, I came up with this layout. Titled it "cute FIFI" because my dear daughter is having a good time wearing that FIFI hairband... again she gave me this beautiful smile which I can avoid not taking her photos...

Black SWANs....

Been busy for the last 2 weeks... I meant work, because my colleague is away for about 4-weeks holiday and I'm the only one in the section supporting the company.

Hmm... but for the last 3 weekends, I get to have long weekends... I had my usual alternate Fridays off, but on the 2nd last weekend, it was a public holiday, Anzac Day, hence.. got my 3-days weekend... :-)

So, brought my daughter to a pond, in the city, to feed the ducks... and we had a great time there... managed to catch a shot on this duck walking around...

and they have a pair of black swans... they are so beautiful, this is my first time seeing a black swan, normally its white. But I only managed to shot one of them.. Oopsss !!! I was wrong I did take 2 of them in the 3rd pic:

And some shots of my daughter feeding the ducks and swan... which I will be scrapping them soon....