My little world...

BG CLASS 1: LAYERING PERSPECTIVES

2008-09-15T00:38:00.004+08:00

By Miss Cari Fennell, the first class challenge was to do layering, be it for paper or embellishments. I have managed to complete this layout and uploaded it just about 40 mins before the deadline... it was fun doing this layout of my daughter wearing a flower girl hairband. She loves this photo alot because she is all excited to be a flower girl for her God-Mama in Nov :-)

TFL!

3 favourites...

2008-08-24T21:30:00.008+08:00

I have been struggling with these 3 layouts, because the weather has been really cold... so much colder than last year's. But now am glad that I managed to complete all 3 layouts at the same time.

In First Day layout, its my dear Jasmine, first day wearing Pre-Primary uniform(winter) for school. My baby is now a young lady with so much enthusiasm for school. You said you really love this school because you can learn so much about God. So much so that for the past 2 weeks, you have been asking me if you could attend Regent College till Year 7. Praise God for your excitement in learning more and mature with widsom in Him.

This layout journal says "Its yout first day to primary school, Regent College. You are all excited because attending primary school means that you're a BIG GIRL!!!!".

In the 2nd layout, I want to remember my daughter's smiles... she has always been a cheerful girl and thank God for it. I have quoted Proverbs 15:13 "A Happy heart makes the face CHEERFUL..." I pray that she will continue to grow in the Lord with this cheerful smiles of hers.

This 3rd layout, I have used gold acrylic paint on the edges, and red glitters pen around the Noteworthy paper.
Journal says " You are happy that you had a beads set. You even decided on the beads pattern ie. alternate colors and the charms that you like to add-in. I helped you to tighten the ends and you just couldn't wait to put it on. Happily, you put it on and posed for this picture."

Thanks for looking.

I've been selected.....

2008-08-20T13:48:00.002+08:00

Yay!!!.. yay!!!!!... What an honour!!!! I've been chosen as a Featured Artist by FaithSisters , it was for my layout Beautiful. I was just checking my Yahoo emails, reading and clearing my emails for this mid-week. When I came across the FS weekly newsletter updates... as usual, I read it, its was the "Made Ya Look Monday - Gallery Standout!" updates. As I browse down one by one down the list of layouts selected, I was telling myself.. Wow!!! What a great layout!!! .. and slowly move down the list, I came across my very own layout, Beautiful. I was and still am very surprised and of course very happy too!!!! :-)

You can see the details for this here!

Such an honour....

2008-08-12T19:32:00.004+08:00

Thank you so much to my dear friend, Jaz , for nominating me the Kreative Blogger Award...... It's such an honour to receive it, since I have not been scrapping for long and lately, I have not been scrapping for awhile...

The rules are:

1. The winner may put the logo on her blog.

2. Put a link to the person you got the award from.

3. Nominate 5 blogs.

4. Put links to the blogs.

5. Leave a message for your nominees.

Since, I do not know many friends who blogs and scrap at the sametime... I wont be nominating anyone today.

Thank you for your time visiting and reading my blog!

Cold winter....

2008-08-06T23:09:00.004+08:00

Yes, it's been a very cold winter and extremely wet as well..... I have not been able to do much scrapping in this cold weather... but over last weekend, with the bright sun and clear day, I managed to scrap again.

I have finished a layout of my daughter with her good friend, Jia Ding. The photos were taken sometime in Apr this year... we were having a picnic at a playground in Belmont... it has a few interesting rides for the children to enjoy. I took these pictures when they were both playing with bubbles... I called out to them, and they just looked at me as I snapped a few shots.

Named this layout "Happy Laughter":

My 2nd layout is on a black&white photo of my dear Jasmine. She was looking down at her toy when I snapped this photo... and as I looked the the printout, I felt so blessed to have her, a gift from God for both Joshua & myself.

Journal on this layout says :

"You are beautiful as you grow, a blessing from God, a gift that shows His love for Joshua & me. We are thankful to have U, His Beautiful Creation!! "

Thanks for looking.

BAD GIRL in DISGUISE!!!!!!

2008-07-04T00:54:00.005+08:00

For BG Birthday Bash, the first activity is to scrap lift for the whole month of July. So, there is this chain of scraplifting going on since the 1st of July. And I was assigned to start this activity on 3rd July.
This is the link to all the layouts..... check it out!

Princess Jasmine...

2008-07-03T23:06:00.003+08:00

I have been putting this layout aside for sometime now... my dearest daughter Jasmine, has been asking me to scrap a layout of her in the Princess outfit... She has a set of Princess accessories together with a tutu skirt.

When she saw me doing this layout, she was extremely happy about it. And the journal is from her, it says :

Dearest Jasmine,

Princess Jasmine,

I love U.

From Mommy

Bad Girls 1st Anniversary!!!!!

2008-07-01T12:30:00.005+08:00

Yupe!!!! its a Birthday Bash and there will be loads of fun scrapping activities there!!! And everyone is invited to come and join in!!!!

There will be Scraplift challenge, CROP Day, BIRHTDAY WORKSHOP with classes all month long!!!

Come and join us here!!!

Another layout from BG June kit....

2008-06-30T14:08:00.002+08:00

I really love the BG June kit, they are so colourful and vibrant. For this particular pattern paper from Tinkering Ink, its just too beautiful to be cut-out... So, I've decided to make a frame from it. What I have done is to poaint the edges with green paint then stamp around the inner sides to create the frame. Then I just scrap as usual.

This photo was taken at one of the session when we were feeding the ducks in Queens Park in East Perth. I've enlarge the photo to 5X7" because just love the smile on my DD. The journalling says "that is what your friends called U and U like to be called Jas!"

WooWeeee!!!!

2008-06-27T14:07:00.002+08:00

I'm so happy that my layout - Cool CHIC has been selected by BadGirls site as Layout of the Week (LOTW) for this week. Didn't really expect this to happen at all... but I really must say that I do enjoy doing this layout... the idea just came onto me.... and I just had to finish it up.... I did it all in 1 night.

This is the thread in BG:
http://www.badgirlskits.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?t=3680

Cool CHIC!!!

2008-06-25T10:39:00.010+08:00

I did this layout last nite using the BadGirls June kit.

I had lots of fun doing this layout. I am addicted to glitters, so sprayed GlimmerMist onto the felt embellies and used glitter markers to highlight the flower. Added some crystals as the birdie's eyes and on the little tulip-like flower centers. And I have used green arcylic paint to create a border for the spiral pattern paper.

As for the photo, I have heavily sand the edges, then stamp around the photo with the Frame stamp from Prima Marketing.

These are the close-ups:

Simple JOY

2008-06-24T13:07:00.003+08:00

BadGirls site has this challenge which is to edit a Black&White photo and add-on a highlight of color. And I have chosen this photo because the toy which Jasmine is holding is in bright yellow orangy color. She got this from Mc'D 's Kids Meal. Inside its a spinning top, yeah!!!! a toy which we seldom buy for our kids these days....

I remember those days when I played with lots of outdoor toys and especially boy's toys (mainly because I was the only girl around then).

Anyway, with this simple toy, Jasmine was so thrilled with it! .. when I showed her how to spin it, she was even more excited and wouldn't stop spinning and laughing at the same time.

This layout is done using the BadGirls June kit. I have sprayed some GlimmerMist on the cardstock before I add-on the pattern paper. I'm so into GlimmerMist for this layout, I even used it for the chipboard words. And instead of inking my pattern paper edges, I've used GlimmerMist!

Bliss : PencilLines #89

2008-06-21T22:07:00.007+08:00

When we were at Melbourne during this Easter, Jasmine wanted to try taking photos using my digital camera. It was at the time when we were infront of the National Library, Joshua was showing us the place because it's one of his favourite place during his Uni days. Its quite a relaxing place and lots pf people just sit around and enjoy, either their lunches or the sun.... we decided to take a rest and enjoy the place too.... so, my dear Jasmine just started to snap & snap photos... initially, she was taking the tram and seagulls that were passing-by.

Then she said "Daddy, Mommy, SMILE!!!!!"... and without hesitating, we just did it!!! So, this is the photo that she took! I must say, its not bad for a 5 year old child!

With this photo, I decided to do a layout using the PencilLines sketch #89. The products I used are a mixture from Prima and American Crafts. I've titled this layout "Bliss" because both of us really smile like we are the most happy person on earth!!!.. and I want to remember these happy moments.

Thanks for looking.

Love begin....

2008-06-16T21:10:00.004+08:00

Yesterday, I managed to finish one layout with a photo from the early stage of our courtship... at that time, I was still having my braces on. So, I always try to hide my braces when I smile, as seen in this photo. Back then both of us were still very slim and slender... haa!! haaa!!!... we really didn't have to watch what we eat or go on diet then... so we really had a great time.. especially the late nite's prata and teh tarik after the late night movie.

For this layout, I have used the Bad Girls May kit. I have painted the Prima pattern paper with arcylic paint in patches together with the music pages and some wordings pattern paper. This is to give a dreamy feel. Then add on photo with the rest of the embellishments.

Thanks for looking!

1st day at Primary School

2008-06-09T10:31:00.003+08:00

Yes, my dear Jasmine is attending Primary school now. She's all excited about attending primary school, because it makes her feel that she's grown-up now... I am glad that she is attending this primary school because its a Christian based primary school. Last Friday when I fetched her, as usual I asked her what did she learn in school that day, and she answered that she has been learning/doing the same things everyday, BUT... she continued with great energy that.. "I have learned more about God."

To tell you the truth, I was suprised with this reaction because she has only attended this school for 4 days. Its such a blessing for us, as Jasmine didn't have to go through the waiting list in order to get a place in this school. Some children had to wait for 6months to a year before they can get a place in the school.

Over here in Australia, its compulsory for children to attend PrePrimary, its before Year1, and my dear daughter has started her PrePrimary on 3rd June. I have taken some pictures of her with her new uniform.

satisfied?.... oh! yes!!!

2008-06-05T12:56:00.004+08:00

Yes, I'm very satisfied with the final look of these 2 layouts.

I found a photo of DD when she was 3 years old, and she was so cute.. because she has double-chin... a sight that I have not seen for the last 2 years... She was quite chubby at that time. So, I just have to scrap it.
For this layout, I have tried one new technique, which is sewing. I did some along the borders of the yellow pattern paper, then go through it with glitter pen.....

Second layout, is based on a challenge in BG that pattern papers are not allowed. This photo was taken when we were at Melbourne this Easter. Specifically, we were at SouthBank enjoying our stroll... when we saw a man selling balloons... Jasmine wanted to have one, and I knew that she would ask for a flower, which she did.

The journalling here says "We were at SouthBank in Melbourne and you wanted a balloon. And I knew that you would ask for a flower. The whole afternoon, you were so happy and behaved like an ANGEL. Glad that we took a photo of you with your flower because it burst that very nite at the hotel. "

Thanks for Looking!!!

Altered Box - My very first attempt..

2008-06-03T20:26:00.003+08:00

Did this with a gift box. Painted with vintage white acrylic paint on the sides, for the top cover, I adhered a felt which I have cut a frame and stamp the side with a swirl design. Then glued on wooden swirl, the Melissa Frances frame with a red bloom attached with some pearls and a ribbon flower. On the sides, I surrounded it with a green mesh and white ribbon over it.

Jasmine's growing...

2008-06-02T22:10:00.011+08:00

I have decided to do a album to keep a memory of my dear daughter's growing in the past 5 years. I have used the a project kit from Bad Girls ... and I enjoyed the whole time doing it. And I have chosen a few of the photos that we have taken all these years.

Main page: JAS a shortname which my daughter is often being called.

Page-2: Embellished the word GROWTH to indicate that this album is to show the progess of her growing up.

Page-3: This is photo of Jasmine when she was only about 2 months old.

Page-4: She has put on more weight, and specifically chosen this photo, because she really looked like a boy here. She was about 5 months old.

Page-5: This photo was taken when we were at Batam for holiday. She was about 1 year old here, and she looked more like a girl now...

Page-6 & 7: When she was 2 and a half years old, she is such a cute gal!!! Nothing like the "terrible two's " that I heard about so much.

Page-8-9: Starting from 3 years old, she has grown to be more like a lady.. little lady :-) . Love these 2 photos of her that she smiles so naturally.

Page-10 & 11: And at age 3 to 4, she has some silly moments that I loved these are a few of them.

Page 10 has a hidden picture behind the piece of cloth. And I have used buttons and ribbon to hold the cloth together. Look... how silly she is ....lol !!!!Page-12 & 13: These are some of the happy moments that she have expressed. She is 5 years old in these 2 photos.
Page-14 & 15: Finally, she has really grown to be very girly... love to be called Princess, love to keep long hair, making up her hair, let her hair down...

Mini album...

2008-06-02T11:54:00.012+08:00

Just over the weekend, I had some interesting classes at the BG site. The first class is called Reclaim, Reuse and Recycle... and guess what we're recycling... ... its toilet rolls!!!! Never thought of re-using that such a great idea!!!!

We were taught to flatten it then Wah-Lah!!!!.. it's a mini album... isn't it a fantastic idea!!!... now, I dont have to get any mini albums, this will be a great gift too!!!!
Ok, Ok, Ok,.... this is what I've done, a mini album for my birthday last year!!!

And inside the flatten TP, an embellished tags like this could be kept in it!!!! Brilliant isn't it!!!!

This is the simple embellishment behind the 1st TP:

And this my the 2nd TP :

The tag inside my 2nd TP (apology for the vague photo.. not to sure what happenned here!! )

You can use as many TP as you desire... but for me here, I have only these few photos, so 2 TP is just nice!

Old photos of me!

2008-05-28T23:06:00.003+08:00

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!

2008-05-20T19:54:00.004+08:00

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....

2008-05-17T00:03:00.009+08:00

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

2008-05-13T10:44:00.004+08:00

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

2008-05-12T13:40:00.004+08:00

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

2008-05-11T22:49:00.016+08:00

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

2008-05-08T16:55:00.005+08:00

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....

2008-05-08T00:00:00.010+08:00

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....

For my Sis

2008-04-30T01:00:00.005+08:00

Oh!!!! yes, cant just stop there... had to scrap 2 LOs this week... one from previous post (the sketch #81, remember? ...)

And I had to do another one on my dear sis. I realised that both of us seldom take photos together like this one, and I really like how this photo has turned out.

On the layout, I had to try out the flower layering.

Pencil Lines Sketch #81

2008-04-29T23:47:00.007+08:00

This is my first (again!!!!! ) time scrapping based on a sketch. I found Pencil Lines and really like the sketches that they've got from the various guest Designer.

Last week, there is this sketch layout by Jana Eubank which uses 3 photos. When I saw that, I really want to give it a try, and I did. And guess what!!!! The timing was great, I received my BadGirls kits early last week as well...

So, this is the result, its titled "LIVE to SMILE Always" :

Updates on LO photos..

2008-04-29T23:28:00.004+08:00

Finally, I found a PhotoStitch program which was given to me free when I purchased my Canon camera... happy!!! :-)

Still alot to learn about this new scrapping craft, so you will have to bear with me. I'll try to speed up my learning curve!!!

There u go my 1st 2 LOs which is stitched:
--> 1st LO

--> 2nd LO

Yupe, it's definitely a much, much better view...

And this my 3rd LO, which I explore inking and rub-ons:

Finally, my 1st two layouts...

2008-04-14T10:33:00.000+08:00

This is my 1st attempt to scrapbooking...personally it was an enjoyable process for me, because its been awhile since I explore colours, shapes and coordinating between the two. I have been knitting for the last one year and before that I was beading and making my own jewelry, which was a fulfilling experience as well.

My first layout is on my daughter (Jasmine) who is now 5 years old. The photo was taken last year at 4 and a half years old. Loved this photo because she specifically requested for her hair to be pleated and she just posed for me to take a picture of her. It was always difficult to get her to smile naturally, but this time it was different because she was really happy with the hair :-)

And my 2nd attempt, its one of the day that I really wanted to remember. We were at the Perth Royal Show. Its a yearly event in Perth and its not to be missed if you have children. Because beside the rides, there were animals as well. Animals from the farm, like Cows, Sheep, Alpacas and etc.

The first area that we visited were the children rides, there were Merry-go-rounds, Ferris-wheel, Saucer and Cup, Bouncy castles, and lots. The 1st ride which Jasmine wanted to take was this Merry-go-round. Once she was up on her horse, I started to take pictures of her, and I think she realised that its a little scarry. This is when she couldn't smile, so she fake one for the pictures.

Adios!

My first attempt

2008-04-08T23:46:00.000+08:00

Well as stated above, this is my first attempt to start blogging. Had always wanted to start one but just had to find time to ensure that I could continue to blog continuously.

Today, finally I have added some finishing touches to my second layout. I am very happy with the outcome and started to plan out my next 2 projects. Will take photos of my layouts and upload them here. Hopefully, I could do it tomorrow.

Good nite!