Hiro @ 28 Weeks!

Today I'm sharing a very funny picture of Hiro. While I try to take some shots of him, coincidently he opens up his mouth to show me.....lol! Well, seriously, do you all know that puppies are just liked kids. He do drop their baby teeth and grow adult teeth? I never knew that until I were told be some friends here. Yes they do drop their baby teeth. The funny part is, I could not find any baby teeth lying around anywhere. Where did they go?...Hmmm...his tummy? Do you know about that? And did you find any baby tooth lying around? Share with me.  

21 Weeks

This is my last project using Swirlydoos Nov kit, Antique Linen. It's a layout that I've incorporated the "snowing effect".

Here are the steps:

1) Use a cardstock as the base for this layout. Distress it's edges using a scissors and ink it with distress ink. Use a scrap paper as masking template and mask a frame on the layout using distress ink. Detail the frame with liquid pearls.

2) Add a strip of lace on the left of the layout.

3) Cut two strips from the pattern papers and distress their edges using a scissors. Add it to top of the layout.

4) Cut out a huge rectangular piece from another pattern paper and distress it's edges. Ink it with distress ink and add it to the middle of the layout.

5) Use another strip from the pattern paper and add it above the rectangular piece from step (4).

6) Distress the edges of the photograph and attach it to the layout. Stamp three small squares on it's right. Dress it up with Stickles.

7) Add a strip of lace overlay on the bottom of the layout and a strip of rub-on on the left of it. Stamp some small images in between the rub-on.

8) Cut some circle frames from the pattern papers and attach it to the layout using foam adhesives. Cover the frame with some Distress Stickles and detail it with pearls and decorative brad. Also stamp some images on white cardstock and cut it out. Add it between the frames.

9) Apply some rub-ons on the right of the layout and dress it up with pearls. Stamp a key and lock onto white cardstock and cut it out. Ink it's edges with distress ink and add it on the bottom of the rub-ons.

10) Add some textured rub-ons on the top and bottom of the layout. Use some alpha stickers to form the title.

11) Lastly, use the "Snowing Effect" technique on the layout to create the snowing look on it.

Hope you all like this layout and try the technique. Have a great weekend!
  

Sources: Products included in the kit: Pattern Papers: TPC Studio, Kaisercraft; Embellishment: 7Gypsies Textured Rubbings, Kaisercraft Rub-Ons, Prima pearls, Technique Tuesday Stamps, Hambly overlay, TPC decorative brad, alpha stickers; Others (not in the kit): Bazzill Cardstock, Ranger Distress Ink, Ranger Stickles, Ranger Distress Stickles, Ranger Liquid Pearls, Tsukineko Staz On, May Arts lace, Making Memories acrylic paint, Zip Dry, Glue Dots and other adhesives.

Snowing Effect

This is a technique that I've used while creating my last project using Swirlydoos Nov kit. I've used some white acrylic paint and a brush to splatter or flick it onto the layout. You could also use the old time "toothbrush" technique where you dip the brush into some paint and use your finger to rub through the brush to create the splattering effect. It's a super easy technique to try on some of your winter projects this season! Have fun!

Adventure Card

Recently, I've not created any cards at all. This is a card that I've created sometime ago which featured the stamp set from Darkroom Door. This card is created using Clear Scraps acrylic sheet and some pattern papers from Heidi Swapp.

Here are the steps.

1) I've cut two sheets of acrylic in different sizes and tie them together using some ribbons. On the bigger sheet, attach a piece of grey cardstock on it's left and later a strip of pattern paper on it's right. Dress up the strip with liquid pearls.

2) On the smaller sheet, attach a piece of pattern paper on it's left and a strip of lace on it's right. Detail along the lace with some liquid pearls.

3) Cut out two rectangulars from two different pieces of pattern paper and layer them on top of each other.

4) Stamp the image onto a white cardstock and cut it out. Ink around it with distress ink and mat it with a pink cardstock. Attach it to the card.

5) Cut out some flourishes from the pattern paper and add it to the lower left of the card. Also add some flowers on it.

6) Stamp the sentiment on the acrylic using black solvent ink.

Hope you all like this fast and simple card tutorial. I'll be sharing my last project using Swirlydoos Nov kit soon. Check back for it.

My celebration giveaway is still on going! Tell your friends about it. Share the love with them.


Sources: Clear products: Clear Scraps; Cardstock: Bazzill; Pattern Papers: Heidi Swapp; Inks: Ranger Distress Ink, Tsukineko Staz On; Stamps: Darkroom Door; Others: Ranger Liquid Pearls, Prima flowers, rhinestones, ribbon, lace, Zip Dry, Glue Dots and other adhesives.

First Christmas Giveaway at Pages In Time!!

Pages In Time is having it's first ever BIG Christmas Giveaway! Anyone can join! It goes till Jan 9th. Want to know the details, just read on!

Want to know what you can win?

*One Grand Prize A big scrap book giveaway that equaled to over $150.00 in merchanise!*One $50.00 Gift Certificate

*One $25.00 Gift Certificate

* Five $10.00 Gift Certificate

*A Spot on their Design Team as a Guest!
** Lots and lots of other store prizes!

How you can win? Check it out here. Good Luck everyone!

Last week of Nov!

This is my last project on The Crop Spot for the month of November. It's a project where I've included some techniques on enhancing your chipboard pieces. I've also tried to use an overlay that most people will avoid in this layout. Hope this project would spark a little inspiration in you all. Click here if you wish to read more about it. Happy experimenting!

Week 27!

This week Hiro is already 27 weeks. We've just picked him up today after boarding him for two nights at his usual boarding place. He likes it so much there that we've started to call that place as his godmother's home. So whenever we need to board him, we will say that he is going to visit his godmother...lol!

Look at that face. He is actually trying to beg for a lick of our food at that moment. Of course he failed as we don't want him to get sick because of that. Recently, we do found little patches of dandruff on him. I think it is some kind of skin problem but according to the grooming lady, she said it is fine. We just need to scrape it off from his skin and let it heal. Do you all have that problem with your furkids? Share it with me.

Through The Years

This is my third project using Swirlydoos Nov Kit, "Antique Linen". I really love the colour scheme coordinated in this kit. In this layout, I've used both gorgeous papers from TPC Studio and Kaisercraft with the lovely lace overlay from Hambly.

Here are the steps:
1) Use a pattern paper as the base for this layout. Distress it's edges and ink it with distress ink.
2) Cut out a wide strip of lace overlay and add it horizontally on the top of the layout. Dress it up with Stickles.

3) Cut out two strips with different width from the pattern papers and later, distress and ink their edges with distress ink. Attach it on top of the overlay and hand stitch some zig-zag stitches between them.
4) Hand stitch a huge square around the layout.
5) Ink the edges of the big photograph with some distress ink and mat it with a dark brown cardstock. Attach it to the middle of the layout. Apply some rub-ons to it's upper left corner and left edges. Dress it up with pearls.

6) Cut out a huge mirror/banner/journaling box from the pattern paper and ink it's edges with distress ink. Add it to the right of the layout. Also add some flowers to it. Detail it with pearls, Stickles and rub-ons.

7) Ink the edges of the small photograph and mat it with a square piece of pattern paper. Ink it with distress ink as well. Add it to the lower right of the layout. Attach a flower on it's right and add some rub-ons on it's edge and corner. Detail it with some pearls.

8) Cut out the title from the pattern paper and attach it to the layout with foam adhesives. Cover the title with some glossy accents. Add some rub-ons on both of it's edges.

9) Apply a flourish rub-on on the upper left of the layout and stamp some images on the bottom left. Dress it up with pearls.

10) Use the Distressing With Acrylic Paint technique on the flowers.

Hope you all like this layout and try the techniques involved. Have a wonderful weekend!

Sources: Products included in the kit: Pattern Papers: TPC Studio, Kaisercraft; Embellishment: 7Gypsies Textured Rubbings, Prima flowers, Prima pearls, Technique Tuesday Stamps, Hambly overlay; Others (not in the kit): Bazzill Cardstock, Ranger Distress Ink, Ranger Stickles, Tsukineko Staz On, Making Memories acrylic paint, floss for stitching, Zip Dry, Glue Dots and other adhesives.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Thank you all for supporting my work and my blog all this time! It really means a lot to me. I love reading all your warm and encouraging comments. You all are the main reason that kept me blogging through these years. I also wish to thank those of you who had help to spread about my blog and share my work with others. It's a great compliment when I received emails telling me that they got to know about my blog through their friends, customers, relatives or fellow scrappers and they've enjoyed it. I really can't thank you all enough. I will keep sharing what I've created and discovered in my journey and hope you all would keep supporting me!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Little Details to Share

From yesterday's post, some of you had asked me, what are those food and how I celebrate Thanksgiving?

First of all, Thanksgiving is not celebrated here in Malaysia. But, I always think that it's such a meaningful day to do something for others and of course, there's nothing better than to slow down and start going through the memories of your journey this year. Therefore, I like to kind of celebrate it with my family. Nothing as big as what you all had but just a small dinner together with the family.

Ok, back to the food, those are basically some desserts and delicacy. For example, the first picture would be fishballs soup. It tastes great especially for the kids. It's not sweet. It's like the taste of some noodle soup. This is one of Chloe's favourite dish.
The second picture is a dessert. It's sweet potato cook in some sugar and water. It's definitely a very sweet dish.
The third picture would be a kind of fruit dessert. We call it "lychee". It's very sweet and taste refreshing.
The last picture would be some prawn dumplings. I think you could see this is at chinatown in your country. Yummy!

After much explanations, I'm getting hungry now. Make sure you try to spot for these food the next time you get a chance to visit chinatown. Hope this post make some of you looking forward to your Thanksgiving Feast!!