Keep in Touch kits, pt. 2

Here is part 2 for the Keep In Touch kit club. Check out her blog post for images of the kit she sent...it was FUN!! This post will feature 2 layouts with a bunch of close ups!! I went to town with the details, 3D action with pop dots, and stickles forever!!

This first layout features my parents, Heintje's mom, and Ate Heart :) This picture was taken in Gilroy last year, yes, I'm still scrapping last year pictures! Heck, I still have Holy Land and New York pictures from 2007! LOL.

Finally here is our sweet Joey Boy! Man, I love that kid! These pictures feature his "Cheese" Smile! He was helping me with laundry and putting his clothes away. His version is putting them all in 1 drawer...LOL. I should take a picture next time.

Thanks so much, Kelly, for an awesome kit! I had a blast and used practically all of it up...yippee!! Got 3 layouts done and 3 cards--great way to use up those scraps. When in doubt, cut up a bunch of circles from PP, crumple them up, ink them up, layer them up, and stick a brad in the center. You got yourself a cute flower!

Another post!! Goo me :)

I'm trying to keep this up, really! It's been really crazy at the house with all our internet woes. Then also throw in end of school, cleaning up the house, and just plain living life. The house is a mess right now since we are trying to organize the garage. We got 2 storage things Hman is putting together. Just need to get some brackets then I get to organize...FUN! The scraproom/all purpose room is a mess with school papers everywhere. We need to weed out things and just save some of their favs. Hopefully tonight I get to scrap. I have the upcoming Color Me Miki July kits...yes...plural as in 2 kits!! I love them both!

The month of May was Paper Posies anniversary celebration. They posted challenges every few days, but I only had a chance to complete 4 of them. They also had a weekend crop that I'll post about in another entry. This is what I created for the challenges. Thanks so much, Paper Posies for a fun month and for helping me knock out some layouts!!

This challenge was to create a card using a sketch. It was around the time for Mother's Day, so I created a Mother's Day card...this was for my Sister In Law.

This challenge was to mimic the Paper Posies logo. I love the posies and how simple it is to create. Just get some circles and layere them. Then add a center, I used hearts. This photo was taken in Lake Tahoe last year, I'm sure I scrapped this before, but this is for my Mom's album. I can't believe I used cardstock as the background!! LOL..I NEVER use CS anymore! Heidi Grace PP and I think a scrap of KI Memories and Daisy D. Chipboard circles by Heidi Grace, gotta have bling baby--Prima! Heart stickers from Michael's...I grabbed them from a sticker sheet the kids were using..LOL!

This layout was based on a Page Maps sketch. My poor Joey Boy. He fell off the back of the couch--HEAD FIRST! I was so scared that he bent his neck wrong..they way he fell looked awful!! OMG, it must have been the scariest accident any of the kids ever had. Luckily he got away with *just* a black eye...LOL. Totally used up some old school Doodlebug PP and stickers, Heidi Swapp journaling spots!, Technique Tuesday circle frame I painted with Crackle Paint, and Junkitz glitter chipboard.

And finally...another Joey layout! LOL. This was a scraplift from one of the designers. I loved how she layered a bunch of PP strips..I'm all about using up scraps! I don't even know if they match, but it's DONE :) Patterned papers: Prima, Love, Elsie, Junkitz. And a bunch of misc stars and buttons.

Thanks so much! Have a great weekend!

11 years and NSD!

Hello everyone..happy May 2! What is so special about May 2? It's Heintje's and my 11 year anniversary!! Exactly 11 years ago today, 2 became 1..haha..cheesy! He is working today and we have a birthday party to go to tonight. Hopefully we can celebrate sometime this week with yummy dinner and a movie.


Today is also National Scrapbook Day. I told Heintje we need to get married again on a different day since I'm always missing out on NSD. Priorities, right! There were many places online that are hosting challenges and such. This year I used the challenges hosted by Scrap for a Cure. These girls rock. I love how they give back to the community and donate part of their proceeds to charity. WTG, Patti and Diana!!


This first layout is for Challenge #5, create a fun border. I esp. wanted to use these pictures today since it's our anniversary! This was taken at the Gala a couple months ago. Just like prom..haha!

The next layout is based on Challenge #1, use a sketch. It's a sketch created by Becky Fleck from Page Maps. I love how easy and versatile it is!! Journaling is about how Jordan stayed home from school when they were having a field trip because of his out of control coughing!! Poor dude. I felt so bad, so I left work early and we had a date a Subway. YUM!

Finally, this last layout is for Challenge #7..doodle. I didn't do much doodling here, just outlining the 4 photo corners and the center PP (which is actually packaging from K&Co). Back in March, we took Heintje's cousin from the PI to SF. Cool day!! This picture was taken atop Twin Peaks.

This is it for now, hopefully I can get more challenges done later today!! Woohoo..I love scrapping!!!

**eta....Here is another layout I completed. Challenge #8 was to use fabric..I created a yo-yo flower with fabric and backed it with medical gauze...LOL! Jasmin looking oh so cool in her bug eye glasses!

Okay, here is another one, Challenge #6...scrap not so perfect pictures. Blurry pictures, goofy pictures, and the one of my SIL was smeared post-printing. I need to reprint it, sorry, Ate Grace! New Year's day, we all went to watch Bolt. Even my MIL enjoyed it! :)

**eta #2....last one for the night. Challenge #3 was to use a whole sheet of rubons. Since I don't have very many rubons anymore...I'm rubon challenged..LOL, I used older sheets from the Creative Imaginations line. They are little square booklets with about 15 pages in them. A few friends gathered and split up our packs so we can have a variety. FUN stuff! Here is Jassy in one of her moods...her moods that get her in trouble! I've had that "tempermental" sticker forever and a year, I"m so glad to finally use it! Thanks, Jasmin..LOL. Anyway, all those flowers and the flourish along the left side are rubons.

This is it for NSD. I don't think I can get another done in 45 minutes, scanned and uploaded, so I"m calling it DONE! Stick a fork in it. THANKS so much Scrap for a Cure for the fun challenges! Now that I finally delurked on the boards, I'll hop on the blog challenges, too!! YIPPPEEE!!!

Solvang/Santa Barbara pt.3

Okay...promise, only 1 more post after this..LOL! And I won't even post all of the layouts..some are just too "thrown together." I'll just post the nicer ones for your viewing pleasure. I want to show you eye candy, not eye sores..LOL! At least I can say the trip is DONE! 24 -12x12 layouts all in 1 album. All in chrono order. All DONE! As a fellow scrappin' friend use to say...Stick a fork in it and call it DONE!

Here ya go....still focusing on Santa Barbara. We spent the whole day there so there were many photo ops :) Here is a layout of my dad. We went on this little getaway to celebrate my dad's bday. He is a 9/11 baby! Here he is on Stearn's Wharf.

After lunch at Shellfish Co. on Stearn's Wharf, we headed to Paseo Neuvo Mall. We didn't want to shop, so we headed toward the beach....duh, we JUST got back from there! It was a nice walk, but a little far. The kids did great and when we arrived at the beach, they completely forgot the walk..LOL!

Kids + water= fun, fun, fun! I don't know what draws the kids to the ocean. I bet they can be there for hours just jumping the waves, playing with the sand, skipping rocks. If it was a warm/hot day, they would be running in there!

After the beach, we headed back to Paseo Neuvo Mall. This time we took the city trolley. We got there a little earlier than the rest so it was photo shoot time..LOL! Dude, I'm telling ya, I'm going to have my hands full with that person in the blue tank top! Can't you just see the attitude!

Lastly, we went to the Courthouse. Sorry, I'm too lazy right now to post links...LOL. But in my previous posts, I do have links to these places in case you are interested :) And after the long walk to the Courthouse (we didn't realize it was so far!), we took the trolley back to the mall. Only to find our car would not start and we were stranded for a couple hours!

Did you make it this far?? I'm all done with Santa Barbara...woohoo! The last post will be about Solvang....done! Thanks for joining me as I relive our getaway. I'm totally missing Holy Land layouts, so I'll probably get to those soon. I have a few new layouts in progress from 2009! I decided to use a different size for the kids' album. You'll have to check it out next time....until then...get your scrap ON! :)

Solvang/Santa Barbara pt.2

Here we go....more Santa Barbara pictures!! I am ALMOST done! I have about 2 more layouts to go...some journaling....and scanning! These are layouts from Santa Barbara. First stop was Stearn's Wharf. These layouts are not spectacular, but I wanted to get them done. Papers totally don't match, lots of pictures, lots of stuff...LOL. But I didn't want a super fat album...we are running out of space in our house!!

Totally OLD SCHOOL paper...Me and My Big Ideas baby paper pack like from 2003 or something! It was a dull, overcast day in Santa Barbara. The gray paper seemed to fit the mood...LOL. But then I wanted to brighten it up a bit with other goodies. Oh..and trying to be "green," the yellow piece on the left is actually packaing from a K&Co sticker sheet :) What else is on here...the stars are cut from Prima Dude PP; Love, Elsie sticker; transparency..maybe Prima?; Die Cuts with a View die cuts; Thickers; blue scallped border is Jenni Bowlin crepe paper!

My parents, Auntie Elon, Uncle Menor, Kuya and Tina. I love when we all travel together! They help out so much with the kids and Hman and I can have some quiet time :) Background paper is K&Co, birdie paper is DCWV, green paper is Rusty Pickle. The black strip says "Road Trip", I think it's from Lil Davis? Wow..old school Scrapworks titlework on a journaling block from the Color Me Miki Jan kit, as well as the tickets. And a bunch of other random stuff.

After walking around a bit, we had lunch at Shellfish Co. LOL...my parents and aunt and uncle took a picture just like the one on the website..LOL! Yummy crab! This is probably the least favorite of my pages! Oh well, it's done. Chipboard from Basic Grey; die cuts from Making Memories. Background paper again from Me and My Big Ideas; pink papers are KI. And using packaing again..the brown spotted piece from Imaginisce.

This is it for now. I have more to show you, but then I'll be going out of order and that gives me stress, haha. Let me finish up the other couple layouts, then I'll be posting all the layouts in multiple posts so you are not bombarded with dark, gloomy overcast. Seeing the layouts in order will feel as if you were looking at the album right next to me...yapping....and yapping away! How fun for you!! :)

Take care, ya'll!

Color Me Miki---Jan kit--Gretel

Sorry for the delay. It's been a couple of those weeks! Not to mention our weekend getaway to North Hollywood to throw off our schedule! In my last post I was excited about our 70degree weather. Well, we are now back in winter mode with 50 degree weather and rain, rain, rain! At least the rain is nourishing our hills and filling our reservoirs. :)

Now on to the layouts. In a previous post, I showed you a few layouts I created using the Hansel kit from Color Me Miki, in this post, I will show you the Gretel kit. Can you say....SWOON!


This picture was taken on Thanksgiving. It's getting more and more difficult to get a "good" picture of all 3 kids now! haha!

LOL, Jasmin and Joey sharing, sort of! haha!


Finally the last layout from the kit. I totally love this picture of Jasmin. It was taken outside of Longs Drugs in Clear Lake! I remember my friend Suzy took a picture of her daughter in a pose like this and I wanted to do something similar. Man oh man...Jasmin is so photogenic, I love it!

And here is a sketch for the "You Electrify Me" layout. I got the idea for the title from a song, but I can't think of it right now. It's not the name of the song, but it's part of the lyrics and it just totally sticks in my mind. If you kow what the song is, I'd be ever so grateful if you told me....THANKS!

Random layouts

I cannot believe it's already Dec 11! Exactly 2 more weeks to Christmas and we haven't even sent out our cards yet. Heintje will be buying something special for them today and hopefully we can get them out this weekend. *sigh*..."Life moves pretty fast. If you don't slow down and look around, you might miss it"....where is that quote from??....I feel like I'm about to miss Christmas!

Here are a few layouts I had sitting around that I haven't posted yet. They are OLD! I think they were created during summer?? I have about 5 layouts that I need to scan, hopefully I'll get them up in a few days :) THANKS soo much for looking!

This was created for a challenge...use white space. Pretty simple, just 1 sheet of PP for the background, a few scrap strips of PP for a border. And finally using up my rubons. They are from Daisy D, I love them! Goes on like buttah! ha! The photo was taken at the SF airport when Ate Monette and her family went back home to the Philippines. They were here for about 6 weeks...wow, what a GREAT vacation!

Here is my scrapping partner. He is such a night owl, and stays up almost as late as I do, yikes! In order to get some things done, I give him a bunch of stickers and he's a happy camper. I've also included his "work of he{art}!"

I've always been known to not match my wardrobe. When I was younger my friends would constantly tell me I was a "Fashion NO". It's still true for now, fashion is not one of my strong suits and I just wear what is most comfortable, esp when I have chase down a 2 year old all day long. Well, that mis-matching flows down to my scrapping, too! I hardly ever match the papers together or to the picture. That is okay with me and I love using up scraps! I don't even remember what I put on this layout, just what I had sitting around from previous ones done. My 2 sweeties totally in AWE of the spinning toy. They were literally in that position for a good 10 minutes!! Ahh..the simple joys in life!

The last 2 layouts were challenges from Homegrown Summer Stash Buster. And I think I also combined it with the Willow Traders Scrapvivor challenges, even though I was already out..haha.

This layout needed to use "laugh" in a title and buttons. The quote reads: You fill our days with {laughter}. My crazy daughter at Pier 39. It was a hot hot day, 90degrees at 9pm in SF!! The heat must have gotten to her..haha!

Finally, the challenge here was to use a summer picture. What better way to portray summer than a swimming photo from our first Summer Swim day. Used a bunch of KI goodies from the $12 (clearance) clipboard pack from Joann's. Gotta love great prices!!

That's all for now. Hope all these summer photos helped keep you a little warm this time of year. Here in CA, I'm FREEZING in this 40-50degree weather!! Hey..no mocking all your east coasters! haha!

Color Me Miki!!!

Hello everyone!! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends. This year we had the celebration at my cousin's house, Kuya Rino. It was also his birthday and Ate Chay threw him a surprise party. Hopefully he was genuinely surprised even though he kept seeing some familiar faces around the neighborhood..haha!

After a designing hiatus for a few months, I am very excited that Terri asked me to be be a part of the Color Me Miki design team. I am so honored to be a part of the club and to work with her awesome kits. It's the perfect size and she mixes manufacturers that coordinates wonderfully. I love the bright happy kits and they were so fun to work with. Thank you, Terri, for this great opportunity!!

I was able to start with the Dec kit. I love the pink and green mix, great for the Holidays or not! Here is a picture of the kit..filled with Pink Paislee and KI Memories. My favorite part of the kit was the cool Prima Transparency that had a bunch of nested frames!

Here is a quick card I created with the scraps from the layout. I totally LOVE the tree PP from Pink Paislee. I cut them out individually and applied Stickles. You can get the Stickles from the add-ons.


Here are 2 layouts using the frames transparency..I love that thing!! I cut the big circle out from the Cousins layout below. I also cut a small piece of the circle and used it in Jasmin's overload layout.

Finally here is the Cousins layout. I used pictures from our trip to Lake Tahoe back in May..yes, I'm pretty behind! haha! I covered up the circle with a piece of cardstock.

And here is a sketch based on the Cousins layout. Thanks so much!!