Want a future

The talented DorcasYHJ held a facebook group challenge on her Moments Recorded, asking for entries following the guidelines of 1) 4 patterned papers , 2) 3 brands and this was what I came up with.

I pulled out a piece of paper from my Prima ledger pack and recognised this as something from Pixie Glen (which incidentally I did a project with and I taught a class with it as well). I dug through my scraps bag and pulled out a K&Co, Kaisercraft, October afternoon and Pink Paislee to go with this layout.  I also pulled out my distress inks and mask and did a first cut in an hour in the night.  When I snapped the photo of the first cut, I realised that it did not have enough depth. In the morning, I worked on deepening the masked effects.

I think it quite paid off since I think this turned out to be a really striking layout.  I did not spend a lot of time putting it together but the longest time of inactivity was actually on the titling and journalling.  I spent a good 10-20 minutes staring at the layout! hahahhaa.... I need to work on my titling skill.

Passport to cross over

Last December, we wanted to bring BbC and Ms E to Malaysia for just a day trip to walk, browse and shop a little.  Of course, we thought that since it was about a half hour drive we just needed to get our directions, pack the bags and go.  When we arrived at the customs, we realised that 1) Ms E passport expired 6 months ago! and 2) we needed to bring Sofia's work permit if we were to bring her out of Singapore on trips.  Well, so we had to U turn and go back to make a new passport for Ms E.  That same afternoon, I snapped a few photos to submit for passport online (so efficient, yes?)

Anyhow, because it was her first passport that expired and had her cute little 1 month old baby photo, I couldn't bear to just toss it into the bin.  So guess what? It made its way into a layout :) yeap!

This is a different style from my usual layouts, and I wnated to include some portions of the actual passport into the layout.  Can you see where are the elements from the passport?


Materials : Papers - K&Co, Sassafras; Embellishments - Basic Grey, Girls' Paperie; Alphas - Thickers.

Ride

Do you remember this flower from this tutorial?  Here it is being used in a layout. 

Mini For Baby J

Made this for Baby J's mommy, who is a great boss.  This little mini has all the photos of lovely baby J and I left the journalling blank so she could put down unforgettable moments for memory.  I hope this little album will bring her much joy when she is stressed or need some additional energy!

I tried something a little different on this mini cover. It doesn't show as much on a top down photo, but it is actually dimensional and quite layered.  I took a quick shot of a side view so you can have a good idea of how to bring up the layering.

The photo rests on top of the layered ruffled ribbon on one side, and tulle, chipboard elements and glittered leaves on the other.

Materials : Kaisercraft Beyond the Page Mini Album; Papers, Chipboard Elements and Sentiments - DCVW, K&Co;  trims and roses.

Thru Thick & Thin

BY & I have been married for 10 years, so I was trying to sift through my photos for us together.  Thanks to the many computer crashes, we don't have much! So I took one that we took at the start of the year when I got my iphone 4.  The photo had been deliberately made old and retro by an app and I thought it would be perfect for a 10 yr layout.

Combined with my interest in creating "dirty" layout (which had June laughing at me for liking dirty layouts), I did this vintagey, retroey, non fluffy layout.

I'm not a frequent user of rub-ons, but on this one I applied two different types to get the contrasting letters in the same height.  I also managed to get a number of rub-ons on my fingertips... haha!

I like that imperfect look. 

Materials : Papers - DCVW cardstock, K&Co patterned paper; Washi Tape; October Afternoon rub on letters; CatsLifePress stamp; Maya mists; Tattered Angels glimmer screens.

Mini for Mummy

It's been a long time since my last post as I had been busy and couldn't find time to take photo when it was not raining. Finally I managed to catch some golden sun today after so many days of afternoon rain, so I quickly had this mini album photographed and tonight I get some moments to blog about it.

I had been altering things and making scrap stuff here and there for people and thought I should make something for my mom. So I set about choosing photos (the hardest part as there are so many!) and defining the moments before putting them into this little album. There are never enough pages for books like this, I'd say!

Here are the pictures.  I love this album because, again, it has lots of experimental stuff that I tried and I find that it is like an archive of both memories and progress.  Ms E loves the book because she would take the book and flip almost every night.

I won't show all the pages, but here are some that I would like to show.

 

Materials : Album - Me & My Big Ideas; Papers - Prima Annalee; Stamps - Fiskars, Purple Onion;  Embellishments - Making Memories, K&Co, Joann.com, Tim Holtz, Ribbons, Handmade flowers, Basic Grey, KCK, Glitz Girls.