... In your eyes

It has been quite awhile since I last joined an on-the spot challenge, the last that I could remember was the finals of Idol. I was fortunate to attend EBs since January of this year, three months straight imagine! I really wanted to sit down and make a layout, but I feel so helpless scrapping-- away from my scrap pantry, parang hindi ako makakilos thinking that I didn't bring my paper trimmer, chalk ink, this and that! Mabuti na lang at Timi and Che were there to share. I borrowed Timi's paint and paper piercer and Che's glossy accents. Hay! Ow, I won't forget Ems, she gave me a piece of her Sassafras birdie, look Ems nilagay ko yan sa layout ko as promised. The challenge was to use 3 pps from 3 manufacturers, I used here Cosmo Cricket for the base paper, Karen Foster and Prima pps, DMC thread, Terri Martin letter stickers, AC Thickers platform chipboard letters, Sassafras bird, Fancy Pants pin, ribbons and lace, staple wires, versa craft ink and cardstock.

I took a picture of the original layout. I felt I had to do something more to finally finish the page, so kinutingting ko pa ulit. I just wanted to give justice for winning the challenge last Saturday. Congratulations too to Timi and Helga!





The original layout...

Look what I got!

My prize from Scrapbukan finally arrived last Friday night. I got a P1t gift certificate for being the runner-up for their MM Noteworthy Challenge last month. My "Together" and "I Love Myself" layouts won the 2nd and 3rd place. Thanks Sahrie for these wonderful stash...

I attended the March EB yesterday together with the rest of the LB Scrapaholics girls. Lasting Impression's Vivian Uy sponsored the event at her store at San Juan. We just dropped our bags and started shopping right away... it was a whole day of shopping, sharing and chatting, as always. Got all these yummy papers and embies... TFL!


It was fun!

Another lift from Cookie!

Yes, here's another scraplift from Cookie Aguilar's "A Story of Us". I just love how cookie made this multiple photo layout, it's my second time to lift her page. I used it now for Miel's baptism page. Miel is my childhood friend Marife and hubby Manny's 1st born and I'm scrapping his 1st scrapbook. I love to scrap baby photos, they are so full of memories and so fun to create. Oh, I also made his baptismal invitations impromptu! Here's my layout...

Round 4: Enzo turns FOUR

It's my final round at Itty Bitty Scrapshack.com, I'm out already for Round 5. But I'm still happy because I made it 'til round 4 and again, going back to my Scrappin' Mom's Idol days, I had really learned a lot! I learned to doodle, to love my own handwriting and to adopt new styles. Cookie is the only Filipina left for the final round, make it good and congratulations for making it this far. And so, here is the story of my round 4 entry...

My youngest son Lorenzo celebrated his 4th birthday last March 1. We had a little party at home and just invited close relatives and his ninangs and ninongs. I thought of scrapping this event for Itty Bitty Scrapshack's Round 4, here's my layout!


Journaling: Time runs so fast... my baby is now a kid, celebrating his 4th birthday! I wish you grow up to be a good, smart, bright and talented kid. Chuy, March 1, 2008

Materials used: Fancy Pants (Sweet Pea-Noah pps); DCWV (happy birthday pps); Bazzill and DCWV Cardstocks; DMC thread, Heidi Swapp, Craft Express and Basic Grey Mini Monos chipboard letters; acrylic paints; Ranger glossy accents; Colorbox chalk ink and gold ink; glittered glue; WRMK precious metal hardware-brads, photo corners and photo turns; fibers and scrapworks paper clip.

Thanks for looking!

Cards!

Eto na Friendship Ytet ang request mo... been trying my hands in card making since last week, pwede na ba ito sister?! I'm giving this for the joint SE-PS fundraising activity on March 8, sayang lang at hindi ako makakasama to support the event. Here are my cards...

We're on the 5th week now and getting ready for the round 4 layout! Boy, it's getting harder and harder each week, but I'm so happy I'm still "in" for 4th round. This week's challenge is to make a single or a spread layout, do stitching, use chipboard, use ink or paints creatively, and include a repetitive element, means taking a shape, character or image and repeat it throughout the layout. I'm still digging my photo files, can't think of what to scrap for this challenge... hmmm, wish me luck!

I'm inviting everyone to come and join us at Itty Bitty Scrapshack, it's fun!

February Challenge Entries (Part II)...

Itty Bitty Scrapshack's Round 3
Here are the rules for this round: 2 page layout, handwritten titles and journaling, use of fabric and doodling. Whew, just finished uploading this one... here's my take for this week's challenge...





I scraplifted this one from Cookie's layout "Story of Us", her layout for the second round of Itty Bitty Scrapshack Challenge. There's a bonus challenge, you have to scraplift an entry and this is my piece... I scrapped Noah's photos and I used here DCWV's Rock Star papers, felt ribbons, brads, eyelets, Prima flowers and DCWV Doodles rubons...

Lasting Impression's Websters Page
Here's my Websters Page... I got Vintage Home papers. It's so dainty and sweet, and it's not really nice for a boy page. So I got this photo of Luigi with my two cousins Rita and Rochelle, her Aunties! I did a lot of paper cutting here and tried my hands on more feminine styles.


Scrapbytes Challenge
Last weekend, I spent the whole Saturday morning digging up for a good ad that will match my photos. I always ended up looking at this snack box that I saw Enzo was eating. I had about 4-6 photos to use and I thought the balls drawn on the box would be the perfect place to put the pictures. Took me 'til Sunday morning to have this layout done... had to dry the paint on the chipboards and write my journals. This is not really my style! But I can say that I had experienced lifting an ad... it's new for me and I had fun doing it!