Mountain of Prima Products from Ingvild Bolme

Ingvild Bolme is celebrating a new blog design and wishes to give away a "mountain" of Prima products!

What to do?

1. Post the picture above in your blog.  Where, how, how large and so on is up to you!
2. Link back to her blog - www.ingvildbolme.com
3. Write some words about this giveaway.  All she asks for is that you mention in your text that the giveaway is related to the celebration of the new blog design.
4. Post a comment with a link (directly to where your post is!)
This is open to all even in internationals like me!  The giveaway ends 31st of August 2012, 12.00 p.m. GMT-time and the lucky winner will be picked and announced within September 5th.

So what are you waiting for?  Grab this chance and keep your fingers crossed!!!

Have a great week!

My First ATCs - It's more fun in the Philippines!

There was an ATC swap initiated by the Pinoyscrapbookers mods in June.  I was so excited and nervous because it was my first time to join in a swap activity and create an ATC.

The required size of the card was 2.5" x 3.5" and the theme was "It's more fun in the Philippines!".  No limit to creativity.  One just made sure that there's an element that fits the theme.

So here are my ATCs...

The fishes and women are from keychains.  While the slippers are cellphone chains.  Other materials are beads, buttons, stamps and flowers. 
Well, I enjoyed preparing my cards and it seems that my groupmates liked them.

Have a great week ahead!

New Layouts!

The southwest monsoon created heavy floods in Metro Manila.  I've been staying at home since Tuesday because the roads going to my office were not passable.  Whew!  Thank God our house was not affected and we were safe during the downpour.

To make myself busy and productive during the rainfall, I created so many diecuts and two mini albums.  But I haven't decorated them yet 'coz I'm saving them for my future projects.  Will share them with you once done.  And since I had a lot of spare time, I was also able to take photos of my new layouts which were done during our class with the Philippines' best, Iris Babao-Uy. 

These are the four layouts I made:

Layout 1:   Every Child Needs a Friend

I love creating the swirls and old handwriting as the background in this first layout.  We used the Derwent Inktense Blocks and I enjoyed using it.  Cool!

Layout 2:  Celebrate Today

In the second layout, we did misting and application of Texture Paint.

Layout 3:  My Little Prep

Layout 4:  3 Sis

In the third and fourth layouts, we used Distress Inks and Distress Stains.  I couldn't remember anymore which of the two was colored with the ink and which one was made with the stain.  Their effects are almost similar.  LOL!

Attending scrapbook classes have so many pros.  First, you don't need to think of any design on a layout.  Second, you will learn new techniques from others.  And lastly, you will earn lots of friends with the same passion as yours.  The only problem is that one must save enough for the materials and mediums if you want to own one.

Well, the rain has stopped and the sun made his appearance already.  Tomorrow will be another busy day and I thank the Lord once again for the guidance during our darkest nights.

Looking forward to a brighter tomorrow!  It's weekend anyway, a time to have fun and bond with the family. 

Thanks for the visit!