Tien's First Ad - Get Picky 1st Birthday Blog Hop!

Get Picky celebrates its first birthday with a very exciting reveal as it unveils the 13th Sketch.  The past and present designers share their beautiful layouts for the blog hop celebration.

What to do?

Visit the members' blogs and leave a comment then post your layout at Get Picky's blogsite until October 28 (Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time). 

What's at stake?

Some of the members are offering prizes when you leave a comment at their blog.  Major prizes will be a Guest Designer stint for the month of November and awesome items from Imaginisce which include two latest collections with embellishments and stamps from both Geek is Chic and Bon Voyage plus an i-bond cordless glue gun with glitter glue sticks, a d-stress tool and a box of fabric flowers.

Great stuff, right?  Here's the sketch to follow:

And this is my version:

Materials:

All colorful and printed papers plus letter stickers - Echo Park's Summer Day Collection

Base - Scenic Route

Stencil - Prima

Stamps - Glitz Design, Pink Paislee, Technique Tuesday

Diecut - Sizzix TH On the edge scallops

Doily - Paper Trey

Mist - Tattered Angels, Maya

Ink - Ranger

Others - Buttons and Ribbons are from local stores

Hope ya likey!  Thanks for dropping by!

She's turning 5 y.o.

I discovered My Creative Sketches through Tomoko Takahashi (I am a big fan and avid follower of this very talented lady...).

In September 2011, My Creative Sketches posted another challenge which they called "Big Contest of 2011". 

Here are the rules:

* Winners will be judged on use of the sketch, originality and design.

* International entries are welcome but will be responsible for postage.

* Only 1 Layout per participant per sketch, per month.

* LOs  for this contest may "not" be used in any other Challenge or Contest.

* LOs must be newly made for this Contest.

* LOs must be "your" own original work.

* Upload the layout in their blog using the Link Tool.

* Use this sketch.

* 1st Months Contest begins Sept. 17 and Ends Oct. 17 (midnight est time USA).

* Winner will be announced around Oct.  20.

Materials:

I've been busy these past two weeks since I am working on my backlog in the office but I managed to sneaked into my scrapbook stuff when I reached home at night.  

And this is my take:

Some close-ups for you to appreciate my work...

Any idea of the prize?  Dandararan!!!  A bag of beautiful goodies...

Yumminess, right?  So I hope and pray that my work will get picked by the DTs.

Happy weekend everyone!

Materials:

Papers - All from Webster's Pages

Chipboards - Dusty Attic (Fairy and Lamp Post)

Diecut - Sizzix TH On the edge scallops

Stamps - Technique Tuesday and Pink Paislee

Letter stickers - Thickers and Basic Grey

Ribbons - Webster's Pages

Brick Template - Crafter's Workshop

Stencil - Prima

Flowers - Webster's Pages and Prima

Paint - Pebeo

Crystals - Prima

Gel Mediums - Golden Coarse Pumice and Granular Gels

Others - Jo Sonja's Opal and Gold Dust, Liquid Pearls, Cage - Hambly, Gold Distressing Powder

Kid At Heart

Just a quickie post...

This is an old project (probably last July or August, senior moment LOL).  I made use of the October Afternoon papers and chipboards.

See the white color on the bird's wing?  That's pearl mica.  Nice, isn't it?

I missed the dusty attic chipboard houses from a local store so I just made my own version from a cardboard.  I finished it with pearl ink to make it more appealing.

Thanks for dropping by.  Enjoy the rest of the day!

Move it baby! Sketchabilities No. 54

Hello there!

I got the chance to visit the site of Sketchabilities and I found this sketch.

Sketch No. 54

It is so nice! 

However, instead of following the original sketch, I reversed the position of each details or flipped the page horizontally so it would fit the picture. 

Mr. Mojo was with me so I finished it quickly.  Here's the result...

Instead of circles, I used doily and flowers to make the page more feminine.  Besides, my daughter personally picked the embellies she like (I gave in 'coz she's the subject anyway), LOL!

The details:

The picture

Instead of using a paper as base of the picture, I made use of clear granular gel to frame it then finished with a pink perfect pearls.

The cage

I also use the clear granular gel with this cage before I painted it with a gold acrylic.

The doilies

The doily served as a mask.

I enjoyed playing along!  See you again next time...

Beauty

I am an avid viewer and visitor of Scrap-it-Lah.  I find their challenges quite interesting and thought stimulating.

This August, I am so happy to see the Philippines' very own Iris Uy, guest designing for the site.  Well, the challenge is to create a layout with the following:

(1)  stamping
(2)  embossing
(3)  misting
(4)  dressing up a raw chipboard

Luckily, I had a layout (which I started in July but only finished today, haha!) that suits the requirement of this month's challenge.  Here it is:

Stamping:  See the words in the picture?  Yes, it's Technique Tuesday's Favorite Memories by Ali Edwards.

Misting:  I used Whipped Cream from Memories Mists.

Embossing and dressing up a raw chipboard:  I got a wire dress form from Dusty Attic.  Unfortunately, it didn't look good after heat embossing (I think I made it excessively and undesirably hot 'coz the paint and tinsel melted.  For the record, it is my first time to heat emboss and I busted it up, LOL) so I just coated some portions with a Diamond Stickles.  And whala!  The crooked dress became a gorgeous frosted embellishment.

The papers, whimsies, fabric tickets and ribbons are all from Webster's Pages.  Other materials:  transparency - Teresa Collins; yellow flower, pearls and crystals - Prima; embossing tinsel and stickles - Ranger; pink ribbon - All About Scrapbooking; and punchers - Martha Stewart.

This is one of the best and my favorite among the LOs I've ever made.  Why?  Because,
> I've got to use my favorite brands 
> I did not use any sketch
> I did not scraplift the design; and
> the subject is my everdearest daughter, Tien.

Love it!!!

Wacky

I came across with the site of Another freaking scrappy challenge and found this sketch:

The instruction says scrap something fun or humorous and I think I have the best picture for this challenge.  All I have to do next is follow the sketch and here's my take on it:

The picture was taken during the Christmas Eve of 2010.  My daughter Tien (in red) was playing with her nanny and I asked them to pose a little wacky at the count of three.

The DIY kites were perfect embellies.  They add happiness to the layout.  Plus the DIY clouds which I cut from a cardboard, painted with gesso and acrylic paint and finished with Judikins diamond glaze.

Another happy feeling are the houses and flowers on the left bottom part of the layout.

So here it is...  a funny picture in a happy sketch.

I hope you like it.  Thanks for dropping by!

Happy weekend!