Love. Smitten with you

Lately, as I scroll through my photo album in my iPhone, all I see are photos of my baby boy... I have neglected taking pictures of a lot of little daily stuffs (and my darling cat, Penny) and I probably should remind myself to take more pictures of 'insignificant' daily happenings too, you know.. for Project Life? haha.

Here's another layout I made using photos from Persnickety Prints. I love their 3x4 polaroid prints.

He makes me very exasperated at times but when he smiles, he melts my heart once again. I guess that's a baby's special ability, right?

I handstitched all the stitchings on this layout as my sewing machine is giving me some issues and I am lazy to fix it... 

Do link up your Persnickety or fussy cutting projects over at Paper Issues for your chance to win a $25 gift card!

Eve

Watercolor fun

I am going to share another layout that I made using the photos that I ordered from Persnickety Prints. Watercolor is a trend that I've been seeing on layouts lately, so I attempted to create a layout with it too. 

I used my waterbrush to pick up some watercolor from the palette (I chose pink) and just brushed it on my bazzill cardstock. I used a hairdryer to dry the paper cos I can't wait for it to dry. My scrapping time is very limited now that I have a newborn. The paper curled a little but it's ok. Just try to blow-dry it from both front and back and that should straighten it out a little.

Here's my finished layout. 

This is not my usual style but I kinda like that it looks dreamy with the vellum and white on white elements. I was inspired by Wilna Furstenburg while creating this layout :)

Do drop by Paper Issues to join us and link up your projects for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate from Persnickety Prints. 

Have fun!

Eve

Let's Get Persnickety!

Welcome to Paper Issues' "Let's Get Persnickety"

I am the first on this blog hop but do drop by Paper Issues' blog to start at the beginning and find out what this issue is all about and the prizes that awaits you. 

I must say, I love the prints by Persnickety! The photos are really of good quality and the shipping is super fast :) I love matte photo prints and theirs are one of the best out there. I printed a bunch of my photos in their polaroid prints and it looks lovely!

I created 3 layouts with the prints I ordered and here's the first. Will be sharing the other 2 layouts in the coming few days.

Here's what I created - Road Trip

Next up on this hop is Jen

Thanks for hopping with us today!

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We would also love for you to join us and link up your projects using Persnickety's prints or any projects using fussy cutting (either by hand or using a die cut machine).

Eve

Love....

Just sharing a layout I made of me and my mum for the upcoming Mother's Day :) Finally using some of my Studio Calico's kit and of course some Maggie Holme's goodness!

Photo taken when I was still pregnant (39 weeks, I think) when we were at the Grove

I am still in love with gold splatters, can you tell? :)

Inked the doilies as well for added interest! :) You can see more inspirations for Mother's Day layouts on Paper Issues' blog and also stand a chance to win some Pink Paislee goodness!

Remember to use my code if you want to purchase from Paper Issues' shop. You get 20% off !!

Eve

Proud Daddy

I managed to squeeze in some time yesterday to make a layout based on Citrus Twist's Sunday Sketch :) And now I am quickly uploading it while the baby naps. He has been wanting to be nursed the whole day and I do mean the whole day!!

I kept my layout pretty simple choosing to let the photo speak for itself :) I will add journalling on the tag that I tugged beneath the photo and the patterned papers.

You can't really see from here but I did pop up the papers with pop-dots to add dimension to the page. That's all for now :) Will be back! 

Eve

Instalovin'

This is my first scrapbook layout since I delivered my baby boy about 2 weeks ago. It's been a pretty challenging two weeks, what with the sleepless nights, crying and all, but it's all been good. So happy to hear from the Dr that he is gaining weight!

One thing I am so not used to (besides the waking up a couple of times in the middle of the night) is not being able to find time to scrapbook or do my Project Life. I have lots of photos in my iPhone that I have just finally uploaded into my laptop and hoping to find time to edit and print them soon (fingers crossed!!!)

Thank God my mum is here, though. Our meals are all taken care off and that's a big relief. I can't imagine a sleep-deprived me having to cook and clean the apartment too! At least things are not as topsy-turvy as they would be.. haha...

So, here's my layout that I made using Maggie Holmes line from Crate Paper. I super adore her designs and was almost gonna hoard everything and not use them :P 

Photos were taken during Christmas last year in Santa Monica. We went out for a walk and it was great. The weather was perfect and there were not many people :)

I added glitter to the punched-out hearts

And finally got the chance to use my tiny attacher... haha.... 

Eve

Hello Today

I hope all of you had a great Christmas, spending time with your loved ones and enjoying lots of Christmas cookies :)

I made this layout a couple of weeks ago when I was feeling down... I chatted with an online friend and she reminded me about being positive :) 

I love this picture my hubby took of me when we were at the Great Wall. It was one of those moments.. peaceful, tranquil, at ease :) and so I decided to scrap it to remind me of those feelings.

Eve

Turkey Leg

I had a really great time in Disneyland last month! It was super awesome although it was really cold too because it was a windy, windy day!!! We should have dressed warmer! haha...

The photos of the layouts aren't that clear.... Partly cos I took it at night :P 

I love the background patterned paper. I believe I created this layout using SC's Dec kit. I can't even remember! LOL.... 

Hope you enjoyed this layout... and I can't wait to go back to Disneyland! :D

Eve

Happiness

 ..... can come in many different forms. And for me, one of them was receiving a really happy email from Little Yellow Bicycle sometime early October informing me that I have been given the opportunity to be a part of their 'Once Upon a Christmas' Cycling Team (yeay!) 

.... and then of course, the anticipation of receiving a box full of goodies from them! (really, they spoil us!!!)

I made 2 layouts and 2 cards and still have lots of leftovers!!! :)

This is the first layout I made. The photos was from last year when I was still in Malaysia. I love the snowflakes on this pp. And assembling the rest of the embellishments on it was effortless.

For this layout, I used the little silver stars as accents and oh, I actually was thinking of hoarding the reindeer (cos I really loved it) but I used it on this layout anyway.. :) I popped it up on pop dots to create some dimension. I also stitched the green pp just because....

Look at the reindeer! Isn't it a doll!!! And the snowflakes on its body! love love love!!

I love the chipboard embellishments they have in this line as well. Ok, I guess you know I have a thing for snowflakes by now :)

This card is made under 10 minutes because LYB has the awesomest papers! :D I cut out a part of a pp with the little boy and girl and popped them on top of another pp, tied some twine on it and finished it off with the 'Merry & Bright' sentiment. 

I love the little baubles provided in the chipboard embellishment set as well and created this card with them. I drew the dotted lines and tied the bakers twine before adhering them on the baubles and that's about it! Oh, I added some stickles to them cos I wanted the 'snowy' effect :) And the Merry Christmas sentiment is from the pp where I cut out the little boy and girl! :)

Don't they look pretty? :)

Eve

hexagon...

Just sharing another layout I made some time ago :)

Was trying to incorporate hexagon shapes into my layout and of course, I love the typewritten journalling... I think I made quite a lot of mistakes typing this and my hubby was asking me why the trouble in typing with a typewriter... haha... 

Eve

finally snapped some pics...

... of the layouts I made :) And then I realize I need to snap more pictures so that I can make more layouts.. haha

This picture was taken when we went to see the Hollywood sign back when my brother was here for a visit.. haha... yes, it's been quite a while :) 

Am excitedly waiting for some packages to arrive and also trying to get some work done. Off to cross some things off my list. 

Eve

Hola

It's been a while since my last post... sorry, if you've been checking back here but I have been feeling rather tired lately. Maybe it's partly due to the heat as it has been really hot lately. This past week was rather good though with the weather cooling down a little. Weather forecast for next week is scorching again. 

Sharing this layout I made way back (sounds so long ago...) in July. I haven't scrapped much in August and just a smidge this month...

In Universal Studios, they have this giant backdrop with New York's landscape and it's really very 3D when we snapped a photo, doesn't it? 

 Have I mentioned how much I love glossy accent?

Love this little camera from EP's paper too... it makes a fun little embellishment!

Eve

Back from hiatus....

.... I hope. I know I have not been updating my blog for the last couple of weeks (or was it months, I lose track..) but I still have lots of scrapbook pages I have done that I want to share. I actually managed to fill up one Becky Higgins' album within 2 months and I've ordered another one.. lol. So, you can imagine how many more I have in store to share (if I am hardworking enough...).

As you can see, these are still the photos from the Universal Studios happy day back in June! :) Well, I have a lot of photos from that day to scrap :D

I love to add glossy accents to highlight certain embellishments :) I love that they pop a little and that makes me really happy!

Oh, I was out with my church folks on Labor's Day for a picnic at the park too... Photos and updates to follow :) It was a fun day out and it was my birthday too but no one knew :D Well, I just want to spend the day out in the sun with people I adore and it doesn't matter if they don't know :) I had fun and that's the most important thing :)

Eve

Fussy Cutting

I scrap faster than I take pictures and post them up. There are times when I just scrap and then file them away and when the pile gets a bit too huge, I will take some out to take pictures. In a way, it's good, I guess.. then I will have things to post up as and when.

There are plenty more Hollywood pictures to scrap and so, I hope you won't tire of seeing them :) This one is me and Sue Chin with a yellow taxi! 

 I love the polka dot patterned paper. It's so pretty!

I fussy cut the bicycle and kites from another patterned paper. I love the image but I was not sure how to use it on the PP, so I fussy cut them and used it for this layout instead.

Just a simple layout with loads of fussy cutting and some misting :)

Eve

Watching Waterworld

Took this photo when we were waiting to watch "Waterworld" in Universal Studios :) We got to sit in the VIP seats too and the view was spectacular! The set was awesome and the performance was perfectly choreographed. Definitely worth watching!

Eve

I finally managed to take some decent pics for my Etsy shop and have edited a whole bunch of them :) I will have some items to list over the next few days. Which does mean I have to think of new things to create. haha....

These photos are taken when we visited Griffith Observatory. Really beautiful place. Would love to check out the trekking trails in the near future :)

Eve

Title-less....

It's so hard to come up with a title for my posts most of the time. I blog about so many random things in one post that I sometimes am not sure what to title it :) So, I hope you can understand why today's post is 'title-less'.

I was experimenting with photo-taking indoors for my Etsy shop these two days. I don't have the luxury of a big window with very bright sunlight shining in now... so I have to improvise. Oh, it is very sunny outside here in LA, it's just not shining into my apartment... haha. 

I caught the right lighting yesterday but I decided I didn't like the background and tried to take pictures of my products again today... then I discovered (finally), why my product pictures aren't showing in the shop as how I wanted them to!! But Mr. Sun has left the 'building', figuratively.... cos he's still out shining bright just now... the light just wasn't streaming in through the window anymore. 

There has been a lot of trial and error but I have finally got it! I just need to wait for tomorrow to come to continue my photo-taking endeavors :) 

I can't wait for all the photos to turn out how I want them to.. haha... it's so easy to use instagram or some other apps but not for the shop. I have to represent the product in its actuality as accurately as possible.

Anyway, if you made it thus far reading about my adventure in photographing my notebooks and badges, here's a layout I would like to share with you! :) Actually, I think I completed this last month .. I am so slow in posting them up. I have a lot more backlogged now :P

I am having a lot of fun creating layouts now. 12x12 layouts used to be very daunting to me and I never really made any back in Malaysia, however, once I started, it seems more do-able now :) I am getting the hang of it. I created some 8.5x11 layouts too... will share them soon.

Eve

June Gloom

The mornings has been gloomy and makes it so comfy to be tucked-in under the sheets and just stay there... it takes a lot of willpower to get my a*s out of the bed. Yes, I struggle to get out of bed... it's a daily affair.. haha....

Made this layout with a photo taken in Werribee Park, Melbourne. haha... I am still not done yet with the photos from that trip. I love that park and we took a lot of photos there  :)

Am trying out the 'banner' design on this layout... just some simple banners I cut out and assembled. I added hidden journalling on this layout too. Cut the tag out using a puncher and I 'divided' the photo into 3 as well just for some added dimension. 

I am needing those moments where I need to write down my plans on paper and prioritize again. They are all scrambled in my mind again... LOL... running around and making me dizzy.. haha. 

Eve

i.spy

Sometimes we craft so much faster and then we get lazy to take pictures or blog about them.... at other times, Mr. Mojo decides he needs a break and suddenly goes on leave and we're left with no ideas to craft and that said, no posts to blog about... 

I was on a roll about a week ago when I managed to scrap 3 layouts in one day! That is a big achievement for me because the reason I took so long to delve into 12x12 layouts is because I find them daunting. I am so glad that it's getting easier and I am beginning to love the 'white' space I sometimes get with the layouts :)

Here's a layout I made last week :)

I actually ran out of patterned paper to scrap before my June kit from Studio Calico arrived... LOL. But I think I have a lot of patterned paper to last me the entire month this round as I have 2 kits this time around.... and I managed to get my hands on my Mr. Huey's.... so, I can dress up my plain 12x12 paper now! wheeeeeee...!!! :D

Quirky

Stars are fun!

When my brother and his gf came to visit, we made a trip to the Griffith Observatory as well. It was a nice, relaxing drive on a Sunday morning and we had to walk quite a distance uphill to the observatory as it is located in the Hollywood Park and there were a lot of people out there trekking, jogging, having picnics and basically just enjoying the park!

We had a good work-out walking up the hill and it was great to be breathing fresh air and enjoying the scenery! We could see most of LA from up there :D

There were shows being, erm, shown at the Samuel Oschin Planetarium and at first we were thinking if we should but we were all glad that we paid and went for it cos it was awesome! The whole dome ceiling is our 'cinema' and the narrator was great. His voice was so pleasing to the ear and the show is very informative. Totally worth every single penny we paid :) 

Learned so many interesting new facts that I utilized during lunch.. haha... to which my brother shook his head and said something like, "this is what happens when we bring her to some place educational...."... LOL. Well, at least I remembered what I learned... duh :P

Anyway, I'm going to share a layout I made featuring my cat, Penny.. she's my absolute precious baby and I think secretly she's a princess... so maybe her 'longer' name should be Penelope instead. More regal, ya? :P

This picture was taken back in April, I think.. when it was still quite chilly and Penny enjoyed being snuggled up in the throw. haha... she actually crawled her way in between the throw on her own... that's how cute she is!!

Quirky