Happy bday Bache!

Made this for my good friend Bache.

Agatha's 2nd bday party

Here is another gift for a cute kid. The party was held at Jollibbee in the Philippines.

Gelai's 7th bday

Gelai's 7th bday was a blast. Although it has been raining the whole afternoon, many people still came. Everything from the decorations, cakes, food and games were all perfect. Abby baked these yummy goodies, 7 butterfly cakes and 4 tier muffins. They tasted good!

Mama left

My mom went home to the Philippines last Saturday after taking care of us for 3 months. She still doesn't want to go but she truly misses her precious granddaughter Gracie Mari. Who wouldn't miss this cutie?


She celebrated her 60th birthday here. We surprised her with a birthday cake made by Abby. I made this for her and she really liked it.




Also, here is an acrylic for Aying's kids.

Ethan's digital book

I finally made these for my inaanak Ethan, his 1st bday celeb. Btw, he's 3 1/2 yrs old now haha.

Where does the time go?

I have been taking it easy these past few weeks, Doctor's orders and more strictly Lew's orders. By the time I had my energy going, I was again in pain, still have it now. When will it end? I will be going to the office next week, and I'm hell sure that work has piled up! But I am not well rested yet! Time goes by so fast, I thought I will be able to keep up with my scrapping, orgranizing and all the gazillion things I have to do. Even thinking about it makes me stressful! Haha!

I scrapped a bit. I finally used my zutter. During my organizing, I found a boxful of receipts. I painstakingly sorted all of it, some went into the shedder and the rest were neatly compiled. Then I decided to make a minibook for next year's bills and receipts so I won't end up having the same mess again. This is what I came up with, the design is basicaly the same for every month and I still don't have a decent cover.



Then last Saturday, I begged Lew to let me go out and at last, he agreed. We bought this cute ukelele for Sandi for her 3rd bday. We got this for her because everytime she is at our home, she would admire Lew playing his guitar. The ukelele is real, the store helper even tuned it before he placed it in the box. Then I altered it a bit before we gave it to her. Her reaction was WOW! It was well worth it. Here is how I transformed it.

Chichuy's guestbook cover page

Kirstin's birthday last Sunday was a blast. A lot .. and I mean A LOT .. of kids were there. There was a magic show and lots of games and prizes. A wide variety of food such as hokkien mee, sushi, vegetarian spaghetti, pizza, finger foods, salads and mini cakes were served. The cake was so cute and yummy, a 2 layered chocolate chewy fudge cake covered in baby pink marzipan with little flowers around, dangling stars and a tiara on top.

As promised, here is the cover page of Kirstin's guestbook. The base was from Nana's kids, large flower from heidi grace, foam thickers, Happy birthday from around the block and some embellies. The words 'Please sign my guestbook' was edited in Photoshop elements and I just mounted in extra thick foam dots. The silver butterfly, I decorated with pink, violet and gold stickles. I had fun making this guestbook, although I had some sleepless nights in making the digital LOs.. it was worth it because it was for sweet Kirstin aka Chichuy.

Chichuy's digital LOs partII

I have finished these at around 9:30 last night.. the covers much later.. Then Lew and I rushed to the printing center.. good thing they are still open.

I wanted to print these into transparencies but the outcome didn't quite went well as I have expected. So I had these printed in photo paper instead.. 3x3 size each and attached at the center of the white chipboard album pages. I was going to stamp some swirls around it but I am afraid I'd mess them up so I let them be.

I have yet taken a pix of the front and back of the album, clouds are not cooperating.. they keep blocking my natural light hehe.. I'll try to post the cover later.

Credits: All digital elements are from the very talented Susan Darter of raspberryroaddesigns

Chichuy's LOs continued...this baby is sooooo cute!

Chichuy's digital LOs

I'm trying to finish the digital LOs that I am planning to print in transparencies/photo paper and attach to the guestbook I am giving as a gift tomorrow. Trina suggested that instead of buying a gift, I would make a guestbook for Kirstin. I saw this plain white chipboard book in Spotlight and I thought it would be perfect. I would make a traditional LO as cover and just attach the monthly digital LOs inside. I can't make paper LOs inside because it would make the book bulkier. I don't think the binding can handle it.

Anyway, below is what I made so far.. isn't she adorable?

Credits: All digital elements are from the very talented Susan Darter of raspberryroaddesigns

happy birthday sister!

Our scrapbooking guru and friend Marix is celebrating her birthday on Sunday. Instead of receiving gifts, she will be giving away a RAK!!! Checkout her blog for the details.

Here is what I wrote to her:

Your contest made me think about what I really want to have at this moment, i wish i could save up to have all of them by end of the year... i wish!

1. craft robo.. since i saw how this wonder cutter works, i fell in love with it.



2. photoshop elements 6.0 software .. i badly need this, take note its NEED not WANT hehehehe.. i wish i could have it soon!


3. the new NIKON D700.. the ultimate wish! to take better picures of/for my scrapbooks of course..



Happy happy bday sister!

eto na gurl.. as promised..

happy bday celyn

wow advance to ah
my first time to finish an LO for a friend almost 2 weeks in advance for her bday

happy bday amrei

so sorry we couldn't come
but here is the gift tag I made for you..

simple gift tag for a special girl

gift for aslee

Sai at 4

I am planning to change the background to a plain cs, hmmmmm...

Rodfel

Gift to Rodfel on his birthday April 2007.

Sweet friend

My gift to She for her birthday on March 2007.

Happy Birthday Bache 2006

I asked Mau to send me some pix of Bache so I could make her an LO so Jaelle and Rodfel would give it to her on her birthday (April 9th). I have just discovered the inking technique and made a mess on the hearts. I was going to throw them away but then I thought, 'hey! this is scrapbooking! I could do whatever I want!'.. And later on I realized, I liked the distressed effect it brought on the layout. I handstitched the lines/designs inside the heart. The element with the ribbon opens up 3 folds to reveal 3 more pictures of Bache together with Jaelle and Rodfel as they grow up. She really liked it!