Blossom

My middle daughter has asked me twice to make her a layout so eventually I spent an evening looking through old photographs and at the same time enable me to take part in the monochromatic challenge over at Let's Scrap. It's the March Month Long Challenge yet it took me this last minute case to get the layout done. I will have to say that I twisted the sketch to my preference for the photographs because I just couldn't find four exact 5x12.5cm photos, what more 18x13cm photo...oh boy; so after much thoughts, this is what I came out with!

I really treasure this baby photos of Anis when she was about six months old in June 2004. She's a very lovable baby and jovial. Her trademark is of course her sweet deep dimples {smile}. I watched her grow every single moment and I don't even remember her throwing tantrums or not giggling. Until today, she's the one who cracks the silence atmosphere with her silly jokes, very talkative and quite a clown too. All in all, she's a wonderful person someone would like to have for bff!

Here's the sketch by our lovely Elizna Parsons who hosts the challenge.

The challenge rules are: use the sketch, use monochromatic color (the use of only 1 color or different degrees of brightness of the same color), use stash (no new papers and embellishments), use large title, use a stamp and use a handmade embellishment that matches a pattern/item on the layout.
I decided to use only one color - brown! Yes, just brown cardstock and use additional piece of similar color to make my own embellishment simply by stamping some flowers and fussy cut them as well as punched some daisies and leaves.
Materials:
punches - Martha Stewart, Carla Craft
ink - StazOn, Kaiser, Ranger
stamp - Kaiser, Kodomo

The daisy punch has been in my collection for so many years and it has always been my favorite punch over the years. I distress the edges and twist the flowers and leaves with finger to add dimension.


The reason I chose Blossom for the large title...by the way I designed the letters and cut each letters...is because it reflects the growing years from babyhood to childhood thus I adhere cluster of patiently-fussy-cut-flowers for my embellishment. Anis's bonnet has the flowery shape which is why I end up with flower stamping and more flowers that blossom so beautifully {smile}.

I love this! The sentiment is meaningful and hopefully my daughter will always have the confidence in herself, strongly belief in her opinion and will be successful in her life! Part of the reason why I stamped the sentiment underneath the hexagon hole is for her to always be on the look out, reach out and stay firm in her undertakings. I'm thanking Roulien for her awesome tutorial on the corner punch. It takes a lot of patience but worth it!

I remember her giggles when I took these shots. She's really a bundle of joy!

Anis aged 6 (30 November 2008)

Upon her return from school two days ago, she stared at the making ~
Anis: Wow! Lovely! Erm, brown?
Me: Yes, brown.
Anis: But I like green. I don't like brown!
Me: I planned for cream but I don't have cream cardstock.

Just now upon return from school and looked at her finished layout ~
Anis: Wow! So many flowers!
Me: Nice right!
Anis: But I still don't like brown!

Okay, note taken. Next layout of her will be colorful and bright (chuckle).

Thanks for dropping by today.
Hugs and smiles,

Let's Scrap Design Team Member

Good day! I've been away tackling on my homework these days. With April knocking on soon, I don't have much time but work and have fun too {smile}. I have been selected to be on the Design Team for Let's Scrap beginning  April 1, 2012. I feel very honored and humble to be given this opportunity. I so much looking forward to working with all the DTs in the next four months. I shall give my best so as not to disappoint. My sincere Thank You to Betty and Debbie for their confidence in me. Thank you also to members of Let's Scrap for your strong support. 

Here's the formal e-letter from Betty Anne:

From Betty

To asmahza99@yahoo.com

CC Debby

 

CONGRATULATIONS Asmah on being chosen as one of our Let’s Scrap Design Team members for the April-July term. Debby and I look forward to working with you over the next four months. We would really appreciate it if you could hold off posting anything on your blogs, Facebook or in the Let’s Scrap group about getting on the Design Team until we post the list in the forum tomorrow. This will give us a chance to not only notify the new members of the team but also the ladies who were not chosen. Once the announcement is made in the forum you are welcome to post it where ever you wish.

I am attaching two files. In them you will find lots of information that will be helpful during your term. When you first look at them you may say – Oh my what have I gotten myself into!! Please don’t panic, it really isn’t as hard as you might think by the pages of notes. We just wanted to make sure everything was there for you if you need it.

Debby and I have had a very hectic week with both group business and things on the home front so we are a bit behind in getting everything ready for you in the groups. So please bear with us for a couple of days. On Sunday Debby will be sending you out invitations to the private groups and we would appreciate it if you could accept these invites as soon as you can after getting them. Once you are able to get into the DT April-July group you will find many of the upcoming sketches and information on the team you will be on etc.

Once again congratulations on being picked for the team and please feel free to contact Debby or I any time if you have a question.

Debby’s email address is d.wilde6@upcmail.nl and she lives in The Netherlands and mine is bettyorr@ripnet.com and I am in Canada so with our time differences one of us is usually around to answer your questions and give you any help you may need.

Hugs

Betty Anne

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Join us and feel free to participate in the challenges we will be providing and looking forward to see your beautiful creations in the gallery. Do keep them coming! Thank You.

Best wishes and hugs,

Webster's Pages

Something happening is going on at Webster's Pages!!!

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Thanks for dropping by! Hugs :)

xoxo Asmah

Happy Times - Smile

I spent last Friday morning cleaning the cabinet but got carried away when side track kicks; I was just looking through family photo albums and after calculating the number of pics, I jump with happiness! I found nine photos that match the requirement of Cheri O'Neill's sketch for the weekly challenge at Let's Scrap. Saves me the plan to snap pics that weekend.

Here's the sketch:

I chose two patterned papers in the beginning but after third thoughts, I changed my mind and dig out for bright colors bazill cardstock to go along with the playground. The only patterned paper used is for for the journal. I need lines to write on :)

Materials:

pp - Kaisercraft

cs - Core Color

ink pad - VersaFine, Tim Holz distress ink

stamp - Kodomo No Kao

chipboard - gift from friend

title - Momoyo puffy stickers

ribbon - Momoyo Craft Ribbon

others from my stash

I made the flowers from cardstock and adhere a button with ribbon knot.

This is a joint venture effort! I wanted to adhere self made flower here but as I adhere some buttons on the rest of the corners while watching entertainment program on tv (multi tasking, that's me!), suddenly 'Alyaa pop up with her creative idea adorning this corner with flower button design. Cool! Thanks sweetie! I know I can always count on  you {smile}.

Making a layout on school break gives the kids a chance to see what I do at home because most of the time I scrap while they're not around! The girls were bored so I said, "Ok, help me paint!" I showed them how to use crackle paint on this chipboard frame. They got so excited but asked me, "Mom, why the paint doesn't crack so much?" "Erm, okay, it's been in the drawer for 5 years, never mind, we'll get new crackle paint next week!" After we let it dry, I sponge it up with some red ink.

I had printed the journal in the first place but the end result wasn't a satisfaction due to inky problem; need to get new ink cartridge, oh well. First the crackle paint now the print matter - this layout really challenged my patience! So, I selected a 6x6 strip patterned paper so I can write the story on straight lines! I can never write accurately on blank papers :)

The year was 2002. This is my eldest daughter 'Alyaa at age 2 and her cousins Noor and 'Aisyah at the playground nearby my parent's home. We often take the kids there when we come home. My husband did great job capturing them in different angles. After nine years, finally I get to scrap these memorable photographs on a layout especially made for 'Alyaa. Can't believe she's already 12! Time sure flies.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a nice day!

Hugs and smiles,

Happy Recipient of Liebster Blog Award

Rachelle has awarded me with the Liebster Blog Award! I was surprised, happy and humble to be the recipient of this award from Rachelle! I feel so wonderful to be recognized by my blogger friends!
Thank you so much!
The origins of the Liebster Blog Award are somewhat unclear but general consensus is that they originated in Germany. Liebster, meaning favorite or dearest, is here to showcase bloggers with fewer than 200 followers. Upon accepting this award the recipient must then pass it on to five more blogs that have 200 or less followers.

I am the proud recipient of this award from Rachelle {Thank You}.

Here are the Liebster rules:

~ Choose 5 up and coming blogs of fewer than 200 followers to award the Liebster to ~

~ Show your thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them ~

~ Post the award on your blog ~

~ Link back to the blogs you have given the Liebster to so everyone else can pay them a visit ~

Now it is time for me to pass the award to 5 blogs.

I decided to pick 5 blogs I love that have less than 200 followers:

Desire Fourie http://desiref.blogspot.com

Jody Spiegelhoff http://spiegelmom.blogspot.com
Michelle Looi http://scraposition.blogspot.com
Tracey Gregory http://lifetimeofpages.blogspot.com
Lynn Shokoples http://scrappyhappymom.blogspot.com

They are all wonderful blogs, beautiful artists, amazing scrappers and card makers!

Please take some time out of your busy day to visit their blogs. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Happy Scrapping!! Have a nice day!!

~Hugs~

Cheers

Scrapping has invaded our dining room once again! This time I needed a bigger table to create a double page layout for a challenge at Let's Scrap. After dinner and table cleared, I set up my craft stuff and first of all, choose the best patterned papers. It didn't take me long to decide though. Kaisercraft has wonderful line of patterned papers.

Cheri O'Neill designed a great sketch I know I will enjoy doing my layouts. I have chosen the photographs...big thanks to Lili Sulastri who has always been my photographer when I'm not around to capture great moments! The sketch require ten photos but I only have nine. Unfortunately one has been used for my girl's class project so I use eight photos altogether.
Materials used:
patterned paper: Kaisercraft
border punch: Martha Stewart
ink: Tim Holtz, VersaFine
puffy sticker: Momoyo
handmade flowers: Floral Doodles
Here's my take on the sketch.

Here's the sketch:

I can't tear myself away from the sewing machine, lol. I punched the border and sponge up with olympia green ink to coordinate with the turqoise patterned paper. I distressed the edge and the photos as well. The edgy look always satisfy me :)

I have also sponge up the title (puffy sticker) from the origin pink to olympia green ink.
 
The date: 20.12.2009. The location: My parent's home. The story: My sister was leaving on the weekend and as always prior to depature, she loads her car with only God knows what 1001 things she packs, it's always full to the brim! While she's busy in and out, my children and my niece (with tiara)  took advantage playing in the car boot. What fun it was for them all.

The fun and the laughter captured will always be reminisced and cherished forever and ever.
Thank you for stopping by. Have fun and keep smiling!
Hugs!

Good Luck

The 29 days of February blog hop organized by Let's Scrap gave me so much fun and joy. I started late though...wish I had known earlier...but for me to design 11 cards within several days really tested my crafty brain that most of the time got stuck in between. Big thank you to DebbyD of  Let's Scrap who have provided wonderful sketches. You're awesome Debby!

It was quite a race to the last few hours and thought of making a finale card to wrap up. Eniko, if you read this, I want you to know the reason I chose Leap46 because I love the simplicity of the sketch. Never in my cardmaking history I ever measure, cut, stamp, paste, select and color to make a card in less than 10 minutes! Personally speaking, it's my speedy record; less than 10 minutes taken to complete this Good Luck card I dedicate to myself, lol. Thank you for hosting Eniko.

Here's my interpretation of the sketch.

 The rubber stamp image has been with me for a decade. It was sent to me by a dear friend from England soon after transaction is done. I don't know her name but I think she's so cute. Even though green is not my taste but my fingers were too fast picking up green Copic and give her dress three shades of green. Not bad huh? I used left over patterned papers from a napkin fold card I had made minutes before. Glad I chose green in the end!

Materials:

stamp : KaiserCraft

ink : Tim Holtz distress ink, KaiserCraft

coloring medium : Copic Sketch

patterned paper : Scrapbook Kit

sentiment : Simply Cards & Papercrafts

Card 9-15-10, LEAP 46 (Host : Eniko DeLisle}

Now that the fun hop is over, and I have taken my break from crafting the past couple days, I'm all set to continue scrapping again. I know what March has in store for me so it's time to be messy again!

I will be here again soon! Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs!

Diamond Fold Cards

The talented lady Wilna Cremer hosted Leap12 for the Let's Scrap Blog Hop. I drooled over her 15 layers of paper to make a beautiful flower attached on her awesome card. I'm sure you will admire her creation as I do. Click HERE to check her beautiful card.
This is my intepretation of the sketch by DebbyD.

I love folding papers and diamond fold is one of my favorite techniques. For this challenge, I made something simple yet stylish. I'm absolutely happy with the end result :)
Products used:
stamp : Kodomo No Kao
ink : StazOn, Tim Holtz distress ink
thanks sentiment : Simply Cards & Paper Crafts
coloring medium : Copic Sketch
others from my stash

I fill in the flower with Copic Sketch.
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Card 3-16-11, LEAP12 {Host : Jody Spiegelhoff}

This is my intepretation of the sketch.
For this challenge, I chose to make diamond fold card...again one of my favorite folds. This card looks pop-up but however to secure it, I use ribbon.
Products used:
stamp : KaiserCraft
ink : StazOn, Tim Holtz distress ink
others from my stash

The edge is distresses with ink. The border sticker looks so nice :}

Thank You for stopping by...have a nice day!
Hugs!

More Cards

I'm showcasing three more cards I made especially for Let's Scrap Leap Around The World Blog Hop. DebbyD has made a lovely sketch; that I find awesome!
This is my interpretation of the sketch.

My method is minimal stamping and finished off with rub on sticker.
Products used:
stamp : KaiserCraft
rub on sticker : KaiserCraft
ink : KaiserCraft
others from my stash
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Sketch 5-2-11,LEAP5 {Host : Sue C}

Close-up pic:

Simple!

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Sketch 12-15-10, LEAP6 {Host : Debby De Wilde}

This is my interpretation of the host and designer's sketch!

The paint reminds me of my childhood memory from schooling days :)

Materials:

butterfly stamp : KaiserCraft

sentiment stamp: KaiserCraft

ink: VersaFine, Brilliance

embossing powder : Tsukineko

paint : Watercolor

others from my stash

I love painting!

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Sketch 10-21-09,LEAP8 {Host : Keely Yowler}

This is my interpretation of the sketch.

Bright and fun! I made this card for my girl. Coloring the cartoon character simply brighten up my day.

Products used:

coloring medium : Copic Sketch

rubber stamp : from a pal in England

ink : StazOn

others from my stash

Hope you have a nice day too! Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs!

 

Napkin Fold Card

Many many years ago when I was a young girl, I was introduced to origami and later kirigami. I remember how I butchered old newspaper to make kirigami as of course it will be thrown away after all. As I grew up, my Mother taught me flower making by folding crepse paper. We used a lot of them at school too. Crepse paper was common and very popular in the old days up to today. My love for paper folding started during kindergarten and even now I still fold papers. I think it's so much fun.

Last year I came across napkin fold card when I saw it in Splitcoast Stampers by Carol. It looks amazing I thought I would give it a try. I would also like to thank the creator Marianne Skjelstad for sharing her beautiful napkin fold card. It looks complicated but it's really easy once you know how.

...Here's my tutorial...  

Use 12x12 cardstock. Mark at 3" and 9" both sides.

Score at 3" and 9". Turn paper 90 degrees and score again at 3" and 9". Prefold the score lines.

Mark the center of the paper with a small pencil dot. Fold each corner to the center. Crease each score line.

This is is the tricky part...use your finger to pick up the bottom point and push it towards the center; do likewise at the next point; allow the previous fold you made to fold. Smooth down the corners so the piece on top is flat and the points are folded in underneath...

...repeat the same step until all the corners are folded inwards...

Use a bone folder to crease the fold neatly. It will turn out like this.

The final fold is by folding backward the top piece to form a triangle.

If you have reached this last step, well done ! You did it and your card is ready for make-up :)

The next step is to cut out triangular papers. Follow this step:
Step 1: Cut out 2 pieces of 9.5cm x 9.5cm patterned papers. Cut into half to get 4 triangulars.
Step 2: Cut out 2 pieces of 7cm x 7cm patterned papers. Cut into half to get 4 triangulars.
Step 3: Cut out 6 pieces of 6.5cm x 6.5cm patterned paper. Cut into half to get 12 triangulars.   

Oopssie, if you count correctly, there's only 11 smaller triangulars, 1 has run away, sorry :) It should be 12. Anyway, the measurement for each triangulars is just my guide.

This is my way adorning the base card. I also adorn the back side with similar patterned papers. Here's where creativity takes over. 

To make the band, cut a strip of cardstock 30cm x 3.5cm. Adhere a ribbon and attach 2 pieces of 14cm x 3cm cardstock as shown.

Adhere the band at the back of the card. The front side is seal with ribbon.

Here is my finished napkin fold card with stamping technique. You may notice I have changed the diamond shape (picture above) to rectangular shape (this picture) simply by rip-it-off. I first thought it looks good but then I feel the second thought is better.

I colored the butterfly with Copic.

Here's another way I did the band by cutting a long strip of cardstock (35cm x 4cm) , adhere the end together, decorate the band with ribbon and slide it onto the card.

Last but not least, here's my card I made for Let's Scrap Leap Around The World Blog Hop.

I used the sketch by DebbyD to interprate the inside view. Thank you Kay Wallace for hosting Leap 18. 

...and here's the inside view...

I have to say this card takes extra work but as the saying goes, hard work pays off! Give it a try, you will love it. Happy scrapping and enjoy!
Thank you for stopping by today.
Hugs and smiles,