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Little Grace was really excited when we told her we're going to the park (referring to botanical garden) on Monday morning. You see, hubby's aunt (Aunt Sue) and her son (James) are visiting from Australia, so we brought them to the botanical garden for a walk (to burn some calories), before heading to Bali Hai for breakfast.
She (I mean Grace) sure was happy that day. She kept on saying that she will race with Uncle James. As soon as we set foot on the botanical garden, she starting running. She even opt for the roads heading up hill and was running...yeah, running up hill (only a little girl can do that)...ehehhee...Eventually, almost three quarter of the journey, my little girl was tired and wanted the daddy to carry her. Lucky she did not ask the mummy to carry her. Else, we might have a headline in local newspapers the next day: "A 31 year-old mummy died of exhaustion"! wahahahaha.......Anyway, it was a great walking trip. And thereafter, a good breakfast and time catching up.
I left my camera in my drawer, so I used hubby's hand phone to take some of the photos. Which I couldn't wait longer to scrap it. Here it is, using sketch #28 from 52 sketches...52 weeks.
I created kind of a scene as the environment we were walking in....trees and grass. Used crackle paint for the tree leaves. You could see the effect on the second photo.
Materials:
Cardstock: Bazzill, Core'dinations
Others: Product packaging chipboard (as the leaves), felt (as the grass), Heidi Swapp She chipboard alphas, Dymo tag maker (for the journalling), Distress Crackle paint, Hero Art stamp (for the tree trunk), Staz On ink
My blogger friend, Avina, whom had sent me a great giveaway last month, is having another giveaway on her blog. Hop right on to her blog and check it out! Also check out her layouts...they are great!
Earlier in May, my dad bought a bicycle for Grace (I think I did blog briefly, err very briefly) and Grace was super excited with it. It was a Sunday at church (my dad was at my church to give sermon) when dad showed Grace a photo of the bicycle. And since then (even we had yet to have our Sunday Service) Grace asked and requested to go to gong gong's house. After which, we did went over and boy....she was so eager to take her first ride. She needs help in getting on and down from the bicycle, guardian at the sides (so that to catch her should she fall) and a few guidance on how to peddle. She's a smart little girl. Just a day of training and she's all ready to give it a try at the park.
Well, she's now able to balance herself real good on the bicycle and peddle a few rounds. We're now teaching her to navigate her bicycle.
I finally get to scrap her "biker" photos. I used Sketch #005 from Twisted Sketches with the twist of using fabric. The papers and fabric is from Scrap-n-Crop.com's July "Oh So Hot Summer" Kit.
Materials:
Patterned paper: Fancy Pants designs Frou Frou collection - Gossip, Basic Grey Gypsy Collection - Amber, Autumn Leaves French Twist Collection - Petit Habou, Making Memories NW Delaney diecut stamp
Others: Amy Butler fabric, Darkroom Door stamps, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder
And, here's a card I made earlier and sent to my elder sister in the US. It's her birthday on July 12th. Waited till now to share so as not to spoil her surprise.
Materials:
Cardstock: Core'dinations, The Paper Company value pack
Patterned paper: Old paper from Qtea
Others: Prima Essential 5 flowers, Gelatins Spiral Symphony clear stamp, Crafty heart polka dots ribbon, Adirondack Dimensional Pearls
Then this card I made on Friday night. It's going to the ebay listing too.
Materials:
Cardstock: Core'dinations, The Paper Company value pack
Others: Cuttlebug Tiny bubbles embossing folder, Cuttlebug Script texture embossing folder, Cuttlebug slider die, Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Yeah...that's right, you heard me right, there's blog candy over at "There's Magic In The Air". Not one but two. Wow.....there's one small candy and another one is really big. So, what are you waiting? Scrapping friends, go check it out and get yourself in the drawing. Non-scrapping friends, you can still go check it out and probably if you win, you could post it all to me...wahahhaa.....just kidding.
I've mentioned numerous time, how much little Grace loves to go "swimming". Well, it's not actually swimming for her, it normally will be the mummy swims, while pushing her forward.
Thus, going down to the pool has a certain "must have". Her float, a mini pitcher, her rubber ducky, worms and spider crab. She will be playing with her set of "toys" at the pool. This definitely is an over-sized bathtub to her all this while, until recently.
Well, recently she'd master the skills of kicking (like in free-style swimming) and what's more, she could actually "kick" herself to me! Great! Of course, she would be playing with her "toys" at intervals.
Materials:
Cardstock - RoseMoka Appel de la nature cardstock pp
Patterned paper - Autumn Leaves Petit Habou, KI Memories Organized Skinny Stripes
Others - Basic Grey Porcelain collection alphas, Pink Paislee Office Lingo die cut
And since I'm here, might as well share on a very simple card that I made yesterday.
Materials:
Cardstock - Core'dinations, The Paper Company paperstack
Others - Cuttlebug Swiss dot embossing folder, Zig textile marker, Prima Marketing rub-ons
Well, here's to share the 2 cards and a layout that I made last night (midnight..beware).
Anyway, the layout is based on Twisted Sketches, Sketch #004 and the twist is to use at least 1 transparency, can be any sort of see through embellishment. The layout is on Grace in one of her dress-ups. She loves putting on all sort of clothes and cloths and then run to her grandma's room (cause there's one big mirror there), then look at herself in the mirror. Gosh...even at this age? Yeah, even at this age, girls will always be girls!
This is rather a simple layout. I created the scalloped border by punching circles from a blue pattern paper, then arranging it behind the originally white cardstock. I inked the white cardstock using Antique Linen distress ink, then lightly stamped with scripts stamp, using Vintage photo distress ink. The butterfly (which is an overlay, i.e. see through embellishment), is originally white, but it couldn't stand out, so I coloured the backing with black marker. The alphas were originally yellow, I changed the colour and texture using Ranger's Copper Acrylic Paint dabber. Well, that's about it!
Materials:
Cardstock - The Paper Company White cardstock
Patterned Paper - Collage Press Citrus Collection, Arctic Frog - String of Flowers
Alphas - Basic Grey Porcelain collection
Stamps - Hero Arts
Overlay - My Little Shoe Box
Others - Qtea cloud tag, Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber - Copper, Zig Signature Pen
Next 2 are cards with matching envelopes which I plan to list on ebay for sale, to get some extra cash for more scrapbook supplier (grin..grin..grin).
Materials:
Cardstock - Hero Arts Kraft Notecard with envelope
Stamps - Hero Arts
Others - Tim Holtz Distress Ink,Archival Black Ink, Marvy Le Plume II, Zig Textile Marker
Materials:
Cardstock - Core'dinations, The Paper Company
Patterned paper - 7 Gypsies Capri Catalina, Basic Grey porcelain collection
Stamp - Darkroom Door
Others - SnC Trims, Tim Holtz Distress Ink
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