Layouts | I Love You A Bushel & A Peck

 Hello everyone! Today I am gonna share a layout that I scrap lift one of my older layouts that I did 2 years ago. Here's the blog post that I blog about the layout and its fun to see how my style progress over the years - it has definitely became more minimalist nowadays - maybe thats because I have more things going on in my life, and layouts and scrapbook pages are the places where I could keep it simple and minimalist.

I used the Hello 2014 large tags to mat the three pictures on the left. love that these tags are perfect for my square pictures of 2.5'x2.5'. I also used one full sheet of Snip Snip label to create the tags on the right and stitched them down with sewing machine.

I added some puffy stickers to create some interest around the pictures too.

I think this is my favourite layout that I have created recently. It's quick and simple, yet it looks kinda complicated ;) Thanks for dropping by and I  hope you are inspired to create a tag / label layout too!

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Xoxo,
Sam

Layouts | Let Me Show You Some Typewriter Love

Hello everyone! Today I am so thrilled to show you one of the layout and another decorated notebook that I make using my beloved typewriter stamps from Shop Evalicious.

This is actually a very simple layout because I really love the photos that 4 of us recently (yes 4 of us as we are expecting a new baby in July ;)) I love the big bright smile from my hubs and my son - too too sweet. Since I wanted the typewriter image to be the focal point of the page, I stamp 4 of these on a piece of white card stock, paint it with Neocolors (or any watercolour) and fussy cut it. 

Once I am done with some layering and photo matting, I added the 4 pieces of typewriter stamped image, add the alphabet letter stickers on it as title. I also decided to add some sewing machine stitching to add subtle texture to the title - and also to secure the puffy stickers from falling off =)

I completed this layout under an hour - colouring and fussing cutting the typewriter probably took up most of my time. Then I decided to stamp the typewriter on one of my notebook on my Happiedori / fauxdori. Stamp it, colour it with prisma colour pencils and add some puffy sticker - Voila! So simple & pretty!

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XoXo,
Sam

Layouts | Happy Little Moments

Hello everyone! Today I share one of my layouts using lots of Shop Evalicious goodies over Shop Evalicious blog. Recently I have been loving the ideas of scrapping multiple photos in a layout because I have so many little moments that I feel like I need to document them, yet I have so little time / motivation to put them on a layout. So scrapping multiple photos in a layout is a win-win situation. 

I use a combination of puffy letter stickers and badge to make the title of the layouts. I am always paranoid about the alpha stickers would not stay put so I am obsessed with adding machine stitching over them.

I dyed the white tags with food colouring (and you can definitely do so with your water-colour or mist too). Then I use the tags as photo mat and string all of them together with twine.

Aren't those gold puffy stickers the prettiest?



Cut a bunch of tags and add them to the bottom of the layout to create a border.

And here's my simple layout to scrap multiple photos. I hope you enjoy reading it!

XoXo,
Sam


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Layouts | School Day *Evalicious*

Hello there! Today I have my first Inspiration post for the new term of Evalicious Design Team. One of my favourite products from Shop Evalicious would be their puffy stickers! So I decided to create a layout with lots and lots of puffy stickers.

It's been a while since I have create any layout with more than one photo. So this 4 mini photos layout  is definitely something new and fun for me! I paint the background with some water-colour brush strokes then added some machine stitching to create a banner / garland.

I used a couple of school pictures of my toddler and use them as part of the garland. I printed 4 photos in a 4x6 photo paper so the photo is really tiny.

I love stitching the puffy stickers / alphabet letters with sewing machine because I always worry that the   stickers might fall off one day. *It's just me, LOL*

I also painted the wood veneer with water-colour to match it to the puffy stickers and layout. I hope you will be inspired making a layout using some of your favourite Shop Evalicious goodies. Thanks for dropping by!

XoXo,

Sam

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Layout | My Art Journal Pages + Selfie *LoraBailora*

Hello people, I had a good news that I shared on my instagram a while ago ;)

YEs yes, I am one of the DT girl for Lora Bailora Design Team. I am so proud to be on this crazily talented team. Laura is a sweet Spanish girl who designs her own line of stamps and embellishments. I started follow her on her Instagram ages ago when I started instagram, say 2 years ago. I am always in awe with her talents and cute designs. So you guess I was literally  jumping in joy when she emailed me to invite me to join her amazing team. I love stamps as they are perfect for scrapbooking, card making, project life and also for planning purpose, plus they don't take up a whole lot of space which I could hoard them forever! LOL.

p.s. I also have a thing for Spanish as my hubs used to learn Spanish and stayed there for 6 months ;) So whenever someone commented Spanish on my instagram feed, he will translate the comments for me.

Here's one of my art journaling using the geometric stamp.This page was to journal something bad happened and I spoke to one my good friend (DIYFish) on Facebook about it. Can't thank her enough for her words of wisdom so I decided to pair these cute triangles in the Geometric stamp set with her words of wisdom: No matter what you do, how good you are, you can NEVER please everyone. So true and i just have to learn being perfect + stop stressing myself out. I stamped the various sizes and patterns of triangles using Versa Color cube. I have these cute little ink cubes in almost all the shades and keep them all in 2 boxes of Ferrero Rocher box. 

Next up would be scrapbook page that I made the quilt-inspired background with Geometric stamp set again. I can't seem to get enough of the cute triangle patterns yet. I stamped rows and rows of chevron triangles on 1/2 pieces of white card stock to have a balanced background. I like that the left side of the background is crazily colourful and the right side has pretty white space. I love how the white space balance out the rainbow triangles and help drawing your eyes to the background instead. This is a photo of me and my boy during his very first Zoo trip. On a side note, we were so excited to bring him to see the real lion but when we reach the lion den, the lions were all taking nap.ZZZzzz. And we wanted to bring him to see elephants instead but little boy was way past his nap time and started getting grumpy and yawning all the way. So we went home without visiting the elephants. Anyways, I am hoping to go to the zoo again and I am sure he could benefit a lot from seeing the REAL ANIMALS than seeing them on Youtube =)

Remember to check out Laura's etsy store to get her stamps and embellishments here. She has such a cute little store!

Alrighty, I am sure you could tell I am pretty crazy about triangles right now, don't ask me why ;) I hope you enjoy looking at my pages and you have a great day!

Thanks again for dropping by!

XoXo,

Sam

Layouts | Together - The BEST Place to Be *Elle's Studio*

Happy October! OCtober is definitely all spooky and let's look at Elle's Studio October kit here. Elle's Studio has got an awesome kit for you this month with tags to help you document your traditions, thankfulness, Halloween, and Autumn memories! October’s kithas over 30 journaling and embellishing tags that are perfect for all types of projects – from layouts, to mini albums, to Project Life, we’ve got you covered with this kit!


Nothing spooky right? And this kit coordinated with the new Sycamore Lane collection very well too! 

Sycamore Lane is a great collection to celebrate Autumn – and with the weather starting to change, I’m getting so excited to use this collection! This collection includes 12 x 12 papers, journaling and embellishment tags, cutouts, lil’ snippets, cork shapes, and a fun stamp!

And, do remember on 10th of every month, that means the Elle's Studio  design team gallery is FULL of brand new and AMAZING inspiration just for you! You can bookmark your favorites, leave comments and see close ups of our design team’s projects in our gallery:

I hardly scrapped recently because life gets really crazy since September. But when I do have some me-time, i enjoy sitting in front of my desk to play with papers and scissors. Here are the two layouts that I made using Elle' Studio Sycamore Lane and the October kit.

I love the journaling card that said TOGETHER - the best place to be and decided to use it as the title of this page. I am loving that tribal print and geometric design (like Triangle) is back in this Fall. So I cut apart the triangle patterned paper and use it as the main embellishment of my layout. I also added a little house cork stickers on the journaling card to draw your eyes to the title.

And here's another layout that is inspired by the Fall colours - purple / orange/ yellow. Not so much of a purple and orange person but I am loving this layout turned out.

I created my background with some Faber Castell Gelato and added the coordinated colour tag from Sycamore Lane. A little bit of journaling and embellishment to add some finishing touches to the page. I am glad how this colour combination actually grow on me ;)

I have another THANKFUL mini book that I created under an hour that I am gonna show you guys in the next blog post. Thanks for dropping by and do remember to check out Elle's Studio site for the lovely goodies. 

XoXo,