Exprimiendo El Kit De Frutas / Squeezing The Fruit Kit

Exprimiendo el kit de frutas

Buenos días! Soy Maria de nuevo, y hoy vengo a contaros qué se me ha ocurrido hacer para exprimir el kit de octubre.

No os pasa que cada mes pensáis “éste es mi favorito. Nada que se le ocurra a Sam va a gustarme más”  y al final, llega el mes siguiente y es mejor aún? A mi me pasa tooooodos los meses.

Good Morning! Here Maria again, and today I am going to tell you what I did to to squeeze the October fruit kit.

Don't you think that every month passed "this is my favorite". The planner kit from Happie Scrappie has been improving from time to time, thanks to Sam's creative mind. Frr me, aaaaaall months.

Bueno, os cuento, este mes conseguí hacerme con uno de los confettidoris de Teddi (sí! Soy una chica con suerte, YAY!) Así que me dije, tengo que hacer algo diferente con éste. Como ya sabéis, odio hacer la compra, pero cocinar, si tengo tiempo, me gusta bastante. Desgraciadamente, a diario voy siempre como loca y terminamos comiendo muy mal, así que he decido hacerme con una guía de recetas fáciles y rápidas para comer  mejor. Así que el insert va a ser mi “libro de recetas” sanas. Además, nunca es tarde (o muy pronto) para la “operación bikini”, verdad?

Well, I tell you, this month I got one of the Limited Edition Confettidori (yes, I'm a lucky girl, YAY!) So I said, I have to do something different with it. As you know, I hate groceries, but cooking, if I have time, I enjoy it a lot. Unfortunately, every day I always go crazy and ended up eating very un-healthy, so I decided to get myself a guide for quick and easy recipes to eat healthier. So the insert will be my healthy "cookbook" recipes. Besides, it's never too late (or too early) for "Bikini Operation", right?

Aquí tenéis un collage con mis primeras recetas, todas súper sencillitas y rápidas, y también un listado de los platos que nos gustan y cocino a menudo, con todos los ingredientes, para no olvidarme de nada cuando voy a mi (odiada) compra semanal.

Como veis he hecho unos marca páginas con los Post it de frutas, un troquel de círculo, los note pads, y un cordón (o cinta decorativa).

Primero he laminado los troquelados y post it y luego he hecho una pequeña incisión, donde he puesto la cinta decorada y la he pegado, no hay misterio!

También con los troquelados de los notepads he hecho un par de clips, soy fan de estas frutas.

Here's a collage with my first recipes, all easy and fast, and also a list of dishes that we like and cook often, with all the ingredients, not to forget anything when I go to my (hated) weekly visit to grocery.

As you see I have made some page marker with fruit Sticky Notes, a cicle punch , the note pads, and a cord (or decorative tape).

First I laminated the sticky notes and punched notepads, then I made a small incision, where I put the decorate tape and glue it, there is no mystery!

Also with the circle puncher, I punched the notepads and I made a couple of clips, I'm a fan of these fruits.

Y por último, he preparado la semana con las mil tareas que me esperan, y un montón de pegatinas que tengo de éste y de los kits anteriores. Soy la única a la que le encantan todas y le da pena usarlas?

And last, I prepared for the upcoming week, with the thousand tasks that await me, and lots of stickers that I have from this and previous kits. I am the only one who loves all and she is embarrassed to use them?

Como siempre, quería daros las gracias por estar ahí y os invito a que os unáis al grupo de Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/happiescrappie/  Cada día somos más y sois realmente creativas!

As always, I wanted to say thanks for being there and I invite you to join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/happiescrappie/

I am so happy that the group has been growing each and every day and all of you are really creative!

Illia SV https://www.facebook.com/SvIlia1?fref=nf )

Jomelle Gomez https://www.facebook.com/jomelle.gomez?fref=nf

También, si usáis Instagram, compartáis vuestras creaciones con #happiescrappie y #happiescrappieplannerkit

Also, if you use Instagram, you are welcome to share your creations by using #happiescrappie and #happiescrappieplannerkit

Un beso a todas!

María

Kisses to all and Happie planning! 
Maria

Things that I used in this blog post.

Fruits Pouch

Fruits Page Marker and Dashboard

Fruit Theme Tags

Fruits Theme Stickers

Fruit Theme Planners Inserts

Long and Mini Notepads

Creative Ways of Using Happie Scrappie Notepads

Hi folks, it’s Lucy again on the blog today. I hope everyone is having an awesome day at the moment. I can’t believe it is November already and we are so close to the festive season. How time flies!

As most of the subscribers had received their October Happie Scrappie Planner Kits by now, I want to share on how I use mine. The most exciting goodies from the planner kit will always be the new stuffs that Sam included in the kit.

For October, there are a few new items that Sam has never included before such as tags, dashboard made to fit to traveler notebook, mini notepads and long notepads. The ones that caught my eyes so quickly are the mini notepads and long notepads. They are so lovely! I am not sure how many of you bought the extra mini notepads and the long notepads. But I did purchase some extra notepads both mini and long ones – each for every design, because they are just too adorable! I'm sure many of you out there will agree with me! I need this cuteness in my life, well I need them for planning purposes. 

Let's start by showing you how I use the notepads, both the long and the mini ones in my Happy Planner. 

So I had prepared a dashboard from a scrapbook paper so that I have extra section in my happy planner. This section is dedicated for my healthy living lifestyle.

I took a piece of the mini notepad from each design (to do, plan it and love list).

“To Do” is basically just for the purpose of writing down to do list in order to attain the healthy and fit goals.

I used “Plan It” as the area that I laid out my motivation. I used motivational quote stamps and stamped them on the mini notepad. I love inserting motivational quotes in my planner layout. This step ensures that I stay focus on the goals I wish to achieve and do not get sidetracked easily.

Last but not least, the “Love List” notepad is the area where I actually listed down the reasons I love to be fit and healthy.

Then I added the long notepads as a workout tracker. All I needed to do was to stamp the words Monday to Saturday in each of the row. I did not stamp the word Sunday, as Sunday is my rest day. After this, I stamped the alphabet Y and N to indicate Yes and No respectively. For the final step, I just stamped the checklist boxes below the Y and N stamps on each row. 

To add more decoration to the dashboard, I decided to include the tags that came with the planner kit. 

Here it is the fully decorated dashboard. I really love the DIY Dashboard. Not only has it served as a motivation to stay healthy and fit but also it helped me to stay focused on accomplishing the results I want to see. 

I hope this post has given you some inspiration on how to use your notepads. There are so many ways you can utilize the notepads. I use it for to do list at home, at work, shopping list and wish list and slot them into my Happy Planner.

I definitely want to see everyone’s creativity in using the notepads. Do tag me or post it on Happie Scrappie Facebook and Instagram. Wishing everyone a fruitful week ahead. See you next time.

Xoxo,

Lucy

Things that I used in this blog post.

Long and Mini Notepads

Washi Tape Stripes

Tutti Frutti Tags

Fruity Listing in my Happie Planner Insert

I'm in complete love with the October happie planner kit. In Australia we are just starting summer so it's extra perfect for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere!

The happie planner fauxdori insert this month has tons of pages perfect for making lists!

I really love having this insert in my confettidori for those days and times when you need to make some serious lists to get your thoughts and plans organised!

I'm heading on a big trip to South Korea, so needless to say I have been making a lot of lists in preparation for this trip!

I especially love that with these inserts you don't need to do a lot of decorating! They are super cute as is!  All I've added here is a couple of stickers, a few bits of washi, and one of the awesome little tags from the kit!

One of my favourite things about this month's kit is the little packet of washi strips. Inside the packet is a little card that is perfect for wrapping washi tape samples around so you can take them with you on the go!  How nice is that?!

Hoping to see lots of fruity lists popping up all over the Internet! Till next time! 😘

Teddi

Things that I used in this post.

Fruity Washi Tapes

Mini Dew Drop Stickers

Tutti Frutti Tags

Tutti Frutti Fauxdori Inserts

Layout⎪Hello My Name Is … *Made With Love*

Welcome to Made With Love Design Team members Blog Hop. From February onwards, we change the way we posted our monthly assignment and blog hopping a little. So now, Each week one of the DT girls will be given the spotlight as they share more about themselves. And this week it's my turn!

So let's get started with 5 things you might (or might not) know about me:

1) I can only scrap and create at night. When I said night, that means after 12midnight (graveyard shift ;)) Daytime is too busy and overwhelming for me, plus there are a lot of distractions too. Isn't that a common habit for a lot of crafters and designers to work at night? So I normally craft (and sometimes go online) till 4-5am, feed baby and go to bed around 6am. I am lucky that I have my in-laws and mum to take over the morning shift i.e. take care of Ivan in the morning while I charge my batter. 

2) I am friendly but it would take a while to warm up with me. Then I would share everything and anything with you. When I don't smile or don't talk, I look very defensive. 

3)  I like to scrap with some white noise in the background i.e. watching Chinese match making shows or Taiwanese variety shows. Don't ask me why I am addicted to those match making shows, I just love to watch them. Sometimes I would watch scrapbooking or art journals video tutorials when I am crafting too. I just cant craft without background noise, but no music please. I don't really listen to songs or musics.

4) I don't have a favourite colour but my favourite colour scheme would be pastel. I am currently obsessed with purple, since I saw Carta Bella Wild Flower collection by Kaitlin Sheaffer. The use of purple colours with other autumish colour  is just brilliant.

5) Other that scrapbooking (mainly doing layouts, Project Life and some random mini books), I crochet amigurumi, do wonky sewing with my beloved sewing machine, practise Modern Calligraphy and also do random watercoloring with my Gelatos / Inktense pencils / Distress Markers. And I cannot draw. hahahaha

These are some of my random facts and I hope that you don't font them boring. Would love to share more because it is just fun to share! Not limited to projects, but also love to share some random bits of my life + photos of Ivan.

Here's what I have made for Made With Love this month:

When I got my DT kit for February assignment and saw the cute scrabble tiles that spell out in Ivan's name, I thought of the title right away! I want the title to be' Hello, my name is IVAN SIEW'. lol. So I scroll through my 13,000 of photos in my iPhone and found this cute photo of him playing with flowers during our Sunday brunch session. 

I love these flair badges by October Afternoon. So I lined them up next to the photo, in order to use as many as I could in my page.

Close-up of the scrabble tiles - do grab as many as you can from MAde With Love store! They are selling out fast especially common letters like A,E,I,O etc. I remember seeing a girl at the store couldn't complete her friend's name because the letter A was sold out ;P

And these are the card + tag that I have made and as usual, i keep my cards as simple as possible so that I could mail them flat. 

Here's a tag that I made using scraps and bits from the DT kit and also my stash. Enamel dots, deer wood veneer and the cloud stamp is from my stash.. 

Thanks for looking! Remember to get these supplies from Made With Love store! They have new arrivals on every Thursday, just in case you are not aware of this! XoXo <3

 

Altered Projects⎪Inspirational Tags and Amigurumi Workshop

Happy Chinese New Year everyone! Today is first day of Chinese NEw Year - And I am pretty excited because this year is gonna be Ivan's first new year going around collecting red packets. I took this photo of pretty Chinese New Year decor at a shopping mall last week. So pretty eh?

Today I am sharing a few tags that I made under 30 minutes on Craftwell blog. I love packing happy mails and add tags to my packaging. I diecuts  plenty of alphabets, doilies and shapes one night and keep them in a mini paper suitcase. So when I want to create something, these die cuts come in really handy when I do layering on my projects.

If you have been following my posts or projects, my favourite dies are probably the doilies and hearts. In these two tags, I added heart doilies to the tag. I always like to die cut a bunch of shapes using white cardstock. If I need it in other colors, I would probably mist it or color it with watercolor. And you will never go wrong with white color too!

For these two tags, I added doilies, ampersand, key and lock die cut that I cut with My Favourite Things die-namics. I love how quick eBosser would die cut a bunch of shapes with its huge platform. I fit like 4 sets of dies (included 2 sets of alphabet dies from A to Z) in one A4 size platform. Just in case you are wondering, the quotes on the tags are typed with one of my vintage typewriter – Royal Future. Love love love the type face and if you squint your eyes, these typewriter has really unique ‘e’.

Do you make tags? I hope this post would inspire you to make some tags with your scraps and die cuts.

And here's a peek of my Vintage tappy - Royal Futura. Love the dropped 'e' and I had a hard time deciding whether I should sell it!

Supplies Used:

Papers – Basic Grey, American Crafts, Studio Calico

Embellishments – Basic Grey

Dies – My Favourtie Things Die-namics

Others – Vintage Typewriter, twine, tine attacher, Mister Huey

Another updates: I am also conducting crochet amigurumi workshop recently. Here's a peek of my tools and also dolls that you can learn to make in my class. Yes, I am kinda obsessed with crochet hooks - I have total 4 sets and I wish I could crochet as much as possible. Crochet is very therapeutic and I enjoy watching youtube (Chinese match making show to be exact ;P) while crocheting.

Here's one of the doll (Pom Pom Purin) you could learn to make in my amigurumi class in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) & Singapore. Huge huge thanks to Mei from Amigurumei for sharing her patterns on her blog generously. Also huge thanks to her for allowing me to use her patterns in my class.

The dolls that you could make in my amigurumi workshop ranging from beginner, intermediate and advanced class. Even beginners who have no crochet skills could learn the basic chains, slip stitch, single crochet and making magic ring and a lot of crochet stitches + knowledge for making you own amigurumi. I would also teach you to read Japanese and US patterns. For more info: email: shop.happiescrappie@gmail.com

XoXo

Altered Projects⎪Christmas Gift Tags *Prima Marketing Inc*

I decided to make some gift tags to go with the handmade gift that I made for the Citrus Twist Kits girls. So here's my take using Prima Marketing Goodies:

I have handstitched a few notebooks as Christmas gifts for some of my scrapbooking friends. I am quite nervous because it is my first time handmaking something for my crafty friends. I put the book in a stitched vellum pocket and added a pretty tag made using Prima goodies.

Most of the Prima goodies I used for tag making are not Christmas-themed and I want to show how it could be done. For one of the tags I just stitched two layers of die-cut vellum tag shapes and added some sequins inside. Then I started layering flowers, paper, and canvas stickers.

Then I was thinking, "why not make some tags using Elementals Resist Canvas?" So I cut the canvas into tags and started adding water colour. I love how pretty and easy they turned out. Thanks for looking! I hope you are done sending all your christmas cards and wrapping gifts at this point of time ;) XoXoXo

Supplies Used:

Resist Canvas #960698

Resist Canvas #960643

Resist Canvas #564025

All About Me Paper #971076

Holiday Jubilee Paper #846442

Holiday Jubilee Paper #846411

Alphabet Stickers #559120

Alphabet Stickers #544836

Alphabet Stickers #559144