Layouts⎪XoXo

Hello there! I have been lazy with maintaining my blog again this month. I have this layout sitting in my draft folder for weeks and now I finally push the publish button to show you guys here!

I am totally in love with these dies by Amy Tangerine and Dear Lizzy when American Crafts just launched the new die set. I used these dies a lot for cutting patterned papers, vellum, felt and even cork sheet. *Enabler aper* you can get yours at Citrus Twist Kits store too!

For this layout, I want the XOXO die-cut to be the focus of the layout so I die-cut as many as I could with blue, pink patterned papers and some vellums. Then used them as background. I believed I have channeled the awesome Paige Taylor Evans in me when I piece all the XOXO die cuts together. I love how Paige's layouts are always quilting inspired and the way she uses a lot of patterned papers in her pages. Okay, my layout is no where to be as pretty as hers, but i really love how the die-cut background turned out.

More close-ups of the die-cuts. It was quote painful (Ahem, I mean tedious) to roll the die cuts again and again. But it is also very fun and therapeutic when you keep repeating the same things ;)

I also add some machine stitching to every XOXO die cuts because I didn't use much adhesive to stick them on my page and want them to be floating on the background. (Not sure if it make any sense ;))

Thanks for looking! And now, go here to get this set of dies! Its one of the must have dies, I kid  you not!

XoXo,

Layout⎪3 Layouts using my eBosser *Craftwell*

Hello there, I am sure most of you know how much I love my eBosser! I love using it to die cut mini doilies, letters and also alphabets. I also love using it to do dry embossing / debossing to add lovely (yet subtle) texture to my pages.

So here I am sharing 3 layouts that I have made using different die cuts (with myeBosser of course!) in January. Some are valentine themed, some are just my day-to-day baby photos! Since I am sharing three pages with a few detailed shots of each page, so this is definitely a very photo-heavy post!

1st Layout - It is valentine-themed. God knows when was the last time I took photo of only 2 of us? I am in love with the Crate Paper Love Note collection, so made an effort to search for a photo of us from my 12k photos iPhone library. The paper is a little too busy with multi colour hearts so I mat the photo with a lace heart doilies. This is die cut with  lifestyle craft dies and eBosser. I love how the heart peeks out from behind.

2nd Layout: Using a lot of goodies from my Made With Love DT kit - it has mix of products from Crate papers, My Minds Eyes and Fancy Pants. Chalkboard is still in the trend now. I made the chalk board paper a little more chalkish by rubbing my white distress paint over. It sort of toned down the dark black colour a little. Love love love this photo of Ivan having fun with my dad, playing remote control car. Okay, he doesn't know how to control the car but he knows how to turn the knob of the control! This is one of the layout that I want to use up all the scrap bits - papers from Crate Paper Love Note collection and also random die cut letter. I arranged the letters randomly just to fill up the space, it does not form any words here. I just want some white embellishments to tone the hot pink paper down. 

I embossed the word RIGHT with gold embossing powder but it doesn't turn out as good as I expected. Again, I would just leave it as it is ;p 

And here's the 3rd layout: Enjoy. A layout that I made to remind myself to enjoy Ivan's babyhood, to remind myself not to compare him to other babies / their growth chart / milestone. Ivan had not been eating solid much, he was either gag or vomit whenever we fed him. I got really worried and brought him to the paediatrician a few times and even got scolding for the doctor! And guess what? 3 week after this layout been made, he is eating solid food 4 times a day! Guess he is catching up after been sick for a week plus. 

One night, I had the urge to die cut a tonnes of mini doilies. Instead of reaching for my usual white card stocks, I decided to cut those doilies with various colour card stocks. When I am done, I love all the pastel doilies and want to make them the feature of this layout. So I sprinkled them all over the page. I noticed I either like to arrange my repeated elements horizontally or vertically. For this page, I arrange the doilies in vertical arrangement and this layout came together so quickly. 

Old book papers are my favourite papers for matting a photo nowadays. And I also love to add either grey or black paint splatter to my page. I like how it lead your eyes to the page. But my lovely hubster commented that it makes the page looks mouldy. I just brush him off saying you aren't artsy enough to understand my paint splatter >_<

Its a doilies madness layout eh? I also added some die cuts that I cut with my Cameo - the title Enjoy , the arrows and the branches are from my Cameo.

Cute camera die cut from My Favourite Things Die-namics and my eBosser.

Oh by the way, I had just take photos of my freshly cleaned scrap room. Will definitely do a post to bring you girls around my room! Stay tuned! XO

Project Life⎪Week 27 *Citrus Twist Kits & American Crafts*

Hello there. I have been busy with the renovation work in my in-law's house. Thus I didnt scrap & blog much for the past 2 weeks. Rest assured, my project life spread is pretty up to date - only 2 weeks behind, intentionally, because I want to make these spreads using Citrus Twist August Kit.

Here's the Week 27 spread using partial Citrus Twist - July kit and American Crafts Mayberry collection. The original spread was a little different from this because my peper-trained dog peed & poop on some of my cards when I photo'ed my spreads on the floor. >_< Things happened right? So after beating my dog up, I move on to replace two of the soiled cards.

Note: I made 3 page spread again this week as I want to have more room for filler cards and journaling spots.

Page 1:

Page 2:

Page 3:

Week 27 title card. I added white distress stain to the card to create white-washed effect.

Close up of my pockets:

*These 2 are the cards that I have replaced.*

 I really didnt have much to blog at the moment because:

1) My scrap area is all cluttered up --> hate this!

2) I have 2 boxes of goodies from Citrus Twist & Entreartiste that I have yet to play with

3) It's time to feed baby Ivan

Anyway, thanks for dropping by my blog & leaving comments. I promise, I would try my best to visit your blog as frequent as I could. Tata!