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

Random⎪I Am A Prima Girl (again) + Rainbow In My Pencil Case

Hip hip Hooray! I am so thrilled to be picked as Prima Marketing Design Team for 2014-2015.

This is my second year on the team and I cannot wait to receive the new goodies and see what I could do with those amazing stuff. Last year has been a really good year, first time sending projects to CHA, scrapping 8 projects under 48 hours, receiving boxes and boxes of awesome products from Prima. And the girls on the team are so amazingly talented! I could only say, I am so honoured to be on the same team with these amazing girls + I am also so thrilled to be on the same team with some familiar faces - Kasia T. and Amelie Modret (who are on Citrus Twist Kits team as me for the past one year)!

Since this is a happy post (after having a bag day), I want to share some happy photos with you here. Do you remember I went to Japan for my long overdue honeymoon back in April? I kid you not, Japan is definitely heaven for stationery addicts like me. This is such a fun trip because:

❤ We went there without bringing baby Ivan along, so just two of us spending some US time

❤ Hubster is the most supportive husband ever, lugging tonnes and tonnes of stationeries and also non-stop visiting different book stores etc.

❤ Gotta give him a brownie point - he even helped me pick some washi tapes!

Just gotta love these pastel rainbow colour highlighter - which has a cute name: Zebra Mildliner. Instead of bright neon colours, it highlights the notes in cute pastel shades. 

I picked up quite a few MT tapes and also some random washi tapes from Daiso, 3 Coins and Sierra. I love love love their 100 yen shop and could spend hours and hours there looking at their affordable + cute stuffs.

The very first thing that I bought on the first night in Osaka, Japan are these cute Pilot Coleto pens. I am madly in love with them. The designs are uber cute - which you can pick and customise the number of pen refills, the colours that you want. The refills also come in mechanical pencil + eraser. Why are the Japs so smart and innovative? One of the rainbow colour barrel show here is from Muji. There are ball pens refills instead of gel pens like Coleto. I am a huge fans of anything gel pens, so all my money goes to buying different Coleto barrels and refills. LoL.

Here's the close-up of the limited edition refill in Clover design. Too cute right?

I also gotten the heart edition =) Couldn't decide if I should hoard or destash it? The inks are running out real quick because I use them on my planner all the time. I  like how fine the tips are, as I am using 0.4 here.

Then I also got addicted buying some Decorush and Mojiliner. I use them on my planner, decorating post cards and #happiemail. Some of the designs from Decorush Atelier is so cute that it looks like washi tapes. Just in case you have no idea what Decorush / Mojiliner is, they actually work like correction tape. Instead of rolling white tape on your paper, they roll out really really cute designs like panda, animals, disney character etc. You can get the main part (body) with refills or just the refills alone so that you can switch the refills when you want to.

It took me a while to get use to gliding them on the paper and sometimes I still do not get perfect image. It works better on smooth surface / paper. They are so cute nonetheless.

I am totally clueless with how to store them properly. so I just keep them in a hard pencil case from Smiggle.

It is not practical at all, but for the cute Matryoshka design, I will bear with it. LOL. 

And these are my Mojiliner in action. I write on my planner / paper first, then I roll the Mojiliner over like how I use highlighter. Its so cute that the handwriting is still visible and its highlighted with cute crayon / color pencil effect.

I finally used up some of the post cards that I got from Kyoto, Japan and written 10 postcards. I am not really into pen palling but I like how a simple post card will brighten up someone's day.

Pilot Frixion Erasable pens and markers anyone? One day, i will make a swatch of the different Frixion pens that I have, whenever I have time. Wont be too long, okay? They write a little sheer compare to other gel pens that I own but I also like that I could erase it if I have made any mistakes.

I hope this post have made your day by just looking at these rainbow colour stationeries. I always like to play with my pens and papers whenever I have had a bad day. Everything is awesome when there is rainbow.

XoXo,

Updates⎪Hello Evalicious!

Some of you probably have seen this on my Instagram few weeks ago. I got picked as part of the Design Team for Shop Evalicious. Thank you Shi Ying for informing me - she has been checking Shop Evalicious blog and saw this news before I even knew it. I told ya, I almost jump in excitement in a bus when ShiYing whatsapp me to inform me (as I was taking midnight coach from Kuala Lumpur back to Singapore). Thank you again for all the sweet words + thanks Eve for picking me as part of this amazing team!

2 weeks later I received my first happy mail from Eve! Another round of happy dance! I quickly open up the mail and fill it up in my wooden box. I am loving all these puffy stickers, stamps, flair badges and tags! 

First up, puffy stickers! I love stickers! Easy-peasy, just stick them every where, on my planner, notebook, iPhone, layouts or Project Life pages. I can even stuck them down on Ivan's forehead lol ;)

Another love - shaped paper clips! I have been obsessed with paper clips since I started using my planners. I used them as  bookmarks too!

Flair badges - The deer, the map, the love phrases - what is not to love? 

p.s. it is so hard to photo flair badges nicely and minus the glare! I have tried my best here >_<

Tags tags tags! I love cutting these cute tags and layer them on my layouts or simply tuck them behind the photo! Awesome for layering or as embellishments!

Do drop by Shop Evalicious to check out these goodies! I am not off to create something with these yummilicious goodies!

XoXo

Layout⎪Hello Hello Hello 2014 *Made With Love*

Hippo Hooray!! I have a great news to share here! I have been picked as Elle's Studio Design Team members for 1st half of 2014. I am so honoured to be part of this amazing team! God knows how much I love Elle's Studio bright coloured products ;))

This is my first layout for Made With Love for January 2014. I finally broke out my Cameo and start die cutting some white card stocks to be used as embellishments / titles for my pages. Can you believe this layout was created while my 9-month old was sitting on my lap? When I was arranging the papers and embellishments, he would try to help (as usual) and at times shook his head. I wonder of he show disagreement with the arrangement of the elements? >_< Who knows he might turn out to be a great scrapbooker when he grow up since he has been scrapping next to me since baby.

I Love the water-colour washed-out effect on the chevron paper by Pink Paislee. So I arranged the three die cut 'HELLO' and add some water-colour subtly by following the colour scheme of the patterned paper. 

As usual, I would layer patterned papers under my photo as photo mat and cluster embellishments (die cuts, stickers etc) around the photo. And most of the time, layering stickers or embellies over my photo is a must for me. Apparently I am not too worried about affecting my photo in the future, it is just one of my scrapbooking habit that i NEED to layer over the photo. Do you do that or you always try to avoid putting anything on your photo?

And here are the 2 love themed cards that I made using my DT kit. Love the ampersand papers from Studio Calico and also Crate Paper 'Love Note'. I have always prone to create simple and less bulky cards because they are easier to be mailed. 

I hope you have a fun and great weekend ahead! I can't wait for tomorrow because we are going for a mini getaway this weekend. It is our very first family trip (just the 3 of us) since baby was born! LEt's see how we cope and also have fun travelling!

*All the items used above are available at Made With Love store. Go grab them before they are out of stock!

List of Supplies:

Papers - Pink Paislee, Crate Paper, Studio Calico

Embellishments - Stickers (My Mind's Eyes), American Crafts Thickers

Others - Sewing machine, Watercolor, Punch (Martha Stewart), Die Cutting MAchine (Silhouette Cameo)

Now do drop by other DT girls' blogs:

Genevieve

Jeanette

Pooi

Priscilla

Yvonne  

Design Team⎪me & my BIG ideas DT

Did you see this? Yay! I can finally share the news here! I gotta thanks mambi for the awesome opportunity and also my sweet online friend Stephanie for pestering encouraging to send in my application. Just a random fact, I actually started scrapbooking with mambi kits 2 years ago. And now I am so thrilled to be part of their design team. 

XoXo

Random⎪Hip Hip Hooray!

I know some of you have seen this at Prima Marketing blog. I could finally spill the beans. Yes, yes, yes, I am the new Prima girl for year 2013/14. I kept pinching myself when I received invitation email from Sharon on being one of the Prima girls. Do check out Prima's blog on the rest of the crazily talented ladies. And again, I would like to congratulate the ladies who made it & am super glad to see Kasia T be on the same team again. I have been telling everyone how amazing Kasia's projects are and she is my new Scrap Idol ;)

p.s.: Thanks all the ladies who left some lover on my Instagram, blog, Prima's blog and also Facebook. Can't wait to share my projects with the latest Prima goodies soon. XoXo, Sam.

Project Life⎪ Week 18 & Hip Hip Hooray!

Hello there! I keep forgetting to update my latest Project Life Spread on the blog. And yes, week 18 is my latest spread and I am officially 3 weeks behind. But no worries, I have printed all the photos and just waiting for my Citrus Twist Kits to arrive and I will start working on it till the wee hours.

Another spread using unusual color scheme ;) Orange is definitely something new on my PL

I am loving those orange fuzzy rub-ons by Basic Grey. Tooo took cute! And I realize my spread is getting boring with photos of Ivan only as I was still on my confinement period in Week 18.

love those papers from Webster's Pages - Color & Composition. 

A simple stitched title card with wonky stitches 

Lovely, happy mail from my Instagram friend - Rebecca

Loving the sunburst card from Webster's pages. So glad that I had only 1 more kilogram to go to reach my pre-natal weight.

After sharing my Project Life spread, I am proud to announce that I have been accepted as both About A Boy & Let's Get Sketchy design team. Woo too~ two more DT to add to my resume ;) Do check out their blog for more sketch and theme challenges.

http://itsabouttheboys.blogspot.com/ 

http://letsgetsketchy.blogspot.com/

That's all for this post. Wish me luck as I have tonnes of DT assignments to do & emails to reply. A demanding & just vaccinated newborn is not helping the situation either. XoXo.