it's almost time for...

yes, it's almost time for the annual 'floor the love' dance event. it's organized by a friend who set up KSDP (korea-singapore dance project) a few years back. i was surprised at how many people would actually attend the event, i guess i just didnt know that singaporeans were so interested in street dancing.

so today's post is dedicated to a couple of people who will grace the event this year, namely Chris, the person behind KSDP, and freestyle Ali, a korean dancer whom i got to know through 'floor the love'.

here is a layout i did of chris with a photo that angel took when she was taking a break, visiting chris on Christmas Island, where chris is currently based now...

supplies used: patterned paper - dcwv, my mind's eye, doodlebug; alphas - american crafts; diecut system - sizzix; punches - martha stewart and ek success.

and of course, i made a layout of ali too! this photo was taken in october 2010, when i was in seoul for a work trip and ali travelled hours across seoul just to have a quick 1 hours meet up before he headed for the jazz concert, which he tried to get me to go.

supplies used: patterned papers - my mind's eye; cardstock - dcwv; alphas - american crafts; punches - martha stewart and ek success and others - corrugated cardboard.

and although i wont be around for this year's 'floor the love' event, i hope i get to catch these guys before they head back to seoul and christmas island. wish me luck!

by the way, this year's floor the love event will be held on 26th of march and you can check out more information at www.floorthelove.blogspot.com for tickets to the event or how to take part in the event or for information on dance classes with the famous freestyle ali.

*hugs*

jan

my list of special loves...just to name a few...

good day everyone! today's post would be about a few things on my list of special loves. one of the things on my list is Prima Marketing products, i love all the embellishments and literally went crazy when a LSS was offering 40% discounts off. i instantly filled my basket with blooms and alphas within a few minutes and my good friend, angel, thinks i'm crazy for wanting to go back to get more while the promotion is still on.

well, angel is also another special love. although we have our good days and not so good days and days where we dont wanna speak at all *winks* she's still one of my special love; it's been 7 years since we found each other again and she's been a great friend, listening to my nonsense and sharing her stuff with me almost unconditionally.

so yupperz, i've combined my love for angel, prima marketing products and scrapping into this simple layout...

supplies used: patterned paper - prima marketing and bobunny; journaling card, blooms, pearls - prima marketing; alphas: american crafts and adorn it; punch - martha stewart; cardstock - dcwv and stmap - unity stamps.

although it was a simple layout but it was initially really difficult for me to tear that huge hole in my patterned paper and i am glad it turned out well, afterall angel chose her own paper when i went shopping one day, so i had to make sure the paper was well used.

last but definitely not least, i have a special love for japan and it pains me to see photos and videos and hear the news about the destruction the huge earthquake and tsunami had caused. it definitely was a reality check for me, since i was just in tokyo about 2 days before the earthquake happened. my heart goes out to the people of japan and anyone who is also emotionally affected by this natural diaster.

let's not forget to tell our love ones how we feel for them. tell them today! tell them now! please pray for japan and mother earth.

*hugs*
jan

kids and their 1st day of school...

i know you must be wondering 'what kids and what 1st day of school is janice talking about?' yes, i dont have any kids but i've got plenty of cousins and friends who have kids and scrapping their kids photos is enough to make me not wanna have my own! at this point, this seems to be the better deal, because i still get to have fun; i dont need to yell, chase or discilipine them!

i also get loads of time to do things i like and scrap! so this post is all about 2 kids i know and their first day of school. the first child is wyn-ning, she is my eldest niece; she is considerate and well behaved. her layout is based on sketch 226 from http://www.pencillines.com/

and here is my take...

supplies used: patterned paper - autumn leaves; cardstock - autumn leaves, dcwv; alphas - recollection, jenni bowlin and sizzix; buttons - daiso and pop-up stickers - k&co.

the second kid is jaz's 2nd son, roy; he's cheeky and energetic. his layout is based on sketch 106 from http://www.thescrappiest.blogspot.com/ and here is my attempt...

supplies used: patterned papers - autumn leaves; cardstock - dcwv; alphas - american crafts, recollection, sizzix, jenni bowlin

i love 'school' themed papers and they seem to be able to match with any photos, i also love how 'school' themed layouts allow me to use buttons, banners and a whole load of color and it can still work out.

i hope that i can keep this up since this are my 3rd and 4th layout in 6 days! i really wanna scrap more and use more of my supplies so i can get the new arrivals without feeling guilty after...

wish me luck!

*hugs*

OooOh so sweet!

have you ever tried rock melon that is so juicy and sweet that when you first sink your teeth into the slice, your eyes widen with amazment, you can feel the cold, sweet juice flowing down your throat and it feels like everything around you doesnt matter and all you do is to continue chewing the flesh and sink your teeth into more of that slice of rock melon, while your other half keeps asking you questions about the rock melon which you refuse to answer until you have finish off that slice of rock melon?

well, francis and i have! he must have thought i was crazy for that maybe 60 seconds while i gulpped down that slice of rock melon but he definitely understood what i felt because he had the exact same reaction, ignoring me while i asked 'isnt it sweet?' 'it's so cold and juicy right?' 'do you like it?' etcetera...

it has been almost 7 months since we had that rock melon in otaru, hokkaido, japan and i can still recall that feel when i see the photos we managed to grab with that couple of minutes and today's post is all about a layout on that rock melon.

this is the sketch which the layout is based on...

it is from http://www.thescrappiest.blogspot.com and here is my attempt at it...

supplies used: patterned paper - my mind's eye; cardstock - dcwv; alphas - american craft and doodlebug designs; trims - red twine; chipboard - maya road and punches - martha steward 'crown'

this is a simple layout that makes me super happy when i see it! cant wait to start on the next project!

until then, *hugs*

jan

the smurfs...

hope you had a wonderfuly weekend, well...mine was really fulfilling! i came back from work on friday and got straight down to planning a new layout and by the time i went to bed on friday night, i had been awake for over 43hours, with about a 5hours nap inbetween.

but i think it was all worth it. i completed a layout that is a tad bit overdue and all just in time for the design team search on the sketch blogs, http://www.pencillines.com/ and http://www.thescrappiest.blogspot.com/

anyway, back to my story on the smurfs. my friend, smurf, found his perfect smurfette and they decided to tie the knot and celebrated their love for each other on 23rd october 2010. so i decided to make a little something for them to always remember that beautiful day.

this layout is based on the design team search sketch for 2011 over at the pencil lines sketch blog, here is the link to the sketch... http//www.pencillines.com/2011/02/design-team-search-2011.html and here is my attempt at it...

supplies used: patterned paper - making memories; cardstock - dcwv; trims - making memories; flowers & pearls - prima marketing; brads - making memories and doodlebug designs; die-cuts - k&co; blings - basic grey; alphas - american craft; doily - royal lace and gold trim - from a bookshop in NZ

trying to layer this layout was initially a pain but once i got started, i couldnt stop! it is so puffy and popped up that it is a tight squeeze in its shadow box but i love it! well, me loving it, isnt good enough because its gonna be a gift for smurf & smurfette, so hopefully they'll like it too!


i hate how i need to go to work soon but good thing is that i get to come home tonight...yippieee! hopefully i wont be too tired because i have a 2nd layout which is about 85% done! cant wait to share it!


until the next post...
*hugs*

jan

SSJ scrap session 01/11 - part 2

happy lunar new year! it has been a crazy 2 weeks, been away for work shortly after my last post and by the time i got back it was already lunar new year. i had fun catching up with family and friends during the festive season but also spend some quiet moments nursing the lost of someone close.

i am sad to lose that someone but yet a small part of me also know that this may be better for him, as he no longer needs to suffer. so yes, i have had a whirl wind of emotions for 2 weeks and i am sorry, my love, for the lost of your father.

and yes due to the crazy events for the past 2 weeks, i havent been scrapping. but i have finally taken photos of the 3rd layout that i did at SSJ (sharon, serbina & janice's) scrap session 01/11. if y0u have read the previous post, we were each suppose to bring a sketch, which we would all attempt and the sketch i found was sketch #216 from www.pencillines.com

here is my take on the sketch...

the layout is entitled: men will be boys. these photos were taken at smurf's house at about 6ish in the morning of his wedding, the guys (yogi, francis and ah seng) were suppose to go help the groom get ready to pick up his bride but they ended up goof-ing around with smurf's collection of nerf guns!

materials used: patterned papers - graphic45; lace cardstock - ki memories; tissue tape: tim holtz idea-ology; alphas: graphic45, jenni bowlin & reflections; cardstock - dcwv; brads - daiso and others - bottle caps

i found that it really hard to embellish 'boys' and 'men' layouts but i love how these bottle caps fit right in, since the men i knowall love to drink beer, so yes it does help to make the page a little more manly that way.


thank you for looking! i'll be off to another work trip but i am hoping to come back and get started on scrapping again!

/hugs

p/s: i am sorry if you need to turn your head when you are looking at the main photo of the layout, somehow this photo seem to change it's orientation on its own when i upload it and i cant seem to do anything about it

SSJ scrap session 01/11

yippieee! what a great way to start 2011! sharon, serbina & i had our 1st scrap session for the year, on the 5th of january. to make things more interesting and to get us all going, we had a little game where we each brought a sketch and we all had to make a layout based on that sketch - which meant that by the end of the day, we all went home with the 'skeletons' or 'foundations' for 3 layouts!

initially, even i was a little afraid that we wouldn't be able to complete the base for all 3 layouts but i think we completed our tasks well and we were all left with some 'homework' of embellishing and adding the final touches to our layouts when we left serbina's.

here is my take of the sketch that sharon brought...

materials used: patterned papers - graphic45; cardstock - dcwv; alphas- american craft thickers, jenni bowlin, brads - making memories and inks - ranger/tim holtz distress inks

i love peter rabbit and i know my nephew, samuel, cannot sleep without his best friend, peter rabbit. thus there was no doubt in my mind, when i first saw graphic45's 'once upon a springtime', that these papers were going onto a layout for samuel.

this posting is late, by the way, because samuel's mummy saw the layout and provided me with a photo which was more suitable - a photo that actually had 'peter rabbit' and not just any friend from the 'peter rabbit' collection. thank you, constance, for providing with a selection of photos for me to choose, please continue to snap more photos of the little one!

the sketch that serbina chose was from http://www.pagemaps.com/ and here is my take of it...

materials used: patterned papers - my mind's eye, cardstock - dcwv, alphas - american craft thickers, stickers - tsukineko and inks - ranger/tim holtz distress inks.

i've been wanting to scrap these photos for ages but i wasn't sure how to place the photos or what papers to use. i'm so glad that i finally found papers that would bring out the colors of the cathedral in the photo and thanks to serbina for the sketch!

i can't wait to add the finishing touches to my last layout for ssj's scrap session 01/11, please come back again to see what i created with a sketch from http://www.pencillines.com/

enjoy the rest of the week!

*hugs*

an overdue layout...

yippieee...i'm so glad i finally managed to complete my latest layout. you see, francis and i have had our babies for years and we've taken sooooo many photos but i never got down to scrapping them and they've been grumbling about it for the longest time and i'm just ready happy that i finally got a page for them.

it's a simple and messy layout, pretty much like me and my room =Þ and this photo was taken onboard a limited express train that we took from sapporo to hakodate when we went for a summer holiday in japan last year.

yes, in case you're wondering, my babies do travel a lot and as my sister would put it, they probably have more frequent miles than her =) well, i can't pack my sister in my bags so it's not like i dont wanna help *winks*

materials used: patterned paper and rub-ons-li'l davis designs; lace-little yellow bicycle, ki memories; cardstock-dcwv; stamp-unity stamp; die-cut designs-pitatte album decoration sheet; embossing powder-american crafts pewter

thanks for looking and come back soon because sharon, serbina and i are having a scrap session later so hopefully we'll have some stuff to show soon!

*hugs

happy 2011!

happy new year people! hope the 2011 started out well for you, i had a great start to 2011 doing things that i love and spending time with the family, most of them at least. i managed to complete a simple layout of a photo i 'stole' from sharon's facebook account, i simply couldn't resist not scrapping it ...

the layout is based on sketch #52 from pencillines.com. this is a sketch drawn by a local scrapper whose been a design team (DT) for a lot of big names companies, emeline ng-seet. here is how the original sketch looks like...

...and here is my take of it...

the materials used: patterned paper-creative imaginations; cardstock-dcwv; flowers: prima marketing; alphas- american crafts, doodlebug designs, jenni bowlin; miscellaneous: inkssentials glossy accents, autumn leaves buttons, doodlebug designs brads, sizzix big shot, tim holtz alteration die and ek success punch.

i completed this in about 3hours, i probably would have taken 3days or 3months last time *winks* so i'm glad i'm slowly trying to speeding up on my projects so i can work on more! by the way, i would really appreciate if the people around me can take more photos so i would constantly find inspiration to scrap, i'm still in search for that perfect lumix!

have a wonderful 2011 people, may you all be blessed with love overflowing, happiness everlasting and good health to enjoy what 2011 has to offer!

*hugs*