Catch Up Miscellaneous

OMG.  It's been more than half a year since I last posted. I meant to post earlier but I have been so lazy.  However, I haven't been that lazy with creating.  I always try to scrap something on long weekends.  Then when maternity leave started, I had some time to scrap since my little bun decided to bake a bit longer than anticipated.  All this time I want to post whatever pages I haven't posted, like I last mentioned last post.  Of course, I didn't.  And when I wanted to, the baby came out.  Life was over.  Kinda (elaborate later in future post... maybe). Anyways, here are some of the pages I created over the last while. Good thing I wrote down some of the things I used when making these pages.

Paradise Air
This was the most adventurous things I have ever done in my life.  What's best was it was also the first adventurous thing B and I did as a married couple.  On the second day of our marriage, we went to Paradise Air and flew over the southwestern part of Oahu island.  I loved it. I don't think I will ever get a pilot's license, this will do.  The best parts were to "feel" the clouds and hover over rainbows.  It was amazing.

Paper: Can't remember! KaiserCraft?

Embellishments: Thickers, Bo Bunny cutout

Fishy Spa

In Santorini, B and I hiked from Fira to Oia.  We could have took a bus, but 1. people said this hike is amazing, and it was, and 2.  I didn't want to pay for two bus fares (we went back to Fira by bus).  It wasn't meant to be a hard hike, but we did take some detours, which took longer, and I hadn't exercised for ages!  However, it really made me continue to exercise after this trip.  Anyways, after this long hike, we were famished and our feet were overly exhausted.  After a delicious lunch, we dunked our feet into a fish tank and let the fishy eat away our dead skin. It was a pretty enjoyable experience.  B was surprised that he quite enjoyed it.

Paper: Echo Park, Carta Bella, Elle's Studio, Core'dination

Tools/Techniques: Silhouette Cameo 

Embellishments: Basic Grey memo card, letter stickers

Camel Ride

In Wadi Rum, our private tour guide suggested a camel ride. Oh yeah!  How often do I get a chance to ride a camel in a desert. Perfect animal in a perfect setting.

Paper: Crate Paper, Basic Grey
Embellishments: Stickers (Basic Grey, Authentique, Kaisercraft), Punch Out (Teresa Collins)

New Year Creations

With another week off, I got more scrapbook layouts done.  Also helps when mom came to "visit", and I did not have to worry about cooking and washing dishes.  So I had all the time in the world to scrap (and watch earlier seasons of Supernatural on Netflix).

Hawaii Wedding
The main reason we went to Hawaii last year (2012) was to get married!  I love Hawaii.  It's seriously my favourite place on Earth.  It's a place I can visit again and again.  Just love it, and therefore, it's a perfect setting for our wedding.

Paper: BoBunny, Core'dination

Embellishments: Stickers, vellum love quote, memo card (Elle's Studio)

Marukame Udon

Although it was on my list of restaurants to try in Waikiki, B got to it first and fell in love.  He's not a big fan of cities in paradise, but he sure is a big fan of this place.  Near the end of our short stay in Waikiki, I finally made it there and of course, he had no complaints going there again.  It was good, but I didn't fall in love with it as much as him.  The reason to go back to Waikiki for him is this udon shop.

Paper: Basic Grey

Tools/Techniques: Cricut Create a Critter, Silhouette Cameo 

Traveler

During my holiday, I got a chance to go through and develop my newest vacation photos and getting all gung-ho to start another new scrapbook (yes, I'm crazy!).  So to start things off with this scrapbook, let's start with page 1, the title page!

Paper: Bazzill Basics Paper, Core'dination

Tools/Techniques: Prismacolor pencil crayons, distressing/ink

Embellishments: Sticker (title "Traveler" by Jolee's Boutique), stamps, vellum quote

Puppy Portraits

A long time ago, I took these photos with a borrowed dslr camera.  This holiday, I finally got a chance to scrap these photos.  I actually could have finished this when I was at my parents' but I don't know how I managed to lose one of the photos.  The good news is that I bought a new printer that could print out awesome (backup) photos!  And so to test it out, I reprint the photo I lost/misplaced.  

   

Paper: My Mind's Eye, Making Memories, Echo Park

Tools/Techniques: Silhouette Cameo, circle cutter

Embellishments: Stickers

It's been a while... again.

It's been about three months since I last posted.  However, I have been scrapping hard ... well, relatively hard.  Here are my latest six pages - that's an average 2 pages per week!  Provided that I've been working on weekends this summer, I think I'm doing pretty good!!

Byodo-In Temple
On the day after our wedding, our first stop on our one day road trip around Oahu was the Byodo-In Temple.  Didn't think I would scrap this page this early on... until the BoBunny Serenity collection gave me some ideas!

Paper: BoBunny, Recollection, Bazzill
Techniques/Tools: Cricut Pagoda, stamp
Embellishments: letter stickers

Cruise Adventure
Our honeymoon was a one week Hawaiian cruise.  On embarkment day, we had a crew member took a photo of us just in front of the ship.  It was a good photo... to scrap.

Paper: Basic Grey, Sandylion, scraps

Embellishments: stickers, vellum, Bazzill pleated border, pearl bead, ribbon (cut up to make the coconuts!)

Cock-a-doodle-doo
Wild/farmed chickens and roosters are EVERYWHERE in Hawaii.  How could my Hawaii scrapbook not include this bird?!

Paper: Echo Park, scraps

Techniques/Tools: Cricut 3 Birds on Parade

Embellishments: stickers

Stonehenge
For my England trip, I originally didn't plan to see these famous rocks.  However, my friend suggested to visit them since she also never been.  So why not?  I'm always up to see famous things - even if it means being a typical tourist.

Paper: Bazzill

Techniques/Tools: Silhouette Cameo, Gypsy

Embellishments: letter stickers

London
I heart London.  I just love this city.  Too bad my time there was so short.  I haven't seen everything yet.  I will have to go back.
 

Paper: Recollection, Core'dination

Embellishments: Thickers, stickers, stamps

Over the Rainbow

This photo is very special to me.  How often are you in the sky, and a perimeter borders around you?  Almost never.  

Paper: Forgot!

Techniques/Tools: Sillhouette Cameo

Embellishments: sticker

Globe Theater, Cool Treats, @ the Dog Park

I've been trying to keep up with my scrapbooking.  So I try to scrap a little bit every weekend.  So I got three pages done and forgot to post them.  I don't think I remember what I used for them...

Shakespeare's Globe

Another London page done.  I'm getting close!  Although I'm no Shakespeare expert, I enjoyed my time at the theater (and buying postcards).  The best part about this page is the background paper.  It was suppose to be regular price of $1.50, but since it was among my pile of 25c papers, it got charged 25c.  Hahaha.  Lucky me.

Paper: Can't remember...

Techniques/Tools: Silhouette Cameo

Cool Treats

Shaved ice is a popular cool treat in Hawaii.  When B and I were off on our own, we went to one of the popular shaved ice places (forgot what it was called).  Too bad the day wasn't too hot, or else it would have been perfect!  Look at B's face... he looked like an old man.  

Paper: Core'dination, others

Techniques/Tools: acrylic paint, sparkles

Embellishments: stickers, chipboard, 

@ the Dog Park

These photos were taken a long time ago, so long I don't even remember when.  Well, more like B took them.  They're pretty good photos, eh?  Look at Roshi sniff a tree and run!  This one goes into the Memories scrapbook. 

Paper: Cosmo Cricket, BoBunny

Embellishments: stickers

London Eye

Another page done for the London portion of my scrapbook.  This one took a while, as I found the perfect color/pattern combinations for the background paper and the London skyline silhouette.  Then I was lost with how to layout my photos and what to use for my mat.  Sigh.  Left it for a while and then over a weekend I checked out my favorite scrapbook store in Calgary and bought new paper.  Haha.  New paper always help.  I'm quite happy with this.  I might add a bit more to it one day, but for now (and to move on), I'll keep it as is.

Paper: Basic Grey, My Mind's Eye Bon Voyage,
Techniques/Tools: Silhouette Cameo, Cricut Stretch Your Imagination, Border punch, Distress Ink pad,
Embellishments: Thickers, Liquid Pearls, stickers

The Walking Dead

At this year's comic expo, some of the cast members of The Walking Dead were there.  Since B and I watch this show quite religiously, he pre-paid a photo op for us to take a photo with these three celebrities.  Not only was the photo expensive, the line up of people to get their photo was long too.  However, while waiting in line, I got a good look of some of the cast members of Supernatural and Stan Lee (and boy, does he look old!)

Paper: Recollections, Bo Bunny
Techniques/Tools: Cricut Paper Doll Dress Up, Silhouette Cameo, distressing
Embellishments: Punch out shape, spray ink