Crop!!!

I went to my second crop this weekend (my first one was a few years ago, and that one made me feel weird being among married women bragging about their kids all night, and so I never went to another one again).  The crop was held at a scrapbooking store, Creative Scrapbooks.  I heard about this crop through the email newsletter and as well, an advertisement in the store.  My coworker, C, also told me she was going.  I thought why not give it another try, since I'm so behind in my scrapbooking anyways.

The crop was $65 (not including anything you want to buy from the store, so it was more like $65+) for Friday night and all of Saturday.  Usually, I'm quite against crops because I can scrapbook at home for free.  However, now with a dog, the moment I sit down, he will decide that his bladder will need to be released.  I also need to cook and do other stuff, and with all these interruptions, I could not accomplish anything (I think having kids will be worse).  This crop helped, and it was great.  Besides being talented paper crafters, the ladies of the store were also master chefs.  They cooked us awesome tasting meals, and I even got some of the recipes.  There were games and contests.  One of the draws was 'mystery bag'.  We were given six (garbage) items, and we had to use all six of the items in a project in order to enter a draw.  The objects were:

1. rubber elastic band
2. swirly clip
3. paper tag
4. black hair pin
5. plastic pick (of some sort)
6. feather

At first, I was like wtf am I going to make with all this crap?!  However, on my drive home on Friday night it dawned on me and ta da... my project:

I like it very much.  All the projects were displayed later and I have to say I like mine the most, not like there weren't other nice ones.  However, mine, of course, was the most colourful, brightest, and cutest (kiddish) looking.  Seriously.  The other nice ones looked really 'adult' like.  All distressed, vintage, and had a more mature stamped image. How can a gnome not outshine those?!  Too bad it wasn't a judging contest (probably didn't want to hurt anyone's egos), and I didn't win the draw.  

Can you see all the objects used?

Paper: Scraps

Techniques/Tools: rubber stamp, Prismacolor pencil crayons, Memento ink pad, flock

Embellishments: paper flower, wood flower (gift from the crop), 

Others: mystery bag items 

Goodbye Gifts for the Ladies

I recently resigned from my current job.  I worked in a relatively small office, and so, everyone knows everyone.  Even though I didn't work with everyone, I still talked to them either before the weekly staff meetings, lunch gatherings, or office activities. There were only eight ladies (excluding me) in the office, and so I made each of them a rose with a personalized tag.  This was not part of the plan, but Michael's had a Cricut cartridge sale, and so I bought the new Giant Flowers cartridge.  These roses turned out AMAZING.  They took a lot of work, a lot of glue, and a lot of paper.  However, seeing how happy the ladies were when receiving their rose was well worth it!

Paper: Recollections

Technique/Tools: Cricut Giant Flowers, Memento ink pads, spray mists

Others: Green flower tape, wire, wood floral stems, Christian Dior Forever and Ever perfume

The Cliff at Dun Aengus

It's been two weeks since I posted my last creation.  I could have gotten it done sooner, but I was a little stuck on paper selection (either I didn't know what to choose from my paper collection, or I didn't have the one among my collection, sigh), and the proper colours I want on my page.  Decisions decisions.  At the end, the time spent was well worth it.  I love it.  Everything about it is different than what I usually do: the vintage paper design (that I newly bought at Winners!), the feminine look that does not match the photo theme, handwritten calligraphy, and pencil colour blending.  It all turned out well!

Paper: My Mind's Eye, Coredination, paper lace

Techniques/Tools: Handwriting/calligraphy, Prismacolor color pencils and blender

Embellishments: Paper flowers, stickers

Kinsale

Yes, another Ireland page done.  I really like this page.  It's everything I like - simple, clean, and colourful.  Although I had a pagemap for it, but it took a while to figure out the colours and shapes I wanted to go with it.  At the end, it all worked out.  LOVE it!

Paper: Echo Park Paper, Basic Grey, Coredination, cardstock, scraps

Techinques/Tools: Cricut American Alphabet, clear stamps

Hear No, See No, Speak No ...

It's been a while since I last crafted. Rephrase, crafted for fun. I did do some crafting for my wedding (of course, else it won't be my wedding). So now all that is over, time to start scrapping again. I have TONS to scrap, but I will finish my Ireland scrapbook first! So here's my page, turned out quite well! Paper: Little Yellow Bicycle, Coredination, DCWV Techniques/Tools Cricut Opposites Attract, Martha Stewart punch

Busy Busy

Wow, it's been more than two months since I last posted! However, I haven't been slacking, but rather the opposite. Besides wedding planning and Christmas, I got quite a bit done with my Ireland scrapbook. So much done, I don't remember much of the specs of my pages. So for these pages, no specs! Whatever!

Christmas Gift

Roshi, my dog, has a sitter/day home. Yes, he is my baby and I'm spending money like he is my kid. Well, he is a puppy, and he's been developing well with a sitter so I think it's well worth it. Besides, he doesn't see her everyday anymore - just three times a week to burn off his energy in her yard, and gives me a break when I come home from work!

I'm very grateful of her to take him in. He was a wee pup when I found her. Since it's her home, she was willing to take a non-housetrained puppy, while watching other dogs and pets, and tending to three small children of her own - talk about Supermom!!!

So this Christmas, I made her a little gift. Nothing much, but a cute little sign with the name of her "company". Hope she likes it!

Paper: Echo Park, S.E.I.

Techniques/Tools: Cricut Create a Critter, Sesame Street Font

Embellishments: Brads