"Be Mine" Challenge at Echo Park

Today is the last day to post an entry using "Be Mine" collection from Echo Park Paper. I've bought the paper several days ago from iheartpapers but haven't got the chance to play with it,  today I feel like doing something crafty and I made this simple card :

Hope you like it! Happy New Year 2011!

Supplies :

- Be Mine collection from Echo Park Paper

- White, black and pink cardstock from Recollection

- Spellbinders labels one 
- Love language Cuttlebug embossing folders

- Martha Stewart edge punch

- Stickles

- Pink hot rocks from Imaginisce

- Purple thread (I forgot where I got it from)

Pull-Out Scrapbook featuring Little Boy Collection

Today I wanna share my first Pull-Out Scrapbook using Little Boy collection from Echo park paper. I made this album for my friend, she has two boys so these papers from EPP are perfect for this project! 

I got the tutorial from Splitcoaststampers you can click here for the complete tutorial, but I made several changes first I changed the size to 5x5" for the cover and 4x4" for the album so my friend can put a bigger size photos of their sons and since I don't have 5x5" coaster instead I used chipboard or the album cover.

Supplies :

- Paper : Little Boy collection from Echo Park Paper, SEI (blue cardstock), and SEI Happy Day

- Banner : a Walk in the Park from Echo Park Paper

- i-rock hot rocks (crystal and blue), and gem rocks (gold)

- i-top small brad

- Button : American Crafts and Making memories

- Gypsy Wanderings cartridge (boys title and boys tag)

- Twine : Martha Stewart

Thanks for visiting!

Merry Christmas!!!

A song was heard at Christmas
To wake the midnight sky
A Savior's birth, and peace on earth
And praise to God on high.

Merry Christmas everyone! I wanna share some projects I made for Christmas using Echo Park Paper Everybody Loves Christmas line, 

Hope you all have a Wonderful Christmas with your family :)

Thanks for visiting!

The Paper Variety Design Team

Did you see a new blinkie on the right side bar here on my blog? Yup, that's right I'm now part of The Paper Variety Design Team! WOOHOOO!! It's my first time as Design Team and I'm SO EXCITED!!!
If you haven't heard about The Paper Variety here is a little bit about them,

We are a weekly challenge blog, that offers a little bit of everything for crafters who share our same passion for paper! We hope to inspire you with a wide variety of...

• prompts - varying from cards, layouts, and altered projects to embellishment, technique and color challenges, too!
• projects - our talented design team brings a mix of different experience, medias, and styles; something for everyone
• products - it is amazing how generous the scrapbooking community is! we have a fabulous line up of sponsors for each of our challenges

Here's the lineup..

• Wednesdays - a new challenge will be announced, along with design team projects, when you return to enter your project, use the tab at the top of TPV for a direct link back to this post
• Fridays - sponsor feature! read about the fabulous prize offered and support their company by browsing other great merchandise they offer
• Sundays - submission spotlights; Abby and I are always inspired by what others post and create, we will each feature one of the projects entered in the challenge
• Tuesdays - project submissions are due by noon est and random.org will choose a winner for the weekly challenge and prize!

Now head over to The Paper Variety Blog here they are giving away $25 Gift certificate when they reached 500 followers! what are you waiting for? I'll see you all there, a new challenge will be started on Jan 5, 2011.

Thanks for visiting!

Friendship Card (Let's Scrap Challenge 12-15-10)

Today I make a card for one of my friend who have been so generously send me a beautiful paper kit and a book about card making :) The paper is from Me and My Big Idea, it's has beautiful pattern so I decided I wanna make a friendship card (I rather called that way than Valentine card). I used Let's Scrap sketch for this week challenge, and here's my card :

For this card I used my Spellbinders classic scalloped circle, and Cuttlebug to cut the heart and embossed it with D'vine swirl, stickles and i-rock hot rocks and gem rocks. For the sentiment I used Stampendous clear stamps and memento ink.

Thanks for looking!

A Walk in The Park

I've created this layout since I got the paper from Echo Park Paper, yup it's several months ago but I never had the chance to finish it, and today I just remember about this one and decided to finish and posting it here. I used PageMaps sketch from PageMaps book one. I just love the paper combination on this layout!

Thanks for looking :)

Happy Holiday!

I can't believe the holidays are a week away and we still don't have snow here in Newton! my daughter keep asking whether is gonna be a white Christmas or not :D and she can't wait to make a snowman this year. Anyway I have a Christmas card which I created using Echo Park Paper you know I love their paper so badly! For this card I didn't used any sketch, just grab some paper, twine, ribbon, button and MS edge punch oh almost forgot and some Stickles and of course my i-rock! 

Thanks for looking and Merry Christmas!

PageMaps: my little shoebox winners!

Woohooo... I feel so blessed today! first, I just got a Gypsy (thanks to my lovely husband *smooch*) and when I came home I check on PageMaps blog my  Little Boy birthday card win the MLS card challenge!!! Yayyy!!! I'm so HAPPY..HAPPY..HAPPY! You could check the details here PageMaps: my little shoebox winners! Thank You Becky!

DT Call and Giveaway from The Paper Variety

I just found this info about Design team call at The Paper Variety, but tonight (Dec 17 midnight) is the last chance to submit the application so if you still have time check them out, just click TPV blinky on the left side bar or click this link : TPV Design Team call and they also giving away some blog candy! who doesn't love blog candy?! here's a peek of the blog candy :

so what are you waiting for??? go check them out! and Good Luck! (if you applying)

Little Boy Birthday Card

Another card sketch from Page Maps Challenge, and I decided I'm gonna use Little boy Collection from Echo Park Paper, I love the patterned and how bright the color is (the original card has better color sorry for poor photos quality). And I make this card for my nephew, he'll be 1 year old this Friday. Here's the card for your Baby J :

And this is the sketch from Page Maps :

Thanks for looking :)

Projects with Imaginisce "Enchanted"

It's been more than two weeks since my last post, so today I wanna share 3 of my projects using Imaginisce Enchanted line. I've been wanting Imaginisce paper for a while but it's hard for me to get one in store (I used to go to J's/M's/ACMoore and no local scrapbook store close to where we live), when I saw this line on Imaginisce blog and I decided I have to get one! and I did! :D

And enough with the story, so here's what I came up with :

Layout :

This layout inspired by Page Maps MLS Challenge, here's the link : My Little Shoebox Layout Contest , and this is the sketch :

Cards :

and the last one is Mini Book with pocket :

It's a book about my daughter, I love how simple to make this mini book I was inspired by Christie from Creation by Christie blog, and here's the link for the tutorial how to make this mini book with pocket : Creations By Christie. The original idea is to use one single 12x12 paper, but instead I used 4 paper of 6x6 so every page has a different design. So that's all for now, I still have some of the paper though and already have some idea what I'm going to make, I Looove this Enchanted collection! 
Thanks for looking :)

Huge Blog Candy from Wee Memories

So I have new follower Yaayyy! Her name is Bev, she's a friend and Design team from Let's Scrap, check her blog here cause she has a lot of awesome layout and also a lot blog candy info (Thanks Bev!) and one of them is from Wee Memories, check this out :

Wow what a yummy blog candy! just click here to get to their blog and giveaway ends on November 30th.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Remember my Winter Wishes card from my last post? after it being featured photo at Let's Scrap then yesterday I won the challenge!!! How cool is that??! I know it's randomly chosen but still I won something after my work! Ha! another reason to be thankful for....

Anyway I wanna wish you all Happy Thanksgiving! Have a very blessed Thanksgiving! I'm thankful for my family, my lovely husband and daughter, I've been blessed with such a wonderful family and friends! It's time to baked the Turkey! :)

Winter Card (Let's Scrap Sketch 11-17-10)

It's been a while I haven't create layout or card from Let's scrap sketch so today I decided to make one, and this week is a card sketch so I create a Winter Card using Wintertime line by Echo Park Paper :

 

 and here's more pictures for closer look :

The skating shoes is hand cut from EPP wintertime cover(the die cut sticker only have one shoes), then I used bakers twine and mini button for the shoe lace. And I used Unity Stamp for the "Winter Wishes" which I got it free from Paper Crafts magazine, then I add some i-rock hot rock(blue and crystal and I also used Cuttlebug D'vine Swirl embossing folder and add some blue chalk on top of it to make the embossing pop! :)

DeNami Design Color Challenge #5

DeNami Design held a Color Challenge in their blog, they asked us to create a card/project featuring cream, kraft, orange, green and brown. The good thing is we can use any brand and don't have to use their product ('coz I don't have one yet!), so here's my entry for the challenge :

and here's a closer look :

Love how the flowers turns out!

Supplies :

- Echo Park Paper Happy Halloween and Walk in the Park line

- DCWV Paper

- Bazill Basics Cardstock

- We R Memory Keeper Rubon

- Flowers : Making Memories

- I-rock by Imaginisce

- Stickles

PageMaps 2 (Con't)

Here's some closer look from my layout "Let it Snow",

I Love how beautiful the paper is, I used Wintertime line from Echo Park Paper. For the title using technique for accordion flower (someday I'll post it here the tutorial), and you can tell that I'm i-rock mania! and also I hand-stitch the border.

Supplies :

- Echo Park Paper Wintertime line

- SEI cardstock

- Colorbox chalk (blue)

- Memento Ink (brown)

- DCWV paper (blue title)

- Brad - Recollection

- I-rock by Imaginisce

PageMaps 2 Challenge

I Love PageMaps the sketches always pretty and easy to interpret, and this is my entry for PageMaps challenge at their blog,

the Sketch :

and here's my layout :

and for the PRIZE.... tattaraaaaa.....

Wish me Luck! finger cross! :)

Let's Scrap Sketch (11-3-10)

Another beautiful layout from Let's Scrap Sketch, the original sketch has 2 page layout but this time I only make 1 page layout because actually I already did this layout before for applying their DT(at that time the sketch only the right page) but I didn't got the part :D

So here's my layout and I did some changes on this layout (a little bit different with the one I sent before),

Supplies :

- Echo Park Paper, A Walk in the Park 

- Bazzill Basics cardstock

- I-rock hot rocks and gems

- Making Memories button

- Rick Rack

Birthday Card (for Madison)

I'm a HUGE fan of Echo Park Paper, LOVE their papers like never had enough of it (it's true though coz I haven't got all or their collection!). And the owner of Echo Park Paper, Madison Parker's birthday is on Nov 3rd, so they make this challenge for EPP fans on facebook to make a birthday card for him using any EPP line. 
And here's my card for him :

and here's a closer look :

and this is inside of the card :

Supplies :

- Echo Park a Walk in the park and Happy halloween line

- Bazzill Basics cardstock

- SEI Happy day line (for the cake)

- I-rock

- ribbon

- Cuttlebug embossing Distressed Stripes

- Stickles

Echo Park Paper Happy Halloween Layout Challenge

Finally I've finished the challenge just in time before Oct 31 midnight EST! turns out it's midnight MST :D

So here's my layout for the challenge and I've posted on Echo Park Paper facebook page 

and I used Let's Scrap sketch on this one and I can post this LO for their challenge also :)

Supplies :

- Echo Park Paper Happy Halloween Collection

- Bazzill Basics Cardstock

- Spider ribbon from Michaels

- Recollection brads

- I-rock

- Stickles

Happy Halloween!!!

It's official here to say it out loud : HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! Glue Arts blog have a contest going on it's called "Glue Arts Would Like to BOO You!" of course there will be some candy for the Halloween Party, hope I can get some :). Check them out! I have the link on left side of this blog.

And today it's the last day to post Echo Park Paper Happy Halloween layout challenge so I'm gonna tried to finish my layout before we go trick or treating tonight!

Cards Challenge

I made these cards (if I'm not mistaken) it was beginning of this month which is World Card Making Day, the picture was there all this time cause I forgot to post it here :D

For the first card, Echo Park Paper made a challenge on their facebook page here so here's what I create using EPP a walk in the park collection : 

and I found the World Card Making Day contest on Paper Crafts Magazine facebook page, so I made Love card and Birthday card :

Supplies :
- Bazzill Basic cardstock
- EPP a Walk in the park collection
- SEI Happy Day collection
- American Crafts button and brad
- Making Memories button and flowers
- Ribbon
- We R Memory Keepers rub on
- Martha Stewart punch
- Cuttlebug Swiss dots, and Spots and dots embossing folder
- I-top and I-rock