The Future is Yours

How can 4 days of holidays passed so quick? Luckily, my company always give Easter Tuesday off every year. Yeay! So I have in mind of spending time alone... shopping! :)

Anyway, we had a very relaxing long weekend. Met some friends, a couple of play dates for the kids and a watched The Lorax. Plus I managed to catch up with some scrapping. For this one, I am honored to be the Guest Designer for Bird is the Word "Future" challenge.

I scrapped this picture of Zareef showing off in the play ground. I didn't intend the splatter to be that messy, but Zareef kicked it while it was drying. Yeah, the future is his, indeed! I also wanna join Scrapbookers Anonymous "Map" challenge. Lovely background paper that is!

La la la.. good night! :)

To Have a HOME...

I am finally home, guys!!! After an adventurous trip to the land of US of A, I am finally home. I was one of the unlucky ones who got stranded in LA, thanks to Qantas. We are merely minutes away from takeoff, all passenger settled in, when the announcement was made to ground all flights and we had to disembark the plane. It was about 2am when we got ourselves a hotel room!! Not so happy with Alan Joyce, such a disgrace!!!

I spent 2 nights in LA before I managed to get myself a ticket home through Korea Air instead. It was a 24 hours flight, where it should only be 14 hours with Qantas. So yeah, I am still recovering from that long journey. One upside is that I managed to see more of the glamorous LA.. It was fun, and if I stay longer, I might like the city :) The weather was perfect too.

It seems fitting then to reveal this layout I did almost a month ago. I am honored to be chosen as From Screen 2 Scrap Movie Extra for November. The movie this month is "Home for the Holidays" and the criteria is to journal with a white pen, use HOME in the title and use a photo of a family gathering. So I scrap this photo of us during last Eid celebration. Love this quote from a musical I know, this must be how it feels to have a home. Yup, so glad I am HOME!

Oh man, back to office tomorrow. It feels like I was on a 3 weeks holiday! A shopping spree holiday it was! haha.. Anyway, glad to be back and hope to scrap more soon :) 

Somewhere Only We Know

This week has been so busy for me.. For all I know it's the end of the week already.. Yippie! :) Now it's time for another Polka Dot Blog Hop!! Love this poster inspiration challenge... The  peachy pink, the whites, the balls and the frames.. I used the colors mostly to create my layout below...

I just love this picture of Zara and me! We were taking a stroll through Centennial Park, Sydney in the morning. Great shot again, dear hubby! :) The title is again from Glee.. love that song, and if you're a Gleek like me, you love the scene too! :)) This picture kinda reminded me of the song.. I used Capture These Sketches #93 for this one..

So come in join in the blog hop! Great prizes awaits for the challenge winner and the blog hop winner. You can win just by commenting each of our blogs.. So hop over now! :) Here's the list again if you got lost...

Diana
Smitha
Mazlina << you are here
Angi
Elizabeta
Libeeti
Nicole
Dee Dee
Valerie
Trina
Sabrina
Polkadot Door Design

If you're from Polka Dot, WELCOME to my humble blog! Thanks for visiting!

Human

Hello everyone... It has been a tough few days for us, with the recent passing of my beloved mom-in-law. She had been nothing but nice to me, and purely love her children & grandchildren. She will be sorely missed, and wish all our prayers and du'a to her.

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As life continues on, I like to share a layout I did last week for Butterfly Crafts as their July guest designer. It is based on a beautiful Dior poster, where I am inspired by the colors and the balloons.

This layout is also inspired by the song Human, by Darren Criss. Yes, I admit that I am a big fan of him :) Still hope for the day when he will come and do a show down under :)) I really love this song that he wrote when he was only 15yo. I am just a dumb human like you ;)

Thanks for visiting... :)

Capture These Sketches #35 - Stunning

Hi ya'all... here is my last layout as Guest Designer for Lets Capture These Sketches. Thank you for having me as GD, and I really enjoyed joining up with other DTs to complete all the layouts for April. Here we have a lovely sketch by Ann. I scrapped this lovely picture of Zara looking stunning as ever. We were on our way to Pangkor when hubby took this picture.

p/s: have already packed all my scrapping goodies, so am not scrapping anymore.. at least for a while. Still have a couple of layouts for my DT assignments left to upload. Hopefully once I settled in my new place, I will scrap again :)))

Capture These Sketches #34 - SAD

Hey.. sorry I have been busy (and lazy) to scrap lately, where I scrap only my assignments. My mojo is also is thinning lah! So here's another entry as a April Guest Designer for Lets Capture These Sketches. Lovin this simple sketch by Guylaine, and I am keeping the layout clean and simple too. Here is a picture of Zareef looking so sad. I don't remember exactly why, but I can guess that he was sad to be left behind. I love these chipboards from Crate Papers, as I've been using them again and again. Plus, I think the clouds with the raindrops suit the picture perfectly. TFL!!

Creative Scrappers Anniversary - Nitty Gritty

Hi everyone!!! I am glad to be selected to join Creative Scrappers 2nd anniversary!! They are celebrating with DT blog hop and also readers reveals every Tuesdays and Thursdays. I am invited to do a layout based on their sketch and here is my take..

Sleepy head

Here is another layout for Lets Capture These Sketches, Sketch #32 by Allison Cope. As their guest designer for April, I received a die cut embellies pack from Kustom Die Kuts! I used their vine or leaves die-cut in this layout. Isn't nice? I scrapped these pictures of Zara falling to sleep. It is just so funny how she finally succumbed to her sleepiness. Most of the papers here is from Basic Grey Porcelain collection. Still has many papers left.. now I am de-stashing and not buying any new products.. not yet anyway.. *wink*..

So do hop on the site and join in the April sketches!!!!

Lets Capture These Sketches - Wonder boy

I have been invited to be April Guest Designer for Capture These Sketches. Remember my Sleepy, Silly and Happy challenges? Guess what? I won February's Snow White challenges grand prize!!! So, they asked me to join in their team for the month of April. How fun is that!

Here's my layout based on Calia's Sketch #31. Some cute photos of Zareef showing off his funky hairstyle, while smirking at the camera. I am misting again, this time I am playing with the title. I misted the alphas, then drew the outline myself. I kinda like how that turned out.. :)) Do check out the site and join in the sketches!!

And I am also glad that this layout won the random prize from March ARTastic challenge!! Yey, more goodies on the way... :)))

Guest Designer at Creative Scrappers

I'm honored to be a Guest Designer at Creative Scrappers. And more so when I was selected as their new design team member! Thanks Kristine for the opportunity. I did a couple of layouts of Sketch #75 below. I was not 100% satisfied with my first layout, so I made another one.

You can be featured too! They are looking for Guest Designers for Nov/Dec. The details are here. Just send Kristine your name and email address, 3 of your latest layouts, a link to your blog or your online gallery. The deadline is on October 28th. Come on, I know I have lots of talented friends and visitors to my blog, so send in your layouts!


Here is our latest Raya pics layout. I bought this lovely (and very cheap) S.E.I Chocolat paper pack from my last visit to Houston, and I just love love them! It's pink and chocolate, and have lots of butterflies and glitters, perfect for me! This layout is also for October challenge at Create Make It Happen, where it's all about Raya or any celebrations!

And here is another layout of the same sketch.. this one is of my lovely princess, and guess what, more butterflies! This layout is also for Scrap the Girls November challenge, where you have to do an interview style layout of your girls. Here the highlight is Zara's favorite things to do, now that she's almost 2. She really loves to dance & sing to just any music and almost everywhere. She also loves to look pretty & nice, and loves nice & colorful clothes. Now she picks her own clothes, can you believe it? And most of all, she loves to smile and looking very sweet, even when I'm scolding her. How can I get mad at her with that smile?