Such a Charmer

Hello everyone! I feel like I've abandoned the site for a long time. Since the kids started ballet and soccer, our Saturday mornings are busy. With housework, laundry, ironing, yadda yadda.. I barely have time to scrap. SO, I am SO glad that it is now school holiday here in Victoria!!! Hip, Hip, Hooray!!! Usually I don't like school holiday as everywhere will be crowded, but now it means free weekends!!! And 5 (yes, 5 for us!!!) days weekend is coming up in Friday.

OK, I am already looking forward for Easter Friday. Plus, I managed to whipped this layout out. It is inspired by Bird is The Word Charm challenge. I used Let's Capture the Sketches Sketch #126 for this layout. Here are pictures of Zara being a charmer at Brighton Beach :) Hope you enjoy it!

Have a great week ahead.. Look out for a GD reveal from me soon! ;) And oh, this layout won Get Picky inspiration challenge.. Thanks, guys!

Drama Queen

Hello everyone! What a lovely long weekend we had here in Melbourne. It is Labor Day weekend and the weather was perfect :) We went to the Moomba Festival.. a free carnival by the Yarra and watched How to Train your Dragon show. It was awesome! The dragons looks real and the effects are stunning! Zareef especially, had lots of fun. Zara on the other hand, couldn't be bothered and slept halfway through it. Haha!

Anyway, here's one layout I did yesterday. I am joining Get Picky inspiration challenge. It was a nice girly pictures with pink, yellow and white niceties. I can't resist this one! I scrap this picture of Zara sooking.. And if you know Zara, the title is very fitting :D I use a gorgeous sketch from Sketchabilities for this one. I love how this one turned out :)

Gonna be a really short week.. with a short Perth trip and one day training.. I'll barely have any work done this week! Thanks for visiting :)

Our Journey

Happy Tuesday! Here's another layout to share. It is based on Bird is the Word "Journey" challenge. It is also fitting to combine with Get Picky holiday challenge. I want to scrap our latest New Zealand holiday but I haven't even gone through all the photos yet. So, I scrapped our last summer @ Tasmania instead. I used Sketchabilites #64 for this one. Hope you like it!

Thanks for visiting! Until I scrap again, enjoy the rest of the week!

Promise

This is the last layout I did during my week long holiday. In the spirit of new 20Dozen, I created this layout of me and my hopes for the new year. There are a lot I wish for, but these are what came to my mind when I did the journaling.

I am inspired by Bird is the Word 'Promise' challenge, which is perfect for New Year's resolutions. I am also joining Scrapbookers Anonymous misting challenge, and used Creative Scrappers Sketch #189 for this layout. Fuh, four in one!

Happy weekend people! Thanks for visiting.

Girly Girl!

Hello everyone! We had a busy, but great weekend. Even the kids were tired! :) Plus Zara has 3 "accidents" over the weekend! Oh well, hopefully she will not have them anymore soon!

I am glad I managed to whip this one out. I used Sketchy Thursdays Sketch 12.8 for this layout. This layout is inspired by Get Picky Challenge #14, where it focuses on the story, story, story!

Here are some pictures of Zara posing gleefully.. looking pretty and cute. She is really a girly girl; she just loves dressing up, looking cute and pretty. She has been picking her own clothes since she was 2!

Hope ya'all have a great week ahead.. Thanks so much for visiting! :)

Spring Awakening

Today's layout is for the gorgeous spring weather we have today... to celebrate spring! Another layout of a picture without people... spring flowers! I was inspired by Get Picky August Inspiration, in celebration of Daffodil Day, which is cancer awareness day here in Australia. An excellent way to celebrate spring, right?

I know that I have to scrap this picture of wild flowers my hubby took near the Otways region. I love the papers from BG Curio collection. I like how this simple layout turned out, and love how the yellow frame makes the picture really pops :) I used Sketchabilities Sketch #54 for this layout.

Don't you just love yellow and green together? Fresh and very spring-like! :)

Thanks for visiting... :)

My Belle

Wednesday already.. seriously??  Time flies, really! I want to share a layout inspired by Scrap The Girls August challenge, where we must include this quote as a title or journaling:

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. ~Harold Hulbert

I am also inspired by Get Picky July Inspiration Challenge #10. Oh love those butterflies! I can't believe I have almost the exact butterflies stickers as in the photo! I'm glad I finally get to use them.. :) I used Sketchabilities #52 for this layout.

I am having a hard time using this Nook kit.. I don't know why, but the colors doesn't suit me for some reason.. However, I am glad on how this one turned out..

 This small alpha stickers rock!

Busy busy busy days ahead!!! Thanks for visiting.. :)

My Girl

Hello hello! We got some close friends visiting us tonight. Gosh, I don't realize how much I missed hanging out with friends like that.. We were very close, since we've been friends since we're early teens.. The whole family came, the whole 12 of them (plus 3 toddlers)!!

Ok.. enough rambling.. am so tired now but want to load this first.. This layout is based on Get Picky July sketch challenge. I used a kit I just received from Shazza for FS2S challenge win. Thank hon, it is really lovely! Fits perfectly with these lovely pictures of Zara.. Again, very simple one.. (I am getting lazy! :)))

 

Yawnn... it's time to sleep now.. rise and shine early tomorrow.. Thanks again for visiting!

Happy Birthday Dear!

I had a lovely day today. It is my hubby's birthday today, so we had a nice lunch and watched Transformers 3 today :)) Honestly quite disappointed with the movie since we have high hopes for it. We are huge fans of the 1st and 2nd movies, but this one didn't quite make it somehow.... But the special effects are brilliant at least!

So here is a layout dedicated to him.. This is the second time I scrapped this photo since I like it so much.. :) I am inspired by Get Picky June Inspiration challenge, which to scrap from a lovely poster from Sex & The City 2. Also, inspired by Let's Get Shabby Challenge #25, which is also a poster inspiration challenge, with addition to use number '2' and choose 2 items to include from a list of embellies. For this one, I used chipboards and ribbons.

Both posters have strong blue influence in them, which brought me to join Scrapbookers Anonymous July challenge. The challenge this time is to scrap our hard to use colors, or colors that are piling up in our stash. I had these lovely baby blue flowers, ribbons and stickers from Bella for a long time but it was hard for me to use them. If you know me, I like bright colors!! Even my 'subdued' colors are still brighter than this! So I took up the challenge and kind of like how 'soft' this layout turned out.

The sketch is from Once Upon A Sketch July 1st challenge. The journaling criteria is to name the person in the photo and describe a fact about them. There are more than one fact about my hubby to write about.. maybe a bit cheesy here, but hey, it's his birthday anyway! :))

Sorry for my long rambling... here's the layout..

Happy Birthday again my dear! Thank you again for visiting.. :)) Your comments are really appreciated!

I dream of... spring

Hello everyone! How is your week so far? :)) Due to blogger down time and issues, it came to my attention that some comments left for my giveaway didn't make it through. So, for those of you that left wonderful comments for my give away, please leave a comment again. Sorry for the inconvinience!!

So here is a layout I like to share... this is inspired by Get Picky May Sketch challenge. Love the sketch.. it's quite unique! Also inspired by The Lollipop Ladies Fruit Salad challenge. Love the colors of the picture.. the kiwi, strawberries, melons and banana.. Nyum nyum nyum

I know the other half of the world is celebrating spring, but down under winter is only starting..But I'm already thinking (and dreaming) of spring! So here is me reminiscencing our spring trip to The Tulip Festival last October..

I used Nook May kit for this one.. I love love this kit!!!! I did not only made one, but 2 layouts out of this kit yesterday.. the pastel colors PP are just gorgeous!! For this one, I cut the flowers and did some flowers arranging.. Love how it turned out.. Hope you all like it too!

Thanks for visiting!