I'm a Tea Lady!

I'm so excited to share with you that ...

Afternoon Tea Society is a new monthly kit club that will launch in September - the kits will be aimed at Scrapbookers, Card makers and Altered Artists with lots of fab goodies, some completely exclusive!

The kit club is based in the UK and all of the kits will have a traditionally quaint and British feel to them.

Thanks for another wonderful opportunity to design layouts and share my works! I'm happy to be working soon with the other "Tea Ladies" - Sarah, Amanda, Renee, and Mette.

-Pia

Back to BasicGrey

I have always loved BasicGrey. I guess most of us do. This is why  I'm very happy that I've been playing with the new collections, Kioshi, Origins and Sugar Rush lately. From the three, my fave is Sugar Rush. I love the colors pink, red, periwinkle blue, orange and gray!

Here are some of my new layouts using BasicGrey Sugar Rush, Kioshi and Porcelain. Making girl layouts from time to time is a real treat for me.

This is my friend Arlene at her brother's wedding day. What I love about this layout: the punched butterflies, and the stickers from the kit  which are very easy to use.

This is my god daughter, Anika. She's very sassy and stylish just like her mom! What I Love about this layout: the different flowers used - paper, cloth, stickers and the bird cage from Porcelain kit

This is my favorite layout among the three. It makes me want to wish I have four kids too hehehe. It's just priceless to see pictures of your children in one layout, right? I kept this layout very simple because I want the pictures to stand out.

As you may have noticed I do post layouts here at my blog that are for friends and clients (with permission from my clients, of course). I do that from time to time. If you are interested to have some of your photos scrapbooked, you may send me an email and we can discuss that further. I can also teach basic scrapbooking, (one on one or group) within the South area (in some areas of Cavite, Alabang, Paranaque or Las Piñas). Please note however that I only accept traditional scrapbooking. Pictures to be scrapped are to be delivered to me and the output/layouts are for pick only (Alabang area).

Thanks so much for dropping by!

-Pia

Cosmo Cricket

I recently had the chance to make layouts using Cosmo Cricket Earth Love and The Boyfriend. These two are my recent favorites from Cosmo. I love the hues of these lines - brown, green, red, yellow and a little of blue. The colors are perfect for boy layouts. Thanks to my friend Arlene for sharing her stuff with me.

What I love about this layout:

- the mixture of sepia, black and white and color photos in one layout;
- the Borders pp  (the patterned paper with multiple choice) - it fits the pictures perfectly;
- the series of photos and Joaqui's different faces;
- the simplicity of the background paper and the minimal use of embellishments

What I love about this layout:

- the handwritten letter I wrote for Jeff's birthday - it was an intention to write in cursive too, it has been awhile since I last did that;
- the mini flags/banners I cut each piece, inked, curled and top with buttons;
- the hues of the papers - brown, peach and green - very earthly indeed!

- the unusual combination of red and green for a birthday layout
- I used one patterned paper from Material Girl (the base pp) and the rest from Earth Love and The Boyfriend. I love the result of the combination of the three lines.

If there's one thing I regret about this layout is that the only photo I had of Jeff when he was blowing the candle was the one I took using a cell phone camera. But since it's the memory that truly matters, I think I'll give in to that blurred picture.

-Pia

Ethan's Love for Drawing

When I was a kid, I love to draw. Since my mom is a teacher, she used to own small blackboards  which she usually brings at home (imagine that!). I remember sketching in my notebooks and drawing on  my  mom's blackboards too! I remember drawing people and houses while our neighbors watch. I was a show off back then : D I love to color too and I'm super O.C. when it comes to matching colors.

But Ethan is way talented than me; he has a knack for drawing! I love that Ethan loves the same hobby that I do, only, he is far better than me or even his dad.

Please allow me to be a stage mom again. I'd  like to share with you some of his works.

 Ethan loves to draw robots.

 

I bought Ethan an HB graphite pencil and he told me it's a cool pencil!

Ethan also loves to draw spaceships, rocket ships or anything related to outer space!

I promise Ethan that I will put  all of his works in a book or maybe books someday. I guess trying to take photographs of them is a good start.

On a final note, I'll share with a layout I made for a friend.

materials used: Fancy Pants Kraft pps, Daisy Designs, American Crafts Thickers

I made two more layouts for my boys and hopefully I can come up with a journaling so I can post them soon.

-Pia

Kid @ Heart

I admit it I'm very much a kid at heart! I love almost everything kids love ... chocolates (although I prefer the dark variety), playing in the rain (must do when we finally move to a new community) and ice cream! Well, who doesn't?

Here's a layout I made last week about my all time favorite ... ice cream!

The photos were taken using a cell phone camera. 

title: Kid @ Heart
materials used: BasicGrey, Fancy Pants (banners) pps, Bazzill scalloped cs, Fancy Pants felt shapes, Prima journaling blocks, Prima alphas, Jillibean (@),Uniball pen

-Pia

Tough Guy

Here's Ethan trying his hands (and feet!) on one of the new attractions of Manila Zoo - wall climbing! These photos were taken last March when Ethan was brought by his grandparents at the zoo. I remember going to the zoo when we were kids to see animals but now times have changed and the zoo is not just a place to see animals but a place for adventure too for our little ones. 

My mom texted me that Ethan was the one who persisted to try wall climbing. I must admit this kid is really gutsy. But maybe when he was already about climb, he felt butterflies in his tummy that he told my mom that he can't do it. Hehehe, so long guts! But wait, maybe he also thought he'd be a loser to quit that easily so he tried again. And guess what? He managed to go up not just once but several times too!

Take a look at this layout about his adventure. I only wish I was there when he did this the first time.

For a lengthy journaling, I decided to use the tag I made during my Scrapjam class last year (?) 

The focal photo was originally 5"x7". It was a souvenir photo taken by the zoo photographer. Even though it was quite big for the page, I wanted to use it. It'll be a waste not to (despite of the poor quality). I printed some supporting photos that my dad were able to capture using his cellphone camera. I managed to pick atleast 3 best shots and squeezed them all together with the 5x7 picture in one layout.

It may look complicated at first but it's actually not. I made my life easier by only picking two patterned papers from BasicGrey Origins (the background and the brown matting). I already brought out all the embellishments that "I might use" - metal, raffia, buttons, rub ons, stickers, ink and paint that compliment the colors of my photos. I was able to use most of my stuff that have been buried for some time now hehehe.

title: Tough Guy

materials used: BasicGrey and Fancy Pants pps, Fancy Pants sticker, Making Memories paint, Tim Holtz stamp, Versamark stamp ink, Daisy Bucket rub ons, Uniball pen

Layouts made:

Project 52: 29 layouts (including two spread LOs)
My Parent's Album: 4 LOs
Commissioned Work/Client: 8 LOs

-Pia