Happy Mother's Day!

To all the beautiful moms I know, Happy Mother's Day! : )

I received a message from my friends, Ria and Anj telling me it's a day to treat myself to whatever takes my fancy, relax, pamper myself, buy something expensive and charge it to hubby hehehe. Oh well, Mother's Day is as normal as any other day in my life ... this is my fourth year as a mom and yet I couldn't remember the first two years of my mother's day. They were vague. The only one I could remember was last year becoz I had a picture taken with Ethan; we were at Cebu Plantation Bay. That's it! I guess moms never will have day offs, if you know what I mean.

Last night, we went to Manila to buy my mom and my MIL two big bouquets of roses. Ethan helped me in choosing : ) I love going to flower shops specifically Dangwa ... I love the smell of the flowers, just by mere looking at them too relaxes me. I'm so glad, I had Ethan with me while we hop from one store to another.

Ethan greeted me last night. He kissed me then he went to Jeff to kiss him too. Lastly, he said, "Happy Mother's Day, Daddy!" Ngek!

Anyway, will leave you with a "Me" layout I did last year:

materials used: Ki Memories, Making Memories pps; Prima blings and flowers; Zig and Uniball Signo pens; Ki Memories and American Crafts Thickers alphas, Hambly overlay, Staz on
Photography by Jeff Lopez

Enjoy the rest of the day, moms!

-Pia

A Mini From Me?

Yup, yup you read it right! I finally conquered my fear on making mini albums! This must be the first time that I made a mini album not because I was forced to, hahaha (remember my She 6x6 album? hehehe)

Actually, I made this for Scrappinkids' Altered Challenge. The challenge was to make a a brag book on this theme: "10 Things I Love About You". Atleast 10 playing cards must be used on book and must be visible on the layouts. For this requirement, I had to be a little creative in coming up with a solution coz I didn't want to take our playing cards. How in the world will I use it after I have taken the kings, queens and the jacks? Hahaha! I was thinking of buying when I took notice of my son's chocolate boxes ... at the back of the boxes were cute playing cards that I could cut!!!

I used the 6x6 mini album that Joanne and April gave me two years ago!!! O, atleast di nasayang. Hahaha!

cover page: ribbons, ricrac, BamPop (clouds), Prima (red), Chatterbox Eclectique (journaling block and wings), Making Memories letter stickers, buttons, 7 Gypsies (number sticker)

cover page: ribbons, ricrac, BamPop (clouds), Prima (red), Chatterbox Eclectique (journaling block and wings), Making Memories letter stickers, buttons, 7 Gypsies (number sticker)

page 1, Charmer: BamPop (clouds and thought balloon), Prima (red), Love Elsie (stripes), Making Memories letter stickers, buttons, 7 Gypsies (word sticker); Photography by Jeff Lopez

page 2, Mana kay Mom: BamPop (clouds and thought balloon), American Crafts (yellow), Love Elsie (stripes), Making Memories letter stickers, buttons, Chatterbox Eclectique (chipboard), Photography by Jeff Lopez

page 3, Mana kay Dad: BamPop (clouds and thought balloon), Cosmo Cricket (blue), Love Elsie (stripes), Making Memories letter stickers, buttons, Photography by Pia Lopez

page 4, Funny: BamPop (clouds), Love Elsie (stripes and camera), Making Memories letter stickers, Chatterbox letter stickers and chipboard, buttons, Photography by Pia Lopez



page 5, Sweet: BamPop (clouds and journaling frame), Making Memories letter stickers, Chatterbox letter stickers, buttons, Photography by Jeff Lopez



page 6, Brave: BamPop (clouds), Prima (red), Love Elsie (stripes), Making Memories letter stickers, Chatterbox photo corner sticker and button chipboard, buttons, 7 Gypsies word sticker, Photography by Pia Lopez



page 7, Smart: BamPop (clouds), American Crafts (yellow), Love Elsie (stripes), Making Memories letter stickers, Chatterbox photo corner sticker and button chipboard, buttons, 7 Gypsies word sticker, Photography by Pia Lopez



page 8, Independent: BamPop (clouds), Love Elsie (stripes and camera), Scenic Route chipboard, Chatterbox photo corner sticker, buttons, Photography by Jeff Lopez



page 9, The Way He Laughs: BamPop (clouds and journaling frame), Making Memories letter stickers, Chatterbox letter stickers, Photography by Jeff Lopez



page 10, Full of Life: BamPop (clouds), Prima (red), Love Elsie (stripes), Scenic Route chipboard, Making Memories letter stickers, buttons, Photography by Jeff Lopez

I doodled the frame on each page ... I must have been high on something while I was making this. Hahaha! I get to use my overly used Bam Pop papers, I still have robots and birds in parachutes though ... care for some? Hehehe. I'm too happy I get to finish this one even if I didn't get the chance to send this entry. I got this done at 2am of May 1 plus we didn't have internet connection!

Now that I did this ... I feel I can make more mini albums now. In fact, my second mini is almost done : )

-Pia

Amazing Race - Final Round

I'm one of the finalists of Mystical Scrapbook Amazing Race Competition! Woohoo!!! Six of us were left, including another Pinay and a friend, Donna. I feel so lucky already being one of the last 6 participants. I thought I'd be voted out from the very first round, especially that I'm quite new to the site and I barely knew anyone except for some familiar faces like Cookie, Donna and Issa. I'm thankful for all those who voted for me for the last 5 rounds ... I don't even know who they are : )

Anyway, here are the criteria for the final round:

- A page including an Australia traditional celebration - be it xmas, birthday, easter, new years, anything you might celebrate in your house. - Multiple photos (eg. anything more than ONE pic) - You can choose the main colour of your layout from the following:
RED, BLUE, GREEN or YELLOW, being the colours most used when we talk about traditional Aussie colours. You can use other colours, but I want one of these colours to stand out

It has been awhile since I last made a spread (a two pager). I think I could do more spreads in the future provided I always have 2 papers of the same kind/color hehehe.

materials used: Chatterbox Eclectique (red and yellow) pps, Junkitz, Scenic Route; Prima epoxy stickers, Chatterbox letter stickers and chipboard stickers, Scenic Route sticker (smiley), Staz on ink, Uniball Signo and Zig pen
Lightning McQueen photo downloaded from Disney site
Photography by Owee Salva

Ok, so today the winners were announced ... I didn't win. But hey I'm happy!!! Just take a look at all of the 6 layouts I made from the previous rounds. That's enough reason to celebrate!

The final entries could be seen here.

Happy Easter Monday! Easter stories and photos to follow soon : D

-Pia

Amazing Race - Week 5

I'm still in? Thank goodness, yes! For last week's round, our destination was the Philippines! Boy, was I super excited I'm home! Here's what we were asked to do by the challenge master, Cookie:

1. Use atleast 3 manufacturing brands of papers
2. Have some journaling
3. Use 3 photos in any size

My family has been out almost the whole week - photo shoots and Ethan's swimming class. Due to lack of time, here's what I made at 3 in the morning on the day of the submission hehehe.

title: Circus Sand
matls used: Sassafras Lass, BasicGrey, My Mind's Eye, American Crafts pps
chipboard: Chatterbox, American Crafts, Ki Memories
vinyl alpha stickers: American Crafts
epoxy border sticker: Prima
border sticker: Ki Memories
photo corner sticker: Chatterbox
pen: Uniball Signo
ink: Versamark
buttons
Photography by Jeff Lopez

This must be my favorite round. I really had fun with the papers I have used and I got to use BasicGrey Color Me Silly again! You still remember that old BG line? It's an all time favorite of mine - love the patterns and the mixture of bold colors! I also love the elephant chipboard I got from American Crafts - I've been wanting to add that embellishment for awhile now and the circus must be the right layout for it! It was a great challenge.

We're on the last round this week, the final list of participants would be announced tomorrow. In or out, I'm pretty much okay either way : )

The rest of the entries could be viewed here.

-Pia