Long Weekend

So... we celebrated Gio'g birthday last Thursday. We had lunch at Sofitel - Sprial Restaurant. It was a sumptouous buffet and we got really really full. We chatted there for a long while, the ambience and the view was just perfect. Unfortunatley, I couldn't find the SD card that I used then so I could't post any picture.

The celebration didn't end there though. We were scheduled to go to an overnight stay at Club Balai Isabel in Talisay Batangas (beside the Taal Lake) but the Volcano was acting up and there were warnings for those who live near the lake so we decided not to go. It was a trip that Gio's sister arranged along with her whole family and my mother-in-law.  Though it was late though when we cancelled his sister was still able to book another vacation at Subic Forest View Village. So that's where we spent saturday through Sunday.

We drove home Sunday around 12 noon and I drove the new car (Hyundai Tucson). It was my first time and it was a 2.5-hr drive. It was fine but I don't find it as easy to handle as my car (Honda Civic). Anyhow, we were able to totally relax there in Subic. Had lots of sleep and good food. LOL :)

And on the same day (Sunday) was Gio's treat for the whole family (his and mine). All 25 of us had dinner at Kanin Club (UP tech hub), it was our family's way of spending time togther. Eating good food, hehehe... And then we all had coffee and crepe at Cafe Breton. By the time we got home, we were tired but really happy.

So no scrapping projects done for me on that long weekend. So on Monday I finished one and a half page. I used the remaining crate pp I have of the brook colleciton. I really loved the colors and it's style. I also made three doily projects like that of Christine Middlecamps' current project. If you want ot check it out here's her blog: http://retrospection.typepad.com/my_weblog.  Her tutorials on this project is really amazing! Makes you wonder how she thinks of those stuff. :)  I also used sketch 67 over at The Scrappiest.

Close up of the title and the die cuts from my Silhouette machine. These die cuts were all in white (I cut my designs in advance all in white) and I just cover them with what color I need using different mists. The background was inked with distress inks, the frame with Tsukineko walnut ink and the crown-like with Glimmer mist.

Cut outs from the paper and some cardstock and chipboard stickers from the same collection.

These are the three-doily like projects I made. It took me hours to complete these three but I'm happy with the results. These are layers of chipboards, die cuts, sitckers, etc.

Materials Used:

PP: Create Brook Collection, BG Basics

Embellisments: CS and chipbpard stickers, Silhouette die cuts, blings, trims

Inks: Glimmer Mist, Distress Inks, Tsukineko Walnut Ink

Tools: Silhouette SD, Fiskars border punch

Hope y'all had a good weekend like I did. :)

Cheers!

Cathy

Dixie Pieces Week #2 Summer Entry

Ok, we're now on week #2 over at Dixie Pieces and this time the theme is about the sights of summer. Color Scheme is lighblue, green and cream. And handcutting must be present. Head on to their forum to see some hand cutting techniques!

Here's my entry. Pardon the lighting in my room but I'm no photograper so this is the best shot I have. I used a green cardstock as the base and added the pps which I punched. I handcut an FP paper and put blings on it and emphasized the stems using brown stickles. It was a bit hard to cut because the scrolls were so thin, but was happy with the result.

Here's a close up of the flower on the bottom left corner. It's actually a fabric flower which I again splattered with stickles. I framed it using the leaves and additional stemmed flowers.

Here's the close up of the handcut paper with bling and stickles on it.

I cut the other snorkling picture of Gio using my spellbinder die and doodled on the embossed border. Also added the Inque Boutique scalloped chipboard which was originally white. Painted it with Kaiser paint, applied Judikins glaze and scattered ranger stickles over it. Underneath is the alpha die cuts which I sticked using foam tape to raise it up. The goggles is an embellishment that was already pre-made.

Had fun experimenting on the different techniques I used. :)

Materials used: DCWV cardstock,IB scalloped chipboard, FP papers, kaiser paint, ranger stickles, all about scrapbooking bling, ribbon, goggles, (fabric flowers, leaves, mini flowers, frame, ribbon -unbranded), 7 Gypsies rub-on (Memories), Scrapworks alpha letters (boracay), Image tree alpha stamp (snorkling), Marvy black pen (adventure, March 2007), Judikins glaze

Dixie Pieces' SENSE-ational Summer Challenge

Dixie Pieces is a new blog I started following for the past 3 weeks. They have this fun challenge that's all about summer and senses! Check out the details here: http://dixiepieces.com/forum/topic/4563?replies=7
What fun this is! I decided to join because we have tons of unscrapped summer pictures. Of course I wanted to win the amazing prize RAK but if I can scrap 5 summer LO's out of our hundreds of pictures, I'm will be very very glad! :)

Here's my entry for the first week which is defined by the color scheme, orange, green and yellow - oh so summer! It has to be a page about a smell that reminds us of summer so much and there has to be some stitching. Here's my take.


I made this flower by simply punching different circle sizes and then did tearing on the sides, sprayed it with glimmer mist and then applied gesso on the sides and put them all together with a brad. I learned this from a workshop I attended here and it's really cute - it's a look a like of one of the prima flowers that are expensive and not available here.

Journalling:
Nothing smells more summer than the ocean breeze that brushes our nostrils as soon as we hit the beach!

Materials used:
Autumn Leaves designer papers, DCWV carstocks, Craft express handmade art (Summer), AC Ribbon, all about scrapbooking ribbon holder and brad, Inque Boutique stamp, gesso, needele and green thread