FSCB 44 : Gunting Ka Ba?

Oh yes! Scissors or gunting is the most basic tool we scrapbookers or crafters use! It was the first to enter my mind.. and yet the last card I made.

Gunting ka ba?
(Are you a "scissor"?)

Gutay gutayin man ang puso ko,
Ikaw pa rin ang mahal ko
(Even if you shred my heart,
I still love you!)

What is different in this card is that i used an acrylic silver dabber on the white embellishment bought from Filstar's AAS.  The multicolored ribbon - not sure where it came from, just saw it on the craft aka dining table. Still used Martha Steward Punchers on the corner.

This ends the February Pick Up card series : made me wishful and sad.. as I lost my cat last thursday.. but good thing I already had thought about the Pick up lines.

FCSB 44 : Embellishment ka ba?

My Mom loves it when I use her punchers, she feels justified in buying stuff. So in these FSCB series, I made sure of using a puncher on each one.

Embellishment ka ba? (Are you an embellishment?)

Kasi gumanda buhay ko dahil sa iyo
(because my life became more beautiful with you )

I also found some white carboard squigglies - from the yearly tiange of Filstar which i simply dab with their red stamp for a bit of color.

I layered papers on this for more depth and contrast ...

Elmer's Birthday 2012 : Me?

I think I am favored by the heavens despite being bed bound recently! I got to hop blog of Fall in to Fall by Lets Get Sketchy, and for the week's challenge - I prepared this layout based on their sketch. I used a black and red plaid ribbon that qualified me to enter it at Kaboodle Doodles Challenge!

Thus, being of a less healthy mind, I could not think much of which papers to combines, lacking imagination, I just followed the sketch... hehehehe. But to add spice to the red and black scheme of the sketch, I used a wooden stamp with writings - and for it to show, I used gesso on the rubber stamp, smearing it with my fingers for the black paper. Then the conventional black ink on red.

Filstar All About Scrapbooking has no black paper - so I used one of the pages from their black kraft album.  The stars, ribbon, and that laser cut are from All About Scrapbooking.

The layout is entered on the challenges of :

1. Lets Get Sketchy for 2012 November week 2
2. Kaboodle Doodle Challenge number 145

LGS 2012 Nov wk 1 : Elmer

I made the layout based on Lets Get Sketchy 2012 November week 1 challenge, surprisingly... I qualifies also for the Kaboodles Doodles Challenge Blog! 

The layout is special and extra easy with - WASHI TAPES! I got to buy 3 rolls of it from Lasting Impression earlier together with stamps, so I used it for the border and the horizontal lines.  The papers and the ribbons - were sourced from All About Scrapbooking of Filstar.

FSCB Challenge 7 - Travel : Baguio Burnham Park

Oh yes, the sun was up... the Burnham park was definitely green specially with its man made lake. No, we did not ride any boat, just walk around, took pictures and so.

My mother was all smiles - telling how so long ago she had visited Baguio. She was very happy, and that made me happy!

Scrapping the pictures took time, it was so nice to relieve those moments, although we only stayed for two nights. I guess that lifted the depression from my Mom.

Likewise, since it was greenery and magical - a perfect opportunity to insert my favorite stamp, of a fairy child and a flower embossed and so are the trees - after all, Baguio City is the City of Pine!

Some of the cutouts are attached using a double sided tape making it a bit elevated, more of a 3 d effect - for the sun, clouds, fairy child, and the embossed trees.

The layout is entered for :

1.http://filipinoscrapbookerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/

FSCB Challenge 7 - Travel : Baguio Last Minute Shopping!

My Mother wakes up early - she is already awake by the time I would be falling asleep! So here, while I was snoozing, she had her last minute shopping and had her photo taken.

Actually that morning, I was only told she would be going to Mass for the Baguio Cathedral - surprised that she went back to the Baguio Market for the "pasalubongs". Shopping is the second anti stresser aside from Scrapbooking...

Well, its early morning and I choose to use my prepared embossed stamps...




The layout is entered for:
1. http://filipinoscrapbookerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/

FSCB Challenge 7 Movies : Ghost Rider

The legend of the Ghost Rider is that he came from hell to exact vengeance, thus he rides a motorcycle and has fire on a chain....

Ergo.. red as a background to represent the fire... and I could not find any motor bike, so I guess the bicycle should do :)

I used flower stamps that was embossed. I dont mind using the same embellishments as long as they would be in separate albums.

The layout is very simplistic but then,  red base paper is already very powerful in itself.. just as the movie which starred Nicholas Cage.

All materials are from Filstar's All About Scrapbooking. The yellow bike is a leftover from a kit from Lasting Impression.

The layout is entered for:
1.http://filipinoscrapbookerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/

FSCB Challenge 7 - Mommy and Ate Jeannie

Ate Jeannie David is not part of our family tree but she is more than blood. She lost her mom years ago and thus has adopted my Mother and Mom - she had always wished for a daughter .. which is Ate Jeannie David!

My Mom had been religiously attending the Scrappin Club monthly meets - exception would be due to the weather or health problems, and that period she had her "tampo". We attended the club meet and the scrapmania contests that we had received the same items over and over, as in the same color even. The inventory taker would not even exchange some items for another color set, and so, she sort of "boycotted Filstars's  Scrappin club for a month or two I think - till I told her that Carmel  Carpio and Nenette Garcia already agreed to have the items exchange.

And in most of those times, Ate Jeannie was always there. I am sure that there are more pics of just Ate Jeannie David and my Mom than my Mom and my brother .... and she avows she has no favorites, yeah right!!!

So sorry, babling here... back to the layout. The sketch is based the Filipino Scrapbookers' Challenge Blog challenge number 7. I also used some embossed stamp images. Also, those nested foam shapes? They were designed by Ate Jeannie and exclusively distributed by Filstar's All About Scrapbooking Club for only Php39.50!

The above was entered in the:

1. http://filipinoscrapbookerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/
2. Filipino Stampers Community in Facebook.

LGS 2012 October 2nd week - Nico's Birthday

I love scraps - making use of those that would had been thrown away. The blue bar is actually the negative of birds on a wire chipboard by Dusty Attic - already used the lower half and stamped it red. The upper portion I stamped blue - and just right for the challenge.

Nico is a friend I met on the internet and his birthday was 10 October - but he did not mind celebrating it with me two days earlier. We had a buffer dinner at Saisaki restaurant - an opportunity for the Japanese Geisha stamp I got from Ria.

I did this early morning so I just chose two ribbons for the upper left hand corner.

All materials are from Filstar 's All About Scrapbooking except for the stamped blue negative.

FSCB Challenge #7 - Pets : LUNA

My constant companion on my bed : LUNA.

She is half persian and half street cat given as a gift by Amb. Ricardo Endaya to me.

I used an 8x8 of AAS that is so nice I do not want to hide or cut it out. To complement the base picture, I used clouds and then a sun for the triangle and circle.  And since Luna's paw was stretch, I cut out two butterflies which where place on a foam double sided tape providing a 3d effect.

I also cut out a small blue and white cat on a 12 x 12 pet theme of AAS


The layout is submitted for the
1. Filipino Scrapbookers's Challenge Blog Challenge number 7
2. http://www.sunnysideupcreations.com/ Challenge 6

Movies : Perks of a Wallflower

What is a wallflower ? - My Mom asked me.

A replied that a wallflower is suppose to represent those girls that stay seated during proms or dances since no one wanted to dance with them.

I smiled internally ... it was not something in her to understand as she had been above some girls, quite popular even being crowned as the Miss Cabuyao Institute in her High School years

The movie is nice but for a mature or open minded people. First time for me to find a female pedophile or female child abuser, usually I hear of a male elderly. But its a very nice movie of growing up and friendship. In my case, I was not a wallflower - did not even attend any prom!

The layout is submitted for the
1. Filipino Scrapbookers's Challenge Blog
2. http://sketchesforyou.ning.com/group/wifey-cookie-s-abc-challenge/forum/topics/challenge-8-j-for-jewels

Stars : Miss Earth

Oh yes.. She was Miss Earth Priscilla Meneses, a true Brazillian beauty and now married to a Filipino Actor, John Estrada.

I have my own photo with a Ms. Earth and so thus my Mom. Like Mother, like son. So, I also used the same cutouts.. those yellow and orange spirals that is suppose to reflect Ms Earth!

Final touch : I used flowers to hide the unwanted people in the picture.  :)


The layout is submitted for the
1. Filipino Scrapbookers's Challenge Blog

Stars : Maritoni Fernandez & Tweetie de Leon

To be honest, I was a bit hesitant to to ask for the photo shoot  because when we spotted them, Maritoni Fernandez was talking with Tweetie de Leon and she looks snobbish, I WAS WRONG!. They both obliged and smiled for the camera, even if i had to took it again since I shot against the light.

Maritoni Fernandez is a good actress, usually the antagonist and that had been imprinted so I was hesitant, baka tarayan kami eh.

Tweetie de Leon is in her 40s but her beauty is so timeless - I remember when she won the Super Face / Super model more than decades ago ... she won against Melissa Rubio, then the girlfriend of Richard Gomez.  Well, she had proven her worth, she truly deserved the title no matter she was not the popular choice then. She was a surprise winner!


The layout is submitted for the
1. Filipino Scrapbookers's Challenge Blog

Stars : Jackielou Blanco

A timeless star! She was the host for that Shop inauguration in Glorietta 4.




The layout is submitted for the
1. Filipino Scrapbookers's Challenge Blog

I cut the shapes from a 8 x 8 paper of AAS, then i used it to form the triangle. Then from a discontinued   12 x 12 line, i sourced the circle.. but it lacked something to match the dress of the star, so i placed it on top of the other shapes, providing better contrast.

Stars : Angel Jacob

We were about to leave the scene ... then we spotted Angel Jacob and turned back. But this time, my Mom took time to put on some lipstick ... she wants some color on her lips.

The layout is submitted for the
1. Filipino Scrapbookers's Challenge Blog

For a little creativity - i used a corner clouds from another 8 x 8 of AAS instead of the straight triangle. Then, in lieu of the circle... i looked for a full moon, and the nearest I got was that cresent moon on a square.. oh well.. that should do.. Embellished the page more with chipboard stars.

SCB Challenge 7 - Movies : Total Recall

Hmmmm... I think I have to add a Title later on another pic with the movie title : Total Recall.

Nice one. Not much to be said.. well, except the scene that Collin Farell stood up in his jammies and he was not wearing any underwear and he seemed to have a third leg hanging!

One question I do remember my Mom asked : is he famous? Yes Mommy, to the current generation.

The movie is definitely not a remake of an Arnold Swarzenegger movie Total Recall.





Layout entered for :

1. Filipino Scrapbookers' Challenge Blog
2. Wifey's Challenge #8 - J for Jewel

FSCB Challenge 7 - Movies : The Expendables

One of the favorite bonding moments between me and my Mom is watching a movie, which we do at least once a week. She loves availing the free movie ticket as a senior citizen of Makati City although she pays for my ticket. We always watch at Glorietta 4, and thus I took pictures of her with some movie stand in.

Thus - making a layout of these pictures of her at Glorietta 4. No more titles necessary.  But just simple creativity in following the layout.

This one is very simple, but there is something since i used three circles as the mat - white on dark blue on white .... and then crystal gems to frame the pic. And hey - all are AAS materials!


Layout entered for :

1. Filipino Scrapbookers' Challenge Blog
2. Wifey's Challenge #8 - J for Jewel

Mother's Bangkal Free Classes 10

I used the All About Scrapbooking Plain and simple Paper set ( on this batch, I think I came out around 2-3 pages).  The fabric flowers were a given, just layer them. The chip board embellishments came from three sets I think.  The Journal note, its one of the four that comes in a set.

The only thing that is not All About Scrapbooking is the fairy stamp I did, this is a stamp I found in Singapore. I went to Singapore last May 2012 - my friends were infighting so the tour became more of a scrap time for me! And I found two shops that have so much nice affordable stamps!

The style noteworthy is simply making a border frame, it can be further improve by placing an accent on each four corners. But, for this batch, 10 pages, which I had to finish from afternoon to morning - so my Mom can bring it ... it was simply making fast and quick layouts. If and when I had time, I guess pearl brads would look good on each corner

Mother's Bangkal Free Classes 09

This actually was the first page I did of the batch. I cut the clouds and round circles from an Out and Loud All About Scrapbooking theme 12 x 12.  I chose it because of the circles which matched my Mom's Black polka dots on blue paper.

The base paper is a plain blue paper which I sprayed with red mist. Sorry, All About Scrapbooking (Filstar) already discontinued selling such 12 x 12 plain papers.

The picture was matted on a red handmade paper, so its a bit elevated. Double sided foam tapes are used on the circles, clouds, and the paper tags.

Tip - I pasted the journal label and book plate then I placed the eyelets and pearl brads, so it would not move much.

Mother's Bangkal Free Classes 04

Ok, Ok... the paper set name is Plain and Simple, used so much likewise in All About Scrapbooking class and contests.  The whole paper is nice, I do not want to cut it up, so my take - simply place a picture on the center, and then make it nicer by placing a border frame.

The square border frame is something I got from Pia Zobel, I accompanied my mom. I accented the border with a ribbon from All About Scrapbooking, it was not long enough to be all around so i left free.

For some color, I used foam shapes which are already have adhesive backing, which makes it so easier to place now.