Toot Toot!

Another LO featured in the Memory Makers Idea Gallery! Different layouts are featured every day at Memory Makers and seeing this one at this time after stressing over the ‘puter today is a sight for (literally) sore eyes. So here’s a snapshot of the layout as seen in MM :

and here’s a link to see it up close:

http://memorymakersmagazine.com/page_idea.aspx?id=19825

TFL!

Another Tooot!

Just got home today from watching the CINEMALAYA Film Awards night at the CCP (more on this later) and just checked the Memory Makers Magazine Online Idea Gallery and found this:

Katie Hilbert emailed me a while back and asked if they could feature this layout in the gallery and so here it is!

check out the links below to take you there:

http://www.memorymakersmagazine.com/page_idea.aspx?id=19653

TFL!

The Daily Scrapper 3rd issue is out!

If you haven't heard of it yet, you can still catch the 3rd issue and read about the latest scrapping news at The Daily Scrapper.com. Lots of interesting feature articles, ideas, hybrid and traditional tutorials, shopping and so much more all in one spot. TDS is only on its 3rd issue and it's already becoming a reading habit a lot of scrappers out there are getting used to. 

So don't miss out on each issue. Grab a cup of coffee, get comfy and Read all about it! Read all about it!

(click the image below to start reading)

While you're there browse through the awesome freebies and fab quickpages done by the awesome TDS layout artists as well. Check out these new layouts I did using Krystal Hartley's Moody Hues Energetic Kit. You can get them as Quick Pages at TheDailyScrapper Store. Just slip in your photos and you're good to go.

My layouts:

(click on the images to take you to the store)

FUN IN THE SUN

I BELIEVE YOU CAN FLY

THE GREAT OUTDOORS

AMAZING GRACE

Make TheDailyScrapper a part of your daily reading habit. Read it today.

Layouts Galore!

It's been a while since I posted some layouts here so I'm updating my blog with these. TFL!

RENEW.

credits:
Birgit of catscrap - tiny paper freebie; Catrine of catscrap - Explore earth - high and low kit; font - headline

LIBERTE

credits:

Taylormade casually blending in background paper, bring it in template, high contrast action; JEdwards - on the breeze brushes; AVictoria - distressed brushes; Font - Myriad Pro

TELL ME A STORY MOM

something a little vintage-y
Materials used:
Catrine of Catscrap - explore solids nature background paper
Vanilla Hush - Parisian Love lace flower & ferris wheel stamps
Manu - hinge
KMett - Hodge podge alpha S
Shabby Princess - Promise alpha T
Linda Stattgast - Read stamp
Maya - small alpha white black R
Manda J- painted newspaper pink alpha Y
Jill D-zines - bracket Whisper soft
Fonts - Charlemagne, Cursive Writing
Everything else Christina Renee Designs - Authentic Artistry

BIG TREE LITTLE TREE

A father's day layout. 
Here's my ds asking my dh a question about the baby tree he was about to plant. TFL!
Poem :
A little boy needs Daddy
For many, many things
Like holding him high off the ground
Where the sunlight sings!
Like being the deep music
That tells him all is right
When he awakens frantic with
The terrors of the night.
Like being the great mountain
That rises in his heart
And shows him how he might get home
When all else falls apart.
Like giving him the love
That is his sea and air,
So diving deep or soaring high
He'll always find him there.

credits:
Paislee Press - park avenue background; Cindy Schneider tree template from SSD Cookie Decorating 101 template freebie; Matahati - One fine day hearts, leaves; poem - internet

MI OBRA MAESTRA

My dd on the floor of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Main Theatre lobby. TFL!

credits:
CFR JLR School colors background paper- Scrapgirls; frame - stock xchange; brush - AVictoria freebie; Harvest Spice Vintage Floral frame - Shabby Princess; Font - Celeste

TAKE TWO

Take Two
my dd and ds. TFL!
Journaling:
a reason to wake up
a reason to smile
a reason to laugh
a reason to cry
a reason to hope
a reason to dream
a reason to scrap
a reason to sing
I have more than ONE reason
to whisper my thank-yous
all I do is look at both of you
and say, "yes, God this
is all the reason I need
this is enough for me."
I'll TAKE TWO

credits:
Catrine of Catscrap - explore solids nature paper; JBolton - trixipix mat & overlay; Feifei stuff - feistuff star; clapper - sxc; TNT designs - May color challenge freebie flowers; font - helvetica

SHINE.

credits:
everything TaylorMade except tiara from Cinnamon designs dress me up tiara; starlight brush - internet

Another Tooot!

Yey!  Just wanted to share another toot for this layout I made. I joined TaylorMade’s Designer Spotlight Challenge and was one of those who won one of the main prizes. You can read about it in Amanda’s blog right here –> TaylorMade Designs

Here’s what I did for that challenge :

TFL!

A toot and a new layout

I pulled out a layout I previously posted (check the edit on previous post) about our tree planting adventures at the Angat Dam Watershed but I made a new one! 

Here it is:

Change Your World

Change your World
Here's my hubby, ds and dd in action during the Angat Dam Watershed tree planting event. TFL!

Journaling:

You Can Change Your World
... a 'Dad', a 'Mama', a 'Kairos', an 'Eireanne' at a time.
"A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason". - Hugo Grotius

credits:
Taylor Made Oscraps Clarification Template; ACox - CRD blog green background; Amy Watson - earth doodle; JBolton - trixipix overlay; BPak - Tree blended to background; Fonts - Myriad Pro, Neoprint M319; Hugo Grotius - quote

New Layouts! Little Kite Studios Goes Green!

Toot Toot : My layout "Discovery" has been temporarily pulled out for Publication. Be back soon!

My attempts doing minimal/whitespace LOs. TFL!

DISCOVERY

Discovery

My ds at the Angat Dam Watershed Tree planting event sponsored by Green Army, Task Force Climate Change, DOE, WWF and other NGOs.  Poem reads: Breath by J. Daniel Beaudry Tree, gather up my thoughts like the clouds in your branches. Draw up my soul like the waters in your root. In the arteries of your trunk bring me together. Through your leaves breathe out the sky. credits: Taylor-made Composure template; Catrine of Catscrap - explore solids wind paper; JBolton - trixipix7 overlay; JLarsen - apricot leaf; poem - Breath by J. Daniel Beaudry; font - myriad pro

THE POWER OF ONE

The Power of One

This was during a tree planting event at the Angat Dam Watershed where we targeted to plant 10,000 seedlings. We brought our kids along to make them aware of the effects of global warming. Here's dd with her first potted seedling. TFL! credits: Taylor Made Favorite thing template; Ida of Catscrap - doodle leaf; Catrine of Catscrap - explore earth solids paper; Gundimom - conifer doodles

ETA : My layout "The Power of One" was featured at the DST Gallery Standouts 5/16-5/18.

A Liftie, a little whimsy and a little bit of drama

A Liftie! - PEEK A WHO?

I just loved Diane's entry to the Bookoto challenge so I asked her if I could scraplift her LO. Here's my take - Peek A Who? a scraplift of Dianeskie's Tea Party layout. Thanks, Diane!

materials used:
Michelle Coleman - Wild Sorbet background paper;Shabby Princess - Promise paper stripes; Catrine of Catscrap - explore solids fire paper; KHart - bracket piece; Misty Cato - gridworks alpha; Lili - paper pieced alpha; DST birthday glitz - journaling strips; Oulahlahsouris - staples; Tilliefaire - acrylic star; Brownie Ann - stitching; Font - Brady Bunch

A little Whimsy... - TELL ME A STORY MOM

My DS at the CCP lobby with some of the characters of the Snow White ballet. I turned it into a little storybook with a little vintage-y effect.

Materials used:
Catrine of Catscrap - explore solids nature background paper; Vanilla Hush - Parisian Love lace flower & ferris wheel stamps; Manu - hinge; KMett - Hodge podge alpha S; Shabby Princess - Promise alpha T; Linda Stattgast - Read stamp; Maya - small alpha white black R; Manda J- painted newspaper pink alpha Y; Jill D-zines - bracket Whisper soft; Fonts - Charlemagne, Cursive Writing ;Everything else Christina Renee Designs - Authentic Artistry

A little bit of Drama - MIRACLES

Finally, my fave LO so far.  I even got a little comment from Gina Marie Huff of Weeds and Wildflowers at my DST gallery that totally made my day. Thanks Gina! :) Here's my dd on the floor of the CCP lobby. TFL!

credits:
Weeds & wildflowers - POMH paper blended with catscrap paper, freebie template; Catrine of Catscrap - explore solids nature paper; Jessica Bolton - trixipix overlay; JBullock - shabby cottage foil heart; Rose Farver - shabby cottage wordart; Font - sandra oh

Countdown to my Bookoto shutterfly photobook - (10 down, 10 more to go, woohoo!)

A few new LOs

Here are some of the layouts I made for the Bookoto Shutterfly prize I won last month. Credits for the materials used can be found here.

Explore




















We "heart" Robots




















Enchanted

A Sentimental Tooot!

I recently visited the Tinkering Ink blog and they had this invitation to send layouts about being sick, being in the hospital or having frozen treats. I happened to have one that I did a while back about my little girl. I did it so that I wouldn't forget that moment and all I used was a freebie QP from Cottage Arts that had been sitting in my hard drive forever. I didn't spend hours working on it but it is one of my favorites because of the memory behind it. 

I sent it out mainly to encourage little Preston who was going to have his tonsils and adenoids taken out. I know that  as a parent it is so difficult to see your child have to go through something like that and how important it is to reassure your child that everything will be alright. I am so happy that Preston picked my LO not because of the prizes (that's a bonus :D) but I hope he was encouraged by the smile on my kids faces and that maybe it made him a little braver. You can read more about it on the TI blog right here.

Out Patient

   

Credits:

Cottage Arts Quick Page

Michelle Coleman - heart brush

TFL!

Bookoto's "Get Digi with Us" Shutterfly Prize

Yey! I can finally post it. :) This was my entry to Bookoto.com's  "Get Digi with Us" contest. Thank you so much to Julie, Sheryl and Ms. Renee Pearson for choosing my LO. I am grateful and humbled by it because ALL the layouts were truly amazing as well.  You can view all the awesome entries of these Pinay Scrappers at the Bookoto Gallery to see for yourself.  Congrats also to Kaje for winning the raffle!

here's an excerpt from their site:

The bookoto team and our special guest host, Renee Pearson have chosen the winning LO. 

Renee announces:
"I have looked at the contest entries. They’re all so terrific it was hard to make a choice! :D But we have chosen: Truly Amazed by Marites Tirol! Hugs, Renee"

here's my writeup and the designer credits:

"I love this photo of my little girl because I never want her to lose that sense of awe and wonder even when she grows older. I hope that she will always be amazed at everything she experiences and that she will not take even the everyday ordinary things for granted. "

"I drew my inspiration from the paper layouts of the Scrapbook Exchange ladies and tried to duplicate the "cutting with an X-acto knife" technique by extracting the design from the Tinkering Ink Victoria paper and then I layered it on top of the bg paper and the photo and applied shadows. I then applied glitter styles to the edges to simulate applying glitter IRL to the cutout."

Techniques : Extraction, Layers, Drop Shadows, Blending, Glitter Styles, Texturizer
Software: PSCS3
Materials Used: Tinkering Ink Digital - Covent Garden Collection: Victoria paper, Alphabets,
Michelle Coleman - Edge Overlay
Shabby Princess -harvest spice stamped floral frame
Fafbr - Ouhlalasouris -staples
Sylvia Unterweger - Fancy Flutters
Corina Nielsen - Safety pin hearts
Christina Renee - ATC floral vine stamp
Newlife's dreams - precious memories lace
KSK Designs - Summer spice stitching
Flergs - Glitter Style
Birgit - Button (recolored)
Heart Doodle - Dri Mendes De Bem (Recolored)
Font - Oceanside

Thank you BOOKOTO team!!!!

A paper, a digi and a little freebie!

Woohoo! I did it again! I paper scrapped :) Of course it's not 12x12 and it's really a simple sketch but at least it's one less pic in my pile and that's good enough for me. Materials are as usual my old K&Co papers with a few new elements like the rubons from craft express and the little pink clip from all about scrapbooking.  Everything else is part of my old stash.

So here is A PAPER scrap called:

A gift from God

journaling reads:

Here you are in your cute little dress, totally adorable, totally lovable and absolutely precious. I love you from day one. -

always,

Mom

... and now for  A DIGI scrap called:

Prima Ballerina

Prima ballerina Credits:

background paper-by tEysT (for little kite studios); paper curl borders - jessica gorney; glitter arrows - amanda roberts; glitter swirls - flergs; photo frame, mesh - minibob; fly wordart - lynn grieveson; flower - landi leroux; sheer ribbon - ronna penner; date stamp - loloden; alpha - tcollins retrodiva; glitter brush - dl from internet

Although I did this layout last year, I posted it today to get to what you've been looking for:

... A LITTLE FREEBIE!  ... my very first one too. I made this paper and used it for the LO above and it's just been sitting in my HD so I decided to give it away as an Easter present for everyone and also as a thank you to those who've been generously giving away freebies to the digiscrapping community. It's SFO/SFH friendly too. 

So have fun and send me a linky to your LO if you use it! Happy Easter everyone!!!!

these are 8x8 but you can resize them to suit your needs 

(click here to download)

PS Kaya Challenge #10

Credits can be found at pinoyscrapbookers: