Lay -outs and sketches

I love making lay-out from sketches especially when I got stuck on a page.  Sketches are my quick solution especially if they are from Pagemaps!

Don't you just admire Becky's sketches?  Oh yes I do.  I started using them since I started my scrapbooking - I know some of my pages almost look identical. Oh well!

 Flipped the sketch above for my "out of this world" lay-out:

Cardstock - bazill, patterned paper: Best creation Robot R 006, R005, R002, R007, robot chiboard, fancy pants chipboard, making memories paint and opal dusts.



and  flipped this sketch for my lay-out below. 



Best Creation Ballerina Princess BP 005, BP 007. BP chipboard; Ribbon - pink paislee, bling - prima, flowers - inkido, alpha - pink paislee and cosmo cricket.


Check out the Best creation blog for more inspiration.  There is time for the blog hop.  Thanks for dropping by.

Robots Galore

(Please scroll down for my Best Creation blog hop post.)

This is the cutest line for the little boys and boys at heart of Best Creation.   I just love this line for the boys in my life.



  A close up on the fussy cut layered gears:

a birthday card using the 6x6 paper pack using Robot line.

Check out the Best Creation blog for more inspiration from other designers.

My post for the Blog hop is right HERE!

Have a nice day!

Best Creation Blog Hop

Happy Easter everyone!!! 

It is hip hop time again!  So Grab your Bunny ears and come on a fun hop with us to learn lots of incredible techniques to use all those fun border punches that you have!

If you have come from Mireille's blog,  then you are on the right track. If not,  better start hopping from Best Creation blog so as not to miss all the fun!

I used the fiskars border punch to edge my patterned paper and inked them with faded jeans Rangers ink and I used the martha Stewart's  double loop punch for some layering borders.

here's a close up inked edge:

and the close up on the Clear scrap star.   I painted the edge and added gold stickles so that the layers of the loop are clearly seen.

Don't you just love the Robot line of Best Creation?   I do heart it very much.  And now I know you are anxious to know my letter - L.

Now,  you should be hopping to Sandy  for more inspiration.  

Happy hopping!!! 

Hugs, Jona

Of robots and clear shapes

This is how it looks when robots of Best Creation and acrylic shapes of Clear scraps combine:
CAUTION: Photo overload and art medium fun inside!

I love working with acrylics.  Before,  I was intimidated to use it but then,  I learned how fun it is to play with acrylics.  You can stamp on them,  paint them, cover with paper.  The possibilities are endless.

close up on the cover with stamping on the acrylic:

Here I stamped a sparrow using stazon and dabbed a paint at the back of the acrylic.  Still showing lots of the patterned paper.  I edged it with red paint and stickles for some oomph!

 and here's an example of acrylic with covered patterned paper.  I added some button chipboard and the chipboard shapes from robot line.

Make sure to drop by Best creation blog  for some clear scraps inspiration! Have a beautiful week ahead!

WOYWW and a Birthday Card

For two days,  I don't know why I can't connect with blogger,  I can't open my own blog and I can't leave any comments. Finally, today  the bug was gone.  Yahoo!!!

It may be thursday for me now but on the other side of the world it is still Wednesday.  So here how my desk this wednesday looks like!

Lots of stuff on it and the shadow box frame,  I am planning to alter as a home decor.  Still until now  I haven't touched it yet  simply because  I still can't figure out what I want to do with it.  I even printed the sketch from The color room for some color inspiration (planning to join the challenge this week and of course,  wasn't able to finish again in time).

And here's a card using  the forever line of Inkido.  I so loved the frame  and sad to say,  its a precut frame as per Lise-lotte. So,  I may not be able to re doit using the Inkido papers.  I added lots of texture on the frame using paint, opal dusts and stickles.

close up on the texture of the frame with paint, stickles and opal dusts.  Loved the outcome on this one.

Thanks for dropping by and check out the inkido blog for everyday inspiration and Julia's blog to snoop on other desks.

Have a nice day!

Moving Up

Materials: Best creation graduation papers, thickers, pink paislee alpha, inkido stamp.

My little one all ready and excited to move up to Prep level.   He got two ribbons during their culminating day last month.
Thanks for sharing this moment with me.  Have a nice day!

WOYWW and Loadstar . . .

Hello Everyone!   Its wednesday again.  Where did the days go by? 

My desk is pretty clean  (by my standards!) today.  Because,  I have kept in the box the lay-outs I have made this weekend. Yyup, not yet in their albums since I just ordered them and my sister in law will be bringing it home with her next month.  

On my table are my son's ribbons last Culminating activity, the prize I won last OWOH, the beach house book (I haven't opened yet) and the minibook I made.  Yipee, my kindergardener got a honorable mention ribbon and most neat in class.  I am going to scrap them this week with his  progress report sheet.  I have chosen the patterned papers already for it and have to start scrapbooking when I get sometime tonight.  

Here's Loadstar up close.  My son named him after one of the aliens of Ben 10. Thanks to Knot by G'ranma for this cute little monster.

Thanks to everyone to your suggestion on my lay-out.  I added the "K2"  as a title on my page since that is Zid's level in this class picture.  Now,  I feel my lay-out is complete. 

Thanks for dropping by and to see other desks and what everyone else is doing,  check out Julia's blog!  See yah!

Messy Wednesday

Hey everyone!

My desk is so busy today and so many patterned papers on top of it.  The gears paper is the new Best Creation paper coming out this April.  I have a new book I am trying to start to read.  Its been there for a week already and I haven't started reading it.   I finally finished scrapping my son's class picture.  I just want to make sure I have less backlog on scrapping his school photos.



Here's the lay-out using my Best Creation scraps from transportation line, travel forever and back to school papers.  Finally got to use this old tree chipboard  that has been in my stash for so long.   I still feel there is something missing on this page.  Any ideas?

Check out Julia's blog for more snoop on other desks.

Thanks for the visit!

Family Bonding

Watching the boys having a good time is really worth documenting.   The boys headed by hubby is having a leisure walk along the streets of our resthouse in Tagaytay. 

I used different lines of Inkido here with the vintage images and the postcard stamp.  I loved this stamp and I am sure  you will be seeing this stamp in my lay-outs more.

 close up on the layers of embellishment and mini mixed media  on the little star:

Don't forget to visit the Inkido blog for everyday inspiration!
Have  a nice day everyone!

Hugs,  Jona

Cards for Japan

As soon as I got my DT box from Inkido,  I didn't waste anytime to make this  cards.  I used the Rosehange line and the "bladslinga" stamp to make the second card.

These are an all occasion cards so no sentiments were added.

I am  joining the challenge over Scrappin Studio:  Sending Love for Japan. The ever talented and inspirational Japanese scrapping friend Tomoko Takashi  organized an auction/ Sale of  our artwork to raise money for fellow victims in Japan. Tomoko is currently running her own donation campaign together with the Japan Red Cross Society. Please do check on her blog for more info.


Please do pray for Japan and the victims of the mishap.  I don't want to call it a calamity since my country have experienced lots of calamities in the past year and I have personally experienced the 1990 Killer Quake that hit my country.  It was devasting and the memories of it  are still fresh to me whenever I go back to that decade.

Hope you all join in this campaign and let us show the world that we,  the scrapbooking community across the world are united.  We can make things happen!

Have a nice day everyone!

High 5!

My little boy posing with the M&M's during our Singapore trip last year.  I am trying to make an all Prima page for Zid here.  Is it too much feminine?

close up on the flowers with a touch of glitters.
have a nice day!

hugs, Jona

My Sweet Lemonade

Summer papers don't need to be summer themed pages!

Its been a while since I used this color combo and I am loving it.  My eldest nephew doesn't like to be photographed anymore,  so whenever I get a snapshot,  he makes sure that he is wacky in the photo. And that wouldn't stop me from scrapping that photo.

I used Best creation Surf's Up line here and fussy cut the papers for my embellishment.  The banner is made using the glitter dot papers. 

Materials: Best Creation Surf's Up line (GP ) Pink paislee alpha stickers, inkido post card stamp, inkido blings and baker's twine.

Some close-ups:

 I am still in love with butterflies and try to incorporate it in my pages.

Have a great week ahead!  

hugs,  Jona