Celebrate!

Happy 2014 to you all!!!

For the Milk Coffee Celebration Challenge, you can make a creation using a New Year's theme, a birthday theme, a card for a new baby.... basically any celebration counts!

I decided to use the freebie shown here. They are Javanese Dancers from Indonesia, and what better way to show a celebration than to dance and wear festive clothing?! I also enjoy working with ethnic images so this was perfect!



To decide on colors, I googled Indonesian dancers and found bright outfits. I also added gold by using this special Sharpie marker -- that crown on her is drawn! :)



Now y'all know that I am super bad at using sentiments on my cards. But I really love Suzy Plantamura's Sunny Day Doodles stamp from MFT. Her designs are so whimsical and fun, and the fact that I can color them in with Copics??? Ah...YES, PLEASE!!!

I used her stamp "Celebrate Life" up there, which is part of the set. I colored it in with the same colors as the dancers' costumes to tie in with the card's theme.

The background vellum paper is once again from Tina Azmus Holiday pack. Love it!!

Now, go on over to Milk Coffee to learn more about the challenge and see more inspo from the other DT!

Hope you all have wonderful celebrations!!

Holidays 2013.

Good Sunday morning, everyone!

I hope you all had the Merriest of Christmas! We had a nice Holiday that started off on Christmas Eve when we went to the children's mass at our church. We, then, headed to my parents' where the rest of my cousins and aunts/ uncles got together. It's tradition for our family to get together on the night before Xmas and have a big party. There were lots of wonderful Filipino food, and catching up. It wouldn't be a party without picture taking of course! And then, we stay up till close to midnight and pass out presents. We open them up right then and there and just bask in the warmth of family and bonding!

Hopefully, I get to blog in a little bit and post some pics of our Christmas. For now, though, I have a project to show you featuring a Time for Tea Designs' digi image (Princess). She is so pretty and regal, so I wanted to make her into a special gift card holder for one of my loved ones. I paired her together with some of Tina Azmus' Holiday kit goodies.



Ok, gotta go since I've got lots to do!!

Make Something Today!

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!!!!

I am showcasing a card today and not a lay-out, but I thought the message was nice and clear: MAKE SOMETHING TODAY!

I got that brown paper bag message from Tina of Love. Life. Paper. It was packaging from some cards that I bought from her. But I know she sells this typographic goodness as well. So I thought I'd upcycle it. :)

Afterall, it went along well with Jo's new digi image - Girl Colouring from Time for Tea Designs. Isn't she cute? I love her long hair and I made those markers Copics, although Jo uses Promarkers. I also adore that pensive, day-dreamy look on her face.

One of my best friends once told me she didn't know how to daydream. I told her it was so easy...just look outside the window and stare at nothing but think of something. LMAO!!



Talk to ya later,