A Berry Sweet 3-D Valentine and Project Life.

Hello, everyone!

It's time for another project featuring The Greeting Farm's new lines of Berry Sweet Daily Life and Print & Cut. The kits are so very cheap, especially for what you can do with them!

This week, our challenge was to make a 3-D Valentine Project and another Project Life Lay-out.

First, let me say that I'm so very sorry about the quality of light in these photos. I took them too late in the day, and the sun was setting. As for the project, I took an empty fruit snacks box (my kids' favorite) and turned it into a V-day gift box. The Berry Sweet kits are so perfect for Lub-a-dub Day (get it? Heartbeat!). See all the hearts, the "I like you" and "Love Story" quotes, and the cupcakes?! Yup!! It's truly 'berry' sweet!! :)



I added in a few non-TGF stamps (from Kelly Purkey) and hand-wrote "Happy Valentine's" and VOILA!



The box is to enclose my dear friend's birthday gift. The kits are so easy to use. You can use them with your Silhoutte or just print and cut like I did! I actually gave the gift last night and it was a big hit among my friends!!

Next is my Project Life lay-out for this week:



What I love about Project Life is its ability to document daily life yet allows you to see that moment in its entirety. This week, for example, we had celebrated my mom's birthday, a niece's birthday, a patient's mother's positive outlook, and life at the preschool... all in one page. The Berry Sweet Daily Life kit also contains journaling cards so that you could write the details that are not shown in the picture. It's such a neat way of scrapbooking!

I am really enjoying Guest-Designing with TGF, especially when it's about creating PL. I get to catch up on last year's album! I'm up to Week 28, btw. Haha! That's July 2013. Boy, do I have a long way to go. I may just forget 2013 and move on with 2014! :)

Don't forget to visit the other Guest Designer's blogs for more views and inspiration:


Jerodelle Trinidad


Claudette San Pedro

See you all soon!!! And thanks so much for visiting!!

Winter Hoodie.

Happy Friday, everyone!!

Wish I could say TGIF, but I am working this weekend so bleh! He he he!

I've got a card showcasing this lovely Winter Hoodie digi stamp from Time for Tea Designs.

She kinda reminded me of someone who works out and so I made this card for my new penpal who has been going through a weight loss journey. She has served as a great inspiration for me on Instagram!! By the way, I'm going through one of my own... I may save that for a future post!

I tried to make her look like my friend, and even attempted on some ombre hair (which I kinda failed on, LOL). The inspirational buttons and card are from one of Kelly Purkey's old kits.



Check out T4TD's new February releases here! They're all so gorgeous!!! Can't wait to play with them soon! Stay tuned.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!

Yumi and Fumi Handmade with Project Life.

Hello all!!   Today I will be showing you how easy it is to incorporate Yumi and Fumi Handmade into Project Life.
If you're not familiar with Project Life, basically, it's scrapbooking by sticking pics and journal cards into little clear plastics. You can either decorate them or just put the pictures in the pockets by themselves.
And I don't know about you, but I love mixing my love of stamps with my desire to document my family's life! This post will show you three ways of doing it!
On this first page, I made a little scene featuring Summer Yumi walking alongside a pier. The page was about the beach so I found a Y&FH stamp that matched and made the scene pretty simple (just like the pics).




                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       . On On the second page, I basically just decorated a title card randomly - still matching with the Summertheme, of course. 


And last but not least, I take pictures of my cards and put them in as well. One, they can be used for decorating. And two, it's nice to preserve that card somehow. You can even look back and see how your style of cardmaking has evolved!  


There you have it, folks!  Easy-peasy, right?  I love that you could pretty much use the Y&FH stamps in all of your crafty adventures!! Toot-a-loo!! 

 

P.S.  See below for more detailed views:

 

 

 

Guest Designing for TGF's new Daily Life Kit!!

Good Morning, everyone! And Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day if you are from the U.S.A.

I've got some great news!! I have been squealing on the inside (and at home) since I found out -- I made it as a Guest Designer for The Greeting Farm's new venture on a different, but very familiar type of crafting. That is, scrapbooking!!!! The new items could be used for Project Life, but also for so many other things!

If you have not heard of Project Life, it is basically a type of documenting where you insert photos or cards/embellishments into page protectors. It is meant to be easy and fast. The concept was created by Becky Higgins, and you can learn more about it from her video:



Now, I tried PL last year. There are so many kits available. But I love that TGF came out with their own digital kit! It shows that they understand that there are so many people like me out there. That is, I not only stamp and make cards. But I also scrapbook! And let me tell you, this kit(s) is so versatile! And I simply am so enthusiastic about being a part of TGF's new scrapbooking line because TGF was the first stamp company I used and fell in love with!! :)

Anyway, sorry about all the blabbing. Please read more info below. Here's the verbage on the TGF blog:


'I am super excited to debut the follow up to the Berry Sweet Cut and Print Kit with the Berry Sweet Daily Life Kit! This kit features more daily life type files, like journal cards, cut tags and labels that still features our beloved sweet and cute TGF style! The set consists of 12 - 3x4 cards, 4 - 6x4 cards, 2 cut tags, 11 labels and 16 ephemera's. This kit is not exclusive to scrappers alone. When this line was created, it was created for card makers, scrappers, daily documenters, basically an all around versatile kit! Pair it with the Berry Sweet Cut and file kit and there is not limit to how you can use it!


To give this "Berry Sweet" kit the proper welcome that it deserves, and to celebrate that we are branching out into something NEW, The Greeting Farm is PROUD to introduce an amazing new team of Guest Designers, please welcome:


Corinne Mercado <-- You're here!


Jerodelle Trinidad


Claudette San Pedro


Please stop by the blogs of these talented ladies to welcome them to the Farm and also be sure to stop by the TGF Blog today to view their other projects and a chance to WIN the "Berry Sweet Daily Document" kit!!!


Here are a couple of my projects:

Some Project Life pages using the Daily Life kit:





In fact, the first one is my title page for my 2014 album (I also used Anya Strolls and Picture Perfect) . You can do your documenting in so many different ways... by week, by month, by event, etc. The second page was from a week during last Summer. You can also make your pages as simple or as elaborate as you want!

A traditional scrapbook lay-out featuring the Berry Sweet Daily Life kit, with some Berry Sweet Cut and Print kit, and stamps from Miss Anya Night Out.





As you can see, you can do so many different things with these kits! (Note: I also used additional products such as the alpha stickers (American Craft's Amy Tangerine) and the gold quoted card (Skipping 5).

And, finally, I've got a card featuring mostly the Berry Sweet Cut and Print kit:



Don't they look like lovely paper dolls to you? I love that these digital files and kits can be sized as you wish! And that they can be printed on varying papers! Also, please note that the flowers on the bottom are stickers that I've added.

Thanks so much for visiting and reading my (loooooooong) post! :)

Please visit the TGF blog and other DT's posts for more info and inspo!!

Tata!!

Sketch Challenge at Y&FH!

Good Sunday morning, everyone!!

Yumi and Fumi Handmade has a new challenge today, and it's Sketch # 5! I hope you can play along with us. The sketch is pretty easy, but it looks awfully cute too! I used a more artistic approach, with lots of elements from Leanne's RAK to me.



Hope you can play along. The sketch is on the Y&FH blog, and there's also lots of DT inspiration. Remember that you have two weeks to enter the challenge. Team Fumi will show you new projects next week!

In the meantime, thanks for visiting my crafty blog!

XOXO,