Ning's Personal Shopper

Party stuff from Party World, Ikano. They have Spiderman, Batman, Incredibles, and Starwars. Besides that they had Powerpuff balloons only..

The Spiderman Happy Birthday Banner thingy for decor..
The Batman Party Pack..


Starwars, Batman and Spiderman Paper cups, plates and napkins... papermasks only in Spiderman

and more...

Starwars, Spiderman and Power Rangers invitations...

Paperbags...

I will also check out the other party supplies shop in Bangsar.. will gambar if anything interesting.. Party World usually have a better selection.. but we'll see..

Stuff

Ning, I found these in my local stationery shop. I love it when I take a morning inspiration break to go look for stuff. These are the cheap, normal, playing cards.. according to the hubby. He said he used to play with them (like snap) when he was young! I have never seen them before.. When I showed him these, he rolled his eyes, thinking what a NUt I am getting all excited over silly old cards.. to me.. they are vintage cards!! cheap RM1.50 cards...hehehehe

When I first saw them, a bunch of good ideas just came rushing into my head... I just love it.. to go and shop for stuff in stationery shops.. for it feels like it recharges my creative spirit.. and its real exciting!

I am thinking of covering my next album, a LO for the girls, tags, might need some vintage fabric.. and it'll all be good...
can't wait...

Album II

I Love Coffee and this shows how much I love it. See for yourself..

All I used for this album are pamphlets I collected from Starbucks and cardstock.. Nadia rolls her eyes when I she was with me. She asks, "Mama, is that for your scrapbooking?". I smiled. She rolls her eyes..

hehehe...

Tied here is a 12x12 cardstock which opens up to a little book.

Album I

This album is my inspiration album. An album I look into when I need to find inspiration. Every page in the album I used different techniques of putting the pages together. Folding pages in as many different ways as I can possibly think of.

Cover page: Broan Cardstock, DCWV Pattern Paper, Whimsical Articles Ribbon, Fibres from Lincraft, Making Memories Vintage Hip Frame, Bohemia Barefoot "Love" Rub-Ons.

Pockets on top of right hand corner for sliding tag

Making Memories Tag Maker to make tag tied onto the spiral

Whale of Punch for squares (we do so much with this square punch)

To compliment with the rest of the album, I have repeated the textured paper and tag. Tear textured paper as photo corners.

Ning's sizzix envelope with inserts and paperclips to hold down sticker and as an embellishment

Tag is tied to spiral, another way to hold tag in

Page to look like a door with string tied for easy flipping

Pockets for keepsake notes

I atarted this album with just loose pages. Only after I finished embellishing the pages, only then did I get the album binded.

Making Memories Boho Chic Albums

Yipee! Dropped by Papier and I found this. Lovely albums from Making Memories. Its called the Boho Chic Mini Albums. Managed to get my hands on the 9x9 for RM50 and 6x6 for only RM30! Now, I can't wait to play with them, alter them. We'll see what I ended up doing them. Yummies!

Emma K

My first visit to Bangsar Village II today. I am impressed with what we found today at the newly opened Emma K. Emma K is so interesting. It has wrapping papers just like Chatterbox's collection the dots and the stripes, except they are not acid free. They have beautiful sachets (in picture above, green in colour) for wrapping gifts, handmade cards (ahem, yes handmade cards..) ofcourse, as "sibuk" as I, bought a few just for sample sake. They were really pretty and affordable. This handmade card I have seen in mags, Emma K selling for RM35.
and this cards opens up to this...

pretty ain't it...

Gong Xi Gong Xi

My two little amois. They were so into dressing up for Chinese New Year this year. Don't blame them where everywhere we go now in the shopping malls they are all celebrating CNY. The kids really enjoyed this. Gave them something to look forward to. Gong Xi gong xi gong xi ni ah...

So even threw these in just for an in-house family show after dinner.. all my three babies performed Happy Chinese New Year for everyone.. special presentation...

Dessert.

Friday night's family dinner was nice. We had dinner in Shangri-La's Lafite. Beautiful presentation. Portion?...hmm small.. but again beautiful presentation. What really caught our eyes were the huge flower pots on everybody else's table. So Fahmy noticed the pots first and happily ~ confidently answered yup its an ashtray, when asked by Adib. I was not convinced.. so asked the waiter, ~ its our complimentary Dessert`. Check it out. How wonderful! we thought and same time laughing at Fahmy...hahaha..ashtray..apa la.. The pink flowers are cotton candy coated in strawberry dust. Stems are acrylic plastic (not eating that) and the soil are chocolate chips and chocolate bits. Interesting... another party idea..

Superstar

I have been playing with photoshop quite alot lately. Getting familiar with the things you can do with it. The main reason being, all this while scrapping, I have never really concentrate on the photo and how much we can do with photoshop really. Let it be changing the sizes of the photo I use to scrap with, to the colours of the photos. The photos here I played with the lighting of the photo, change the contrast (made it sharper and darker). Its real fun with photoshop. One who has not tried it, I urge you to get your hands on it, it'll be lots of fun.

Watch this space...

Scrappingville is finally under construction! Yeehaw! Here's a sneak preview of where Scrappingville is located. The pictures turned out great and they're huge! Thanks to my role models, ning and tim! You both look absolutely gorgeous!! As for now, I need to stay calm and pray the stocks arrives save and sound. I am so excited you have no idea.. oh ning maybe you do..hehehe

Malaysia's Largest Scrapbook Page....

Malaysia one time had the tallest building in the world, the Twin Towers. I was also told we had the biggest flag, etc, but now Malaysia has the largest scrapbook page ever!!! and Scrappingville has it!!! Muahahaha! I am so excited. Today, is the day, Scrappingville will be putting up our very first visual design, an introduction to the opening of Scrappingville in March at Bangsar Shopping Centre! This, you see here is going to go up as the hoarding board for Scrappingville's opening soon advertisement. This marks the official commencement of renovation for Scrappingville!!!!!!!!! I am so excited, and I think I have expressed that over and over again but I really can't wait.

Dira turns 4!

I left this layout hanging for nearly a week, only finally got to finish it, although I might add more journaling into the layout. Crop pictures into various different sizes. Idea was to stick to a few colours with the patterned papers. I didnt want to take the focus away from the photos. The word "Dira" are Making Memories Velvet Stickers, I inked it with inkpad, to get the soft shade of pastel colours. The little squares are brads that has the letters "t-u-r-n-s" on it. "Four" and green flower are rub-ons. Felt like I was not putting enough embellishments on my layouts so tried to incorporate more embellishments but still keeping in mind of not overcrowding the layout.

A Very Proud Grandpa

Enlarged this photo to 10"x 7.5", sand it, after photoshop-ing it. Simply glued it on. Tear paper. Add ribbon and fastenator it and handwrote "a very proud" ,the word "Grandpa" are Making Memories' velvet stickers. Clear and concise.

This album I made with mounting board instead of corrugated boxes for the covers. I was trying different things/techniques for making albums. I scored the mounting board and glued down the patterned paper with King's Bond Glue, Best Japanese Glue. What I found is that using glue stick is much easier. Using normal liquid glue, found that it dried up faster than glue stick and the paper tears easier compared to using a glue stick. If you are doing an album such as this one, with a scored side, for easier flipping, I would suggest if you use glue stick. Works better.

Kate-Lyn's Mystical Party

An absolutely stunning cake! It was a dress-up mystical party. Nadia dressed up as a Witch, Nadira wore the fairy outfit and Ariff just as himself in army pants! The kids had soo much fun and brought back with them 2 new pet fish! Such a good idea to have for a party, fish in a little padding pool, where kids can do a little fishing. Part of the goodie bags. The girls are calling the new pets, Molly and Dizzy. I will need to blog them soon..hehehe

Scrap Spaces

I found this site full of scrap spaces of scrapbookers. Really interesting to see other ppl's scrap place and compare with my very own! Ning, you might like this site http://makingmemories.typepad.com/photos/consumer_scrap_space/colleen_e_van_nuys_ca.html as you might get some ideas as to decorating your very own scrapbooking space now that it's ready!! As for me, Scrappingville will have to work for me for the time being..

Sneak Preview

Dear Ning,

I couldn't wait to show you what I have been up to lately. This is the album I was making while chatting to you couple of days ago. The covers are cut up boxes which I used patterned paper to cover. The inserts are just plain brown acid free paper, Bazzill. I haven't quite finished the album but I think I am gonna make this into a Family Album. Its really easy to make, not to mention, its easy to score too! To glue down patterned papers to covers I found that using glue stick works best. It even folds well inside especially around the scoring part of the album. Start keeping boxes for albums! They really turn out well!!

Cherish

I have been asking my Japanese friends to help me out with some layouts. One of the pictures I pass over to them was this beautiful picture. I think they did a wonderful job with the colours. They used origami papers too! They even brought it to frame for me. I absolutely love this layout!