Challenge #37: Profile

I've been blog hopping for weeks now and happened to cross the Dreamgirls challenge blog. I liked their challenge at an instant because of their requirements to use eyelets on our LO. I have lots of it and this is really an opportunity for me to use some of my eyelets. I got interested on this and decided to do the challenge.

These are the requirements for the challenge.

Prompt:Bring out the eyelet love! Use at least 10 eyelets on a layout and get down with your old school self!
Technique: Doodle - Doodle a border or frame or swirls on your page
Product: find a way of sneaking in a Bird or Owl onto your page


here's my take:



I used here, Glitz PPS Plum Crazy and Olivia. AC thickers Jewelry Box, Tim Holtz Mask Swirls, Die cut chipboard stickers, My own mixture of Glimmer mist, Heidi Swapp Chandelier stamp, TH distressing ink, Ranger Perfect pearl,Glossy Accent, brads, lace and MME rub-ons.

All About Me Blog Challenge #2

The challenge is to create a layout about " What color describes you?"
I chose color Green to describe myself. I love color green and any shades of it.
Green signifies harmony, balance and nature, which is very true about me.

here's my take to this challenge.

Yahooo!!! I won!

Scrapbooks & Stuff Blog

SEPTEMBER SKETCH CHALLENGE

I thought the owner of this blog will not consider my entry to their sketch challenge. I'm thankful to Nana and Vanessa for still accepting my layout. It was less than 2 hours before the deadline(September 30 U.S. time), October 1 here, when I decided to join. I hurriedly get all my stuff to create this layout. I'm kinda shaking a bit while doing the LO beacuse time is running so fast that I might not be able to make it. But still I manage to finish it, took a picture and preparing to upload it in their site. I thought it was just easy to upload it. It's quarter to 12 of October 1, Philippine time,and I have to register first and upload it to their gallery and make a comment and put a link. The process took me so long. As I was making a comment in the blog I missed the verification step, it's 11:55am, I thought my comment was in but when I looked at it I did not see my comment, so I have to re-type everything again. When I'm done and hit the enter key, to my dismay, the time was 12:01 am October 1, 2009 U.S. time and I really felt bad. The blog owners were kind enough to include my LO and announced my entry as winner of the September sketch challenge.






Here's my take to this challenge:





I used here Webster's Pages Classic Beauty PPS, Daisy Bucket Playlist PPS, Anna Griffin PPS ( birds and flowers), Prima Flower, Heidi Swapp thickers, AC Thickers Darling, Color Box stampad Ink, cardstack for photo mat, Yellow flower & stone with glitter(flower center)from Timi, ribbon,brads, butterfly, Page background from Yvet and my own mixture of glimmer mist.

These are what I'm going to receive as my prize for this challenge.

My First PinoyScrapbookers KAYA Challenge Entry

A challenge hosted by Gracie, to scrap about a food photo of our favorite dish or recipe.

Creamy Beef-Tofu

A little twist of Beef Steak ala Crema from the recipe booklet of Life's Rich! with Nestle All Purpose Cream. A dish to celebrate my son's birthday!






Journaling:My son asked me to cook beef steak ala crema. But there were about less than 1/2 kilo of beef strip left in the freezer. Since tofu was available inside the fridge, I used it as meat extenders and put some bokchoy leaves to add color. It was surprising that the tofu blended well with the cream sauce. We all loved the come out of this recipe.

Ingredients:
* 1/2 kg beef sirloin, thinly sliced, cut into strip
* 18g Maggi Magic Sarap
* 2tbsp Maggi Savor, calamansi
* 1/4 cup cooking oil
* 1 med Onion, sliced into rings
* 1 250ml Nestle All purpose cream
* 1 pck Tofu
* 2 pcks Bokchoy Leaves ( Taiwan Pechay)

Procedures:
1. Rub beef with Maggi MAgic sarap and Maggi Savor. Marinate for at least 20 minutes.
2. Cut tofu into cubes, drege in flour. Fry until golden brown, set aside.
3. Heat oil, saute onions for 2 minutes or until crisp tender, then set aside.
4. In the same pan, add marinated beef and pan fry until brown. Add fried onions, tofu and bokchoy leaves. Pour in teh cream, simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and serve.

Materials Used:
Premiere matboard- die cut page background
Webster's Pages- A Sweet Life, tell your story ( hand cutting the designs)
Chatterbox - Together Multifloral ( apron and mitt, rolled papers)
American crafts - Thickers jewelry box (Beef Tofu)
Making Memories - Tiny Alpha Brown Ledger ( creamy)
Prima - Quick Pick Hyd Wood land ( flowers) journaling sheet
Sizzix - dies ( apron and mitt)
Fancy Pants - bella brush stamp ( frame)
Colorbox - stamp pad ink ( distressing)
Others: brads, felt flower, butterfly, journaling ticket (hidden), bookplate die cut, bling.

Scrapbook Challenges: 2nd DT Blog Hop

Yesterday, I joined in the Scrapbook Challenges: 2nd DT Blog Hop, wherein we have to visit all the DT's blog, leave a comment, to qualify in their monthly drawing.The prize at stake is really awesome.There are 5 questions left by Pamela for us to answer to win again another prize. Through blog hopping you can find the answers to all the questions. It was really fun. All the DT's creations based on the sketch of Pamela contribute a lot of new ideas and inspirations. I was able to finish the blog hopping and able to leave a comment in each blog and hoping to win in one of the drawings. I also created a layout based on the sketch.



Here's my take:

I challenged myself

At the beginning of August 2009, I challenged myself to create 15 12x12 LOs( including online challenges), 20 8x8 LOS, 1 alter and 1 mini album, all for the month of August. Unfortunately, I didn't make it, hehehe!!.But at least I was able to accomplish some works. Here are those; 10 12x12LOs, 9 8x8LOS zero for the alter and mini album. It's quite a good start before the year ends huh!!

12x12

My take to Prima August 2009 Build-a-Page Challenge


My take to Scrappinkids sketch challenge for August 2009

















8x8

2009

It's now September 18, 2009, I'm almost done uploading all my creations left last 2008. Finally, I can now upload my previous and very recents works for this year. I remember, my first creation for this year was an altered challenge sponsored by Wati of Scrappinkids forum. here's the link:

"http://scrappinkids.18.forumer.com/index.php?showtopic=555"
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2911417480102996912SRtJti

Here's my very first layout for this year which was done during our Pajama party at Dra. Rita's house.

My entries to Scrappinkids RD and DT's challenge

Last year, September 2008, Scrappinkids had a long weekend of challenges sponsored by their own RD's and DT's. here are my entries to each of their challenges.


Issa's challenge: embellishing chipboards (Winner)



Cookie's rub and stamp


Wati's lift me


Liza's plain stuff


Jessy's color swatch


Jazz' stripy stripes


Issa's white and five ( Winner)

My entries to Scrappinmoms Idol 2008

Week #5: Super size it!
Design and concept: Balance and symmetry

This is my last entry to the Idol. Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it to the next round. It's a bye bye now for me.


Week #4: Layers of me.
Design and concept:Dimensions and layers



Week #3: A day in the life.
Design concept:Direction and movement




Week #2 Entry: A color is a color is a color
Design concept: Color theory and harmony



First week entry: It's party time. Let's Celebrate!
Design concept: Repetition of elements







Elimination round entry:

I'm very reluctant at first in joining the Scrappinmom Idol, because I know I'm not yet ready, I'm very much afraid and nervous. But because of some encouragement from the LB group, I decided to join and finally upload my elimination entry 30 minutes before the deadline. Good thing, I changed my mind, because my LO was chosen to be the Pick of the week for this round. Here's the link:

"http://scrappinmoms.blogspot.com/2008/08/pick-of-week-elimination-round.html"<=/a>