I had a great time today at Scrapbooking Made Simple. They had so many freebies, love the free make'n take. Had lunch with new friends. Below is the collage of 33 entries for the SMS 1st Anniversary Sale Challenge. I will update you once the votes are tallied and announced.

TGIF

Happy Friday to you all. I am so excited, tomorrow I will join a contest sponsored Alliance Sales & Marketing at my favorite local store Scrapbooking Made Simple.
SMS is celebrating their 6th year anniversary and they have a lot of sales and some free goodies this Saturday, September 29th.
What's the contest about? All I have to do is use the free Swoon Kits they provided, we can do whatever we want with the kit as long as we use atleast 50% of the contents of the kit. We can create a layout, card, altered art or a mini album. The grand price is $150 SMS Gift card. There are 40 people competing so wish me luck. I will show you pictures after the event.

Guest Books I made using YourStory Photo

I got my YourStory Photo from HSN last November. I finally put it to use, I used it to make guest books for my friend's wedding.

The Bridal Shower Guest Book: Words of Wisdom for the Bride 2B

The Wedding Guest Book: Book of Love

Tip of the Month

Hello everyone, I am probably the worst blogger online because I hardly do blog. Here's what I am gonna try to do is to blog at least once a month with a tip on cardmaking, scrapbooking or any other paper crafts I am on the current month, it maybe my own idea or others which I will give credit to whoever I got the idea from. This month I have the pleasure again on making stuff for a friend's wedding. One of them is confetti, which I made from the scraps from the other projects I made for the wedding. Punching so many times can be uncomfortable on most paper punches. I found a way to make it a little comfortable for me by adding adhesive foam to the paper punch. I was able to do this to the mini punches by Recollections and the Marvy Uchida punches that I have. Won't you agree that most of us punches with the puncher upside down.

All you need is a sheet of foam with adhesive. I happen to have some scraps from my previous projects.

Cut a piece of the foam and slightly pressed the foam to bottom of the punch so that it will leave an impression.

Do the impression of the foam twice you will need two so it will be thick enough for better comfort. Cut the foam out first cut inside the impression line and the second cut outside of the impression line.

Peel and stick the foam to the bottom of the paper punch.

Now much better...

This will work on any sizes of paper punches that has the same shape, Recollections and Marvy Uchida.

Decoupage - Gourds

I am getting ready for a Garage Sale that I am participating this March 24th at my favorite store Scrapbooking Made Simple. Going over my craft stuff is hard, especially when most of the items I seem to wanna keep. I had to convince myself that the items I will be able to sell during the garage sale will give me new stuff. So I am able to fill up 2 boxes with items just collecting dusts. I hope it will find a new home that will put them to use. Another thing that I liked about going over my stuff is that I find items that has been on my todo projects in years but never did anything with them. For example the small gourds that I bought years ago at a gourd farm that my friend took me to. I started working on them yesterday. I love how they turned out.

Work in progress...

I have been eyeing on this scrapbook paper at our local Beverly's store. I bought the last 10 of this paper last leap day. I have been in an accordion fold frenzy, so I made more with this paper to add to my etsy shop. Still need to add few embellishments. As you can see I added a touch of printed vellum on the wedding dress. One the left side of the card, planning to add a Wedding poem that I found on the internet. Also I'm thinking of adding a Congratulations stamp on the lower left part of the card. Will have a touch of different color based on the wedding motif.

Decoupage

One of my favorite thing to do is to decoupage. Here's one I made for my etsy store. The letters are about 9 inches tall.

No matter how much I try to organize my craft room it is still a mess. Four days ago my husband and I were in Costco and going over the medicine aisle we saw a box that I maybe able to use to organize the cards a make. Just yesterday we went back to Costco to do more food shopping when I grabbed a different box that can be used as a second my greeting card sorter/organizer.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

OK, you caught me. The After photo is a different box, it's actually the first box we found four days ago. I forgot to take a before photo of it. Once I finished covering the second box I will post the picture.

One more week till Valentine's Day!

Here's the card I made for The Scrapoholic Half Time Challenge.