Hanging with the Gals...

Full of kits to play around this week.
A lot are based on the color ranges of pinks but heck, it's still February right? :D
Lots of love and fun girl stuff going on. Enjoy! :)

Credits: Leah Farquharson's Victorian Valentine available at FunkyPlayground.com, Font - Centry Gothic

Girls so want to have fun. AnDi Design's Pajama Party Kit is the perfect digi-kit to scrap all those really cool fun gal pal photos. I love all the cool papers that fit any/all gal pal layouts that you can come out with. Loving the various word arts provided also! :D
Credits: AnDi Designs' Pajama Party available at Divine Digital, Font - Centry Gothic

MKC's 2010 Feb Grab Bag & Leah Farquharson's IheartU

Check out MKC's Feb 2010 Grab Bag @ TDC!!!Gotta love all that vibrant colored papers and flowers galore!!!

Credits: everything came from Mari Koegelenberg Creation's 2010 Feb Grab Bag available @ DigiChick.com; Times New Roman Font

Bring on the love!!!! Leah Farquharson's I Heart You is definitely something to check out and spread some love! I love the color combinations!

Credits: Leah Farquharson's I Heart You, Arial Font

Starting the 2010 right

With 2010, it's going to be a year of "projects" for me. So far, I have the following:- personal/family/house projects, scrap works, and new career responsibilities. It's going to be once interesting year for sure!

To start it out, I know that getting back to the "swing of things" is toughest part. So, here's a few layouts that I recently got to finish. Here's to coming back to full-time scrapping again! I got a loadful of kits for you to view.

Leah Farquharson's new kit called No Apologie available at FunkyPlaygroundDesigns.com. I love the elements especially the beaded frame and the grey paper hues.
Credits: No Apologie by Leah Farquharson available at FunkyPlaygroundDesigns.com; Font - Arial

I enjoyed using Miss Mis Designs'(Misty Castellano) Wild One - available at DivineDigitals.com. I love all the cute animal elements and the numerous papers that come with this kit. The colors will fit any fun-loving, wild child of yours - boy or girl alike. I love also the numerous elements that can be used over and over again since it's a really versatile kit. A preview of the kit is located below.
Credits: Miss Mis Designs'(Misty Castellano) Wild One - available at DivineDigitals.com; Font - Perpetua

Another Divine Digital offerings is FleurdeLis' Be Natural. I enjoyed the "natural elements" like the flower elements with impeccable detail!
Credits: Divine Digital's FleurdeLis' Be Natural; Font - Arial Narrow; Alpha - Tracy Stroud's Hemline Alpha

Butterfly Craft Challenge #27

Butterfly Crafts Challenge #27 is up and it's all about one's favorite holiday. At first, I was going to scrap Halloween since it's my all time fav but with a new family tradition, it's hard not to choose Christmas (Eve) for this really fun holiday!

I used Leah Farquharson's Christmas Cookies available at FunkyPlayGround.com
Here is my take on this challenge and was a pure joy to create after coming back from Christmas Eve dinner! :D Little Jer performed some Chinese songs and we later played some musical chairs. Awesome awesome time!Title: Gathered
Credits: Christmas Cookies by Leah Farquharson; Arial Font
Journaling:This year, as part of my family’s Christmas tradition, My brother proposed to have Christmas Eve dinner at his home at Magallanes Village. It was a great idea since it would mean being able to comfortably stay there for as long as we want and my nephew, Little Jeremy, can go to bed whenever he wanted without having to break-up the dinner and go home. We all contributed in some way:- my brother ordered food, mom cooked and I brought appetizers to help ease the load.
It was a great night of food, company, gift-giving and the start of a great tradition!

Autumn Sunset by Leah Farquharson and Wendy Page

More autumn kits for you...this time it's Autumn Sunset by Leah Farquharson and Wendy Page available at FunkyPlaygroundDesigns. I love the embellishments and the pattern papers offered by this kit. It's easy and quite diverse! :D
A preview is below.
Credits: Autumn Sunset by Leah Farquharson and Wendy Page available at FunkyPlaygroundDesigns; Font: Arial

Butterfly Crafts Challenge #23 (Designs by Leah)

Butterfly Crafts Challenge #23 is up!!! The challenge goes "to scrap something that makes you "happy". Full details of the challenge is here. Come join us!!!

Using Leah Farquharson's fun new kit called Varsity Kit and Varsity Alphas (see below for previews), I got to scrap some good times with EW. Closing into the two year mark and still going as strong as when we first started. :D

Title: So HappyCredits: Varsity Kit and Varsity Alphas by Leah Farquharson (available at FunkyPlaygroundDesigns.com), Font - Corbel, word art - On the Line by Sugarplum Paperie (available at theDigiChick.com)

Happy Home by Leah Farquharson

Have a look at this funky fun pop kit called Happy Home Mini Kit by Leah Farquharson available at FunkyPlaygroundDesigns.com! I'm so loving the color combination, trees and the adorable birds!
I wanted to play around with journaling more and complete my page with this instead. I had a great time trying to also use all of the pattern papers. A real challenge. :D

Journaling: Would you prefer to live in a house or an apartment? I have tried both types and as per my experience, I prever staying in the latter. I realize that I love the view that an apartment offers while I can enjoy the convenience of locking my pad up and heading out without having to worry about somebody to house-sit since the 24hours security will help me take care of this! Apartments are too cool!!! I wouldn’t want to have it any other way!
Credits: Happy Home Mini Kitby Leah Farquharson, Font - CK Becky Higgins, Letter Alphas - Varsity Alphas by Leah Farquharson

Fall is officially here!!! Two Awesome Kits Available

Loving the start of fall...you get to feel the breeze more and days seems to be shorter while nights longer. Perfect for a nocturnal person like myself! Another great thing is the warm colors around town. This is the best time of the year! Cooler weather, holidays left and right, shopping bazaars (my fav) are popping all over the place...oh and most importantly, and everyone's in a wonderful sharing mood with the upcoming Christmas season around the corner.

I'm trying to start my Christmas shopping early but with so many choices around, it's hard to decide this early.

I feel the same "good warm feeling" with this kit called Funky Fall by Leah Farquharson and Tracy Murphy of FunkyPlayground.com. My favorite in this kit is the embellishments and since it's a collaboration, the amount of embellishments was doubled! Worth every penny! :)

This is what I did for this fun and funky kit!
Start your Thanksgiving layouts as early as October! :D
Credits: Funky Fall by Leah Leah Farquharson and Tracy Murphy of FunkyPlayground.com, Times New Roman Font

Another warm fall kit I've played is by Mari Koegelenberg Creations' Golden Harvest available at DigiChick.com. My favorite on this kit is the papers that were provided! There are just so many to choose from and had a hard time picking to get my layout below finally done. :)
I had been trying to find the perfect kit to scrap how I felt in the picture below. Thank goodness, it's finally scraped. :DCredits: Golden Harvest by Mari Koegelenberg Creations (MKC)

Stained & Splattered by Leah Farquharson

Want to play with paint and inks but not the mess that comes with it? You are in luck~ Leah Farquharson's Stained & Splattered is now available at FunkyPlayground.com! Check out a preview of what you get with this product.
This is what I did with this...
Credits: paint splatters are Stained & Splattered by Leah Farquharson available at FunkyPlayground.com; Paper are Lullaby by Cintia Cafe; word art are Project 365 by Sugarplum Paperie

October PageMap's Guest DT!!!

Another Surprise!!!!
OCTOBER PAGEMAPS feature!!!!
I've been holding this for the longest time and wait was killing me!
So glad that October's here...

I've been asked by Becky Fleck of PageMaps to create a layout for the October newsletter given a specific sketch. Check out what I did with the featured sketches provided. For the full feature and sketches - please click here.
One of the two layouts I created was chosen to be on the site here.
Title: Love is...
Credits: All products from Big Adventure and September Collaboration by Designs by Leah available at FunkyPlaygroundDesigns.com, except for the yellow ribbon by Garden Girl Designs' Safari Adventure Freebee at ScrapOutsideofTheBox.com and stitching by DPH's September Collaboration - Tea Party at DigitalPaperHearts.com; Font: Corbel; template: PageMaps October 2009 Sketch

Title: BenCab (the winning entry)
Credits: papers, ribbon element: Sky's the Limit Kit by Mari Koegelenberg (MKC) and Courney Wilson available @theDigiChick; staple reverse: Just the Basics - Metal Bits Vol. 1 by Mari Koegelenberg (MKC); paper boarder: Heather Falls by Shabby Scrap Designs; font: Arial Narrow; title: Benjamin Cabrera's own painting signature; template: PageMaps October 2009 Sketch (featured layout)

Another 1st! SisTV Catwalk Feature (Week of Sept 16)

I'm jumping jumping jumping for joy!!!!!

So honored to have been voted by SisTV's Fashionista, MizzM, for my layout, Sisterly Advices for the Catwalk Gallery Week of Sept16!

Clearer feature below:

Thank you, MizzM!!!

This really makes me want to try even harder to impress!!! :D

Fruity Papers and Solids from Designs by Leah

Designs by Leah have something that will make you gaga over fruits with these Fruity Papers and Fruity Solids, available at FunkyPlaygroundDesigns. Check out the previews below:
Here's what I came up with this a fun fun kit!
Credits: Papers are by Fruity Paper and Fruity Solids by Designs by Leah available at FunkyPlaygroundDesigns.com, Elements are by Just the Basics: Metal Bits Vol.1 by MKC available at theDigiChick.com, Arial and Arial Narrow Font, template are by Pencillines 143

Kinda Campy and Big Adventure from Designs by Leah

Another one of the awesome kits offered by Designs by Leah. Check out the below previews. Kits are all available on FunkyPlaygroupDesigns.

Kinda Campy
Big Adventure
This is what I came up with:
Credits: all items are from Designs by Leah and available at FunkyPlaygroupDesigns.com; kit - Kinda Campy Solids and Big Adventure; word art - September Collab, font - Corbel

Guest CT for September (Designs by Leah F)

I'm so excited and honored to have been asked to Guest CT for Leah Farquharson of FunkyPlaygroundDesigns. My first project is on Leah F's contribution to the FDP's Sunshine & Fun (September Collaboration) kit. I love the kit a lot!!!! Go go get it and give it a go...before Summer ends. :D

Here's my take on this kit.
Credits: part of FDP's Sunshine & Fun (September Collaboration) kit - Leah F's collaboration, Word Art: extra freebie piece (be a part of a scavenger hunt @FPD) by Leah F, Font: Arial Narrow, Alpha Stitches: Hemline by Tracie Stround

Many more to come...I'm excited and loaded at the same time!!!!