Outside my window

It has been such a scorcher the last week that everyone has been hiding indoors whenever possible. The heat aside, the hot days make for lovely sunsets. I tried to capture the lovely orange hues with the camera but it just isn’t possible. You have to enjoy nature’s beauty just by being there.

I didn’t want to over power the photograph so I went for a simpler layout. The Dear Lizzy stickers had the perfect hue that complemented the colors in the photo.

I’m usually squeamish about sticking stuff right on my photo but the letter stickers just felt very at home over there so I went with it.

Catch you again,

April Recap – RRBF

In case you missed my projects over at Ruby Rock-it Bella! Fundamentals blog for the month of April – here is a summary.

1. Special Moments layout

Love our newest Kinda Kraft line of papers and the details are over here.

2. Paper Doily Popsicle

Here‘s my tutorial on how to turn a paper doilies to a pretty gift. A really fun craft to do with older kids as well.

3. Spring Wedding Card

Here’s a wedding card I made for a lovely sprint wedding.  It’s over here. I love the blue hues instead of the usual white wedding cards.

4. Easter Treats Box

Here’s my version of a treat box for Easter. You can always clean off the chalk lettering when the party is over and use it for something else. More pictures here.

Do click on the project titles to hop over to the RRBF blog for more details on each project.

Enjoy the day.

Little Prince

It melted my heart to watch this scene in the photo. my little one going all soft for Snow White at Disneyland. Lots of pink for the page to bring out the softness and the Dear Lizzy white thickers are the prefect match.

Here is a close up of the cluster at the corner.
Love the memories of our last holiday.

That’s all for today. Do drop by again,

My Sketch for April over at RRBF

I know I shared this sketch that was up on Ruby Rock-it Bella! Fundamentals blog last month but I’m so excited when I saw how the sketch was used by all the talented scrappers. Congrats to Jeanne for the winning layout. You rock gal.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

May Hop – RRBF

Hello Ruby Rock-it Fans! Welcome to our May blog hop! We are featuring 3 ranges that reach our softer side…Arcadia, Mother Nature, and Reminisce. These are all so delicate and dainty on their own, and blend just beautifully together!

Come and hop along with us, leaving comments at each blog to be entered to win an awesome Ruby Rock-it prize pack!

If you hop by from Becky Olsen‘s blog, do read on. If you missed the start of the hop, just drop by the Ruby Rock-it Bella! Fundamentals blog and start from the very beginning.

Here’s the order of blogs in case you get lost along the way!

• Ruby Rock-it Bella! Fundamentals blog
• Kristine Berc
• Carrie Walz
• Beckie Dreyer
• Erin Yamabe
• Pattie Beltran
• Lisa Webb
• Becky Olsen
• June Goh <– you are here right now
• Liana Suwandi
• Lisa Novogrodski
• Ruby Rock-it Bella! Fundamentals blog

MAKE SURE YOU LEAVE A COMMENT ON EACH DESIGNER’S BLOG AND THEN ON THE Ruby Rock-it blog ONCE YOU’RE DONE HOPPING ALONG.

Now it’s time to show off my project for the hop:

Is this little guy cute !! A gift box that can be assembled really quickly. All you need are a few matching papers and your punches. I used the Glittery Blueberry Bonbon Cardstock to assemble the base pillow box. Next I punched out my circles from patterned paper. By using papers from the Mother Nature line, all the colors coordinate perfectly.

The punchers from Fiskar come in various sizes and work great for this project !

Here are the supplied that I used:

SC85-Sugar Candy 12×12 Glitter Cardstock 200gsm – Lemon Drop

SC53-Sugar Candy 12×12 Glitter Cardstock 200gsm – Blueberry Bonbon

MN32- Mother Nature 12×12 Cardstock – Pensive

MN56- Mother Nature 12×12 Cardstock – Flutterby

Fiskar Seal of Approval Squeeze Punch (Extra-Large)

Fiskar Round ‘n Round Squeeze Punch (Large)

Do check out the various projects the DT have on display along the hop.

Here are the Ruby Rock-it KINDA KRAFTY TRAIL RULES – LEAVE A COMMENT ON EACH DESIGNER’S BLOG AND THEN ON THE Ruby Rock-it’s BLOG TO BE ENTERED TO WIN THE AWESOME PACK. COMMENTS MUST BE POSTED BY TUESDAY, MAY 7TH AT 11:59PM PST TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE RANDOM DRAWING.

WE WILL ANNOUNCE THE WINNER ON OUR RUBY ROCK-IT BLOG ON WEDNESDAY MAY 8TH!

Thank you for hopping by. Now it’s time for you to hop on to the blog of the lovely Liana Suwandi

Garden in a Bottle

Hello the month of May. It’s time to take a look at a new sketch over at the Ed’s Sketch? The challenge for this month is to make use of your butterfly stamps.

Here is my take on the sketch:

The green background was a little too strong so I layered a little gesso and added a few squirt of mist to tone down the green. Then I realised that I have these images of bottles in my collection. Perfect !Next, I picked out my Purple Onion butterfly stamps and stamped them on the background paper.
I like the feel of the dripping mist down the page.

I took out my trusty typewriter to churn out the journaling. I like the vintage element.
So there you have it – a page I’m happy with,

Project Life – April

Here are some of my Project Life entries for the month of April. I’m loving the 2X3 inserts this month and it helps that I have several individual images I can print to slot into them.

I love the Birthday cards make by the boys and used a 6X12 album refill (shown on the right of the image below) to store them. They are glued on from the back of the card so the card can still be open once they are removed from the album refill.

I still have 1.5 weeks of April to complete and then it’s on to May. That’s all for today.

Cheers,