Made this during my friend, Ria’s, birthday celebration last year.  Materials used here were the yummy scrap stuff she let us devour during that fun day!  Looking forward to more “scrappy-days-out” with my fun-filled and talented scrap buddies this year.

Here’s a page to remember our anniversary and to thank God for giving us another year of togetherness:

12 YEARS

Photo Credit: Pompom A.

Journal: Thank you Lord for giving us 12 years of togetherness!  We pray for more years of bliss! 12-11-11

Materials Used:  Papers-Webster’s Pages; Stickers-Webster’s Pages & MM; Rub On-7 Gypsies; Chipboard-Pink Paislee & SR ; Flower-Prima; Others-MR ticket diecut, MM photo turner, MM bling brad,  MS Puncher, baker’s twine, clock transparency & ribbon.

This layout is also my take on the first challenge for the year over at True XOXO.   Please do take a peek on how we, the designers, interpreted the challenge and hopefully join in the fun!  You have until end of the month to submit your entry/ies.

TFS!

I hope you had a blast  celebrating the holiday season!  As 2011 ended,  I also bid goodbye to a great scrapbooking digital/hybrid site who believed in me and got me as one of their Design Team members, my heartfelt thanks to Cherry Nest!  You really challenged me to make out of the box creations.  Thanks to Elina, the owner and designer, you are really a very talented one!   I enjoyed my stint! 

Here are the rest of the projects I made for them:

GIFT BOX

They are having a DT Call right now.   Deadline for submission is on January 15, 2012.  For more details, please visit their blog here. 

Goodluck Cherry Nest and more power to you!

HUGS:

Photo Credit: Pompom A.

 Materials Used:  Mostly Websters Pages (except for Prima flowers & lace, Bazzil CS, Tattered Angels Mist, MS Punch & K&Co chipboard)

Journal:  Your big tight hugs give me immeasurable pleasure!   -Mom-

Christmas is barely a week from now but we’ve started the celebration as early as  September.  It’s a long, crazy, stressful, expensive, yummy, happy kind of season here in this part of the world!   But we love it! 

Hope you’re all having a blast inspite of, you know what…

Everyday, I thank God for the work in our hands that affords us to live a comfortable life.

Everyday, I’m thankful for the sun,  the moon, the stars shining over us…for the trees and its fruits…for everything that we see around us—beautiful and ugly, good and bad…and just for the simple joys life brings.

Everyday, I thank God for the food on our table, sometimes simple, often,  a feast. 

Everyday, I thank God for the challenges that continue to build my character, hopefully, a better me everytime.

Everyday, I’m thankful for all the people God sends my way to remind me that He is true and real.

Everyday, I thank God for my family, especially Oliver and these two beautiful angels who made my life meaningful…

And everyday, I’m thankful for my God who sees the depths of my heart but still loves me the same…may my two children realize how amazing God truly is and may they walk together in faith…knowing, believing and loving Him always!

Happy Thanksgiving!

A CARD:

A NOTEPAD:

A RECIPE BOX (Altered Tin Can):

From this…

 To this…

Hopefully, I can make more “out of the box” projects using Cherry Nest digital yummy goodies.  I’ll be more than happy for your suggestions and I’m sure I’ll get more inspiration from your works too.  So do let me know, I’d love to hear from you and/or see your works!

PLAY HOUSE:

Journal:  Sofa cushion you and Inigo made as a house! How creative!  Fun to a T!

Materials Used:  Papers-DCWV white CS, Basic Grey, My Little Shoebox, Webster’s Pages, October Afternoon, Nikki Sivils; Chipboard-K&Co, AC; Stickers-K.I. Memories, Colorbok; Buttons-AL; Punchers-Fiskars, EK. others-string, ribbon, Tattered Angels mist.

How about you?  What’s your all-time favorite childhood (children’s) game?

Here’s my take on the sketch:

YOU and I: 

Journal (hidden at the back of the picture using Prima packaging):

You and I will go to places, experience exciting things, meet new friends and be friends forever!  I will be with you, Alexa and will hold your hand every step of the way! Love you!     - Gaby -

Materials Used:  All PRIMA except for rub-ons (local), alpha sticker (‘and’), pearl flower center, red flowery lace and MS puncher.

There are so many amazing takes of this sketch.  Take a look here.

Being featured is a feat in itself but luck is on my side this time because I won in the Sept PPP post!  Yahoo!  See the Prima Pick at my sidebar?  That’s how one joins in the fun (aside from making people drool with their new products and colors every month, that is! hahaha)

I’m such a happy camper!  Thanks Prima!

This is the most recent page that I uploaded in my Webster’s Inspire Me Page:

SWEET LOVE:

Photo Credit: Pompom A.

After taking a longer look at it, I changed the base to this: 

The shaped Webster’s layout popped out, right?  More dramatic…

Materials Used:  Mostly Webster’s Pages except for BG base paper, MR bird chipboard, local brand rub-ons, pearl brad, fabric leaves  & lace, MM bling & metal round embellishment, Colorbox ink  and  MS puncher.

This is one of my favorite photos of me and my girls.  They’re really my dream come true!  

Watch out for more of my Webster’s Pages! *wink*

Please do join us in our blog hop.  All you need to do is visit each of our individual blog and post a comment.  You can start visiting XOXO’s blog  here.  To make the hop more exciting,  we,  lipstick chicks, challenged one another to create a layout especially for this.  

If you just came from Cheryl’s, she challenged me to create a layout with tattoo on my mind.  She meant thick outlines…with anchors, shallows, barbed wire…get the picture? Really a challlenge huh?!?  Knowing my style, I was really dumbfounded.  But when I rummaged through my stuff, I saw the old PRIMA paintables (remember them?) and *ting* it just hits me!  I painted the Prima paintables with Twinkling H2O by LuminArte (loved the glitter and gloss in them), cut the images and outlined them with my black pen.  Tadaa…

OUR DREAM:

Very tattoo-ish but with my usual romantic, feminine and shabby chic-ness, right?

Winner of the blog hop will be our December GDT for True XOXO. Please make sure you visit the blogs of these fab ladies and post a comment on each: 

Increase your chance to be a GDT by taking any of the  challenges we posted for one another.  Common on, it’ll be doubly exciting, I tell you!    Would love to hear from you and read your comments here.

Now,  please  visit my co-DT  Faye  and know what I asked her to do and see how she has taken  my challenge for this blog hop.

Winners will be announced by October 23 EST! So be sure to go back to the blogs with prizes given away especially True XOXO, of course!

Thanks so much for playing along!