Days of Our Lives, Creating a Keepsake

I've heard about Project Life some times ago, but never get interested to make one.

But, after my baby #3 turned 2 and off of his breastfeeding tantrum, I now have more spare to time to waste. He is not as demanding as before, so as his tummy is full and siblings are around to play with him, he will let Mom plays with computer.

So, I tempted to try to journal our lives.

Using Tracey cute birdie kit, I made this week#9 page:

And, finger crossed I will be diligent enough to collect our memories throughout the year 2013 into 52 pages. I wish.

And, I have a freebie, you can have the template I made for this page. It's not flattened (layered PSD file) so you can use clipping mask to maintain the shape. I also add an extra bonus download, a piece of vellum paper stitched under a ribbon for journaling purpose. Click on the pictures to enlarge.

Day of Our Lives Template - 300 dpi PSD

Vellum paper - PNG

Just click the template preview or DOWNLOAD link below to get it.

Days of  Our Lives - 1.06MB

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Please leave me a comment or a link to your work. Will really appreciate it.
Thank you. God bless.

-devi

Join SSUC & New Freebie From Me To You

Week ago, I joined Sunny Side Up Creations as DT member. This is a crafter group (digital or traditional) with biweekly challenge. And, they also have blog, so you can see their previous challenge. This group accommodates different types of crafters, i.e: face & body artist, cross-stitch, painter, and also bead makers. What a group of wonderful ladies to join.

The main reason I join this group, because I need to challenge myself to create some new kits, so The Sweetest Things, my baby kit, will sit together with its 'siblings'. LOL.

The first challenge I take is to make layout from the swatches provided.

All I need to do is choosing at least three colors from the palette. I chose four of it, as you can see in my layout below.

It's a photo frame, made using elements from The Sweetest Things, and for the paper I made new paper pack based on the palette colors provided.

You can have this picture frame if you like it. Just follow the link provided in the bottom of this post. It's a transparent PNG file, so you can insert your picture or anything you like into the felt frame.

Download

Thank you. God bless.
devi

Will You Weather Your Wheater Whatever The Wheater?

I love this tongue twister rhyme:
"Whether the weather be fine
Or whether the weather be not
Whether the weather be coldOr whether the weather be hot
We'll weather the weather
Whatever the weather
Whether we like it or not."

Try it. It's amusing. LOL.

Tracey from Clever Monkey Graphics together with Valorie Wibbens created a collab kit named "How's The Weather". Here's the preview:

And I knew that I have a photo that goes well will the kit.This is baby#3 checking the rain when he went to playground and it started to rain just as we came.

Don't forget to try the rhyme.

Thank you, God bless.

Photoless Layout

A digiscrap layout without any photos attached? Yes, it is possible.

Newsprint Plain Papers

Pattern Papers

The Elements

The first time I got this kit called Put A Bird On It by Clever Monkey Graphics (Tracey Monette), and when I found there were birdies lining on a string, I was thinking about a photoless page. A page about uniqueness, about the celebration of uniqueness.

So I made this one out from the kit, a photoless page with a great quote (the wordart is also made by Tracey):

So, why don't try make yourself a photoless page and have fun with it.

Finally, I did it! My First Full Digikit

I've been playing around in this digiscrapping land since 2009, tho I gave it a long break when I had another baby to love.

From the first time I saw these digital papers and elements,  I had known that I can make the supplies by myself. I'd been working in graphic designing for quite a decent period of time, it's not impossible for me to switch a bit my love of designing thing in screen into those cute things called digital scrapbooking. I just need to challenge myself, but I never made it. :p LOL, me and my big mouth. I was always ran out of time or I was too tired after mommying three kids from morning to evening

When baby#3 had his 2nd birthday and let go his breastfeeding tantrum some days ago, I tell myself to try to design at least a mini kit. I need to make my hand dirty again.

One day, a friend in a facebook group told me about this challenge, so I decided to be in. What long nights I'd been thru. You know it's not easy to sit yourself and drown yourself in design works when there are two toddlers nagging at you.

But, finally I made it. Instead of a  mini kit, I got a full kit: 12 papers, and 30 elements. It's quite an achievement for me. I just want to scream my lungs out: FINALLY!! I DID IT!
This is how my first baby look like:

Please be happy with me, and you can get this mini kit for a limited time until I decide to sell the full kit somewhere else. Just click the DOWNLOAD link in the bottom of this mini kit folder. Thank you so much, hope you like it. Please leave me some comments or just give me the link back to your layout using my kit, and I would be so honored if you care to give credit for my work.

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size: 57,5 MB

Those Lovely Moments

Having multiple kids can be challenging and yes, it's not a job I will apply if they are not my own kids.

But, if you ever saw their purest smiles or their twinkling eyes, I should say that they know it all how to melt their mom's heart.

So, back to 2008, when the first time J got a sibling, a chubby baby sister, there was also the first time for me to have more than one child. I was worry if I could share my solely love to another child. All my worries were swept away, when this little girl came. She was too cute and too loveable.
Her brother J loved her more than anything. J loved to take her pictures with his little pocket camera.

Tracey made a perfect kit for these pictures I took when they were getting along with each other. How lovely and how beautiful.


This is Tracey's kit I mentioned above, Just One More Picture:

You can purchase it here.

This page layout also picked when Tracey was featured in The Daily Digi.

C is also her Dad's sweetheart, or I can say his soft spot. It's true that a girl is made from too many sweet things, yet it's not true that they're always be sweet, tho. :p
Here's C went swimming with daddy, two years apart from those pics above.
I used Tracey & Elise collab's kit named Waterpark Wonderland.

 

Yes, maybe there will not be any rewards for me these days to be a stay at home mother and the parent that doesn't make income for their family. It's my choice and I gotta live with it. These moments I will remember when they left one day: their sweet smiles, their shining eye, their cute babbling, their small hands, their pure love to me.

Kimi and His Rabbit

Ah, little children and their pets.
There is a special connection between them.

I can tell how much my baby Kimi loves his rabbit by watching the way he treat him/her (we still don't know if the rabbit is male or female).

Pic above tells the story of first day this little bunny came to our house. We got it from a good friend of mine, Ratna (and her dear kids), who were willingly to give it to us to keep. One day, this little furry thing hopped in out of nowhere, sneaked into their house and became uninvited guest pet. Seemed that it lost its way home. They waited for a few days, presumed that this bunny could be someone's lost pet. But nobody showed up to make a claim on this cutie animal. Now that their front yard is all concrete, they thought this bunny would be better in a house with garden just like ours (it is a small garden actually). I thought it would be a great pet for my kids. So, we welcomed it to our house.
 

Kimi was still a crawling baby. Look how small the bunny was. He has loved it from the first time they met. Very sweet.

What so cute about it is, Kimi was born on a Chinese New Year 2011 which was year of rabbit. Now, I call it coincidence,  since I'm not a follower of Chinese tradition or its belief system. It's just a knowledge and I think it's still a cute thing to know tho.

Kimi takes the responsibility to feed his pet voluntary. Whenever I have spare veggies and handed it to him, "Go feed your bunny/rabbit.." he will walk away from me in a rush heading to our front yard, where this rabbit is (we named it Peston -- short for Peter Washington), calling its name, "Pitcchiii... pitchii." I guessed Pitchi is his baby version of  'kelinci', Indonesian word for rabbit.

This bunny now turned into a big and fat rabbit. And Kimi now is a busy playful toddler. Still, he loves it with all his heart. Can you see it?

I made a page based on my feeling about them. The two of them are cute. Aren't they? Of course they are!!! ;)

Credits:
Summer Hop kit. Rabbit sticker (Best of Show). Both from Clever Monkey Graphics.

Last thing I wanna tell you, this layout was picked (again) to be a gem on Scrapbook Challenge's Gallery Gems, follow the link to read it.

Splattered, Stamped and Painted

Sometimes you are feeling artsy...
And you make some artistic messy...

Tracey made this 'crazy' template and I was too tempted to try it. Even though I had promised not to try any scrapping this week, for we are going to my parents' house in Bangka next week and I need to prepare tons of things.

But, this template was to tempting.

Credits
Template: Art Splattered Template by Tracey Monette
Elements: Soho Boy, Standing in Sunlight, Eye See You. 

You can see... this page has a loooot of elements, here and there, scattered all around. But to me, it has artistic look. I love the feel of it.

Thank you Tracey for letting me play with this template.

Ah, you can grab this template in her store.

Indonesian Winter?

Off course, there's no winter in Indonesia. At least, for more than 30 years living in Indonesia, I've never seen any winter :p.

But, my little lady had another thought. She decided to put winter hat and scarf to protect her from snow? ;)

So, this is Chloe in her winter costume for an afternoon walk. Totally cute. Xoxo, little girl

Credits:
paper: At-Home by Ing Lim i-scrap (freebie)
element: Akizo's flower, and collabs by MScraps designers. (all are freebies)
sketch from Scrapbook Challenges

Like Dad

This page is scrapped for the father of my children.
Love you, Babe. You are a WONDERful dad to our kids. Thank you for being so lovingly and so patience with them (and me).

Again, I used kit from Tracey Monette. The link of the item is here.
This kit is best for scrapping about man for its earth colors tone, masculine feels, and not so girly elements ;)

Here's the preview:

Have a nice day.

Dinomania

Chloe was a huge fan of the purple dino Barney when she was 2-3 years old.

She had to sleep with her singing Barney every night. She used to call him: Anniee... Annieee... :p This Annie is a gift from her aunt (my sister) Meike. This Barney will sing to you when you press his left paw.

I love you, you love me... :p

For this page, I used kit Dinomania and alpha Wood no.1 by Tracey Monette.
Calling all dino lovers or parents of them, you can buy this totally cute kit from her store at ScrapMatters. There's 20% off for her new store opening.

Dufan Trip

Papa had a gathering with his fellow office mates in Dunia Fantasi, the largest amusement park, I suppose, in Jakarta.

So, Mama and her krucils, were taken along so we could play around.

Joel and baby Chloe were soooo excited. Joel were dare enough to try roller coaster. Oh, my son is no longer a baby. :)

Kit: Paper & Alpha - Country Fair by Tracey Monette

Trying A Totally Different Style

I joined 3 designers recently.. And then, one advertising from Marta Van Eck in DST calling for CT caught my eyes. Her designs are different, unusual, waking up my hibernating passion: toying around with the graphics.

So, I applied. She answered. She let me be her CT.

I love cute designs, it's the best and friendly stuffs for scrapbooking about kids, family, etc, but I also adore those imaginative surrealism feels which I always encounter when I'm indulging myself browsing those creative person's work through deviantart.com

So, these are my layout using Great Expedition kit. Use your imagination when seeing this, please. ;)

Upper picture: baby C, our baby-in-the bucket.. She loved to be put and play inside a big red bucket which now being MIA.
Bottom: Baby J, my little adventurer. ;)

Cool canvases, unusual elements, can be found here:

 thanks for reading,

Beach: God's Masterpiece

Playing with this kit, I made this page of my son Joel when we were in my hometown, visiting my parents.

Also I tried to make another one from this kit.

And this is preview of the collection:

CT for an Indonesian Designer

I read her advertising in Digishoptalk, calling for CT member. I emailed her, applying for the position (at that time I fired about 5 applications, LOL -- 3 of them accepted me to join them).

Later I found that she is an Indonesian who lives with her family in Sweden. Wow. Nice to know that. Her name is Edeline Marta and I think she is so talented. Her designs meets my style, I love simplicity and cuteness when scrapping about my kids.

It's nice to communicate with your designer in your own language, and so I hope there will no language barrier between us.

She let me play with her cute Jungle Tales kit.

and this is my page out of that kit:

 

Thank you, Edhish! Great work. And because of you, I'm so proud being Indonesian digiscrapper. ;)

I am a Gem!

Just realized that I was picked as one of weekly Scrapbook Challenge's Gem in May . So, now I have the privilege to wear the badge. :) And suddenly I feel the urge to show it off!!! :) Ah, the narcissistic side of me needs to be fed with care. :p LOL!

It was my lemony page that they picked to be one of the gems. A page of my baby trying to catch a beetle bug, using Lemon kit from eqrAveziur. It's kinda surprise for me, I don't think it's a cool LO, but I guess the picture that won their heart.
This one:

Click on this link to read the entry in their blog.  Yay!

Kehamilan dan Mata Perih

Saya tidak terlalu suka pakai kacamata. Mengganggu rasanya, apalagi jika dipakai saat sedang membaca tiduran.. ;)

Maka saya beralih ke contact lens, yang saya pakai sejak kuliah. Namun ada masa-masa saya kembali berkacamata. Contact lens itu agak merepotkan perawatannya, dan jika lupa membawa peralatannya saat harus menginap di tempat lain, bisa berabe urusannya. Mata lho, mata.

Saat hamil ketiga, terjadilah sesuatu yang mengubah hidup saya. Mata saya menolak contact lens. Perih. Merah. Berair. Padahal saya menggunakan yang bulanan, gimana yang permanen tahunan?

Jadi begitu. Saat ke Bali pada usia kehamilan 32 minggu, saya terpaksa memakai lagi kacamata tua saya. Ah, tidak apa-apa, demi mata. ;)

Credits:
Clever Monkey Graphics

Oh ya, saya barusan join Clever Monkey Graphics, desainernya, Tracey Monette punya taste yang sangat organik. Gambar2nya dia buat sendiri pake graphic pen-nya, juga dari felt (flanel). Lucu-lucu. ;)

Fantasizing my scrap

Fantasy is never my style (but never say never!). For a very personal reason, I think fantasy digiscrapping is not really scrapbooking. To me it is more like a photostudio work than a work of digiscrapping.

But, I wanted to try. I thrived to try this new genre.
Armed with a cute Roses kit from Eva, I poured out all my digital sense into this LO. Not the best, you can see there are some amateur works ironically from someone who once called herself self-taught graphic designer. ;) I really need to practice more to sharpen my graphic knife to cut things perfectly. ;)

Told ya. This LO still to me doesn't seemed like a digital scrapbook at all. But, I kinda like it. I love the cuteness of it, the fresh greenish nuance of it. May be I will try to make another fantasy LO some other day. It's fun.

I also made another 'regular' LO out of this kit:

Kit's preview:

This kit is available here and here.

My first freebie ever

Been looking for a chance to bring some freebies to my blog.
My LOs are usually personal, they are always reflecting how I see my life, my kids, myself. So, it had been never came to my mind to share my LOs with others, regarding its unique purpose.

But, this is my first try. Hope you like it. I used Tuesday Morning, a retired kit by Aly De Moraes. Very cute and refreshing for the eyes.
A quick page frame from me.

Actually, I made this LO for my 15mo baby, who happened to find a beetle and tried to catch it. Very cute moment.

You can download the frame here.

That's it. Please leave me some comments how much you like it or dislike it as a feedback for me. Thanks so much.