3D Valentine's Day Gift

Valentine's Day is coming up so I created this 3-dimensional card. Well actually, I'm not sure you would call it a card, because it's like a display as well. Whatever you call it, I think it makes a nice gift. :)


I made good use of my Martha Stewart punches and Sizzix die on this.


All supplies are from My Scrapbook Nook's January kit, featuring Pink Paislee's Cupid collection, except for the satin ribbon, Prima flower, string of pearls and the scalloped heart which I cut out of some chipboard. Btw, the Nook's January kit is completely sold out. :)

CHA Sightings

CHA's over and we're all looking forward to seeing the new goodies in our LSS. I had a great time looking at all the photos coming out of CHA, seeings as I couldn't be there myself.

Here's the Tattered Angels booth:

Some of the layouts:



And while I couldn't be there in person, I was happy to see my projects exhibited there.

My "Winter Berry" Shadow Box layout:



My altered Beach canvas:



Thanks for dropping by!

Nook February Kit

Look at My Scrapbook Nook's February Kit! Basic Grey Origins!

This kit contains:
13 sheets of Basic Grey Origins double sided paper
1 sheet of BG Origins Stickers
1 Bella Boulevard Alphabet in Carla Bell Pepper Yellow
1 yard of pale yellow grosgrain
1 package of Bella Blooms
1 yard of Black velvet
Maya Road Chandelier pins
1 Basic Grey Origins "Writer's Block" tablet
1 yard of Prima lace

How's that for gorgeous? And the promotion going on right now: The next 8 new members will receive the Nook's MEMBERS SPECIAL THIS MONTH: Retail Value USD35.00, yours free when you sign up for a year's membership. In addition after a year you will receive your 13th kit for FREE!

Beach Canvas - Tattered Angels and Graphic 45

Here's a canvas project I created for Tattered Angels for CHA, using their new glimmer mists, screens and chips. I also used the new fresh-off-the-press On The Boardwalk collection from Graphic 45.



Let me say that glimmer mists work really well on canvas. I used the new Caribbean Blue and Sunshine over the fantastic new On The Beach glimmer screens on the canvas, topped off with some Iridescent Gold for glint-in-the-sun shine. And my favourite this season - Dazzling Diamonds on the Prima flower and Dazzling Diamonds and Bubbles on the TA glimmer chip. Look at how the white glimmer mist adds just that right touch of shimmer to the petals. So pretty!



I misted this chipboard heart with Candy Apple Red and crackle glazed it. The patterned paper's from Graphic 45's new On The Boardwalk collection. Love the vintage images.




This seahorse glimmer glass is part of the new Beach collection. I also dabbed on some of the new Glimmer Glaze in Emerald Cove on the top left corner with a paint brush. You can see that the glaze is of a thicker consistency than the mist. I used the new Crushed Shells glimmer mist on the manila tag, misting over another new glimmer screen from the Under The Sea collection.



I had fun playing with different textures for this altered canvas and trying out some of the new glimmer mist colours. Off to create more. :)



List of Supplies:
Tattered Angels Products Used:
Glimmer Mists - Caribbean Blue, Sunshine, Iridescent Gold (on canvas);
Crushed Shells (on tag);
Dazzling Diamonds (on flowers);
Candy Apple Red (on heart chipboard);
Bubbles and Dazzling Diamonds (on shell chip)
Glimmer Glaze - Emerald Cove
Seaside Glimmer Screen - Under the Sea & On the Beach
Seaside Glimmer Chip
Seaside Glimmer Glass

Other Products:
Patterned Paper - Graphic 45's On The Boardwalk
Flower - Prima
Heart chip - Sizzix die cut
Robin's Nest Dew Drops

Winter Berry - Tattered Angels

Here's a layout I did for Tattered Angels for CHA, using some of their new glimmer mists. I misted Hula Hoop and Water Slide on white cardstock, over a large Garden Glimmer Screen. I then built a shadow box for the layout using Webster's Pages Postcards from Paris papers. The patterned papers are layered over Prima flowers and lace for a three-dimensional look.

Here you can see the new Framed Font glimmer chip from Tattered Angels in Postage Stamp. The possiblities for this shape are endless. I've used it here to frame my title, but it'll work perfectly for small passport sized photos too. I misted Dazzling Diamonds on the chip and this is one colour I'm in love with. It's clear and the whitish glimmer from it is amazing! This is going to be one of my go-to colours this season. :)



A low angle view to show the shadow box effect I created:





List of Supplies:
Tattered Angels:
Garden Glimmer Screen
Glimmer Mists - Hula Hoop, Water Slide (on cardstock); Dazzling Diamonds (on Postage Glimmer Chips)
Postage Glimmer Chip
Nature Glimmer Glass
Regal Glimmer Glass

Other Products:
Patterned Paper - Websters Pages Postcards from Paris
Alphas - Websters Pages
Flowers - Prima Marketing
Distress Inks - Rangers Industries
Lace - own stash

Graphic 45 Card - A Proper Gentleman

CHA is going to start real soon so I'm going to share a few of my CHA projects over the next few posts.

First up, here's a card featuring the A Proper Gentleman papers by Graphic 45. The papers here are so classic. They remind me of the prints on a tie or argyle sweaters; a perfect collection for making manly layouts and projects. I decided to make a card that would be for the men in your life, for Father's Day and birthdays, and even party invites.



A close-up of the tag. I like that image of the tuxedo from the collection's diecut paper.


Supplies used:
Graphic 45's A Proper Gentleman - Dressed to the Nines, Haberdasher, Die Cut Tags
Graphic 45's Fashionista - Buttons a la Mode
Couture Cardstock: Green
Eyelet: We R Memory Keepers
Tag, ribbon, twine: own stash


I'll be back over the week to show more of my CHA projects, as and when I'm allowed to. Thanks for coming by.

Snow Cool

Just finished this layout today, using My Scrapbook Nook's lovely January kit. The Pink Paislee Cupid collection has a really sweet Valentine's look with its pastel blues and pinks, but I thought it would be fun to rough it up a bit and distress the edges as well as mist it up with Glimmer Mist in Sand.

I also wanted to try something new on this layout with the border ruffles. The punched out border seems to complement the Maya Road envelopes well too.




Lovely lace trims from Prima and sweet little heart pins.



The layout from another angle.

All supplies are from My Scrapbook Nook's January kit except for the Prima flower, leaves and red lace trim.

Thanks for coming by. :)

Nook Blog Hop Winner

Thank you everyone for taking part in the Nook blog hop and for leaving all your comments here. I had the pleasure of conducting a draw for the winner. Don't worry, for those of you who left only one comment but were entitled to more entries, I assigned numbers to those entries too. To ensure that the draw was completely random, I used random generator, and this is the lucky number - comment #25.


And the winning comment #25 is this one by Michelle.



Congrats Michelle! Please email Leah at myscrapbooknookdt@yahoo.com with your full name and address to claim your gorgeous December Nook Kit.

Nook News

My Scrapbook Nook's Blog Hop is now closed and we'll be contacting the winners next week. Be sure to check the Nook forum for the announcement of all the winners. :)

And if you haven't taken advantage of the 20.10 promo, you still can. Pam's extended the deadline for the 20.10 deal and you now have through Monday the 18th to sign up and get that special offer.

Simply use the code 6MO at checkout when you sign up for 6 months in the kit club and you'll get a $20.10 credit in the Nook store to buy whatever you'd like.

Remember to check back early next for the announcement of the blog hop winner on my blog! :) And for the full list at the Nook forum.

Cherish These Moments

I've been super busy creating some CHA projects for Graphic 45 and My Tattered Angels. Am taking a quick breather now and thought I'd share another layout I made using My Scrapbook Nook's gorgeous January kit, featuring Pink Paislee's Cupid collection.



I decided to use a dark brown cardstock for my base, and spritzed the edges with My Tattered Angels' glimmer mist in Iridescent Gold. I love the shine the mists give the cardstock.


These darling Scenic Route chipboard butterflies came with the kit and I decided to alter them using glimmer mists and crackle mediums. I like how the sunlight glistens on the butterfly. I'll post a tutorial on how I created the effect on the butterfly in my next post.



Lots of handcutting here, of leaves and flowers from the Pink Paislee patterned paper. And also fun with my Martha Stewart giant border punches.

Here's the view from another angle:



And here's a little reminder:


My Scrapbook Nook's Blog Hop is still happening until January 15th midnight PST, so if you haven't started yet, get hopping! You get a chance to win one of 11 gorgeous Nook kits. Thank you to all of you who've left comments on my blog. We'll be picking a winner soon, so check the forum for details.

AND, if you love the kits, this would be a great time to sign up as a subscriber. Don't miss out on the 20.10 promo from My Scrapbook Nook! Subscribe now and you get USD20.10 on the Nook to shop for all the add-ons you want. The promo runs through to January 15th. Your first kit will be the February kit, featuring Basic Grey's Origins collection. :)
I've got to run now. Got to get more CHA projects done!

Tattered Angels Garden Journal Album

All this month, the designers at My Tattered Angels will be showing off what you can create with the Tattered Angels albums. I got to play with the Garden Journal Album, which is so pretty with the embossed image of a tree on the cover and glimmer glass gate.

This album first appeared in the Tattered Angels Blog last week.

For the cover, I decided to create an image of a sunrise in the park, inspired by a photograph I saw of a sunrise.



I inked the tree in different shades of green, then misted the entire cover in shades of Sunflower and Peach Delight for the sunrise, and shades of Juneberry Wine and Fully Purple for the dawn sky. I love how the glimmer mists shimmer in the sunlight, giving off glints of gold wherever they catch the light.


This mini album is about our recent holiday to New York and the cover reminds me of Central Park, aptly.


The cover opens up to reveal a gatefold.



I carefully misted the butterfly screen onto the two gatefold pages, taking care so that when the two pages were closed, the butterfly image would line up perfectly. I used Cranberry Zing and English Ivy on these pages. My title sits on a Framed Font chipboard lightly inked in lilac and adorned with matching hyacinths.

If you open up the gatefolds, you will see that I continued the butterfly screen misting across the right and left pages too. Here you see what the right page looks like when it’s opened up:



And this is how the album looks with the gatefold open and the centre page showing through.



On this page, I misted the page with the same shades as the gatefold pages so that all three pages flowed right across. I continued the butterfly theme with punched out butterflies flitting across my mini layout, complemented by patterned paper in the same green and purple hues and a touch of pretty lace.

For the next page, I played with the compass glimmer screen and misted the page in Peach Delight and Pashmina, picking up the hues from the photograph of us in Times Square. And it being Times Square, I stamped an image of a clockface right onto the compass. The stamp and the glimmer screen lined up perfectly, as all coordinated glimmer screens and stamps will.






This next photo has a Christmas-sy feel about it so I selected glimmer mists in red (Peppermint Stick) and green (Forest Green) to give it that festive feel. I carelessly misted the red mist here, there and everywhere, then filled in the rest of the page with green. To add to the holiday cheer, I outlined the glimmer screen image with stickles in a cheery Christmas red. I kept the page simple, with just a little embellishment in the corner.





So those were some pages from my Garden Journal Album. I hope you liked the album because I had a lot of fun creating it.

Have a great week ahead!

My Scrapbook Nook Blog Hop!!

Welcome to My Scrapbook Nook's Blog Hop! We've got lots of Nook kits to be won and you can participate from now to Friday, January 15 midnight PST.

So what's in store? Well, each of the Nook's Design Team members will be giving away a Nook kit each. That's eleven kits in total. All you have to do is visit all our blogs, leave a comment and you're in the running to win a kit... or more! :) All the winners will be announced on the forum at My Scrapbook Nook on Monday, January 18.

But wait, you can improve your chances of winning if you do the following:

1) Leave me a comment! (Gets you 1 entry )
2) Post about the blog hop on your website/facebook/blog (Gets you 2 additional entries)
3) Join the Kit Club now (For 5 additional entries)
4) Sign up for our creative newsletter (Gets you an additonal 1 entry)
5) Join the message board (gets you an additional 1 entry)
6) Link back to my blog after you post about the blog hop (gets you an additional 1 entry)


So if you do all of the above, you actually get 11 entries into the draw to win the kit. Please do make a note in your comment which of the tasks you've completed and include a link so I can verify the entries.

Now, if you visit all the DT blogs and leave comments on all of them, you stand a chance to win all the other kits too. So you won't miss any of our blog stops, start your blog hop at Leah's and start hopping through all the DT blogs and finally make your comment at the forum. Just follow this order:

Leah
Stacey
Camilla
Sue
Becky
Lisa
Lynn
Britt
Daniela
LG
Zarah


Ready to see which kit you get to win on my blog? It's this gorgeous December kit featuring Making Memories' Mistletoe collection:



The December kit contains:
8 Sheets of Double Side Making Memories Mistletoe Paper
3 Making Memories Specialty Papers
Making Memories Trims & Treats
Prima Flowers
Prima Alpha & Bling
1 Package Of 30 Days Advent Numbers From Shabby Chic
2 Sheets Of Bazzill Cardstock






This kit is perfect for scrapping all your holiday photos. For some inspiration, take a look at some of the projects our design team came up with:


If you'd like more inspiration, visit the DT gallery at My Scrapbook Nook: Link to Gallery.
Or follow along as the design team members show you tips and techniques on creating layouts or projects using the kit. Link to Nook Classes

Here's a layout I created for a class at the Nook using the gorgeous December kit. You can see the class here: Sue's December Layout Class


Here's a close-up:



Are you still reading? And wondering why you should subscribe to the Nook now? Personally, I like that the Nook kits feature a single collection each month. December's kit features Making Memories' Mistletoe collection and January's kit is all about Pink Paislee's Cupid collection. February's kit will have Basic Grey's Origins (drool!). As you can see, the Nook kits feature the latest collections and each one of them is packed with beautifully coordinated embellishments such as ribbons, flowers, lace, chipboard or brads, as well as a coordinated set of alphabets. Everything you need to create your layouts.

If you subscribe from now to January 15th, you get a chance to enjoy the special 20.10 promo we have going on right now. Click here for more details: 20.10 Promo.

Kit club members also enjoy special wholesale discounts. Details here: Discounts

Phew! That was a long post. So just to recap, enter a comment on this entry to get entered into the draw win a kit. Perform additional tasks listed above and you get more entries into the draw. Visit all the other DT blogs and win even more kits. And get inspired by their beautiful layouts.

Thanks for joining in the fun and hop along to Becky's Blog to continue your Nook journey!

I'll be back soon with my Nook January layouts.

Want to win some Nook Kits?

Yep, My Scrapbook Nook's having a blog hop starting this Friday, 8 January, and we're giving away free kits! Lots of them! We'll be posting details then, so do check back.

And just a reminder, sign up for a six month subscription to the Nook kits between Jan 5th and 15th and receive a credit of $20.10 to your account! Shop for all the add ons and goodies your heart desires on the Nook, and get those scrappy New Year's resolutions off to a proactive start!

Get your 6 month sub at this link: Nook Subscription

And I just heard that if you're a subscriber, you will get some deep discounts at the shop. Sounds like a great time to sign up for a subscription. :) If you do sign up, dont forget to write my name (Susan Lui) on the referral field. And if you put my name on the referral, do drop me a note here too, so I can send you a little something from me personally.

Check back here tomorrow (Friday) for more blog hop details. See you then!

My Scrapbook Nook Special

I just wanted to show off all the amazing layouts by the design team at My Scrapbook Nook using the January kit, which features Pink Paislee's Cupid collection. Every month, I look forward to receiving my Nook kits and always, I never fail to be impressed by the gorgeous layouts and projects the DT puts up.

To kick off the New Year, My Scrapbook Nook's having a special offer for new sign-ups:

Sign up for our kit club and all the inspiration that comes with it to kick start your creativity! Let this year be the year you tell your story and record the life and times of your loved ones!

Sign up for a six month subscription to the Nook kits between jan 5th and 15th and receive a credit of $20.10 to your account! Shop for all the add ons and goodies your heart desires on us, and get those scrappy New Year's resolutions off to a proactive start!

We hope you'll join in the fun! Get your 6 month sub at this link: My Scrapbook Nook

Do drop by My Scrapbook Nook and check out their kits and the designers gallery. You won't be disappointed. And if you do sign up, drop me a note and I'll send a little something to you too. :)

Merry

I had so much fun playing with the My Scrapbook Nook's January kit over the weekend. The kit this month features Pink Paislee's Cupid collection. So pretty!

I had a blast with my newly-acquired Martha Stewart heart punches. What better collection to use it on than PP's cupid, right? I also cut out the flowers and leaves from PP's Heart Bloom papers to complement the big red satin bow cluster, which I also embellished with Prima flowers and a string of pearls. As you can tell, I decided to get all girly with pink and pearls on this layout. Something I haven't done in a while. :)



Another close-up where you can see more of the hearts and pearls. :)

Off to play with my January kit again. :)

Supplies:

Pink Paislee Cupid Collection - Bow and Arrow, Bullseye, Love Potion, Hearts Bloom, Eternal Love

Alphas - Pink Paislee

Flowers - Prima Marketing

Pearl Swirl - Prima Marketing