MM Featured Page- Perfection

Memory Makers Magazine is featuring my fist LO on acrylic, Perfection (scroll down to see the LO below). It shows my parents hands during the exchanging of rings. This was the first time I used both an acrylic sheet and a KI Memories lace cardstock, and I must say that it was really a challenge. I didn't want to cover up the clear surface, nor did I want the cs to overwhelm the acrylic. I liked how this turned out to be, simple but elegant.

Now up as Featured Page Idea in MM On-line Gallery

The LO Once Upon a Time Beautiful Belles is currently up as a Featured Page Idea. This is one of those LOs where I truly prized the photo because it is one of those very few showing us as a complete family. In this case, the patterned papers are all Scenic Route. I've always found it difficult to use pps because I find them too busy. Fortunately, with one of the papers, I saw "'corn" so I just had to make one for the LO. Also, to temper the many patterns, I painted brown on the main paper. Unintendendly, the brown spot looked like a paper burn, as if the the paper grew old.

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Another featured page in MM Online Gallery!

Katie Hilbert of Memory Makers sent me another note asking for the supply list of "Once Upon a Time Beautiful Belles." What an honor! I happen to really like this LO although it didn't win any contest. I just liked the idea of the corn on the cob to decorate the hidden journal. Here's the page once again.

I also included the hidden journal. It reads:

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, a man with his wife and 5 daughters visited this enchanted kingdom called Disneyland. It was their first trip to this wonderful land so they sampled all the rides and all its shops.

In one shop, they saw a man making old photographs. This man was a wizard. He dressed them all up in old clothes and instantly transformed them into gentle ladies of the south. Everyone felt beautiful. Although the old clothes were sent back, and everyone returned to their normal selves, he captured that one enchanting moment. The wizard created a picture that would last a lifetime, once upon a time.

Upcoming Memory Makers Magazine Feature!

Yesterday, I woke up to an email from Katie Hilbert asking for a supply list and the journal. Memory Makers Magazine wants to feature my LO "In My Secret Garden!" My goodness! It is such an honor! --- I don't know when they'll feature it but I am so happy!

In My Secret Garden (and Webster's Pages)

I am so in love with Webster's Pages! The first time I saw such papers was sometime in Oct.-Nov. when I first saw them on-line in Lasting Impressions. I knew I just had to have those lovely papers so I bought them immediately. Since then, I regularly visited the Webster's Pages site. It's the only site I actually visit all the time!

For Lasting Impressions' Webster's Challenge, I made 2 LOs. This was the first. I was so excited to use the papers, I was the first to even submit a LO! Talk about eager-beaver!

Lately, I have become obsessed with painting. Although I have been painting for years on canvas, I've never done so on an LO. After seeing Studio Azul's "paintables" last Christmas and seeing Luminarte's pots of paint, I knew I just had to start taking up the palette again.

My wedding photo captured a spontaneous look back at my friends and well-wishers while my dad gave me away to hubby at the altar.

Hidden Journal: In my secret garden, I am forever beautiful. I feel the bountiful blessings of life, the sweet serenity of youth, and the tranquility of love. As the years pass, this image will be locked in the secret garden of my mind.

Once Upon a Time Beautiful Belles

I really like this photo and Scenic Route LO. The photo of my family when I was about 18 years old is one of those few we have where we're complete. Taken in Disneyland, it was a rare opportunity for us to wear costumes and pose for a B&W photograph southern style. The corn attached to the journal is something I really had fun making. As soon as I saw the patterned paper, I knew it had to be made into a corn. Actually, it was this corn idea that prompted me to use the photograph which I've longed to scrap for the longest time. Hidden Journal reads:
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, a man with his wife and 5 daughters visited this enchanted kingdom called Disneyland. It was their first trip to this wonderful land so they sampled all the rides and all its shops. In one shop, they saw a man making old photographs. This man was a wizard. He dressed them all up in old clothes and instantly transformed them into gentle ladies of the south. Everyone felt beautiful. Although the old clothes were sent back, and everyone returned to their normal selves, he captured that one enchanting moment. The wizard created a picture that would last a lifetime, once upon a time.

1930 Milestones

My grandmother, Lola Chiching, is the subject of this lay-out. This is featured in the on-line Memory Makers Idea Gallery as of Oct. 28, 2007.

Hidden journal: My Lola Chiching was one of the first women drivers in the Philippines. Once when she was speeding, she passed a policeman who just stared at her. She stopped, reversed and returned to the policeman to get a speeding ticket. How's that for road courtesy?