JYC 2009: Preparations!

Well, my participation to the 1st ever greek crop, apart from the fun, getting to know some of the greek scrapers and learning new stuff, included a great treat: I won a participation in Shimelle's Journal Your Christmas online class!!!
Thank you Irini for the wonderfull day and for the awesome gift!

The fact is that I was totally clueless about the JYC, so as soon as I received the details from Shimelle I plunged in the JYC forum and I got super excited! From what I gathered, you create a layout every day, from the 1st December up to the 6th of January, and for each day you 're given a different "prompt" as they say, "mission" as I understand it, and you must take a photo, do some journaling, etc, whatever you want.

The only thing that worries me is the time frame and if I 'll be able to do a different layout every day, so I chose a 6x12 format that I think will be less time consuming than a 12 x 12 (my default size), but finally I decided to take it easy even if that means skipping a day or two.

Bottom line, I want to have fun, not to add another thing on my list to make me anxious.

Nevertheless, while reading the JYC forum on Sunday afternoon, I realized that I didn't have enough christmas supplies, althought I already had 10 pages from the "Jolly by Golly" Cosmo Cricket collection it wouldn't last throught the album (37 layouts!) and I wanted it to have some consistency regarding the colours and patterns (don't mock me, I was just born this way!!!LOL) so I did an urgent search through Memories Trend and found the Basic Grey Figgy collection and it suited me exactly (thank God it was available), so I grabbed it, as well as THIS and THIS chipboard from Basic Grey. I also got red big O'wires for the binding.
Hopefully my order will be here tommorow, so I will be ready in time.

Tommorow is the big day, I 'm pretty curious and excited, I'll let you know how that goes!

Baby Layout: July 2009

In this layout I incorporated the pink see-through ribbon that was originally used on my niece's birthday cake!
I punched the pink cardstock with Fiskar's ribbon edge punch, glued in place the pink wide ribbon and then weaved the dark pink through the slots. On top I added some stickles.

The flowers were cut on foam using Cuttlebug dies and the title was cut with Cuttlebug "Baby Face" alphabet and added some faux stitching with the white Sakura Souflle pen.

Also, as you can see, I sprinkled lots of stickles all over the place!!!

Baby Layout: June 2009

It is a fact that pink and green is my favorite color combo but for this layout I decided to use green and orange since these colors were present in the photos.
The fun part in this layout is that I used a Tim Holtz mask, with distress inks, and you can achieve a diversity in results depending on the mediums and the colors you use. I really like the mask, the only con I find is that it doesn't stick as well on the paper after a few uses.

Apart from that, it is a little akward doing summer layouts and christmas cards simultaneously, but fun too!

Copic Markers on sale!

Quick post: Manga Drawing Pro Shop (I 've purchased from them twice in the recent past) notified me that they will stop selling Copic items since they are authorized sellers in Japan only and they can't sell anymore to any other country.
Because of that, they're selling for one week everything Copic 10% off, meaning Sketch markers at $4,70 and refills also at $4,70.
Since they don't charge shipping, I think it is a pretty good deal, so I thought to let you know.
I just ordered some refills and some nibs (2-3 markers as well, I just couldn't resist!).

Delivery Day: Video #3

My goodies arrived! I just loved the bow easy, now I can make bows! I also like the glue glider pro, and I adore the cakes bitsy stamps!