SMASH BOOK FINALISTS for the Creo by Lady Katutz Milestone Contest

Hi!

This is the 5th and 2nd to the LAST installment of showing off the Finalists to Creo by Lady Katutz Milestone 2014 Contest.  This post is for the Smash Book or Travelling Notebook Category may they be DIY or non-DIY Smash Book pages.

Contest participants are a total of 9 participants for the Smash Book Category.

I'm so glad to have received a number of page entries and I would like to thank them all for writing and decorating pages from my Travelling Notebook as their submitted entries.  They're page entries of friendship and for the love of our shared hobby in papercrafting and of journals.

I'd like to thank all those who joined my Travelling Notebook Activity specially with the Filipino Scrapbookers Club and the Philippine Crafters Association.  And to the lone British participant Fran for joining my Travelling Mixed Media Art Dedication Album with Kaboodle Doodles.

I have deemed your pages worthy to be entries in my Smash Book Contest Category.  Thank you so much!!

For all of you beloved smash bookers, lovers of journals and dedication notebooks and who collects Smash Books in whatever form, a gracious THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU!!

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I have been going thru prelimaries with all the entries since the month of December 2014 for the Smash Book Entries and I believe this category has been the 2nd toughest for me to pass judgement to choose a winner.

Here are my chosen 3 FINALISTS out of 9 ENTRIES:

{from top to bottom}


Melanie Anne B. Cheng
(from Manila, Philippines)
a smash page with banners or pennants outlined, with a play of various papercrafting tools of border punchers for her border strip and embossing folders for paper strips done into a birthday cake.  I love her corner paper embellishments done either fussy cutting put the precision in the cut makes me deduce that these were done with a die-cutting machine with beautiful dies for the corner bottom right clock and the corner bottom left cluster of bird, frames and a banner strip.

I really love that lower left corner cluster of hers.  Such a sweet corner layout!


Mitch B. Hildawa
-- corrected - previously: entry posted as Vanessa S. Torres' entry --
(from Manila, Philippines)
a smash art page done in a collage where various embellishments and a few die cuts were put together in a smash collage style backed with a pattern paper as matt.

Stickers of friendship quotes and other more tapes decorate her 2 pages, button embellishment and flower gems embellishes her pages some more.  I love the way she made use of a quote stencil done in mixed media.

Her quotes says:

truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
friendship isn't a big thing, it's a million little things

You say I dream too big.  I say you think too small.
Fly by attitude
Forever Friends


Mitch B. Hildawa
(from Manila, Philippines)
a smash art page done in DIY smash book style.  Mitch displayed herself as more of a smash booker in her 2-page entry.  A little of mixed media with a play with tags, die cuts from keys to word quotes to eiffel tower and doily dies with fussy cut camera and dress forms abound her pages.

Snippets of paper notes about herself and a dedication decorate her pages.

Her quotes says:

Today was Magical
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction,
Ends up being the biggest step of your life
Tip Toe if you must but take the step.

THE SMASH BOOK (Regular or DIY or non-DIY) WINNER

GETS TO WIN

(with submission of best Smash Book Folio Project based on categories mentioned above, whether in a DIY Smash Notebook, a K&Co. Smash Folio or any Smash Album and Travelling Notebook Project)

- K&Co. mini Smash Folio
- Korben Corporation's Papelmelroti's Mini ring album
- K&Co. Mini Smash Pad 
{ to view sample of my DIY Smash Notebook, click, HERE. }

Good Luck!