"Watching Fireworks Display" LO for Kaboodle Doodles Challenge 101

Kaboodle Doodles' 101th Challenge with theme of "Fireworks/Celebration".  You could submit any project as long as it fits the challenge theme.  Winner to be drawn randomly with sponsor prize of 4 images from Meljen's Designs Tues, Jan. 17, 2012 at US timezone.  Participants have until Sun., Jan. 15, 2012 to link their entries at the Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog.

Can't believe it's KD's 101th Challenge.  I guess I fancy the number remembering the "101 Dalmatians" Disney movie. =)  But since, the theme is Fireworks, I snapped out of my reminiscing the movie nor the other memories I had that got to do with the 101 number.

Anyway, for the Fireworks Challenge, I decided to make an accompanying page to another page I did also for a January DT requirement with another site.  But it turned out as a stand-along page. LOL  Photos used for both pages were taken from the same occasion: The 1st World PyroMusical Competition held here in Manila, Philippines.

Here's my LO:

SUPPLIES: Patterned Paper: Robin's Nest, Bo Bunny; Specialty Paper: Star Paper Corp.; Rick Rack: All About Scrapbooking (Hallmark, Inc.); Digi Image: Meljen's Design "Vroom"; Foam Stars: UBL; Foam Alphabet Stickers: All About Scrapbooking (Hallmark, Inc.); Label: Dymo; Brush Markers: Marvy Uchida; Journaling Pen: Parker. 

Yours truly,

Design Team Member

Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog (KD)

CHALLENGES ENTERED:

1.      Pollycraft Monday Challenge #122 – Anything But A Card  

2.      Addicted to Stamps Challenge #21 – January Blues  

3.      My Time Made Easy Pretty Palette #42 

My Top 10 for the Year Ended 2011

Hi, everyone!

I've been reminiscing over the past year's creations, the friends gained and my growth since Sept of 2010 with the scrapbooking hobby.  With that, I've made a quick look over my 2011 layouts, cards and other creations.  And now,  I would like to share with you my top 10 creations for 2011, in chronological order:

Published at SNR & Featured at Nikki Sivils Blog

Published at Scrapbooking.com & brought me my DT posts

Featured Layout at Scrapbook Challenges Site

Published at SNR; 

Featured at Practical Scrappers & 

Scrapbook Challenges Site

Will be published at Scrapbooking.com & 

Featured layout at Colorful Creations Blog

My 1st Guest Designer Card

Published at Scrapbooking.com

Published at Scrapbooking.com

There you go . . .  my top 10 creations for the year 2011.  Hope you get to enjoy looking thru them as much as I enjoyed posting and sharing them with you.

So, here's hoping for more creative crafting projects for 2012 together with hopes for endless possibilities and opportunities for growth within this crafting hobby.

Cheers to a bright, happy and enjoyable crafting year ahead!

CropStop's Challenge #52: Go for the Gold

It's the first challenge for the year 2012 for CropStop.  This week's Challenge #52 is "Go for the Gold".  It's your chance to win a $15 gift certificate from CropStop's online store.  Come and join us!


It's my month's off at CropStop, thus:

I would only like to share with you a CropStop 10% off with (no minimum purchase required) discount code: CTCH-2.  Use the discount code when checking out your puchases.  To shop at CropStop, click here.

Winner of the Challenge #52 will be announced Fri., January 13, 2012 at US timezone (EST). 

Around Always,

Kath B. Hernandez

CropStop Challenge Blog & CropStop Online Store

Creative Team Member

GDT Call for February 2012 at Sketches4All

Would like to spread the news that Sketches4All will 

be having a Guest Designer Call for
the month of February 2012.  

The GDT Call Winner gets to work with 

Nikki Sivils Li'l Monster Kit.

Please click here for details.

My Baking Experiments: New Cheesecake & Choco Chip Cookie Recipes

Before the year-ended, I was (should I say) in a baking mode.  After all baking orders have been met before Christmas Eve, my mom coaxed me to try out other recipes.  I tried out a new cheesecake recipe and a new chocolate chip cookie recipe. . . .

The new cheesecake recipe, we found at the back of one of my ingredient's carton box.  Trying to economize left-over ingredients, I decided to make a go on this recipe.  The result . . . was a sweet "leche-flan like textured" cheesecake which my mom and sis preferred than the original recipe I had made previously.  Being the creative crafter, I decided to make it a multi-flavored (or 6 flavored) cheesecake: plain, blueberry fruits, cherries, oreo, blueberry jam, strawberries.  Photo I'm sharing below:

As for the chocolate chip cookie new recipe, I baked it accdg to the recipe.  The result was close to the Mrs. Fields chocolate chip cookie but I still have to practice more to make it perfect. ;-)

"Smile On Your Birthday" Double Page LO for Kaboodle Doodles 100th Challenge

Kaboodle Doodles is celebrating it's 100th Challenge.  You could submit any project as long as it fits the challenge theme.  Winner to be drawn randomly with sponsor prize of 5 images from The Stamping Boutique Tues, Jan. 10, 2012 at US timezone.  Participants have until Sun., Jan. 8, 2012 to link their entries at the Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog.

I decided to create a 2-page LO on the 1st birthday party I had at home based on the photos my mom had kept since way back.  It's a simple LO giving much focus on The Stamping Boutique's (2) digi images: "Smile Banner" & "Princess Gwendolyn".  They're so fun to work with and I would like to give them thanks for providing us images of our choosing. =)

Here's my 2-pager:

SUPPLIES:  Paper: K&Company, Paper Pizazz; Flowers: All About Scrapbooking (Hallmark, Inc.); Felt Ribbon: All About Scrapbooking (Hallmark, Inc.); Pencils: Faber Castell; Brush Markers: Marvy Uchida.

Yours truly,

Design Team Member

Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog (KD)

CHALLENGES ENTERED:

1.   Squiggle & Giggles – Let’s Celebrate!!  

2.   Crafty Boots – Celebrations  

3.   Critter Sketch Challenge #96 – Celebration Challenge  

4.   Lawnscaping Challenge #25 – Birthday  

"D 1st PyroMusical Competition" LO for Sketches4All

Happy New Year, everyone!!

To start 2012, I'm jump starting the year at Sketches4All with my January 2012 monthly challenge with a "Scraplifting Handle With Care New Year's Fireworks Challenge"!!

For me, New Year is usually celebrated or enjoyed with much merriment and the occasion doesn't end without fireworks.  As the title of my challenge says, you have to scraplift any LO from the Sketches4All gallery and should depict fireworks with your loved ones.  It could be any occasion as long as there's fireworks on your LO, a photo of your loved ones AND a scraplift from the Sketches4All gallery too.

1.      Upload your LO in the Sketches4All's gallery with a tag: Kath’sHandleWithCare2
2.      Challenge starts Jan. 1, 2011 at Sketches4All and will end Jan. 31, 2011 (at Manila, Philippines timezone).  To view Manila time: http://localtimes.info/Asia/Philippines/Manila/

Here's my sample LO:

 SUPPLIES: Patterned Paper: Robin’s Nest, Bo Bunny, Cardstock: Star Paper Corp., Foam Alphabet Stickers: All About Scrapbooking (Hallmark, Inc.), Buttons: All About Scrapbooking (Hallmark, Inc.), Glittered Teddy Bears: All About Scrapbooking (Hallmark, Inc.), Butterfly: UBL, Journaling Pen: Parker, Ric Rac: All About Scrapbooking (Hallmark, Inc.).

NOTES:  As we no longer indulge on having our own fireworks display, I chose to scrap a photo with my loved ones taken on a world fireworks display competition held in my country, named as the 1st World PyroMusical Competition.

Here's Stacy Harper-Watson's "Mt. Charleston" LO 

which I scraplifted:

CHALLENGES ENTERED:

1.       Just Some Lines – New Year  

2.       Catch the Bug – Photo Inspiration 


Love & Regards,

 Kathleen (Kath) MC B. Hernandez
Sketches4All (S4All / S4A) Design Team Member
{creative team member and monthly challenge host}