Pro-cards for Postcrossing RR Swap Group

Sharing my very 1st professional themed or thematic cards / postcards printed on a small-scale for personal use only.

Here's how my working table looked like while preparing for my 3 self-designed postcards shown above:

I rest in the thought that my Darice stamping mat is still with me though I ended up not utilizing any stamping on the front or face of my printed cards. And on some days or a year, my stamping mat would go missing.

The Darice stamping mat is the very first and only set of 3-item winnings from a sponsor outside Colorful Creation or other than Colorful Creations design team members. The winnings I had earned as a prize from Colorful Creations, a US scrapbook site forum in year 2010 with an opportunity to choose from CropStop US Online Store. It's in Colorful Creations where I started and had been active until year 2011 and less active in year 2012.
 
Sent out cards {photo below}:

Already thinking if succeeding printing will occur within the year (for personal use again), I'd be adding inset photos of challenge blog's logo and my signature photo as the designer. ;P Thinking of the overall design as to placement of logo and etc. {sigh}  Better yet, the sketch design of the card from the card sketch challenge on the front and the logo with photo a stamp at the back. =)  hmmmm. . .  I hope I'd get to doing such and have enough time to do so.  

Really looking like first day covers from me. :) 

Anyway, I'm already excited to receive my RR co-participant's own professional cards.

Good morning!! 

. . . postcards received May 21st 2014

Hello, everyone!

Sharing postcards received last May 21, 2014:

 postcrossing postcard

MAP card from Netherlands

postcards from an RR host

Thank you!

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Pocket Life Scrapping January 2014: now printed and in Comix Album

Hi, everyone!

I'm finally back now to seal off my January 2014 Project Life - Pocket Style Scrapping or Scrapbooking in digital pages.  Now, fully printed in my alloted Comix branded album from Korea or from Japan which I have kept in my stock since last year, as I was fearful to have none to work with, with Scrap Addickt or Becky Higgins.  As I was going to try Becky Higgins' products someday too.  

I have to ascertain yet, whether the Comix brand is a Japanese or Korean brand, though I would know from the start when I bought the binders that they're Korean in brand.  Pocket Page Protector Sheets bought from Neutral Grounds for atc trades and swaps.  I have been their patron since last year when I started hosting artist trading cards activity for 2 to 3 Scrapbooking and Crafting Groups here in the Philippines.  Now, I alloted 1-year's worth of Ultra Pro Premium pocket page protector sheets for this year's Pocket Life 2014 Project of mine. =)

Now, sharing my January 2014 pages:

(to follow is my monthly letter size layout summary . . . just like the outline or format I have with my Scrap Addickt Project Life 2013 Album which is still a Work-In-Progress since last year)

I might be at liberty now to share my Project Life 2013 pages with my Scrap Addickt Album, should I go through and through with my pending months to scrapbook about whether hybrid or digital.  I have started also purely digital last year from January until I have rendered only a number of hybrid pages until June 2013 Project Life pages of my life in 2013.

Have been trying to be part of any Project Life design team or even bring up the Project Lifer terminology up in the market, Project Lifer design team, as that's what me and my gradeschool classmates were called in those decade in the 1980s (1984 onwards). {sigh}

. . . May 15th postcard and postcards coming in from my Box

Hello, everyone!

Sharing my May 15th received postcard:

ART RR Group

postcard of Peterhof fountains

postcard from Russia

postcard orignally missent to Mongolia

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Sharing my May 19th received postcards:

handmade postcard from Indonesia

received thru Facebook Group: Postcrossing Handmade Cards

 postcrossing postcard from Finland

Finnish cultural tradition: Sauna every Midsummer

 postcrossing postcard from Germany

postcard from Nuremberg, South Germany/Bavaria

 postcards from China

 National Parks of Indonesia MAP Card

sent from Indonesia

 Map Cards of West Nustenggara & Maluku, Indonesia

sent from Indonesia

postcard sent from Malaysia

The 1st postcard of this design

sent from Poland 

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Pocket Life January 2014 with Beautifully Blessed Designs

Hello, everyone!

I'm back again with another project with Beautifully Blessed Designs (BBD).  I'm still or I also utilized "Take A Break" digital kit of BBD for my Project Life 2014 done in Pocket Life style.

I still have a half year's worth of Scrap Addickt Project Life 2013 to finish.  And I decided to push thru with Beautifully Blessed Designs' and Scrappy Bee's sponsored kits scrapping for my Pocket Life Project 2014 starting with the month of January 2014.

I used to attend a Scrap Day and 2 Workshops at Treasured Memories Studio and not just a first Card Making Day with Let's Make Greeting Cards.com card design team in 2012 up to Summer of 2013.  And Project Life was one of the subject broached during our leisure crafting and scrappy hours in those days.
 

From Becky Higgins style in terms of Project Life brand to Do-It-Yourselves Project Life Albums.  From paper, hybrid to digital methods too was discussed.  And Pocket Life became a by-word for a small group with Treasured Memories.  It was our Do-It-Yourself Project Life Method in 2012 and I was already made an Admin of Treasured Memories Facebook Page in 2013 after the very last workshop I've attended with Pia Salem-Lopez at Treasured Memories Scrapbook Studio.
  

And a small group has indeed started as early as year 2012.  While I started with a Scrap Addickt Project Life Album with a Hybrid of Scrap Addickt blank page sheets and Echo Park blank page sheets for me to combine within my Scrap Addictk Project Life Album.
  

It was so much fun when I started from January to April 2013.  And coming up with May and June 2013 project life pages became slow for me.  Now, I just have to finish the rest of my 2013 Scrap Addickt Project Life pages whether digital or hybrid.  The small Treasured Memories focus group even clamored for a few pages of utterly paper traditional Project Life Scrap Addickt pages. 

I still have to look into it.  I got 3 pocket sleeves done in hybrid scattered in 3 different Scrap Addickt Page Sheets within my Project Life 2013 album. =)

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Now, for 2014, I'm going for our very own Do-It-Yourselves Project Life which is now aptly called as Pocket Life Scrapping. 

Done in budgeted 9-pocket sleeves per page sheet, sleeves we used for atc trading and swaps in my local Filipino community of scrappers and crafters.  It's my way to go for this year with my Project Life done now in Pocket Life style.  And working with the same digital kits I'd work with for digital scrapbook layouts too as a creative team member with USA digital designers I work with now.

Sharing now my 3 pages of Pocket Life for January 2014:

 I'm also working on hitting 3 birds with 1 stone on this project and aside from my regular digital LO requirement, my voluntary Pocket Life project to deal with, I'm also working on with certain pocket days to be my artist trading card as well for swaps and trades too.  I have been long resting from atc swaps and trades from the international scene and have skipped this month's atc swap with my 2 local Philippine communities. {sigh}

Wish me luck!

Going to have these printed for Pocket Life album and few chosen atcs for swap purposes only.

For Beautifully Blessed Designs digital kits,
click HERE.

Yours truly,

Scrappy Bee's Worker Bee

Beautifully Blessed Designs' Creative Team Lead

Postcards Received May 17, 2014

Hi, everyone!

I'm back again with more postcards to show everyone.

All of these postcards were received only yesterday morning when I went to open the kitchen for breakfast at 5am.  Have been awake as early as 12am to continue with designing digitally.

Here are May 17th received postcards:

 Burobudor postcard from Indonesia

the oldest Buddhist monument

a UNESCO WHS

 a UNESCO World Heritage since 1991

a postcard from Indonesia

 a UNESCO site with airboat tours

a postcard from Florida, USA

 Polish pottery

postcard from Poland

 a MAP Canada card

postcard sent from Canada

 a World Map Card

postcard sent from China

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2nd Batch of Postcards Received - May 13th 2014

Here I am again.

Now, with my 2nd batch of postcards received last May 13, 2014 thru a direct swap this time with a Postcrossing Facebook Group:

6x6 postcard from Germany

from Wocherskin in Bavaria 

 A California MAP postcard

from the USA

 2nd California MAP postcard from the USA

 My very 1st postcard from Macau

portuguese tart which I'm already missing

 Padam Palace in Pradesh, India

sent from Mumbai, India

 a Love postcard from Taiwan

 Queen Elizabeth II postcard

sent from United Kingdom

 an Arc de Triumphe postcard from R.O.C.

waiting for my 2nd postcard like the above of Great Britain also coming from R.O.C.

 Marilyn Monroe postcards from R.O.C.

 handmade postcard from Germany

from the Ruppricht-Schubert Familie

 Taipei 101 Tower postcard

sent from Taiwan

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