Postcards Received - October 12, 2014

Hi!

Sharing photos of postcards received

October 12, 2014:

 Maxicard and Meet-Up Card from Moldova

traditional costume card of and from the Netherlands

Creo by Lady Katutz Milestone Year Mini Scrapbook Album

Hi!

I'm sharing photos of my recently crafted

Mini Scrapbook Album which

I'm setting aside for me to create

pages with next year 2015

after my Milestone Year Celebration ends

on April 3, 2015.

It's my Creo by Lady Katutz Milestone Mini Scrapbook Album.  

I'm not sure if I'm setting it aside to document the Contest Proper which is one of the facets of my Milestone Year Celebration.  Or should I set it aside for all of my activities and projects in commemoration of my 2014 Milestone Year.

Anyway, here are the step-by-step photos

in a video:

Marriage of needlecrafts, art and papercrafts work in one project!

WORLD POST DAY - October 9, 2014 + Postcards and ATCs Sent and Received - October 7, 2014

Hi, everyone!

It was WORLD POST DAY last October 9, 2014.
I was hoping to be able to prepare much for the
event as I missed preparing for the
WORLD POSTCROSSING DAY.

 I did prepared a postcard design for a
possible Personal Meet-Up Card for the
Philippine Postcrossing Community last June or was it July 2014.

Sadly, I had to leave the Facebook Group of the said community of Philippine postcrossers.  I was hoping to have the said postcard printed but I never had the chance to volunteer my services and be part of a Meet-Up here in my country.

Anyway for WORLD POST DAY,
though a week late as I was away from the post office
or would usually be in a hurry due to errands to do,
I'm sharing the post office mailbox in my vicinity.

I was surprised it was suddenly new and other than
my favorite Post Office Mailbox of US Mail at the time of US and Japanese Occupation in centuries past.

Anyway, sharing the Philippine Mail Box I now see at Las Piñas Central Post Office in Metro Manila, Philippines:

I hope to get a photo of my fave US Mail mailbox and would do a collage of the 2 mailboxes we have in the country or in Metro Manila post offices to join other postcrossers with Postcards of the traditional Mailboxes in their countries.

Should it be in digital scrapbook art layout or just multi-view mailbox postcard?
Please leave a comment for a survey.  =)

HAPPY WORLD POST DAY!!!

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Sharing photos of postcards received and sent

October 7, 2014

 atcs received from

"We always have PARIS" swap

 postcrossing postcard from France; 

my file copy of my handmade collage postcard; 

surprise card from Greenland; 

art postcard from Japan from an art RR

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postcards sent for the day

October 7, 2014:

 postcrossing postcards sent and

traveling notebook sent to the USA for Group 30

 MAP cards for a MAP RR under official postcrossing forum

 handmade collage postcards sent under

Handmade postcard RR

(Official postcrossing forum)

 Christmas postcard sent for

Christmas broadcast swap

under Postcrossing Asia

 thank you postcard sent for my dad's received

Get Well Soon Meet-Up Indonesian University card,
solicited by me previously

'Happy Birthday 2014' LO for Scrappy Bee

Hi, everyone!

I worked with Scrappy Bee's Honey Bee:

Gypsy Butterfly's

"Paris Pink" digital kit:

I had so much fun creating with the digital kit and

here I am now sharing my prepared project with Scrappy Bee . . .

Here is my CT Project for Gypsy Butterfly's kit:

 Please visit the Scrappy Bee's Bee Hive

to grab Gypsy Butterfly's "Paris Pink" digital kit:

Inspiration Blog Hop

Hi and hello, everyone!

Last September 22, 2014, I've been asked by Ing Lim (one of my digital LO designers, digital designers for freebie with Filipino Scrapbookers and a fellow postcrosser) to answer 3 questions in an Inspiration Blog Hop.

I was surprised and yet amused as I've heard of these 3 questions from one of my printers as I went to their print shop for my 2nd visit to discuss my 'for' printing job on a cloth.  Please find below the exact same questions that I was so taken a-back to be asked at forefront while waiting for my prints to come out from the shop. LOL 

 

 

I was surprised that these 3 questions has been going around for quite some time now.  I was first asked personally and verbally last June 2014.  =)

Now, I'm gladly answering the same questions thru an Inspirational Blog Hop, tagged by Ing Lim.  It's been quite a while sine June 2014 and lots have changed and new projects was started since.

What are you working on?

This year has been a printing year for me.  Nope, not just published articles which I've been submitting for a magazine for 3 years now, but having my designs (Creo by Lady Katutz) printed into postcards and book re-prints too after my Copyright has been alright and approved last November 2013.

 Creo by Lady Katutz' postcard designs printed

Creo by Lady Katutz' improved book re-prints designed and printed

I have been alternating printing jobs from postcard designs after postcard designs to book re-prints.

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I have my very 1st Contest for this year only covering Postcrossing, atcs, Project Life, LOs, Cards and Smash Books.  I'm still looking into adding a Needlecrafts category.  Entries are coming in or are being uploaded and I'm now left looking for Project Life entries to complete my Contest Prize Give-away.

 To join, click HERE

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I have my Project Life Album repaired and I was glad to claim it last October 6, 2014 from Doctor Leather.  I hope I'd be back completing both 2013 Project Life 365 and 2014 Pocket Life 365.

Project Life 2013 (work-in-progress)

 Pocket Life 2014 (work-in-progress)

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I'm set to hopefully become an international hostess for a Digital atc Swap with atcsforall.com come October 22, 2014.  I hope scheduling would be okay for this year before year 2014 ends with me to send out January 2015.  I'm currently hosting a 2nd Generation ATC Swap with the same international atc site.

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I'm back into needlecrafts again and have purchased Crossstitch patterns of Art Pieces by Fernando Amorsolo and M. Baldemor for me to finish in maximum of 5 years time.  I still hope to have these works authenticated in time.

 

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I'm still with my Traveling Notebook activities with my Creo by Lady Katutz, Filipino Scrapbookers, Philippine Crafters Association/Assocacion, and Postcrossing (official and unofficial forums).  Please pray that my traveling notebooks and mini scrapbook won't be stuck for long.

 

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Started working also with a few customized requests a month ago AND I'm back papercrafting again workin with scrapbook LO turned home decor with a shadow box project, word mini album projects and handmade cards/postcards with Postcrossing.com forum. 

 

It has been a learning process for me in terms of costing and pricing for customized projects.  I'm thrilled to be of service and at the same given the liberty to create my designs for others.

How does your work different from others?

I constantly re-invent myself for the past 4 years I have been a hobbyist turned artist.  My work may it be papercrafts, scrapbook art, digital design, digital art, are versatile.  I started being akin to stitching as I have been in love with anything that has to do with needlecrafts . . . more specifically counted-crossstitch.  And the closest I could be with my needlecrafts in papercrafting is doing stitching with every project I feel so fabulous about.  My scrapbook layouts and handmade cards.  But then, everyone went into it and it has just became just one of my techniques and styles in a layout - 12x12 or mini as in a handmade card.

My work started to be characterized by colors - pastel works which I later deepened with shabby chicness with my choice of papers, layout designs, materials and embellishments (of buttons, twines - abaca or baker's and laces). 

I became versatile with my work, not just a versatile blogger, with kraft papers or any kraft materials with notebooks (for my traveling notebooks) and in a way promoting GO GREEN in every work detail I do.  Add to that vintage which I seldom do but you would find a little bit of traces of it here and there - may it be an accent or just a little vintage show on the center or on a corner of any of my layouts.

My digital works and project life works (which ranges from purely digital to hybrid) are purely happy in my choice of colors and splashes of life - may it be for my everyday life (for my project and pocket life 2013 to 2014) and work on family photos on family layouts.

How does your creating process work?

I'm organization freak but this year it rarely shows.  I'd go with a planner or a To-Do List for my everyday tasks, errand and chores.  I've been investing in digital kit materials for my Project Life and Pocket Life - Digital and even working for CTs for such privileges to work with digital kits of various digital designers.

My saviour since last year are Crescent Moon Designs, Inspirebydominic Designs, Beautifully Blessed Designs and Jessica Sprague.com.  Thanks to Charly Renay, Tiffany Nicole, Prissy and Jessica!! =)

I start work with my distinctive routine style choices, whichever my mood dictates for a layout design for any LO may it be as big as a 12x12 LO design or as small as a 2.5x3.5 for atcs and Pocket Life or varied in size for my Project Life 2013 album.

Database management and archival management works best for me in keeping with most of files (digital and paper files) organized . . . though I have yet to organize and clutter-away my very own Craft room and Craft table.

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I guess that's all me, folks!!

I hope to be around and about still for the next 5 and more years sharing the wonders of blogging with social media blogging and my artworks may it be in papercraft arts, home decor arts or really scrapbook art and canvas art.  

Add to that Needlecraft art too. hehehe ;P

Now, I'm tagging Dona B. Espiritu, Millet Galeos Sacerdoti, waiting for confirmation of others tagged for the Inspiration Blog Hop.

'Stop and Smell the Flowers' LO for Scrappy Bee

Hi, everyone!

Worked on Scrappy Bee's Honey Bee:

Crescent Moon Designs (CMD)'s 

"Summer Days" digital kit:

I had so much fun creating with the digital kit and

here I am now sharing my prepared project with CMD . . .

Here is my CT Project for CMD's kit release:

 Please visit Scrappy Bee's BeeHive

to grab CMD's "Summer Days" digital kit:

Thanks and happy shopping!! 

"Timeless Joyce" for Art Lead and Lead, ART Leaders

Hi, everyone!

I'm glad to have joined 3 groups of Edgar O. Cruz:

Art Lead

Lead, ART Leaders

Lead Magazine

I started joining their art online competition this year upon approval of being a member of the Open Group.  I have in so far, joined: 

Throwback Challenge - 1 nominated entry

Breast Cancer Awareness Challenge - 1 nominated entry

Mother and Child Challenge - 1 nominated entry

and

One more challenge

I would like to share another recent challenge I joined,

garnering me a 15th rank on their currently on-going list for 

the grand Award for the 13 ART Leaders for 2014

to be awarded in January 2015.

The Challenge I joined was

the Paint Joyce Pilarsky Challenge

with this DigiART entry entered:

"Timeless Joyce"