7th Anniversary layout

7th years ago, on 15th October, we got married.

As both of us are Catholic so we had our beautiful wedding mass at noon on the day, followed by a great wedding banquet in the evening. At the wedding mass, we expressed our consent to each other in front of our Lord ~

I, [Groom’s name (Bride’s Name)], take you, [Bride’s Name  (Groom’s name) ], as my lawful wife (husband) to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer,  for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do us part.

In the past 7 years I have come across many things that many people might come across along their whole life. I lost my parents in 2009 and 2010 consecutively while I gave birth to my two lovely angels in 2008 and 2011 respectively.

I have to express my thank and give a big hug to my husband who follow his consent, loves and takes care of me, our girls and my family wholeheartedly.

As I've recently fallen in love with scrapbooking, I've made a special layout to celebrate.

I picked 4 beautiful pictures from my album, fortunately I'm still looking almost the same as 7 years ago, Ha!

I picked a very nice pattern paper, which is from Magnolia, it contains a few pretty roses throughout the page. Since I got 4 pictures and this paper is already very detailed I did not add many adhesives, just keep it neat and simple. The theme is simply "7 years"!

I got some Valentines theme paper and chipboard left and I think they are perfect for this layout, so I picked the "Love Birds" banner from one of those; and I stamps and painted 2 birds from a stamp set. Surprising they are matching well with each other. I also add a little wooden bird cage behind which I bought from Sham Shui Po, a local city in Hong Kong where lots of crafting materials can be found.

Here are 2 punched butterflies represent two of us!

It's great to date this with my masking tape printer ~ great memory!

 

I love this layout overall, though I made this until 3:45am : P

3rd project in a week ~ Many Many Bubbles

Further to the recent kids photography class that Daddy attended, he took many lovely pictures of Anson, which has stimulated my ideas on scrapbooking layout design.

And, it's the first-ever that I've made 3 layouts in the same week.

I've use different paper series, mix and match, I've sprayed some Lime colour over the background, as I thought it was too pink. Behind the pictures I added a few punched pattern paper to decorate.

All of my pictures were printed from a digital compact photo printer, which is excellent for scrapbooking as you can print whatever picture(s) for your crafting project, sized from 2R to 4R and in different layout. Fyi, my current one is running out of paper soon and it's hard to buy the photo papers as the manufacturer has stopped producing the printer. I've therefore switched to Canon Selphy CP-900, which can print pictures sent via Wi-Fi, e.g. from your mobile phone. I will try it soon and hopefully it's good.

Last week I bought a new set of SIZZIX DIE die from HK MEMORY CHEST, it cut out a group of lovely birdies. I dyed them with watercolour and they look great.

I have been thinking for a while about what phrase I should put on this layout, as I want to tell about Anson was blowing bubbles and want to thank Daddy for taking these gorgeous pictures. Finally I've themed it as "Many Many Bubbles".

 

I bough a printable masking tape machine and tapes from Tokyo earlier this year, I used that to quote, " Daddy's 1st shots..."

I am very pleased with this layout overall!

Handmade Recipe books for 2 Super Moms

There are two super moms in my office – Little C9 Fi Fi 及 MamaCafe Christina,who are both very talented in cooking and bakery.

Both of their bakes are pretty and yummy and I'm really lucky always for having the priority to taste their new innovation including, tarts, cupcakes, mooncakes, bread, macarons. As a token of thanks, I decided to make them a RECIPE BOOK / COOKBOOK.

Actually, I've simply turned over a notebook into RECIPE BOOK / COOKBOOK by adding some decorations.

Hand-stamped with PENNYBLACK's Baking Mimi stamp

My handmade, hand-cut paper apron

I've added their names on the aprons as well as the book. The printed masking tape was made by a small electronic masking tape printer that I bought from Tokyo earlier this year... which is a very amazing product!

Making these are really not difficult at all, but I'm quite sure that it should be useful for them to save their recipe in the book for future easy reference.

I hope you two will love them.