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Mak’ Luvin

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We have a friend in Shanghai who keeps joking about how much he misses our group of friends in HK (coz we are so awesome of cuz : P), so when we decided to go visit him for his birthday I really wanted to give him a present that reminds him of us, of all the awesome times the bunch of us have spent together.

It only took seconds for everyone to come up with what reminds us of “Mak’Luvin” and our good times with him – his favourite catchphrases. His incredibly funny, witty, abrupt and provocative catchphrases are his trademark. Whenever they are dropped into our conversations, they never fail to amuse, with all of us cracking up laughing so hard our stomachs hurt. These belong to him and him only. It’s just not the same when someone else repeats them. His mannerisms, his snickering, his laugh, his gestures are what makes them so special.

So, this is how the page came about, a page of him, in a stunning photo reminding us of what we thought was another hilarious encounter in Hanoi, together with his name and a list of his infamous mottos.

We hope that everytime he sees his own quotes that remind us of him, he will remember how much happiness and joy he has brought to us over the years also. Happy Birthday again Mak’ Luvin aka Christopher DANGER Mak hahahah…

Products used: Studio Calico October Kit, Ikea shadow Box, E-clips for cutting the name, Mister Hueys, Enamel dots from My Mind’s Eye

sorry photos a bit blurred after a few drinks :p

Sensational Scrapbooking Retreat

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(left) first time using fabric on a layout, and used one of them to overlay the photo (middle) made the flowers from scratch and held together with brad (right) one of the requirement of the challenge was to use the brad made with our opening gift. so cute!

Have been busy with a number of things, travelling, scrapbooking, eating, drinking, whatever… can’t remember 😛 so haven’t been blogging for awhile..but slowly, will update more on what has been happening on the scrapbooking/baking front 🙂

About a month ago, I had a wonderful day at Discovery Bay.

I know scrapbooking retreat is really popular and common in the
States and Canada but it is a luxury in Hong Kong. So about a month ago, I jumped at the chance and took a day off to attend the fall retreat organised by HK Memory Chest. It was amazing!!

You can say my amusement could be due to scrapbooking retreat being a first for me but it was sooo much fun!! The first time I scrapbooked with 20 other people and all were experts with so many tips and ideas to share. It really was an eye-opening experience for me.

The best bit, I was able to scrapbook for 12 hours straight. No interruption no work, no rushing to go out, just non-stop scrapbooking, cutting, gluing, stamping, embossing and laughing!

I can’t wait till the next retreat. I manage to finish 3 layouts on the day (a big achievement for me b/c usually I am really slow….). This first one was using a kit provided to us and the challenge was to use at least one piece of paper, the embellishment, and the brad(s) made from our opening gift.

The last layout I did towards end of evening won me a prize full of Prima marketing scrapbooking goodies..very surprised but very happy!! more on that later…

Simply delicious chicken noodle soup

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I’m really happy with the colours in this layout : )

I love simple things, my love for simple things comes from the fact that I believe in using the least amount of energy/resources to come up with the most you can get from it. (hmm.. put simply, i am lazy hehe). Simple things are amazing – they are so simple yet so effective in conveying messages (with simple words), showing emotions (with simple colours), expressing feelings (with simple pictures), expressing love (with simple gestures).   

The chicken soup noodle we had in Hanoi was simply made with chicken soup, rice noodle and few pieces of chicken. Three scoops of ingredients were poured into the bowl when you pay and off you go with the most wonderful bowl of chicken soup noodle. Though simple it was one of the few meals we remembered and went back to for more!

So I thought I would try putting together a simple but not boring layout to go with the theme of this wonderful soup noodle. When I first started scrapbooking, I would spend ages and ages trying to come up with a layout because I would try to fit as many things into the layout as possible and often over-complicating things. It just didn’t work when I was trying to do something complicated. I gave up and went back to what I was better at doing, making simple things. I was really happy with this layout because of how simple it was to make and how the colours has turned out!

Just feel like taking a few more shots on the layout.

Happy happy wedding day

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Finished layout in shadow box

My parents live overseas and whenever they miss us, they love to look through photos of us and think about the times we spent together. When we go home in Sydney, we love pondering over the photo collection they have on the wall, on the photo corner and laugh about old times, about memorable times.

So when my parents were about to return to Sydney, I wanted to give them something that they can take back to Sydney to add to their photo collection. It has been more than a year since I got married and they have always complained that I haven’t given them a family photo from our wedding 😛 yup i’m lazy in that way.

As I had limited time, around 2 hours’ time, I decided to copy the layout I learned from Prima class – it had enough layers for a photo in the centre and included number of embellishments so perfect to focus the attention on the photo in the middle 🙂

Close up of embellishments
From left: Butterflies were covered with glossy accent to give it a shiny look so it doesn’t look so flat; decorative corner has been embossed with shiny gold powder; petals were layered and held together by brads to form the flowers with decorative bling bling

Materials used: Sizzix Die (#656538 Decorative Flourishes Set), Ranger Ink Ancient Gold Embossing Powder (EGJ00761 African Gold), My Minds Eye Stella and Rose Gertie Doily Stamps, Prima – Essentials 10 Collection – Flower Embellishments – Sparkling Spring, Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Mustard Seed), Kaisercraft Rhinestone Flourishes (Classic Champagne), Kaisercraft Pearl Flourishes (Decorative Pearl), Jillbean Soup Blossom Soup Fresh Cilantro paper

Romantic Clifftop Dinner

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Romantic dinner on clifftop

Over the weekend, a couple of girlfriends came over for a long overdue scrapbook day. Most of us ordered the June Studio Calico Kit and the moment I saw the kit and all my other goodies from SC, I was so excited!!! They are sooo pretty. This month’s main kit uses pastel colours, one of my favourite colour palette. Pastel and soft colours are always so romantic to me so I decided to use the kit for the romantic clifftop dinner we had in Bali.

Just the two of us

I didn’t have time yet to develop my photos so I used my Fujifilm Pivi mini printer to print out the 4 photos. It worked well because I had more than one photos which I wanted to include in the layout. I learned about this awesome handy gadget from Amy Tangerine’s blog. I take it with me whenever I travel now because it is so light and so handy! Pity it doesn’t work with iphone…..

Other materials used: Mister Huey’s colour mists (Boss Lady, Taxi), Zing embossing powder (Mustard), Claudine Hellmuth Studio “Doodles” Clear Stamp Collection