I Love the Virtual World

The virtual world of scrapbooking, that is! Two weekends ago was SPLITCOAST STAMPERS Virtual Scrapbook Night. I was super busy preparing but I did manage to find time to complete two pages.

The first page was for Sally's Jefferson's Challenge and the mail focus was that arrow. You guys know the Jefferson's theme song: ♪ Movin on up ♪ Hence the arrow :D I really loved the circles in this sketch and was excited to give it a try. The circles were made with the Creative Memories Cutting System and layered over the best toes photo ever!

The second layout was for Jennifer's challenge to use a TV logo. What better logo for ziplining than SHOWTIME?!? The sketch came from the weekly sketch challenge. This was awesome! Not sure how many people would zip across a 300 foot canyon flying at 65 miles an hour---but I would do it again in a heartbeat!

The Joys of Summer

I know all your mainlanders are pretty cold right now so here is a little something to warm you up :) This is for another VSBN challenge over at SCS.

Now that the weather is cool...I am starting to miss summer. Scrap a page about a tradition you have in the summer. It could be that you eat meals out on your porch or it could be a 4th of July celebration. These are just a couple of ideas...let's see some summer pages! Bonus points if you use glitter.

I just love this photo of the weiners cookin on the grill. My boyfriend had dropped one down in there so I was trying to get a pic of that. LOL. You can see if you look hard enough :) It is charred and definitely not edible. Everything on this page came from the American Traditions Beach Fun paper pack. The layout was a sketch from Valerie's Sketches. Valerie has an awesome sketch blog. You should check it out! I double matted the photos first with tan and then beige. I had never matted my photos with neutral colors but I really liked how these came out. The inside of the journaling box is popped up with dots to give the page some added dimension and I journaled with a glitter gel pen.

Mahalo for stopping by! Stay Warm!

Dream Wedding

Aloha everyone! Time for another scrapbook page. I was on a card kick and hadn't really gotten around to pages. Well after completing these pages I realized just how much I love to scrapbook. Not sure why I like pages more than cards. Personal preference I suppose. Anyway, this page was for a VSBC at SBS.


Well, one tradition that I have been creating or carrying on at the moment is getting ready for my wedding. There are so many things that you must do before the BIG DAY! Find the guy, get the ring, pick the dress, pick the bridesmaids dresses, cake, decor, church, music, flowers... oh man the list goes on and on and on....

My challenge to you is to scrap a page about preparing for your wedding. If you don't want to include photos you don't have to, but the journaling better be there!!!!

If you are yet to be married or find the guy scrap a page of what you dream your wedding will be like!



Since I'm not married I decided to scrap my dream wedding. The paper is from Paperbilities and I assembled the flowers with brads. I stamped flourished from Rhonna Farrer in Versamark Black. The best part, this page won the Challenge! I was blown away when my page actually was selected. How fun!

Mahalo for stopping by. Take some time and scrap it!

I'm Going Nutty

Aloha everyone. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving holiday! I have been doing nothing but scrapbooking lately and I am loving it! This is a page I did as part of my All About Me book. The challenge:

Now, many of you know that I think chocolate is a vitamin, so my challenge shouldn't surprise you:

Every holiday needs family; every family needs fudge at the holidays! Bring them together for the perfect scrapbook theme:

"Families are like fudge: mostly sweet with a few nuts."

Scrap pictures of family members acting nutty using this saying on your page. Or journal a nutty family story. Use a color scheme that includes chocolate tones, chocolate designer paper, or chocolate stamping. Bonus points for embellishing with "chocolate chip"-board. (any chipboard will do, but extra bonus points for chocolatey chipboard)

*Warning: please be sure to have edible chocolate nearby during this challenge so you won't be tempted to nibble on your layout.



Since I love chocolate too and I think that me and my boyfriend are a little nutty, then this is the perfect page for us. I love this photo too. The paper if Paperbilities cardstock. I think the rest is pretty simple.

Mahalo for stopping by!

My Fur Baby

Aloha everyone. Well, I am slowly having a mental breakdown and my brain will probably be mush at the end of the next three weeks. School is getting to be a pain in the you-know-what. December 7th can't come fast enough!

With that said, I had an awesome time playing with Colleen's Thursday Throwdown. Her challenge this week ---> Use Tags. How much fun. I don't use tags hardly at all on my pages but after this challenge I think I will have to make room for them! I loved tags so much, in fact, that I added tags to a scrapbook I am working on for my Mom. I can't post that one thought just in case my Mom decides to peek :)



Well, here is my page. It is an 8"x8" page done with American Traditions Beach Fun paper pack. The large S is attached with ribbon and comes from the same paper pack. I think the rest of the page is pretty self-explanatory. I loved using the tags to spell out my Pooches name-Shrek.

Mahalo for stopping by! Check out Colleen's blog for tons of inspiration and this Thursday's Throwdown!

Christmas Time is Comin

OI VEY! This week has been crazy. It is that time in the semester. I had a big exam this week and for the next three weeks I have major assignments due. With that said, I will try to post but they may be brief. On the other hand, I might need to let off a little steam :) Before I hit the hay from a long long day of studying I will leave with you a little Holiday cheer. This is one of my favorite photos of Christmas time in the islands. Santa giving his shaka! LOVE IT!

Mahalo for stopping by and wish me luck for the rest of the semester!

Mmmm...Pet Peeve

So, if anyone really knows me they know that my numero uno pet peeve is Snoring! I hate it. For some reason I just get enraged when I hear snoring. As luck with have it, my boyfriend is a snorer. We tried everything and nothing we could find would work so the compromise: I wear earplugs to sleep. Sad, I know, but we are both happy now and I don't have to hear him infernal snoring.

What does all this have to do with scrapbooking? Well, one of the challenges at SCS for the VSBN was to use a sketch and keep it real. We were supposed to scrap a pet peeve or something that is quirky about us or our family. Hence the connection.



Again the page is pretty self-explanatory. The page is an 8x8. The papers are from American Traditions and their Beach Fun Paper Pack. The alphabet that is stamped is from Hero Arts. The flowers are from Green House.

Under the Moonlight

Aloha everyone. It is getting cold everywhere! I just talked to my Dad and it was 23 there the other morning. Crazyiness! I can't even begin to imagine how cold that is anymore. 70 is the way I like it and even that is a little chilly now.

However, because the weather is always fantastic here we get a lot more opportunities to do things like sit at the beach and watch the moon rise and stare at the stars. This page depicts just that. I made this page as part of my All About Me scrapbook for VBSN at SCS. The challenges were so much fun.

For this page I used an 8x8 piece of purple Paperbilities and scalloped the sides with my corner rounder. The borders were made using coffee filters. Yes, that's right...COFFEE FILTERS! I used my star and moon stamps inked in Versamark Black and stamped on crumpled coffee filters. I really like how these came out. The filters really absorb ink very well. I layered the photo on a piece of silver and then created photo corners. The moon as hand-drawn using yellow Paperbilities card stock and a black crayola colored pencil. I attached silver brads in the corners of my journaling and that was that! I really like the colors in this page.

Mahalo for stopping by!

Warm and Cozy

Aloha everyone. I have another scrapbook page to share with you. This is from the VSBN preview party that I had tucked away and forgot to post. The challenge for this page was:

Scrap a Warm and Cozy Morning!
Every Thanksgiving morning since I was a little kid, my family would cozy up on the sofa in our warmest comfiest PJ's to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV. The only times I have missed the parade in 36 years were the years I was actually there!
For this challenge I want you to scrap your Thanksgiving Morning tradition using warm cozy colors, and lots of texture! Use colors that are soft and warm and use textures like embossing, fabric, fur, cotton etc! Get yourself cozy and show me your best morning traditions!

How fun was this challenge! As a child my Mom always got me up on Thanksgiving Day to watch the Macy's parade with her. Now, while I do love watching the parade, I cherish my sleep more. So, my page depicts what I would rather be doing on that cold Thanksgiving morning :)



This page must have said Warm and Cozy because it was one of the winners in the challenge. I am so excited! I can't believe that I won! I hope you enjoyed the page as much as I did making it.

Aiea Loop

So, I had a very exciting weekend of virtual scrapping over at SCS. I think I completed 11 of the 12 challenges. Well, let me tell you. After awhile, your brain starts to rot away and you have to find inspiration in all kinds of places. A few weeks ago we battled, quite literally, the Aiea Loop here on Oahu. I came out from that 5 mile hike covered from head to toe in mud! It was a great time though and some of the scenery was beauitful!

I got my inspiration for this page from Beate and her wonderful weekend sketch. I really like how this page turned out. It is a lot of fun to see how to take a card sketch and create a memory! I think this page is pretty self-explanatory. The patterned paper is from American Traditions. The card stock is from Paperbilities. The flowers are dollar flowers from the Wal-Mart. I think these are very cute. I layerd white and blue ribbon and wrapped around the main layers of paper. The stamps are from a wonderful package I recieved from my Mom. She is the best!!! They are the Hero Arts Alphabet stamp set and I have gotten a lot of use out them lately!

Mahalo for stopping by. I have a lot of scrapbook pages to show you so stay tuned!

Family is what it's all about

Aloha and Happy Scrap Thursday! I thought I would share another scrap page that I made for my 6x6 All About Me album. But first, how was everyone's Halloween? Mine was so much fun! Waikiki is out of control for Halloween with tons of people dressed up as crazyiness! My boyfriend and I dressed up and headed down with a huge group of friends and hung out all night. Fun Fun Fun!

Now, on to the show! What do you notice that is special about this page???



Did you guess no embellishments? If you did then you are very observant! This page has no hardware, brads, stickers, embellies, nothing! I guess you can make a good page without all those extra's built in :) I think this page pretty much explains itself with the exception of the journaling. I added a small pocket to the back of the page with sticky tape and then used my circle punch to create a small semi-circle at the top. This way we can grab the journaling when we feel the need to read :) This is a great way to add journaling especially on these smaller pages!

Stamps: Rhonna Ferrer Flourishes
Ink: Versamark Black, Archival Teal
Paper: Paperbilities card stock, 6x6 dp paper pack
Accessories: circle punch, gel pen

Mahalo for stopping by!

Hoo-ray for Halloween!

So, continuing on with another scrap page that is going into my ALL ABOUT ME album, one of the challenges was to create a page that shows getting ready for the holidays. What better holiday than upcoming Halloween. I love carving the pumpkin! It comes second only to candy!



I love how this page turned out! Especially the cute pumpkin that I free-handed and the spiders that are hanging from the photo corner and the hat. I think this page is pretty self-explainatory so I will leave you to bask in all its glory (^d^,)

Stamps: Hero Arts
Paper: Paperbilities Card Stock
Ink: Versamark Black

Mahalo for stopping by!

True Beauty

This past Saturday at SCS was a W-I-L-D one! I participated in my very first virtual scrapbooking night which was a preview par-tee for an even larger night coming in November. I didn't know what to expect but I had a lot of fun. While scrapping I was able to chat with other people working on their pages and share inspiration and stories. It has been great getting to 'know' the people at SCS. They are a great bunch! I thought I would share one of the pages that I completed for the challenge.

The page is 6x6 and is the start of a small ABOUT ME album that I have been wanting to do, if for no other reason than to laugh at myself in a few years. The sketch actually came from the sketch challenge by Beate. I LOVE hibiscus plants. They are by far my favorite flower, especially the pink ones. I may have grown as em mountain folk but I sure do love me some hibiscus'. My friend swears that I should have been an island gal :) I might have to agree if I didn't like snow so much! Anywho, these are 2 photos of that beautiful flower mounted first on baby blue and then pink card stock from Paperbilities. For the background I used my Fiskars Texture Plates to dry emboss a flower print. I then added a layer of black with a ribbon wrapped around. I used an alphabet stamp set my wonderful Mom bought me by Hero Arts to stamp True Beauty on white then cut it out and added it with dimensionals. After adhering the photos I added 4 Making Memories brads to the four corners of the black.

I wanted a simple layout and page that really made those hibiscus' stand out. I think I accomplished just that :) As for the journaling, the photos lift up to reveal my thoughts on how I just wish I had a green thumb :) Mahalo for stopping by! I have lots more pages to show you in the next few days!