I'm a CHA stalker. [super picture-heavy!]

Being the ever-online CHA stalker I am, I knew I had to post some sneaks! (And also serve as a self-reminder to myself as to which products I am going to buy in the future, you know, kinda like a shopping list, haha)

COSMO CRICKET







If you asked me which collection(s) I love most, I think it gotta be "Girl Friday" and "Ever After". Girl Friday caters to all of us who is still child at heart and perhaps a child physically (me, kay, I'm a teenager, but still a childddd). Ever After is soooo elegant and the hues are so classic, I love how CC will lauch out with a few 'playful & cute' lines accompanied with one 'elegant and soft' lines, if that make sense! Snorkel looks totally cute too... but I love the other 2 colors more... :D

Next up...

SASSAFRAS LASS
(once again, its yet another open secret that I love this company sooooo much that I always rush to my LSS whenever there's new arrivals of goodies from this company, and of course, they did not fail my expectations this time)

They're a little different this time, without all the woodland creatures, but still vintage-ly cute!

Initially I was a little bummed when I did not see my favorite woodland creatures appearing on Sassafras Lass's papers, but "Vintage Yummy" slowly (nah, not really that slow, lol) grew on me!

Just look at it and you will know why..

My favourite PP out of all the papers could be the "Memory Lane" one... I love the retro circles that are revolving around the paper (seems like circles are the new trend now eh? Wait for it, I think Pink Paislee came up with another paper featuring mod circles designs... sweet!)

"Darling Deer" and "Remember me" are equally pretty too, they almost embodied Sassafras Lass all over them! I can't wait for SL's new monograms (so versatile!) and their newest playing cards as well!

This is only the 1st collection out of all their sneaks, and I think as you can tell, I am already head over heels with it, if they are going to go with "save the best for the last", I don't know how in love I will be with in their 3rd collection...

Well now, let's see some new products kickin' in from American Crafts, shall we? ;)

Thickers, thickers thickers, virtually the staple diet for all die-hard scrappers out there... and do you hear meh this time? *NEW THICKERS ALERT - so many new fonts to die-for!* Betcha gonna die with thickers overload!

Polka-dot puffy accents, sweet!




New font (gotta love all those that looks so curcisve ones...)




Now, I want one of each font, each color, don't try to stop me. (or actually, seriously, try to stop me, I am contradicting myself cause of all the new products overload O_O)

Now for their awesome papers.
American Crafts has also rised to being one of my favorite companies when it comes to Patterned Papers (not that I don't love any of their other products though! :D)

And now, can we forget the ever-popular embellishments from AC...

Lots of great American Crafts ribbon





Details Layered Embellishments ... (I love this new small & petite packaging! :D)



Minimarks...


FLA!R!!!



Transparent stickers are my favorite embellishments, they are so vibrant and always make my pages 'pop'!

The journalling stickers... woah, just too cute to miss!



All of them are screaming 'BUY ME! BUY ME!'... now where is my bank account money going towards again? *sigh*

WEBSTER PAGES
(I was so surprised I didn't notice them the other time!)

Those beautiful hues of pale pink, kraft, beige, green, turqoise & cream... total temptation. Resistance is futile, like how they would say it.

Magical wishes! (Can I make a wish that, hoping they would come free to me! Just joking!)



A sweet life! (Who can create ugly pages with these beautiful papers?)



Click on each image to view it in its full-sized glory!

PINK PAISLEE

So…lets jump right into some of the papers shall we???

Introducing…Fetching

These spirited designs capture the charming appeal of the boy who wants to be stylish for dress-up, yet rugged when playtime comes around.

Enjoy the sneak

See what I am talking about when I mentioned the mod circles? Oooh and new die-cut paper, gotta have 'em all! (That sounds familiar, doesn't it?)

CRATE PAPER
To save you guys the trouble...
BAM

Click on each thumbnail to see each of the new collections!

(New die-cut papers, again!)

Jenni Bowlin
Farmer's Wife

Love the new papers!

These journaling cards are sooo cute!

These buttons.. just reminds us of our mothers' time, right? Vintage cream buttons topped with a tiny little pink rhinestones, true Jenni Bowlin's style. :D

I need the vintage little girl's buttons... NOW!

Making Memories

I don't know whether you're supposed to love them or hate them... cause, they always tempt us with that little sneak peeks and then WOW us with the real products. I still love them though! :D <3

I'm thinking this is a new travel line

And this, like everybody else assumed, should be a wedding line:

(Love the colors, you can't go wrong with cream and brown, black and white... now I need some sneaks of the new die-cut papers MM is going to come up with... pretty please? D: )

Collage Press

Such a tiny little sneak, but speaks much for itself!

S.E.I

I love all the new releases last year, and this year is no exception!

Mimosa
February release




Bridgeport
February Release




En Route
April Release



Playday
June Release


HEIDI GRACE
Sweetest Bug







Forever Love

Bella Blvd's doing a giveaway!

Woohoo! Giveaways, don't you always love 'em?

A while ago, I won this super beautiful fortune-telling mermaid from Gauche Alchemy along with some goodies that are currently shipping over to me now.

Now that CHA is sneaking on, so many sneak peeks has suddenly gone bursting! There's so many new stuff that I wanna buy, but the best thing is that manufacturers are now doing giveaways to us, the poor public who are still anxiously waiting for CHA and other new arrivals...

Here you go, Bella Blvd is holding a giveaway and woahh, you get to win the new collection from them...

SWEET CELEBRATIONNNNN!
Now get over to Bella Blvd (:

Here's one of my favorite papers from them... I think it's an open secret that I love cupcakes and everything colorful now... :P

Street trip

Haji Lane, is the narrowest lane in Singapore (I think, ahah), but is also known to be a fashion haven, especially for those indielabels-lovers. Being the die-hard scrapper/photographer I am, could I give up the chance to snap some beautiful pictures? I guess not! :P

Only a few, it took me 5 minutes to finish taking them all, I didn't even bother about taking a second shot, ahah!

Added some awesome vignette textures onto these pictures. You can google 'vignette textures' to find them! I love them sooo much, they add such a vintage and neutralistic tone to my photographs :)









That's all.
Pardon me for my lousy photography... I was only armed with a 5megapixs point-and-shoot and thus, the lousy photographs. I hope to get a DSLR next Christmas! :P

Wowzers

After 5 tedious hours of

- abandoning
- throwing
- heartaching
- sweating
- nervous-breakdowning

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I FINALLY CLEARED MY BEDROOM (which doubles up as my scraproom :x)
Yeah, it was that much hard work...

Now that its ready to meet the daylight, and it actually looks kinda void now, its the best time to scrappppppeeeedoodleeeeeeee.

Online-shopping pleasures + WINNER!

I expect this post to be picture-heavy as I think I need to cover quite a few stuff (mostly stuff that make me excited - ha, what else other than scrapbooking? ;] )

Firstly, I entered a layout of mine into my LSS's mid month challenge over at their forum. Guess what? To my utter surprise, I actually won. It really came as a surprise because there were many other talented scrappers who had even more talent than me when it comes to scrapping who participated.

For anyone who's interested in seeing that winning layout, here you go ;)
(I apologise for that weird grey line at the top, I guess something went wrong while I was trying to scan in that layout)

This photo was taken in early '06, almost 3 years away. The photo subject is our (my friends and me) legs in the water over at the skypark of a local shopping mall (yes, we have a skypark. :D) and we were trying to do the standard 'teensie BFF leg' pose. Cliche, but honestly it was fun.

Products used:
Patterned Papers: Sassafras Lass
Stickers: Making Memories, Scenic Route, Love Elsie, Sassafras Lass
Blings: Prima

Secondly, I have been spending too much money online lately. Well, it was for a good cause. Scrapbooking to me, is a good cause. ;)

First up, I bought three kits from Qteakits. (What to do, they are having MAJOR sale and shipping is so cheap from Australia to Singapore! Quick hurry over there, kits are going away so fast!)

I bought the Dec'08, Nov'08 and Jan'09 one, seriously, at $10AUD (except for Jan'09) per kit, I have to get those kits. Those three kits only add up to $30USD including shipping, which to me, sounds absolutely reasonable. :)

Funny thing is, the RAK from the challenge that I won is Qtea's Jan'09 kit, so now I am going to receive duplicate kits, sweet! Pardon me, I really didn't know I was gonna win and when I saw the prize page being put up, I knew I was gonna get that kit myself even if I don't win it. After I looked at all the other beautiful entries submitted in, I thought I am so gonna lose, therefore I decided to get the kit for myself too... so yeah, sometimes things come unexpected! :P

Then I got this super cute project kit from Scarlet Lime. It's going out so fast now that it's already sold out. No surprise there, this baby is so darling. It includes a lot of products from Making Memories newest line, "Love Notes". Oh, if you ask me what I think about that new line, dare I say, it can even beat my previous alltime-favorite collections from Making Memories (Noteworthy 1 and Noteworthy 2)

Don't they just look especially scrumptious? The PPs, the rubons, the dimensional stickers and everything else. No wonder I was willing to splurge it all out on this beautiful kit. :) What makes me even more happy is all the other goodies Christy throw in the kit that aren't really commercialized. (I always love non-commercialized sb supplies, it just ties the whole connection to the old-school scrapbooking altogether... :D)

And now, I also bought elsie's new craft kit. (can't wait for her store and online store to open in Feb this year! I am sooooo excited for more of her new craft kits, they are always so fun and versatile!)

Oh the scrapping front, I have been feeling semi-inspired lately. Mr Mojo came into my brain just visiting for a few hours before going off again, so during that time I only managed to finish 2 layouts. But, oh-well, much better than nothing, of course! :D