Gallery Standouts Blog TOOT TOOT!

This is so surprising - when I was given a set of picture by my brother in law, their pre-wedding pictures, I was so in love with the style and the situation of their portrait ... so sweet, natural and some even elegant. Eventhough the quality of the picture is not the best one, but still they are wonderful and lovingly pictures ... I can't resist myself to scrap them one by one - I've been hardly scrap anything lately - using my kits where I am CTing.

Then a surprise passed me by ... it was on GALLERY STANDOUTS BLOG ... yihaaaaaa
I am definitely so happy and sooooooo ecstatic!

Here's my LO:


























Credit:
Flourish by Kristin Cronin-Barrow find them at Sweet Shoppe Designs.

Check the preview to go to the store:



























I will have another layouts coming from this set of picture, definitely ... hopefully it can be as good as the previous one LOL ...

Thanks for looking gals!

Rgds,
Charlz

FOBTY 7/24-What Kind of Music are You

Well ... I am participating in FOBTY again!
And here's the result:

You Are Reggae Music

You're laid back, friendly, and even a bit of a bum at times. For you, life is too short to spend your time angry at the world. But while you don't take life too seriously, you're deeper than people realize. You're very reflective, and a few key topics (like social justice and love) are very important to you.

What Kind of Music Are You?

WOW ... I think some of them are true ;)

TOOT!

I don't even know that there's such thing as Gallery Standouts!
But there is!

And they just picked my LO using Dani Mogstad - Her Royal Highness that I just made today ...


here's the link:

http://gallerystandouts.com/

and I am soooooooooooooo HAPPY!

Thank you sooo much for standing out my LO!

Rgds,
Charlz

Some New Kits

Yup ... I present some new kits from many designers that I have ...
You can click all the images to go to the stores ;)

First one is the new Saturday Release from Sweet Shoppe Designs
Melissa Bennett with Tubby Time

























and my LO with this kit is for my son's Raphael childhood ... he loved to bath in our front yard!

























Another one is from Sunshine Studio Scraps, this one by Amanda Kay - Vibrant Spirit
























and my LO with the kit is again for my son, Raphael.
It was him enjoying ice cream at his grandad's wedding :D

























and then from my best friend, she has a beautiful kit called Sunshine Smile Kit - who else beside Kitty Chen that have this gorgeous design!













































and I made 2 LOs for this fabulous design ;)
Both were taken from our summer holiday in Waterpark.
Me, my husband and my children were having fun under the sun!















































and then from my other best friends, Edeline - she creates a gorgeous collab with Lorie Davison - Walk Through The Meadow
























and here's my LO for this kit, I RAK my brother in law. He has some romantic photos with his girlfriend that fit this romantic and gorgeous kit, check out:
























And ... telling you the truth ... I have one GREAT COLLAB from my designer coming tomorrow, which you won't want to miss ... it's TOOO GOOOD TO BE TRUE!

Well ... wait and see for tomorrow! (if I am not forget to post in my blog LOL)

Anyway, thanks for looking thru' this blog!

Rgds,
Charlz

From Our Blog To Yours

Hey, it's been awhile, I am such a lazy woman lately :D
Here's new update from the challenge of SSD, as usual, FOB2Y:

Today, I want everyone to blog about their favorite birthday year. What age was the best? Do you think you’ve reached it yet? Post about the experiences that have made you who you are. Bring it, girls!

Leave a comment here with a link to your blog to get your reward point! (Oh, and you have to wish me a Happy Birthday, too!) Yeah, I know…I’m SUCH a diva!

My fave birthday year is ... well ... I've been through more than 30 years hahaha ... and I think the best one is the one that I celebrate with my kids and my brothers, well - my brother and my brother in law are staying at my house so every celebration are being held together.
The first one is the one that I had with both my Bianca and my Raphael, as Bianca just born last year on Feb, so ... I could say that the best year was last year ... 2007 when I was 33 years old ;)

Rgds,
Charlz

From Our Blog To Yours - 6/12

Yup - participating again :D and it's all about summer! Yes, S - U - M - M - E - R.
We don't used to call it that way here in Indonesia, cause we're a tropical island with only 2 kind of weather: Rainy Season and Dry Season ;) but yes of course it's a bit cool in rainy season, sometimes cold but never below 10 celcius :D and in dry season, like now, it's soooo hot everywhere around, it can take around 35 celcius sometimes ... but not always :D
so ... the best thing to do is stay at home, under Air Con LOL ... but nop ... since it's time for holiday time for my son - there're some plans I want to do:
1. Next week, I am going to have a water fun with him, playing around and have fun of course!
2. The week after, my office arrange a community project for the manager's family and I am the one who arranged everything, so I'll take my son to join the project where he can learn more about water and the invertebrates inside and WHY we have to keep the water clean!
3. I plan to do next community project at Lombok, still something to do with the company :p and plan to take my son there .... Lombok is near Bali Island and one of the beautiful island in our country ... but I still re-consider this 3rd activity :D

Wow ... too much to do in a month? hahahaha ...
Don't worry, I'll scrap everything and .... I'll take something for freebies too later ...
I am going to have LOTS of freebies!!!

Check out everytime ok ... thanks!
Charlz

The newest designer is here!

YUP she's Melissa Bennett ... and she's my designer, still guest for me, this June.
Here's the link to her store: Melissa Bennett Designs and she also sells at Sweet Shoppe Designs!

Check the image below from the store of the kit that I plan and have already made LO with:





















































and another one is the new release:




























I still wait my son's graduation day (from kindergarten to elementary school) - he'll perform next 6th June 2008 - for this kit ... it'll be perfect!

Here's a LO I made for Fishy kit - the next one will be uploaded tomorrow in sequence :D




























My husband's first diving at Bali Island
He's going to jump in!

Credit:
Here Fishy Fishy by Melissa Bennett
Check them at:
Melissa Bennett Designs Store
and
Sweet Shoppe Designs

Okay ... gtg now ... have fun with the purchase!

Rgds,
Charlz

From Our Blog 2 Yours

Yup ... after awhile I didn't participate this challenge - so here's the next task:
My blog challenge is to find kits in the shoppe with either red, white and blue (does not have to be all in the same kit) or with Stars!
All I can think is this kit from of course Kristin Cronin-Barrow ;)

























It has everything you want to see in the challenge .. red, blue ... even some sparkling hearts :D

Okay, off to go around now ..

Rgds,
Charlz

After Awhile

YAY ... I've been awhile for few days or weeks? I just returned from my uncle's in law wedding last Sunday and it was a happy moment.
We went to our hometown with my husband, guess what - we're coming from the same small town :D, finding relatives, families, catching up new stories and hang out with some friends, old friends.

Here's some of the pictures that I took during the big day.

First if my daughter Bianca, it was her first time wearing party dress, she looks like a prom queen to me :)

























Credit:
Touch of Elegance by Lindsay Jane
























And I also scrap my husband - he wears his suit, not every party he wants to wear it :)
























Credit:
Man of The House Collaborative Kit by Kristin Cronin-Barrow and Eva Kipler
























and another one ... not yet in any of my galleries, it's submitted for a challenge at SSD :D
is my son with his cousins, they were truly having a good time ... running around the wedding hall, laughing, smiling, grinning ... and latest one ... eating ice cream as the wedding desert LOL ...
























Credit:
All That Twitters Collab by Tara Dunstan and Kaye Winiecki
























You can click my credits and go to the store to buy the kit, they're AWESOME!

Okay ... see you soon again in my blog ... psst ... I plan to do some freebies of my own product soon! Wait n SEE!

Have FUN,
Charlz

All-Time Favourite!

I know that the holiday of Christmas has been passed a long time ago, but this kit, from Kristin Cronin-Barrow, has been my ALL TIME FAVOURITE:























The swirls, the hearts, the ribbon ... I can use them over and over again inside few layouts!
I was not uploading all of the LOs in my galleries, but this is one of them:























I searched for another user and here're some layouts, beautiful ones, that I found using this kit, aren't they adorable too?

by zsaliza






















by novita





























by amyb






















by Mandy






















and actually there're many many more but just doesn't fit to my blog ;)
So ... enjoy and if you want give some love to the awesome ladies by clicking the images!

thanks for stopping by,
Charlz

Memories

I've been trying to search my pictures of before digiscrapping has been entering my world :) and I found some and now I am trying to make them beautifully done with scrapping ;)

so, here's one from my trip to Dubai ...






















Me in Dubai, few years back
Well ... you can say that it's always spring and summer there hahaha ...
I was there and it's totally hot, but Dubai is a great place to visit ...
You would amaze of what it did to the city and the people ... wonderful place to go to ... trust me ;)

Credit:
Backyard Blooms by Kristin Cronin-Barrow

and since I think this kit is too gorgeous to only make for 1 LO, I made another one:






















It's Bianca, playing with my shower cap and she's having fun in the picture!

Credits:
Backyard Blooms by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Backyard Blooms - Mini Tag Album by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Crunch Time Templates 2 by Micheline Martin

Well ... here's the original kit if you want to see it yourself, don't forget to click the image and buy this beautiful kit:






















and the mini tag:






















Well ... it's good to edit some pictures from the past, so memorable!

Great to be here ...
Charlz

GROW

Well, this one is about my Bianca ... she's formally walking this week!!
It means, she is late a month from her brother, Raphael.
Raphael started both walk and talk at the same months, 13.
Bianca is 14 walking to 15 and she's walking now!
It's so amazing to see how she crawls, stands and now walks ... truly God's Amazing Grace!

I submit this LO for SSD One Word Challenge describing GROW and here's my daughter's growth:





















Journaling:
My sweet little Bianca
Crawling, Standing and
NOW she’s walking!
It’s so amazing to see
her growth everyday.
Truly it’s God
amazing GRACE!

Credit:
Kit Collab Part by Windgefluester designs (coming soon on SBB with FaithTRue & Lauraskathi)

So ... you have to wait until the kit release before you can do something with the boxes, oh yeah it's so unique, different and so fun to play with ... you must have seen a lot of layouts using this kit ;)
Be sure that you're going to check and re-checking SBB continuously!

Okay, have to go around the cyber world for awhile before sleep ...
have a good day everyone!

Rgds,
Charlz

Life is Good

Well ... it's about life ... is GOOD!
I have a blue weekend last Saturday and still going on today, but an announcement had cheer me up this morning as I've been elected as one of the sweetest CT in this world! Oh WOW WOW WOW ... that's all I can say ... (psstt ... it has not been announced yet at DST :) ) so will keep it low until announcement LOL ...

the other news, of course, a new release from Kristin Cronin-Barrow called The Good Life






















and the details pic:



















and a LO for this new release kit, with beautiful colors pick:






















Bianca at our front yard ... seeing around ...
Life is truly Good in her place ;)

Credit:
The Good Life by Kristin Cronin-Barrow

it's midnite past 25 and I should sleep ... zzzz ...
nite nite everyone!

warm wishes,
Charlize

Adaptation!

Recently I met a new little brother ... I think we have the same character and nature.
We love poems, love to read one, and love to make one!
The title of this blog is Adaptation 'cos it's been quite awhile I lost my MOJO in making a new poem.
'Cos mood is tightly connected with poems ha ha ha ...
But then I made it! I made one for him ... just by coincident, check this out:
























Believe it or not it was my conversation recently with my brother
He is a poet and he used to made me some poems, beautiful one.
I was trying to call him that day and he didn't respond my call
so instead of calling him over and over again, I send out a poem back to him.
It's a rare conversation 'thou ... and I'll remember that in a whole life LOL

Journaling:

ah, he didn't pick up my phone
I wonder what he's doin now

Addiction is what we said
Trying to know what's goin on
Sending message back and forth

Smiling at it over and over again
Grinning following by free laugh
Reading what's the poet wrote!

Yup, he's quite a pro'
Creatively creating one over another
Beautifully done poems

Full of love, affection and sweetness
He's the new fresh bro'
Finding by surprise but grateful for that

I wonder, what'r u doin, my sweet lil bro'

Credit:
Teenage Wasteland Papers - Traci Reed and Lauren Grier

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Another one is a LO for my Bianca, posted to Challenge at SSD:























ubmitted for Slogan Challenge at SSD

Smiles all around of Bianca

Credit:
A Verry Merry Unbirthday design by Dani and Amanda Slagle (MandaBean)

I use this week new release kit from Sweet Shoppe Design - they are truly sweet!

Last but not least: Happy Easter again and hope you got a fresh week!

Warm wishes,
Charlz

From Our Blog 2 Yours - 4th Entry

Again from SSD with From Our Blog to Yours.
They have several questions about flu - well it's fun - because in a tropical country like Indonesia, flu is a common and general disease - especially when we have weather changes.

So, here's my best shot:

1. How often do you get sick with a cold? The flu? Something else?
Twice to three times a year

2. Are you the sort of person who goes to work or school no matter how sick you are or are you willing to stay at home when it gets bad?
Of course I am willing to stay at home when it gets bad - sleep/rest is the best medicine for flu.

3. How do you like to treat a cold? What remedies do you like and why? Do you go to the doctor willingly?
Eating a hot soup and drinking a hot tea would help, and having a lot of vitamin C is the best remedy
And when it continues too a week, I'd go to the doctor to see if there's any other illness beside flu.

4. What do you do to keep from getting sick in the winter?
Rest a lot - and eating vitamin C everyday.

5. What is your favorite thing to do when you stay home from work or school?
Scrapping :D :D

Yay - it's fun!

Thanks,
Charlz

Moderate Mama!

I have a daughter, a 1 year old now.
I've been wondering, what kind of mother I'd be when she grows up ... and thanks to Sweet Shoppe Design with From Our Blog 2 Yours Challenge ... here's the result:

You Are a Moderate Mama

You're not overly political, and your views fall more with the American mainstream. In fact, it may be difficult for you to decide who to vote for at times! Your approach to politics is reasoned and well though out.

Are You a Liberal Lady or a Conservative Chick?

Wow .... hopefully it's true that I could be a Moderate Mama!

Rgds,
Charlz

From Our Blog 2 Yours - 3rd Entry

Back agaaaaaainnnn with From Our Blog 2 Yours from SSD!
I never knew there's such fun website like this before *ashame*
And here's I found what Coffee girl I am ;) :

You Are a Cappuccino

You're fun, outgoing, and you love to try anything new. However, you tend to have strong opinions on what you like. You are a total girly girly at heart - and prefer your coffee with good conversation. You're the type that seems complex to outsiders, but in reality, you are easy to please

What Kind of Coffee Girl Are You?

In the real world, I like Frapucinno, I don't know whether it's categorized as coffee or not :p
Cold Chocolate Frapucinno - THE BEST!

Rgds,
Charlize

Raphael in Pictures

My first son, Raphael, had a wonderful holiday with us last December in Jakarta.
We went to Senayan City to attend Lego City Exhibition.
It was fun and good for Raphael ...
Here's the pictures in scrap:






















Credits:

Natalie Bird - Ultimate Collection
Kristin Cronin-Barrow - Honey Bunch & Holiday Kisses

When he was on holiday with us, he met one of our friend's daughter named Jocelyn, she was called Josa. Josa has a gameboy and Raphael in love with ... her gameboy HAHAHA ...
Where she went, he kept following her ... looks like a falling in love boy ... but yes ... with gameboy hahahaha ...





















Journalling:

I believe in angels,
The kind that heaven sends,
I am surrounded by angels,
But I call them friends.

- Aizabel Parinas –

Credits:

Natalie Bird - Ultimate Collection
Melissa Herzog and BuzyBeeScrapper Designs - Glitter Grid Papers
Designs by Shelle - Finishing Touches

Jocelyn lives in Singapore with her parents. Her mom: Evelyn, is one of my husband's best and school friends.
They were nice, both of them.

And another great news I forgot to mention ... now I am one of Amy-Leigh Fennell creative teams ... YIIIIIIHAAAAAAA ...
Her designs are just fabulous ... I don't look at designers but I look at their designs. Sometimes like french designers are hardly heard but their designs are also fabulous!
I apply again today for one french designer ... well ... let's see whether I am in or not ;)

I put links for Amy-Leigh at this blog also ... please check ...
and here's the preview of her designs:
(click on the image to go to the store: Go Digital Scrapbooking)


















































and the new release:
























It's too bad that I didn't have the chance yet to do LO with her kit, perhaps this week ...
so ... wait for another scraps from me :)

Charlz