A Little Something from DSC Blog Train!

My son Neill just turned seven a few days ago (on September 16.) That morning I woke him up with a hug and a Happy Birthday kiss. His reply:

"I'm 7 now! Yay!! And you know what? I'm loving you more every year, Mama."

Ditto, baby. Ditto. :)

Between Neill's final exams coming up in less than 2 weeks, having to drive him around to all his sport practices, and trying to finish my own work assignments, my life here is kinda like a quick blur right now. Some days I was so exhausted although when I did go to bed, I couldn't sleep no matter how long I spent tossing and turning under the blanket. This is the time when such a little sleepy message like the one from my boy can mean so much. I'm so grateful for you Neill!!! Mwaahh!

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Now let's get to what you're really here for. LOL! Digital Scrap Cafe's blog train is here again!

For September 2010, the designers of DSC have come up with this cute and huge collab kit, A Little Something. Well, despite the name, with 122 elements, 4 templates, and 70 papers, this kit is everything but little! :D


The kit's color palette made me think of the fun train trip we took earlier in June. The trip was organised by my close friend PaMam so I decided to RAK her with some layouts (brag book pages) using her and her children's photos.

This first page used a template by Adi aka Le Pingouin Designs (included with A Little Something kit!) -- If you like the layout, go collect the brag book quickpage from the Digital Scrap Cafe blog. It's a part of our blog train!

I also made these following 2 pages using the photos of PaMam's children: Prima and Sinat.

So these are my goodies for you for Digital Scrap Cafe's September 2010 blog train! Please click here to download your 4x6" brag book quickpages if you like, or just click on the preview image below.

Don't want to miss any part of the blog train? Easy! I'll just give you the list here. :)

Blog Train Participants:
Pom - http://bkkpom.blogspot.com/ <--- me!
DSC - http://www.digitalscrapcafe.com/
Doris - http://tempusfug.blogspot.com/
Deanna - http://scrappygram.blogspot.com/
Loni - http://tincancanoe.blogspot.com/
Åsa - http://sondra-scraps.blogspot.com/

Please be patient and check back if any of the blogs are not ready yet when you first visit. You know, time difference and such. :) Now enjoy your free goodies and go blog hopping already! :D

Oh! And don't forget that my What's in the Coffee Cup Challenge is still going on until the end of the month! There's a gift for all participants too. Hope to see you there!!

Perfect Combination - A Drift in Dreams - a QP

Got some new layouts to show you, and a little something to give too. :)

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On the last day of Michael's stay in Lebanon, I set up a tripod and fortunately managed to get a few shots of our (very rare) family photos.

"Fortunately" because right after the shots, I went to remove the camera from the tripod and found that I could just lift it right off! No sliding out of the slot or unscrewing needed!!! It turned out that there's a break in the locking plate that I didn't notice when I put it in, so basically the camera was just sitting on the tripod the whole time with nothing securing it at all!! It's just by shear luck that my precious Canon EOS 500D didn't fall and got badly damaged. Wheww! I still got goosebumps thinking about it now.

Anyway, we did get some great shots and I used one of them for this page.

Journaling reads:
one family of two brothers living in three countries
with four loving hearts
perfect combination, that's what we are...

The kit used for the layout is Perfect Combination: the new kit of Designs by Doodelle that just hit the store a few days ago. With the playful palette of black, grey and hot pink, combined with an army of Rachelle's vector-drawn doodles and shiney elements, it has already easily become one of my favorites!

The element pack is also available seperately.

And don't forget that Rach is currently the Featured Designer at MScraps. For the entire September, her special offer is a 20% OFF discount for any purchase of her products worth 5$ and above. Read her advertisement in this blog post and use the coupon code in the ad to get your discount. :)

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This following layout I made for Designs by Anita's CT challenge for September. Anita's CT forum is always an active, happy, and inspiring place to be, especially now that we are welcoming new additions to the team! For this month's challenge, Anita requires the creative use of one frame, one photo, 4 paper squares, and 2 word arts in the layout. Here's what I come up with it!


I kinda like the clean structure of the page, with just enough raised elements to draw the eyes. This page subsequently got mentioned in DST's GSO thread of the day! Yay! It's created with this beautiful collab kit A Drift in Dreams by Anita and Scooty's Designs.

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I'll wrap it up with a little something for you again! Rach is, as always, generously letting me turn my layout from Perfect Combination into a quickpage to give away here. So, please click here to enjoy your gift, or on the preview image below. Leave me a word if you like it! :)

A Fresh Restart, a charity, and a free template

Let's do something good together, shall we? :)

The designers of DigiScrappers Brasil are back again with the new Charity with Love project: A Fresh Restart. As Dunia's CT member, I'm really honored to be chosen to work with the amazing mega kit which is perfect in every way and, most of all, it's for a great cause. Here's the message from DigiScrappers Brasil...

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Hello my friends. Today I'd like to draw your attention to something important and ask for help to everyone who can contribute.

Tsunamis, earthquakes and uncontrolled rains have devastated parts of the world. Many people have died, many others have lost their homes and everything they had, entire towns disappeared from the map. And even knowing what those natural disasters can do, we are never sufficiently prepared when they happen.

Last June the Brazilian Northeast experienced one of those tragedies. 95 cities and towns in the states of Alagoas and Pernambuco were flooded due to torrential rains. About 50 people died and more than 100,000 were left homeless. Many of these people lost their homes, their furniture, clothes and all their belongings.

An heartbreaking and very sad scenery.

Our charity project aims to raise funds to be used in benefit of those people who still need so much all our help. The designers of Digiscrappers Brasil, through the project Charity with Love, has created this beautiful mega kit, A Fresh Restart, that includes 94 beautiful papers, 271 assorted and very colorful elements, three alphabets and three templates for layouts. All you need to create the most beautiful pages.

Also our scrappers helped us to create a beautiful album with 16 quick pages in size 12 "x 12", plus cover and back cover.


If you liked both two products, there's a bundle version with 20% off discount.


100% of the sales, after discounting MoIP (Brazil) / Paypal (international) fees, will be reversed in favor of families affected by the rains in Alagoas and Pernambuco through honest and trustful organizations.

Thanks in advance for your support in this cause.

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The kit is just so much fun and energetic so I wanted to create something with a lot of dynamic actions. I chose this series of photos of Neill and his friends on the merry-go-round. I think it represents A Fresh Restart quite well. :)

If you are one of DigiScrappers Brasil's newsletter subscribers, you must already have seen that the layout is offered there as a free quickpage! (Thank you, Loreta, for featuring it!) If you are not a subscriber yet, you can still read that newsletter and get the quickpage by following the link here. You have to hurry though coz I really don't know for how long it will stay available. :)

When I posted the layout in galleries, my friend Åsa asked if I can make a template out of the page. Of course I can! So here it is, Round n' Round template. The scalloped journaling is something I wrote for my layout, it's NOT a wordart included in the kit. I think it's quite cute and you might find some use for it so I throw it in with the template as well. Hope you like it!

Leave me a little something here if you like it enough to download, will ya? You know how much I love comments, right? LOL And don't forget to check out the wonderful charity mega kit A Fresh Restart too!!!

Enjoy!!