Crop party.. Scraperocks! way

I managed to persuade a couple of my friends to try out scrapbooking. Faz and Yanie, my high school buddies, came to my house yesterday and we had a mini crop party.. Scrapperocks way! I gave them a complementary (kawan punya pasal) lesson of the very basic of scrapbooking, and they seemed to enjoy it. It will be good to have more of my friends jump into scrapbooking; the more the merrier. We can scrap n crop together and maybe even share or exchange our stash.

They did a simple layout, and tried a lot of techiniques, including stamping. I sure hope they will be a serious scrapper like me in the near future.. :)

Faz & Yanie hard at work..

What a mess! In a good way
Faz's layout.. with a picture of her parents
Yanie's layout.. with a space for her newborn boy soon!! (in few weeks)

Scrappingchix 1st anniversary party!

I attended Scrappingchix anniversary party yesterday, and it was a blast! The owner, Nad made us feel at home and not to mention served lots of yummy delicious food. Not only we're feasting the eyes with Nad's lovely creations and hard-to-resist scrapping supplies, we're heavily feasting on the food too! Nad and her mom baked like 6 or something different kind of cakes and pastries, in addition to soto and yummy appetizers.

Opps.. back to the scrap party. We had a fun time making mini album with guest designer Yatie. We did a chipboard gate-fold like album, and it was my first try on embossing technique. Now I have to get myself a heat gun! The effect is just awesome! We didn't finished our albums, since we were busy shopping (hehe). I am not a big mini album fan, but I will try and embellish the album as soon as I can.

Thanks for the fun time, Nad. Although her place is sooo far away (took me almost an hour plus the sesat2), the trip was definitely worth it. I also got to meet new scrapper friends. Congratulations on your 1st anniversary, Nad!

Nad's lovely altered art...

The lot..

Me with Scrappingchix Nad

Crop party @ Scrappingville

I joined Scrap-It-Lah's crop party on Saturday and had lots of fun. It was a small group, but they are all very nice and friendly ladies. I knew most of them through their blogs and am glad to finally meet them. There's Michelle chowchow, Watie Basri, Naddy Scrappingchix, Nilla and May. Jessy couldnt join us as she had another event at her school. Nadhrah Scrapping Glitz was there too, visiting and shopping (nice to finally meet her, after communicating only through emails) :) It's apparent the girls know each other well, they are like the creme of scrapbooking in Malaysia.. heheh..

The crop party was hosted by Michelle and Watie. We did a tag for our neighbour, a flower using only paper, buttons, and cleaning pipes, and finally a layout from a sketch. I was kinda slow and blurred, but I managed to create something nice. The girls were quick and knew what they were doing.. I guess that comes with experience.. hehe..

Here are the tag I did for May and mine as created by May. Both have butterflies!

The lovely paper flowers.. Mine is the far left.

May's layout. Love the picture!

Naddy's layout. Really love these papers from Amy Butler. Gorgeous! Naddy had the most stash, but no suprise as she owns an online store!

Nilla's layout. Loved the flowers, very creative!

Yours Truly.. very simple layout from me.

Me with the girls...May, Naddy, Watie and Michelle. We're missing Nilla, she had to left early.

The girls' power cameras. Nice!

Michelle, who is the co-owner of Scrap-It-Lah invited me to be in their design team. All I need to do is to design one layout per month for them. I am really honored, although I am a newbie that still need to learn more! I will try to do my best, girls.

I had lots of fun, but the best part was meeting all the girls. I really enjoyed their company and hope to meet them in another scrapping event later. (There is a Scrapbooking Showcase @ Scrappingville this Tuesday but unfortunately, I can't join as I have to work).

Scrapperocks! Party

Last Sunday, I attended my first ever Crop Party, hosted by Papier @ The Curve. Well, from what I understand, a crop party is where Scrappies get together and crop! (Do scrapbook layouts, etc). We have to bring our own paper, embellishment and tools. So, I thought I would just give it a go! It's a great way to meet other Scrappies. I was not really sure on what to expect, so I brought literally all my Scrappie stuffs to the store! ...in a traveling luggage!

I felt quite embarrassed at first bringing my big bag into the store. Other gals bring big bags too, but not as big as mine! :) Some people joked that I want to auction my stuff or something.. haha. The event was hosted by Macy, the store owner and conducted by the famous scrapper, Teacher JC. I've seen her work online and was glad that she was there. I really like her style of layouts. Cool to meet her in person, such a nice gal.

So the event started around 11.30am (waited almost an hour for everybody to turn up.. malaysian style la). It kicked off with the tag challenge. We were assigned to make a name tag for the person on our left, or for my case in front of me. They gave us some scrap papers, flowers, a ribbon, buttons and some letters. I was overwhelmed at first, didnt know where to start! We only had 20 minutes. Under pressure, I just 'cincai'ly made the tag for KIM. Here is the tag I did..

Next was the sketch challenge. Jessy gave a sketch and we had to follow the sketch, by doing our own interpretation on the layout. Here is the layout that she did...

We only had 45 minutes for this challenge. It was hard to start, I even had a hard time choosing the right picture! (as I bring about more than 100 pics that were newly printed.. haha). I know what paper I wanted to use, as I just love the color and design of it and this will be a good opportunity to use it. The best thing about cropping in a scrapbook store is, if you need something, you can just shop there and there! Here is my version of the sketch, although I added the hand-made glasses at home. hehe..


After a snack break ( we had curry puffs and cupcakes), we were on our last challenge, which was the number challenge. In this challenge, we had to use at least 1 cardstock, 2 pattern paper, 3 flowers, 4 buttons and 5 crystal/gems. For this challenge, we had the freedom to choose our layout, so I made a layout for Zara's 1st birthday party. I had this die-cuts that I wanted to use for some time, and it fits the layout perfectly. I like how it turned out.. especially since I love pink!


That's the end of it. But before we departed, there was a price giving ceremony. Suprisingly, I won the tag challenge, which I 'cincai'ly did. I guess it was my lucky day, as I won the lucky draw too!! yay!! Besides the challenge's winners, there was also prizes for best dressed and biggest buy of the day. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that the theme of day is pink, orange and white. So we should dress in the theme colors ( I accidently wore the theme colors although I forgot about it). I won scrappy goodies from Making Memories.. I think its worth about RM100!!! (see pic below). Also, in between the challenges, we had special 30% paper sale and 20% scrappie stuffs!!!



All in all, I had lots of fun.. will surely join another again!! I just found out that there is quite a big network of scrappers in Malaysia and a lot of online challenges. I will try to be in the circle!!

I forgot to bring my camera that day, so visit Jessy's blog and Papier Love for more pics of the party! For more pics of my layouts, visit My Scapperocks! site.

In the meantime.. Scrapperocks!