Dear Scrabby

Mr. Clean

2008-12-12T16:15:00.003+08:00

digital kit used: Carrie Stephen's Spontaneous Delight from shabby princess. I used worn deep ocean paper for the background, cut the lime delight paper for the paper strip, and used the curled frame, glass dots and old paper strip elements.

text: Mr. Clean, Mo after a nice and peaceful bath, 11.09.2008.

christening invitation

2008-12-07T14:27:00.003+08:00

i asked my nephew to design a digital scrapbook type of invitation for my son's christening. armed with the freebie kits that i have downloaded, my nephew just needed a few minutes to get used to xara for linux, and then he was happily clicking and dragging. the result is this. i then headed to netopia to have the image printed on the avia magnetic paper that i bought from national bookstore. it was no surprise that the invitees were happy to stick the invites onto their refrigerators - my son is just soooo cute!

digital kits used: paper and embellishments from shabby princess sweet serenity and shabby princess spring breeze

sisters

2007-08-18T12:50:00.000+08:00

digital kit used: spring breeze from shabby princess. i used paper 53 for the background, 54 for the striped matting. the cool, breezy letters were also included in the kit.

font: used the good ol' comic sans, hehehe.

quote: Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers. -- Pam Brown

little blue riding hood

2007-05-17T20:26:00.001+08:00

xara xtreme trick: arrange -> combine shapes -> slice shapes for cropping the picture. i did some "manual expansion" of the background picture to make it look like a panoramic shot. changed its color to make it b&w.

digital kit used: Leafy Turquoise Paper from Anne Langpap's May 2006 collection for the background. i just dragged xara's fill color to create the leafy purple matting. used the blue tag, circled ribbon and wavy ribbon accents from the same collection.

font: cheri and akafrivolity from font for kids.

bag of blips

2007-05-07T01:19:00.000+08:00

i was looking at some digital kits and when i saw this shabby princess festival kit, i immediately knew which photo goes with this paper. it took me a long time to find words for the title though. good thing "blips" (our group's name) rhymes with "nips," (round chocolate candies, which the background paper reminded me of).

title: "When I want fun I get a bag of blips and make a rainbow."
journalling text: girls on their way to a wedding. picture-taking. make-ups. giggles. "Are we there yet?" laughter. picture-taking. chocolates. food. picture-taking. giggles. color-coordinated gowns. stories. picture-taking.

xara xtreme tricks: shadows, combine shapes -> slice shapes.

digital kit used: Shabby Princess Festival theme. festival paper4 for the background and paper3 for the peach matting. festival elements alpha 52 and 60 for the embellishments.

fonts: porcelain and akafrivolity from fonts for kids

i know what you did last summer

2007-05-05T00:38:00.000+08:00

about the photo: Taken on May 2006 at the University Avenue, UP Diliman.
xara xtreme tricks:

cropping a picture using combine shapes --> subract shapes
matting a picture using combine shapes -> subtract shapes
transparency then filling with a color (faded sunflowers on the bottom)
combining this with a text a.k.a. masking ("i know what you did..." on top)

p.s. woohoow! i finally have a watermark! i learned how to create it using this helpful photo watermark tutorial.

kuyer

2007-05-04T15:59:00.000+08:00

i created this digiscrap using xara xtreme for linux. such a cool software! i tinkered with these tools: transparency, bevel (for the 3D shapes and fonts) and shadows. i'm beginning to like xara xtreme more than inkscape. hehehe.

sweet dreams are made of these

2007-04-27T18:30:00.000+08:00

it was a semester of frustrations, hard work, optimism, moral support and yes, sweet success in the end.

about the photo: taken during our after-graduation lunch

inkscape trick: nothing new, just the dear old star maker, duplicate, resize, rotate, etc.

font: candice

trial hair and make up by kuks reyes

2006-10-19T22:42:00.000+08:00

about this digital scrapbook page: i created this scrapbook page for my wedding site.

about the photo: as stated in the page, these shots were taken during my trial hair and make-up session with HMUA artist, Kuks Reyes. we didn't have our prenup pictorials taken on that day, but i just wanted to look nice and pretty because it was our 7th anniversary (last celebration as bfs and gfs). hehehe.

tricks:
i had to use another open source software image tool here, Gimp, to edit the pictures. in Gimp, i just adjusted the image's brightness for the background picture. in inkscape, i just used the align tools for the purple and green stripes effect.

mellow yellow

2006-09-03T15:11:00.000+08:00

about the photo: seeing the all-yellow chips served during my niece's birthday inspired me to grab my cellphone camera to take this picture (and munch on a few chips too).

spiral staircase?

2006-08-17T14:07:00.000+08:00

about the photo: took this shot while waiting for my sukob-watchmates. initially, i planned to upload this to my moowagirl blog with a title of "ano ka, hilo?" but ... obviously, i changed my mind. hehe.

inkscape trick: nothing new here. i just wanted to post something.

font used: budmo jiggler

butterfly

2006-08-09T22:07:00.000+08:00

about the photo: flower girl pic of yet another wedding we attended this year.

inkscape trick: as you can see, i'm still practicing the difference tool (more to come, 'coz i still can't get the hang of it). played with the free hand tool and moved the nodes (nodes just like in corel draw), but no! i still couldn't get the shape i really want. oh well.

font: robokoz (hate the weird names of my fonts)

emotions

2006-08-06T16:11:00.000+08:00

about the photo: this was taken at my best friend's wedding. the flower girl, her niece, started to cry when she realized the ceremony was about to end and that her "nini" will be leaving soon.

inkscape trick: used the trace bitmap tool to create a monochromatic effect. i did the effect sometime last june, so i really dont remember how i did it. tsk tsk tsk.

font used: blue highway linocut

Circle of Friends

2006-08-02T15:51:00.000+08:00

what? it's been almost a month since my last post?
hmmm... i must be busy. haha.

did a lot of trial and error on the object to path --> difference inkscape tool here. in the end... uh... the result isn't so bad. but i still have to practice using it. (poor, poor me)

font used: planet benson 2

back to school

2006-07-04T11:28:00.000+08:00

played with the gradient tool here.

withered and blooming

2006-06-15T13:58:00.000+08:00

spent a lot of time choosing fonts for this, but finally settled for a simple serif font. sigh. looking at the bright side, i finally know how to install fonts in ubuntu and actually access them!
for my sanity, let me just write down the magic words (code in linux that allowed me to access my new, funky fonts in the applications):
sudo fc-cache -f

pizza pizzazz

2006-06-14T17:58:00.000+08:00

creating this made me hungry... i want some pizza!

to create the pizza slices, i used the circle tool then dragged the little circle thingy clockwise (reminded me of a negative theta... ulk).

my fonts are limited right now because as of yesterday, i've been doing the digiscraps in linux. nuninuninu...

fishy?

2006-06-13T15:58:00.000+08:00

i was trying to organize all our pictures using picasa for linux. in the process, i came across an interesting picture, then played with picasa's focal B&W effect. i liked the resulting picture, so i immediately ran inkscape just to create a quick scrap and finally have something to post here. ;-)

font used: Purisa

p.s. you may download picasa (Google's Photo Software) using the button on the sidebar. enjoy!

baby the brave

2006-05-30T16:27:00.000+08:00

Popsie used to call her (and her mom), "Baby the Brave". She might not be a baby anymore, but we sure hope she'll continue to be brave.

Font used: Catwalk
* played with the opacity values and colorpicker

coffee plus tutoring session

2006-05-29T20:22:00.000+08:00

just playing with earth colors...
Fonts: Hollyweird, AdLib and Twang

through thick and thin

2006-05-27T14:35:00.000+08:00

it was my first time to use a digital scrapbook kit. i must admit i had a harder time doing the layout and choosing the colors. anyhow, here's the output:

i used papers 1 and 3 from this kit and Fine Hand LET font.

color my world

2006-05-26T17:42:00.000+08:00

just a little tribute to the most color-coordinated family in the world...

p.s. i love this Fairytale font.

m&m's

2006-05-26T17:28:00.000+08:00

i still don't see the
resemblance...
but a lot of people say
these two m&m's
look alike.

i don't know.

but they're really cute.

first few attempts at digiscrapping

2006-05-26T16:48:00.000+08:00

tinkered for a while with inkscape, and i was able to come up with these :

not bad for a digiscrapping newbie, huh?