Kaya 30 - Winner

Hi ladies! First, I would like to thank everyone who joined Kaya 30 last month. You made my birthday celebration complete. I used the help of the RANDOM Generator to draw this month's winner.

Here are the talented ladies who made an effort in doing a layout for the challenge:

1) Ching
2) Arnie
3) Jona
4) Marian
5) July
6) Jenn
7) Issa
8) Marissa

And the lucky winner is.....drum roll please....entry # 3 from JONA!

Congratulations Jona! You did an awesome job! Kindly send me your contact information so I could send you the RAK. To the rest of the participants, kindly send me your addresses, too. I'm giving you a pack of assorted laces.

so GROWN up

Marissa says, KAYA!

I rushed this layout to beat the time and I hope I'll make it. This is what I get for procrastinating...not knowing whether to make a traditional or digital layout.  Well, here I combined 2 products - traditional prouducts turned into digital by scanning them.

This is a picture of DD with her cousin who had her confirmation early this year.  I am just so amazed how an outfit could make her look so mature beyond her age.  She usually the jeans and sneakers kind of girl but when this important event for her cousin took place she a godmother for the first time.

Journaling:

You look so mature part of me was so proud of you and part of me felt sad that you grew up so fast!

Materials:

Background paper for layout, for the circle lace, for the strips used on the left side of the layout is from DCWV Luxury pack; circle lace template [Craftfairy]; Fonts: Pristina, Tunga, Ravie;  lace bow on oval tag; lace along the side and bottom of pictures; all other embellishments from Scrapbook Flair's Nayan - Dream of Spring Collection [thank you SF/Nayan, for the freebies!]

Technique used:

I usually scan patterned papers that I buy before I cut them up to pieces.  As I am into digital scrapbooking also, I want to use some of these papers in my digital layouts.  I used lots of layering of different elements; I used scans of lace in my stash.  Design scraplifted from Sarah de Guzman [thanks for the inspiration!]

About me:

I married the boy next door; we have a son and a daughter; love to create - jewelry, dolls, cards, scrapbook...

I collect Barbies and other dolls.

Eat 'em Up...

Issa says, Kaya!

It took me awhile to finally make a boy page using laces... I was asking myself kung KAYA ko ito? Thinking how easy for Timi to play with it, I convinced myself to try it too and here's what I got...

Here's a page about Luigi celebrating his 16th birthday with an Eat-all-you-Can blast! It was a 2-hour drive from Los Banos to EDSA, and he was imagining his craving for his favorite Tonkatsu and Halo-halo... only to find out that he was disappointed! No, the food at Triple V was really great, but my son doesn't know the technique in eating on a buffet. So he ended up hating the Eat-all-you-Can thing... ang siba kasi, hahaha!





Journaling: It's Luig's 16th birthday! We celebrated it at Triple V's Kamayan, Dad's and Saisaki last September 19, 2009. It was his first time to go "Eat-all-You-Can" and he was disappointed! He gave up EATING for that day ONLY!

Materials: Fancy Pants About a Boy pps (Chillin' and Rockin'), cardstocks, Daisy D's Family rubons, AC Thickers puffy letter stickers, buttons, DMC thread, Fancy Pants felt arrow, Colorbox gold ink and fluid chalk ink, ticket sticker, Ranger Glossy Accents, MM acrylic paint, Tattered Angel Glimmer Mist and 3 laces colors moss green, cream and blue.

Techniques Used: hand cutting, stamping and painting. The 2 techniques for the lace were knotting and putting them on the paper edges.



About Me:
Hello everyone! I am Issa Lucido... married for nearly 17 years and a mom to two energetic boys. I just love scrapbooking and you can visit me here Thanks for looking peeps!

03 * 06

Jenn says, KAYA!





These pictures were already printed and ready to be scrapped even before October came, but because of too many things to do and a trip with friends, it was only today that I was able to do the layout. This layout was done in about an hour, as I was running out of time. I got a text message from my cousin that the Surf Break 4 in San Juan, La Union will be next week already (I was first told it will be in November), and because I am going to stay in La Union until the undas (my father was laid to rest in the same town), I only had this time to do this layout.

This was the only layout I created without a journaling. But talking about the pictures, these were taken 06 March 2008, when us three siblings went on a trip to Vigan a day after our father's 1st year death anniversary. It was our second time to visit the belfry of Bantay Church in Ilocos Sur, but it was our first time to climb up the belfry and enjoy the view. It was a bit difficult to climb up, but once at the top, the view was just breath taking.

I used my camera to capture the image of the layout.

Materials Used
Patterned Papers from my stash,
Flowers - Petaloo
Chipboard - Bella!
Ribbon - Love, Elsie
Pen - Sakura Pigma Micron 04
Embossed Sticker - JT
Others - lace, rick rack

About Me
A person with multiple personalities who's very much into blogging, traveling, photography, and eating. Trying to come back into scrapbooking and is hoping to create more layouts based on the pictures she took. Check her blogs at: Jenn Was Here and An Autobiography in the Works among others.

Sweetness

July says, KAYA!

Thank you Timi for this challenge. I have different kinds of lace because I thought I would start my scrapbooking with laces but never have used them much.


Journaling:
It is remarkable to be with you at all times because I am safe with at my side forever.

Materials Used:
Glitz paper, Mesh, Prima Flower, AC Thickers, Tim holts Mask, Glitz stamp, Maya Road, Gems and Pearls.

About ME:
I'd love to experiment my Scrapping Style but this is indeed a therapy for me. Still new to blogging but glad if you can visit me at http://julysweetescape.blogspot.com.

Little Moments

Marian says KAYA!

I haven't really used much lace on my layouts but I do love the look of lace. A long time ago I used to make lace and ribbon embellished clips/rubber bands and headbands for my daughters. Great challenge, Timi.

Journalling: Sophia and Camille enjoying the weekend together.

Materials: PP- Webster's Pages Secret Garden; lace MM and my stash; Distress Ink - Ranger; Ribbon - MM; Brads from my stash; Title tag and journalling tag - My Minds Eye; Flowers- Prima; Glimmer Mist and Radiant Rain; Brad - Creative Cafe




Techniques: Misting the flowers and lace; Shirring a length of lace to form a circle;

About Me: Love to travel, love to scrap.Wish I had more time for this.

Life is Sweet

Jona says, KAYA!

Happy Birthday Timi!


I just loved this candid shot of my sister with my nephew and son while having breakfast at Sonya's. Kudos to my hubby of course!

About ME:
I am a working mom to a 3 year old toddler, Zid and wife to a photo enthusiast, Glen who lovingly supports my addiction to scrapbooking. Scrapbooking is a theraphy and an outlet for stress for me. It relaxes me after a long day at work and gives me so much joy when family and friends appreciated my work of art.

Sleepy Head

Arnie says, KAYA!

Thanks to this challenge by Timi, like Ching, I will be able to use my lace collection, some of which I also won from Timi's birthday challenge last year. The subject of my layout is my adorably sweet baby boy Eagan when he was just a month old and asleep most of the time.


Materials Used:
All About Scrapbooking Baby Boy papers and stickers, K & Company Studio K Striped Flat paper, Debbie Mumm for Jo-Ann Baby Boy rubons, lace from Carolina's and Timi's 2008 Birthday RAK, Provo Craft The Third Dimension Stand-Outs Quilled stickers, Paper Pizazz Sheets alphas

Techniques:
Paper cutting, layering, chalking

About ME:
I am Laarni "Arnie" Pedrosa-Uy from Taguig City, a pathologist/medical transcriptionist who is into traditional (2002) and digital scrapbooking (2007). I am wifey to my beloved Edison and mommy to our 7-month old baby boy Eagan.

We know how to put the "we" in Wedding

Ching says, KAYA!

I love the sound of this challenge! Like Timi, I love to use laces on my layout. This challenge gives me an opportunity to thank her for sending me a packet of laces, buttons and ribbons last year when I joined her birthday blog challenge. Thank you and Happy Birthday !!!

As our love unites us
May my family become your family
My friends your friends.

Materials used:
Corrugated cardboard, handmade papers, tulle fabric, laces and ribbon

Techniques:
Layering, inking, tearing

About Me:


A SAHM to a 16 year old son, married to a wonderful man.
Love to shop, play golf and like to try different foods.

Ching - scrapbookingkraze

SM Idol Wannabe

Timi says, KAYA!

Materials used:

patterned papers - Collage Press Sweet Shoppe and Prima Peaches; Bazzill cardstock, alpha chipboards - Basic Grey Wilma, American Crafts; Prima flowers, blings, My Little Shoebox mini alphas, artificial leaves, laces - Fancy Pants (light pink) and unknown brands (fuschia pink and white)

How the lace were used:

light pink - as part of the background

fuschia pink - tied to the chipboard alphas (SM)

white - as part of the flower embellishments

About Me:



An ocassional scrapbooker from 2000 to 2002, became a scrapaholic in 2003 and is here to stay...scrapaholic forever.

Lacy Days of October

Thank you Gracie for hosting the last Kaya challenge and for being so generous to all the participants. Belated Happy Birthday too! :)

Onto our next challenger.. she is one of the Laguna beauties who always WOW us with their exceptional layouts.

Meet our October challenger, TIMI MERCADO


I am Timi Mercado a college teacher by profession, married to Danny for 14 years and a mom to Jigs and Dannah. I started scrapbooking in the year 2000 so that makes it nine years and still counting. I completed my first scrapbook in Feb 2000. It was not as good as my scrapbooks now, very crude shall I say but it paved the way to my journey to the world of scrapbooking! But it was only in 2003 that I discovered that there were materials really intended for this craft and only in 2006 that I began to make 12x12 LOs using all those acid-free stuff and the rest is shall I say history.

When I started scrapbooking, it was just a hobby. Now, it’s a passion and a way of life.There are many reasons why I love to CREATE: to preserve wonderful memories of myself and the persons important to me; my scrapbooks will be my legacy to the future generations of my family; it also sees me through during not so good times. Just seeing what I have accomplished in the past nine years is enough to take away the blues and all those stresses; and it is a way of expressing myself.

The challenge

How time flies! It's my birth month once again. Another year older and I'd like to believe, another year wiser. This is my second birthday challenge, the first of which was on my blog last year. Now for my challenge...

I just love lace! I enjoy incorporating lace on my layouts. I love the romantic feel and the feminine touch it adds to a layout. Since I love lace very much, I have a collection of different types of lace (from heavy lace to sheer ones) in different colors and widths. For my challenge, I'd like you to incorporate at least three different types of lace on your layout but the twist it use these laces in at least two different ways. You may use it as background or border, tie it, pleat it or make it into ruffles. Your choice! The theme is up to you as well as the number of photos you would like to use in your layout.

Here are the requirements:

And then we have the usual Kaya requirements:

1) Layouts can be 12x12 or 8.5x 11, traditional or digital.
2) The layouts should be specifically made for this challenge.
3) You can submit as many layouts as you want but you will only be entered once in the drawing for traditional and/or digital.
4) Deadline for submissions is on: October 31, 2009, 11:59 PM, Manila Time.

The Prize



Hope to see your entries soon!
Thank you!

Kaya 29- Winners Galore!

Hi ladies! I hope everyone is safe and sound after the big storm that hit our country. Despite of the unfortunate disaster that "Ondoy" caused, I am thankful that some of you still took time to join my challenge. Here are the wonderful ladies who joined this month's challenge:

1· Veggie Pancit- Ching

2· Why So Crabby- Jeanie

3· Creamy Beef Tofu - Ytet

4· Pasta Night - Chiqui

5· From My Kitchen - Jenn

6· Our Specialty - Issa

I used a random generator to draw our lucky winner for this month:And lucky entry number 4 belongs to Chiqui! :)

And I did have a bonus RAK for those who took extra effort to create a gift packaging. Ching & Jeanie both submitted their very creative food packaging so I'm giving you both a RAK. :)

And since I just celebrated my birthday last Sunday (although I really didn't get to celebrate because of Ondoy), I thought of giving the 3 other ladies (Issa, Jenn & Ytet) a small RAK as a token of appreciation too! :)

Congratulations everyone! Kindly send me your contact details at dscrapyard@yahoo.com

Our Specialty

Issa says, Kaya!


My family is into food business since I was in highschool. My Mom started baking brownies, banana cakes and cheese cakes, and we all help her pack and deliver them to stores and canteens. After some time, she ventured on cooking pasta and meat dishes. We have specialty dishes like her sweet and sour fish fillet, baked spaghetti, my Dad's favorite morcon, pansit bihon with chicharon toppings, pansit bam-i and palabok. But what made her successful is her fresh Lumpiang Ubod with egg wrapper...




Journaling: 25 years ago, my Mom started a small pastry business, her "GCA Brownies" was known in the little town of Los Banos. Now, she ventured on cooking... her first love and hobby! Her Lumpiang Ubod came a long way and now it's her specialty... (so sorry guys! Mom requested me not to upload the recipe.)

Materials Used: Fancy Pants Aged Florals-Lavish pps, We R Memory Keeper Urban Window CollectionRestoration Drapery pps, foam flowers, Ytet's flowers, satin leaves, brown lace and ribbons, staple wires, safety pins, Colorbox fluid chalk inks, glittered glue, green glimmer mist, DMC thread and Colorbok alphabet stickers.

Techniques used: paper distressing and inking, hand cutting and sewing.

About ME!
Hello everyone, I'm Issa! And I'm so happy to be here at PS' blog and joining another Kaya Challenge. I'm a little bad in blogging, but you can visit me here... Thanks for looking!

From My Kitchen

Jenn says, KAYA!

Problems with the monitor hindered me at first to resize and edit the pictures I intend to use for my challenge layout, but it proved to be a blessing in disguise as I realized that I needed to put a recipe for the layout. Thanks to Lee for telling about it.

My sister came home late last night, so it was only today that I was able to start and finish the layout. A buzzer beater for me. =)


Journaling:
When I was still much younger, I remember telling my brother that I don’t know how to cook. He told me that if I love to eat, I also must know how to cook, so I could sustain my love to eat. I cannot recall that particular time when I finally mustered the courage to handle oil splashes and the heat in the kitchen, but it was that particular message that really opened my senses to realize that as a human, I also must know my way in the kitchen.

Being born in a family of foodies, I am happy that my love of eating now goes beyond fast food and boiled eggs. Cooking is one great skill to know, and now, not only can I sustain my tummy, I can also sustain my food blog with some foods I cooked in the kitchen. These three dishes were just some of those I cooked. – Jenn (29 September 2009)





As for the recipes, I didn't really want to expose the recipes, so I decided to use three pictures and have the recipes hidden. Actually, the pull out journaling not only have the recipes for each dish, it also had some introduction about the dishes.

Creamy Carbonara
Before, it was just a dream of mine to cook carbonara, because I always fail whenever I make a roux. But, when I was invited by my SFC friend Ela to help with the carbonara dish she is serving, I realized I don’t really need a roux to make a delicious carbonara dish. This dish was cooked, served, and shot 10 July 2009, when
I needed to put an entry in my food blog. This dish was one of the easiest dishes I can whip up.

Ingredients:
250g. spaghetti, cooked
1 (250ml) box all purpose cream
1/4 kl. ham or bacon, cubed
button mushrooms, sliced
1 cup evaporated milk
3 big cloves of garlic, chopped
Salt and pepper to taste
Dash of nutmeg
Dash of Italian seasoning
Cheese
1 tablespoon butter
Cayenne pepper (optional)

Directions:
>>> Sauté garlic in butter. Add ham or bacon just before the garlic starts to brown and allow the meat to cook for a while.
>>> Add mushrooms then pour cream and milk slowly. Stir a bit and simmer until the sauce starts to thicken.
>>> Upon your discretion, add some grated cheese to help the sauce to thicken, but it’s totally optional.
>>> Just before the sauce gets too thick, season the sauce with some salt and pepper and some nutmeg and Italian seasoning.
>>> Pour over cooked spaghetti, sprinkle with cheese and some cayenne pepper if you want your dish to be slightly spicy.

Chicken Macaroni Soup
The chicken macaroni soup is one of my rainy day comfort foods. The hot creamy soup just helps ease up the stress, and is really a soul food in itself. It was through my mom that I learned that the way the dish creamier is to allow the pasta to cook along with the chicken, because the starch from the pasta will help in making the soup creamier, and it also helps in saving time in the kitchen. This dish was cooked, served, and shot 22 November 2008.

Ingredients:
205g. shell macaroni
1 (370ml.) can evaporated milk
Chicken, cut up to pieces
1/2 cup cabbage, shredded
1/2 cup carrots, julienned
celery and red bell peppers, chopped
1 tablespoon butter
3 cloves garlic, chopped
1 medium sized onions, chopped
Salt and pepper to taste
Enough water to cook the pasta.

Directions:
>>> Sauté garlic and onion in butter. Add the chicken pieces and sauté until the chicken changes in color. Season with salt and pepper.
>>> Add the macaroni and pour enough water. Boil.
>>> Add the vegetables and milk and simmer until the pasta is al dente and the soup is creamy.
>>> Serve immediately.

Some Notes:
>>> Serve with garlic bread if desired. You can do that by spreading some butter in slices of bread and sprinkle with garlic bread seasoning. Toast.
>>> Some people serve this dish with toasted garlic bits on top. Try it, too, if you want.
>>> Other vegetables you can add include green beans and cauliflower. Explore and enjoy!

Buttered Prawns - Dampa Style
Once, we were quite tired eating the same old halabos na hipon every time mom would buy prawns. So when she bought some prawns sometime in 2006, I decided to check my brother’s collection of Food Magazines for a different prawn recipe. This recipe by Mayeth Toledo was published in the September 2005 issue of the said magazine. The picture I used for this was cooked, served, and shot 04 September 2008.

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo tiger prawns
1 cup clear soft drinks (7-Up or Sprite)
1 tablespoons cooking oil
3 tablespoons butter, divided
2 tablespoons chopped onions
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 small ginger, crushed
3 tablespoons ketchup
3 tablespoons white sugar
1 teaspoon liquid seasoning
1 tablespoon cornstarch, dissolved in
2 tablespoons water
1 tablespoons chopped spring onions or leeks
salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
>>> Marinate prawns in soft drinks for 30 minutes. Remove from marinade and reserve marinade.
>>> In a pan or large skillet, heat oil and one tablespoon of the butter and sauté the onion, garlic, and ginger.
>>> Stir in prawns. Add one-half of the soft drinks used as marinade, and the ketchup, liquid seasoning, salt, and pepper. When the prawns change color, stir in the cornstarch solution. Simmer until mixture thickens.
>>> Turn off heat. Blend in remaining two tablespoons butter.
>>> Sprinkle with spring onions before serving.

Materials Used
Patterned Papers - KI Memories, Cherry Arte, Basic Grey, DCWV, Miss Elizabeth, Love Elsie, and some papers in my stash that I don't know of.. =)
Fonts - Traveling Typewriter, Cambria, Century Gothic
Others - Tracing Paper (Canson), Thread (DMC), Glue (UHU), Pen (Sakura)

Techniques
Stitching, Letter Cutting

About Me:
A person with multiple personalities who's very much into blogging, traveling, photography, and eating. Trying to come back into scrapbooking and is hoping to create more layouts based on the pictures she took. Check her blogs at: Jenn Was Here and An Autobiography in the Works among others. But, if you want to check her food blog, please head on to: I Live to Eat! (life is short, eat all you can)

Pasta Night

Chiqui says, Kaya!

Here’s my simple layout for this month’s challenge.

Journaling: I’m not an expert when it comes to cooking but I try my best to come out with something new. Tonight I experimented with chicken thigh fillet and some pasta. It must have been good coz Julia said…”mommy’s cooking is the best!” Now, we have “pasta night” at least once a week! (12Sept2009)

The Recipe:
Angel Hair Pasta with Chicken Fillet
1) Cook angel hair pasta the set aside.
2) Season chicken thigh with salt, pepper and a little oyster sauce. Let stand for at least 30 mins.
3) Stir-fry chicken in olive oil until cooked then set aside.
4) Heat putanesca sauce (fresh from the jar – bought at gourmet café in Tagaytay) then toss pasta in. Top with chicken and parsley.
5) If you prefer white sause, prepare creamy garlic sauce accdording to package directions (made by McCormick and bought at the supermarket) then mix with pasta and again top it off with chicken and parsley.
VOILA! Dinner is served!

Materials Used:
Cardstock
Jenni Bowlin & Cosmo Cricket pps
Fancy Pants Journaling pad
Pink Paislee alphas
Cosmo Cricket chipboard

About Me:

I’m Chiqui Gutierrez…certified scrapaholic, and trying hard cook. You can see more of me HERE.

Creamy Beef Tofu

Ytet says, Kaya!

A little twist of Beef Steak ala Crema from the recipe booklet of Life's Rich! with Nestle All Purpose Cream. A dish to celebrate my son's birthday!




Journaling:My son asked me to cook beef steak ala crema. But there were about less than 1/2 kilo of beef strip left in the freezer. Since tofu was available inside the fridge, I used it as meat extenders and put some bokchoy leaves to add color. It was surprising that the tofu blended well with the cream sauce. We all loved the come out of this recipe.

Ingredients:
* 1/2 kg beef sirloin, thinly sliced, cut into strip
* 18g Maggi Magic Sarap
* 2tbsp Maggi Savor, calamansi
* 1/4 cup cooking oil
* 1 med Onion, sliced into rings
* 1 250ml Nestle All purpose cream
* 1 pck Tofu
* 2 pcks Bokchoy Leaves ( Taiwan Pechay)

Procedures:
1. Rub beef with Maggi MAgic sarap and Maggi Savor. Marinate for at least 20 minutes.
2. Cut tofu into cubes, drege in flour. Fry until golden brown, set aside.
3. Heat oil, saute onions for 2 minutes or until crisp tender, then set aside.
4. In the same pan, add marinated beef and pan fry until brown. Add fried onions, tofu and bokchoy leaves. Pour in teh cream, simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and serve.

Materials Used:
Premiere matboard- die cut page background
Webster's Pages- A Sweet Life, tell your story ( hand cutting the designs)
Chatterbox - Together Multifloral ( apron and mitt, rolled papers)
American crafts - Thickers jewelry box (Beef Tofu)
Making Memories - Tiny Alpha Brown Ledger ( creamy)
Prima - Quick Pick Hyd Wood land ( flowers) journaling sheet
Sizzix - dies ( apron and mitt)
Fancy Pants - bella brush stamp ( frame)
Colorbox - stamp pad ink ( distressing)
Others: brads, felt flower, butterfly, journaling ticket (hidden), bookplate die cut, bling.

About ME:
A wife to Alain and super mom to Aldrich Ross, Aldre Ross and Alfred Ross. An entrepreneur, hobbyist and nature lover who likes so much about crafting, dancing, and playing different kinds of sports. You can visit me here...

Why So Crabby

Jeanie says KAYA!

Crab Maritess is one of our favorite dishes so when Gracie posted this challenge, it was not difficult to choose a dish to feature in my LO. The journalling of the recipe and notes is hidden in the tab I created. [ETA] I also created a packagign I can put in this dish that I chose.

Ingredients:

4 female crabs (engorged with aligue)

1 cup of Olive Oil

Garlic

Lee Kum Kee Chili Garlic Sauce

3 stalks Lemon Grass (I used only the 1st 5 inches from the base) chopped

Kutsay for Garnishing

Instructions:

Stab the crabs. In a food processor put olive oil and garlic. Blend.

Heat olive oil in a wok. Stir fry chopped lemon grass.

Add olive oil- garlic mixture. Saute crabs. Add chili garlic sauce

I actually transferred the crabs in a baking dish and continued cooking it in a microwave.

Clean up the wok by wilting kutsay. To serve put the crabs on top of stir fried kutsay.

Journaling: This is definitely one of our all-time favorite dishes.

Materials Used: Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned Paper: MAMBI, October Afternoon, Cosmo Cricket; Stamps: Hero Arts; Stickers: American Crafts, Making Memories; Brad: Chatterbox; Diecuts: K&Co; Punchers: Martha Stewart, Fiskars; Gonchos, Ricrac: Craft Supply.

Techniques Used:Cutting, Layering, Stamping

About ME:
Is still happy and thankful. You can learn more about me here.

Veggie Pancit

Ching says, KAYA !

Ummm... I love Gracie's yummy challenge !

Last week, we celebrated my sister’s House Warming party with a few of her friends. Some of her American friends requested me to cook Pancit. They love to attend a Filipino party just to eat the Filipino pancit and egg rolls. I cooked pancit as the party was potluck and took a bottle of wine in a gift bag handmade from used JC Penny's store paper bag.


Ingridients:
1 (8 once) package bihon (rice) noodles
1 carrot - pealed and sliced into strips
1 cup broccoli - shredded
1 cup green beans - sliced
1 cup mushrooms - sliced
3 cups chicken broth
3 eggs - hard boiled
1 0nion - pealed and sliced
2 tablespoon of olive oil
¼ cup soy sauce
½ teaspoon black pepper

Directions:
Grease a large pan or wok with oil. Sauté the onions with all the vegetables and add soy sauce and black pepper and cook for 5 minutes. Remove from pan and set aside. Pour the chicken broth into the pan and bring to boil. Stir in the noodles and cook for 5-8 minutes. Serve the pancit on a plate, topping it with vegetables and sliced hard boiled eggs.

















Materials used:
Me and My Big Ideas pattern papers
Wausau card stock, Ribbon, Making
Memories clear alphabets and brads,
We R Memory Keepers flowers,
Colorbok chipboard letters & shapes,
Sizzix die-cut letters, Scotch double
Sided tape and glue stick. Big Bites
tool and eyelets, Shaped note paper
(courtesy of Nina)

Techniques:
Glued the two printed papers and shaped the edges.
Matted the two clear capital title letters on black card stock.
Computer typed the ingredients and directions on a shaped
note paper and matted it on black cardstock.
Made a gift bag out of used store paper bag.

About Me:


A SAHM to a 16 year old son, married to a wonderful man.
Love to shop, play golf and like to try different foods.

Ching - scrapbookingkraze.blogspot.com

Cupcake

Gracie says, KAYA!

Journaling:
After several times of trying different cupcake recipes, I finally found the one that suites my taste. A soft & spongy cupcake with a fudgy, yummy taste. Now I can start baking these goodies for birthdays, family/ friends gatherings, give them as gifts or just to satisfy my chocolate cravings.

Recipe:
Chocolate Fudge Cupcakes
Yield: 24 cupcakes
Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour unsifted
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup butter or margarine room temperature
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups milk
3 ounces unsweetened chocolate melted

Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Combine flour, baking powder, soda and salt.
3. In large bowl, cream butter and sugar with electric mixer until light and fluffy.
4. Add eggs, one at a time, and vanilla; beat thoroughly.
5. Add flour mixture to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition.
6. Add melted chocolate and beat thoroughly.
7. Scoop batter into cupcake cups about 2/3’s full.
8. Bake 20-25 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Cool for 10 minutes before decorating.



Materials:
Cardstock- American Crafts
Patterned Paper- DCWV
Stickers: Thickers- American Crafts
Journaling cards- Fancy Pants Creative Cards
Brad- Making Memories
Flowers- Hero Arts
Tools: Fiskars Lacy Days of Summer border punch, Crop-a-dile
Stamp- EK Success
Lunch box template: My Timeless Templates from Papertrey Ink
Others:buttons, lace, leaves, rick rack

About ME:
Hi! I'm Gracie and I'm a scrapaholic! Know more about me here.

What's Cookin'?

Can you smell that? There's something in the air. Is it maybe...Christmas (gasp) already? Well the -ber months are here and I heard my first Christmas song early this morning. And chanelling my inner Grinch, I just had to exclaim - “Blast this Christmas music. It’s joyful and triumphant!”
Oopps...sorry, went a little off-tangent there. But before I go off-tangent again, let me introduce our latest challenger.

GRACIE - Grace in the kitchen and grace while scrapbooking...

I'm Gracie Ann Tan from Angeles City, Pampanga, a place known to have good food and cooks. I'm married to a very loving and supportive husband and a mom to a 2 year old girl who also loves to join me while I scrap and cook. I started scrapbooking in 1999 but stopped along the way. I started scrapping again July of 2008 and been hooked to it since then. I believe I got my artistic side from my dad who loved to draw and my love for cooking from my mom who is one of the best cooks I know. I currently own a small online scrapbook store called The Scrap Yard Shop. I also co-manage our family business which is a perfume shop here in Pampanga. You can learn more about me and my journey through scrapbooking (and sometimes cooking and baking) at my blog: http://dscrapyard.blogspot.com/.

Are you ready for her challenge?

September has got to be one of my favorite months. It marks the beginning of the "ber" season and it's also a month of birthday celebrations in our family (including mine). And when there's a celebration it means there's food right? Before I fell in love with scrapbooking, my first love was cooking & baking. And lately I've learned to enjoy both and thought of combining the two hobbies. No, I will not ask you to cook your patterned papers and embellishments (lol), but I've cooked up a challenge for every food lover out there.

Here are the requirements:

1) Create a layout about food (no photo restrictions).
2) Your layout must include the recipe.
3) Journal about why you chose that particular dish/dessert or the story behind the recipe.
4) Submissions must be made specifically for this challenge.
5) Deadline is on September 29, 2009, midnight.

It's as simple as that. A lucky scrapper will get these from me.

5 Patterned Papers from Fancy Pants; 1 Fancy Pants Titles and Tags die cut set; 1 pack Fancy Pants Rub-ons; 1 pack American Crafts Flair; 1 pack KI Memories Felt embellishments; 1 Maya Road chipboard keychain set; 1 yard each of 2 Maya Road velvet trims; 1 yard Maya Road Grafitti Ribbon; 1 KI Memories Gloo (dimensional glue); Assorted journaling cards from Fancy Pants & Making Memories; 1 Fancy Pants 6x6 Story Book (perfect for a recipe album!); And a P200 gift certificate at the Scrap Yard Shop.

Now for a bonus RAK (you must have made an LO to be eligible for these):
Since the "ber" month has officially started, and Christmas is drawing nearer, I want you to create a gift packaging using your scrapbook materials for the food you've chosen if you were to give it as a gift. It doesn't have to be a Christmas theme, you're free to use any theme you'd like. Be creative, and happy cooking and scrapping!

And just for being extra creative, you get these:

5 Doodlebug Designs Patterened Papers; 1 Fancy Pants Titles and Tags die cut set; 1 yard each of 2 Maya Road velvet trims; 1 yard Maya Road Grafitti Ribbon; 4 DCWV 6x6 adhesive backed pps; Assorted Journaling spots.

Kaya 28 Winners

Thank you very much everyone for joining, and congratulations, you all did awesome work! I will use Random Generator to pick the winners, so here's the list of those who are qualified for the RAK. This is based on the time and date of submissions.

DIGITAL
1. Roxannee
2. Alby
3. Marissa
4. Diane
5. Arnie
6. Rianne
(Note: Thank you for joining again, Mye, even if technically, you have to seat out this RAK.)

TRADITIONAL
1. Ching
2. LG
3. Marian
4. Timi
5. Val
6. Jenn
7. Jona
8. Jenny Jean
9. Issa
10. July
11. Chiqui
12. Arnie
13. Marix

I can't contact Leica who so generously sponsored this challenge, so Random Generator to the rescue. And I can't open the website, so I asked Cathy, who luckily, I was chatting with, to plug in the numbers for me. And here are the winners:

DIGITAL - #1 Roxannee!!! This is a true case of the early bird getting the early worm. :-)

TRADITIONAL - #4 Timi!!!

What a Hoot

Marix says, KAYA!

After a few months of absence due to some personal issues I'm finally back, and a deadline beater yet again. I decided to scrap my extra passport/ID photos from the past to present, so no photo goes to waste no matter how horrendous it may look, LOL.

Journaling:
(Typical conversation with the immigration officers scrutinizing my passport)
"Is this you?"
(Like I could say NO to that)
"Yes it's me 100 lbs ago." *with a cheeky smile of course*

Materials used:
Grant cs; MME pps, die cuts (owl, title), transparency; Colorbok journaling spots; Cosmo cricket chipboard; Sassafrass border; MR elastic ribbon; Robin's nest; buttons

Marix is currently addicted to Facebook... still taking time to scrap the way I used to... missing my Mama terribly... happy to spend my medical leave with my Dad here in Singapore... feels so blessed surrounded by family and friends. Still blogging here.

Daddy & Me

Rianne says, KAYA!


Journaling:
Sing me a song again, Daddy.
Sing me a lullaby.
Wrap me inside your arms, Daddy,
'Though this is not goodbye.
Your songs will live forever in my heart.
When times get rough
The ones I'll most remember
Are your songs of love.

Missing Daddy. August 27, 2009

Materials Used:
Papers and elements from Peppermint Creative free kits Daditude, After Midnight and Candy Fairway.

Techniques Used:
Layering, drop shadows

About ME:
Hi, I'm Rianne, analyst, part-time writer, procrastinating blogger and recent bride, recovering from the recent loss of my father. I realized that I've been scrapbooking in some form or another since high school. Right now I'm dabbling in digital scrapbooking since I spend so much time in front of the computer anyway--and most of our pictures are only in digital form. Still, that doesn't stop me from hoarding! http://casualscrapper.blogspot.com.

Are We There Yet?

Mel says, KAYA!

At last another LO for KAYA! The requirements were pretty simple so it would be a shame if I don't join.



Journaling:
"June 8, 2009- I usually travel once or twice a year for business reasons but this time it was all fun. We were going to Disneyland! You, me, Lolo, Lola, Tito Kim, Anya and Lance. Sa airport pa lang memorable na. We almost didn't make it. You were oblivious to the whole thing. It will be a long time till we do this again but there are lessons learned. Incidents or no incidents, I'm glad you were with me."

Materials Used:
Teresa Collins Travelogue, strips of SEI, MM Passport

About ME:
I'm Mel, 32, infanticipating to my second child and proud mom to my first born Ian who is mostly my scrapbook subject. The photos were taken during our trip to Hongkong Disneyland last June at the height of AH1N1 flu scare. All I can say is flu be damned. We had lots of fun and lots of photos too

Fellow Again

Arnie says, KAYA!

For my digital entry, the pics I chose were taken during the Opening Ceremonies of the Annual Convention of the Philippine Society of Pathologists. It was during this time where I was one of those who was bestowed the title of Fellow in Anatomic Pathology for the second time, the first time being 4 years ago as Fellow in Clinical Pathology. It was during this moment that I felt truly complete - having attained the highest title of my profession, being side by side with my husband, and with our baby to complete the whole package.


Journaling:
Opening Ceremonies. PSP Annual Convention. 04/09 Diamond Hotel

Credits:
Summer Bloom papers by Nicole of DigiDesigns; Sugar Plum Swirly Bits elements; Bea Couleur de L'inde Brilliant elements; AWP Citrus Berry alphas; Fashion Colors Journaling strip

Software:
Adobe Photoshop; Scrapbook Factory Deluxe

ABOUT ME:
I am Laarni "Arnie" Pedrosa-Uy from Taguig City, a pathologist/medical transcriptionist who is into traditional (2002) and digital scrapbooking (2007). I am wifey to my honeybee Edison and mommy to our 6-month old baby boy Eagan

Sweet Summer Sunshine

Arnie says, KAYA!

For my traditional entry, I chose pics taken with baby Eagan (then barely a month old) and my dear mother-in-law before she left for Seattle. It was one of those weekends where my husband felt just like driving away from the craziness of the city and randomly picked White Rock. Our stay was only short but sweet, just relishing the moment under the sun with loved ones amidst the warm summer breeze.


Materials Used:
Prima Iron Orchid Designs Angelique Collection papers and flowers; Prima Nancy Kubo Designs Urban Cosmos paper; All About Scrapbooking C&S lace; Puffy Stickers; fibers from Carolina's.

Techniques:
paper cutting, paper tearing

About ME:
I am Laarni "Arnie" Pedrosa-Uy from Taguig City, a pathologist/medical transcriptionist who is into traditional (2002) and digital scrapbooking (2007). I am wifey to my honeybee Edison and mommy to our 5-month old baby boy Eagan. Visit me at http://laarnzzz.blogspot.com.

Finally... I'm Pregnant

Joy says, Kaya
Lee called my attention regarding my entry. The challenge should be "me" pala as my subject so I decided to create one again. Thanks again Lee.


Journaling:
I waited for you for six long years until one day you come to our life. The day I tested positive, Erwin and I had a mixed emotions. Happy because I’m pregnant again for the 4th time and afraid because I might had a miscarriage again. We seek advice from friends and I finally ended up to have a very good doctors around me who keeps on monitoring my conditions. I was house arrest for 6 months. Everyday injections were administered. Tons of medicines were taken everyday. Weekly checkup and ultrasound was done Erwin was so fragile with my condition until the BIG day come, Dec 06, 2008, 4:49AM I gave birth to our son,
Enzo Jeremiah Lim

Materials:
Joyful Kit by Choukette, Play Day template by Mzimm

Fonts:
Calibri

About Me:
I'm Joyleen Dianne Co Lim married for 6 six years and a mother to a 8 month old baby boy, Enzo. Currently quite busy with our little boy. During my spare time I try to create digital layouts as of the moment, no time for traditional yet. Do visit my blog for my updates.

Just for Fun

Chiqui says, KAYA!

I haven’t been able to make layouts for Kaya! for quite sometime now but I’m happy I’m back this month. Thanks for the challenge, Leica!


Journaling:
Jump! Let loose! Play! Daddy & I felt like we were little kids playing with you but it was definitely worth it. (Feb 2009, HK Disneyland Hotel Grounds)

Materials Used:
PP’s: Fancy Pants & Scenic Route; Fancy Pants & Journaling Card; Making Memories ribbon slider; WRMK ribbon; 7Gypsies cardstock sticker; Chatterbox journaling die-cut; Making Memories brads; Prima flowers; AC thickers; MM tiny alphas; Doodlebug loopy alphas; AC precision pen.

About Me:
I’m Chiqui Gutierrez, part time pediatrician, full time wife and mother to 2 girls (Julia is almost 7 and Ally is 3). I’ve been scrapping since July 2007 and enjoying it immensely. You can see more of me and my layouts at my blog: www.chixgutierrez.blogspot.com. See you!

R & R

Marissa says, KAYA!

I haven't been active lately due to so many personal commitments, but when I saw that digital LOs are accepted for this challenge, I whipped up a quick one and uploaded right away before procrastination sets in. These pictures were taken last week in Chicago.

Journaling:

Very simple...

oh... the places we went and the things we saw...

Materials:

R&R Alpha by Shabby Princess' Promise Alpha, fonts used: Matisse ITC and Arial; flower border and lace templates by CraftFairy1; program used: CS3 ext, all the rest are from TipToe Studio.

About Me:

Barbie collector, traditional and digital scrapbooker.

My latest project: crocheting flowers and lace to use in my scrapbook layouts and handmade cards. My next project: learn to tat.

AKA... CraftFairy1

Being Me

Mye says, KAYA!

I like Leica's challenge. Since it is about ourselves, I chose the portrait shots that my husband took after buying his first strobist kit. I am not very much into posing for the camera but since it was only him and I inside the room, it became easier and the shots turned quite well and he was able to practice.

I was thinking of whether to use traditional or digital. I still have a couple of unused kits in my stash but I cannot properly execute the things I want in paper so I opted for a digital layout.


Technique Used:
Drop Shadows, Layering

Materials Used:
Jubilant and Pocketful of Sunshine by Connie Prince.
Fonts: Century Gothic and Edwardian Script

About ME:
I am Myrlyn De Leon from Rizal. A scrapper, event coordinator and mom to my twins, Scieszka Raine and Elysia Raine. Scrapping and blogging has been my diversion from the serious and busy life in the city as a working mom. Visit me at Scrap Like Crazy.

Be Me

July says, KAYA!

This is my take on Leica's challenge. I really like this challenge which talks about vain and OCness. I'm a little like one.



Journaling:
Princess love yourself wholeheartedly. Scrapping is the me time. I wonder {always} how much money I've wasted on this...but I'm not gonna stop just like that because this makes me a different person I wanted to be...& I'm loving this...

Materials:
My mind's eye- Out and About , CS-Scrapbook Depot, Prima Flowers, AC thickers, Fancy pants transparency, Lace and beads, Prima Rub-ons- Tea and Silk collection.

About ME:
I'd love to experiment my Scrapping Style but this is indeed a therapy for me. I'm practically new to blogging also but glad if you can visit me at http://julysweetescape.blogspot.com/.

A Perfect Day

Alby says, KAYA!

About a week ago, I received an announcement that We Are Story Tellers is closing down and all digital items in the website are on sale. I purchased a couple of masks, templates, brushes and alphas and I've been itching to use them since. Hence, I've decided to go digital with this challenge and I used some of my fave vacation photos.


Journaling:
Touring Bantayan Island in rented bikes was really a great idea. We had so much fun exploring the community. I was a bit wary at first because I was afraid I won't be able to keep up with you. I thought I did ok, a bit sweaty from the exercise but happy to have tried something new. (April 2007)

Materials:
Digital Kit: Express Yourself by Ronna Penner, Template: Photo Clusters #3 by Kellie Mize, Font: FG Maria

About Me:
I'm Alby - weekend scrapper, weekday corporate slave, nightly internet stalker, blessed with a sweet and loving hubby and surrounded with four playful canine babies. Together with my hubby, I love exploring new places be it remote islands of the Philippines, religious and historical monuments or nature reserves elsewhere in the world. I document our exploits in my travel and leisure blog and once I have the photos printed, I scrap them and post in my scrapbooking blog. See you around!

Star of the Day

Joy says, Kaya

At last I was able to join the kaya challenge. I miss this a lot. Been busy with our little Enzo and facebook lately. I took time out to do layouts again. Thanks Leica for this challenge. Hoping that these would break my mojo and start scrapbooking again.


Materials:
Happy Birthday DS4 Kit by Glayce Cavalcante, Hannah Made Template
Fonts: Time New Romans



Journaling:
You look so adorable in your dalmatian costumes. Mommy loves seeing you smile and giggles while you are being photographed.

Materials:
Bel Vidotti Scraps ~ Get Fresh Taggers kit, Ruth Melody- R-Template Vol1

Fonts:
Century Gothic



About Me:
I'm Joyleen Dianne Co Lim married for 6 six years and a mother to a 8 month old baby boy, Enzo. Currently quite busy with our little boy. During my spare time I try to create digital layouts as of the moment, no time for traditional yet. Do visit my blog for my updates.

Beginning Today...

Issa says, KAYA!

Oh here I am again, making a layout about myself! I cannot resist to scrap my FB profile photo, thanks to my cousin Ronald for this hocus-focus shot last month. I have a design layout in mind but I just don't have a title for this one. Timi and Yvette thought about the title "Beginning Today" because of my new shift in life and career (kuno!) and that I must continue to grow and find peace in whatever I want to do. Tama nga naman and so here's my layout...



Journalling: In a time of new beginnings, continue to grow, to dream, and to make new memories. Whatever gives you peace within yourself will allow you to see the special person you truly are... just copied this quote from a Blue Mountain book.

Materials: Spanish Soccer pps, Prima Urban Cosmo pps, cardstocks, Prima artistry flowers, foam flowers, silk leaves, Hambly transparency, glittered glue, corrogated board, Basic Grey Wilma chiboard letters, AC Thickers foam letters, Ranger glossy accents and distressed ink-antique linen, MM acrylic paint-evergreen.

Technique Used: Painting and Masking, I masked 2 flowers on the upper left corner and the other one on the lower right corner.

About ME:
Hello everyone, I'm Issa! And I'm so happy to be here at PS' blog and joining another Kaya Challenge. I'm a little bad in blogging, but you can visit me here... Thanks for looking!

Yes!

Jenny Jean says, KAYA!

Here is my take on Leica's August Challenge.

Journaling:
For our third anniversary, we have decided to take a weekend trip to Malaysia. We enjoyed the sights, and had a taste of the local delights. It was a wonderful vacation. But what made it even more memorable is when my Cookie popped the question. And with tears brimming in my eyes, I said "Yes!".

Materials Used:
Text Printout with foam tape (for the Yes! title), Pink Ribbon, Colored paper (just some leftover pieces), Walter Knabe Card Stamp&Scrap Paper Pack (Provincial) for the Journalling page, White Photo Corners, Cut-outs (Heart Clipart with text)

Techniques Used/Process:
Cropping/Resizing for the photos, Layering, Cutting

About ME:
I am Jenny Jean, an IT professional practicing in Singapore. My fiance and I love to take photos and I found scrapbooking to be the best way for preserving the memories that comes with them. In between the day job, housechores, and (very rarely these days) scrapping, I will soon need to start preparing for a 2010 wedding. Cookie is a term of endearment between me and my fiance.