A very huge toot & some layouts.

I'm so......... happy & excited. I couldn't stop smiling. I got into scrapdish CT. I was checking my email every hour to see if if I had a mail from Robin. I screamed with joy, when I just read her mail aloud to my hubby just now. I can't wait to start working with the awesome designers at scrapdish.
I've had a horrible couple of days. All of us had the stomach flu & it was really bad. I just couldn't get up for 2 days. Thankfully, dh got it a day later than me, so we were able to somehow manage Maanasa. We are fully recovered now, but I'm still very weak. I've 7 layouts to share with you all.
Since I'm always behind the camera, I don't have many photos of me & Maanasa. so though I don't like this photo much, I decided to scrap it.
I used the 'Precious Gift-Pregnancy' kit by SaraAmarie.
'Cheesecake' kit by Bella Gypsy designs.

Ok, I decided to scrap the ultrasound pictures of Maanasa finally, lol. I used the




This one is for the Mom's advice album. I'm so enjoying doing this mini album. Thanks Tania. I used 'Gurly' kit by Carrie Stephens, available at Fishscraps.

I love this photo of Maanasa. I think that she looks very cute I used the 'Antique Chic' kit by Becky Vosburg.

Maanasa normally enjoys bath time so much, but on this particular day, she was very cranky, so I had to take a picture I used the 'Canvas flowers' kit by Christine Schultz.

I did this one for sketch challenge at Gotta Pixel. I used the 'Berry Jam' kit by Dani Mogstad, the background is from 'Eternal hope kit' by Theresa Hernandez & the doodle from Angie Briggs.

Have a great day.

2 New Layouts & CT

We went away for the weekend with a few close friends, to a beautiful place called 'Amden'. We had a great time there. The guest house was very nice, with a state of art kitchen. So we had a fun time cooking our dinner. But there was a snow storm on saturday night & we were not able to move our car. After trying for an hour & a half, we finally left from there.
I got into Sara Amarie's CT. Here is the announcement in her blog.
She sells at 3 scrapateers. When I saw the CT call, I just clicked on her shop link to take a look as I'd never heard of her till then. I saw some beautiful stuff,so I decided to apply, but I didn't think I would get it though. I'm so excited now & I can't wait to scrap with her kits.
Here are 2 more pages for the Mom's advice mini album. I love the layouts I've done for this mini album so far.
I used Amy Knepper's 'Happy go lucky' kit for the first page. The colors of the kit matches her jammies so well.

I used Dani Mogstad's 'Berry jam' & 'So Diva' kit & the cute roses are from Anita Sterigou.

Peek-a-boo & cow girl charm.

I love this photo of Maanasa. She was playing peek-a-boo with me. Her cot is next to ours. Sometimes she wakes up really early in the mornings, like 6 a.m:), if I still feel a little sleepy, I just keep talking to her, playing with her for a few more minutes till I force myself to wake up. This particular morning, we were playing peek-a-boo & she was very very cute, I just had to get the camera:)

I used the 'Lemon Meringue' kit by Bella Gysy designs.
As soon as I saw the 'Cutest cowgirl' kit by Tracy, I was searching & searching for photos in my folder. Unfortunately I couldn't find any, so I used a stock photo from the net. This kit is too cute. I love it.

Tonight I'm going for a theater performance with my german class friends. The play is in swiss german, so I'm not really sure how much of it I can understand, but our German teacher is also going to be there, so it'll be fun.

Beauty - Layout

Hurray!!!! Maanasa has started sitting.
I participated in Scrrapper's spotlight contest at RAKSCRAPS. I scraplifted Leila's 'The only Beauty' layout. She has some swesome stuff in her gallery, loads of inspiration.
Her gallery is awesome. Lots & lots of inspiration there. Check it out.
Here is my version of the layout.

The background paper is from 'Beautiful You' kit Jen Wilson, the flowers are freebie from scrap kitchen, Stitching from 'Simply Stitching' by Christine Nash & 'Bull's Eye' stitches by Anita Stergiou.

A very special Layout

I have a bad cold since yesterday. I'm trying not to go near Maanasa. Dh stayed home today to take care of her:) & I was happily scrapping the whole day.
This layout is very special to me for a couple of reasons. This is my first layout in PSE 4.0. I think I'm going to buy it at the end of the trial period. I love it, especially the drop shadows. I was never satisfied with drop shadows in DIP, probably I didn't know how to use them better.
I was browsing through several quotes to use with this photo & then suddenly thought about attempting to write a (very)small poem. So here it is:
When I knew that you were going to come in June
I was over the moon.
After confirming that you were a little girl, my pearl
I didn't even stop to think
I went & bought everything in pink.
I love you my little baby,
For you are a part of me.
All my love, my hope & dream for you
May all of them come true.
It is nothing spectacular, but it is special because this is my first poem, if you could call it that:)I never thought about scrapping this photo, but I was reorganizing my photos & just came across this, I was crying looking at these teeny weeny socks & onsies, thinking about my pregnancy & about how tiny my little girl was once. Even when I was pregnant, I knew that she would be a very sweet child, I was never sick for even a day. Now, she never troubles me,
always smiles even as soon as she wakes up. I love this baby of mine.
I used Tracy Blankenships's 'Madeline Rose' for this layout. I'm in love with this kit. It is absolutely beautiful.

Another layout I did yesterday using the 'Apple Crisp' kit by Bella Gypsy designs available at ACOT.

It is a part of their Coffee Shop Collection. It is awesome. I can't wait to play with the the other kits in this collection.

My 100th Layout & 5000 posts at RAKSCRAPS:)

I'm so excited because I've hit 5000 posts at RAKSCRAPS. I love this place. The people are very friendly & always ready to help. I've made quite a few friends here. This place really RAKS:) I've another LO from Mom's mini album to share with you. This one is extra special because it's my 100th layout. YES MY 100th LAYOUT & I did this using 'Shine' kit by Bella Gypsy. I love this kit. I think I'll be using this again for another page soon.

I've downloaded the free trial version of Photoshop elements 4.0, can't wait to play with it. I think I'm going to like it a lot. I've applied for another CT & I really really want to get it. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Let us see:)
I've entered a few of my rectangle layouts for Ginger's 'Are you too Square' contest. There are some fabulous layouts here. You can check it out here.
Maanasa is 3 days old in this photo. She is/was such a well behaved baby. She never cries much, slept through the night from 4 months, a very contended & happy baby. I'm so lucky & blessed to have her.

I used 'Sweets for my sweetie' kit by Becky Vosburg available at digishoppe. The colors of the kit match those of Maanasa's dress perfectly:)

A few layouts

Here is LO using Tracy's 'Little Gentlemen', available at
Scrappindigikreations & Digital Freebies. The colors of the kit were perfect for this photo.

It's snowing outside & it is just the perfect weather to sit & scrap:) But unfortunately Maanasa doesn't think so:) She is becoming more & more active & naughty & I just have to watch her carefully all the time.

Maanasa loves to watch Baby Einstein & Old Mc.Donald DVD's. She loves the songs & concentrates totally. She usually crosses her legs when lying down, it looks too cute:) How can I not scrap a page with this cute photo. So, here is the page. I used 'Bohemian Luxe' kit by Bella Gypsy designs, the flower is from 'Edible flowers' by scrap kitchen & the doodle is from 'Sassy Girl' kit by Bette Duganitz.

Ok, the last one. This one is for the 'Mom's Advice mini album' at RAKSCRAPS. This is a fun project, I can't wait to do the rest of it. This week's quote is "Don't put that in your mouth, you don't know where it's been!" & I had the perfect photos to use. I used the 'Canvas Flowers' kit by Christine Schultz.


Have a wonderful day:)

Bella Gypsy CT & All About me layout.

I can't beleive that someone actually bothered to read my blog. Thanks for leaving comments Fiona & Melinda. You made my day:)
I applied for a CT position in Bella Gypsy Designs. Tabatha Reed & Lena Brandenburg design awesome kits & they sell at 'A cherry on top'. I'm totally thrilled to be on their team. I already made 3 layouts using their kits. I think my favorite so far is the Frolic kit. I love the colors & patterns in this kit. I used this for an 'all about me' layout.

I'm thinking of buying a WACOM tablet, but it is so confusing to decide on which one to buy. I spent the whole of yesterday evening looking at different threads in the SBB & RAKSCRAPS forum & got even more confused, lol. The biggest problem is here in switzerland I can only get the German version of the software, though I understand German, it is pain not having an english version.
Maanasa has learnt to open cupboards :), I left her for a minute & came back to see her blissfully examining the contents of the cupboard. There were too many things inside & I think she was just trying to decide if she wanted to play with the mobile phone charger
or the screw driver first:)
Tania has posted 2 quotes for this week's Mom's advice project, can't wait to start working on it.
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What it means to me to be a creative team member & thanks for picking me Tracy:)

Being a part of creative teams means so much to me because that means people see my work, judge them & consider me good enough to work with their designs. This is very important for me as I always admire people who are creative & has thought that I don't have a bone of creativity in me. When I started digiscrapping, way back in May 2005, I was sure that this new hobby of mine was not going to last long. But I was mistaken. I love digiscrapping & the creative part in me has come out because of it.
I should thank Tracy B for inviting me to be her CT first. She wrote a very sweet mail & I was jumping up & down with excitement. Till then, I never thought people liked my work. After that I got a little brave & applied for more CTs, got my share of rejections:)
Tracy B has started selling her designs at Digital freebies too & she decided to expand her CT. She has chosen the following people.
Deb
Gina
Melinda
Joyce
Julie
Fiona
Raji ----- That's me :)
I'm familiar with all their work through RAKSCRAPS & I can't wait to start working with them.

If you keep making that face, it'll freeze that way

I'm doing a project at RAKSCRAPS. It is called Mom's advice & the first week's title was 'If you keep making that face, it'll freeze that way'. I had the perfect photo of Maanasa & I used Ginger.T's sketch as my inspiration. I love the way it has turned out. I think this is going to be my favorite layouts for a long time. I was so excited to see that Ginger has highlighted the layout in her blog. Check it out here
Maanasa has been blowing bubbles for the past 3 weeks or so. She loves to do it all the time. It is cute (most of the times) & a little annoying if she does it while eating:)

My First Post

Finally I caught the Blog-o-mania bug. I'm not sure about what exactly I'm going to blog about, but hey it is a start & I am definitely proud of it.