New Papers are arriving in my store!!

Hi all...

quick post to announce that I sell papers now!! Yay! Going out with a new venture, and braving myself to take risks to sell papers. So if you have friends who loves to scrapbook, refer them to my website:

www.akikostore.com

or, just visit the facebook here: www.facebook.com/akikostore

to order the papers, contact me at the number above: 0817.03330.687

I love Christmas papers, and love making Christmas daily album. So here are some of the selections that I have on the store for you:

Aren't these the yummiest?? The Christmast -est (is there such a word?) paper? This is from Crate Paper, and it's my favorite lines for this year. Get them while they are still available because they will be sold out pretty soon...

Well, that's really all for today.. gotta go working out (still hates them, and after 3 weeks of not working out, I'm not looking forward to it.. ) But we still have to do what we have to do. The only thing that'll keep me going is that I can have BK afterwards.. ha ha ha!!
I know I know it's cheating.. but it's kind of why I'm working out.. so I can eat whatever I want when I work out.. ha ha ha...

Have a great day, y'all!!

Inspiration for the daily journal kit

Hi all..

So here's the inspiration if you want to, how I use the daily art journal kit.

You know my scrapbooking is not all about the products, but for the memories and stories of daily life that's happening and also the photos. It's because I want to pass the stories to my children, and memory's is fickle. You tend to forgot daily stuff (which is life), and only remember the big events.

So I took part of this record your week, to take photos and journal them. From Sunday to the next Sunday I took photos from my iphone (love the iphone app photos) and print them, and then journal about my week.

Here's some of the layout:

The cover

using washi tape to write on (the right page)

washi tapes on the left page, and the right page: exclusive doily stitched on paper

another washi tapes, and also stitched page on the right

right side: stitched and punched doily paper on paper

That's the art journal. As you can see I do a lot of writing, my own handwriting. Never be afraid of your own handwriting. It adds personal touches, and just write the stories, how you feel, what's happening on your day.

I will not blog for the next 2 weeks, as Idul Fitri's approaching and my maids will go back to their own cities.  I need to take care of my kids full time (ergo, no blogging). All the moms in Claire's school kind of complained about having no maids for the holidays... hehehe.. and I thought, we're totally pampered here, compared to other moms living overseas who have no maid at all.

What about you? What are you doing on the Idul Fitri's holiday? Where are you going??

To those of you who celebrates, Happy Idul Fitri! Minal aidin wal faizin!!

Daily art journal

Hi all..

I'm showcasing one of my new product to go on sale: daily art journal kit.

So it's a journal kit, all made from scrapbook acid free papers, and it's personally hand made, stitched, sprayed, so you can create your own scrapbook journal.

It's because I received a lot of phone calls/messages requiring that they want to do the album themselves, so I thought, why not?

Here's the kit: (click the photos to view it larger)

The kit includes all of them, for the price of Rp. 300,000 (excluding ongkos kirim/mail fee)
If you are interested, contact me, the number and email address are on your right hand side of this blog.

All things inside the kit are:
2 cover pages
9 pages of papers
10 exclusive pages, stitched, punched, sprayed.
4 washi tapes
4 ribbons
11 embelishment stickers (the butterflies and the heart)
2 punched hearts
4 journaling cards.

The next post will show what I do with the kit, maybe it'll give you inspirations, and then you can buy the kit from me! he he he...

Joshua's 4th birthday

Good day everyone..

This time I'm offering a new service, children's birthday party photography and scrapbooking.
What I do is the service of taking photos of the birthday party, and then use that photos to make it into a scrapbook album. It's completely personalized and according to the theme of the party.

If you are interested, just contact me via sms for the photo service and pricing.

Here is one example of Joshua's fourth birthday party:

This page, all the corner is using washi tape

Like usual, I also sell the pre made album by itself. For pricing, just contact me via sms. Thanks for browsing through my blog!

The essence of scrapbooking for me.

Hi all..

as promised, this is one of the projects that I've done last 2 weeks.. My daughter is 4 years old now, and only now I just finished her baby album.. :P. And I haven't started to do one for my 2 years old..

For me, the process of scrapbooking is not just about the papers and the design and the art making scrapbook, to make it more flowerful or more decorated. Scrapbooking is about recording your memories, and of course, beautiful papers help! I'm usually inspired by the papers first, and then making the album. I try to not pressuring myself to make the best decorated album or anything, but also recording the memories, knowing that years from now, my daughters and her granchildren would love to know the stories and memories recorded, regardless whether it's fully embelished or not.

Lots of people usually afraid to jot down their handwriting on the scrapbooking papers, afraid that it'll diminished the pretty papers. But your handwriting is important. Years from now, your children and grandchildren would get a glimpse of you, of your handwriting, of things that you've touched, and that's priceless. By all means, just jot it down, no matter how messy your handwriting is. It just make it more personalized.
How I wished I have my grandmother's handwriting and her memories of each photos. I don't have one. All I have is just browned pictures of them without dates and names of the people. I wish I have the stories, the date, the who and the what of each pictures. And now I'm making that for our children.

Here's my example that scrapbooking doesn't need to be fancy. It could be just a simple decoration and your writing.

Oh, btw, you can also purchase the album from me as well, I made some of them for sale too. heheheh.. the size is 6x6", the pages are alternated, one decorated and one blank for you to write your own stories. If you are interested, just contact me at 0817.03330.687. Thanks.

I didn't post all twelve pages of the twelve months.. but you got the gist. Wait for some more mini albums!

new magazines

Hi all..

it's been a long time since I've blog, and I'm still here... It's just that life's been really busy, and I'm doing three/four scrapbook projects, and once it's done, I'll take a picture and post it here.

In the meantime, today I have the time to pick up some magazines for sale as well..

For complete list of magazines that are available click here:

http://www.kaskus.us/showthread.php?t=7007711

That's it for today... I will return as soon as I can..

New scrapbook journals for sale

Hi all.. happy TGIF!!

Today I'm probably doing couple of blog posts, as I have some to share with all of you there..

Now it's about the scrapbook journals that I made, and you can see the inside as well.

The price is the same, Rp. 100,000, and I can do custom made according to your name, what you want the journal to be, and of course, the colour.

Thanks for making it this far!