May 6, 2011

hop... hop... hop...

welcome to my stop on the mscraps blogtrain!!!

i hope you are enjoying the ride and all the fabulous gifts from the mscraps creative team & designers which we prepared for you. you should have come here from helen's blog. if you get lost or missed a blog stop along the way visit the mscraps forum to get the full blogtrain list.

and here's my freebie...

hope you like it...
now head over to jaime's blog for her gorgeous gift.
thanks for hopping with us & for stopping by.

Apr 25, 2011

belated...

hello everyone...
again, this is late already but anyhow (lol), here's a little freebie from me to celebrate the easter sunday. it's late. i should be posting this last week since i thought i would not be able to greet you all a happy easter but obviously i forgot. but still, i hope you'll like it.


i am planning to make another minikit to go along with this to create a full kit (i'm hoping). hehehe... always remember that Christ died that we may live. ♥

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before i go, here's a layout of my boys using my upcoming minikit & pagemaker pack. it will go live this friday, april 29.

each moment is so precious and timeless for me and for the love of making memories, i always want to capture them.

have a wonderful week ahead.

thanks for dropping by.

Apr 16, 2011

1st printed photobook


Hi there… I am here to blog about my 1st printed photobook from Riot Photobooks here in UAE. Yes!!! Here in Dubai, UAE. Thanks to a very good friend’s resourcefulness. Lol!



Monday, April 11, this very good friend was searching the net for a photobook printing company. She’s been searching long enough since she also wanted to print her photobooks. She finally came across this forum where Riot Photbooks’ link was shared. Then she found out that it’s a Dubai-based company plus they accept payment through Paypal. Woot2x… When she shared it to me, without doubt, I downloaded their software and started laying out my photobook when I got home from work. Got to try… Got to try!!! I didn’t sleep until I was finished with the ordering and uploading to their server. They, the Riot Photobooks, kept me updated through emails about the status of my order. They emailed me when they received my order, when my photobooks was on its way to me, and even the updates of the shipping/delivery.



Thursday, April 14, I received my photobook very early than I expected. With excitement I opened it with my 2 good friends (bffs) around, excited as well. Hahaha… Here are some of the photos:


Before opening the box from Riot Photobooks.



The layouts I made for my photobook were sized 8x8 inches and their photobook sized 7.9x7.9 inches (21 x 21 cm). Inside the box was a cardboard as backing and my photobook wrapped in plastic. After unwrapping it, my photobook was plastic-wrapped as well. It’s nice because it will keep your photobook secure.


Here’s my photobook… It’s just thin; barely half the minimum pages from their regular square hard cover (matt laminated cover) which is 40 pages. Anyways, it’s fine with me since I was eager to really see the outcome of my photobook.




Front cover




Back cover






I just have a couple of concerns though…

First, the edges of my photobook covers are almost cut… good thing it was not cut (oh well, the flower was cut or on the folding side already). Note to self: next time, when making the layout for the covers, make sure to have an invisible borderline around and position your layout inside that borderline enough that it won’t be cut off when printed.


Same thing for the inside pages, I measured the inside pages and it’s not 21cm x 21cm, didn’t even reached 20cm. As well as the cover page, the width was 20.50cm and the height was 21cm.







Second, the binding looks like done in a hurry (I guess). I can see the binding glue and the lines as to where I think the edges of the inside pages should end. It was not stitched like the other hard bound books I’ve seen. But maybe it’s also because I already have a few pages. Perhaps they would stitched it if I reached their minimum number of pages.




But in general, I am happy for the result. I’ve already posted about this on my Facebook and as I’ve said, there’s room for improvement. Rating it from 1 – 10, I am rating it 7. Can’t even wait to order my next photobooks and I am hoping to rate it 9 or 10 perhaps. Hehehe…



To Riot Photobooks, thanks for printing my photobook and delivering it early. Hehehe…



Thank you.

Apr 15, 2011

so late...

O-M-G!!! so sorry i totally forgot about this littke giveaways i should be having almost 2 weeks ago. where was i??? lol.


anyways, here are the winners... congratulations to...


ayn


for winning the forever yours kit


and


vetra


for winning the pagemaker album template #4


email me at iscrapbyinglim@gmail.com to claim your coupon codes. =D


thanks

Apr 1, 2011

something new at my shop

hello there... i'm back with a new kit, forever yours, and a new set of album template, pagemaker album template #4, out in my store @ mscraps today... and it's 30% off this weekend.


since i only have a bunch who commented on my previous post about these and i am extending my little giveaway until this weekend. you can comment here for another chance of winning 1 of each of these.


go and visit mscraps now and there are so many fabulous new products in there as well as previous products by mscraps wonderful designers.



here are some layouts from the wonderful mscraps ct and my ct:

(a 2-pager by ella)

(by france)
(a 2-pager by gateausoso)
(by paulinem)
(by scrapporreia)
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and lastly, this is long overdue... here's a freebie for you all, frame me freebie 3, they are 2-4x6 punched photo frames in psd and tiff formats. grab them here.


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thank you for dropping by. have a great weekend. ♥

Mar 29, 2011

just passing by with a SMILE...

HELLO!!! i know it's been a while... no, it's been a long time. hahaha... but as always this will be a short post. i just wanna share with you my latest photobook, our gift to a friend who finally got married. lol.







if the above doesn't work, here's the link...


http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0FbNHDZsyZutg


and i turned these lovely photobook to a template, my pagemaker album template # 4 coordinated by my newest kit, forever yours kit. both are coming this april 1st at mscraps, so watch out for it (please!!!). hahaha...


if you wanna win them (1 lady will win the album template & 1 lady will win the kit), just post a comment here. and more chance to win by blogging, facebooking, tweeting this. i will announce the winners on friday (crossing my fingers... lol).


thanks for dropping by.


Jan 28, 2011

mscraps @ 1...

happy birthday to us at mscraps!!! we just turne ONE!!!
and it is my 1st anniversary, too, as an official designer. i made my debut a year ago. i never imagined myself to have reached a year. lol! but i am super-dooper glad and thankful for mscraps for having me.

as we turn one, we have this HUGE blogtrain. after you have downloaded all the parts, you will end up having a huge kit with the same color palette... SO NICE. *wink*

isn't helen's freebie georgious? so, without much further ado, here's my part... hope you like it.

{ mscraps birthday bash }

go, go, go... head on to jaime's blog for her part. =Dif you were not able to follow the track, you can always go to the mscraps forum for the list.
thanks so much for stopping by.