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Aloha and welcome to our Scrapbooks Hawaii Design Team blog. We are very excited to feature projects and layouts by our very talented Design Team members both from the Philippines and Hawaii.

Our very first featured Design Team member is COOKIE AGUILAR. Cookie is the reigning Scrapbook Idol in the Philippines. She is designing for several manufacturers and online stores. She loves to scrapbook her family especially her little boy, Harvey.

Cookie played with our Scrapbooks Hawaii March Kit, POCKET OF SUNSHINE and created 4 layouts, 3 cards and 1 mini album. Please see them below with corresponding instructions.

Title: Why?
Instructions:

1. Get Cherished diecut paper (MME) and cut a rectangle across the page.
2. Save the cut rectangle for future page..
3. Get True Teal Bazzill cardstock. Cut a size a little larger that the previous rectangle taken from the Diecut shaped paper. Use a border punch (I used Fiskars Sunburst) to give design to one side of the light blue cardstock.
4. Rub a little paint (black) around the picture to serve as matting or frame.
5. Get the Memory Lane (Sassafras) paper. You need the backside of this paper, but be careful not to cut the girl on bike, red flower on the lower right hand corner and the ducks on the lower left hand corner. Place this piece on top of the True Teal cardstock for another layer....
6. Take the Falling Leaves (MME) and cut out small curves to resemble as hills and layer it on the page.
7. Cut a tree shape from Pink Paislee's Adorable patterned paper.
8. Get the Falling Leaves (MME) patterned paper and cut out a couple of leaves from it (around 7 to 8) to be attached to the branches of the tree.
9. For the title... i use black pen to doodle around the Life At The Pole (Sassfras) alphaletters.
10 I also use crop-a-dile to place holes in the sides of the pics. then I used the kit's ribbons to add accent.
11. Got a 3d paint (pebeo - which i love to use) and doodled dots around the True Teal cardstock. 12. The Sassafras papers comes in with decorative edges.... I got 1 of the edges of the Memory Lane patterned paper and layered it on top of the picture and hills (to resemble a layer of flowers on my page).

TITLE: Child @ Heart
Instructions:
1. get a scallop circle shaped cardstock ( from your own stash) and trace it over the Candy Red Bazzill cardstock included in the kit.
2. get a circle cutter/compass/plate and cut a big circle from the Treasured Motif (Adornit) patterned paper included in the kit. Size should be smaller than the scallop base. Cut the circle by tearing, to give it a distressed look. inked it with black ink pad. Place it on top of the scallop Candy Re cardstock.
3. Cut across Pink Paislee's Engaging patterned paper (approxiamtely 5 x 12 inches) and ink all sides with black ink. Place it on the middle part of the scallop base.
4. Take the Pleasantly Puzzled Sassafras patterned paper and turn over. The backside has a stitched scalled print at the bottom before the white tab of the paper. Cut this scallop. Take the Sassafras Lass Blossomed and cut off the lower scallop then cut the rest of the tab. Take the blue scallop the layer on top of the scallop print of the same tab. (see picture above). Place the scallops as you see them on the picture layered on top of the Engaging (PP) patterned paper.
5. Use 3 photos for this page. Paint all sides with red acrylic paint for frame effect.
6. Arrange the photos on the middle part of the page on top of the 5x12 Engaging (PP) patterned paper cut earlier.

7. Cut the Girl on the Bike and side red flower designs from the Sassafras Memory Lane patterned paper to be used as embellishment on you page.
8. get the Falling Leaves (MME) patterned paper and cut curves (to resemble as land).
9. Draw outline on the Sassafras Life At the Pole alpha sticker letters using black pen.
10.. Doodle stitch design around the circle paper on top of the red scallop paper.



TITLE: Orange you glad? We are Best of Pals?
Instructions:
1. I used a kraft paper as base for this page.
2. get 4 kinds of patternpare from the kit... (this will depend upon the colors of you pics.) In this layout, I used Falling Leaves (MME), Adorable (PP), Memory Lane (SL), and Treasured Motif (Adornit). Cut it in to strips with approximate measurements of at least 1.5 inches x 5 inches (length can vary).
3. Outline these stripes using black pen
4. Arrange the strips on the right side part across the base of the paper.
5 Use 3 wallet sized photos in creating this page. Use the Film Stamp by MME included in you kit to stamp over the pictures to give it added design and dimension. paint the edges of the photos with acrylic paint for framed effect
6. arrange the photos on top of the strips
7. Cut the two ducks from the Sassafras Memory Lane patterned paper to use as an embellishment. Take your American Craft Flair and Remarks Stickers. And take your Sassafras Lass Life at the Pole stickers. Place embellishments and title at the bottom part of the strips
8. Write a little journaling on the upper left hand corner of the base.
9. Doodle around the base of page.



TITLE: ZOO
Instructions:
1. Get a shaped paper from you stash and trace it over the flesh cardstock (included in the kit). I use brackets shaped paper.
2. Once cut, adhere it over Sassafras Lass Blossomed patterned paper and tear around the edges to give it texture. Distress with black ink.
3. Cut a square from Pink Paislee Adorable patterned paper (approximately 8x8 inches in size) then punch one side with the threading water punch and tear the rest of the sides.
4. Cut another piece of Sassafras Lass Memory Lane patterned paper (approximately 4.5 x 7 inches) and layer it on top of the 8 x 8 PP Adorable paper. Ink the edges.
5. Then paint the edges of the picture and adhere it on top of the layered papers.
6. Insert the AC remarks on one side of the picture.
7. Cut the scallop strip from one of the Sassafras Lass Pleasantly Puzzled patterned papers included in the kit and place it below the picture to serve as border.
8. Embellish your page with the Pleasantly Puzzled paper and doodle some stitching around.


CARDS: Ur Invited
Instuctions:
1. Cut 10.5 x 4 inches of white cardstock and score in the middle.... this will serve as your base.
2. Cut 5.25 x.4 inches of yellow cardstock (included in you kits) and adhere in on front of the base of the card
3. Cut 3.5 x.5 inches of patternpaper from one of you scraps... Get corner rounder and punch each corner.
4. If you have cuttlebug machine.... run the last layer for more texture.
5. Get butterfly chipboard and the Pink Paislee Pixie Stix Cream Soda both from the kit. Put glue all over the butterfly chipboard and sprinkle over the glitter from the PP Pixie Stix Cream Soda.
6. then adhere the butterfly on you card. Put message on it too.

here is another card Cookie made from the scraps left in the kit....

TITLE: Thank you (flower card)
Instructions:
1. Cut 8.5 x 7 inches of white cardstock. This will serve as base of the card.
2. Score it in the middle
3. Get the True Teal scrap cardstock. Measure 2 x 7inches and adhere it to the right portion of the card
4. Get the MME Falling Leaves patterned paper. Measure 2 x 7 inches. Punch one side using threading water puncher (any border puncher will do). Adhere this on top of the light blue cardstock.
5. Measure 7 x 2.75 inches of Pink Paislee Adorable patterned paper scrap and adhere it on top of the card (left side).
6. Cut flower design from the MME Fresh Flowers included in the kit. Put foam tapes to give it dimension.
7. use brown ribbon included in the kit as stem of the flower.
8. Put message at the lower right portion of the card.

Step 1. Get your orange cardstock then divide into 3 parts horizontally and 3 parts vertically. So this will result into having 9 squares in a cardstock measuring 4x4 inches each. Score it using your scor-pal, trimmer with scorer, or with bare hands.

Step 2. Looking at the diagram, cut along the broken lines only. (refer to diagram and step 1)

Step 3. Begin to fold. Holding the first square on top of the dotted line, fold the cardstock inwards, then outwards, and then inwards again until the reach the last square at the bottom of the cardstock.

Step 4. Get 2 pieces of cardboard. Measure and cut 2 pcs of 5x5 inches of MME Falling Leaves patterned paper. Cover the cardboard with it (refer to step 15 to 18)

Step 5. Once done, get the ribbon and place it around the folded cardstock. Place it in the middle part then put adhesives. Cover the front with one pattern paper covered cardboard. Do the same with the back side.

Step 6.You may put adhesive on unwanted pages or on some sides of the pages for you to be able to put on inserted journaling as you make your mini book.

Now for you visual learners: :)