*New Release* Just Another Romance

 It's Grab-a-Byte time again! The second week of every month is always really the busiest with GAB at Scrapbook Byte and Gotta Grab It at Gotta Pixel. The color palette for November's GAB is beautiful with darker colors  of red and blue

Just Another Romance is currently on sale for $1.00 each pack so it's $3.00 only for the whole bundle.

Elements
Paper
Worn Papers
Artistic Smears

 

Here's my layout with the kit.

Kelly Moore's Hobo Bag

This is very scrapbook related as one of the most important aspects of scrapbooking is photos. To take photos we need cameras and to carry camera around we need.....CAMERA BAG.

I just received Kelly Moore's Hobo Bag today and I'm so excited. Honestly it's so hard to bring a DSLR around. Most of the camera bags at camera stores here are quite manly and ugly. They are generally black and hard-case. I guessed for guys they would be ok as typically guys don't carry a bag so it won't be weird for them to wear a camera bag on their shoulder or carry a camera bag.

However, for us girls, we're already carrying bag for mobile phone, wallets, hairbrush, lipstick, tissues, and those are just the basic stuff. Imagine carrying a bag + a camera bag. I did try it and it did look quite silly. I felt that I'm being weighed down with so many gigantic bags. Plus I need to carry my daughter. So my daughter in the middle, a sling camera bag on the right and a sling bag on the left.

Getting a camera bag that doesn't look like a camera bag AND can hold all my bag's basic stuff is THE DREAM. So I did some googling and found a couple of designers/stores that sell camera bags that are more stylish and girly.

Kelly Moore 

Epiphanie

Jo Totes

Emera

Shootsac

Ona

Theit

Porteen

In the end I decided on Kelly Moore's Hobo other than I like the color and style, it's one of the smallest size bag I could find. I was actually very interested in Epiphanie's Lola bag too but in the end decided that it's too big. I'm happy that I chose the smaller size camera bag because it's easier to carry and fits me quite well. For everyday use I plan on just using it to carry my 600D with 18-55mm lens, 320EX flash unit, and the rest will be my basic bag stuff. So I don't need a too big bag for couple of lenses. I'm not very tall so I'm also concern that I'll look quite ridiculous with an oversize bag. I'll post a photo of me wearing it when I got the chance to use it.

From a quick first look the camera bag looks quite sturdy. It's quite soft (synthetic leathery soft) and not stiff like some Canon, etc. camera bag. The zipper is just a tad difficult to open at the "slope" part when I wearing the bag but it's not such a big deal.

Here are the photos of my Hobo bag.

Free Template

As I mentioned before, I planned to be more active in blogging and livened up my blog. One thing I plan on doing is giving out a free template every week. Currently, there will be no "fixed" day on when the template will be available as it depends on when I have time to make and upload them but there will definitely be 1 every week. The download link will only be available for 1 week (7 days) so please download them asap.

This is not a "fixed" rule of course. I welcome comments and suggestions and will probably revise according to situation.

So here's the first template freebie of the week. I hope you like it.

Click on the image preview to download.

New Grab Bag by Connie Prince

I'm so lucky to be guesting for Connie Prince in the month of October - November. She's really a talented designer and her kits are just so popular. I've had created several layouts that I simply love during my guest time with her.

Today she has released her 2nd Grab Bag for the month of November: Give Thanks. 5 full products for $5 only for 1 week. It's filled with tons of goodies. You can grab the kit at either of these stores of hers:

Scrapbook-Bytes

Gotta Pixel

Here is my layout, which I'm so happy with. I am kind of experimenting with photo blending,which I'm not exactly very good at yet. But I've watched a very helpful tutorial from the 5 Star Digital Scrapbooking website. They do have a lot of good video tutorials.

Blogging Plan

I have decided to blog more often to kind of share what I'm doing in the scrapbooking world, what new things I've learned, what kits I've worked with, basically anything scrapbook related. I will of course be giving more freebies too. I'm planning of releasing 1 template freebie every week. So please drop by often.

The first step of course, is the update my blog's design. After all, the previous design was created when I've only been scrapbooking for around 2 or 3 months. I've learned a lot since then. The kit I used for my blog design is Scraps of Ellay's newest kit: Hipsta Chic. It's really a cute and hip kit. I love the character doodle, as you see, I use one of them for my blog title. I think that one totally resemble me with the straight long hair. I love the color of the kit too, especially the purpleness of it. Take a closer look at the kit here:

 

Here's my layout with the kit. I especially chose the polka dot background because I think the polka-dottiness of it matched my daughter's clothes and definitely show her sweet and sassy side.

Exclusively at Scrapbook Bytes

For those of you who doesn't know yet, Sugary Fancy has closed her shop at Scrapmatters and is currently guesting at Scrapbook Byte (SBB). She has released exclusive kit and template for SBB. I especially love the alpha and word-art in the Being Myself kit. I like the cursive-handwriting style but still very eligible. The handwriting feels more personal and fun.

Being Myself available at Scrapbook Bytes

 

 And here is my layout.