SnC Volunteers @ the STAR World Environment Day

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"DO YOUR PART, SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT" - we did just that today!
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Scrapbooking 4 a Cause

This time around we went green for World Environment Day while fund raising for the Ti Ratana Welfare Home; a centre for abused, abandoned, runaway, homeless and under privilege women.

.Chief Ratana admiring some of the finish products at the booth, while Datuk Tony explains scrapbooking to the Chief! Not BAD!!!!!!!!!! Datuk! Looks like Datin Catherine has an attentive hubby there.

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the Fund Raising idea
Make a Card 4 Charity ~ It's only RM 5!
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Contributors were given unlimited cut-outs (embellishments) from recycled materials and free use of adhesive, pens, markers, stamps, glitter glue etc. to create their creations.

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Our participants were so varied: children, adults, boys, girls and even VVIPs like Datin Sri Jeanne Abdullah and Datin Wendy Ong!

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Me, showing Datin Wendy Ong and Datin Sri Jeanne Abdullah some of our scrapbooking and craft projects made from recycleable materials.

Guest DT: Fiona CARTER

Fiona Carter, DT for Maya Road is Scrap-n-Crop's Guest DT of the month of June!
What perfect timing as everyone is goo-goo-gaa-gaa over Maya Road right now!

FIONA CARTER lives on Sydney's north shore with her husband, Paul, daughters Emily and Phoebe and bunnies Bubbles and Butterscotch...

Here's what she says (taken from http://www.scrap-n-crop.com/);

"My interest in crafts goes way back to my childhood. The crafts I dabbled with were many and varied, but a constant interest in "cutting and pasting" was evident - anything that included papers, pens, pencils and creative lettering always grabbed my attention. As a little girl, I would beg my mum to buy me new pencils, pens and sketchbooks so I could draw and sketch. I am still in possession of some of those sketchbooks and I treasure them.

In 2000, I was introduced to scrapbooking through a friend. I was hooked! I loved he concept of scrapbooking, recording the story of my family's lives in such a creative way. My interest in scrapbooking grew quickly and my first scrapbooking layouts were published within a year of starting this wonderful craft.

I love telling a story of my layouts. I use a combination of alot of photos of our everyday life with journalling to tell the tales of our family. The majority of my layouts are event driven. I feel I am able to add multiple photos and elements on a layout without it appearing cluttered. My scrapbooking is elegant and stylish with clean lines, lots of color with a bit of fun and humor thrown in! We know how to have a laugh in our family, and that is extended into my layouts. I hope in many years that my family can look through our albums and laugh as we remember the fun things we did.


My work has been published in Scrapbooking Memories, the Australian edition of Creating Keepsakes, My Reflections magazine, Paper Crafting with Photos (a Paper Crafts publication), Stamping and Papercraft magazine, Australian Papercrafts as well as several ideas books and special interest magazines in Australia.

I have had my projects displayed at several CHA trade shows (in the Maya Road, Paper Salon, Piggy Tales and Urban Lily booths) and a recent National Stationery Show in the USA."

Inspired so far? Well, see more of her layouts using our own kits and Maya Road projects on our site HERE

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Fiona's Personal Blog
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recycling MR tins for Environmental Day

Remember those dull aluminum tins / "suitcases" the Maya Road chipboards came in? Well, here's what my sis came up with for our STAR (newspaper) Environmental Day drive this coming Sunday.

So, ladies ...

. Want not . Waste not .

...err, since we are addicted to scrapbooking, the "want not" mantra may be hard to stick to, so let's recycle and save the environment instead.
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Travel Suitcase by Penelope Gan
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Materials from Scrap-n-Crop.com:
Prima Marketing: Whispered Words Flock Alphabet
Jenni Bowlin: Who, When, Where Tix and Punctuation Tix
Tim Holtz: Ideology Grungeboard, 9'x9' Traveler Cardstock, 9'x9' Time Cardstock, Distress Ink - Old Paper, Vintage Photo, Aged Mahogany
Heidi Swapp: Ghost Clocks, Chipboard Ornaments (clocks)
Maya Road: recycled chipboard tin, Singleton Clear Stamp - Postcard and Library Card Stamp, chipboard wings, Fresh Chipboard - Antique Keys
DaisyD's: Pattern Paper - Timeless Post
StazOn: Black Solvent Ink Pad
Scrap-n-Crop: brads, photo anchor, eyelets, fibre, clear UTEE and designer's own collection of rubber stamps.