Latest Layouts....

Finally I have able to finish new layouts....Eventhough I'm busy, I still spare quite some time to my scrapping....I'm very sorry for a blurred picture, I don't know yet the settings of my scanner...LOL Smile

A layout I made for my baby Arryanne.... I use Craft express papers..Alike Quel

I decided to make this layout when I see my baby picture & got a baby picture of my youngest which we're very alike...It's alike coz my name is Raquel while my baby is Arryanne Quelle... We're called as Mommy Quel & Baby Quel by Von...I use the papers given by Pia Lopez...Thank you so much sis...

Adorable

Layout for my baby Arryanne again while having cute pose in her own...I use craft express papers & bazzill cardstock...

A new life together to celebrate...

Picture taken during our wedding at the reception...I use craft express wedding kit papers...

Power of Prayers...

Another situations happened in our family how prayers are powerful...Thanks God for all the blessings & hearing our prayers for our son...We started asking help in praying for my sons Jorges Von condition...After 6 months of praying & hoping that his cbc would turn out normal & very much okay...Finally, last June 8, 2000, he had his follow-up cbc after April's cbc. As what his hematologist , so far, the result turn out very good eventhough his EOS was still high, but according to her..it's just a normal body reaction bec he was given 6 months medication of antihistamine since he's asthmatic. And what is important to her is...his hemoglobin is very okay...And it's just only 2 months yet of taking antihistamine...Still, we're praying for a full recovery...

We would like to thank everybody praying with us...our families, friends, our marriage encounter community, my Scrapbook-Exchange friends who are always there for us eventhough I haven't meet most of them personally..

For a brief story: Because of having bruises most of the time & frequent nose bleeding even sleeping. And having a result of IDA for 2 years. We decided to let him check by a hematologist... The first test, still not that normal, the hema give 15ml a day of ascorbic acid for 2 months. He was diagnosed by then of VASCULAR PURPURA. By April 30, 2007 he undergo for a follow-up cbc again. That's the alarming result for us...he's EOS is high & more platelets seen. The hema keep on asking me if we both don't have a history of blood related problem...For a new medication, he give him 6 months intake of antihistamine. She give him antihistamine for 6 months bec. increased of EOS s usually associated with allergic diseases & parasites. And possible disorders include: Leukemia, Asthma, Eczema, Autoimmune diseases, Hay fever...Since we have history of blood problem..She focused of making it increased bec of Asthma...By giving such medication, she's hoping that the next cbc would turn out okay...As a mother, I ask her what if having medications, he's EOS still abnormal, what would happen...She says, that if it's the case, he might have a malignancy in his blood...In that moment, I'm teary eyed talking to his hema...Bec of the result, he was again scheduled for a cbc test June 15, 2007...While in the taxi way home, i can't help but cry & praying that he will be okay & nothing serious diagnosis in his next test.

Flowers Bloom in May Challenge!!!

Scrapbytes have another challenge this mommy's month...The Flowers Bloom in May.
The challenge this month, is to include flowers in your layouts. Use die-cuts, felt, fabrics, metal or paper flowers. Anything that tickles your flower fancy!But remember, you must USE AT LEAST 10 pieces of flower items in your layouts. The more the merrier.(rules)

For this challenge, Imade a layout for my baby Arryanne photo while she's still in the nursery room of St Dominic Medical Center, Bacoor, Cavite...She was born May 26, 2003. Next day after birth, her pedia talk to us about her condition. She didn't make POO within 24 hours, her stomach bloated already. As we see the x-ray, it seems that her anus was closed. Her pedia consulted to a pediatric surgeon right away & they talk to us after the surgeon examined my baby. He give us another 24 hour observation after he check the baby. And if, it doesn't work, in her 2nd day she will undergo to an operation. As a mother, i can't help but cry..thinking what might happen during the operation. The whole family are worried not only for the baby but for the fee coz the surgeon give us the figure of about 1 to 2 hundred thousand. What else I am worried is, how can I see my baby with many tube connected to her???

Von & I are lifting up to God & praying that she will not undergo an operation. My mother pray over her in the nursery room. We seek prayers from our family's & friends mostly to the Marriage Encounter Community where my parents are engaged already. By the power of prayers, the next day she poo already, even little by little, still she will not undergo for an operation. Becuse of not having Poo for almost 48 hours, she had an infection already. & the peadia decided to left her in the hosp nursery room for a few days to an observation.

Going home after giving birth without a baby was not that easy. I thought that it only happened to my eldest but it was also to my new baby.

Here's my Miracle Layout:

Materials used: Bazzil cardstock, UrbanLily-babylily collection(Denim), ChatterBox-Olive Orchard Blossom ( for handcuts flowers), Colorbox Ink.

Journalling: Having you was already a Miracle given by God to us. And bringing you home after a few days left at the hospital's nursery room without having the operation you might undergo while your're just two days old, was another Miracle, and this time power of prayers works in our family.

Side Trip....

Aside of having a vacation in Ormoc, Von made a schedule of having a customer visit at Coca Cola Tacloban Plant, May 10, 2007. Since I haven't gone to Coke, Tacloban & haven't visit some tourist spot there, I decided to go with him for a plan of having a side trip also LOL. Then, after his short meeting with the Quality Assurance Manager. We went to the plan site.....the Mac Arthur Shrine / Leyte Landing Park, Palo Leyte. It was too hot that day. But it didn't matter as long as we can took some pictures....LOL. In short...we really felt we're tourist.

Mother's Day Month!!!

Belated happy mother's day to all!!!

I just came from a vacation at Ormoc, Leyte & celebrated mother's day entertaining visitors coz its our Barrio Fiesta, Feast of Fatima... The whole family are excited in this trip, for me personally, after 12 years I was able to attend the said fiesta once again. & the kids are more excited than I am coz they're going to the beach & swim.

For mother's day...I have made a layout for me & my hubby (Von) did the journalling:

RAQUEL

Journalling from hubby says:

A warm wife to me ( Von Ryan V. Cortez)...

A full time mommy to Jayvee & Arryanne...

A Sweet & Lovable Person...

A Caring Mother...

A Scrapper...

Scrapbyte's April Challenge!!!

After waiting for a time to join a challenge. I finally uploaded it today after having a paper that match the photos.
The paper just delivered yesterday morning. very much excited, to start my layout coz i decided to join this time. I started it right away last night & make it sure that i'm going to upload it today. Thanks to hubby.a week before he buy a HP f380 printer with scanner for me...again!!! While handcutting the papers, hubby was busy to adjust scanner settings for this layout. LoL!

I use Urban Lily-Babylily Collection & a cloth flower embellishment. Its my first try of handcutting. Journalling says: After knowing that by four months, a baby will have its first roll over. And in your fourth to fifth month, mommy always keep her camera ready just to toke you a shot in that special moment. And, finally you did it when your four months & three days old....In your innocence, you didn't know how happy mommy was to witnessed you roll over....

Silang, Sept 29,2003

First Layouts!!!

Finally, I already have the guts to share & post here my scrapbookings layouts!!!....From the start, its really my hobby to design my magnetic album, with cut outs gift wrap, letters...Until I found the site of Scrapbook-Exchange in the Goodhousekeeping magazine. I login & register right away...As what I read in the post...the group members are very warm...I learn so many things from them, mostly from Pia Lopez which is nearer to Silang, Cavite where I stayed before. She & Jeff was very nice to us (me &hubby)....She give me tips where & what scrapbooking stuffs to buy for a newbie. Because, I don't have any idea about acid-free...only when I become a member of SE... My first layouts (both 8x11 & 12x12) are scraplifted my from my first magazine, Scrapbooking & Beyond and Memories.... All my firt lo's are for my babies Jayvee & Arryanne...

My first layouts... 8x11!!!

Followed by my first 12x12 layouts!!!