Opportunity House Donation

I am pleased to share that our first Charity Collab Kit - Crop Dreams raised a not-too-shabby $144.  Times are tough, so I chipped in a few more bucks to round out the donation to $150. Even though it was just shy of our $200 goal, I believe our first effort at fundraising was a humble success.

I want to give a very special thanks to Kara Jones for allowing Crop Dreams a spot at K-Joi Studios and for waiving her fees; to the fabulous group of designers who contributed: Lorie Manlapaz, Diane Miraballes, Bev O'Loughlin, Ma.Aimie Suarez + Tes Tirol and to the lovely people who showed their support with their purchase of our collab kit.

This experience has taught me alot about the fundraising process and I hope to have the opportunity again to work with such talented and generous people on future charity art collab efforts.  Drop me a line here if you have ideas or suggestions for the next MabuhayProject collab.

Salamat + Mabuhay!  :)

PayPal Payment details:

• Amount: $108.00 USD | Transaction Date: Dec 15, 2009 | Custom note: crop dreams charity
• Amount: $27.00 USD | Transaction Date: Mar 10, 2009 | Subject: You've got a payment CROP DREAMS SALES for 2008
• Amount: $9.00 USD | Transaction Date: Mar 9, 2009 | Subject: You've got a payment January CROP DREAMS SALES

Two New Quick Pages + Winner of RAK

I was inspired recently by two goreous photos. One of my nephew and one of my niece.  You will find these quickpages will be a fantastic spot for your kids pictures too!

Available at K-Joi Studios during the month of October 2009.

Available at K-Joi Studios during the month of October 2009.

We have a winner!



@Mishee75, you will recieve a message shortly with the code to download Crop Dreams - Charity Kit at K-Joi Studios. We hope you enjoy Crop Dreams as much as we do!

And Thank you all for entering! By entering you've helped us celebrate Filipino American History Month and spread the word about our Crop Dreams Charity Collab Kit, which proceeds (minus paypal fees) will benefit children in the Philippines and other asian countries through Opportunity House.

Maraming Salamat! Thank You Very Much! Mabuhay!

Win 'Crop Dreams'

That's right! Us MabuhayProject gals decided a great way to celebrate Filipino American History Month 2009 is to offer up the collaboration kit (including the Alpha Set) to one lucky winner. This is an amazing offer, because Crop Dreams has a ton of gorgeous elements, papers, word art and quickpages that are fun and vibrant for any of your beautiful photos.

So, All you have to do is leave us a comment in our DigiShopTalk Happy Place post: {click here to enter to win} We'll pick a random winner using random.org on October 11th.

LAST CHANCE!!! Crop Dreams - Charity Kit

Hello Scrappers!

So far, we've raised just $36 USD for Opportunity House. Thank you so much for supporting Mabuhay Project since October ‘08. We'd love, however, to get the donation higher. We have a goal of $200.


So, if you can, we would love it if you could tell everyone about our Crop Dreams Charity kit. If we get the word out to the entire scrapbooking community, we believe we can raise a lot more this last month. This October 2009 is our last chance to make an impact!


Please remember, with your purchase of the full collaboration, you will recieve the Crop Dreams Alpha Set for FREE!

(Yes! I want to support Opportunity House Today with Crop Dreams!)

Crop Dreams Charity Collaboration Kit is packed full of all the essentials you need to scrap a whole bunch of beautiful pages. There is so much in here you will love it!

Crop Dreams includes: 18 gorgeous papers, six awesome 12x12 quick pages, 10 beautiful bracket pages, 7 unique word arts ("flourish", "flourish.thrive.grow", "hip!hip!hurray!", "mabuhay!", "proud of you", "sumisibol", "U Crack Me Up") and 53 tropical fun elements, including: 1 decorated tri-bamboo frame, 1 tied-branch frame, 1 heliconia flower, 1 plant stem, 1 glittered nipa hut, 1 rice stalk (green, yellow, tan), 1 brown vase, 1 watermelon (as a stamp + sticker), 1 watermelon slice (as a stamp + sticker), 1 multi-colored border, 1 pink flower, 3 different leaves, 1 branch with leaves, 1 nut, 1 stone, 1 knotted string, 1 twisted ribbon (in green + in olive), 1 cluster of water drops, 3 glass bead buttons (flower, leaf, wood), 1 green bullnose clip, 1 tropical clipped cluster, 1 brown leather flower, 1 ripe mango, 1 cluster of painted wooden flowers, 1 stapled olive ribbon, 1 pink sash, 1 string of shells, 1 sash with clustered elements, 1 plain wooden flower, 2 wooden "tsinelas" slipper key-chains, 1 lightwash border 12x12 overlay, 1 mango morning 12x12 overlay, 1 mango traffic jam 12x12 overlay, 1 sticker of a string of sampaguita flowers, 1 sticker of a sampaguita flower cut-out, 1 plumeria sticker, 1 plain brown hut, 4 "gumamela" hibiscus flowers, 1 brown with green striped ribbon, 1 "go mango" tropical cluster, 1 multi-colored "community" of huts, 1 cut-open coconut, 1 "coco flora" tropical cluster (2 styles), 1 fiesta "carabao" water-buffalo head, and 1 leather+wooden flower cluster.

Plus, with your purchase of Crop Dreams Charity Collab, you will also recieve the Crop Dreams Alpha Set for free. Crop Dreams Alpha set includes a natural weave texture and a subtly painted version. It consists of a lowercase alphabet, numbers 0-9 and the following punction { } , ! . ? *You may also purchase just the Crop Dreams Alpha Set here > http://kjoistudios.net/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=66_75&products_id=2238

More about Crop Dreams: This is a beautiful, fresh collaboration kit originally released October 2008 in celebration of Filipino American History Month - and will retire at the end of October 2009. Inspired by the agriculture, nature and island culture of The Philippines, Crop Dreams was lovingly made by several Filipina digital designers from around the globe under Mabuhay Project.blogspot.com, to benefit Opportunity House - a Pearl S. Buck Foundation International (www.psbl.org) program that helps children in Asian countries, like The Philippines.

To learn about the designers who collaborated on this charity kit and for more layout ideas please visit www.mabuhayproject.blogspot.com

Crop Dreams Collaborators:

CACTUSmango Designs - Mars Carranza, Aimee Designs - Ma.Aimee Suarez, Lorie M. Designs - Lorie Manlapaz, Bev O'Loughlin Designs, teysT - Tes P. Tirol and Dianeskie - Diane Mirabeles.

All Proceeds of Crop Dreams and Crop Dreams Alpha set (minus PayPal fees) will be donated online to Opportunity House of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation

International in celebration of Filipino American Heritage Month. Crop Dreams and Crop Dreams Alpha set are for Personal Use Only.

If you would like to donate directly to Opportunity House, please visit www.psbl.org.

New "Crop Dreams" pages

Hello all! I know it has been a long time since I've posted. First of all, I wanted to thank lbettis from the K-Joi Studios creative team for creating these new unique layouts with Crop Dreams to inspire you:

Please visit lbettis' pages in the gallery + leave her some love ;) pages 1 2 3


Since we posted up Crop Dreams last Oct '08, we have raised $36 USD for Opportunity House. Please support our fundraiser today, and purchase Crop Dreams, so that we can donate more! I'd love it if we can have an amazing push this October and raise $200 even $300 for Opportunity House. Don't forget, not only are you getting a gorgeous set of papers, elements and quickpages you will also get with your purchase of the full collab the coordinating alpha set for free! (take me to Crop Dreams)

Stay tuned, as we are preparing some October fun for Crop Dreams' last fundraisng hurrah.

***mabuhay!

"Crop Dreams" Sightings

Lorie recently peaked my interest in Altered Aura's blog. She writes very well and I am really enjoying her travel pictures of her visit to Nayong Pilipino-Clark - which has "a theme park environment that showcases Philippine heritage with scale-replicas of various Philippine historic and cultural locations.


"They have a replica of the Banaue Rice Terraces; The Kalinga Houses; a replica of a Barasoain Church; A Kapampangan village; and The Philippine myth and stories of how the world was first populated by humans is also depicted within the walls of these informative exhibits."


"The Nayong Pilipino Park has an outdoor amphitheater, indoor theater, museum, lodging cottages, meditation garden and function room, eventually Nayong Pilipino will become a full-scale cultural center for the arts, both performing and non-performing."

Here are Altered Aura's fun and unique digiscrapbook pages using Crop Dreams

Daydreaming, Sumisibol, and Proud Momma:                    

Please visit her blog WaRpEd & TwIsTeD

to read about her inspiration behind each page

and to leave her your warm feedback.

Lorie's new CT members have been busy creating some fresh new pages too!

"U Crack Me Up"  showing how Crop Dreams works for boys pages and  a wedding themed page called "Mabuhay" by Miranda





We've got two gals "Leona+Lena" and "Jojola" over at kjoi who've made some special pages too!

"Leona+Lena" another Crop Dreams great "boy" page, with her "Two Brothers" layout.

And another page by Leona+Lena called "Smile" a very cute girly page using a QP designed by Tes P. Tirol using Crop Dreams. I think this is the first one I've seen from other scrappers using the QP set. Super cute!

Also we have Jojola who was able to make Crop Dreams work for a winter looking page! It's called Unbenannt:
 
Her 2nd page is brown and lovely...called "Sweet Memories"




I also have a new page to share. You know how convienent it is to snap photos with your cell phone, right? But, how often do you scrapbook those photos?  This weekend I scrapbooked an iphone photo from my friend Kathy.  It's sized 8x8 so she can print it from home.

Princess Slippers


And last but not least, here's one more, that I did a week ago or so...of my little god daughter, called
Sweet Girl.


Thanks for looking and for your continued support of Opportunity House with your purchase of Crop Dreams.

Happy Filipino American History Month + Mabuhay!


Marissa Carranza | CACTUSmango Designs

AlphaNatical

ver Bev O'Loughlin's newest addition to the lovely Crop Dreams benefit collab kit. Here alpha set features a natural weave pattern and neutral color - perfect for scrapping all kinds of memories. Plus, I added a second version of her alpha, with a subtle painted look, that is lovely to mix and match. Each "painted" letter, number, etc was decorated individually, so the result is that each one looks unique.

Crop Dreams - Alpha Set for charity collaboration by Bev O'Loughlin and CACTUSmango Designs.

I improved the word art preview, because before you could barely read them. Hope you like the new preview. ;-)

Crop Dreams proceeds (minus PayPal fees) are donated online to Opportunity House, A Pearl S. Buck Foundation International program, that provides much needed health care and education to children in poverty, in asian countries like China, Malaysia, Thailand and The Philppines.

If you would like to make a donation directly to Opportunity House, please click on the brown house on the left hand side bar.

(Special thanks to Dana Conditt use of her bracket album template)


Lorie recently chose her new CT and this is a layout by one of her talented CT. Thanks Natalie!

Here is another lovely page by Lorie herself!

Feel free to Brag

Actually, feel free to snag this free 6x4 brag book quick page and matching frame. Simply click on the preview below.

Here's a lil' page that I made with the freebie.

This is my dear god daughter in her first ballet class. I wanted to suggest the look of movement, that the pink frame is sliding...so, on the left, I've cut off one frame. This way, you only see a peep of the picture. Which I think is just darling. I hope you love it, too. ;) If you love it, please pick up today the coordinating kit Crop Dreams, by clicking the brown house in the left hand column.

Your purchase (minus PayPal fees) will be donated online to Opportunity House which provides education and healthcare to poverty stricken children in countries, like The Philippines.

Mabuhay!

P.S.

Hop on over to Lorie's Blog to snag another free 6x4 brag book quick page!

Crop Dreams for Opportunity House

I'm very proud to share with you news of my first digital scrapbook kit for charity. To this end I started Mabuhay Project, wherein Filipino artists from around the world collaborate to raise money for charity. As you may know, I have been blessed for a brief time with the joys of motherhood with my two babies, who are now in heaven and I am now fighting Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.

I am deeply proud to be honoring my two angels and to be putting my creativity towards raising money for children living in my homeland and other asian countries, that are in dire need of healthcare and education, and an opportunity at a better life. Please take a moment to read about Crop Dreams and consider supporting this worthy fundraiser with your generous purchase.
Salamat at Mabuhay!

Marissa Madrazo Carranza

CACTUSmango Designs

Crop Dreams is a beautiful, fresh collaboration kit being released this October 2008 to celebrate Filipino American History Month. This kit took inspiration from the agriculture, nature and culture of the Philippines.

Crop Dreams was made by various Pinay digital designers from around the globe under Mabuhay Project [dot] blogspot [dot] com, to benefit Opportunity House and Pearl S. Buck Foundation International program that helps children in Asian countries, like the Philippines.

*All proceeds minus PayPal fees will be donated online to Opportunity House.

If you would like to make a donation directly to Opportunity House, please visit -http://www.psbi.org/site/PageServer?pagename=OH_WhereWeWork

This preview below shows the word art, the rest is included is already in other previews above.

Sample layouts

Total Kit Size: roughly 325 MB

Number of zips: 12 zips + 1 zip with previews and TOUs

K-Joi Studio Designers:

Marissa Carranza - CACTUSmango Designs (6 pprs 12x12, 2 bracket qps, 2 bracket pprs, 7 wa + 30 embellies)

Ma.Aimee Suarez - Aimee Designs (6 papers 12x12, 12 embellies)

Contributing Designers:

Lorie Manlapaz - Lorie M. Designs (6 papers 12x12 and 15 embellies)
Teys P. Tirol - A Matter of Teys.T (6 bracket quickpages)

Dianne - Dianeski (6 quick pages 12x12)

and more contributions being added soon!

Meet the Artists

Marissa Carranza

Hi, I'm a self-taught graphics designer. I love iced Jasmine Green Tea and Halo-Halo. I love listening to Ledisi and Adele. I can't live without the Liquify and Clone tools. These are what make me smile:  My cat's two-paw-action, cool breezes that remind me of my two angels in heaven and My husband's laugh.

K-Joi Studios

Zazzle

Cafe Press

Lorie Manlapaz

I'm Lorie, a SAHM, with one daughter (3 years old), from the Philippines.  My husband is working abroad.  I really love collecting pictures and making digital scrapbooks.  I started digital scrapping last 2007 and also started designing last year.

I love Crop Dreams' color scheme and also the theme. Thanks again for the chance!

blog

Find Lorie's designs at:
GottaPixel
Pickleberrypop
Scrappindigikreations

Ma. Aimee Suarez

Aimee is a mommy, wife and woman of many talents. She's balloon artist, a florist, makes small figurines, bracelets and necklaces, too!

K-Joi Studios

Digiscrap Warehouse

Scrapping Whispers

Teys Tirol

Hi, I’m Tes Pedrosa-Tirol, a CPA by profession, a prima ballerina in my dreams, a frustrated journalist and radio announcer wannabee, a contributing writer in my younger days, proud to be Filipino with roots in Luzon and Visayas,and most important of all, a wife to my husband, a mother to my two homeschooled kids and last but not least, a little lost sheep found.

So why teys? Remember when you were young and your siblings or your playmates couldn’t say your name properly? Well, that’s what happened to me. I was supposed to be called marites but somehow that got lost in the translation and I ended up being called ‘unteys’ by my brothers and sisters which I later shortened to teys.


I’ve always dreamed of being published or writing a regular column in a broadsheet but thank God for the web that dream is slowly unfolding. So please browse around my site. Who knows what little trinket of a thought you might find that would brighten your day. TFL!

TeysTirol.com

The Daily Scrapper

 

 

Dianeski

 I am Diane Vibar-Miraballes. 25 years old from the land of Mayon Volcano, Albay, Philippines. I am married to my ever loving husband and was blessed with an angel who is now in heaven named Huey Dhale. He died last year at 3 years old. He was my inspiration to scrap. I am a paper and digital scrapbooker. I also love photography. You can visit my blog http://dianemiraballes.com for updates on me.

My Gallery

A Handful of Surprises

Digitally Diane

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Bev O'Loughlin

Originally from Paranaque, Bev is a SAHM of two that moved to Western Australia in March 2005. She met and married her own Aussie bloke when they were working in the States and then moved back to Australia after our contract was up. Of the Philippines, she misses Family, Friends and Food.

Stay Tuned, because Bev is currently working on an alpha set to add to Crop Dreams. :)