Scrapbooking for a good cause

It is nearly two months since Japan has been simultaneously hit by the monster earthquake and tsunami and the added nuclear plant meltdown and radiation alert. There have been enormous aid and donation from all over the world pouring in to help Japan to pull through one of the worst natural calamity and a nuclear crisis which is almost as bad as that of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear incident.

Just as I was about to donate a small amount of money through the Singapore's Red Cross when I saw a call for craft works  (be it scrapbooking layout, artist trading cards, cards, mini albums and so forth) from Tomoko Takahashi on one my friend's Facebook wall. Tomoko Takahashi is on the Design Team of Webster's Pages and her works are lovely. Through Facebook and her blog, Tomoko invited everyone from all over the world to send their works of art to her so that she can sell them on probably Japanese equivalent of etsy and ebay so as to raise donation funds for the Japan Red Cross.

I was very excited when I read this "call for help". Without much thinking, I told myself I would do five pieces of work and then send them to Tomoko so that she would have a variety of works to choose from for her inori. After much planning and getting the works completed. I managed to do some easy mini albums and some technically more challenging ones. Thanks to all the classes attended in the past, all five works were completed and air mailed to Tomoko.

Just saw some of the works which Tomoko is selling for the first time. My goodness, the standards are high and some of the works are by well known members of either design team or who have published prolifically in scrapbooking or  paper crafting magazines.

My works are rather simpler in style and techniques.

Nevertheless, do hope that my works would be able to sell well so that money can be raised for Japan Red Cross.

May Peace be with Japan and also everyone from all over the World.