The Facts Of Me Mini Album

I made this simple album today. It's for an Inspiration in ScrappingGlitz Forum. If you have a tape write or a Dymo tool, try using strips of patterned papers to print your wordings. Check out here for the tips and techniques.

Cutie Pie

Another sketch challenge is also going on in ScrappingGlitz Forum hosted by DT Jaz. Head over to the forum to give this sketch a try. You will be in the running to win a RAK from Jaz.

My take on the sketch:

Materials used:
Papers: Little Yellow Bicycle (die cut paper), My Mind's Eye (light blue), Urban Lily (photo mat)
Chipboard: My Little Shoebox
Alphabet stickers: Making Memories
Flowers: Prima Marketing
Transparency: Hambly Screen Prints
Felt: Queen&Co
Lace & Ribbons: Local haberdasher

@ 7 Months

ScrappingGlitz Forum sketch challenge for this month. The challenge is still ongoing till the 31st July. If you are interested, please proceed to the forum and give this sketch a try.

My take on the sketch:









Materials used:
Papers: Bazzill, Making Memories, Crate paper Company, KI Memories
Flowers: Prima Marketing
Die Cuts: Making Memories, Daisy D's
Chipboard: Basic Grey
Alphabet stickers: Basic Grey
Blings: Hero Arts (pearls), local haberdasher (gems)

When You Turn 2

Here's another project for Scrappingville. This time it's a beautiful cake shaped mini album by Creative Imagination. Such a cute album!! All the black & white papers are also from Creative Imagination and everything turns me towards a celebration project. Thus I decided on Nadiah's 2nd birthday party.

Materials used:
Album: Creative Imagination
Papers: Creative Imagination (black & white), American Craft (Red & white)
Alphabet: American Craft, SEI
Alpha sticker: Jenni Bowlin
Chipboard elements: American Craft, Basic Grey (2)
Flowers: Prima Marketing
Stickers: Making Memories, Bazzill, SEI
Journaling card: Maya Road
Die cuts: SEI
Blings: Scrappingville

You

Another project for Scrappingville. It's a big giant tag Bazzill cardstock and oh so cute!! I love this one. The patterned papers are from American Craft and the polka dot one is textured so very nice to the touch.




I love those Maya Road Sheer flowers. Here I stamped with Staz On ink and curled the petals a little to make it more dimensional.





Materials used:
Cardstock: Bazzill
Patterned Papers: American Craft
Sheer Flowers: Maya Road
Buttons: Scrappingville
Chipboard Alpha: American Craft
Rub On: Daisy D's (quote), Maya Road (clock face), Basic Grey (edge pattern)
Inks: Tsukineko StazOn
Lace & Blings: Local haberdasher

LOVE Album

I received this lovely LOVE album from Scrappingville to play around with a while ago (sorry, only now that I'm uploading this one). Each page is formed by the letters L, O, V and E. Since it was for Mother's Day, I dedicated the album to my mom. It's black and white and I had so much fun making this one.

In Family We Trust

My layout for ScrappingGlitz, celebrating World Parents Day.





Materials used:
Papers: Bazzill, Little Yellow Bicycle - Vita Bella Green Floral
Die Cut : Niklin Design - Scroll Border Leaf Vine Black, Little Yellow Bicycle - Vita Bella Fresh Verse Self Adhesive Die Cut
Stickers: GCD Studios - Red Glitter Letter Stickers
Rub Ons: Luxe Design - Girlie Words
Chipboard: Little Yellow Bicycle - Vita Bella Metal Foil Adhesive Chipboard
Others: Luxe Design Journaling Card, Riff Raff Designs - Pretty Flowers

Where Has All The Curls Gone?

When Nadiah was born, she was blessed with the loveliest curls ever to grace a head (ok, this is her mommy talking so of course I would think so!!). As she grows older, her curls started to straighten and once she had her first haircut, it began to totally disappear. So much so that I've been asked by my in laws if I had her hair rebonded. Yeah... like I would let people mess around a four year old girl's hair with chemicals... not to mention that she wouldn't have sat long enough for them to put clips on.

Anyway, her hair is now as straight as can be with a little curl on the ends. So I decided to scrap about this with a picture of her when she was about two a a half years old and her hair looking like maggie mee :D.











I used the new Core'dination cardstock. Each piece of cardstock has a core colour which "coredinates" with the surface colour. That means when you sand it or tear it, a different colour will appear. In this layout, I tear the edges of the fuchia cardstock. Then I scrunched it up and stick it onto a black Bazzill cardstock. Sanded the peaks developed from the scrunching and lightly ran a charcoal ink pad. The effect looks cool!!

You can purchase Core'dination cardstocks from Scrappingchix. There are soooo many other colours available.

Altered Clock Tutorial for Artz de Scrap

I have been invited by Artz de Scrap to be this month's Inspirational Scrapper and to teach a tutorial at their blog. Do head over here, for the tutorial of an altered clock. Do give it a try!!

Thank you to the Artz de Scrap team for this opportunity and hope to see many many more of your beautiful projects.

Scrappingchix

Another good friend of mine just launched a scrapbooking online shop. It's called Scrappingchix and was officially launched on the 12th July. You can visit the online shop at www.scrapping-chix.com and read up on what's new on the blog scrappingchix.blogspot.com.

For the opening day, I made a canvas for her. I'm very glad that she loves it because let me tell you.. staping on a canvas is not a fun thing.. hehee. But I managed. I used a lot of paint, embossing and Perfect Pearls. Very happy with the result.

An Altered Wodden Box

Came back from one of my many trips to KL recently with a tub of texture paste. I have been reading how great this medium is and have wanted to try. A quick search in Nadiah's toy boxes and I found a perfect wooden box which is perfect for altering.

I'm very happy with the end result of this box. I managed to get that old, antiquey look that I love. It's quite easy to make this but time consuming, what with waiting for things to dry, which I'm so not good at!!

Ok, so this is what I've done:
First I painted the box with dark gold acrylic paint. Just lightly on the edges. The I mod podged the patterned papers on the sides and top of the box. Because I cut the papers slightly shorter, the gold paint can be seen of the edges. Make sure you seal the edges of the papers with mod podge once they are dry.

Then drop a little glob of gesso on the surface and using a thin piece of chipboard (or an old credit card would suffice) and spread the gesso lightly this way and that. Very roughly and thin so that you can still see the printed paper but at the same time it gives the antique look.

Once that's dried, distress the surface with a distressed ink pad or paint lightly. Leave it to dry.

To make the alphabets on the side, you would need some texture paste, a stencil and a spreading tool (I just use those popsicle stick you usually get in a packet of rub ons).
Place the stencil on the side surface. Secure with masking tape if you don't want it to move about. Scoop some texture paste and spread over the stencil, making sure you fill it up. Use the spreading tool to move the paste about. Somewhat like spreading icing on a cake. One you're sure the stencil is filled, scrape the excess paste and gently lift up the stencil. Make sure it's completely dried and harden before doing the same on the other side. This is the part that I'm bad at... waiting for it to dry. I left it overnight to be on the safe side.

Once the alphas are dried and harden, paint it any way you like. I used Ranger's Perfect Pearls to get that pearly, shimmery look. I love Perfect Pearls. The result is so beautiful. For a more intense look, I mix the pearls with a little water. When dried, just brush dry powder of another colour lightly over it.

Lastly, embellish the box any way you want. I used American Craft Chipboard Thickers for the word NOTES and lightly sand to distress the letters.

Thanks for dropping by and hope the tips and techniques helps. Give it a try and leave a comment for a link. I would love to see what everyone comes up with.

Baby Boy Album

Another gift made for my cousin you just had a baby boy. Hope she likes it.