Saturday, 9 August 2008

Scrap It Altered Notebook

Do you sometimes find yourself getting an inspiration at an unlikely place and you can't seem to find a decent piece of scrap paper to write it down? Are you a compulsive list maker and you HAVE to make a list of everything and there's nowhere to write it?

In my case, it's a yes to both questions. I try to make a point of always having a notebook and a pen (what's the use of a notebook without a pen, and vice versa eh?) in my handbag. I have this notebook that's a jumble of information in it like the grocery list, list of things to bring if we're going somewhere, sketches, list of things to do for the month, drawings of the Teletubbies for Nadiah and all sorts of colourful animal drawings etc, etc, etc...

So one day I thought, I'll buy a notebook specially for scrapbooking and while I'm at it, I might as well alter the covers. At the same time, it'll be my altered project for ScrappingGlitz. Killing two birds with one stone, so to speak.

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Materials used:
1) Notebook.
2) Basic Grey undressed chipboard letters.
3) Maya Road chipboard buttons.
4) Bazzill Basics chip toppers sticker.
5) Crystaline mosaic tiles.
6) Rub Ons: Fancy Pants Design, Basic Grey, Jenni Bowlin Studio.
7) Ranger Perfect Medium.
8) Ranger Perfect Pearls : Kiwi, Interference Red, Perfect Gold.
9) Tsukineko Embossing Powder: Copper.
10) Tsukineko Versamark Ink pad.
11) Tim Holtz's Distress Ink pads: Fired Brick, Tattered Rose, Tea Dye.
12) Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents.
13) Clear Stamps: Fancy Pants Design, Autumn Leaves.
14) Alpha Colours Acrylic paints: Cerulean Blue, Silver.
15) White Gesso Primer.
16) Heat gun.
17) Artline210 medium pen.

Friends In My Life Mini Album

Made this mini album for ScrappingGlitz using Kaisercraft scalloped mini album. I love Kaiser mini albums because it's wooden and thus the pages are nice and thick.

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Iza - The one I would most likely do crazy things with

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Shira - The one I could talk just about anything with

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Nad - The one I could scrap & shop with anytime of the day

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Wina, Sue & Sumat - The ones who would stay friends forever

Materials used:
Mini album: Kaisercraft.
Papers: My Little Shoebox, Bazzill Basics.
Chipboard: My Little Shoebox (alphas), Maya Road (scrolls).
Stickers: GCD Studios, Making Memories, Basic Grey, American Craft.
Rub Ons: Luxe Designs, Make It Personal.
Flowers: Prima Marketing.
Die Cut Shapes: Niklin Designs, Riff Raff Designs.
Blings: Hero Art (pearls), local haberdasher (gems).
Lace: Local haberdasher.
Felt Ribbon: Blueyedzines.
Others: Mod Podge, Alpha Acrylic Paints.

Thursday, 7 August 2008

Storing Clear Stamps

I'm always looking for ways to keep my stash organised. Lately I have been organising my clear stamps. Although in the beginning I used empty CD cases, but when it comes to those big stamp packages like 12x12 Fancy Pants and A4 sized Prima Marketing stamps, I sometimes loads of CD cases to fit hem all.

So I was browsing on the net one day and saw Tim Holtz Idea-ology Stamp Binder. As you can see from the prince, it is a little steep for my budget coz I would rather spend that sort of money for stash. So I scraplifted Tim's idea and made one of my own.

Ta-da....

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I just took the printed image of the stamps that came with the package, and laminated the sheet. Then just stick the clear stamps on them. It's cheap, it's tidy and it works just as well as the binder. The whole thing cost me less than RM 20.00

Monday, 4 August 2008

I Got An Award



I got nominated for a creative award by Hani. I'm so honoured that she would think me creative enough to deserve the award. Thanks, Hani!!
The rules are:
1. The winner may put the logo on her blog.
2. Put a link to the person you got the award from.
3. Nominate 5 blogs.
4. Put links to the blogs.
5. Leave a message for your nominees
And my nominees are:
*drum roll*
5. Ida

Friday, 1 August 2008

Chopsticks

I'm hosting a MONOCHROMATIC layout challenge in ScrappingGlitz Forum. A monochromatic layout is when you create a layout using different shades of one root colour. In my case, I used red. It's a good practise if you feel intimidated by a variety of colours and you don't know what colour goes with what in your layout.

So hop on over to the forum to take part in the challenge. Click here.

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The layout is of Nadiah eating her noodles with chopsticks. Originally, we taught her to use chopsticks mainly to improve her fine motor skills. Plus, she loves noodles and was curious to try it when she see Baba expertly handling the chopsticks. And she's sooo good at it!! I've been learning to use chopsticks since I was her age and 30 years later... I still suck at it!!

Yummy Pizza

It's a new sketch for ScrappingGlitz Forum this month.

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Do come and give it a try here. I'll be giving out RAKs for this one.

This is my take:
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Of Nadiah having her yummylicious pizza. It's one of her very favourite food in the whole wide world!!

Monday, 28 July 2008

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.

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Tuesday, 22 July 2008

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:

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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

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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:

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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.

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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

Monday, 21 July 2008

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.

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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.

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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.

Sunday, 20 July 2008

In Family We Trust

My layout for ScrappingGlitz, celebrating World Parents Day.

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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

Wednesday, 16 July 2008

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.

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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!!

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

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