Altered Notebook and Altered Canvases

I made a few projects yesterday. I said a few because they were many and all are small projects that I finished them all in just a few hours. 

First I made an altered notebook, after watching a video tutorial on YouTube by a Swirlydoos Design Team member. HERE is the video. Do catch the video. It's simple but the result is pretty.

This is my take:

When I was done with the notebook and waiting for the ink and glue to dry, I went on to alter 3 tiny canvases. Each are 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" size and just so adorable.

The first canvas, 'YESTERDAY', I spritzed the backgrounds with a few colours of Glimmer Mists and stamped with Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous stamps. Then I attached a beautiful cameo pendant on the canvas.

The second canvas, 'TODAY', I again spritzed a few colours of Glimmer Mists but when it's dried, I stamped the whole thing with embossing ink and sprinkled with clear embossing powder. Once I heat it, it gives a nice slick and shiny effect which I like very much. Then I adhered a felt and word stickers and I was done with it.

The last canvas, 'FUTURE', I stamped with embossing ink and sprinkled a few colours of Tim Holtz Distress embossing powder and heat it. Then I stamped with embossing ink again and sprinkled clear embossing powder and heat again. The result is a grainy background but at the same time looks like it's wet with water. Very nice!

 See how tiny these canvases are. All three fit into the palm of my hand. So cute!!

My Love

Remember THIS layout? The one I made after being inspired by Finnabair (Anna Dąbrowska -Pękocka). She makes amazing grungy layouts and I have been trying to figure out how she does it. At first I thought she used gesso and so that's what I used. It turned out that I was wrong because the finished effect didn't look like what it's supposed to. But at least I found a new technique. 

Two days ago, I saw on Live With Prima on Ustream that Finnabair made a tutorial video of her special grungy technique. It was amazing to see all the little details in her work - the masking, the misting of 5 Glimmer Mist colours and the 4 different types of stamps she used just to make the background. After that came the embellishment arranged around the photo and so on and so forth. 

Of course I just HAD to try making a layout. I didn't have the same products that she used, nor did I used all Prima products. I just made do with whatever I have.

Here's my take..... drum roll......

I think I'm getting the how, although mine isn't too grungy except for the embellishment part. But the colours look a little too bright for a grungy look. Some close ups

28 - because he was born on the 28th. 

If you look closely, I masked with Tim Holtz gear mask, stamped the filigree-liked image
from Prima, script  from Fancy Pants Designs and messy spots from
 Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous.

The clock dials and the gears I got from an old Swirlydoos kit, which I have
 been hoarding a ages. The street light is from Kaiser.

I am happy with the job I did. But next time I would use darker shades of the Glimnmer Mist colours.

Thanks for dropping by everyone. Have a nice day!!

Guest Designer at Scrappin Studio (Pt.2)

Good morning.

I'm back again with the 2nd part of my guest designer work reveal with Scrappin Studio. Without further ado, here's another layout and a mini album.

2nd Layout - Beautiful Perth

It's a simple layout with not much techniques except for the masking.

2nd altered project - Pocket Tag Mini Album

In one of the kits that I received, there was a set of beautiful vintage 7Gypsies tags. So I decided to make pockets from the papers in the kit to slot in the tags.

I used the pages on the right to put single words to describe Nadiah and the pages on the left are filled with beautiful quotes.

Love those buttons. they're so pretty!!

I loved making this mini album and let me tell you, it didn't take that much time to do too!

So do hop over to Scrappin Studio BLOG to see what the DTs has come up with the kits. There are truly an inspirational team. Thank you again to Jaime for the invite to be Scrappin Studio's guest designer. It's been an honour.

Guest Designer at Scrappin Studio (Pt.1)

Hello everyone.

As the title suggests, this month I have been invited by the lovely Jaime Lee to be the Guest Designer over at Scrappin Studio. You may know that SS carries the awesome kits by Studio Calico. I was asked to do 4 projects which consists of 2 layouts and 2 altered projects. Please go over HERE to see my work and from there you can just follow the links to the store and get your own kits.

Today I'll be posting two of my work for Scrappin Studio, with some close-ups.

1st layout - So Sweet

1st altered project - 2000, An Altered Canvas Back

The back of a canvas frame makes a great picture frame. The photo was taken more than 10 years ago and hubby and I was sitting at the edge of a boat pier, dangling our feet down. But instead of sticking the photo inside the frame, I stuck it on the ledge of the frame. It makes it look like we're about to jump into the canvas frame.

Do come back tomorrow for the details of my other two projects.

I gotta run now and will see you again soon. Ta-ta!!

Jigsaw Puzzle Background Tutorial (Altered Project Inc)

Remember when I made this?

A lot of people have asked me to make a tutorial on how I made the background. Well, now you'll be able to make one yourself because I have made a tutorial over at Altered Project Inc.

I made a new jigsaw puzzle layout, but this time it's a mini layout. This is what I made:

Come and find out how I made the background HERE. Hope to see yours soon!! And while you're there, check out all the other awesome tutorial that other DTs have done.

Week 2 Challenge - SIL 2nd Anniversary Blog Hop

Hello everyone!!

It's Week 2 of the Scrap-It-Lah's 2nd Anniversary Blog Hop and this week's challenge is brought to you by... ME!!

This week I have an altered challenge. Nothing too difficult, just an easy peasy one. All you have to do is alter a file folder. Easy right? Just find a paper, or otherwise, file folder and start altering.

Here is mine.

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Well.. I used the coloured one rather than the kraft. I made it into a photo album, or rather.. file.

The file is actually longer than A4, but I folded about 4 inches in to make pockets, cut away the extra flap and added a patterned paper page.

Some close ups...

So come on and try this challenge. You can make the folder into anything you want. But remember that this is a ONE WEEK challenge only, so you have until Thursday, 14th April.

Just fill up you name and URL in Mr Linky below for your submission or email me your take at yatiedin@gmail.com if you don't have a blog.

The winner of this altered challenge will be getting this Studio Calico's Babbling Brook kit

Then next Friday will be the start of Week 3, which means a new challenge. Please do come back here to see where to hop to next. In the mean time... happy altering!!

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A Gift Of Love

Hello, hello.

I am back on this lazy Friday, currently sitting on the floor outside the bathroom waiting for Nadiah to finish her swim in the tub. We were out at the pool earlier and then it started to rain, so she decided to continue her swimming in the tub. Plus I figured I'd better update this blog while waiting before she makes a grab for the lappy.

Anyway, as I mentioned in my previous post, I'm going to share a new layout that I made using a new technique. Well, new for me anyway. It's not that good yet. This is my first try and I'm going to try and try until I get it. This layout is inspired by Anna Dąbrowska -Pękocka or Finnabair and she is a DT with Tattered Angels and Prima. Her work is absolutely amazing. She does this grungy, steam punk effect with her Glimmer Mist and I am blown away by her work. You can see her mixed media work HERE.

This is my 'version'. Please remember that this is my first take and it's a little messy because I think I over gessoed.








I don't really know how she did it. Not sure if she did a tutorial on this particular technique or not. I'm just trying out what I THINK she did. The only thing I got right are the masking.. :D. But I like what I ended up with though. It's a start but I will definitely try to play around with it some more.

So go check out Anna's amazzzzzzingggg work!!!

SMILE - A Pocket Mini Album

I love browsing through Prima's Live With Prima channel on Ustream and checking out their previous recorded shows. I always look for Marion Smith's tutorial shows because her creations are always beautiful with lots of flowers and using a lot of paints and distressing. just my kind of projects.

Just recently I saw one of her shows with Prima which was live in October 2011 and she made this beautiful pocket album. I've not make a mini album in a while and so was quite eager to try this one. You can check out the recorded tutorial HERE.

*Please click on the photo to view a larger version

Close up of the tags. I wrote down quotes or sayings on each.

A close up of one of the pages

Instead of using all Prima products, I used K&Co papers and journaling cards. There are some cards from Chatterbox and Pink Paislee too. The flowers are all from Prima, of course. So are the single pearls. But the swirly pearls come from Prima and ZVA Creative.

I especially love the effect of the lace on the edges of the pages. Makes the whole album looks very feminine.. LOL!!!

So do go and watch the video and try to create this fun album!!

Altered Jigsaw and Altered Diary

Hi everyone!!

I have a lot of things to share today but I think I'll break them up into several posts.

First up to share is an 8x8 altered jigsaw puzzle set that I made for my friend Michelle for her birthday last November. Yes, yes, I know... November was ages ago but I only managed to finish it last month and has presented it to her recently.









This piece is supposed to be the cover of a mini album of which DTs from Scrap-It-Lah came out with one page each.

Ok, next up is an altered diary I made for my cousin, Shirin. SHe said she wanted any design as long as it's pretty. Hope she thinks so..