Thankful for friends like you!

Hello my lovely bloggy friends!

As I sit here in front of my laptop reading your comments, I am reminded how blessed and thankful I am to have bloggy friends like you. I always thought to myself what if I never start blogging, would I miss the chance of knowing all the fabulous people from around the world? Definitely YES! I am glad I took the first step and the rest is history :)

I'll be travelling to KL and spend my four days with this babe. We are going to have a blast, that's for sure!! I am meeting some of my crafty friends too. Ohhh....I am getting excited! Can't wait to see the gals!

I made a card with my new favourite manufacturer, Echo Park. The colors of the paper are so vibrant and it makes me happy just by looking at them.

Thanks for stopping! See you again!

Happy Birthday Jessy!

Hey there!

**Ahem...clear throat**

Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happyyyy Biiirrtthhdayyyyy to JESSYYYYY, Happpppyyy Biirthdayyyyy tooooo youuuu!!!!!!!

I hope that your day is blessed with happiness and joy! I will celebrate with you again when I see you on Thursday! Ooohhh....I can't wait!



Above is the card I made for her and below is a matching tag for her gift. I knew I had to break out the beautiful pattern paper by Melissa Frances that Jessy gave to me as a RAK. I thought it goes well with her elegant style, don't you think?

I surely hope she likes them :) Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to leave her some love today!

Together Forever Mini Album

Hello lovelies!

It's Friday again! I'm always happy when it's Friday, who doesn't? Lol :) I'm here to share a mini album that my friend commissioned me to make. Yep...you heard me right. Not a card but a mini album. I can't share the contents but only can show you some of the details inside.

The cover (I seriously love the butterfly!! Thanks Jessy! I'm considering of getting one soon)

Paper fabric by Dear Lizzy and butterfly die by Papertrey

Sheila knows I love ticket and bought me a pack of Maya Road's ticket (thank you my friend!)

Bought the tiny sentiment stamp from Wati not too long ago and I love the crisp result that the stamp gives. It's from Technique Tuesday by the way.

I got to run! We are having a group outing and my colleagues are waiting for me! See you soon!

I am...........

back with my regular post! It makes me happy! I truly appreciate the time you took for leaving me a comment every now and then. I'm so fortunate to have a group of supportive bloggy friends like you all. You made me fall in love with blogging like never before. So, THANK YOU!

I'm here to share another card I made during my card frenzy weekend. It is a very simple card with a mix of Girl Paperie and My Mind's Eye paper. The colors are soft and pretty, don't you think? You know how I love my ribbbons right? The cream satin ribbon is my new love :) Both sides are identical so you don't have to worry which side to flip when tying a bow. Love it already? You can get them from Smidapaper :)

That's all I have for today! Do come back again tomorrow for another round of CASE Study Challenge. Have fun!

Grad!

Hey there!

A colleague of mine ordered a graduation card from me. It's for a guy so I keep the design as masculine as possible. No pink, no ribbon, no polka dots and no flowers.....oh boy. I dig through my stash and happily found the Basic Brey ledger paper that my crafty friend, Vi gave to me a while ago. The die cut borders and alphabet paper is from the So Sophie collection by My Mind's Eye and you can get them from Smidapaper. The chipboard letters from Cosmo Cricket. I guess this has to be my favourite of all the masculine cards I've ever created :)

Thanks for your lovely comment!! Hope you are having a great day!

Friendly Challenge

Happy Monday y'all!

I hope you had a great weekend! I sure did! I had a very prodcutive weekend....been spending a lot of time in my craft room and created thirteen cards in a span of three days. It rarely happens and so glad it did :)

Today I have somehing fun to share. My creative babe, Jessy host a friendly challenge and asked a couple of her crafty friends (including me) to join. She sent us an inspiration photo and I was drawn to the colors and the patterns of the cushion pillows. Although these are not my usual favourite color combo but it's a defnitely a good challenge to make me step out of my comfort zone in a while.

Photo inspiration from www.thelennoxx.com

At first I can't decide if I should create a CAS card or shabby chic one. Luckily Echo Park and October Afternoon paper came to my rescue and help me decide which style to go for. Phew...they sure save my day :) Though simple but I love the result. I hope you like it too.

I thought the sentiment fit the challenge perfectly. A friendship card for a friendly challenge :) I hope this inspires you and let's check out the rest of the particpants here.....

Sandy Ang

Lori Hairston
Wati Basri
Helen Tilbury
Rachel Clarke
Kirsty Vittetoe
Sharmandeswari
Cindy Lee (that's me)
Janet
Amelia Khalik
Jessy Christopher

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great day!

Cardmaking Class at Smidapaper

Hello there!

I'll be having another cardmaking class on Saturday, September 25th at Smidapaper. Learn how to make precise windows on your cards. This session also teaches ink blending techniques, background stamping & puching. For more details on the class, check out Smidapaper blog here.

Also, do check out my weekly post at Smidapaper blog. I'm sure most of you have your fair share of paper scraps left over from your projects. But do you use them often? Well, I don't so I challenged myself to create with nothing but scraps and I managed to came up with three mini cards. Let's just say I'm proud of myself :)

Have a great day!

I Miss You!

Hey there!

Sorry for being so quiet lately. I was not feeling well for the whole of last week and I'm still feeling sick while typing this. I had a really bad cough that makes me feel very weak and tired. My mom make me took lots of medicine but none of them work. So, I guess I'll have to bear with it until it recovers by itselves.

Today it's a replacement holiday for me (and for many of us) as our Muslim friends celebrated Hari Raya on last Friday and Saturday. I stayed at my mom's place over the long weekend and since there was no internet connection at her place, I resort to go somewhere with a free wi-fi....McDonalds :) Youngsters nowadays don't study at home, do they? Almost 80% of the patrons are youngsters with their laptops and books (and I almost feel like one if you consider me young.....lol) Ok, I better not waste my time as my battery is running low. Let me share a card I made a while back.

Stamped the lace borders by Kaisercraft in different hue of green and blue. The polka dots background and butterfly is by Papertrey. I love it when two different stamp sets work well together!

I hope you are having a great day! Thanks for stopping by!

Wool you be mine?

Hello lovelies!

Today I'm sharing a card I sumitted for Paper Crafts call and obviously it didn't get picked and I get to share it with you.

Speaking of submission, I was lucky to have a few cards in the upcoming issues of Cards magazine and one card in Paper Cratfs. I thought I would share a story of how it all started. My first ever submission to Cards magazine was July last year. I would submit my cards (I counted....around 15 cards) to them every once in a while but none ever get picked. I was upset and decided that they never like me and almost gave up. Sheila was the one who stood by me and gave me the confidence I needed. I told myself to try one last time and if it doesn't work out, I should forget about the whole publication thingy. Imagine my surprise when I received the first acceptance email from them back in May! I was so nervous that I almost died!! I literally screamed on the phone when I shared the happy news with my bestie and it took me almost an hour to calm down...lol! Since then, I started to work on submissions and it's been good so far.

My point of sharing this story with you is NOT to brag....which is the last thing I want but hope to encourage some of you who wish to submit. Give it a try when you think you are ready and if you don't succeed the first time, don't be sad and don't let the whole publication thing take over your life (I learned my lesson). Take it easy and keep trying. One day you will enjoy the fruits of your labor :) Happy submitting!

Birthday Card

Happy Monday!

Although my last post was only three days ago but it feels like forever. It's not that I am slacking but because I can't share some of the stuff that I've been creating. But this week I will be back with my regular post as I have a few cards that weren't picked by Paper Crafts and I'm happy to share it here :)

I'm digging the tea cup and the spoon stamp by Papertrey Ink. Have no regrets buying them!

I'm keeping this post short and simple. Thanks for coming by! I truly appreciate your time!

Happy Birthday to Josie!

Hello LOVELIES!

I'm feeling tired today! Sheila and I did something really fun yesterday until past midnight. What did we do you may ask? Well, someone commissioned us to make 46 place cards for a birthday party and after 6 hours of talking ...opps...I mean working, we completed the place cards :) By the time we finished, it was already 1:30am! Hubby called this morning and was shocked that I got home late or shall I say early morning. At least he shows some concern which is very sweet by the way...lol :)

I just had a wonderful lunch with my crafty buddies, Josie and Sharon. Today is also a special day for Josie because it's her birthday! This birthday girl is so sweet that she bought us lunch at a Japanese restaurant! Josie is one of the sweetest and happiest girl I've ever come across! I just adore her! HAPPY BIRTHDAY my dear!!! May you have a wonderful day!
I'll leave you with a card I made using paper from my new favourite manufacturer, Echo Park :)