Let It Snow

Happy Monday to you! How's your weekend? Was it good?? I went to watch the Transformers 2 with my family yesterday (finally). Although, I'm not a fan of the Transformers 2 cartoon but I must say that the movie is really really good! It is full packed with action from beginning till the end and Shia Labeouf is so freaking hot! (omg...did I just said he's hot??). You know, I never really like him especially in Indiana Jones but his acting in the latest Transformers movie really grows on me. And Megan Fox is so SEXY! But her acting was not as good. IMO, she's just another beautiful face in Hollywood :) And Josh Duhamel is such a hottie!! (lucky Fergie). Oh yeah...my eyes were watery when Optimus Prime and Sam sort of got killed in the movie (why sort of? go watch the movie and you'll know). All in all, Transformers 2 it's the best movie in 2009!

Today, I'd like to share a X'mas Card I made over the weekend. I realized that I always use either green or red on my X'mas cards and I wanted to make something out of my norm. I thought why not make a X'mas card using non-traditional color? The moment I saw the October Afternoon PP, I immediately knew my choice of color. Yes, it's PINK! I made everything pink...from the paper to the snowflake (you've seen a pink snowflake before??..lol) I traced the snowflake on a white cardstock and cut it out. Then, I paint it with pink crackle paint and finish it off with stickles. I then add a button and sentiments on it....and voila, my 1st pink snowflake! I did another backstich here and add a lace ribbon.

Close-up of my pink snowflake :)

It's only Monday and I hope you'll have a great week ahead!

Hello Friend

Happy Friday to you! I have a good news to share with you today! Last week, I received an email from Sheila (owner of SmidaPaper) and she asked whether I'm interested to be in her design team. Oh boy, do I jump at the opportunity?? You bet I do!! Without further thinking, I just replied her YES! Sheila will provide me the kits and I will start as soon as I got the stuff from her. Stay tune!

I have another card to share today. All the stuff except the button, twine, letter stickers are from Sassafrass Lass. Isn't that journaling sticker stinking cute?? (I {heart} it). I adhered the sticker on a piece of brown cardstock and cut according to the scallop edge. Oh yeah...I did my first backstitch on this card. If you follow my blog, you'll know how much I like to stitch on almost every card I made. So, I thought I will incorporate some embroidery stitch on my cards. The first would be the backstitch. It's so easy peasy to do and it instantly pretty up my card :). Can you see it? On another note, did you notice that one of the kangaroo hand is tucked in its pocket?? I only realized it when I saw the pic. How cute :)

That's all I have for today! Hope you have great weekend! Yes, tomorrow is Saturday!

2S4Y Sketch - Happy Birthday

Good Morning! How's your weather over there? It's not very bright over here as it rained yesterday night but I'm pretty sure it will be hot again in the afternoon. It's always like that.

You know what? I was on my way back from work yesterday when I saw an accident right in front of me! Well, maybe not exactly right in front as I was about 10 cars away from the scene. But I saw the van sort of like swerved to the side of the road and bang on something and I was like "Oh my God...did it hit anyone?". The cars in front of me suddenly come to a halt and luckily I'm able to stop in time too. When I passed the scene only I know what the van hit or what hit the van. The accident involved a van, a bus and two vehicles. The bus look ok to me but the van and the cars are not. Luckily, no one is injured (phew!)

I just finished a card for 2S4Y. I tell you, this blog is getting better and better. So much fun especially with their card showdown! The competitions are tough and I can't wait to see who will walk away with the grand prize! Good luck to the 5 talented ladies (wink)

I flipped the sketch and make it horizontal and for this card, I used the Making Memories pp that I bought last week. The journaling block was a stamp from Prima and I stamped it on a pink cardstock. The leaves were cut out from Crate Paper pp. Brads and letter stickers were from Making Memories while the flowers were from Prima.

That's it for me today and happy Wednesday to you!

Micheal Jackson

Have you heard the news yet?? Michael Jackson, the king of pop died this morning (My local time) at the age of 50. I was shocked when I learned about the news on radio this morning. He was sent to hospital due to cardiac arrest and died shortly after. He's such a talented entertainer and in fact, he's one of the greatest entertainers in the world. May his soul rest in peace.

Sorry for starting my post with solemn news. Now, let's move on to another X'mas card I made (do I deserve another pat on the back?? lol). I bought the Maya Road chipboard house last year and used it to make a mini book for my BFF's birthday. I don't remember why I didn't use all and left one in my stash. So, I decided to use it on this card.

I covered the chipboard house and background with paper from October Afternoon (told you I {heart} October Afternoon). The window and door are cut from some leftover PP. The white with blue snowflakes PP were from Basic Grey. I stamped the X'mas trees and colored with Sakura pens (I {heart} Sakura pens). I cut the snowmen from KI Memories PP. Add stickles to the roof, stamped the greetings and "poof".....my 2nd X'mas card for year 2009 :)

Oh yeah...it's Friday today! Happy Friday!!

1st X'mas card for 2009

It's already Thursday and tomorrow it's Friday! Can you tell that I'm excited about it? First of all, I would to appologize to those who visit my blog but don't get to see any updates from me. It's not that I did not craft at all, just that I did not upload them yet. I enjoy making cards but I just dread on posting them. Sometimes I'll stare at the screen and my mind is blank. I just don't know what to write. There are times where I just feel like posting the photos and not having to write anything. But then, I drop the idea. This is not how a blog should be. An ideal blog would be one that's fun to read and full of inspirations. Mine is far from ideal but hopefully, one day I'm able to achieve that (well, maybe someday?)

I'm still deliberating on whether I should post more of my personal stuff or only cards. Maybe I'll just start with whatever pictures I have in my camera. No, wait! I don't have any pictures in my camera except...yeah, you guess it, cards! How pathetic, lol.

Anyway, I have one card to share today. I'm early with my X'mas cards this year. I went to buy more paper two days ago at Smidapaper. Sheila (the owner) is kind enough to wait for me at her beautiful store (it's actually her house). It's such a bliss to shop at her place!

What's wrong with me? First, I said I don't know what to write but now I can't seem to stop :) Ok, let's move on to my card. I have one card to share today. I'm early with X'mas card this year (a pat on the back for me, pls...lol).

I {heart} October Afternoon paper now :) I cut the X'mas tree from the newly bought October afternoon paper, then add some trim and secured it with brads, handstiched the borders, add a ribbon and voila....my 1st Xmas card in the year of 2009!

Thanks and have a wonderful day! It's almost Friday!

2-In-1

Oh no! Haze is here! The weather was okay yesterday but it was hazy when I woke up this morning. It was so bad that there's not even a hint of sunlight. I just hope and pray that we will have a heavy downpour today. We've been having this extremely hot weather for weeks...and now with the haze, I just don't know what to say.

Enough about the weather. On to my cards. I managed to create 2 cards based on 2 different sketches in 1 night. The one below is for 2S4Y.

And this is the card I created for Card Patterns. I'm giving this card to a friend who had just delivered her 2nd baby girl.

Sorry for a really short post today. I feel so sleepy right now...went to bed at 2am y'day. Plus, the hazy weather just make me lost my mood :(

Anyway, thanks for stopping by my blog!

Top 5 at Card Patterns!!

Oh wow! I was surpised to see my name on the top 5 list at Card Patterns this week! I'm on cloud 9 now :) Thanks to Michelle and all the talented DT over at CP!

I have 2 cards to share today. One is a father's day card order and another one is a random card.
For the card order, I used some of my old PP and a die-cut heart from Cosmo Cricket. I made my 1st flower ribbon and I thought the result was so-so. I shall do it better next time.

Can you see the laced-up pocket? It's actually a gift card holder. I punched the edge of the PP using the the fiskars border punch then, I used DMC thread to laced up the pocket to hold a gift card. I got this idea when I saw a corset while I was in a shopping mall last week :)

That's all for now and thank you so much for visiting my blog! Have a great day, ya!

It's been quite a while.....

since I used stamp on my cards. Frankly speaking, I'm not good at stamp. I can look at it for hours and yet create nothing out of it. I've got some decent stamps but most just sit in my drawer and I totally shut the daylight out of them. If they have a life, they are going to hate me so so much...haha. But I can't help myself whenever I saw beautiful stamps and I know I have to buy them even though they are just gonna add to my unused stamps collection. And that's exactly what I did last week when I was in KL. I went to this scrapbook store and saw some cute mini stamps from Prima. It' s not only cute but quite worth the money. It's actually a 5-piece stamp set. The package comes with a mini stamp, 3 die cuts tags and an ink. Can I resist buying them?? No, of course not. In fact, I bought three! I promised myself that I'm gonna have to use them no matter what. Be it on a card or just a piece of paper. A promise is a promise and here's what I did with one of the three stamps.

The 'Happy Birthday' stamp is from Hero Arts. I'm so used to clear stamps and it's nerve wrecking when it comes to rubber stamps. I can't see exactly where I stamp...whether it's straight or crooked and most of the time the results are blah. Luckily, this Sassafras PP has printed lines and I use it as a guideline to stamp. Pheww...it's straight isn't it?

CPS#18

Yesterday, I made a card for Card Patterns using paper from Coredinations and Fancy Pants. Ohh...I'm loving the coredinations cardstock that I just bought. They are so much fun to use! You can do so many things to it. You can tear it, emboss it or sand it to reveal the core. I embossed mine using the swiss dots folder, then I sand the surface to reveal the pink core. The butterly were traced and cut from a journaling block by Making Memories. I added some flowers, some blings, ribbon...and tadaaa...here's the finish product!

Hope you are having a great day, ya!

Baby Girl

Me and my family (in-laws) will be travelling to Kuala Lumpur tomorrow to attend a relative's wedding and I will only come back on Monday. Imagine, 4 days without crafting! Anyway, I have one more card to show you before I go MIA again.

This card was created a few weeks ago for a blog friend who's expecting her 2nd baby girl. I also altered a square box to match the card. Then, I fill the box with a tiny pair of baby bootie. She already received my gift and I'm glad that she liked it.








Have a great day!

Hello!

I felt really bad for not posting anything for almost a week! I've created a few cards but just don't have the time to upload it until now. 2S4Y is having their annual card showdown starting this week and will be running for the whole month of June. I'm glad I could take part despite my tight schedule. Here's my take:

I traced the hearts on the baby clothes and hand-stitched them (you know I'm addicted to stitching now)

I tried to use up all my old PP (so that I can buy more..hehe) and so this card was created.

Next, is another card order from a friend. He wanted a kite on the card and here's what I came out with. This card was totally inspired by Roree (one of my fav cardmaker). It's for a guy and so I try to keep it as simple as possible. I don't want it to look too girly.

Thanks for coming here!

One too many desire

I made this card yesterday using the SEI pp that I got since last year. I always ended up buying paper that I don't really like or had a hard time figure out what to do with them. The easiest one to use would be those with polka dots or lines or simple symetrical designs. They don't usually sit at my desk for long. I guess I'm not that creative after all...lol.

The bird with the golden swirls you see here is a sticker that my SIL bought for me from a local bookstore. Isn't she's sweet? And I finally can see the embossed dots on this picture.




I just got myself a cuttlebug machine months ago and now I wish to own the slice machine by Making Memories. I also wish to buy a Nikon D-40 camera and also a HP Pavilion notebook. The desire to own all of them are so strong that it's driving me nuts. Oh no, I think I have to stop thinking about them, at least for a while. Oh yeah, did I mention that I want an i-phone too? A girl can't be too greedy, can she :)

Have a nice day ya!

Dear Friend Card

Finally it rained! We need it so desperately! We had hazy weather for 3 days and luckily it rained this morning. It was extremely hot here! It was so hot that the moment I step out from the shower, I was cover in sweat again. That's how it's like to be living in Malaysia :) Or at least in Penang (one of the state in Malaysia)

I finally got the swiss dots embossing folder from my friend and here's what I created for CPS#16. I never did an umbrella card but I like how it turned out. I handstiched the umbrella and add trim to the edge. I then distressed the edge of the brown cardstock but I don't think you can see it in this picture.

Have a great Tuesday! See ya!

Laura's Sketch 26 & 2S4Y Ultimate Card Showdown

I finally had the chance to use the Sassafrass Lass pp that I bought since last year. I always wanted to use it but didn't know how until yesterday when I want to create a card for 2S4Y challenge. Not sure if my card interprete the sketch correctly though :)

If you didn't already know the big news from 2S4Y, they are going to launch their 1st Annual 2 Sketches 4 You Ulitimate Card Showdown! How cool is that! For more details, go to 2S4Y and feast your eyes on the grand prize that they offer to the one lucky cardmaker. I can't wait for June to come :)

CPS #15

I got mysef a cuttlebug machine 2 months ago through Amazon. My friend who just got back from US is kind enough to bring back for me. It's heavy, mind you. I was a bit afraid to use it at first. It seems like the plastic is too thick to go through. After much courage and lots of ooohhh and aaahh (my friend was with me at that time), I finally got it through! Haha...silly me :) Anyway, I'm having tons of fun playing with my new toy! Too bad I just bought 2 embossing folder. One is happy birthday and the other one is swiss dots. I have to buy more :)

Let's move on to my cards. For this week's Card Patterns Sketch, I created a card using the happy birthday embossing folder. Oh boy, the photo does not do justice to the card. You can't really see the embossed wordings on the card, can you?



I hope you can see it clearer here. I hand-stitched the border and stamped the swirl in black ink and covered it with stickles. Once again, the photo does not do justice to the card :(

And here's another card order I received from my SIL. This card is easy for me. The only hard part is the stitching since I do not own a sewing machine.

Thanks for all the lovely comments you leave on my blog! I appreciate it so much!

Card for Mom

Hi there! Here's one more Mother's day card that I wanted to show you. The Mother's day cards that I created earlier had been sold out. So, I made another one for my mom. I always wanted to create a distressed paper flower but never got the chance to do so until this card.

I crumpled and distressed the edge of the flower. And since I do not own any distressing tool, I have to use the conventional way to distressed the edge. Sand paper and scissors, of course. Then, I hand-stitched the border as well as the ribbon stem and leaf. I try to create the whole vintage look but I'm not sure my card look quite like it. But it's ok because my mom loves it!









Thanks for visiting!

Fab 5 at 2S4Y

Oh wow! I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw my name on the fab 5 list at 2S4Y! I'm so so so happy and honoured! Thank you Laura and Kazan! Check out here

Laura's Sketch 25

I was asked to create a farewell card by my SIL. The recipient is a guy and she wanted the card to be as simple as possible. It is always a challenge for me to create masculine card. I was so used to flowers, ribbons and all the girly stuff and it took me a moment to think what else can I use to embellish my card? Well, only two thing came to mind. Star and button. You can't go wrong with that, can you?

Wow, I've missed Laura's sketch for months! Can you believe that? I'm just so glad that I could play along this week. And congratulations to all the ladies that make it to DT! Can't wait to see their work in weeks to come. Anyway, here's the card I created using Laura's sketch.

Stitching is fun and I'm so addicted to it. If I see any space on my card, I would just fill it with stitches. A lot of work, yes but a whole lot of fun!