Published cards - December 2010

Happy Saturday, friends!

I am off to work soon so I'll just pop in quickly to share with you the cards that were published in the December issue of CARDS magazine :)

The first card appeared in the stamping category while the second card in the friendship category. Hope you like them :)

Thanks for looking! Hugs!

Bali Trip - Part1

Hello friends! I finally sorted the photos we took during our recent holiday to Bali. We spent four wonderful days there and it was truly a memorable trip for us. As promised, here are the pictures for your viewing pleasure :)

The beautiful view of Bali from thousands feet above.

Arriving at Ngurah Rai airport. While waiting for our transport, I can't help but to strike a pose :)

The first restaurant we visited was a French restaurant that was located in one of the back alley in Kuta. I remembered we were the only customer there and were served by a very friendly waiter that later became our friend. 

After dinner, we walked around Kuta and did our first shopping. Hubby is really great at bargaining and I bought two dresses from this shop at very cheap price :)

Nasi Padang (Balinese local food)

Breakfast by the pool.

This view was taken from a coffee plantation which was located on a hill top. It is one of our favorite place ever! Thanks to the local guide who brought us there.

This, my friend is the animal that make the world most expensive coffee out of its poo poo :)

Complimentary coffee and herbal tea.

Coffee Luwak, the world most expensive coffee.

Hubby with our local guide, Ketut.

A small packet of coffee Luwak cost us RM100 (about USD28). It truly is one of the most expensive coffee I've ever bought :)

Part 2 to be continued..........

2 become 1

Helllooooo!!! I am back!!! It feels great to be back home! And it feels even great to be able to update my blog and get connected with you all again! I really really miss you all. I know I've been really bad at commenting lately and I wish I have more time to do so. Thanks so much for your understanding lovelies!!

I came back from Bali on last Friday and it was such a nice place to visit. Two thumbs up! Balinese people are very friendly (except the immigration officers....they look like they could kill me on the spot, lol) and we really love the place. We snapped more than 200 pictures and I am going to sort them out during my day off. Hopefully I can show them to you soon. Something happened to us during the trip and I am going to share them with you on my next post. You might want to add this to your "how to travel smart" list :)

But for now I have a card to share! Yay! It's been weeks since I update new card here. I finished work at 10pm yesterday and hubby took me out for an ice cream at baskin Robbins. Sweetness! Now sure if it was the capuccino ice-cream I had but I couldn't sleep after that. I watched football together with hubby and my mind wandered to something else. Hehe, I was thinking of the beautiful Parisan Anthology collection by Pink Paislee and I can't help but to create a card in the middle of the night :)

The text patterned paper is originally in white but I distressed with spun sugar distress ink by Tim Holtz. The thing I like about this paper is the embossed flourish background. It's glossy and act like a resistant when I swipe the distress ink all over it. Can you see it from the picture? Why don't you give it a try if you have this paper in your stash :) They are also available in Smidapaper

Happy Monday!

On Hiatus

Hello and Happy Sunday friends! I just wanted to let you know that I will be on a hiatus for a week because I am going for a holiday to Bali with my hubby! Yay!! My long awaited honeymoon has finally come :) I also wanted to say a BIG THANK YOU for your comments on my previous post! You all have been so sweet! And I appologized for not leaving a comment on your blog in a while. But I will do so when I am back from my holiday. I will miss you all! HUGS!

Another TOOT TOOT!

Hello friends! It's 2011 already and I hope it is not too late to wish you all "HAPPY NEW YEAR"!!
So what's your new year resolution? Me? I don't have any because I know I can never fulfill them. But I do have a goal that I hope to achieve :)

Last year has been a great creative year for me! I set a few goals and one of them is to get published. I never imagine seeing my cards on the glossy pages of CARDS magazine but then dream come true. As my talented friend, Lindsay wrote on her blog "If you dream it, you can achieve it"! And it's so true! One of my ultimate goal is to grace the cover of CARDS magazine some day and guesss what??? That day has finally come and my card is on the cover of CARDS magazine January 2011 issue!!! I am truly thankful for what life brings and I look forward to 2011.

I would like to thank each and everyone of you who took the time to leave comments on my blog! It means a lot especially after a bad day. Your kinds words never fail to brighten my day and bring smiles to my face. Your support and encouragement have certainly keep me going and make me want to this for as long as I live. Thank you so much my friend! I sincerely hope 2011 will be a great and fulfilling year to you!

Happy day!

TOOT! TOOT!

Happy Wednesday or Happy Hump day as my American friends would say :)

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas celebration! 2010 is coming to an end soon and I am very happy to say that it is a great year for me. I hope 2011 will be another great year for me and I have an exciting news to share when the new year begins :) But for now, I am sharing my very first publication in the latest issue of Paper Crafts Magazine.

Paper Crafts was kind enough to send me a copy of the issue but I was too lazy to snap a picture so I share my original card instead :) I hope you like it. Be back soon! Ta ta!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

I just wanted to wish all my talented friends on the bloggy land A MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Holiday season is around the corner

Christmas is less than a week away and I am sure you are all busy preparing for it. As for me, I am very behind on making Christmas cards and I still have gifts to buy.

Today I am sharing one of the card I made for the Christmas cards class. We made four cards and this is my favorite of the bunch. It's shabby and just the style I like.

Hubby and I are getting ready to go out to have some coffee :) See you soon and have a great evening!

Random Stuff

One of the perk of working in  a scrapbook store is you get to see beautiful products everyday but there is a danger too. Damage to my pocket of course :) I had a visit from Vi yesterday and it was fun seeing her again. We chatted for a while and it somehow triggered the shopaholic in me and I bought myself some pretty stuff :) It was so funny because I never shop while working and I jokingly told Vi that next time she can only come when I have the money to spend...lol! Here's a pic of the stuff I bought from Smidapaper.

My first altered project

I bought some frames from Ikea a while ago and I had no idea what to do with them until now. I altered the natural wood frame by painted a coat of acryclic paint by Making Memories. Sea Foam has to be one of my favorite color after Blush :) To achieve the worn out effect, I distressed it with tea dye ink. Then I decorated the frame with some of my favorite embellishments like the big beautiful chipboard butterfly by K&Co. Easy isn't it? I am going to alter a few more frames and probably give them to my friends :)

Happy Friday!

I should be sleeping but............

instead, I thought of pop in quickly to share with you some cards I made a while ago. Nothing fancy, just two simple cards using mostly My Mind's Eye. I admit that the Lost and Found collection has been my favorite and I feel like hoarding the paper for as long as I can. They are so glittery, so soft and so classy. I have a few projects in mind that I wish I have more time to sit down and create. I hardly even have time to update my blog. But I love my job so I am not complaining.

Last Sunday was my birthday and I spent the whole afternoon sleeping. I slept for 4 hours, mind you!  Not sure if age has anything to do with it. I used to get every excited on my birthday but as age is catching up, the excitement has die down. It feels like an ordinary day except that I get to eat what I want :) After my long nap, hubby took me out to dinner in a Chinese restaurant (they served yummy dumplings) and even bought me this laptop bag from Fossil. It has the Cath Kidston style and I love it! I used to carry the boring black laptop bag to work but I can say bye bye to it now :) Hello new bag!

Thanks for your visit and I hope you are having a great day! Hopefully I will have another project to share soon. A layout or maybe an altered frame :) See you around!

CARDS November 2010 Issue

Hello Friends!! This blog is being seriously neglected and I appologize for not updating my blog as frequent as I used to. I am trying my best to update more often from now on. I would also like to appologize for not visiting your blog. I just checked and I have over 40 blogs to comment :) It takes some time but I promise that I will leave some love on each blog I visit today. Blurfing (blog surfing), here I come!

Oh yeah...I almost forgot that I can share with you my November pubs on CARDS magazine. I hope you like them as much as I do :)

Stay tuned for more updates from me! Happy Tuesday!

Tag Along Challenge

Hello again! Smidapaper has a brand new challenge to welcome the festive season. We called it the "Tag Along" challenge. I created some vintage inspired tags for the challenge and you may visit the website for the rules. It's very simple, really. I hope you play along with us! (open to Malaysians only)

Happy Wednesday!

Update on new store

Hello friends! I can't believe it's been a week since my last post! Time is limited these days and creating is not a daily affair for me anymore. I still create for the store though but mostly are samples for the class. Working in Smidapaper is a whole new experience for me especially when dealing with customers. Some are nice, some are not but still I enjoy every moment of it. Sometimes in between work, Sheila and I will have our "crazy" talk and it makes it even more enjoyable to work here. It's my second week already and I am starting to get familiar with the routine, customers and stuff. Before I sign off, here are couple of pictures taken at the store by Sheila. Enjoy!

One day left.......

Hello friend! I'm sorry I've gone missing on you! We spent two days setting up the new store and I'm happy to say that it's starting to take shape. With only one day left before the opening, there's no time to waste. The stamps are already up on the display wall, punches, stickers, and ribbons too. Today will have fun unpacking the paper and doing Christmas decorations :) Here's a sneak of what we have in the store,

An array of acryclic paints. Seeing the beautiful colors on the shelves make me happy. Very happy.

Marker pen in assortment of colors. I called it the 'wheel of colors'.

Ok, I got to run. Stay tune for more updates on the new store. I will post more pictures in the next couple of days. Meanwhile, you may visit Smidapaper blog for more information.

Happy Wednesday!

Handmade Soap

I have no card to share but instead a picture of some fun gift I put together for my friends. You know how I love packaging and these cute little soap infused with exotic spices and pure essential oil are just what I'm looking for. To make it even more personal, I wrapped up the soap with some colorful paper and ribbons. They smell really good and not overpowering. My favorite has to be the lemongrass. I love everything lemongrass! It has this soothing smell that calms me down and I also love the fact that it help to keep mosquitoes away :) They also make a perfect Christmas gift, don't you think?

A new range of handmade soap are available at Smidapaper soon. Come check them out when the new store open on 25th November.

Have a fun filled day!

Goodbye Altera!

I want to remember today. It is the day I bid farewell to my company and the good friends that I've known for 10 years. It was bittersweet for me and I will definitely miss them. I am so used to my daily routine that I hope I don't wake up at at 6:45am on Monday and drive myself to work, lol. I took some pictures with my friends and I hope to post them here soon.

Meanwhile, I am sharing a card I made for my class a while back. Enjoy!

Happy or Sad

Hello! Thank you for your comments on my last post. Your kind words brighten my day and reading every single one of them made me smile. They meant a lot and I am thankful for that.

This Friday will be my last day at work and I am still busy packing my stuff, transferring some personal datas to my laptop and attending farewell lunch/dinner in between. I've still got a few odds and ends to do before leaving but other than that I am pretty much looking forward to my new job. I have people asking me if I am happy leaving the company. To be frank, I am happy and eager to start a new environment, meeting new people and learning new stuff. Being creative is part of my life now and I am very excited about it. But leaving behind a group of great friends that I've known for 10 years is is the most difficult. They are my trusted confidant, my lunch partner, my car-pool partner and even my fashion advisor. They are everything a friend could ever ask for and I love them dearly.

Sigh...emotion aside. I had to share a card I made using a mix of papers from My Little Yellow Bicycle and Studio Calico. Yay to me! I made another masculine card and I am just proud of myself, lol :)

Happy Monday!