Daddy's girl

I am a daddy's girl. I believe most girls are. He is the first man in our life after all. Our first hero.

So it was my father's birthday yesterday. 61 years old yet he still looks as handsome as ever. At least to me. Hehe.

This time, I try to make a cheery colourful card for him. The base is light purple cardstock and I kind of mix and match a few elements in this card. Ribbons, foam, caption label and corrugate paper. Experimenting? Every cards are ;)

Caption label are really great. Now not only different type of fonts are available, but they also include symbols and numbers. There's also different colours of label available. But black suits just anything. The cake and the wish was cut out from a wrapping paper. So is the colourful round pattern paper. So never throw away any left over of wrapping papers. Even little scraps of left over from the other cards you've made is bound to be useful someday.

Beautiful ribbons! Sometimes ribbons is all you need. Not so expensive and very useful. See the black ribbon with gold circle, it's given by my good friend. She got it from a wedding's goodie bag and she knows I like this kind of stuff. I'm a left over junkie I guess. I practically keeps everything. Hehe.

Finally I got to use the new rub on. Weee! It's the 'love you' wording. Rub on a gold coloured paper. I can't wait to use the others. Really easy with awesome result. The gold paper was mounted on a black foam before I paste it on the card with the rest of the embellishment.

It certainly was a night of celebration. The family went out to the new A&W restaurant. It's not so often that my father appreciate fast food compared to proper home cooked meal. But he did last night. Happy birthday Ayah! =)

Salute to Teachers

So today is Teacher's Day and it's the last year of my mother as a teacher. I'm always proud that my mother is a teacher and I believe that most of the things I did today is influenced by her. She teaches Integrated Living Skills majoring in cooking and sewing. That's where I got my passion for art and card making I guess. She teaches me well.

Just like I mentioned last time, I am in possession of a few new art tools. It's been really fun experimenting in this card. I'm using my new clear stamps which is Prima Collage stamps diana and Prima Collage stamps ticker. The rest is available stuff in my collection. The base is dark brown cardstock.

That's the collage diana stamped with Brilliance 3 color pigment inkpad in Peacock. Lovely aren't they? The colour is both excellent and shimmery. I'm keen on buying more of Brilliance inkpad in other combination of colours.

That's the collage ticker stamped using the same colour. Both were stamped on an off white shimmering paper. I wrote the word 'teacher' using a black ink pen. They do look like rub ons huh. But no, it's hand written and I must say it's a bonus I can write symmetrically. Hehe.

Then all the pieces were assembled like in the image. On the bottom right I added a strip of seaweed green colour structured paper punched with leaf pattern showing the beneath same structured paper but in different shade of green. Then I added some flower shaped beads on the top right corner.

So here's to you mother. Happy teacher's day! =)

I.ENJOY.ART

I am so excited today. My parcel of art goodies just arrived today and I can't wait to start using them. There are clear stamps, rub-ons and a few patterned paper plus stockcard. On my next project, I'll be working on a card for my mother again. She's a teacher and Teacher's Day is coming up. Plus she's retiring this year and this is her last Teacher's Day celebration. So I just want to make something special for her =)

Till then peeps!

My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.

~Graycie Harmon

True enough. A mother's comfort is never forgotten. It lingers in our heart and our existence. For my mother this year, I want a sweet soft theme card to represent the woman she is. So I picked this soft pale orange embossed card. It's actually embossed with rose pattern and I've used this type of stock card before in blue.

I don't want to go overly with the design. Therefore I simply paste a white transparent ribbon horizontally. Before that I pasted the word 'mother' using the foam letters in pink underneath. I was contemplating to add more embellishment underneath but none seems to suit the idea I had in mind. So, I just then add a few flower beads along the top strip of the ribbon. I really like the sparkly effect=)

I love you mother! Happy mother's day (^_^)

weee~

OOH..I miss this blog so much. It's really been a while. I do have new cards that I've made once in a while. Hopefully I'll find the time to post them one by one. For now, this really feel like a comeback. Haha.

This is probably one of the fastest card I've made. For the record, the idea, the layout and the card was completed in just ten minutes! I was rummaging through the leftover cardstock when I chance upon this shimmering soft purple card which I've only used a quarter of it. The idea just pop into my head and the material was all there so before I knew it, tadaaa! A lovely card it made. Hehe.

I love the combination of the colours! Feels exotic. And the leaves are just so cool, aren't they? Found it at the beads shop and I'm so in love with it too! The bottom of the card was actually trimmed with a craft scissor when I used a quarter of the card before. Now i just fold the card to half and it did add a nice touch huh.