~It's wedding season again

Yes, it's school holiday in Malaysia and it means wedding bells around each corner. The scent of love and joy. Plus the scent of yummy foods as well. Hehe. I make this wedding card for my distant niece who got married last week. It's in deep purple! =) The shiny cardstock is a new type of card that I found at the bookstore. Really beautiful and makes a nice card.

I'm still in circles/ round/ polka dots mood. The excitement is further enhanced since I bought my first ever Making Memories Instant Setter. It punches holes and sets eyelet wherever I want it! I've been eyeing it for some time. I still have to buy the cute colourful eyelets to use with the eyelet setting but right now I'm fully enjoying the puncher kit. There are three sizes of hole punch tips available. I got the idea to make this kind of card from a handmade card magazine.

After punching the holes, I paste a piece of green patterned paper behind. Then cut a piece of mauve grossgrain ribbon, paste it and add on top a nice layered glittery poppies. It's from Blossomwood I think. The wordings are printed on a pearly white cardstock.

It's best to punch from in front of the card to get a clean cut result so I draw the circles inside and I marked first with the setter inside. Then only I punched through from in front of the card. There's a lot of ideas swirling in my mind now so watch out for more circles card from me. Hehe.

There are lots of eyelet setter available but currently I'm satisfied with mine. Very costly though, probably the most I spend for card making stuffs. Still I love it. Like my dear fiance said, it can do wonders. Hehe. If you still have no idea what an eyelet setter is, you can watch a tutorial here.

A good friend is cheaper than therapy

~ Author unknown

Indeed. Good friends are hard to find too=)

You know how we always walk in a straight line. Well most of the time everything is straight in card making too. Come to think of it, I rarely used circles in my cards. Or make a round base card. Through online and magazine, I found many refreshing ideas to incorporate round patterns. Polka dots are cute!

Like in this card I used pearly white cardstock as a base and patterned paper by American Crafts from the Sixth Avenue Collection. It's double sided and I used the pink part inside the card. The front cover is smaller to give a view of the pink side trimmed with craft scissor. A new way for me to add a zest to a card. Hehe.

I found the cool alphabet sticker at Tesco. For those who don't know, Tesco do offer a variety of art and craft supplies. Once in a while, I can find something unique there. The wordings are computer generated, printed on the same pearly white cardstock. I really love that cardstock. Pearly white is romantic. Ngee.

~to all my f.r.i.e.n.d.s