~beary beary happy birthday~

Yikes! This is so bad. I've been neglecting this blog way too long. *paangg* a smack on the forehead. But what to do, television is such a distraction. Hehe.

Picture up above was the birthday card that I made for my boyfriend this year (^_^) A simple soft blue card. As I've mentioned before, it's hard for me to design cards for men. I'm a girly, flowery girl. So I'm trying hard to restrain myself from embellishing this card with cute flower sticker or glittery items. Hehe. Maybe I can find a way to incorporate flowers in men's card one day especially if it's in black and white.

Here I simply cut out strips of two tone blue foam and paste it not quite in a straight line one the front. On top of it I just add buttons of various colour and a brown cute bear. I don't know why but buttons and the colour blue reminds me of Tom Sawyer. Huh? (Never read it? Go and read Tom Sawyer! Such a delightful one)

I've had the bear quite some time. In fact I have it in three colours. Beary happy birthday is simply a cute way too say 'very happy birthday'. So the bear just fit in and also I happen to think that my boyfriend is very cute with his round face, that I would really like to pinch his cheek. Round like a bear. Heee~ (OMG, he's going to kill me reading this=p)

I did the writing by hand and I dotted the card with short line around the side. Inside, there's an inscription 'to you' (read it with continuation from 'beary happy birthday') and also personal wish from me to him (that I won't show here=p)

So here's the card in it's transparent blue envelope. Posted it with his birthday gift with love. Weee~ =D

~Sweet September

Today is my dear's birthday. Happy birthday dearie! Something special is coming your way =D

~klick klick..there goes my needle

~wee..a month long of silence..But then again, I’m not sure if there’s anybody reading this blog. Hehe..

I have been so preoccupied nowadays. There are a few cards I’ve made but I haven’t had the chance to take pictures, crop and edit and upload it here. I’m one of those people who get excited at trying new things and these new things take up my time leaving other hobbies neglected for a while. Hehe.

So this card is special because it combines two of my favourite things right now. Recently I’ve ventured into crocheting! It’s knitting but using only one knitting needle. I’ve been watching other people knitting and it looks like fun and the result is very nice. So I decided to conquer the art myself, lol.

I learned by book which is my mother’s old knitting books. At first, I was baffled with all the terms and diagrams. So I said to myself, be patient and practice first with the basic one. Therefore I turned to the very last page where all the basic type of stitches was shown in illustrated instruction. I practiced every type of stitch at least twice and it’s really very easy once I’ve master the basic stitch. Now I can start knitting a real piece and here comes the next baffling moment. How do I read this pattern diagram? Where do I start? They look easy when one by one. But now they were combined in one drawing, the stitches interlinking with one another to create a pattern. Help! Luckily I have my mother who was an ardent knitter once upon a time but unlucky for her to bear with her daughter’s constant nagging. Love you mom. Hehe.

yup, it's a bit lopsided=p

So as you can see on the card, there’s my first completed crochet flower motif! Yey! Hehe. I got the idea to put it on a card because I meant to give it to someone and I’ve been finding a suitable way to do so. And I love how the card turns out=)

I used a shimmering deep maroon stock card to get a nice contrast with the white crochet thread. To use glue will be quite impossible and messy so I simply stitch the edges of the pattern onto the card. Then I used my super cool new Dymo caption maker to emboss the words ‘~for you..’ (noticed the small sun after the words..super cool!=p) This new tool of mine even has three changeable wheels for multi fonts and symbols. I like!

Then I pasted the black label onto a silver paper before sticking it to the card. On the inside, I just pasted cream paper to write my personal wish with some embellishment. Done! =)

:: wish me luck for my next knitting task!=)

~WEDDING ALBUM 1~

Wow! It's been ages since my last post. Been occupied with work and stuff. Finally I've finished my first custom made wedding album project. Yey! And it's safely delivered to it's owner last week. I'm a bit sad to part with it though. Hehe.

At first I was a bit slow down by lack of idea. Luckily the bride leave it up to me to decide everything so I have a total freedom here. I decided to go with the theme colour of both wedding which is blue and yellow. From there I was able to build a continuous pattern for the whole album. It helps too that the pictures taken and edited by Aryuel were all gorgeous.

So, here they are! (^_^)

The first page

Here comes the best part. I learned a new art from the net which is pop ups! For this album, I made the seven flowers pop up which looks so gorgeous. It adds a really nice touch to the album. Also, I didn't have to do anything else on the pages because the pop up itself is enough. I can't tell you how excited I am to see the flowers popping open everytime. Here's one of my favourite, the yellow flowers=)

Here's another one, the blue flowers=) In this album, there were three pages with pop up flowers.

Below are some of my favourites from the other pages. I used lots of material. Foam, beads, patterned papers and teeny weeny seequins. I must have really strained my eyes. Hehe.

The last page

Our logo ^^

They were twenty pages and it took me about one month to finish. Phew. Exhausting but fun. Not to mention the nervous feeling anticipating the owner's response. Well, they love it and we're glad. Looking forward to the next project! Heee~

:: I learn to make the seven flowers pop up here. Try it!

:: Pictures by Aryuel

Girly n handsome~

You like it? I love it. Hehe. Had the opportunity to explore the many wonders of foam, this really cool material when I was asked to make a frame specially for a clinic staff who's retiring. We just had our photo taken and everybody get their own copy and so, it will be really cool to give it to her along with a nice frame. It's been a long time since I made one. Anyway, I've decided to use foam as the body since I have them in abundance. It was a simple clean cut frame, just that I added ornaments on top of it. And that, was the fun part=p

That white wire thing is actually a paper clip in the shape of an eye. Cool huh? Got them from a local bookstore. And that big yummy flower is made from foam too=)

Love the bright yellow colour=p

Oh, and here's the group photo tucked nicely inside. Hehe.

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Well, inspired I am, I made another frame for someone special (^_^) Doesn't it look handsome? Hee. He loves black and white. So, black and white it is. With a touch of grey. Hehe. The strip of ribbon on the bottom frame is really beautiful. It's one of the many design available here. They have such an impressive array of ribbons that I have such a hard time to choose one. Easily available at bookstore and gift shop.

See, that's the cool paper clip again. There's many other shape as well. Who knows paper clip can be so much fun!=) I love the numbering on top too. It's metalic and I got a whole lot of them in a whole lots of colour in a packet for only RM3! Cool!=p

Phew, it was fun making those frame. Hope to be making more and I'd love to mix and match more colours and materials. Look out for more of these funky frame dudes! Heh=p

Black Beauty

What is that? Yup, it's a wedding album. One that I'm working on to design and decorate in collaboration with Aryuel, the photographer. Hehe. My first attempt actually. And of course the man on the cover will be removed=p Wish me luck! I'll post the result when it's done =)

Soft and sweet blue..

For my friend's wedding last week, I chose the colour blue since it's her favourite colour and also her wedding theme was blue. So I'm very proud to say that the card really really fit in the wedding=p This is the first time I used my new border punch and they're wonderful! But it's a bit crooked because I tried to punch two-layered and they got stucked. However I managed to fix the card so that it's not that obvious. See if you can find it. Hehe.

The stock card I used were glittered and then I pasted small hearts using the same colour on the upper two-third of the card. It makes the card look embossed and very nice. I'm loving it=)

Inside I inserted soft blue paper and I wrote simple inscription on white patterned paper, adorned with punched pearl white flowers.

Here's the card in it's transparent handmade envelope, slipped behind the paper fan on the wedding gift from us. Oh, he wrapped the wedding gift and make the paper fan himself. So sweet. Hehe.



::Pictures by Aryuel and edited by me=)

Simplicity=p

It was Ina's birthday last week. I only remember it at last minute when she asked me out for dinner (yummy chicken chop=p). So this was kind of last minute card too. Hehe. I want it to be simple yet sweet. So, what else would be sweeter than flowers?=)

I used shimmery white stock card. Then I pasted colourful punched flowers in my fav hue. Hehe. On each flower, I dotted silver glitter glue in the middle.

Inside, I inserted soft pink paper for writing my personal wish. And I must say that the combination of the inside paper and the colourful flowers outside looks so sweet=)

Here's the card attached to the present. Err, and yeah, I used the leftover of the same wrapper in the previous gift card post=p Well, I like it and I don't like to waste good things. Hehe.

With all my heart~

Here's another card themed love! A favourite theme in the world I must say. Hehe. This card was ordered by a colleague who wants to give it to her husband. Not for Valentine day, mind you. Just as a pleasant surprise for someone she love=) As you can see, the card is full with red and pink colour. The wordings is made from twisted paper in pink. I even sew beads (me obsessing with beads=p) scattered on the card. Love the end result, sparkly with lots of love and someone who's already got the sneak peek loved it too. Wee~ (^_^)

And I just LOVE the big love which is cut out using foam in red and then I pasted small love one by one on top of it. It was fun to do too! =)

Inside I pasted a reaaally big red heart as requested. She wants to write her love message inside it. Uuuu...Hehe.

Finally, this is the card in it's transparent handmade envelope. I even added a decorated piece of beige paper on the envelope for her to write her hubby's name=)

Beads and flower

Tadaa! My next attempt with beads. Hehe. Ever since the first one, I really am excited to use more beads in my card. There's still so much more to explore=) This is yet another small gift card. Here I used shimmery gold yellow card with red and black beads. In the shape of flower. Two flower as a symbol of togetherness. Handsewn, of course. Hehe.

So I decided to use the card for Sya's wedding gift that I went to last saturday in Alor Setar (the new spelling enforced by Kedah's MB. Hehe) The wish 'Selamat pengantin baru' (@ congratulation to the newly weds) was simply handwritten. But of course the card can also be use for any other occasion, not just weddings. I'll simply write another wish.

The card looks nice attached to the present. Hope you like it Sya! And may both of you live happily ever after=)

:: You can view Sya's wedding picas here

Nice and small

I suddenly had this gazillion ideas with beads during a visit to an old bazar which is famous at my hometown. This one particular shop has a vast choice of beads and buttons which makes my head spinning with ideas and I had to stop myself from buying the whole lot of them. Hehe. So I got myself a packet of pale gold, dark grey and pearl white. I'm planning to buy the deep red colour this evening to use in a new card ordered by my regular customer=)

This time I'm making 10.4x7.4 card which is suitable as a gift card to attach on presents, wedding gifts, flower bouquets and such.

This is the first design. Quite simple as I'm still experimenting. I'm using patterned paper (Egyptian) and the pale gold and pearl white beads. The beads were hand sewn and it's like an addiction to sew them. I did it in just 5 minutes!=p

Here comes the second design and this time I arranged them in a cluster of four. I think this design looks much more elegant than the first one. This one took ten minutes=p

I used the card on a wedding gift to a friend's wedding recently. Inside I pasted beige colour paper for writing personal wish. Doesn't it look nice? =)

Happy Chinese New Year!

Blazing gold and red aren't they? Hehe. I made this card for Dr Ng, my head department. This is my first attempt at Chinese New Year card and boy, was it hard to find the right theme. I want it to be modern yet oriental and was so glad to come across this symbol. It means 'money' according to my colleague=p I used gold paper for the pattern and wordings. It took hard work and calculation to make the symbol symmetrical. The pattern was then pasted on top of red foam to make it look elevated and stand out. Love it!=)

Inside I inserted beige paper and decided to inscribe prosperous wish on double layered paper. Simply hand written with black ink pen.

This is the blazing red card in it's transparent handmade envelope!=p

Ooh..and I finally made my own sticker with my blog address to paste it behind my handmade cards! Wee~ =)

~A bouquet of flowers for you

sneak peek=p

18/01/2009

~updated~

Tadaa! Hehe. Took some time to post this. Hopefully it's worth the wait=p Hmm, it's the first card this year. This is a card meant to wish good luck to our specialist who's going to specialize in glaucoma pretty soon. I've chosen pale green and flower motif to suit the feminine doctor. First time I worked with this colour though and I like it! Hehe.

Love the flower bouquet!=) They're simply punched heart arranged into the shape of flower and I think the ribbon makes it look sweeter. Hehe.

Inside I inserted beige soft paper for the wish. The good luck wish was hand written on layered papers with colours to match the front cover. And as the sneak peek picture shown, the card was paired with a green transparent handmade envelope. Love the end result=)