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! =)

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.

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=)

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=)

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=)

Simply red =)

A simply red birthday card that I made for my younger sister=) Red is her fav colour by the way. And there's also the picture of the card with her birthday present. Hehe.

For the wordings, I used the cool material, foam in red colour. What I really love about the foam is that it's flexible and I can twist and turn it while cutting out the alphabets without leaving marks. Especially when normally I didn't draw the words first if it's really small because it would be really hard to follow the line. I simply cut it with the shape figured in my head.

Inside I inserted a beige soft paper for writing my personal wish. And again I'm using a transparent handmade envelope. Happy birthday Uda! (^_^)

Two souls with but a single thought,

Two hearts that beat as one.

~Franz Joseph von Munch-Bellinghausen

Hmm..sweet words. Meaningfull eh? Hehe. With so many wedding taking place, I'm in such a romantic mood=p This is yet another design of wedding card that I made for my fellow friends. The cards are the same except for the theme colour. The blue card was given to Mariyatul as she really loves the colour blue (how delighted she was when she received the card! ~o^_^o~ ). While the sweet pink one was given to Suraya as it really suits the petite and cute girl she is=)

The cards were done in a hurry so they might looked kind of bare. I simply punched flower shape on the front cover to expose the colour of the paper inserted inside. Just a simple trick to make your card more interesting=p The wordings were computer generated and pasted double layer on white patterned paper and shining kind of knead paper. But what I really like is the butterflies which I had to sew on the card. They looked really sweet..two hearts, two souls=p Wish I'd done more with the stalk though. Hehe.

And so this is how the cards looked like in their sweet transparent handmade envelope=)

Thank you En. Ali!=)

Finally found the time to post this! Been traveling during the weekend. Hehe. This is a thank you card I made recently for our clinic's PPK who got transferred. I got the idea of drawing glittery eye on the front card from a long long ago dinner programme/address book that I'm entrusted to make for my senior's final year dinner. Last time it was in purple. But to make this card more presentable for a male receiver, I chose blue (still prefer purple though=p)

The card I used is actually embossed with rose flowers. Sweet huh?=) I have it in a few other colors which I hope to explore with other design.

Here I used my new stamping equipment to stamp the letters on white shimmery stock card before pasting it on cut-out silver paper. They were then pasted one by one on the soft beige paper I inserted inside. Notice you can see the glittery eye from inside? That's because they were hand drawn on transparent paper and I cut out the centre of the card. Hehe.

So this is how the card looks like in it's transparent hand-made envelope. Hope En. Ali won't find it too girly=p

A serious birthday wish=p

Hmm..I rarely design card for men so it's quite a challenge. Of course I like to embellish my cards with flowers, ribbons and girly colours. But men's card has always been neat and simple with straight design. This one is for a customer's husband whom I've met several times. Hopefully it suits the serious guy he is. Hehe.

This card came with a transparent handmade envelope. The wordings are simply computer generated and pasted one by one on shimmery off-white card. Then I used black foam for the stripes. But I really like the present box which I draw on silver paper and adorn with silver glue. Notice how it looks elevated? That's because I paste it on a bit of foam before sticking it to the card=)

Inside, I inserted a soft white paper for her to write personal wish. And I decided to add double-layered heart at the corner for her as a symbol of love. She's giving it to her husband after all. Heee~

happy birthday adik!

I just finished this yesterday. My customer requested a birthday card for her younger sister and she was very specific. She wanted a combination of purple and pink as the front cover. She also didn't want typical straight line on the card so luckily I have this new craft scissors which I've been meaning to use =)


This time I used colored foam for the wording. It's not easy to cut the small letters but with great effort comes great reward. Hehe. I really love how they turn out to be! Then I simply decorate the card with punched flowers dotted with silver glue in the middle.

Inside, I inserted a soft pink paper for her to write personal wish. My customer also requested a big heart shape at the corner of the card inside. So I put two hearts layered with colors to match the front cover which looks so sweet=)

This is how it looks like in it's sweet purple transparent handmade envelope. My customer really love the card! And so do I. One of my fav so far ~o(^_^)o~

Simple yet elegant wish~

Another wedding card with the wish 'Selamat Pengantin Baru' in front. This is a really simple design yet I think it looks really sweet=) Still using the shimmery white card and at first I thought of lots and lots of heart in gold. But then I found this really nice blue knead paper which looks really good on the white card. So I decided to give it a try and I really like the end result. The edges are crinkle cut and it was really fun punching and pasting the blue hearts. Did it while watching Amazing Race. Haha=p

The card came with a transparent handmade envelope and I put a blue heart at the back of the envelope too. Heee~
This is how it'll look like in the envelope and I think I shall try with different colour for the hearts as I really like this design=)

Wedding bells!=)

It's school holiday. Yey for the kids! Hehe. School holiday means it's the wedding season too. Ooh, lots of love everywhere=) What better way to congratulate the newly weds than with special handmade wedding card. This is the first one I made this year. I'm still using the shimmery card with a touch of gold ribbon.

I really love the gold and silver heart, carefully drawn and cut. I chained it to each other as a symbol of union. See how they sparkle when they catch the light=) The wordings are written down by hand using a special gold ink pen. And also there's two small heart attached to the ribbon. Not forgetting on the envelope too. Hmm, sparkle everywhere=p

I also wrote the inscription inside, paste on a layer of silver paper, crinkle cut edges and added with small hearts too.

The card came with a transparent handmade envelope and this is how it'll look like. I think I'll give it to a friend whose due to wed next week!=)