Simply cupcakes

I had a last minute order for a birthday card and a wedding card. Both for the same person. This girl is getting married a day before her birthday. Nice birthday present. Hehe.

Stamped cupcakes. I meant to leave it black and white at first because it looks so classic. But then, colouring it would be fun too and so I did.

Tiered foam for the 3D effect.

A peek on the inside. I know the card is really simple but that's what I like about it. The stark contrast of white card with colourful cupcakes. Sometimes the beauty lies in the simplicity :)

I'll post the wedding card later on. My lunch is waiting. Ciao.

All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul. Purple is not just a noun and an adjective but also a verb -

when you look at it, it's looking back at you.

~Uniek Swain

Ngee hee. Forgive me for obsessing with purple then. Who is this Uniek Swain by the way? I've a habit of checking out who's the owner of every quote I found. I just want to know more about them and what inspires them. But this one dude is nowhere to be found. Even on wiki, though he's quoted all over the net. Hmm.

Anyway, this is quite a simple card. Basically I used white cardstock, American Crafts patterned paper, mauve grossgrain ribbon, computer generated 'happy birthday' wish, purple beads, round purple button and bright pink eyelets. Yey, I love the eyelets colour! It's where I stuck the ribbon through.

Oh, I found a new use of the tracing wheel. The one we used to trace pattern for sewing. Well, I run it over the front a few times to create a dashed pattern. Make sure to place a cutting mat or a piece of thick paper inside the card first to avoid hitting the inside.

I had a clumsy moment with the ribbon. Hehe. When I managed to fold it nicely in shape, I had to let go one hand to reach for the glue and there goes my ribbon. So I find it easier to use double sided tape. Cut a few ready on hands. Ha!

This week's card is posted a bit early since it's holiday today for Nuzul Quran. So, I am all energetic to finish a card after sahur and take pictures. I'm so happy that I don't have to grudgingly dragged myself to work today. Hehe. Have a happy weekend everyone!

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! =)

~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

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! (^_^)

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~