ATCs - Last Batch for the Year!

I've been working on these since November, finally completed the lot yesterday :)

This is my latest batch; The Scarlet Letter series. They are white canvas which are spray-misted on a mask. Then they are stamped and decorated with various embellishments.

There are 8 cards in this series.

I also made this batch yesterday, this is my Inky Blooms series. Similar to the Scarlet Letter series, they are white canvas which are spray-misted on a mask followed by stamping in different colors. Buttons are hand-stitched onto the canvas. There are 7 ATCs in this series.

This is another canvas series; Blooming Phrases; which I made in November, there are 3 ATCs from this series. They are canvas painted with acrylic and decorated with felt leaves, brads and buttons.

Next are 2 series with 2 ATCs each; Sophie and Mehndi. Sophie are the 2 pink and grey cards, they are just simple girly designs. Mehndi cards comprise fussy cut elements overlaid on a glittery tulle fabric.

The last 4 cards are random, there are from no particular collection or series. Just sudden inspirations which hit me and here they are;

4 random ATCs

My personal favorite. Hand-stitching, fussy cutting and doodling.

This ATC here is super special; made this during the week of my birthday last month :) A tribute to the year of my birth, note the oh-so-SEVENTIES hippie hypercolor yarn :) And torn book paper made into a medal, signifies my love for reading.

A tribute to my birth year :)

That's it for now, these are my precious ATCs! Hope my swap buddies will like them *fingers crossed*

Happy weekend everyone!

Mini Album for my Baby Niece

My brother-in-law and his wife recently gave birth to a sweet lil' angel and we celebrated her full moon (one month old) party yesterday. My gift to them is a 6" x 6" 10-page mini album incorporating pictures of their baby girl which I downloaded off their Facebook album. The album is pretty much 95% complete with photos except for journaling spots which are left empty so they can personalize it with their own precious thoughts. The ring bound album is also flexible in such a way that they can add on more pages or mementos or re-position the pages.

I'm using American Craft's chipboard ring-bound album which is part covered in pink fabric. I've left the pink fabric exposed and covered most of the raw chipboard with pattern paper.

Album cover - Welcome baby Christabelle!!!

Side view; each LO is housed in a clear protector.

This is the inside cover. I included a nice poem I found online;

Inside front cover.

Close-up of the poem.

Here comes the inside layouts, they are basically full layout formats made on 6" x 6" cardstock or pp.

A poem on the front page.

Lastly, this is the inside-back-cover:

Isn't she simply ADORABLE??? Those huge eyes :)

I can't possibly list out each and every single supply used in this album but I'll mention a few notable collections; Fancy Pants Baby Mine 6x6 pad, Simple Stories Baby Steps 12 x 12 pp, MME Lost & Found 2 Blush 6x6 pad, Echo Park Country Road 6x6 pad, Webster's Pages Let's Celebrate Sweet & Treats 12 x 12, PP Nantucket Oyster Bar 12 x 12, PP Snow Day 12 x 12 (on the cover), 7 Gypsies Baby rub-ons.

I'm very excited with this album and had many hours of pleasure working on it. I think I spent around 3 weeks on it, I guess it would have been quicker if I had only one project at hand. I'm super pleased that they liked the album :) I think it's nice to have these precious pics all compiled and ready for showing to family and friends at the party. A satisfying and fulfilling project for me indeed, just to see the smiles on their faces makes me really HAPPY :)

Here's my sis-in-law, the pretty new mummy :)

Thanks for dropping by and looking :) Have a good week ahead!

Makan Time!

I was taken with Amelia's December Challenge sketch on Papier Love's blog (Papier Love is our LSS), yet  I couldn't decide what to scrap on but I really wanted to. My mind keeps going cards cards cards, when I see pattern papers, I think cards cards cards, when I sit at the craft table, I envision cards cards cards .... *goodness* I needed that to stop for awhile so I can do a proper scrap. After a few days of futile mixing and matching various papers and photos, the mojo finally hit. Gosh I really hate it when it takes so darn long to come to me, I almost wanted to give up. I hope I'm not losing it! :( So anyway I finally decided on an older photo taken of Lucas during his meal time. These cutesy October Afternoon papers fits perfectly for a boyish kiddy theme.

My LO is entitled "Makan Time" which means Meal Time. "Makan" is a Malay word for eat or rather 'meal' in this context. I think this photo was taken back in May by hubby. Lucas was probably around 8 months old thereabouts.

Below are the challenge criteria and sketch:

Create a 12'X12' layout based on the Sketch above and to incorporate..

1. At least 1 Martha Stewart Puncher.

2. Minimum of 3 Pattern Papers.

3. Any product from Prima.

The challenge starts from 1st Dec 2011 - 31st Dec 2011. Kindly submit your link at the comment section, and if you don't have a blog please email your layout to Macy at kartzplus@yahoo.com. This contest is open to residence/address of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei.

My compliance with the challenge requirements:

1. I used 2 Martha Stewart puncher; a border punch and the butterfly punch
2. I definitely have more than 3 pattern papers here
3. I used 2 blue flowers from Prima's Romantique collection.

Here are my close-ups:

I'm really quite pleased with this and I'm just itching to scrap more photos now *rubs hands* I've completed a major 8 x 8 album project yesterday (pheewww) and I'm almost done with another 6 x 6 project (this is for my newborn niece, will share soon), after that I'm looking forward to some leisurely scrapping :)

Meanwhile, do head on over to Papier's blog and check out this challenge, play along if you're Malaysian, Singaporean or Bruneian and you could just win an awesome RAK :) Challenge ends by 31st December.

Well, that's it for now, I'm sure we're all looking forward to a nice weekend with our families. It's school holiday season here and the malls and streets are pretty much decked with lots of festive trimmings. Everyone's in a festive mood.... falalalala :)

Happy weekend and God bless!

Anya for CardPatterns 144

Ola folks! I'm back with a new card with a retro theme for CardPattern's Sketch #144. I'm using The Greeting Farm's Anya stamp with Copic markers and Pink Paislee's Vintage Vogue pattern paper.

Here's the sketch, I've flipped it clockwise for my card design:

Here are more pictures:

Thanks for dropping by! XOXO!

Nantucket Cards

Hi again everyone! I know I've been lagging with my blogging, I've been occupied with my boy, he's getting older, fussier and more demanding lately. Also, I've some cards and album projects lined up. I'm hoping to clear them all out soonest so I can spend time on FUN things like scrapping!!! I've been missing out on so many scrap challenges!

Oh and guess what, notice my new blog look??? I'm really loving it, hehehe, been waiting for a while for it to be installed and now I'm a happy bunny :D

Anyway, coming back to today's post... I'm so in love with Pink Paislee's Nantucket papers ever since Piradee's workshop, I couldn't resist working with them. I'm sharing two cards made from this collection.

First up is a 'farewell card' for a dear friend who is going away to work in the States.

A large 8.5" x 5.5" card

The die-cut elements are to-die-for! Daisies are Prima.

The hexagon chip stickers are so versatile :)

A view of the layers.

Second, a 'thank you' card commissioned by a friend.

A small 4" x 6" card.

I love this color scheme!

These papers makes fussy cutting very addictive! And they are all just so versatile for any occasion and any reason. I've actually some more of them :)

Well, the weekend is here! So, happy weekend everyone! Thanks for dropping by and I wanna say I really appreciate all the lovely comments I've been getting on my previous posts and I know I haven't been the most dilligent in replying and visiting some of your blogs, but I WILL get down to it, promise :) I am really thankful for all my very encouraging, motivating and inspiring crafty friends!

Tata for now :)