Layout: Indulge

It has been quite some time I did not create any layout. I can't resist to create one when I saw Mei Li Paperie's beautiful color palette from December Color Challenge, although December is the super busy and crazy month for me. 

Here's my take:

I used Maggie Holmes Styleboard vellum shapes and Shimelle die cut cardstock shapes for this layout.

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Layout No. 15

Layout: Always Together

It's time for Mei Li Paperie's October Color Challenge. Let's have a look at the color palette.

This color challenge immediately got me thinking of Pink Paislee's ephemera and stickers, especially Solstice. 

Here's my take:

I used mostly Pink Paislee's ephemera and stickers from Solstice, Pen Pals and Switchboard. I used a 'lovely' sticker from Shimelle. 

I love the tag 'Life is a JOURNEY enjoy it!' Then, I purposely matched the wordings together: My world ... You & Me, everyday 24/7 forever& always together!

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Layout No. 14

Layout: Mom, I Am Right Here!

Mei Li Paperie's September inspired by..... Challenge is fun! The inspiration piece is a cute and colorful image. It is selected by Kim Jefress. 

Here's my take:

I used the color palette and the design of the image. When I first saw this image, I thought of London, travelling, enjoyable moment and FOOD! I planned to create a layout about food but then I realized I did not have any photo about food on hand. Then, I changed my mind and go for this - fun time with my Little Ze. We were having fun and enjoyed the moment playing hide and seek and pretending riding the elevator up and down in a building.

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Layout No. 13

Layout: You Are My Sunshine, You Make Me Happy!

Hi! Today I’m going to share with you my layout for Mei Li Paperie’s August Inspired by... Challenge. I love this month’s inspiration piece. 

Sad to hear that Robin Williams passed away. Robin Williams made art that changed my generation. His humor, his storytelling, and his thousand and one different expressions are what I watched growing up. Not just any celebrity can bring about epic feelings of childhood. Robin Williams is one of the few artists in our time that has that gift. Ok, back to the inspiration piece. It shown a fun photo of him that has a lot of feeling. How I get inspired? 

First, the B&W photo and the wooden floor caught my eyes. I straight away thought of my Pink Paislee’s Hello Sunshine – Happy Days and Simple Stories’Vintage Bliss Gray Wood/Butterfly Stiches patterned papers. Secondly, the humor of Robin Williams.

To me, black is dark, sorrow and sad color. By the way, this was my first attempt to create a black base layout. Well, since Robin Williams brought us so much laughters, it was great to turn this black to a bright and happy layout. Laughter is the best medicine. I chose Pink Paislee’s Hello Sunshine – Happy Days as my base. Do you notice the wordings at the bottom of the paper? Does it sounds familiar to you? Yes, it was part of the lyrics in a song called “You Are My Sunshine”.

I came across Creative Embellishments’ August Challenge.

I was being inspired by the picture and for the twist to use ‘You Are My Sunshine, You Make Me Happy’ as my title. I chose a photo of my little Sunshine - Little Ze is smiling and saying ‘cheese!’.  He really brightens up my day. Then, I added a stripe of wordings from Hello Sunshine patterned paper … Let’s sing!

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine

You make me happy when skies are grey

You'll never know dear, how much I love you

Please don't take my sunshine away

I used the sketch from Elle’s studio Sketch Thursday 21/08/2014.

Oh, Robin Williams holding some little flowers and some on the floor in the first inspiration piece. I included some little colorful flowers in my layout as well. Can you spotted them? 

I used two transparent tags in this layout.

I adhered mini alphabets to the transparent tags and layered it on top of a square piece which I stamped a camera onto it. You said Cheese!!!

That’s all for today!

Happy Crafting!

I'm entering this layout for

Mei Li Paperie'sAugust Inspired by... Challenge

CreativeEmbellishments’ August Challenge

Elle’s studio Sketch Thursday21/08/2014

Supplies:

Pink Paislee Hello Sunshine Paper Happy Days

Pink Paislee Hello Sunshine Paper Hello Sunshine

Pink Paislee Switchboard Ephemera Pack

Pink Paislee Hello Sunshine Puffy Stickers

Pink Paislee Hello Sunshine Label Stickers

Pink Paislee Spring Jubilee Bitty Blocks

Chic Tags Cloud 9 Flair Buttons

Simple Stories’Vintage Bliss Gray Wood/Butterfly Stiches

Simple Stories’Vintage Bliss Live Simply

Elle’s Studio Shine Transparent Tags

Elle’s Studio Shine Extra Tidbits

Elle’s Studio June 2014 Kit

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Have a great long weekend!

Happy National Day, Malaysian!

Layout No. 11

Layout: So Thirsty?

Oh! Mei Li Paperie's August Colour Challenge is due today. Few more hours to go. Luckily, I managed to join in the party wagon. 

Here's the August color palette:

Frankly speaking, this color palette is quite tough for me. I have no idea why. However, I still wanna challenge myself. I give myself even a harder task - to create a boy related themed in pink by following the color palette given. Normally, blue will be my choice when everything comes to boy and water. So, this time, I used pink, brow and gold.

Here's what I come up with:

This was my 9th layout. What do you think? 

I wanted something funny and cute for this layout. Therefore, I chose this photo that showing Baby Hang eagerly and so insisted to drink the water from the tap. Oh my, he really made me laugh and angry at the same time. 

I 'slot' in a transparent tag and a journaling card in the 'pocket' underneath the layering.

I used the sketch from Creative Scrappers sketch #275 by Jenny Evans. 

That's all for today!

Happy Crafting!

I'm entering this layout for 

Mei Li Paperie's August Colour Challenge

Creative Scrappers sketch #275

Supplies:

Pink Paislee Switchboard Paper Let's Chat

Pink Paislee Switchboard Ephemera Pack

Chic Tags Cloud 9 "Sequins" Wood Veneer

Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Styleboard Vellum Shapes

Chickaniddy Twirly Girly Paper Tea Party

Mei Li Exclusives - white sequins
Elle's Studio June 2014 Kit
Crate Paper Random Collection Curtains

Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Elizabeth Kate

Making Memories Jet'adore Cabbage Rose

S.E.I Seasoned Taste Buds

Jenni Bowlin Spring Picnic Theme 

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Card: Totally Cool

Oh my! Nowadays the weather is so hot! What I need now is ICE CREAM!

I made an ice cream card.

Oh... lots of triangles!

This card was actually inspired by the inspiration piece in Mei Li Paperie’s July Inspired by... challenge. 

I flipped the image and what do you see? Ice cream cone! That's how my ice cream card came into place.

Let’s go for another round of ice cream! 

I’m entering this for

Mei Li Paperie’s July Inspired by... challenge

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Happy Crafting!

Pocket Card: Thank You Sew Much

I attended a 3 days training about mother support on breastfeeding over the last weekend. It was conducted by a IBCLC from Ireland, Geraldine Cahill. Oh, I would say it was a fruitful, wonderful, informative and great training! It was an eye opener for me. Geraldine was so great! We were so fortunate to have her to provide us such a great training. I decided to make her an appreciation card before she fly back to Ireland.

I was thinking to develop a group photo taken during our training and attached it to my handmade card. Then, I came out an idea to make it a pocket card. I came across the Sketch Challenge of Waffle Flower Challenge for June/July 2014. The sketch inspired me a lot and I decided to play along. 

Here’s what I come out with:

I made a pocket card with front flap folded down an angle. It looked almost similar to the sketch, am I right?

One of the basic rules to play along with Waffle Flower Challenge is to use at least one of Waffle Flower Crafts products on each entry. Notions Stamp Set (WFS101) is the one and only one product that I have from Waffle Flower Crafts. 

And so coincident that the Notions Stamp Set contained sentiments ‘Thank you’ and ‘Sew Much’ which are so suitable for my appreciation card! Hmm… this card going to be a sewing related card. OMG, I don’t have a sewing machine! Sew by hand? I don’t think I have time for that. I adhered both sides of the card using craft glue and staplers were used to secure the pocket. Then, I ‘sew’ (the dotted lines) four sides of the card using black ink pen to create a border. I stamped a needle at the right of the card.  

Waffle Flower Crafts stamp sets are great for creating our own pattern. As what it mentioned in the Waffle Flower’s Technique Challenge – Stamp a pattern. Random is a pattern. 

I randomly stamped the buttons, love and threads using light color inks as the base at the panel. Then, I stamped the sentiment with black ink. Buttons and flowers were added to the panel. To add some dimension, I trimmed the panel a little bit and followed by ‘sewing’ the rest with a pen.

For the colors, again, I used the color combo from Mei Li Paperie's July Colour Challenge. Oh dear, I love this color combo so much!

I love to reuse and upcycle boxes, paper bags or wrapping papers. In this case, I reused a chocolate box from Japan and turned it into a new box for my card. Have a look at the matching box with my card. Oh look at the colors… 

That’s for today! Oh, I heard from my friend said that Geraldine loves this card so much! I was happy and thrilled to hear that!

I'm entering this card for

Waffle Flower Challenge for June/July 2014 – The SketchChallenge

Waffle Flower Challenge for June/July 2014 – The TechniqueChallenge

Mei Li Paperie's July Color Challenge

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Card: Oh Happy Day!

I have made a simple & clean card this morning, with just vellum shapes, clear tag, pearls and sequins.

How I get inspired?

First, the layout. I used the sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch #83, a new sketch from Gayatri Murali. 

However, I don't want to stick with the original banner, flower and leaves. Hmm... What could I replace them with? I took out one of my favorite Maggie Holmes's Styleboard Vellum Shapes. The moment I lifted up the packaging, a clock and few butterflies vellum shapes dropped out onto my table. Oh yes! Clock + Butterflies = TIME FLIES! 

Time really flies! Life is too short to be anything but happy! We must enjoy life! Appreciate and love our life! Then, I decided to make a card for myself to remind myself to be happy whenever I feel sad. Wake up every morning, seeing this card, with the thought that 'Oh today is another happy day!' That's how this card being created.

For color wise, I used the color combination from Mei Li Paperie's July Colour Challenge. The colors are so nice!

I stamped a stroke of pink paint using Watercolor Wonder from Papertrey Ink with pink ink to replace the banner. It was like a flying color in the air. I layered a clear tag 'Oh Happy Day!' on top of the pink stroke as the sentiment of the card. Instead of flowers and leaves, I added a clock as main focus, butterflies and loves (appreciate, enjoy and love our life) to the card. 

Well, our life full with good and bad times! The pearls and sequins represent all the up and down, tears and laughter in our life. No matter how, all these just make our life full with colors! 

Here's the closer look of the card.

Do you notice that there is a very light wording printed on the clock vellum? Yes? No? Actually 2 words. Wonderful Life. We need to live a wonderful life and we will. We capture our life. We snap pictures for our memory. That's why I stamped a camera there. I had fun creating this card!

Oh what a happy day! 

I'm entering this card for 

CAS(E) this sketch #83

Mei Li Paperie's July Color Challenge

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Happy crafting!