Zero Distress...

Sketch Saturday - Week #95

Is this my way of making a card...with zero distress at all...and on my I couldn't believe that I can make it happen.

The whole card look so clean and nest to me but I just like it. Is another different style from me yah...

This time round I used How Sweet You Are from Sarah Kay and pattern paper wise I can't remember is from which manufacturing as I bought it for quite some time from Made With Love.

I enjoy this sketch and hope to try more with Zero Distress again...

Sarah Kay Collection - First Kiss

Sketch Saturday - Week #93

First Kiss...

I'm using a very tone on the image and this time round instead of stitching the border I replaced it with stamping. The border stamping is from MSE - Swirls.

No flowers but added with some gems stone and distress...

Hope you like it.

Spring...

SAV Challenge #19 - Spring

Since I have lots of collection of Sarah Kay, how can I miss the chance to participate in this challenge. I just can't wait to complete the card and post this up.

Spring...before I decided the set of the pattern papers here, I think of green colour and this make me link it with Spring. I used the paper stack...again from DCWV - Farmer's Marker and this stack of paper is bit special in texture and is made by 70% of recycle paper.

I choose Elodie in Her Garden to match the theme. Seems like greens really go well with the stamping.

Inside the card, I use the pattern paper from the same stack as the base and stamp it with my favourite Penny Black wording stamp here.

If you notice, I used the Hero Arts cling stamp - Time to Stamp as the clock background behind the image. I'm using inkpad from Versafine - Olympia Green and add a little distress in the centre of each clock.

So meaning of card is...Spring Time...!!!

Sarah Kay Collection - Precious Moments

Friday Sketchers - Sketch #92

Brown is always my favourite colour and for this challenge I decided to make a card with just the tone of brown. I enjoyed the colouring and this pattern paper is quite easy to match as I have the pattern paper stack from DCWV - Rustic. This stack of paper is a "must have" if you like to do vintage or distress way. I have used Rustic to make my postcard album and scrapbook.

The wording stamps are from Penny Black, and Dreams Come True is my latest collection and is a wood mount rubber stamp.

Flowers embellishments are from Hero Arts.

This card looks simple but it took my whole Saturday morning to complete it...but yet this is one of my favourites.

Sarah Kay Collection - Lucy & Kitty

Oh my...I'm so happy that I can collect the Sarah Kay's collection through JDA... So good that Freddy brought in the Stampevie's stamp collection after the CHA.

I was the first person who get all the 22 Sarah Kay's 2009 collection from JDA and now I'm looking forward to do more project using all of them.

I made this card just because I wanted to try out this layout as I saw this layout is quite command and more and more people are making it. In fact this is very easy to do and I got a perfect stack of pattern paper from DCWV - The Crafty Stack to match. This stack is my favourite and it is also perfect for scrapbooking.

Materials:

Stamp from Sarah Kay - Lucy & Kitty

Wording Stamp - Penny Black Celebrate Life

Pattern paper - DCWV The Crafty Stack

Colouring Pencil - Caran D'ache with blender Sansodor

Flowers - Prima Flowers

The card has no owner yet...still thinking who to send to...

February Baby

I used my favourite stamp for my friend's birthday on this coming Thursday. I unable to present this to her on the day but she will get it by the week after.

Yes, this stamp is from Penny Black - Hugs & Kisses For You. Pattern paper is from SEI Dil Blossom and this is also a two-sided paper.

Cheer Up, my Friend...

Stamp with Fun - Challenge #44

Today is the 1st day of February, Chinese New Year is drawing near, just less than 2 weeks. So far I have not prepared anything yet for this yearly event including the Chinese New Year Card...what a shame right.

Anyway I had prepared this non-traditional Chinese New Year card for my best friend who is currently far away from me. I choose this rubber stamp for is to cheer her up as this little girl wearing a very colourful dress. I want her to have a colourful life and not always in black and white or just grey.

I have a message for her: "when you are down, you are not always down, good things will come to you soon".

This stamp is from Penny Black 1998 series call Friendly Chat. Penny Black has lots of nice stamp from 1998 and thanks to JDA in helping to collect the series as many as possible.

I used green as base colour cause this is one of my little girl friend's favourite colour. The paper flowers are from Hero Arts, and pattern paper is from Cosmo Cricket, is a two-sided paper.

I hope I can post this in time for her and I wish her a Happy Chinese New Year, a Tiger year with power.

Cheers my friend.

I Miss You...

Friday Sketchers - Sketch #87

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Special Someone

Such a long time I have abandoned my stamps, inkpads, pattern papers...and now this is my first craft work in 2010.

This lovely stamp is from Penny Black - Heart Garland and is the new release.

I made this card specially for my husband who is away for business trip now. I miss him so much and hope that he is able to come back home by next week.

I really like this card a lot, first of all is the bear, yes the bear, cause my dear hubby is my comfort bear. Secondly, I put the clock here, and this means the time that I'm waiting for him...♥

The little bear is thinking of the big bear...

Material used: Paper from Basic Grey and Graphic 45, Stamp from Penny Black and I think the clock is from Maya...

I have pasted this card in my bedroom and now just to wait for my dear hubby to view it when he is back...

Thank You...

I completed this card in less than 1 hour and I just found that the color was so easy to match with the team and the layout...

This card is specially made for my mentor and just would like to say Thank You to her guidance.

I used Penny Black clear stamp and color with color pencil + Sansodor...

and a thank you note...

Sending My Wishes...

RED and GOLD

This is a simple card that I made, a bit of not my usual style but yet I like the combination of Red and Gold.

Recently I like to add lot of dies cutting in my card and I really enjoy the art of the die cut. I used the leaves and Christmas Bell to decorate the cards and add the snow flakes embossing as the background.

I will send this card to my dearest friend and wish her Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...

Enter Challenge Again...

Friday Sketcher - Sketch 82

This is one of my fav Penny Black Stamp, new release and is a cling stamp. This stamp was brought by Erland and he wanted to send this to Andrew's mother.

Erland did the coloring and I help to do some touch up here.

This card instead of using the flower I choose to use the ornament, this ornament is from QuicKutz and I used it to match with DCWV Christmas pattern paper.

Hope that Andrew's mom will like and this red color is her favorite color...

Hand in Hand

This Scrapbook is for Andrew's parent. I use the title of Hand in Hand cos daddy is holding mummy's hand....so sweet.

I used the two different alphabet for the wording here and they just perfectly matched...the "HAND" here I used Diesel from QuicKutz and the "hand" is Yogurt from QuicKutz too.

The 3-D butterflies are from Graphic 45's pattern paper, two are just nice here. I lifted the page higher so that when I place it in the shadow box it will gives the 3-D effect.

I did some distressing and stampig here to make the title more outstanding.

And this is how it looks like when placing the page in the Shadow Box.

Mother & Son

Andrew asked me to help him do the scrapbook for his mother as a Christmas Gift, I have to complete this as soon as possible so that he can bring back to his home town during Christmas.

I just like the whole feeling of this scrapbook page that I did. I used lot of clock here and this is to remind him that he needs to treasure the love from his mother and spend more time with his mother as he can.

Mother's love is being words and I hope that auntie will like this master piece.

This is the complete work in the shadow box.

X'mas Gift for Slumber Party...

I used this empty to decorate it like a wrapper, meaning is after I decorate it, there is no need to warp the box again and I can give the gift to the person who I have selected her name before.

These are what I bought for her, they are two beautiful mag from Tangs and I just like the mag, one is the handbags and the other one is the evening dresses... I hope that she will like it.

Yes, these are the picture of the turnover of the empty box. I use distress inks, pattern paper from Basic Grey, Prima Flowers, and of course the QuicKutz dies to cut out the flourish shapes and alphabets.

This is really a good idea so that she can reuse the box instead of throwing away and also I have save one wrapping paper. Save the earth...

Cheers...

A Post Card Album...Magic Tour

I used this Sat and Sun to make this post card album. My best friend Becky went for the Europe tour last month and these are the postcard that sent by her.

So sweet of her and I really like all the postcards, is really looking forward to open my mail box everyday after work. Thanks Becky.

I started with DCWV Rustic collection pattern paper and cut it into the album shape. This album die cut is from QuicKutz the Santa Workshop collection. The set that I used was the GingerBread set, and this is my favorite.

I distressed it with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo distress ink follow by stamping.

Yes, these are my collection of the rubber stamps. These stamp is very unique and they are all from Hero Arts. These are so suitable for doing a travel album.

Here is the individual page where I categorized it by name of places that Becky went. Her first stop was Praque.

Second place should be Budapest but too bad the postcard never arrive...so I continue her journey with Salzburg.

Hallstatt
Vatican

Rome

Venice

Milan

Barcelona
And last stop is London...I used the map of London, is a bit small but that is the only UK map stamp that I have...

The back of the pocket, this is also one of the die cut from GingerBread...

The front of the pocket.

Front Cover.

Inside

The back

Oh yah, I started to use Tim Holtz's Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint...I just can't help and fall in love with this media. Is easy to use, and also quick dry...

Butterfly is from Hero Arts latest Cling Stamp collection.

All the alphabet are Nutmeg by QuicKutz...