Faiz's version of scrapbooking

Hi there! At Hubby's hometown this weekend so that means no craft work. LOL! Anyway, just wanna share my son's version of craft using stickers and colored pencils. He would normally ask for things to do whenever he enters into my crafting space.So, here it is..

TFR! Ciao!

You Are Special - a Scrapbook LO

Hi there! Is it just me or is there something wrong with blogger tonight. I'm having a hard time uploading photos. Well, we'll see if this one works; thru' iPhone hehehe...I can't sleep so might as well use this time to try uploading. 

Here's my new scrapbook layout entitled "'You Are Special". In brief, i have used Glimmer mist by Tattered Angels and sprayed onto the page. The edges of the cardstock was distressed with Tim Holtz's distress ink (Vintage Photo). Fussy cuts Webster's Pages cardstock with much hesitation (LOL!), die-cuts the bird cage and hanging post and of course added my Mom's creation, which are the doilies. I have also used HeroArts stamps here simply because I'm a die hard fan of stamping.. Hehe!

For this LO, I have used:
Stamps: Heroarts CG279 musical clef, CL278 great flourishes messages
Flowers: Prima
Doilies: Honey's Creation
Papers: Webster's Pages
Die cuts:Sizzix's hanging post and caged bird
Pearls: Melissa Frances
Brads: Basic Grey
Inks: Distress Ink by Tim Holtz and Memories

Sent from my iPhone

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You brighten my day @ CardNation - technique test

Hi there! I have played with few techniques and came out with two cards. This one  was done by stamping the sentiments and silhouette first before the background. For the background, I have used HeroArts Antique flower background stamped with versamark and heat emboss with clear embossing powder. 

The other technique (below in blue) was doing the background first with heat emboss and later the stamping. The former technique gives out clearer stamping quality as compared to the latter. These photos were taken through a camera phone, so, apologise for the quality. These 2 cards are just a test on different techniques to card making.

For these cards, I have used:

Stamps: HeroArts S5264 Antique Flower Background, HeroArts LP195 Three Silhouettes & HeroArts CL278 Great Flourishes Messages

Tape: American Crafts

Ink: Versamark and Memories

Pearls: Queen & Co.

Rhinestones: Kaisercraft

TFR&L! Ciao!

This Is Me - a mini album

Hi there! Happy Weekend! (but back to work tomorrow, sigh!). I have finally completed a 12 page mini album (what's mini about that!). I had an enjoyable time doing it though quite a painstaking process since I wasn't feeling well (and still is) and of course plus I have my day job, which demands a lot of my time. 

Anyway, here it is the mini album entitled "This is Me". I bought this mini album from Art Friend at Gardens Mall in KL. If my memory serves me well, it was priced at about RM25.00. They have other interesting designs too. Check it out!. This one is a shape of a car with 12 white blank pages. So now, I'll walk you through the creation of every single page. Shall we?

Page 1: This Is Me

Page 1: This Is Me

For the wheels, I have stamped the sentiments onto a foam paper using Versamark and later sprinkle some holographic embossing powder before heat- emboss. 

Materials:

Stamp: Kaisercraft

Alpha chipboard: American Crafts

Stickers: Momoyo

Embossing powder: Holographic by PSX (on black foam paper)

Page 2: We Are Family & Page 3: These Are Few of My Favourite Things

Page 2: We Are Family
I  have added the caged bird die cuts from Sizzix (used it with my Cuttlebug). There is also a naked pocket stamped with HeroArts Row of Houses (but you can't really see it). For the insert, there is a photo of all of us in the family.

Materials:
Base paper: Prima

Die-cuts: Sizzix - Caged Bird

Stamp: HeroArts

Pearls: HeroArts

Stickers: Momoyo
Naked pockets: 7 Gypsies

Page 3

Page 3: These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things

I have used this page as it is but sprayed on layers of Glimmer Mist using Meadow Green, Cranberry Zing and Turquoise Blue. It looks good in real, like rainbows with a tinge of glitter. Same goes for the naked pocket, which I have also sprayed the Glimmer Mist onto it and later stamped the sentiments. The inserts are categorised on things that are my son's favourite e.g. Ultraman, Dinosaurs etc.

Materials:

Spray mist: Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels

Stamp: HeroArts & Kaisercraft

Flowers: Prima

Brads: American Crafts
Naked pocket: 7 Gypsies

Page 4: My Little Dino

Page 4: My Little Dino
 This is a page dedicated to my son's love of the dinosaurs. I have used this cute Dino cardstock from Basic Grey as the base and added Dinosaurs stickers (a left-over from a birthday party in 2009), which I bought through eBay. Here I have used felt to stamp on the sentiments Genuine and Dreams. On the tag 'My Little Dino'; it was clear embossed first before I stamped the sentiment onto it. I have distressed the edge of this page with Distress Ink.

Materials:

Base paper: Basic Grey

Stamp: Kaisercraft

Clear embossing powder: Ranger

Distress Ink: Tim Holtz

Ink: Memories
Other: Felt paper

Page 5: My Details

Page 5: My Details
This is simple with just using clear embossing powder and stamping. A naked pocket, which was heat embossed with copper embossing powder and an insert, which has some details of my son.

Materials:

Stamp: Kaisercraft

Clear embossing powder: Ranger

Copper embossing powder: Ranger

Distress Ink: Tim Holtz

Rhinestones: Kaisercraft

Ink: Memories
Naked pocket: 7 Gypsies

Page 6: Playschool

Page 6: Playschool
Another simple one. I have traced the shape on a green felt paper and glued onto the page. Stamped the sentiments and later added the die-cuts alphas. I got that really cheap in eBay (LOL!)

Materials:

Stamp: Kaisercraft

Die-cuts alphas: Using Cuttlebug alphabet dies - Olivia
Other: Felt paper

Page 7: Reading Time

Page 7: Reading Time
 I have used Kaisercraft paper for the base for this page. Then, heat embossed with amethyst embossing powder and added the photo. The cut-out alphas was from Basic Grey cardstock. The doilies were handmade by my Mom, who does magic with her hands.

Materials:

Base paper: Kaisercraft

Paper alphas: Basic Grey

Doilies: Honey's Creation - for all my Mom's hardworks!

Buttons: Doodlebug Design

Amethyst embossing powder: PSX

Page 8: Bon Voyage

Page 8: Bon Voyage
 Emm..yeah, he loves to travel too, which is why I have added this page. The base paper is from Kaisercraft and it's actually a world map. I bought a few of this when I was in Melbourne last year. Love the design. The stamps are also travel theme by Kaisercraft.

Materials:

Base paper: Kaisercraft

Stamps: Kaisercraft

Others: Karen Foster Design
Ink: Memories

Page 9: My Mommy

Page 9: My Mommy
 This is my least favourite page, and so happens to be where I'm on it! LOL! Anywaaays...
Well, I have used the page as it is and applied Prima Mask and sprayed Glimmer Mist Meadow Green mixed with Golden Terracotta, and Cranberry Zing as I like. hehe.! Then, I stamped the bird cage and small chandelier using VersaMark and heat emboss with amethyst embossing powder.

Materials:

Mask (for base): Prima

Spray mist: Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels

Light Pink flower: Kaisercraft

Dark pink flower: Prima

Button: Basic Grey

Amethyst embossing powder: PSX

Alpha stamps: HeroArts

Page 10: My Hero

Page 10: My Hero
I like this one! It's so busy. The Paper Loft as the base. It's actually quite nice with all the gears, but you can only see a fraction of it cos' it's all now hidden from view with all the motorcycles and cars and photos and stickers. This is when my mojo becomes syok sendiri, ya' know! The vehicles were stamped on different paper and water-coloured before fussy-cuts and attached to this page. 

Materials:

Base paper: The Paper Loft

Stamps: HeroArts Going

Others: Karen Foster Design

Page 11: Atok & Nenek

Page 11: Atok & Nenek
That's my latest purchase from Scrap n Crop, a paper from Echo Park Paper Co. Macam surat khabar lamaa! Hehe..a page dedicated to the grandfather (Atok) and grandmother (Nenek) of my son.  And the doilies again were handmade by my Mom and added on brads from Kaisercraft. The inserts are few photos taken at places we visited over the past few years. The photo you see now was actually taken by my son. Not bad huh?!

Materials:

Base paper: Echo Park Paper Co.

Doillies: Honey's Creation

Other: Prima
Naked pocket: 7 Gypsies

Page 12: The End

Page 12: The End
OK, finally we are at the end of the mini album. How's the ride so far? Hehe...
I didn't use much buttons in any of the previous pages so this time, it's buttons galore! Hehehe..!
The alpha chipboards are grungeboard from Tim Holtz. Applied gesso (doesn't make much difference, I noticed) and painted it red before applied the crackled paint.

Materials:

Based paper: Kaisercraft

Chipboard alphas: Grungeboard alphabet soup by Tim Holtz

Buttons: mixture of SazzyNSuch and Doodlebug Design
Gesso: Liquitex
Crackled Paint: Ranger

A few more snap-shots below....TFR&L! Ciao!

Handmade Pirate Costume

Hi there! Just want to share with you photos of my son in pirate costume 'handcrafted' by me. I got some good ideas from the internet and combined those that I like before starting on the project.

The hat was made of foam paper and the skeleton was actually printed on a piece of white paper. Fussy cut it and glued onto the front with added rhinestones on both the eyes. This hat was hand-stitched. No machine stitching was involved here. So, I guess, you can imagine how panicked I was when the party was just in about a week's time! Oh btw, there was also a letter F in rhinestones at the back of the hat. Sorry, no photo on that.

The suit/dress was velvety (what else do you call it?) and I kinda took a short-cut (LOL!) to make it. I simply just traced my son's t-shirt on the fabric and just cut and sew it together. I have used thick black thread to piece them all together and later added gold lining/ribbon on the edge. Again, no machine stitching was involved.

On to the belt! I have used that foam paper again and cut it into a square and cut out another smaller square leaving a band of foam paper right in the middle. Hope you understand what I'm talking about. LOL!

This was just to secure the black belt (cloth /felt type), which was then tied around and fastened onto it.

You can add whatever accessories you wish to add to suit your requirements. This was enough for me. Fhew!

Next post, I hope I can upload my new mini album! If not, I will try to upload some other craft works I did in the past.

TFR! Ciao!

Ink-stained fingers....

Hi there! It's weekend and I still haven't got any cards or layout done! But, I still got my fingers full of inks though. Yeap, I am continuing my project on a mini-album, which has actually started quite some time ago but was put aside for several reasons. One very obvious thing that I have noticed whenever I start on my craft project is that how quickly time flies. And this mini-album of mine has like 12 blank pages to work on! Gulp!

Anyway, I have constantly reminded myself .."slow and steady Nida...relax...take a deep breath...breathe..inhale...exhale..". I'm usually quite impatient because I just could not wait for a project to complete. I need to see it fast. I owe this all to my day job, which is always with deadlines, deadlines and deadlines! And I have to work fast; pronto. Very stressful...huh!

The moment I start to work on my craft projects, my mind started to switch and flies to the oblivion. I'm all free to do whatever I want, how I want and when I want. When I'm saturated with numbers and standards to comply with in my day job; in craft, I just let my mind swirls with myriad of colours and shapes. It can be so intoxicating (especially when you are in a craft shop!).

Ok, enough with all that. I can't wait to upload my new mini album. So exciting, LOL! I really enjoyed doing it and I just have 3 more pages to go! Yipee!! But since it's Monday tomorrow and I will be working for the rest of 5 days..(grrr!), might take a while before I can upload some photos. 

So, to those visiting my blog, stay tune!!

Ciao & TFR!

Happy Birthday! @ CardNation

Hola! Presenting my newest card -Happy Birthday!.

I am a great fan of stamping and here I have used 2 sets of stamps from HeroArts. They are CL478 Going and CL154 Brackets and Tags.

I have never planned in advance what I wanted my cards or scrapbook layouts to look like. My style is always random and definitely 'go with the flow'. Sometimes, when I am just plain lazy, I would just use whatever stash within my reach. LOL! That is to say, things that I don't have to walk or stand to reach for.

This card is meant for a birthday party and I guess it suits for especially the boys.  I have stamped the word brackets and later glued the white cotton around it, just so that it'll look like smoke coming out from the motorcycle. I did this same technique once for my son's birthday invitation card in 2007. That time it was a space shuttle. Maybe I will share with you the same card in my next post.

This is at the back of the card. If you're wondering why the date is post-dated, well, that's the day this card will be given out to the birthday boy.

Other than that, well, for the mptorcycle, I have actually stamped right on the main card and later stamped on another and fussy cut it. Later, I added pop-dots to create extra dimension  to the motorcyle. I have fussy cut the pennant banner from a Cosmo Cricket cardstock and added pop-dots for dimension.

Thank You @ CardNation

Hi there again! Despite having no mojo for the past few days, I still wanted to do something.  So, here's my second card for today's upload. I have used HeroArts Antique Background CG120. I love this stamp. There are many possibilities to create and explore.

On this card, I have actually stamped the main card using black ink from Memories. Later, stamp again on a fresh sheet of white paper and apply water-colour for the butterflies. Then, fussy-cut! I don't really like fussy-cuts because it is simply time consuming and I can be very impatient. But, the depth that it gives to your creations, is simply amazing. Which is why, OK, let's fussy cut! LOL!!

Oh yeah, and I have added Ranger's Stickles onto the big butterfly just to give a bit of glitter. 

I have to add in more Stickles in my next month's shopping cart. I just love the effect. LOL!

For this card, I have used:
Stamps: HeroArts CG120 Antique Background & LP121 Bird Greetings (Thank You)
Inkpads: Memories
Colouring: Water-colour from Faber-Castell.
Rhinestones: HeroArts
Pearls: HeroArts

TFR&L! Ciao!

Hello @ CardNation

Hi there! I made this simple card a couple of days ago and didn't have time to upload. I kinda lost my mojo over the past few days.

This one is very simple to make basically stamping, water-colouring and fussy-cut (the chair and hanging bird's cage)

For the colouring on the hanging bird's nest, I have actually used Green Meadow Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels. I have used a small paint brush to colour.

For this card, I have used:
Stamps: HeroArts, My Mind's eye
Paper: HeroArts
Colouring: Faber-Castell water-colour & Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels

TFR&L! Ciao!

My Little Arabian Prince - A Scrapbook LO

 

Hi there! I did this layout for The Colour Room current layout challenge. The moment I saw the colour palette, I instantly knew which photo I would like to use. This is my Little Arabian Prince, all dressed up for a costume birthday party we attended in 2007. The theme was Arabian Night. I just got back from India for a working trip in Chennai and I bought this costume from the local departmental store. I made the turban (picture in the frame) myself and the 'curled-up' Arabian shoe (sorry, picture not here).

 

On to this layout now, I have applied several techniques here such as stamping, misting, heat-embossing and punching. The lace shown was originally white but was given a touch of glimmer mist spray by Tattered Angels. The lovely blue flowers are from Petaloo and I have added a touch of Ranger's Stickles on each of the top petals. The rest of the flowers are by Prima. The blue dots are by HeroArts, which I find perfect to be used for this layout. 

 Again, I have used vintage frame chipboard by Dusty Attic. I just love their designs. Simple awesome! The blue papers, which are layered below the vintage frame chipboard were first dry embossed to give a textured look. I have then punched the edge with EK Success scallop punch.

Stamps are Fancy Flourishes by Kaisercraft.

For this layout, I have used:
Paper: Bazzil Basics
Flowers: Petaloo & Prima
Stamps: Kaisercrafts
Dots: HeroArts
Chipboard: Vintage Frame by Dusty Attic
Spray mist: Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels
Glittered pen: Stickles by Rangers.
Pearls: HeroArts

TFR&L! Ciao!

You Are So Special @ CardNation

Hi again! I have this HeroArts designer paper for quite some time and been thinking how to use it. Also, I've been having this idea to use real white paper instead of coloured ones like I am used to. So, this is the take; challenging myself with these two colours. 

Of course, when it comes to stamps, it would be HeroArts for me. I started of stamping with HeroArts and have been a huge fan ever since. Of course, from time to time, I do buy other stamps from different suppliers cos' they have real nice ones too!

Apologise for the picture quality; a little bit dark there...woopsie...

For this card, I have used CG158 Blossoms and CL278 Great Flourishes Messages from HeroArts. I have coloured the flowers with Faber-Castell's water-coloured pencils. Still need to work on the colouring..LOL!

OK, for this card I have used:
Stamps: HeroArts
Paper: HeroArts (green with texts)
Inkpads: Memories
Water-colour: Faber-Castell

TFR&L! Ciao!

Bliss - A work on canvas

 Hi there again! Humbly presenting my work on canvas sheet. Honestly, I have never worked on canvas before. I've seen a LOT of beautiful creations on canvas and I've decided to give it a try. I was so curious on how it would be like working on it. Well, the canvas that I worked on was pretty cheap. I got it from Art Friend at Gardens Mall. Don't ask me on the differences between this canvas and that, cos' hell no! I don't have a clue! If you do, perhaps you can share it with me ...pretty pleaseee.... LOL!

OK, on to this canvas creation of mine. Well, I have used quite a bit of scrap items here. Really scrap items! 

Firstly, it's the netting (zoom in closely and you'll see!), which was actually carrying bits and pieces of toys my son received from a birthday party last week.  

Secondly, it's the doily lace (is that what you call it?), which was actually hand-made by my Mom many years ago for a table-cloth. She wanted to dispose quite a few of these old table-cloth and lucky enough I saw it and saved it from being dump to the landfills! 

Thirdly, the text paper with a bicycle imprinted on it, which was a left-over from previous projects.

So, a lil' bit on the canvas now. I have wrapped the canvas sheet with the netting and later apply gesso before dabbing green and brown arcylic paints onto it.  I should have thicken the paint lah...whaddya' think? Honestly, this thing looks better in real life.

  
Anyways, hope you like what you see here. Do not underestimate your scraps / trash; you'll never know what you'll use it for..he he!
 

 

For this canvas sheet, I have used:
Flowers: Prima
Rhinestones: Kaisercraft
Brad: Basic Grey
Pearls: Kaisercraft

TFR&L! Ciao!

Girl Power! - AScrapbook LO

 

Hi there! Despite the headaches that I have been having, I have managed to complete a simple layout - Girl Power! The picture was taken back in 1992 when we took a hiking & camping trip to Gunung Ledang in south of Peninsular Malaysia. I have always loved the great outdoors.The only thing that I couldn't stand whenever I went for this kind of trip was: LEECHES!

So, on to the layout. Yes, I have fussy cuts a great cardstock from Webster's Pages. I had that cardstock for a while now and always feels guilty to cut since it's so pretty! But, I took a deep breath (ha!ha!) and finally cut out the beautiful flowers to be used for this layout.

I have used quite a bit of everything here from Dusty Attic's wire dress form, Prima and Kaisercraft's flowers, Cristina Re lace stickers, die-cut hanging post (Sizzix), spray mist by Tattered Angels, Distress Ink by Tim Holtz and of course corner punch-ribbon loop by Martha Stewart. I did not use the edges punch here.

The butterfly was actually from a local flower shop near my house and so is the flower on the wire dress form. 

 

For this layout, I have used:
Paper: Webster's Pages, Bazzil Basics & Kaisercraft
Chipboard: Wire Dress Form by Dusty Attic
Flowers: Prima and Kaisercraft
Lace sticker: Crisitina Re
Brads: Bazzil Basics
Die-Cuts: Hanging post-Sizzix

TFR&L! Ciao!