Wishing You A Goat Year of 2015!

Time flies very fast and it's been a year since my last post. So sorry for the long hiatus.

“The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one’s grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.” 
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

To all my readers and friends, I would like to wish to you all a Happy New Year and Gong Xi Fa Cai! May you be blessed with abundance wealth, health and happiness in this year of Goat. Here's a papercutting of a 2015 ; the year of goat. I hope to post and update regularly here. 

Papercutting. Yang Nian. 2015

"Let us Welcome The Νew Year, 

Give The Happy Αdieu To The 0ld, 

Begin The Νew Beginning Without Fear, 

Αnd Cherish The Μemories We Hold"! 

Happy Papercutting & Crafting!

Wedding Guestbook

Hello Lovelies! 

It's been a long silence on the blog. Sorry I am very busy with my day job and juggling with my private life. I hope busy life means a good thing for the year of horse 2014 for everyone. Just to share a wedding guestbook I did last year. It was my first time but I'm very happy that the receiver; happy couple liked it. Below are the final wedding guestbook with 60 pages. The theme is purple, pink -dusty pink with a lil' bit of sweet, dreamy and soft element.

Special feature of the design would be the birds with the couple's initial name. "F' on each of the bird tail. Besides that, I added some blings and two small swarovski. 

The Design

The Wedding Guestbook

-Firdaus & Fauziah-

 Wrapping of the Wedding Guestbook with a handmade tag

Close-up on few of the tiny elements on the wedding guestbook.

That's all for now...

A lil' note to self - quote of life, meaning ....

"For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer."

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Keep Crafting!

Merry Christmas!

To my lovelies,

May this day bring you health and success. 

May you and your family experience God’s loving embrace.

Christmas is a time when

everybody wants his past forgotten

and his present remembered.

Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas!

Here are some of colourful Google images that caught my eye : 

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Hope it inspires and brighten up your day! :)

Wedding Theme (Mr & Mrs) - Papercutting

Hello My Loveliy Crafters,

Just a short quick update to share with you. I did this papercutting few weeks ago (or maybe month ago). It is a papercutting of wedding theme (Mr & Mrs) with floral design. I am still in practicing phase; for this papercutting, I am using a basic craft knife on a 80gsm white paper. I am in love with the ♥ampersand! The Mr & Mrs words look a bit small tho'. What do you think? Feel free to comment. This papercutting design can also be used for cardmaking or frame it just as it is. 

Mr & Mrs Papercutting

Till then,

Happy Papercutting & Crafting! 

Inspirational Paper Rosettes for Wedding DIY

I always forgot what to call this 'thingy'. It is paper rosette! I've found a beautiful wedding deco using paper rosettes as backdrop via KaLice-Events website. I'm sure there are plenty similar design out there but I kinda like this one. Pinning my fav here in my blog...

source: KaLice-Events

DIY Paper Rosette from LemonJitters

Found a tutorial for paper rosettes DIY via LemonJitters website. She's using a scoring board for the paper rosettes. I still haven't buy any scoring board yet. *wishlist* But I managed to make few paper rosettes for a wedding last May. Will post up the photos soon. Did you DIY your wedding / engagement deco with paper rosettes? Feel free to share your DIY creations!

Happy Crafting!

Salam Aidilfitri 2013

Sorry, I've been on hiatus. Juggling between busy work, study and life :s Don't worry, I still ❤ crafting / cardmaking ! It's the 4th day of Raya Celebration and it's still not too late to wish you all out there a Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri! Enjoy the ketupat, lemang, rendang and so many more... now I'm craving. Hehe...

Just to share few of my attempts to stamp a Hari Raya sentiments. I ordered few customized stamps from a local stamp company and bought alphabet clear stamps - Micia Crafts brand and tried on my newly bought papers from Daiso. Here's my raya stamping:- 

Ink used : Multi-surface Chalk Ink VersaMagic Ocean Depth

Works well with the clear stamps (Micia brand) and look a bit faded when stamped with the red rubber stamp (customized order stamp - Aidilfitri word)

Another attempt to stamp with Fade-resistant Dye Ink Memento Bahama Blue Ink - with customized red rubber stamps (Selamat / Hari / Raya / Aidilfitri - individual stamp). The words look faded with this ink. 

*Ignore the misalignment* :P  

Ink used: Fade-resistant Dye Ink Memento Bahama Blue Ink, Multi-surface Chalk Ink VersaMagic Turquoise Gem and a no-brand yellow ink

I can say that the chalk type inks work well with the stamps and the no-brand yellow ink is not bad too. I can't recall where I got the ink tho'. Spot anything wrong with the words in the last photo above? (hu...hu... ) The word "aidilfitri" missing its "i" (*sobs*). That's all from me now... 

Till then, hope you have a blessed Eid and holidays!

Happy Crafting!

Happy Father's Day

A quick recap of my last week activity as a member of the Scrapbooking & Cardmaking Malaysia; where the theme of card swap for this month was Father's Day Card + Extra. 

The swap category includes an exchange of a blank father's day card to the partner assigned and to send some small portion of craft supply such as embellishments, tapes, ribbons and etc wtih the expected value between RM5-RM10.

Due to my nature of work where I need to work outstation, I was late for this card swap. So sorry to my assigned partner for the delay. It should arrive to her by now... For the craft supplies, I've sent to  washi tapes to my partner in separate mail and here's my take for the Father's Day Card with lots of stamping (Hero Arts stamps) and foam tapes were used to add dimension to the card, 'hard translucent plastic sheet with some silver glitter on it' (I'm not sure what to call it. You can see the background of the card below), translucent colour papers/vellum, die-cut heart shapes, glossy effect, red twine and some jewels for embellishment.

Close-up View

Before adding glossy effect (taken without flash)

After added glossy effect (taken with flash)

 

Inside of the Card (above) with elements of stamping, twine and die-cut heart shapes

Inside of the Card (below) - stamping of blue green border and the sentiment

That's all from me now. Hope my partner will like it. Wish you all a Happy Father's Day!

- Off to work and Happy Crafting!