Let's Scrap 2-20-13

Let's Scrap sketch 2-20-13 is a card sketch. So here's a inky thank you card. I love inks/mists and all! Do you love it as much? Do join us and play along. Remember to tag your creation as 2-20-13


Noteables : FolkArt rose stencil, Dylusions Lemon Zest/Cut Grass/Fresh Lime, Distress inks Spiced Marmalade/Bundled Sage, Hero Arts shadow ink Cup-o-Joe, VersafineSatin Red/Onyx Black/Imperial purple, Stamps - Impression Obsession Newsprint, Maya Road Singleton heart, Jenni Bowlin Lace Border, Simon Says Clear Stamps LOTS OF THANKS Handwritten Sentiments

Monday Times! - CW158 Valentine

Hello Monday! Here's my card for the theme Valentine at Kaboodle Doodles this week. No girly stuff, just swirls in blue.The prize this week would be $10 voucher from Di's Digis. Join us at Kaboodle Doodles for the fun!

Noteables : DRS rubber stamp, Vellum, October afternoon rubons/Button , Hambly washi tape, Distress ink Tumbled Glass/Salty Ocean,

Monday Times! - CW157 Hearts

Hello Monday! Here's my card for the theme hearts at Kaboodle Doodles this week. The hearts borders are sponsored by Eureka. You should check out their site for a huge range of digi stamps. The prize this week would be 5 digi images from Eureka. Join us at Kaboodle Doodles for the fun!

Noteables : Eureka Heart border, October afternoon rubons, Christmas paper Crate Paper, unknown love stamp, Sharpies

Random Card - Shoot to the Stars

I created this card to take part in the submission of  July/August Go-to Sketches on Papercraftsconnection for this card. Here's my take on the sketch.

Noteables : Fancy Pants Design To The Moon 6x6 pp, Simon Says Stamps Shoot for the Stars Stamp, Versafine Onyx Black

Random Layout - Skissedilla #196

These photos of The Fab 4 cousins. Photos these cute boys were before Disney On Ice show 2 years ago.. that was 'once upon a time' when they were still 'tiny'. How fast time flies and now they have grown up quite a bit! I followed the sketch from Skissedilla quite closely; was inspired by the cloud on top right and the clusters left. I am happy with the way how the layout had turn out with the rubons!

Noteables :  October Afternoon Fly a Kite Sprinklers, Dylusions London Blue, Maya Road chipboard cloud/rainbow, Jenni Bowlin Brown Sugar, Hero Art Shadow Ink Pool, Hero Arts Grid Pattern, Impression Obsession Newsprint, Stickles Milled Lavender/Candy Cane, October Afternoon Sasparilla Rubons/Miscellany, Lily Bee Design Alpha stickers, Gesso, Sketch from Skissedilla sketch196

Linking up : 
* Skissedilla sketch196
* Simon says stamps Anything goes

Random Layout - CSI #56

 
I'm color challenged, seriously. Even with a color palette, I still do feel color challenged. So I decided to use the CSI coordinates but I had to add a little of different colors here and there to make a little of my own - Itchy hands! I have here mix media background - textured paste/acrylic and gesso. Then I added some random stamping here and there and made it inky at the edges.  And when I'm finally done, I love it! For the evidences, I have all of them : clouds, umbrella accents, strings, something that dangles or hangs, wet medium, something translucent (not transparent), teacup accent, make a little packet that holds little bits of something , doodle dashed lines, plain cardstock background. As for testimony I have these :  Creative writing prompt #21 - If you were a famous chef, what would you cook? The answer which Shawn would given is what I had  written down : If I was a famous chef, I would not cook. I would wash, chop and dice my favorite fruits and must-have berries, blob some yoghurt and that would make me grin like that!

Noteables : CSI coordinates #56, Vellum, Dylusions London Blue/Pure Sunshine, Acrylic Titanium White, Gesso, Textured paste, Tattered Angels Route66, Ranger distress stain antique linen, Ranger Platinum Stickles, Chalkbox ink Frost white/Silver/Black, Stamps from Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Mixed Media / Unity Christy Tomlimson Distressed Quilt / Kaisercraft Graffiti, MT washi tapes slim cord/Ex, Smash tape, The Twinery Charcoal, October Afternoon sasparilla tin pin, Made with Love flair, camera charm from Beadspin, Sharpies, sketch from Skissedilla sketch195

Linking up : 
Skissedilla sketch195

Thrusday's Up - You Raise Me Up

This week we have a sponsor over at 365cards. The little birdie stamp and sentiment are sponsored by Paper Pretties. Such a cute one isn't? This week create a "raised" look on three different elements of your card.I added a brad and 2 buttons to for this theme. Join us and remember raise some 3 elements on your card :)

Noteables : Sharpies marker, Paper Pretties image, buttons from October Afternoon and brad from thrift shop

Monday Times! - CW156 Winter

Hello Monday! The theme this week at Kaboodle Doodles is Winter. We have a sponsorship from Whoopsi Daisy this week.Come play along with us at Kaboodle Doodles and you might be the lucky winner of 8 images from Whoopsi Daisy

Noteables : October Afternoon Holiday Style Oh, What Fun! paper and rubons

Thrusday's Up! - Liquid

Hello Thrusday. It's an easy challenge this week 365cards. YOu have an option to use something that started out as a liquid" whether its a spray, re-inker, water, anything that was once in liquid form, except a regular ink pad doesn't count. I used two mists from Dylusions Bubblegum and Postcard Red with a FolkArt rose stencil. And to top it up, a strip from Stella Rose and rubon from October Afternoon. What's your take? Hop on and have fun at 365cards

Linking up : 
* Retrosketches #47

Random Layout - Skissedilla #194

This week I'm playing at Skissedilla again. This is for sketch #194. This close up of #1 was taken back on 14 March 2010. If I remembered correctly it's one of those lunch @ home photos that I always took of the boys on weekends. I played quite a bit with texture paste and misting. So this is my style, here's another textured/inky layout!

Noteables : October Afternoon Thrift Shop Good Junk 12x12/Word stickers, Dylusions chequered dots stencil, Texture paste, Mister Hueys Circl / Bubbles masks, October Afternoon Sprinkler Tin Type, Mister Hueys Custard/Estate Green/Blue Grass/Overdue, Stamper Anonymous Tim Holtz Floral Tattoo stamps, Script stamp from Cherish Stamp Kodomo, Kaisercraft Graffiti stamp, Staz On Jet Black

Linking up : 
* Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge: What are you known for?
* October Afternoon 30min challenge

 

Let's Scrap 1-23-13

Here's the layout Let's Scrap for 1-23-13. I used all the photos from mom's birthday last year on 10Feb2012. I used Basic Grey papers and decided to chosed 2 different designs, which I think still complement each other in terms of colors. As usual I dabbled with some inks and made this a simple layout. Do join us at Let's Scrap and remember to tag your creation as 1-23-13

Noteables : Basic Grey Hello Luscious Rosemary/Sweet Threads The New Plaid, American Craft Houndstooth thickers, The Crafters Workshop Dina's spilled hearts stencil, Distress ink Picked Raspberry,  Ink blending tool, Jenni Bowlin Fountain Pen, Maya Road kraft envelope, buttons/home chipboard, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, October Afternoon buttons/rubons, Studio Calico wood veneer, Sharpie fine Black, Classiky graffiti washi tape

Random Layout - CSI Case #55

 
This is my 2nd time on CSI challenge. I found it quite addictive to play after I tried the 1st time. For this challenge #55, apart from the requirements this week, the challenge this week is to lift a design element from case#1. I had lifted some elements from Anna Karin's layout that includes numbers, distressing and repeat stamp background. I  lifted her day to day documenting her child's sleeping pattern, as to map it to me... I took photos of dinner time with #1, almost daily. This photo of him on a typical dinner at home, as seated on his high chair with that cutest smile!

I started off with what I had leftover for Skissedilla layout , that night I printed the reverse side of the mask for this layout, if you could spot the chevron. And I piled lot of layers of inks, stamps and some texture paste with circle stencil/ice cream stick. The background is a little blurry on the left as I had spread some gesso and the stamping at later stage turns out a little muddy. Just as I wanted to make the background a little blurry/dreamy. My layout has these EVIDENCE - flowers, leaves, tree, diamond shapes, circles, scallops, plain white background. As for the testimony I included 2 things i.e. small decorative design, and Inspiration Words: repeat, favorite, stir, today 

Noteables : Bazzil Textured white 12x12, My Mind's Eye Stella Rose, Echo Park tickets, The CraftersWorkshop Balzer designs Chervon/Prima/Donna Dawney masks, Tattered Angels Chalkboard Seven Seas/Teal heel, stamps from Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz/Impression Obsession/Kaisercraft, Distress inks Tumbled Glass/Crushed Olive/Tea Dye/Pumice Stone, Jenni Bowlin Fountain Pen ink, Maya Road chipboard, October Afternoon rubons, Gesso, Texture paste, ice cream stick

Monday Times! - CW155 Ribbon

 Hello Monday! The theme this week at Kaboodle Doodles is Ribbon. We have a sponsorship from QKR Stampede this week. I get to choose one digi image this week to play with and my choice is a sentiment.  Come play along with us at Kaboodle Doodles and you might be the lucky winner of 5 digi images from QKR Stampede

Noteables : MT washi tape, QKR Stampede sentiment, thrift shop ribbons, Tim Holtz Tiny attacher

Random layout - Skissedilla #193

This photo is #1 when he was about 7mths old, taken during his 1st trip back to Penang. This is how this layout is created, Lots of layers of mists and inks. I do, really enjoyed the process of doing it, and playing around with the colors.
1. Misted TA on the Chervon stencil, flipped over to cardstock#2 (safe keep for another project) to print the negative of the remaning ink.
2. Misted HS Bronzer on the mini word collage, flipped over the corners of this cardstock for negative print.
3. Put some strips of washi tape vertically, lay the hearts stencil over and blend in some Victorian Velvet. The effect are some vertical strips layer showing the ink works from step1 and2. With the stencil on, stamped some tiny alphas onto the hearts
4. Mixed some distress inks onto the craft sheet to stamp the floral silhouette and the humming bird (double stamped the 2nd time with Walnut stain
5. Create photo mat with the mix media stamp from Stamper Anonymous
6. Stamped the sentiment with Versafine and stuck the stickers for title.

Noteables : The CraftersWorkshop Balzer designs Chervon/Mini word collage/Dina's Spilled hearts, Tattered Angels Chalkboard Seven Seas/Teal heel, Heidi Swapp Bronzer, Distress Inks Walnut Stain/Festive Berries/Barn Door/Spiced Marmalade/Tumbled Glass/Forest Moss/Victorian Velvet, Versafine Onyx Black, all stamps from Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz, October Afternoon Rocket Age decal alpha stickers

Thrusday's Up - Thinking in 3s

Hello Thrusday! This week's challenge at 365cards is to think in 3s. You need to use three of each of these three items on your card:
*3 buttons
*3 blossoms
*3 pieces of ribbon
Here's my take, a CLEAN  kiddy card. Do join us and have fun at 365cards!

Noteables : Scrap papers/buttons from my stash, Blossoms from Simonsaysstamps, Stickers from SRM/October Afternoon, Ribbons from Daiso, Retrosketch #46

Let's Scrap Monochromatic

This is for challenge#153 at Let's Scrap by Kristine :
- Keep your project monochromatic, whether you use cardstock or patterned paper or both. 

- Add ONE punch of additional colour (some bright yellow in the background of the photo and on the paper)

So this was the process in one night, no heat gun required :
1. Doilies from the baking supplies shop, inked, tore a little in the process.. so I left it as is. Then glued, Then I stamped the clock
2. Corner top with ADMIT ONE, was also torn, a couple of inks, glued, and stamped
3. 6x6 sheet (with the all teeth thickers), tore edges and ink ink ink, Then glued as 3rd layer
4. Photo mat, cut to size, inked and glued. Glued the photo
5. 2nd last bit the invoice is actually left over from some other projects. Tore the edges, crumpled the paper, inked, stamped and stick it on the layout.
6. Then the thickers for title.
 

This photo is from 2years ago, 26Dec2010.  Kid was in brown, so I chosed brown to work on. I had quite a hard time keeping mono color.. but I'm happy with the outcome of this layout. 
I LOVE THE MUD WORK :)

Noteables : 7Gypsies Postale/Lille 6x6 pp. DCVW textured cardstock, Distress ink Tea Dye/Walnut stain, Ink blending tool, all stamps from Stampers Anonymous, Thickers from American craft, Let's Scrap card sketch 7-15-09

Linking up: 
* Simon says stamp and show Lace Love 

Let's Scrap 1-16-13

This week on Let's Scrap is a card sketch. You may make a layout or a card with this sketch. Do join us at Let's Scrap and remember to tag your creation as 1-16-13. This card is for my one and only sibling, my older brother who's turning 37 this year. He sends me birthday card yearly so now that I'm making cards of my own, I'll make sure he gets at least one card from me once a year! :) Doesn't look like a birthday card eh? But anyway, this should be masculine enough for my brother. :)

If you are interested, read on a mini tutorial for the card texture. For some crazy reasons I keep odd sizes, tiny and narrow strips of scrap papers from past projects, waiting to be used. Anyway, now I found a good reason to use them, on my cards! One good reason is to create layers and texture, whichever deem fit.
1. I took some green strips of the papers and placed them randomly on the card just to gauge how the strips would look like. No real planning involved.
2. Then gesso-ed the white cardstock below and started pasting the strips of scraps and between the papers as they layer onto each other.
3. Gesso-ed the top layer and run the gesso with a plastic knife to make the diagonal lines
4. After the gesso is dried, I cut away the excess paper to make up to the card size. 
It's all ready for you to ink/mist and add whatever layers that you need to! 

Try it, it's pretty satisfying to me when I realised I used up quite a fair bit of odd scraps that I'm still wondering why I kept them in the 1st place & for months!


Noteables : Distress ink Salty Ocean, vellum, October Afternoon Mini Market alpha stickers/Sidewalks Miscellany, Maya Road kraft white frame, Strips of green scrap papers, white gesso

Monday Times! - CW154 Buttons

Hello Monday! This week at Kaboodle Doodles, we have sponsorship from Di's Digis. The theme this week is Buttons. Make sure you use buttons in your creation. Come join us and play along at Kaboodle Doodles and you might be the lucky winner of $10 voucher from Di's Digis

Notebales : 7Gypsies Postal 6x6, October Afternoon Fly A Kite wildcard / Farmhouse Flowersack, Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Ink Bundled Sage, Buttons from October Afternoon/Fancy Pants, Artful Delight Card Sketch#19

Random Layout - CSI Case #54

  

Here's my 1st attempt on CSI Challenge. After seeing a couple of scrapper friends playing at CSI Challenge, I decided to give it a try. Oh boy it's tough cracking my head how to do this! I've never done this before, this is my 1st attempt on a sketch/color/recipe challenge. Hope it's considered close enough! :) 

Noteables : Echo Park For the Record 2 Handwritten 12x12, Prima Printery collection 6x6 pp,7 Gypsies Postale 6x6p.p.,  SEI Fair ticket, Kaisercraft Music Sheet stamp, Unity Itty Bitty/Webster's stamp The Little Things stacked teacups, Staz On Jet Black, Hero Arts Circle doodle stamp, Hero arts Mid Tone Red Royale, Distress ink Salty Ocean, Picket Fence Crackle Paint, Dylusions stencil Chequered Dots, Maya Road  Winter's Rosese Houndstooth Licorice/Alpha chipboard, American Craft Jute, 1" EK circle punch, CSI case#

Thrusday's Up! - Sharp

This week at 365cards theme on Thrusday is SHARP. What does this word mean to you? There is a whole lot of intepretation to this word. If you are up to it, join us with your card at 365cards. I had used the stamp from Stampers Anonymous calligraphy pen and also the sentiment from the same set of stamps. So what's your take?

Noteables :  My Mind's Eye On the Bright Side2 6x6pp, Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Mini Classics, Staz-on Jet Black, Vellum, Sketch from Unscripted sketches

Linking up :
*  Unscripted sketches #192
*  Simon says stamps Black, white & splash of colour
* Runway Inspired Ric27 Cacharel