For the first time this year, I put up a mini sale of my handmade Valentine's Day cards on Facebook and had sold 3 of them. Had made 10 cards initially and did another one at a request of a friend's friend. The printed papers were mostly redeemed using my membership points and I din make a lost out of them, as I had originally wanted to get the printed papers to make a V-day album for my bf.
I simply love Bo Bunny's Love Letter papers. Hence you can most of my cards are creating using papers from that line.
Here are the cards that were sold.
1) Feb 14 Heart
This is my favourite and seems like it is the most popular design. For this is the first card that was sold. I also had someone message me privately that he keow this card was sold but he offered to pay a higher price for this, Cos he knew his gf will sure love this card. Its is not that ethical, I have to say, but you can't blame a guy for fighting to get what he think his gf would like to have. Well , my response to him was that I am sorry that the card was sold and I offered to do up another similar design for him which is shown below.
On a site note; I couldn't help wondering if my bf will do the same thing is he know what I wanted was unavailable.
2) The "sister" card
Well,not 100% similar but basically, I have include "14", "February", crystals, and a heart shaped embellishment. The buyer was nice to drop me a message after V-day, thanking me and saying that his gf love the card. I am glad she did and glad to have helped too.
3) "Oh How I love you!" card
I actually bought the stickers some years back. Never had a chance to use it until now. Somehow I have a feeling that the person who buys it must have been cycling with his/her partner and true enough!.
4) You are my Favorite card
Well, this was not really sold but considered it as "give away". My sister has been sponsoring me a few clothings from her blogshop (www.sashpetals.com) so that I can help promoting the clothes in person.Hence, I asked her to pick one for her to give to her husband (my bro-in-law). Hmm wonder why she pick this though.
As for the cards that are not sold. I can still keep them as the materials are acid free. I had joked to bf that I can give him one card every year for the next coming V-days.
Feel free to drop me a note if anyone of you is interested to get a V-Day card or handmade card. :)
I seldom get too personal when it come to blogging now
(well , on this blog I mean, not the one
I have abandoned years ago). However after seeing Cruz Teng’sblog post, I am inspired to do one too, so that years later, when I
revisited this post, at least I will have some recollections on what happened
in 2012, be it in term of current affairs and personal affairs. Haha.
Warning:This
post is gonna be lengthy and full of grammatical errors, and is written in a mixture of
English and Chinese.
What I remembered for 2012:
·The duke and duchess of Cambridge came to Singapore.
Think Queenstown, Gardens by the Bay, Raoul dress and speculated baby bump.
·Obama‘s tweet“
Four more years” was quoted by many.
·In Aug, there was the biggest rumour in Singapore. I
had friends, family who told me and the speculations that “ 老李” had passed away and the whole government is keeping this
a secret as National Day was approached. Despite showing my parents about
another pic which was sent through Whatsapp on a healthy lookingex-Ministor Mentorwalking unaided out of SGH, they rather
believe the rumours that was going around in coffee shops(all over Singapore I presume).
· More people are interested to watch the NDP this year,
specially the “segment” where all the members of parliament were invited to
their seats.From the cheers that were
heard, and the sentiments echoed in social media platform , I guessed he is still loved by many. At Four more years
too?
·It’s been a year of lusting husbands and lasting
wives, be in for Singapore or overseas. Singapore, that
is considered to be conservative, was rocked by a wave of sex scandals. Haiz.
·Diva Whitney Houston, Feng
Feifei said goodbye.I realized that I
can actually sing-along more to the songs by Feng Feifei than Whitney Houston.
Blame my parents for listening to her songs when I was young. LOL.
·Superheros ruled the cinema screens – Avengers,
Superman, Batman.I was causing a lot of
“distress “to my colleagues and friends around me by asking them a欠扁问答题that goes
“ Why super heros’ costumes are so tight fitting? “.
Ans: 因为救人要紧
One said I hit a new low with this cold joke…..*Crows flying*
·21 Dec 2012 was deemed to be last day on earth..Crap…..I know I will be still alive
commenting about this.
·If you think Macarena dance craze last decade was
bad,Psy proved that he can outdo it
with his Gangnam Stylehouse-galloping
moves. 2012 to me on a personal level:
- started off the year at countdown event in Taipei, watching fireworks firing from Taipei 101
-started a new blog ( this blog) on 21 Feb , mainly to share more abt my art creations. Sort of give it up in May as I could not catch up with the number of creations I have came up with.
- made more than 20 Name signages, created 3 mini albums , 2 frame projects ,1 layout and more than 100 cards for friends.
- missed 大师兄 performance but managed to see him in person.Was so touched by his actions when I was in a stoned mode due to lack of sleep.
「步步惊心」里的众爷们, 你喜欢那一位?
-- I seldom watched drama serials online but after seeing the trailer of 「步步惊心」in Taiwan , I was so hooked on it that I completed watching the whole serial 2 weeks before it end its run in Singapore . For some episodes, I watched twice.
Draw Something became the popular app in the earlier part of 2012, though it's popularity decline soon after it was bought over . 爱搞怪的我,尽量找机会把「步步惊心」的人物画进去。
- also caught a bit of the drama serial 「犀利人妻」。谢安真的那句"不要怕!"留下了深刻的印象。
-- movies I have watched in 2012 included Men in Black III, The Lucky One , Dark Knight Rises, 犀利人妻 and Les Miserables.
- checked out new cafes like Full House, Kith cafe, Nana's Green Tea.
-- held my first ever birthday party in McDonalds. The service there sucks but my friends are so sporty to came in school uniform. 那个月苦练的手语歌,「爱」,如今我都忘记好多手语动作。
-- sported bangs for a while . The last time I was in bangs was more than 15 years ago?
-- as what the tarot card reader predicted, I will change job before my birthday . Had never made so many trips to hotels ( for training ) prior to the current job. Had 4 meals at Sheraton,1 at Marriot and one at hotel intercontinental for the last 3 months in 2012.
D&D --Hawaii Nite
-- Attended the new company's D&D, My attempt to keep a low profile at the company D&D failed . Was practically up on the stage every 30mins. My first experience in giving out prizes at a formal event cos there is only one HR exec . Ha!
-- organised a team building event for the company.
-- had my first taste of the original Singapore Sling.
-- caught the Harry Porter exhibition at Art & Science Museum. Disappointing . Heng I dun need to pay a single cent as it was the prev company's family day event.
me trying to take artistic shots at Gardens by the Bay
visited Gardens by the Bay . Perhaps visiting it on 中秋节makes it more special too.
tried out ice skating again at the new Jcube mall .
attended 2 weddings ( gor's and KL's) and a ROM (siping's) in the year of dragon
find it funny that the post on my relationship status has the most "like " , compare to my other personal posts on Facebook .
said goodbye to my PO Box of 11 years.
songs that I like includes: 会过去的,三寸天堂, 花又开好了, 不具名的悲伤,失恋事小,明明就。
Ok, I know I have neglected this blog. Haha couldn't really keep it up at times.
Not that I have been lazy in creating cards and craft work last year.
In fact, I have created more than 10 name signages for ex-colleagues as farewell gifts and more than 100 Christmas cards for sale and give-away. Well, a far cry from the 300+ Christmas cards I did in 2011 but I guess in terms of techniques, I did my best to try out doing new cards using new techniques.
Here are some of the few Christmas cards that I have done which I like.
I like the glossy reindeer die-cut. Peek-a- boo effect was decided when I layout the papers.
This pastel scheme card is one where a lot of friends wanted. Ironically, I did it when I was in a bad mood --feeling blue.
I reminded myself that I need to make use of my Sizzix die-cut machine. Hence took the risk to cout out a scallop shaped from the front of the card.
Haha this card has special meaning to me. It is specially customised for M4 who like blue.
One of the new techniques I applied-- did a few "step-up" cards such as this.
Love this as you hardly see a purple themed Christmas cards. Coincidentally, the Christmas light-ups at Orchard Road also had a Nutcracker theme.
This is simplier than i thought-- rocking cards. It really rocks -- like a rocking chair.