Blue Flowers Card and Konnichiwa pocket card

A few "ortang" (owed) posts to clear... I have told myself I should make it a point to write down n the supplies used and the story behind every card I made. Have not written the stories behind these two cards I have made earlier, so here I go.

Blue flowers card for Fish

It's a belated birthday card for Fish as I couldn't managed to pass it to her earlier. The blue paper was bought last year. Have been keeping it for someone suitable and I thought Fish would be the perfect person to receive a card made from this paper and she likes blue and there is some air about her.

Fuzzy cut a few corners from the paper from KaiserCraft. Then topped up with pearls (lots of them!), blue flowers from Prima and chipboard from the latest collection from Prima collection and a tag from Melissa Frances series. Then inked it at the corners to create a vintage look.

Supplies used:

• Tea At Elsie's Collection paper from KaiserCraft
• Meadow Lark Journaling Chipboard from Prima
• Pale blue flower from Prima
• Pearls and crystals
• Tag from Melissa Frances

Cute Cute Card for the Cute Cute Gal

Did a card for Tracy, the youngest gal in my department just the day before the eve of her birthday. As she is the youngest and cutest, I have to do a cute cute card for her. Saw the new arrivals in Made with Love includes the Basic Grey's Konnichiwa line a few weeks back and rushed down to the shop after work on that day.

Well I am glad I did that as just 2 weeks later, I saw that they were sending back the remaining pieces of that series back to their warehouse as they have too many new stocks coming in.

Th reason why I had created a pock in the inner side of the card and slotted in a big tag is because I like the prints show on the exterior of the card. The characters are so cute that I dun wish to cover the paper with anything else.

The card on the exterior.

The interior (left) side of the card.

Supplies used:

• Basic Grey Konnichiwa Collection-- Hello Friend paper
• Basic Grey Konnichiwa Collection-- Sticker Titles
• Pink crystals and pearls
• Pink cardstock
• Flowers
• Red velvet stickers from my old stash

Ok, that's it! Looks like the next post will be one on an altered frame, which I am planning to do this week,

Aiko name plate & card set

2 months ago, I was fretting about what gift to create for Sheryl. Had created a card for Serene, and an accordion book for YSL. So Sheryl should get something different. Wanted to do an altered frame but heard she had not much space to put at her home , and she prefers something practical. Hence thought of doing a name plate (yes, this idea for creating a name plate for Sheryl came first but i end up creating this http://icemaidenpalace.blogspot.com/2012/03/altered-nameplate.html for Anqi first.)

When I chanced upon Papermarket's blog post on their new arrivals abt 1.5 months ago, I knew I have to get the series of Aiko papers (http://www.mylittleshoebox.com/p1/products.html) when I saw the pics. Sheryl had mentioned that she will be going to Japan for holiday and I thought she will like the Japanese dolls prints. The Japanese Dolls are sooooo Kawaii and it is not often that those scrapbooking paper suppliers come out with Oriental designs. I bought about 5 pieces of papers from the line and chuck them at a corner first while I worked on other projects that are more urgent.

Spent over two nights working on the name plate. First night was to decide on the layout. I have quite a few options of papers to choose from and in the end, I choose one with clouds and the other one with mini dolls for the name plate.

Here's the completed name plate for Sheryl.

Since there are some materials to spare, I created another matching card for her. All done in 15 minutes.

And I like them cos they are so matching!

Supplies used for name plate:

• My Little Shoebox Aiko paper-- Blue Sky (2 pieces)
• My Little Shoebox Aiko paper-- One Fine Day
• My Little Shoebox Aiko paper-- Happy Notes
• Thickers-- puffy letter stickers in Pink
• Glossy accent
• Plain wooden sign board

Supplies used for birthday card:

• My Little Shoebox Aiko paper-- Blue Sky
• My Little Shoebox Aiko paper-- One Fine Day
• My Little Shoebox Aiko paper-- Little Princess
• Orange cardstock
• Glossy accent
• "Happy Birthday" stamp from Technique Tuesday

Don't think the local scrapbooking stores are selling this Aiko line now, so if you are interested, you may have to try your luck sourcing them online.

and she said...or "wrote"

While chatting with my manager based overseas on attending a workshop, she wrote"..you just started learning supports but I think you are the fast learner and I pretty much count on you. ".

So I presume I shouldn't have any trouble having my contract renewed?

On another note, I'm a bit stressed because of all these expectations of me....

My first Shutter Card--Music Theme

Ever experienced the feeling of wanting to do something but you kept on delaying it not because you are lazy to do but you are afraid to start off? Well, I have experienced that recently while thinking of creating a card for someone but in the end, I did managed to overcome my fear cos I have no choice as the person who I am intending to give is coming to Singapore soon.

I came across this idea of "shuttle card" from someone's blog while surfing the internet last year, and I managed to find a template for doing the card and had bookmarked it. However, I did not do the card immediately then as I was afraid I am not up to the challenge.

So, as the "D-day" is approaching, I have no choice but to force myself to start working on a card. After spending a few days looking the shuttle cards that others crafters had created, I rummaged my own stash of papers with musical scores prints and other music related embellishments and came up with this:

The pic at the bottom right corner shows how the card looks like when the card is closed up. Yes, obviously, this card is for someone who is in the music industry.

Supplies used:
* Green circular cutout from Best Creation Inc - A Walk in the Garden
* Music notes and instruments rub-ons & stickers -- given by Chile from Taiwan
* Brown & White patterned paper from DCVW's Collage Musing Stack
* My Mind's Eye: Follow Your Heart "Be Happy" Never Forget paper
* Bo Bunny 'S Et Cetera Symphony paper
* GCD Studio's Spring in Bloom, Butterfly Harmony Paper
* Prima Marketing Inc Almanac Collection "Libre" paper

Most importantly, if you are thinking of taking up the challenge to do a shuttle card of your own, here is the link where I got the measurements for creating the shuttle card: http://gabriellepollacco.blogspot.com/2011/11/bo-bunny-scor-buddy.html

Enjoy!

altered nameplate

Earlier this month, I decided to challenge myself and instead of making birthday card for my friend, i attempted to do a altered nameplate for her instead.

The flowers fussy cut-outs are mainly from KaiserCraft"s Miss Nelly Collection -- "Her Eyes" paper. You can see the original design of the paper here. Had cut out for flowers initially but felt it was not enough and slowly layered with more cut-outs, leaves, Prima flowers.

Butterflies are from Pink Paislee's Butterfly Garden Collection.

The center journal card is fro Echo Park Papers, This & That by Lori Whitlock.

Going to work on another name plate soon!

如果说是“不在意”才会“忘记”，
那，你所记得关于我的事，
是不是因为你“在意”......

Chirpy Birthday Card

Made this card for YT last week and managed to have it sent to her and reached her in time on her birthday.


If my friends didn't mentioned their preference, sometimes it's a headache for me to decide what card to do for them. Normally, I would just fall back to vintage style cos... I just have a weakness to buy vintage style papers. Hahaha.

For this card, I know I have to do a card with bright colours as I remembered she had clicked "like" on one of the colourful cards I have made for my friends last year and commented she likes the bright colours. Just coincidence that I have the new BoBunny Alora collection papers with me and I have something in mind on how to make a card from just one of their patterned paper.

So after lots of fussy cutting (The term originates from quilting where the definition is: To fussy cut is to target and cut a specific motif that's printed on fabric, rather than randomly cutting yardage as we normally do) , here's the end results.



I had stuck foam dots on the back of the branches, birdies and flowers to make them "3D". The paper cut-out where " Happy Birthday" is stamped is slotted in between the branches. I have cut out another three more flowers from "Alora Wish" paper and pasted them above "Happy Birthday" to cover the original flower design on the branch. Kind of "play cheat" to cover up, but the three flowers add more dimension to the lay out.


As for the background paper, it seems coordinated with the Bo Bunny Alora Squiggles paper but it is not from Bo Bunny! Oops ! It is from another manufacturer call DCWV. I had flipped high and low through my collection of paper and found this paper coordinate well with the cut-outs. Do you think so?