Gift boxes 1

Warning: This is a long post. This was a project which I started in April 2018. I thought it would be nice to give a small token to all my colleagues on their birthday to show someone at work remembers and care since we spent a big chunk of the day at work it’s like a second home. So I started making gift boxes and filled them with treats to give to my colleagues on their birthdays.

Rainbow series 5 - background die cuts

Ah… All these beautiful rainbow colours, I hope they brighten up your day some. Today, I am sharing many, many cards I made using these rainbow die-cuts.

Polka dots background

I find that lately I had enjoyed spending time creating backgrounds for my cards. For the cards in the blogpost, I used MFT Peek-a-BooPolka Dots die to punch out many circles to create the card background. I finished all the cards differently using various elements that I had created previously and this technique is also a good way to use up your scraps.

Distress Oxides Embossed Background

Hello and welcome. Aren’t these backgrounds just gorgeous? I used Distress Oxide ink briefly in one of my earlier post and wanted to play with them more so I decided to do some background by blending Distress Oxide ink.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Fun in the Sun

I made 2 cards for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge with the theme Fun in the Sun using Mama Elephant product. When I think of Fun in the Sun, I thought of the beach or the park so I created these 2 cards based these scenes.I used primarily the images from Mama Elephant Little Boy Agenda, Little Girl Agenda and Little Cat Agenda.

Little Agenda & Distress Oxides Ink

I have been wanting to try Distress Oxide since I heard how well it blends with its dye and pigment properties. Ink blending has always been a challenge to me as I always find myself too heavy handed. As you can see in my cards here, the oxides ink blended very well and see how smooth they looked.

Lawn Fawn Scalloped Box Pop Up Card - Birthday party theme

I absolutely adore this pop-up box card die. It is so much fun and there’s so many scenes you can create with it. I did a simple birthday theme for my first attempt using this die and I know I will use this die again many times in future. 

Heart border die

Doesn’t this border die look absolutely lovely. This is the Memory Box Cherish Border die.

Border stamp & Heat Embossing

I am a big fan of heat embossing! It did take me a while to get a heat gun and it’s not even a craft heat gun. I couldn’t find one locally within a reasonable price. While searching online, someone said they used a DIY heat tool for their art project and it worked well so I finally got a DIY heatgun.

All About Food

We all love food, right? Whether they are healthy or sinful option, there’s something for everybody.  Who can resist a card filled with all sorts of foods! 

I made this card for a friend who really enjoys food, be it cooking, eating or even critique about it.

I looked through all my stamps and took out all those with food images. There were images from a variety of companies on this card; Sweet Stamp Shop Fruity, Bacon Break, Just Icons, Fall into Christmas (discontinued), Mama Elephant Lunar Extras, Lawn Fawn Just for You and MFTStamps Mon Cherie. 

The images were then coloured with glitter gel pens to give it shine and interest. The sentiment strip was cut from white card stock and stamp with a sentiment from MFT Beary HappyBirthday.

This card was easy to pull together and made use of small images that you have in your stash. Hope this card inspires you to use some of the less used stamps you have.

The Greeting Farm Little Mermaids

These little mermaids from The Greeting Farm was so, sooo cute I can’t believe it took me so long to play with them. I finally got round to colouring them last September and made 3 cards with them last month. Yes, I am a very slow card maker. I have a demanding day job so I craft whenever I have the energy and time.

Chinese New Year card and lucky envelope 2018

Hello and welcome! Hope you had a great week.  Today, I am sharing some cards I made for Chinese New Year (CNY) and some lucky envelopes.  It’s tradition to give lucky envelopes/ red packets to your juniors or even your elders during CNY for good luck.

Rainbow series 4 - cut out shaker card

Hi there!  I hope you are enjoying my series of posts on using scraps useful. As crafters, we not only generate a lot of scraps, we also had rejects or cards that we messed up. Today I am sharing how I messed up a card I was working on and what I did to make the most out of it. I try not to discard things without knowing I had done what I could to salvage it.

Just a little note...

Hello and welcome again. If you are here for the first time, thanks for coming over, I hope you will find the blog useful and help to inspire you.

For this card, I used the stamp set from Mama Elephant FairFeathers. I find this stamp set very classy and suitable for most occasion. It would be very useful for masculine card, which was always challenging for me.

Christmas 2017 - Holiday Floral Background

Hello and Happy New Year! Today I am sharing another Christmas card design. I know Christmas is long over but I had some technical problem with my laptop a week before Christmas and I only got it fixed just before New Year and could only post after then. For 2017, I decided to choose 2 products and see what I could made from them. This is the second product and it is using the Hero Arts Holiday Floral Bold Prints.