Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path

I had such a fantastic time at painting class today.  My painting should be completed in another 3 weeks and I hope to have it posted here.

And I baked a fruit cake when I came back and finally made this card for the Our daily bread designs odbdslc49 : sentiment and overstamping

I kept my card simple as I want the sentiment and the overstamping of the image to stand out, here is my card :

Materials used :

1.  ODBD stamps, both sentiment and image, stamped with distressed inks (black soot and milled lavender).

2.  Pattern paper : crafty secrets radiant pack and cosmo cricket mitten weather, cardstock : Popular

3.  EK success daisy chain punch

4.  Spellbinders nestabilities

5.  Buttons : Hong Kong

Thanks for dropping by :-) 

Gift box

I know I am supposed to be doing the background from my canvas for my painting class tomorrow, but I cannot resist altering this empty box that I found when we packed our storeroom during spring cleaning for cny.

I altered this box for Peachy Keen Lets face it friday - think spring (handmade gifts), I do hope my altered box qualifies for "handmade gifts".

Here is my altered box :-

 The original box  

 The cover of the gift box

 I layered cut-out from mulberry paper over cut-out from paper foam to achieve a 3 d effect for the flower

 I stamped the heart with PK cute faces and pasted them over the flowers

The inside of the cover

Materials used :

1.  Peachy Keen PK-159 - Simple simons for the flower,  PK 490 everyday character face, 3/8" for the hearts and 1" for the flower on the inside of the cover

2. Pattern paper : DCWV spring flowers stack, cardstock : DCWV brights

3.  Sizzix dies

4.  Spellbinders nestibilities

5.  Sentiments stamp : Just for you - Elzybells

6.  Stickles : yellow

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Happy Birthday

This will be a very short post as I still have to do the background on my canvas to prepare for my painting class tomorrow.    I received the magnolia  hearts doohickey last night and wanted to use them but instead use the ms heart punch instead, and i do want to play with my doohickey, so I shall not spend too much time on this post.

This happy birthday card is made for the following challenges :

1.  Just Magnolia week 94 : love you
2.  Magnolia Stamp lovers : pastel challenge
3.  Samuel Taylors monthly challenge : copic chic/promarker gal - anything coloured with copics or promarkers

Here is my card :

Before I list the materials used, I have to credit Becca of Amazing Paper Grace for her tutorial on the "tie a pretty collar bow" which I learned to make the above, I stuck a satin purple flower in the centre as my collar bow wasn't tied very nicely and there was a gap in the centre.   Go check out Becca's blog, she has the most amazing and awesome creations with spellbinders and ribbons.  

Materials used:

1.  Magnolia stamp : birthday Tilda coloured with copic markers

2.  Pattern paper : Li'l Davis Designs : little one - lullaby

3.  Happy Birthday stamp : ODBD 

4.  MS heart punch

5. Stickles : icicle

6.  Ribbon and purple satin flowers : Hong Kong

Thanks for dropping by :-) 

Sweet Love

I have not been able to do much crafting for the past week, so I am determined to settle down and make a card after my yoga session this afternoon (with Vincent away to Bangkok and Medan, I play with my craft without feeling guilty).

Here is the card I made for the following challenges :-

1.  Belles 'n whistles - your favourite thing with heart
2.  Party Time PTT #3 - a sketch

Materials used :

1.  Belles 'n Whistles clear stamp : sweet love coloured with caran d'ache colour pencils

2.  Pattern paper : making memories, card stock : DCWV pastels

3.  MS monarch butterfly punch and EK success butterflies chain punch

4.  Prima pearls and swirls

5.  Ribbon and satin flowers : Hong Kong

6.  Distress ink : shabby shutters

7. Spellbinders nesties

Thanks for dropping by :-)

Thinking of you

So, I am supposed to clear up my craft area as my dear mentor Angie and her mentor Flo are coming over for lunch, fellowship and maybe a spot of crafting (?).   But instead of packing and clearing, I ended up making another card, my 2nd card of the day.  Once I start with magnolia stamps, it is kinda hard to stop.  And I really love this waiting Tilda since I received it from Funn 2 days ago.    I miss my 2 girls who are studying in the UK terribly and even more so during this festive period (Chinese new year).  I made this card with my 2 baobei in mind, and here is my card for the following challenge :-

Just Magnolia week 92 - special monthly challenge with ribbons

Materials used :

1.  Magnolia stamp : Waiting Tilda coloured with copic markers, sentiment stamp : thinking of you : ODBD

2.  Pattern paper : Little yellow bicyle lollipop strip with glitter (this is my 3rd card with this paper), card stock, AC primaries, glitter paper : KI Memories

3.  Spellbinders scallop rectangle and classic square

4.  Rangers stickles icicles

5.  Ribbon : Hong Kong

6.  Paper rose : wild orchid crafts

7.  Rhinestones : stash

Thanks for dropping by :-)

You are so special with glittery hearts

I have not played with the magnolia stamps for a while, so when I have the chance to, I inked up Tilda with hearts lace from the "you are so special" collection and made this card for the following challenges :

1. Magnolia down under challenge #82 - love
2. Magnolia Stamp lovers : Glitter challenge

I applied glitter generously over all the little hearts (I really put in alot of hearts to make this card), and hope it qualifies for the glitter challenge!

Here is my card :

close up of the glittery hearts

Materials used :

1.  Magnolia stamps : Tilda with hearts lace coloured with copic markers, and "you are so special", both from the "you are so special" collection.

2.  Pattern paper : little yellow bicyle - lollipop stripe with glitter, cardstock : AC - primaries

3.  Martha Stewart heart punch

4.  Ranger stickles : Icicle

5.  Ribbon : Hong Kong (I tied the ribbon round the cardstock very much like the lace of the ballet flat)

Thanks for dropping by :-)

Praying you'll soon be well

Vincent left for Kuwait yesterday,  and with Jer busy working for her the internship, I have plenty of time to spare, so I made this cheery card Siti who has an operation recently.


This card is also for the ODBDSLC47 - You choose your challenge - Challenge Anniversary.   Feb 5 is the first anniversary of ODBD shining the light challenge, and in celebration of their challenge anniversary, for this week challenge we are to choose from the following :  

ODBDSLC22- Distress it

ODBDSLC26- Dies and Punches

ODBDSLC27- Texture it

ODBDSLC28 Forgotten Embellishments

ODBDSLC29 Sparkle

ODBDSLC31 Wing it

ODBDSLC32 Leaves

ODBDSLC33- Charm it

ODBDSLC34- Three of Something

ODBDSLC43- Something new something old

I chose dies and punches!  Here is my card :

Materials used :

1.  ODBD stamp : Praying you'll soon be Well

2.  Pattern paper : Prima marketing fairy flora collection, Cosmo cricket garden variety, cardstock : Local bookstore, Popular

3.  Spellbinders : circle and scallop nestabilities scalloped circle and circle

4. Sizzix bigz dies : flowers daisies #2 and tattered leaves

5. EK success butterfly and leaves punches

6. Magnolia fence doohickeys

7. Kaiser pearls

Thanks for dropping by :-) 

All we need is love

Love is patient,

Love is kind,

It does not envy, it does not boast,

It is not proud. It is not rude,

It is not self-seeking, nor easily angered,

It keeps no record of wrongs. 

Love does not delight in evil

but rejoices with the truth.

Love always protects, always trusts,

always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

I have been impatient with Liz this morning and I am going to post this card I made, to her, as a way of apology, I am sorry darling I love her and I should be more patient.  I miss both you and Min, more so, during the festive period.   

When I saw the figure 8 bow from Amazing paper grace, which Becca has a you-tube video on how to make this.  It is relatively easy and since I do not have a ribbon with the stitch round the edge, so I sewed it with running stitches.   Using the same method, I sewed running stitches on a much thinner velvet ribbon and make the base for the flowers to hold up the card.  

Here is my card for the Our Daily Bread Designs blog - stamping in time : On assignment Challenge (SNTODBD27)

Figure 8 bow and the base made with thinner velvet ribbon for flowers

 I added a bookmark (I left a slot at the back of this easel card)

Materials used :-

1.  LOVE stamp : ODBD

2.  Pattern paper : Little yellow bicycle - lollipop stripe with glitter, cardstock : AC - primaries

3.  Spellbinder nestabilities, Magnolia Doohickeys, Sizzix movers and shakers die - love

4.  Distress ink - spun sugar

5.  Ribbons and organza flowers : Hong Kong

Thanks for dropping by :-) 

Be still and know I am God - Psalm 46:10

This is one of my favourite bible verse, and time and again, I am reminded to drop everything, all worries, frustrations and know that He is God.   God's command - "be still" wants us to think on two things, we human are finite and God is infinite.

Here is my card for the Card Pattern sketch 99

Materials used :-

1.  Be Still and know that I am God stamp : our daily bread designs

2.  Pattern paper : Cosmo cricket, mitten weather, cardstock : Popular

3.  Spellbinder nestabilities

4.  EK success punch

5.  Ribbon : Hong Kong

6.  Flowers : Wild Orchid crafts

7.  Cuttlebug embossing folder

Chinese New Year blessings

Chinese New year is just round the corner and there are still so much things I needed to get done.  Somehow I am very very late this year and I have no help as my full time domestic helper Ju-an had been unwell and returned home.

So, while trying to do some spring cleaning, and going for my painting class, I made this chinese new year card for the girls. Qi is attending a conference in London so it is great that the two sisters could spend cny together.   I also sent a parcel of cny goodies together with the card, so they would not miss home too much.   Here is my card which is based on Peachy keen sketch challenge 44 with a twist - use monochromatic colour scheme.

Mandarin oranges are a must for chinese new year, as is the colour red, and the challenge called for a monochromatic colour so I decided to make a chinese new year card.

A closed up of the oranges, aren't they too cute for words?

 福 （fu) - blessings

吉祥如意 (ji xiang ru yi) - good fortune as one wishes (I need to practice writing my calligraphy more regularly)

Mandarin oranges 

Materials used :-

1.  Peachy keen stamps : Orange from PK 239 Faceless fruit set,  coloured with caran d'ache colour 

     pencils, face : PK-490 Everyday character face assortment (size : 1")

2.  Pattern paper : me & my BIG ideas, mambi color basics (red), waffle paper : Pacon, 

     cardstock : popular

3.  Fu punch, ribbon : Hong kong

4.  Spellbinders nestabilities 

5.  EK success punch

Thanks for dropping by :-)

To love and to laugh

I have been feeling very aggrieved when someone I went out of the way to help, turned around and slapped me on the face.  So much for helping, but as Flo told me time and again, its ok, God knows and God cares and God will bless me richly.   And true enough, thank God, I won the January Digibells challenge,  see previous post, hearts and chocolates.  And this cheered me immensely plus God provide comfort in the form of support and encouragement from my buddy and Liz.

I won my very first challenge from Peachy Keen stamps (who has the cutest stamps ever, and they can be found here ), thus Peachy Keen is very closed to my heart, so this week I decided to make a card for their Tuesday sketch challenge 43 and after making the card, I realised is also suitable for their Lets face it Friday challenge : X's and O's

Here is the card :-

A closed up of the faces

Materials used :

1.  Peachy keen stamps : PK-505 : too much fun faces and PK-164 Dolly Dumplins, 

     sentiments : unity stamps

2.  Cardstock : Popular, pattern paper : scraps from stash

3.  half pearls : wild orchid crafts

4.  punches : EK success 1" circle, fiskars small scallop, EK success leaves, EK success hearts

5.  Crystals : prima

6.  Sizzix love embossing folder

7.  Ribbons : Hong Kong

Thanks for dropping by :-) 

Hearts & Chocolate - Elisabeth Bell

Elisabeth Bell creates the most beautiful images, and her latest image : the prince is now available, check out Elisabeth Bell digital stamps.  

I created this card and altered a chocolate tube container for the Digibell January blog hop.  Go check out the digibells DTs awesome creations and join them in the blog hop.   This altered container has been filled with chocolate and will make a fantastic valentine gift. 

The original chocolate tube container

 Altered container tube and card

Materials used :

1.  Whiff of Joy stamp : Willow blowing kissess, coloured with copic markers and sentiment stamp :

     Unity Stamp

2.  Pattern paper : Papermania love colossal paper pack, cardstock : Popular bookstore

3.  Spellbinder nestabilities : label eleven

4.  Sizzix extra bigz : card, heart with hearts

5.  Friskars scallop circle punch

6.  Organza flower and red doily : Hong Kong

7.  Pearls : Wild orchid crafts

Thanks for dropping by. 

A time for everything - Ecclesiastes 3

My dear friend Ace has been pretty down recently, so I made her these 2 bookmarks and bake her some cheesecakes.  The recipe for the cheesecake is from Joy of baking.  

 Cheer up Ace :-) 

In the mood for love

Hi, I am back, and I think I got myself out of the craft rut!   Angie and Flo came over to check out my craft area and we had a great time shopping for sizzix dies and ideas to get me more organized.  Thanks ladies :-)

Vincent left for KL yesterday and I I started out to make a birthday card, but ended up making a valentine day card instead.   Here is my card for the Card Pattern sketch 98 :-

The card opens to this :

 

Materials used :

1.  Pattern paper : DCWV the sweet stack, card stock : AC

2.  Spellbinders nestabilites and sizzix dies

3.  Love is what makes the ride worth it clear stamp (I can't remember the make)

4.  Ribbon, lace and satin flowers : Hong Kong

I have lots of fun and lots of glue on my fingers when I made the lace flowers.  Thanks for dropping by :-), I hope to make some chinese new year cards soon. 

My new craft area

I have been stuck in a craft rut as Jer calls it, even though I just had my exercise area revamped into my craft area and relinquished the study area back to Vincent, I simply cannot get back crafting.   I have new cabinets fixed is still in the process of packing and arranging all my crafting stuff neatly.  Vincent volunteered  to do the packing for me, but I refused, preferring to take my time organising all the stuff that I have amassed over the past year.  

Jer and I wanted to spend the evening crafting (so that I can get out of the crafting rut I am in now) as Vincent has a dinner appointment.   However as it turned out, I have to go with him for the dinner, so crafting will have to take a back seat till tomorrow.  I hope to make some valentine and chinese new year cards.

Here is my new craft area which I am still trying to organise :

The study area which I used to do my crafting, playing computer games and talking to the girls. 

Jer has been working on altering a note book into a diary, here is a sneak peak to what she has done.  I think she is at June or July now.  She is working on a rainbow coloured theme, using colours from the rainbow for each month.  

Thanks for dropping by, I hope to have some craft creations tomorrow.

Pixie Dust Paperie giveaways

I am finally back!   I just realised my last update was a month ago, before we went to Hong Kong and Beijing.   So much has happened in the last 4 weeks : we had a great trip, the girls came home for Christmas, then we took a trip to Penang over the new year where I tried para-sailing (which was really exciting), and next on my "to try" list is bungee jumping.   I wonder what would Vincent say.  

I do not have any creations to show today, but I want to let everyone know there is a fantastic give away at Pixie dust paperieie.   I have to thank Kathy who visited, and left a link for me.   Check it out, it is very simple to qualify for the draw.   

I hope to create something soon, because my mentor Angie gave me some beautiful making memories paper.  I just have to do something with them.

Thanks for dropping by, do check out Pixie dust paperie blog for their giveaways.