Happy Victoria Day

Happy Victoria Day to those celebrating!

For our family, we normally don't celebrate or do any fireworks. With this year's Victoria Day, we got rain and thunderstorm. However, something nice came up during all that rain...a rainbow. Trust me, I don't see those much often, so don't mind me if I get too excited and started taking pictures. It was rather nice to see it. I was able to see both side of the rainbow, but with my cheapy camera, i was only able to take only one side of it. I just want to share with you.

Birthday Cards

I have received some stamps from the mail from "The {Stamps} of Life by Stephanie Barnard" before the start of the long holiday. I was pretty excited to start making something using my new stamps. The stamp set I've used are "Scream4icecream" & "Cake2build", as these are the only stamp set I have. With limited supplies and medium creativity, I came up with these creations. The 3-tier cake i made with embossing each tier to give it some texture. One thing I did with the word "Celebrate" was I stamped it twice with two different colours. Originally I thought it would give it a background highlight, but it turn out looking blurry, which is neat in a way. It can be a technique used to play a trick on the person.

I like the birthday ice cream with the candles, found it quite cute. I even tried to make a wrinkly texture for the ice cream cone. Have you ever received an ice cream as a birthday cake. It's something different.

Quilling Angel & Birthday Card

Here's a Birthday Present and Card I made for a friend at work.
The pretty angel is made from quilling. I got the idea from the book "Three-Dimensional Quilling" by Jane Jenkins. It is fascinating how strips of paper can turn out into something like this. The Pop-Up Birthday card is also made by me. It consists of stamping and quilling. Because I don't have any nice colouring markers or pens and my colouring skills are horrible, therefore i've used quilling to fill in the dragonfly and created a different effect on the card.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the beautiful mom's out there. Kind of posted this pretty late, but guess it's not such a big deal. So...Today, I spend most of the day with my mom today. Took her out for a nice brunch and then cook dinner, it's not a fancy dinner since i'm not such a good cook at all (and i'm telling the truth).

Here I want to share one of the crafts I made that seems quite suitable for a mother day's gift. It looks like a pot of "mum" ,but actually it's a pot of roses. A pot of flowers for mom.

It's all made of paper, the pot is made from quilling, the rose is made by twisting a strip of paper. I have to say...I lied, it's not all paper, there is actually a styrofoam ball in the centre that holds all the roses together. Otherwise, it's everything else is paper.

Card Making

I had made birthday cards before by drawing and sticking origami flowers on them, but lately I found a new way to making cards that are fun and easy to do. The best thing is that the end results are super amazing. I've got the cuttlebug machine for embross, the Circut machines (which I haven't used yet), and some punches out gadgets...so i'm excited to do some work with them. I am still a beginner with this and I am not so good with coming up with ideas, and still fiddling around with the circut machine.

Here are two cards I made for two friends birthday that I wanted to share.

This card is very simple, just emboss and used spark to hightlight the Birthday word. It took me quite some time to do it with the glue bottle I used. I don't really have those fansy glue most crafters use. The purple doll is also made from paper, using origami and quilling. It turned out pretty well and I liked it very much.

This is the second card, using the same birthday embross technique (Cuttlebug). I used paperscrapping, punch out, ribbons and origami rose for decorations. The rose is similar to the ribbon twisting one (not sure what it's called).






Also, I'm starting to do "Stamping" crafts now. I found a lovely website "Stamps of Life" and joined their club this week. It's a new type of craft I'm heading into, away from the paper folding. So, I can't wait to get started when I receive those stamps in the mail. Hope I can get the hang of it. I can do craft, but my designing skills are not that great, so I hope those cards I'm designing/making in the future won't look to bad.