Valentine (Tim Holtz) Luminary

Valentine is coming up and I wanted to make something special and different using the Tim Holtz's Luminary Die. This is what I came up with after some planning.

 

With the Tim Holtz's Luminary Die, I die cut two sets with brown cardstock and covered it with pattern paper. Then assembled according to instruction. 

 

The next step was figuring what kind of decorations to use. Since the theme is Valentine, how can you not use hearts. I used a heart punch to punch out several hearts and glittered with red sparkles.

Then I wanted to used some flowers (roses?) 

 How about butterfly?

 So the planning begins.....

Figuring out what to put inside caused me a bit of an headache, but finally decided to use a rose. I had some yellow roses that I made, left over from my other project, so I used it for the centre piece. Die cut some leaves and then assembled them together and place the glittered butterfly on top.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Birthday Heart Card

After watching these Youtube videos of Karen Burniston introducing her new line of pop-it-up. I couldn't wait to get my hands on those dies. I ordered a few from Elizabeth Craft Designs, gosh does E.C.D have a lot to offer from that website. Don't you just wish you got all the money to order everything you want.

Anyhow, once I got them in the mail I couldn't wait to start...but just didn't know where to start. My creativity for card making isn't all that good, but I would love to try. Especially from watching all of Karen Burniston's video, she made it so easy, and everything she picks seems to match/coordinates perfectly. Well, I thought I'll do birthday cards since I have a some friend's birthday coming up.

I used the Heart Pivot Card die to make the birthday cards since the month of February is also Valentine's Month. So it's a good idea to combine the both.

I first tried using plain cardstock, but it didn't turn out as nice as I would want them, even with the touch of pattern paper here and there. So I discard that idea.

Then I tried using pattern paper cardstock, and it turned out to be ok. I glittered a few hearts with red and gold sparkles to add as deco to the card just to give it some more colour. As for the stamps, they are from Stephanie Barnards's Stamp of Life Collection.

Here are both of the cards.

 

 

 

 

 Thanks for stopping by.

Christmas Cards and Poinsettas

This post is a little over due, which I'm suppose to post back in december. It's been a well busy month or two for me. What I'm showing here are christmas cards I made. You know how much I love making flowers. Poinsetta's, this beautiful flower, how can it escape this year for christmas. I have two poinsetta dies that I purchase a while back (Spellbinders and Tim Holtz), and they've been sitting on my shelves for a while (unopen), so it's about time it comes out of the packaging.

I decided to use Spellbinders to make these poinsetta (no particular reason, just random). When I make flowers, I can't just make one, not my nature. I make a mass production of them, well sounds a lot, but not the commerial ones....when I say mass production, it's about 20-40 of them. Plus, this will take me a good few days (up to a week) to finish.

 

 

Above are two pictures of my poinsetta. I made them red and white. I loved how it turned out. I've adapted the technique I used from make flowers by Susan Tierney-Cockburn, that is veining, and molding. It gives it a 3D effect, a more realistic look. Then I used the sparkle mod podge to coat the top to give it a shiny look.

 

These flowers are now a part of my decorations for card-making. For the card I used Stephanie Barnard's Circle Flip-it framelit die. Love Stephanie's die, it makes card making so much easy and faster.

 

 

Another thing I made, is this little christmas house (not sure what you call it). I used Tim Holtz Luminary Die. Inside is a litle minion (made of quilled paper). Outsdie decorated with the poinsetta flowers.

 





Hope you like them.

Flowers

Paper crafting has always been one of my favourite hobbies from when I was little. Lately I've into Sizzix products and learning all about die cutting. During my internet searching on ideas, I came across Susan Cockburn's line of product on making 3D flowers. Making 3D flowers is what I've been learning how to doing using Tim Holts and Sizzix dies, as well as origami 3D flowers). However her products are amazing, those dies made it look so easy. Well, it is easy. I've watched all her videos, and thinking, I had to have "all" of those dies....so I placed an order on a few of them, and then a few more...lol! Once I've gotten them in the mail, I was excited to play with them and see what I can do with them. Here what I did. I've made them into flowers in a pot.

 
I've started working on the rose, and this is what I came up with.

 
The Hibiscus is the second flower I've tried. I really wanted to make it into something that resembles a plant. So I used brown paper, twisting and forming it into branches. Which is a lot of work, and my fingers started to hurt, but it was well worth it at the end when you see the end product.

 
Then I started working on the sunflower. Sunflowers are really pretty flowers, so bright. I used to grow them in my garden, but they were hard work in the autumn when you try to pull them out from the soil/ground due to their massive broom like roots. I made a bunch of them, but haven't thought of what to do with them yet.

 
Lilies are next in line. They are quite pretty in nature. This time I've used wires for the stem and floral tape to wrap the wires. I didn't have much fun with the floral tape as they were quite sticky to work with and the sticky stuff you get on your hands were hard to get off afterwards. Also, it was hard to get the glue to stick the flower onto the stem. However, I really like the outcome of this one.

 
After all those time working with flowers with "many" pedals, I wanted to make an easier flower. The dogwood flower seems quite simple and easy to do, plus it's only two die cut pedals. The only thing is that you'll have to make a lot of them. To make life easier, so I didn't have to twist paper or use that sticky floral tape for the branches, I decide to use real branches. Which wasn't a bad idea, it made it look even more realistic. What do you think?

The last two flower in the pot is the mini rose and the Quince (which I tried to turn it into a Jasmine flower). I had so much fun with these dies. These are the few flowers I made so far, and I'm planning to work on the other ones with time.

Here's a closer look at the mini roses. I found that the mini roses are more prettier compared to the larger size one. Although I did find it a lot difficult to put the pedals together due to the size, but the end results are much pretty.



Thanks Susan for such a wonder line of product. I hope to see more new products from you in the future. Here's a link to her videos of how I made these beautiful flowers. http://www.sizzix.com/susantierney

Note: Just for those wondering, the flower pot is made by paper as well (paper quilling).

Hyacinth....the paper flower

It's July already. Wow, this year is going by quicker than I expected. As with my craftwork, I've been slowing down lately since I don't really have much ideas. However there's this one day when I was at my local bookstore, I saw this origami book that teaches you how to make flowers, and you know how much I love to fold flowers. So I took the idea and tried it myself. It took me a few days to accomplish the project because each little flower look me like 30 minutes to do. I think there's a total of 20ish little flower on that one stem. Although it's time consuming, it was worth it because the end product was really pretty, I really liked it. It was good timing because one of my colleague's birthday was just around the corner, it was the perfect gift. I'm in the process of making another one for myself since I really like it. Here's a picture of it.

Winnie the Pooh 3D Origami

Here is the first cartoon set of 3D Origami I made. Each is about 10-15 cm in height and takes about 4-6 days to make.

Winnie the Pooh is one of my favourite cartoon from childhood, and I still like them at present. My favourite character in the cartoon are Eeyore and Piglet. What is yours?

Piglet, Tigger & Eeyore.

Pooh.

Rabbit.

My Craftworks from the past.

Beadings:
These are some of the crafts I do with beadings. I found this type of craft very interesting and difficult to learn at first. I see many types of beading out there and I can only do the simple ones.

Sewing:
Needlework is a very skillful type of crafting as well. I have been taught how to sew by my grandmother when I was very small (although not very good or as good as her). Afterwards when I was in elementary school, I had to take a "Family Study" course that requires us to do needlework and cooking. Aside, I also did woodworking/wood too but I threw my masterpiece away, so I don't have any to show now. Here are some of the stuff I did with needling.

















Origami/Paper Folding:
This has to be my all time favourite. I find that this type of crafting very fasinating and complicated as well. Who knows that a single piece of paper with a few folds here and there can turn into such a beautiful thing. Here are some of the things I made in the past few years.

 










These are like puzzle origami where you make many pieces and put them together one by one. The amount of time spend to do one of these is incredible. It can range from over 6-10 hours or even a few days depending on the size of it. Of course I would not sit there to finish it in one day. I usually would take a few days to a week to do one of these projects, also it would depend on the amount of time I have...cuz I do have other things to do.











These roses the best I have made so far. I really like them very much because they look very realistic compare to the ones I made before. I have to say, I'm very impressed. So far, I know how to fold 5 different types of roses. (two other types are seen 2 photos above this one).