Cousins

Love the Vintage Moon collection from Pink Paislee and immediately got inspired to scrap these photos which were taken during Chinese New Year eve reunion dinner last year. I had been saving them until I could get the 'right' papers to scrap them, so finally, they are done.

Thanks to my BIL, Sam for taking these cute photos of J and cousin N. I'd love to say that they're the bestest cousins, but I guess it's more accurate to say that they have this love-hate relationship going ... but, it definitely has improved since the time these photos were taken. N has a 'special' name he calls J, "Eska" ... it's really cute, but I guess details of that deserves another scrapbook page of its own. Soon. I hope.
Close-ups - my favourite Prima flowers on a journal tag overlapping a frame, but I just can't seem to leave things as they are so they got distressed, Stickled and bling-ed.

7-Gypsies gaffer tapes ... I lurve!

Undiscovered Picasso

I'm totally inspired by this colour these days - Cerulean Blue ... according to Nick Bantock, love that ink colour to bits. Finally managed to get off my busy schedule *ahem* (read: lazy butt) to participate in a little challenge ~ using little one's art in a LO. Remember J's artpiece from here? Well, I hope my LO does her piece justice.


Distressed the blue cardstock and the blue splashes of paint on the background is actually J's handprints ~ which by the way, she LOVED doing. I had to submit some kind of torture technique to the piece so I messed up the alphas with some copper ink and copper-embossed them for that kinda-rusty-kinda-dirty look.

J loves butterflies - this one got stickled a teeny bit.

More paint and a little journalling. Ce'st fini!

Sadly though, J asked if this was done for her and when I told her yes, she was disappointed. Apparently it's not "pink" enough ... exact words were "But Mummy, you know I like pink ..." yes, as in THAT shade (fuschia), oh well!



Supplies - Paper: DaisyD's, Fancy Pants, Making Memories, Bazzill Cardstock; Paint: Making Memories; Ink: Nick Bantock Reinker, Tim Holtz Distress Inkpad, Tsukineko Brilliance; Alpha: Heidi Swapp; Embellies: Making Memories, Kaiser Craft, Stickles; Pen: Pigma Micron.

International Women's Day Layout ~ Inspiring

First thing that came into mind when I think about what defines a woman, I think about my mother. One word that comes to mind immediately is "Inspiring" - yes, that's what she was. She has inspired me to live life ... full-stop. She was the one who taught me how to paint, how to cook, how to appreciate books - all the things that I love doing today. I did not have the luxury of having her long in my life but whatever time we had was definitely quality time. Much of the things we did together, the places we went, the things she had taught me, I remember vividly. She was a strong woman with true fighting spirit. This layout is for her, celebrating who she was ...

This stamping is done in white Brilliance ink and embossed with Ranger's Holographic Embossing Powder.

The journalling was done on the back of the same pattern paper which I used to mat the photo, but with distressing. Not so much of telling a story, but more of who she was to the different lives she touched.

Painted the corners with crackle paint. The title was hand-written in colour pencil, gone over with Stickles and highlighted at certain areas with silver pen.

Supplies - SnC IWD Kit, Stickles, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad, Tsukineko Brilliance Ink Pad, Ranger Holographic Embossing Powder, Ranger Crackle Paint, Zig Writer, Sakura Gelly Roll Metallic, Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer Color Pencil, Inque Boutique Stamp.

International Women's Day {Sneak Peek}

Here's a sneak peek of my next DT project for Scrap-n-Crop. I'm doing these last few projects with lots of mixed emotions as my DT tenure is almost up. DT calls are now open for those who are interested. Oh, and be sure to check back soon for the reveal of the rest of this project!

Ah Kong & Me

This layout is done with 1 cardstock and doodling only - with 5 shades of my trusty colour pencils.
Close-up of the top portion of the layout. I had added colour to the title and washed it using my new fun tool, the Tsukineko Fantastix - it functions like a brush but with easier control. Will try and post pictures of the tool later on. Also coloured the edges slightly.

Materials - Cardstock: Bazzill; Pen: Pigma Micron; Colourpencils: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer

I Spy

These 3D flowers were made from the same pattern paper where I cut out each petal indivdually and inked the edges before I 'curled' them slightly using scissors and assembled them with 3D adhesive.

Materials - Cardstock: Bazzill; Pattern paper: Basic Grey; Ink: Colorbox Chalk; Pen: Sakura Gelly Roll Metallic; 3D adhesive: Therm O Web Zots 3D

4 Days Old

J at 4-days old.

Materials - pattern paper: Heidi Grace, Flair Designs; Vellum: EK Success Phrase Cafe; tag: Basic Grey; stickers: KI Memories, Making Memories; buttons: SEI; rick-rack: EK Success; ink: Colorbox