Altered Snowflake

I can't believe that Christmas is barely a week away. Time passes by too quickly, really. I haven't done any Christmas shopping yet and judging by my workload, it looks near impossible ... sigh! But, by some miracle, I have managed to do up this wooden snowflake which was given by a friend, so here it is...
I had painted the raw light wood with a layer of bronze acrylic paint followed by the pearl finish acrylic paint - you don't quite see the pearlescent effect in the photo (sorry, it's been rain weather these past weeks and really difficult to get better lighting for photography) but the pearlescence is 'mildly' there. Okay, after the layers of paint, goes on the swirl stamping done with the Brilliance ink, then I outlined the swirls at certain areas by hand to add a bit of detailing to the swirls and adhered the photo. Edges of the snowflake were then lightly inked with distress ink.

Next, my favourite Modge-Podge was applied to seal everything. Those little fan-like prongs in between the wood are actually of an embossed snowflake stamp that I had cut up and glued on. Finishing touches of beads and sequins were then glued on. Voila!!

Materials - Paints: Making Memories; Stamp: Autumn Leaves, Hero Arts; Pen: Zig Writer; Embossing Powder: Scrap-n-Crop; Others: wooden snowflake, sequins, beads, Modge Podge.

Altered Lunch Tin

Here's a lunch tin that I have finally finished altering. This took waaayy longer than planned due to lots of 'unforeseen circumstances' (I love how that makes it sound like such a valid reason!!) along the way. Anyway, it's finally done and I have to admit I really had a great time working on this - by far my favourite project so far in terms of enjoying the process!
Lined the tin cover edge with velvet ribbon.

I made a little tag too (on the right side of the handle) - an excuse to use my tag die-cut on my Cuttlebug.

This is what it looks like opened up.

A close-up. I adhered a pearl centre to the flower and added a little 'bling' to it. And finished it with my favourite process - Modge-Podge.

Materials - Lunch tin: Provo Craft; Pattern papers: My Mind's Eye, Basic Grey; Rick-rack: Phrase Cafe (EK Success); Flower: Prima; Others: Modge-Podge, Making Memories Pearl, various ribbons, bling.

A Whaat???

Okay. The picture you are about to see is a Caly-bird. Yup, you read it right, it's a Caly-bird. And no, it's not some kind of new bird species, but more like something J made up. She just came up to me one day and asked me, "Mummy, can you please draw me a Caly-bird?" Of course I patiently asked her what that was and what I got back was this look - this duh-helloo-where-have-you-been-living-all-this-while look. So never mind, J proceeded to describe to me in detail what a Caly-bird looked like and this is what I came up with ...

... and believe it or not, J squealed in delight when she saw my finished (err ... I think it's finished) drawing and went, "Yaay, that's Caly-bird!!" So I must have done something right. Oh well, now Caly-bird shares a space above her pillow in bed, her special treasure trove ...

I've Been Tagged ...

I've been tagged ... well, actually, I was tagged some time ago. Yeah, I'm sloppy with my blogging - always too much going on around me. I'm totally thrilled because I got tagged by Fiona Carter, DT at Maya Road and Paper Salon (and I LOVE her stuff!). Anyway, this is how it's supposed to go ...

Here are the rules:

1. Link to your tagger (see above), and also post these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself (random or weird) on your blog.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
   Let them know they are TAGGED by leaving a comment on their blog.

... and 7 facts about me:

1. I lurve to eat - I've been told that buffets should probably put me on their list of people to ban.
2. I love the smell of rain.
3. I'm quite a neurotic mother ... hopefully this doesn't leave any permanent damage on my DD!
4. I crave for Laksa-flavoured Maggi instant noodles.
5. I'm an Arsenal supporter!!!
6. I'm a reformed shoe-aholic.
7. When I was kid, our home was like a pet shop - we had a chipmunk, hamsters, cats, rabbits, fish (4 aquariums) and a turtle. Past pets also included dogs, terrapins, snails and a squirrel.

Time to tag some people:

1. Valerie
2. Michelle
3. Irene
4. Serene
5. Mel
6. Nicole
7. Jenny

Hope you will all play along!

Happy Birthday M!

Happy birthday M .... many happy returns! This card was done on 2 pieces of hard board and joined together with ribbon. Lilac background was painted with acrylic paint. The green patch was distressed around the edges using an emery board while the monogram 'M' was inked with distress ink, as with the pattern paper. The words 'Happy Birthday' are written on a separate sheet of white paper using Sakura Glaze pen and then cut out and adhered. The card when it is closed up and tied.

Materials - Paint: Making Memories; Pattern Paper: Making Memories; Cardstock: SEI; Flowers: Prima; Buttons: Autumn Leaves; Monogram: Basic Grey; Stamp: Autumn Leaves; Ink: Tsukineko Brilliance; Pen: Sakura Glaze; Others: hard card, ribbons

So This Is What's In My Head ...

Found something fun today ...

Your Brain's Pattern

Your mind is a creative hotbed of artistic talent. You're always making pictures in your mind, especially when you're bored. You are easily inspired to think colorful, interesting thoughts. And although it may be hard to express these thoughts, it won't always be.

What Pattern Is Your Brain?

Happy Birthday V!

This is a hanging birthday card made for a friend. The 2 pieces of cardstocks are actually adhered to 2 separate transparencies (which appears almost invisible in the photos). The 2 separate cards are joined with twines.A close-up of the top card. I have torn the edges of the cardstocks and inked with distress ink. The 'frames' are inked with several colors of chalk-inks and finished up with distress ink. The 'V' monogram was also inked around the edges and rest of the name was doodled. The words 'Happy Birthday' are cut out from chipboard and painted with bronze acrylic paint.

Materials - Pattern paper: Basic Grey; Monogram: Basic Grey; Stamp: Autumn Leaves; Ink: Tsukineko Brilliance, Colorbox Fluid Chalk, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad; Pen: Uniball Signo, Zig; Paint: Making Memories; Others: Cuttlebug, transparency, twine, eyelets.