My Mind's Eye Mini Album

Finally after a long while, I am back with a craft blog post! I have just completed a mini album from My Mind's Eye for my niece. It contains pictures of her from birth until her first birthday. She's two years old now, so let's say this album is way over due. I think this is a bit of a cheat way to do the mini album because the chipboard pages are already covered with patterned paper. The mini album and collection papers are from MME's Tickled Pink collection.

The mini album does not come with the piece of acetate as you see above. I just thought it needed a little something extra and cut up two pieces of acetate for the front and back. Stamped the acetate with a background flower stamp from Hero Arts with Cotton White Opaque Stazon Ink. This is the first time I am using Stazon and I must say although I love the look on acetate, I do not like the effort that is required to clean the stamp! If anyone has any easier solutions, please share them with me!

The mini album consists of 12 sides (including the back) and I must say that after this, I am currently addicted to making more mini albums in spirit. Just have to find the time to do it. :) The flower (bottom right) was cut out from felt with the TH Tattered Florals die.

A simple page with the floral embellishment and sheer image of a doggie from my last Maya Road warehouse haul last year. (Am awaiting my Spring warehouse sale package from MR, can't wait!).

I used stamps from Lawn Fawn's Sew Lovely stamp set on this page and some crochet flowers with pearl centres as embellishments. The crochet flowers are seriously my new favorite!

On this page I cut out the little envelope with a PTI die. I used a Martha Stewart punch for the butterflies and as you can see, more crocheted flowers!

This is a simple page where I just layered borders cut from MFT's scallop border die. I must say that the ledger pattern papers are not my absolute favorite. Maybe because I used to be an accountant? LOL....

I had so many pictures to put on this page that I didn't end up having much embellishments on it except for the white pom pom trims from American Crafts and the felt roses cut out from an MFT Rolled Rose Die. I find that with this die, if I used the full rose pattern cut out, the rose becomes very puffy (or maybe that's just because I don't know how to roll it properly, lol). So what I do is cut of two portions (or two scallops) before I start rolling it into a rose.

These are another of my favorite mulberry flowers to use. Cute and delicate and comes in a variety of colours!

I tied these little bird/duckies with some twine from The Twinery. The birds/duckies were also from my last Maya Road warehouse haul. Love them!

This is the last page of the mini album where I wrote a little note for my niece. I used a variety of flowers to embellish the page. The second picture above was originally a white mulberry hydrangea flower petal which I sprayed with my Starburst Spray from Lindy's Stamp Gang in the colour Cotton Candy Pink. The colour and shimmer payoff from these sprays are simply amazing. I used brads from the same MME collection as the flower centers.

After a long hiatus from using my beloved Copics, I finally found the energy to colour Flutter Anya from The Greeting Farm. I only had to use my Copics on her hair, dress and skin. I used the Magical Micas from Lindy's to colour her wings.

Well, that's all from me today. Hope you all have a great weekend and thank you for visiting my blog!

Reason for being MIA

I thought I would do a quick post on why I have not been updating my blog. This is because I am currently 26 going on 27 weeks pregnant (if you haven't already guessed from the picture). :)) This is our first child and therefore I have been extra careful with everything I do. I had a good first trimester but was pretty tired all the time and lost some weight as I had no appetite at all. But thankfully, now that I am going into my third trimester, my appetite has come back and we are looking forward to welcome our new bundle of joy come early May 2012.

Sad to say that I have not made any cards or scrapbooking project since I got pregnant. The only upside is that I am no longer in debt due to spending on materials! Haha. It has indeed been a great pregnancy so far and hubby and I are feeling so blessed by the Lord. The feeling of a baby kicking inside your womb is unbelievable. We will be welcoming a little princess and oh my, she is a feisty one! Kicking at all times of the day and sometimes, I think she is having a little boogie night in there!

Hopefully one day I will pick up from where I left off in card making. Have a good weekend everyone!

Shu Uemura - Face Architect Glow Enhancing Powder Foundation

After a long hiatus from blogging, I am back for a few short posts. But it is not a craft related post, instead, I am going to blog about some new beauty products that I have recently purchased and tried out.

Photo from Shu Uemura USA website

The first product is the Shu Uemura Powder Foundation. I was looking for something that would give me light coverage and fast and easy to use. I really like this powder foundation because the texture is ultra silky and smooth and you can apply it either with the sponge that comes with it or a kabuki brush for a lighter finish. Initially I was using a kabuki type brush because I thought that the sponge would give me a super heavy look but to my surprise, it doesn't!

I'm quite fair skinned so I use the product in Light Beige - 774. My only gripe is the price of the product. The powder foundation itself cost RM 140 but that is just for the powder which comes in a refill format. You would have to buy the case to carry it around with (it comes in either black or white) and that is another RM 50! So you would have to fork out a total of RM 190 for your first time purchase. But I don't regret buying this product because I absolutely love the fine texture of the powder.

Thank You for Your Kindness

I made this card about 2 weeks back for a crafty friend who was sooooo kind to have picked me up some goodies from the USA during her last trip there. I have not posted it on the blog until now because she just informed me that she has received the card so there is no worry about her seeing the card before she receives it!

The flowers in the background were stamped in Versamark ink with Hero Arts' Flower Wallpaper stamp. The butterflies were cut and stamped using PTI's Happy Trails Stamp and die collection. The sentiment is from PTI's SAF Limited Edition set called Iconic Images. I thought the sentiment was perfect for what I wanted to express.

It is a fairly simple card but I am glad that she liked it. :)

Thanks for visiting my blog. Have a great week ahead!

So Sorry I'm Late!

I made this card for my brother in-law and his wife who is living in United Kingdom as both of their birthdays fall within a few days of each other. I remembered the birthdays of hubby's two other siblings who fall within the month of August but for the life of me, can't remember why I forgot this brother's birthday!

I decided to use PTI's Tiny Treats : Birthday stamp set. I'm really loving it! The images are all too cute with its coordinating sentiments! I did not colour in the cute tortoise but decided to put some stickles in the colour Patina on it. Just to add a little something something. :)

I embossed the kraft layer with a Cuttlebug embossing folder and the ribbons and buttons were from my stash. The base cardstock is from PTI and I believed it is called Spring Moss.

The card is pretty simple but I like the overall effect of how it turned out. :)

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Hari Raya Cards for friends!

These are cards that I made for girlfriends who will be celebrating the Malay new year. I love this dress form stamp from Lawn Fawn's Sew Lovely set and loved paper piecing it. I decided to make both the cards in the same design except for the colour scheme and the sentiment. The sentiment was made up using Lawn Fawn's Harold's ABCs.

For the first card, I used PTI cardstock in Raspberry Fizz as the card base and for layering. The pattern papers are from DCWV's Street Lace collection and I loved how it came out!! The colours just go so well together.

For the second card, I used cardstock from We R Memory Keepers. The pattern papers are from the My Mind's Eye Lime Twist collection called Life of the Party.

This next card was made using cardstock from PTI as well. I stamped the border on the front with one of the stamps from PTI's Retro Background Basics set. The inner medallion image is from PTI's Iconic Images stamp set. I used twine from The Twinery because I though the borders looked unfinished and a little bare.

I die cut the main focal image with Spellbinder's Beaded Ovals and stamped the flower from PTI's Tag Its #5. I then inked the edges with TH's Distress Inks in Shabby Shutters.

For the inside of the card, I wrote out my card message and then used one of the flourishes from PTI's Fancy Flourish stamp set and clear embossed it. I like how it turned out and I got this inspiration from one of the girls over at PTI. I love it because I'm a pretty straight gal and would not have thought it makes sense to stamp after you write your message. But I think it looks great and probably something I will do more of in the future!

Hope they'll like it!

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Birthday Card for Grand Uncle

This card was made for my hubby's granduncle's birthday this month. I was very happy that my background set called Newsprint arrived from PTI just in time. :) Am loving that background stamp and I thought it was well suited for this card as his granduncle loves reading the newspapers. :)

For the focal image, I stamped the television set from the Boob Tubes set from Paper Smooches on to some patterned paper from Cosmo Cricket's Wanted collection. Love that woodgrain pattern. Then I stamped the Happy Birthday greeting on my Cryogen Iridescent Paper (my favorite for Copic colouring as well) and paper pieced it on to the image.

The words "Cik Kong" which means granduncle in a Chinese dialect was stamped using Lawn Fawn's Harold's ABCs. I inked the edges of the Labels Eighteen die cut piece with Antique Linen and Tea Dye distress inks.

For the inside of the card, I decided to stamp the same television image and insert the word 'News' as that is another favorite past time for his granduncle, watching news on telly. :)

The base of the card is using kraft cardstock. Card is a standard A2 sized card.

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