Our Christmas Tradition

When Christmas comes, everybody starts talking about traditions!! For my family,one tradition that we always have is baking!! This year, we baked sugar cookies for our friends and family. And this year, both my kids helped in cutting and decorating the cookies. They had fun, especially my girl. She loved baking!!

Just look at how much fun they had!! And the final product:

My adorable kids!!! For this special time of the year, I made a layout using the sketch from Once Upon A Sketch and the color challenge from Made With Love.

I used a lot of Spellbinders dies and the gingerbread man die from Sizzix. Put stickles on snowflakes to highlight them. The buttons are used to mimic the M & M's chocolates that I used in decorating the cookies. The poinsettia are made using Spellbinders die. Loved this color combo.

Loved this cluster of gingerbread men. Layered with doilies and snowflakes.

"Ho ho ho, Santa's coming" card

I made a Christmas card that I submitted for a contest at my local crafts store last month. But I totally forgot to blog about it. & speaking of forgetting, I even forgot to take photos before I submit this card. Ended up, I have to go back to the store and request to take photos. (Yap, all the photos here are taken at Junior De Artist store). Though I didn't win any prize, I learnt alot in the process of making this card. A lot of work. Phew!!

An overview:

Stamped the blue background and embossed the whole image with clear embossing powder. Then adhere the patterned paper(town) and decorate the edge(mountain) with glitter. Then pop up the sleigh print-out. Stamped and colored the snowman image with Caran D'ache watercolor crayons. The black and white strip is stamped and cut out to adhere to the paper to create the road. Then adhere the car cut-out.

Inside of card:

Stamped the fireplace and watercolored. The santa in the window was stamped and watercolored too. Then adheres to card. Same goes with the Christmas wreath. Done alot of watercoloring for this card.

"Strawberries" layout

I'm back from Cameron Highlands. Had a fun trip. Picked strawberries (my first), climbed a hill amidst the mist (so exciting), drank a lot of teas (Cameron is a "tea hill") and breathe in a lot of fresh air.. mmm... love the temperature there. So cooling unlike Singapore where I live.

My kids had lots of fun too. Especially picking strawberries. Can you imagine picking 2 basketful of strawberries that's worth RM89!!! And ended up who ate the most strawberries. The parents!! Especially daddy!! Ha ha..

Here's the layout that I created for our Strawberry Farm trip. Used my 2 favourite fabrics in place of patterned paper. And cross-stitched with brown satin ribbons. Learnt all this from the magazine, "Scrapbooking With Fabric & Notions" that I won from Kim Watson's blog.Used the layout sketch from My Creative Sketches.

For the title area, I layered the punched strips and glued several stamped strawberries in between to assimilate the strawberries amidst the greens.

Had such a fun trip that I now having a post-holiday withdrawal symptom. Ha ha.. arghhh... don't feel like coming back to Singapore. I want to go holiday again!!!

Blog Candy!!!

Hi, everyone!! I'm offering a blog candy for every 20 followers joined, up to 100. Which means 5 chances of winning 5 different blog candies. There's no time limit. As long as it reaches 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100,  I will draw out a winner (well, I'm using a traditional method of drawing: drawing from a fish bowl). My candy is open to all. I will ship anywhere in the world.

How to win??

1. Become a follower of my blog. Existing followers are automatically added.
2. Put a link on your blog linking to mine.You can use the blog candy picture as the icon.
3. Oopsie!! Forgot to add this: Please leave a comment below this blog. (added on 15 Dec'11) 

And without further ado, here's the first blog candy:

Candy contents:

DCWV chipboard stickers

K & Co die-cut stickers - snowflakes

Riff Raff Designs chipboards

Pebbles chips

Sewing machine metal accents

Paper flowers

Trims and laces

"Egg" ornament (good for altered arts)

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Doodling album sneak peek & holiday

Had a fun time doodling these few days. Had completed 3 sections of my Doodling Mini Album. Going to categorise into few sections like dots & cricles, swirls & vines etc. Below is the sneak peek of my doodling:

Hope I can finish the whole album by next week. So look out for my post next week.

I will be going for a short holiday on 16 Dec to 19 Dec. Woo!! Look forward to it. Especially my kids. Everyday, they will count the days and say "yeah!! Fri is coming". ha ha..

Doodling

Recently I recommended a book to National Library Board. After a few weeks of consideration, they decided to buy this book for the library. And once it arrived, I borrowed this book. Its all about doodling. Here's a picture of this book:

Was so excited when I borrowed this book. Me loved doodling and was trying out different patterns from this book. I was introduced to doodling by Jasmine from Made With Love. Attended a class by her a few years back.

Today, I drew a trial piece using the guide from this book. Here's my version:

Doodling is so addictive!!! Me decided my next project will be making a mini album of doodling. And my challenge for myself is to doodle alphas. Yap. I was a bit scared to tackle alphas as I find my handwriting a bit too cute and cartoon, unlike my sister's. Her handwriting is so nice and curvy and "grown-up". Ha ha..

Hmm... Another idea formed in my mind now. How about combining doodling with chipboard shapes?? Well, do follow my blog and find out how my project turns out. Stay in tune!!

My magazine arrived!

Yeah!! The magazine that I won through Kim Watson's blog has arrived today. So happy. Can't wait to read through and try all the techniques. Here are some of the pages:

If all these pictures has stirred up your creativity, don't wait any more. Go and grab a copy of this from local crafts or magazine store right now!! Its really worth the money!!