My Little Shoebox Cloud Passport Case

Hi hi. How have everyone been??? I had a busy week. My girl's ballet exam is coming soon and her ballet teacher added extra practises (5 days a week). Oh my!! That's a lot, considering that her school tests are within these 2 weeks too. So me rather busy coaching her in her studies and bringing her to and fro practises.

Well, today I want to share about the Cloud Passport Case, one of My Little Shoebox new lifestyle product.

I love this cloud background pattern. It has always been my favourite pattern. And it really gives me a holiday mood.

The size, about 6 by 9 inches, for this passport case is just perfect for me.

I can put my passport, travel journal or art journal, pen, inkpad and stamps inside.And there's still space for stickers, lip balm and other stuff. Other than being just a passport case, I can also use it as a hand carry bag for shopping and outings. The PVC coating is a plus too. Living in a tropical country where rain is quite frequent, having a waterproof case is just right for protecting my documents. I really love this case and I can't wait to bring it with me for holiday trips.

So do go here to get this lovely passport case and other lifestyle products. Have fun shopping!!

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Fabulous Friday Challenge - Be Bold

Hi, friends. We at Frosted Designs is challenging you to use Bold Colours and  Patterns for your projects. This is my last assignment for Frosted Designs. Sad to leave this heartwarming, fun and talented team!!! But I think I need a break to think where I want to go and achieve in my crafting journey. And of course, I won't give up crafting!!! Its in my blood!!!. :)

"You Make Life Bright" Card

I made this card for a dear dear friend's birthday. I hope she love it.



I misted all the Prima resist canvas with Dylusions mists. And adhered them to a white cardstock. Love the contrasting colors. Also doodle around the cover.

I hope you will join us for this challenge at Frosted Designs. Have a fun time..

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Designer Spotlight and Blog Candy Winner!!

Hi hi, friends. I'm back for a while!!! Chinese New Year is a busy season for all Chinese. For the part few days, I have been visiting all my family and relatives and wishing them "Happy New Year". Its a tiring thing but important!! Got more visitation for the next 2 weekends.

But I managed to squeeze out some time in between Reunion Lunch and Dinner and between visitations to create an altered art project. Will share more in next few days.  In the meantime, just want to share that Frosted Designs is having a Designer Spotlight feature about me this week. Do hop over to have a look and get to know me better.

WOW!!! My blog have reached 81 followers!!! So its time to draw the winner for my 4th blog candy.

and the winner is #18, La Vikinga

"La VikingaFebruary 9, 2013 at 9:19 PM

Hi; I seem to be number 80! Can I participate, too, then?

Greetings from Sweden,

Charlotta / La Vikinga"

Congrats!!! And I have decided to have another winner who will get a surprise gift (ummm.... surprise because I haven't gather them together yet. :P) . So who's going to be the winner for the surprise gift?? Here goes:

Its #1, Susan Martin!!! Wow... today's winner is the last and the first!! ha ha..

For both winners, please email me your address at ctlove2scrap@gmail.com.

Thanks to all my followers!! Keep a lookout for the next 20 followers blog candy next week. Have fun crafting!!!

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Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Challenge - Love+Heart

Hi, friends. February is a month of celebration and love!!! First, there's Chinese New Year, followed by Valentine's Day. Here at Frosted Designs, we are challenging you to use the word "Love" + at least one Heart on your projects.

Take note that there's a change at Frosted Designs. Instead of having a weekly challenge, we are moving into  2 challenges per month, meaning you have 2 weeks to complete your challenge.

And here's my take:

"Love" Tag




For this tag, I used Sizzix, My Favourite Things dies and embossing folder. The Chevron ribbon is a gift from a dear friend.

So how do you plan to celebrate Valentine's Day?? For me, I planned with hubby to go to my current favourite tart shop, "Fruit Paradise" to eat their delicious tarts!!! Been craving for it for weeks!!!

Well, I hope you like my project. Will be quite busy for the next coming week as Chinese New Year is just next weekend. So I might disappear for a while. Busy busy visiting friends and relatives!!!

But let's not stop crafting!!! I hope to finish up one of my acrylic painting soon. Will update here once I get it done. Do join us at Frosted Designs for this fun challenge.

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"Love" Mixed Media Album

Hello all. Busy busy week for me as Chinese New Year came closer and closer. Lots of spring cleaning, shopping and preparation to do.

Today I want to share about my mini album project (part 2 assignment) for My Little Shoebox this month. I made this mixed media album with the Secret Garden collection and some from Sew Cute collection. This album is by Punky Sprouts. I love their album and I tend to want to keep them in their raw look without covering too much of it.

"Love Punky Sprouts" Mixed Media Album

This album is dedicated to my favourite icons, images that I loved and used often. Also included my favourite colour combos, mixed media techniques. For the front cover, I tore out to reveal the corrugated part of the board. Then I adhered the paper over it and added gauze and some Dusty Attic chipboard honey comb shapes. I spread some texture paste over the chipboard shapes and misted them. For the Love title, I also added glossy accent.



For all the mixed media paper pages in the album, I sprayed afew mists on my craft sheet and simply drag the paper through them to create the background. For the chipboard pages, I spread gesso through for the background. similarly, the chipboard shapes are done by spreading texture paste on them to create the weathered look.



For this page, I made the butterfly folding the doily in half and tie with twist tie, then added the butterfly sticker. For the rosette, I used Itop to make the button and adhered to a trim rosette. Added seed beads to the Maya Road leaves. Painted the Dusty Attic butterfly chipboards with gesso and inked the sides with distress ink and added the swaroski crystals.



I loved trees. They gave me a calming effect. Trees always remind me of God's creativity and His loving care and His ever-presence. And I love Christmas because its Lord Jesus' birthday!! So definitely I love Christmas trees!!! I made the trees by folding the 3 sizes of cupcake liners into quarter and painting them with green acrylic paint before layering them. Added the Maya Road pins as the "star" of the Christmas trees. Made the banners with both My Little Shoebox and Maya Road banners.



This is one of my favourite page!! I love the cuteness and roundness of Russian dolls. The doll on the right is hand drawn and painted with acrylic paints. For the face, I used a circle punch on MLS paper and painted the hair with Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pens and the face and cheek colours with Faber Castell Gelatoes. The dolls on the left are digital images.



For this page, I used MLS Sew Cute collection and Prima canvas tag and stamp. Dress form is my all time favourite and weakness!!! Every time I see dress form products, I couldn't resist and end up buying them. For the canvas tag, I inked a snowflake stencil with distress ink and layered the cut elements from MLS. I added twines to the spools. The white with purple design dress form was drawn by my Silhouette Cameo. Loved the details on that dress form but it took quite a while for Cameo to draw it out.  The Love stickers are just the perfect title for this chipboard page as it fit just right on the scallop edge.



This is another favourite page. She Art girl is like the "in" thing for mixed media project now. So how could I not be mesmerized by them?? Loved Christy Tomlinson's designs!! I stamped the She Art Girls twice, on the plain MLS paper and on the patterned paper (for the skirt). Coloured the face and upper body with Faber Castell Big Brush Pens and Pitt Artist Pens and Gelatoes.



This is my top favourite page for this album!! Not only do I love poppies like Donna Downey, I also love the labels on each poppy. Those are stamped with Christy Tomlinson's My Living Canvas stamps. I also jounal on the side of each stalk the things I want to achieve or take note for each label. This is like a life's journal to me. To create the poppies, I painted the cupcale liners with Faber Castell Big Brush Pens and added water to spread the colour, then fold in half and crumbled them. For the stamped poppies, I used Donna Downey foam stamp with acrylic paint and also added black beads to the flower center.



For this last page, it seems like an unfinished page. I wanted to do more journalling all over the page in the first place.  But after staring at it for few days, decided to leave the background blank. I might add to it in the later months. But for now, its a finished page to me. Not sure you recognise the species but these are owls!! My hubby said it look like birds. ha ha...These owls are done by layering two sizes of circle punch-outs. Drew the branches with Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pens.

Well, this is a long post. Hope you haven't fall asleep. :)

Do try your hands on mixed media. It's fun and addictive and also therapeutic. It really take the stress out of me.

Thats all for today. Have tons of fun. Thanks for dropping by. Do check out my 4th Blog Candy.

"Secret Garden Love"

Hi, everyone. Today I want to share about my Jan's projects for My Little Shoebox. I created 2 cards and 1 album using the Secret Garden collection.

"Secret Garden" Card



I created a window with Spellbinders die. Inside the card, I cut, layered and folded the flowers and added glossy accent to the flower center.

"Love Comes Knocking" Card



This is a rather big card so as to accommodate the Dusty Attic chipboard door. I painted the chipboard door with Folkart Extreme Glitter Paint. Layered the doily, Maya Road Journal Tag. I cut out the Love words from the paper and adhered to top of tag. I love the look of the wreath hanging on the door.



Inside the card, I mat the paper with corrugated board. Love the raw look of corrugated board.

I have one more project of a mixed media album that I'm going to share in another post later. Do stay tune.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great week.

Fabulous Friday Challenge - Music

Hi, friends. Its time for Fabulous Friday Challenge at Frosted Designs. This week, we love to see you use Music on your projects.

"You Make My Heart Sing"

I made a 3D piano box using white cardstock. Valentine's Day is next month so I thought to make a gift box to put a "surprise" inside.  The tag was stamped with Prima and Crafty Secrets stamps and swaroski crystals are also added. I love blings now, thanks to a beloved friend, Lina. She had such a great influence on us with her love of "blings" (glitter, crystals and anything that shine).




Another view. I love mulberry flowers and added them at the lid and the side of the piano. Love the flowing effect that the flowers gave. I added the pom pom trim too.



From this view, you can see that I placed the tag inside the lid. I also put some fake flower petals inside. I can place the surprise gift inside too. I also added some flowers at the edge of the lid, to create the support for the lid to open up for a bit.

Well, I hope you enjoy my project.Chinese New Year is coming soon, in 2 weeks' time. Here I wish all Chinese an early "Happy New Year"!! God bless you all.

Do join in this fun challenge at Frosted Designs. I will be sharing more about my project for My Little Shoebox for Jan 2013 in the next few day. Do keep a lookout.

Have fun creating. Thanks for dropping by.