Latest Craze: Amigurumi

Good day to all. Today I want to share about my latest craze!! Well, of course, its to do with crafts. This year I fell in love with another crafts: Crochet Amigurumi!! Thanks to my crochet teacher who happens to be a "famous crafter" too, Waisam Ho. She taught me how to crochet amigurumi and I'm totally hooked!!

This Pom Pom Purin was taught in her class. Its so so fun!! And my cute boy call it "Teapot Rabbit". lol lol.. reason being that the hat looks like teapot lid. Oh gosh... 

And you can see I crochet quite abit after this Pom Pom Purin. I will be sharing more of my crochet projects to come.

After knowing the basics of crocheting, I googled like a mad woman for free patterns!! And kept crocheting and crocheting. And I can crochet whole day, bringing it with me while I bring my kids for their enrichment programs and tuitions.

The natural thing after this Pom Pom Purin is to crochet my fav owls!! They are so so easy and fast to do!!



I made ribbon bows too to add to the owls.



Isn't it adorable?? I made more of these and gave some to my friends too.

Its actually quite easy to crochet. Youtube got lots of videos on it too. And its so so fun!!!

Thats all for today. Will share more of my crochet projects to come.
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"Our Little Boy" mixed media layout

Hi hi. June school holidays are almost over. Would miss the times spent with my kids. After our Church Camp cum holiday at Kuala Lumpur, almost everyday is crafting time with my kids. We spent the days rainbow looming, painting, clay making, playing board games and so on. My resolution this year for holidays is to be able to craft and spend time with my kids, along w at least one subject revision. Thus far, I think I'm doing good.

And I managed to spend the evening/night time crafting on my own. Here's one project I done and I used the sketch from Once Upon A Sketch blog and entered the challenge this month.

"Our Little Boy" Layout



Made this layout, documenting the time when my boy is just one year plus of age. Love his smile!!

I spread randomly across page with gesso. For the top part (where the forest are), I misted a stencil with Prima Bloom spray. Then with palette knife, I spread acrylic paints randomly at the bottom, added gauze, joint tape, more paints and spread texture paste over a stencil again.

I have always wanted to do more clean look kind of mixed media layout, along with cute elements for my kids. So glad that I managed to pull it together.



I inked the chipboard and painted abit with Shimmerz Paints TextureZ Patina.



I used Simple Stories stickers and chipboard stickers for the cute elements. Love the boat and how it seems to be floating on the "waters".



For the challenge at Once Upon A Sketch, I need to include journalling. I had this sentence out here and more hidden journalling in a tag behind the photo.



I hope you enjoy my project. Hope you be inspired.

Thanks for visiting my blog. Have a fun week.

"Up, Up & Away" Challenge at Off The Rails Scrapbooking

Hi, I just came back from a week's church camp cum holiday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Its a fun and fulfilling church camp. Thanks to all the young adults who make the camp a fun one. & we also enjoyed ourselves at Kidzania, a themed park for kids. My kids love it so so much. I think we are going to plan another trip down again. :) I strongly recommend this theme park, Kidzania if anyone is going to Kuala Lumpur for a holiday. We bought some photos taken by professional photographers there. So ya... going to scrap about them.

Today at Off The Rails Scrapbooking, we are challenging you to make a project with the theme "Up, Up & Away". It can be anything related to it like balloons, butterfly, birds, airplane etc. I made a layout of our Sydney's trip a couple years ago. Its my kids' first airplane ride.



I used my newly bought vintage typewriter to type the words on the white cardstock as background details, scribbled some words and ink the background abit. Used Simple Stories papers for this layout. Love Simple Stories paper collection. For the arrows at the side, I punched the cardstock with Stamping Up punch and added papers behind. Its such a fast and simple layout with the use of Simple Stories stickers.



Look how excited and happy my kids are. Its their first airplane ride and our first ride on A380!!! And this plane is huge... There's a small empty space at the end of the plane where my kids love to go there and stretch themselves (the picture on the left). Plus there's a cookie counter there where I love to get some free cookies to munch on. hee... The seats are spacious and of course, it's movie marathon for me....



Well, holidays are always fun and exciting for me. I hope I can go travel again soon even though I just came back from a short one. Anyway, look forward to another short trip in September (our 10th wedding anniversary). For now, its back to reality!! Lol.

Well, I hope you are inspired to create and join in the challenge at Off The Rails Scrapbooking. Do hop over and join my blog candy here.

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Wedding Shadow Boxes

Hi, friends. The past May 2014 is a busy yet joyous month for me. My brother got married at end of May. So I have been busy helping him make stuff for his wedding. Thoroughly enjoy it. :)

I have been so busy making the stuff that I forgot to take better and clearer pictures of them before his wedding. But here's some (not so good) pictures of them. :P

Wedding Shadow boxes

Made these 2 shadow boxes as my wedding gifts for him. Hope he and his bride will love them.  Here you can see the undecorated birdcages that I got from a local shop, Daiso.



Made wedding red packet boxes for his guests to drop in their love gift. Made the box from scratch by using my Silhouette Cameo to cut out papers, then trace over thin and thick chipboards/cardboards and assemble together. Added pearls and crystal trim. Made the big flowers from scratch with Bazzil cardstocks and distress inks and flower punches.



The decorated birdcages in detail. Added diecut doilies at bottom so the flowers can be adhered down (the birdcage did not have solid base). Used Prima embellishment as the dangling part. The battery operated candle is perfect to add the final romantic touch. Now these birdcages are in my brother's room to add a feminine touch to it. :)

Love my brother. Pray that God will bless him and his bride as they walk hand in hand together towards their future ahead.

Thanks for dropping by. Have fun creating!!

Off The Rails Scrapbooking - Chipboards

Hi, its time for another challenge at Off The Rails Scrapbooking. This round we are challenging you to use chipboards in your projects. I love love chipboards!! So needless to say, I absolutely enjoy creating this time. And here's what I made:

"Discover" Chipboard Frame



Created a chipboard "shadow box" frame from chipboard using Sizzix die. For this project, I really want to thank my dear owl friends who gave me ideas on what to include in the theme "Discover". Used their ideas of map, window, book. Its really good to have friends who are ever ready to offer their help especially in times when I lacked mojo or ideas.

I added texture paste, paints and white chalk ink over the frame. To make my job easier, I used the color scheme I found at Pinterest.

I use the same techinique on the chipboard window.I randomly painted the chipboard clocks and gears with metallic paints. For the chipboard word, Discover, I paint with black acrylic paint and added Folkart black glitter paint too. Then inked abit with white chalk ink. 

I cut and stapled the Pink Paislee map papers into a mini map book and inked with distress inks.



From this angle, you can see the gears "hidden" behind the clocks. I used 2 chipboard gears and a metal gear.



The Tim Holtz pen nib is the perfect touch to the Discover theme. Been holding on to it for quite some time. And to add abit of feminine touch, I added Prima flowers. Love this frame. Small enough to not occupy too much space yet can "squeeze" in quite abit of elements.

I hope you all enjoy this project. Do hop on over to Off The Rails Scrapbooking to join in the challenge. And do join in my Blog Candy here too.

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OTR Challenge - Sketch and Color Palette Challenge Part 2

Hi hi. Happy Easter Day. Thanks for all who come back to my blog for the last of the 3 layouts that I shared on Friday. For those who just drop by for first time, you might want to take a look at my previous post.

For this round at Off The Rails Scrapbooking, we invite you to join us for a sketch and color palette challenge.

Now for the last layout of my girl.

"Little Girl"



Those who know my girl would agree with me that she is such a shy and quiet girl. When she's in nursery class, her teacher commented that she hasn't heard her voice for one whole year. That's how quiet she is when she's not with us. She had social phobia when young and would freeze up when there's strangers around. Her whole body would literally froze. This photo of her is one of the rare ones that she laughed so openly when outside. And I always love her sweet smile.



I used Echo Park papers and stickers for this layout and the Simple Stories bingo cards.



For the background I used chalk inks to rub over a stencil. And added crystals randomly. Used the Echo Park sticker for the title.





You can see that for this layout, I created a spring garden look to complement the picture. I loved flowers and pastel colors.

Well, I hope you are inspired by my projects. Do join us for this challenge. And do drop by here for my 5th blog candy giveaway.

Thanks for visiting my blog. Have a blessed week.

OTR challenge - Sketch and Color Palette

Hi, all. Once again, its time for another challenge by Off The Rails Scrapbooking. This round we are having a sketch and color palette (inks, paints etc) challenge. Oh boy!! I love love the colors and the sketch. Without further ado, here they are:

Aren't the sketch and colors lovely? I'm so inspired by them that I made 3 layouts from it. Today I will be showing 2 of them. Do drop by on Sunday for the last layout.

I made the first layout for our trip to Malacca. Love this picture as my kids' expressions are so cute!! I have scrapped a similar picture before.

"Enjoy The Moments.."



I used texture paste and stencil to create the background texture. Painted the chipboards title, borders and shapes.



I also added some texture paste onto the chipboard title, put a layer of gauze below and sprayed mists over randomly.



The chipboard frame over the picture is actually the negative of the honeycomb chipboard shapes in the background. I simply paint over and adhered instead of throw away.



Heres a closeup of the texture paste background. Painted the 2 butterflies and adhered crystals on the body.

After doing the first layout, I decided to make one layout each for my kids.

"Hello Summer"



How adorable is my son in his younger days. :P

I used watercolor to paint the background, creating a ocean look. Used Simple Stories stickers and papers too. Its so simple and easy to create a quick layout with Simple Stories stickers.



I added sequins too and stamped the 2 hexagon quotes and pop them up with 3D dots.



A closeup view of my adorable chubby son. ha ha... This is one of my favourite pictures of him. The Simple Stories bingo cards are perfect journaling.



I die cut the word, hello and added the Simple Stories "summer" sticker as the title.

Thats all for my sharing today. Thanks for bearing with my long post. Please do check out my last layout and the rest of our DT projects on Sunday at Off The Rails Scrapbooking.

Do join us in the challenge over at Off The Rails Scrapbooking. By the way, do you all know Off The Rails Scrapbooking also have a card challenge other than the usual challenge? Do drop by the current cards challenge and join in the fun.

Have a blessed Good Friday and Easter weekend. God bless.

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