Art Class in Dragonfly, Bangsar

Kakak's Fairy Pony

Adik's Winking Mermaid

The girls took art lessons over their mid term break. Spent most of their time at the Dragonfly Art Studio, Bangsar. Joy, the art teacher, is so inspiring. I was really inspired with all the art work she have on display in the Studio. All the kids work are absolutely beautiful. Lovely vibrant colours as you can see here.

What We Did in 2009 Mini Album

This project was inspired by Terri of American Crafts, I really enjoyed making this album, not only did I want to challenge myself with using the sewing machine. But hey, I did it! I completed sewing all the pages of this album within a couple of hours. Yes, I was glad that I finished but I was also very pleased with it.

I'm absolutely loving the fabric self adhesive papers from American Crafts. It was Piradee Talvanna who mentioned them to me, I could not resist but ordered nearly all of the designs. I see there are so many uses for these, you can make them into these beautiful cute-ness flowers, use it on a book spine (like how you would with Gaffer Tape), cut a strip and adhere onto your page layout as you would with a ribbon, and the list goes on.

This little mini album are made out of cardstocks, sewn together, forming pockets for these lovely tags to slide in.

Aren't these papers lovely? I've prepared a kit for completing this album, all set with a step-by-step instruction sheet complete with illustrations. Simply because, its so cute!

Cool Apps for iphone

So I haven't had any mojo to scrap or been making anything for the past weeks. But I'm trying to get inspired with new pictures I'm taking today. Don't really want to lug around the big camera, so I've decided to look for iphone Apps to make the pictures more exciting. So I discovered these..

~ More Lomo

~ More Lomo

~ MoreMono

~ the Retro Camera App

~ Sepia Camera

~ Polarize App

~ Ransom App

Fun, fun, fun.. all these Apps are free! No need for any knowledge on photoshop, lens, etc. Just snap away! and I'll say it again.. all Free! I'm so gonna take more pictures until I have enough to tell a story in my layouts..

Inspirational Journal {pg 1}

{Page 1}

kindness in words creates confidence. kindness in giving creates love.

I'm surprised the journals only arrived yesterday, and we have sold a couple of them already! So fast! I started my inspirational journal shortly after Donna's class. But managed to only paint the pages with watercolours as a background. Yes, I'm trying to get a perfect 'drippage' on my pages, if there is sort of a thing, a perfect drippage.

I started off with yellow watercolour as the background, added in green. With my paint brush, drew the  flowers with their stems. Added red wax crayon then green for the stem. Twisted two strips of patterned paper. Washed down the page with white colourwashes (drippage). You'll see the wax reacts as a resist and will resist the white paint. To finish, I painted over the whole page with Ranger's Distress Picket Fence Crackle Paint. Lastly, I then added the words.  

mistified class

Butterfly Spread Your Wings Mini Album ~ Mistified Class with Sharon, 25 May 2010, Tuesday @ 10am  

in Scrappingville, BSC.

All Tattered Angels including the Nature Mini Album, Clear Stamps, Glimmer Mists, Clear Embossing, Masking all that in 

this class! I've used Golden products to enhance the look of the Tattered Angel Mists. Let's add and mix, blend and mist.

I made this album for my 11 year old, containing all her Rhythmic Gymnastics practice and competition pictures I took a 

while back. Because I have tons and tons of pictures of her during gymnastics, i thought this would be the perfect album 

for keeping the pictures, the album have 10 cardstock pages with 2 dividers with butterfly glimmer glass to add, so loads 

of pages for loads of pictures.

This Kit includes:

Tattered Angels Nature Glass Window 6x6 Album,

Basic Grey Patterned Paper Cappella Collection Prima Donna (New!)

Prima Flowers Fleurs De Prima (New!)

7Gypsies Venice Gaffer Tape (New!)

Prima Swirls E-Line Rhinestones

2 yards of Vintage Ribbons

3 Darkroom Tags

2 6x6 Fabric

Delight

The kids and I share a lot of time together in the car while shuffling them back and forth from school. We talk about our day at school, then plan what we are to do next, we sometimes take funny pictures again and again. Nadira and I were trying to fit our faces onto the mirror to snap a picture together. 

Journal on this page: Each day brings with it another chance to live in the moment.

I traced the heart with black watercolour pencil, mist the black with water to bring out the colour, same way I did for the title Delight. 

The red and orange hearts, I inked with Distress Inks then mist with water to blend the colours in.

Drip diluted white acrylic paint on the top of the page then mist with water.

In a world of possibilities..

In a world of possibilities imagine yourself as one

Shimmerz Sprays, 7Gypsies Patterned Paper, another fabric flower I learnt from Donna Downey

and I'm loving the 'drippage' of white acrylic paint

Today an altered frame

Today an altered frame.. tomorrow? hmm

Used my favourite patterned papers from 7Gypsies. I cut out the bird from one of the papers and used it as a sample for cutting a thin chipboard and embossed with the script embossing folder. 

A DIY project I did for a mag.

Simply Irresistable

Technique Swatch Album with all the different Resist Techniques which I can refer to.

Paint Stamped Resist

Watermark Resist

Paint with Gel Medium

Crackle Paint Resist

Watermark Resist on Gloss Paper

Alcohol Ink Resist

Embossed Resist

Paint Embossed Resist

Wax Crayon Resist

Glue Resist

No, I didn't get to finish this little album on the day, in one class, but I've decided to pick it up and finish it today..

Discover ~ Canvas Layout

Watercolours are now my current thing. Its made me realised the beautiful bright colours and the effect of the blending in of different colours are absolutely yummy.

I've used watercolour palettes for the background of the canvas, acrylic inks by Daler Rowney (purple for flowers) and watercolour pencils for the green stems. Pink tags are again the red acrylic inks by Daler. 

Stamp: "if you can imagine it, YOU can achieve it." ~ Unity Stamp

Butterfly shaped pearls by Prima.

Ok, maybe its safely to say that my new favourite colour would be BLUE now.. for now that is..

Canvas Album from Creative Escape ~ Donna Downey

Love the little details.

"the Journey is the reward".

"there is great meaning in life for those who are willing to journey".

"simple and pure".

"love so radiant and bright".

"together makes the everyday so much more enjoyable".

"you inspire me to grow wiser".

"each new day, each new place, each new experience I choose to spend with you".

I am so loving the watercolours. I am working now on the inspiration journal with watercolours. So loving it! I feel like I'm back in school. The beauty about it also, is you could share this with the kids too!

Creative Escape, Asia ~ Lots of Canvas + Watercolours + Water

Colour washes with watercolours on little details like these..

on Prima's small camera bag..

made fabric flowers and paper flowers.. a different flower to add to my apron

my first canvas layout with colour washes. and I intend to make a whole album out of these!

still inspired.. but there's so much to do!