Graphic 45 Botanical Tea Gift Box & Fashion Teabags Tutorials

For today's project tutorial with Graphic 45, I've done up this Botanical Tea gift box which I've packed some of my handmade fashion teabags inside and ready to gift to a friend who works in the fashion industry.

I've created a video in how to create this gift box as well a How to Make Fashion Teabags tutorial for these cute little fashion teabags which you can use them as gifts. Do let me know if you've questions.

Click HERE to download the gift box instructional template and HERE for the instructional template for the fashion teabags.

Enjoy and have fun crafting!!!

Mini Teacup Holders Tutorial

Today, I'm sharing here how to create these cute little teacup holders which you can use them to contain sachets of sugar or creamer. They goes perfectly with the Botanical teapot wardrobe I've created previously. 

A perfect tea party companion. Sit back and click HERE to enjoy the tutorial.

Sew; A Pion Vintage Seamtress Layout

Today, I'm going to share a vintage layout I've created for my aunt who is previously a seamtress for over 40 years before she retired... It's truly a vintage layout, the photo I used for this layout was taken in 1959 at one of the photo studios called Smile Studio at New World Park in Singapore, one of the three amusement parks during the 1920s-80s period...

Using Pion Design's Alma's Sewing Room, I backed the Clear Scrap's XL Deco with one of the pattern papers, ripping the paper apart at one side, revealing a sewing room within which I built using some chipboards and glue it behind... I also added one of the Clear Scrap's Dress Form Embellishment beside the photo where I just stamped some designs over and added some pearls string... To further preserve this vintage look, I used mainly grey shades with a touch of beige yellow...

Upcoming Mini Workshop at The Art Republic

For my upcoming class at The Art Republic is this mini workshop in how to create this mini letter holder. Comes with 3 hooks which you will learn how to incorporate into this letter holder to hold your keys.

My Altered Clocks were Published in Scrap n' Art

I know it was kinda late to announce this.... My 2 altered clocks using mixed media and Graphic 45 Botanical Tea and By the Sea paper collection were published in Scrap n' Art Magazine for this month!!! 

My Introduction to the Graphic 45 Design Team!!!

Tonight is an amazing night for me; it's my official introduction as a design team member for the Graphic 45 Design Team!!! Yeah!!! Finally this truth has sunken into my head... And now I can add Graphic 45 under "I Design For" section...

What truly touches me are the sweet lovely comments left by the fellow g45ers on both the blog and Facebook, which gave me a boost in my confidence and consolation on what had happened recently... Things have been kinda rough in particular in my current persual as a shoe designer, which caught me thinking seriously how I should path my journey... In reality, it's always easier to dream about it than to actually doing it...

While I was in this deep struggle, a very recent incident striked me causing me to have this emotional stir, making me realized what it takes to be a true artist and designer... The feel of seeing my works being duplicated freely to the 3rd party and being claimed by others is never a wonderful feeling, at the very least at the very moment I saw it... Whether it's intentional or unintentional, it just don't make me feel good... I do believe if a person has integrity, on the very basic level, it is of common understanding to give credit to the artist/designer when one intended to duplicate/create works similar to the originator...

As I consulted my friend who is a graphic artist/designer who has been constantly facing issues as such (both big and small), copyright is indeed a very grey matter... I can watermarked all my works, placed strings of statements about distribution rights and copyright, but if one want to copy I can't simply stop them... I had confronted a few, some apologized while some defend strongly... This can be frustrating and definitely not something I would want to take an extra mile to track these people down... All I know and have to constant remind myself to be original and keep the creativity mojo going... 'Cos when such things happen, as an artist/designer, copying can seems to be much easier than to be innovative and creative... This is something it caught onto me... It always puzzled me why each year there's so many designers graduating from design school, there's basically less than 1% of them doing actual designing work, creating original works that represent them... Now I finally understood...

My desire is to create works that will inspire and I aspire to be one...