Graphic 45 Come Away with Me Altered Post Box Miniatures

I love miniatuires!!! Scrappers who attended my classes at The Art Republic do know how much I love to incoporate small little things in my projects... Part of it is greatly inspired by my fellow Graphic 45 DT member Nichola Battilana from Pixie Hill!!! She's one amazing woman who makes wonderful stuffs...

Today at Graphic 45 blog post, I'm sharing this altered post box that I found in Japan Home one afternoon as I was shopping while waiting for my friend for lunch... It was actually a piggy bank with a cartonish look... So I decided to revamp it to give it a vintage look and made these falling parcels and mini mailbags... Oooo... I love how it turns out, truly inspired by Nichola... 

So now will you catch my mails please??

Enjoy!!! Cheers!!!

Upcoming Prima Classes at Made with Love

Hey scrappers, my latest upcoing Prima classes this November at Made with Love, a Coffee Break mini album and a Bloom Girl mixed media canvas layout... The mini album is a pure beginner class where the placement of elements and some fussy cutting involve... It's actually a pre-empt class for scrappers who don't really know my style well especially in areas of cutting and paper utlization...

The next interesting class is a mixed media layout class using one of the Bloom Girl stamp... You will learn how to apply colours on the Bloom Girl using various Ingvild Bolme chalk edgers, as well as creating the background using various mixed media products from Prima... It'd be something fun... But I'd have to warn you guys that it's not a pure beginner class... If you can't really colour, you may face problems and there's some fussy cutting to be done prior in attending the class in order to maximize the 3hr workshop...

Below is the promotional collage and additional pictures... Hope to see some of you at class..

Cheers!!!

A Roam Broom Halloween Layout

Today over at Clear Scraps Blog Post, I'm sharing this super cute layout using Graphic 45 retired Happy Hunting collection... Featuring my niece when she was about 2 years old, trying to be a housekeeper at home... She insisted to sweep the floor for us but she ended up getting the wrong broom and ended up getting herself stuck underneath her pants... Struggling to get herself out from the "broom", she gave this super duper cute expression that was so desperately funny... So out I came and took this epic moment of hers... Haha... Come to think about it, she was really too cute and funny...

I started off with a sheet of 12" x 12" acrylic sheet and centre down with a piece of  pattern paper... Did some minimal mixed media work here - random damask stenciling and some painting on the chipboard pieces... As I wanted this to be cute and simple, I kept this layout to the minimum... As usual in what I love to do, I gave my niece a witch hat and a tulle veil, turning her into a cute little witch for this Halloween...

Halloween is only this Friday, I hereby wish everyone a Happy Halloween!!! Have fun and happy crafting!!! Cheers!!!

Here is the list of supplies for this layout:

• Clear Scraps 12" x 12" Acrylic Sheet
• Clear Scraps Theatre Chipboard Album
• Clear Scraps 6" Damask Stencil
• Graphic 45 Happy Hunting (Happy Hunting, Pumpkin Time, Jolly Jack-o-Lantern, Word Play, Bewitched)
• Art Anthology Sorbet (satin sheen gold)
• Clear Snap Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink (tuxedo & carrot)
• Swirls Chipboards
• Black Gesso

Graphic 45 Halloween Tomb Party Gift Set

Today on Graphic 45 tutorial blog post, I'm sharing how to make these incredible fun Tomb Party gift set for this Halloween using An Eerie Tale and Steampunk Spells paper collection.

As I was browsing the Steampunk Spells papers, I came across these 4 intriguing Halloween characters-Miss Ima Fraid, Dr. Dreadful, Mr. Seymour Bones & Madame Macabre. I saw the potential to transform them into unique tomb-masters for a Halloween Party. The result is a gift set with matching invitation cards, where each guest is assigned a tombmaster based on their invitation. It's a fun and creative twist for your Halloween celebration.

Curious about where I got those crosses and skeleton hands? I handmade them using a glue gun and painted them according to my needs. I believe these are available for sale in your local craft store. But for a more personal touch, I decided to make them.

Download the tombstone template HERE and follow this tutorial on how to make these.

I hope this will give you some ideas for creating a theme for Halloween.

Happy crafting!!!

ScrapFX DT Annoucement

Oh yeah... Finally it's official!!! I'm gonna be part of ScrapFX design team which I can only start designing for them next year March... But I'm still excited as this is my very first chipboard DT...

Hope to provide more inspirations...

Cheers!!

Graphic 45 Newsletter - Patina Mixed Media Tutorial

Mixed media is endless with so many possibilities. And it all started from imagination. In this week Graphic 45 email newsletter, I'll be showing you how to create this beautiful vintage patina look on this ivory 5" x 5" mixed media box. If you haven't subscribed to Graphic 45 newsletter, click HERE to subscribe. You wouldn't want to miss other wonderful projects and exculsive tutorials featured on newsletters.

I was deeply inspired with layered frames that I've pinned on my Pinterest. And since I've several resins frames in my stash, I thought it was the best time to fully make use of them and created this lovely sentiment.

Sit back and enjoy! Happy crafting!!!

Here is a list of supplies to create this sentiment box:

• Graphic 45 Time to Celebrate 8” x 8” Paper Pad 
• Graphic 45 Staples (5" x 5" Mixed Media Box in Ivory) 
• Prima & Melissa Frances Resin Frames 
• Petaloo Flowers 
• Prima Flourish Stencil 
• Script Stamp 
• Clear Gesso 
• Modeling Paste 
• Tinted Gold Acrylic Paint 
• StazOn Midi (Spiced Chai) 
• Lindy Stamp Gang Starbursts & Magicals (Tiffanylou Blue, Delphinium Turquoise, Ponderosa Pines Olive & Tibetan Poppy Teal)

Graphic 45 Flourish Collection and Sand Collector's Box Shelves

Today is the 4th day of the Graphic 45 new collection sneak peaks, Time to Flourish... OMG! They are so gorgeous!!! Can't wait to get started with this new calendar series... Hop over to the blog now and get a chance to win the collection before you can buy them... Coming to your store this November...

So for today's sneak peaks and blog post, I've created these cute little By the Sea sand collector's box shelves to house the various sand I've collected across different coastal areas in California... Finally I've a house for these sand vials... For sand collectors, I hope this has given you some ideas...

Cheers!!!

  

Sweetest Little Thing; a Colourful 3D Layout

My sister has recently given me a stack of photos she took randomly when my niece was still a baby... She gave me the liberty to scrap all if I want... After viewing through the photos, I found this very sweet photo she took when my niece was about 6 months old with her daddy... Her cuteness in this photo was sweetness to the MAX!!! She was such an eye candy...

The initial idea was to do up a colourful layout with falling flowers from the circles border... I actually kinda screwed up the mixed media part which ended up not getting the ideal results I'm looking for... At the end of the day, I decided to rectify the problem by adding more colours... till... I got a huge rainbow cloud beneath... While I was placing the elements, suddenly the thought of balloons came to my mind 'cos my niece loves balloons of all sort... And this eventually led me to get the inspiration from Disney Pixar's animation UP! So I thought it would be interesting to do up a 3D hot-air ballon under a rainbow cloud for her instead of using flowers since the father is in the picture which will make the layout kinda weird...

The 3D hot-air balloon is about 4" wide and 6" tall and it doesn't really look nice when it's at the centre, hence I decided to just let it goes off the page... Anyway I want this 3D so I don't really want to restrict to everything within the 12x12 page... Her dad's pink t-shirt certainly blends well into the entire colour scheme of this layout and at the end of the day I'm pretty happy with the results... Totally inspired from UP!

Here is the list of supplies used to create this layout:

• MME's Market Street Ashbury's Height Collection (Aim, Dotted, Enamel Dots & Foiled Mixed Bag)
• Finnabair Elementals Bubble Stencil
• Prima Colour Bloom (cotton candy, gold foil & soft teal)
• Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks (aqua, cloudy blue, juniper, pink sherbet, shell pink & salmon)
• Art Anthology Dimensional Paints (sorbet - baby blue eyes & satin sheen gold, velvet - cotton candy & limeaid)
• Imagine Crafts irRESISTible (wedding dress)
• Clear Scraps Circles Acrylic Border
• Clear Scraps Pennants Banner
• Modeling Paste

My Pilot Prima Class...

Finally, my pilot Prima class is out!!! Premiering this October 23rd at Made with Love (more details above - click picture to enlarge to view)... Limited seats available, so do register yourself before it's all booked...

You will learn how to altered this paper mache shadow box using several Prima Colour Bloom sprays as well as some Finnabair Art Basic mediums... As a start for mix media beginners, you can get to know some basics here...  Below are some pictures for this project you will be making and taking home...

See you guys around!!! Cheers!!!

New Items Listed at my Etsy Store

After several thoughts I decided to list some of my projects on Etsy for sale, simply because I'm shifting back to my mum's place pretty soon and there's some space restriction. Plus I can't possibly bring everything over.

So instead of dumping them away, I think it'd be better to list them and sell them away to someone who will appreciate my works. Those who have been following me, you probably have seen some of them.

Some projects may not be practical but all of them are created with a lot of hardwork and I do spent great amount of time and effort in putting things together. Below are several projects I've made this year which I've listed for sales. Do pop by my shop and take a look.