Back to School Origami Book Corners

It's weekend! For today's Graphic 45 blogpost, I'm sharing something a little simple, with practicality - origami book corners. While bookmarks are quite common, it can be quite interesting to do something a little different. 

Over here I'm showing you how to create these simple book corners that you can even get your kids to get involve. Let them make their very own book corners and I'm sure this will be a good bonding session with your children.

Enjoy! Happy crafting!

My Interview with Graphic 45 for this National Craft Month

Today on Graphic 45 blogpost, I'm featured as part of their DT member for this national crafting month. For this March, we are given a set of questions for a short interview which you can read them HERE. On top of this, I've also created a tutorial on how to make tumbling blocks (aka Jacob's ladder), a traditional folk toy for this crafting month.

Jacob's ladder by tradition is set of wooden blocks held together by strings or ribbons. When held at one end, the blocks will cascade downward, giving a visual illusion of one block flipping over the other. There's actually several tutorials available online as well as on YouTube but I didn't manage to find them clear enough and hence creating this tutorial in a more visual way.

How to play this toy? I've included a YouTube link in my tutorial for your convenience. I hope this will be a fun project for your family. Cheers!!!

Back to School Student's Sketchbook

I have been amazed and greatly inspired by fabric-based album, especially combined with papers... One of my fellow Graphic 45 teammies, Nadya makes gorgeous fabric-paper albums... Inspired by her, I decided to attempted one using ABC Primer, one of the deluxe collections and the latest mixed media album for today's feature on Graphic 45 blog post...

I wished I had bought a couple of ABC Primer fabric previously when I saw them on sale at Spotlight... It didn't occurred to me that Graphic 45 will be re-releasing this collection that fast and I was like "Oh damn, I should have bought it!!!" So... it happened that I have scraps of polka dots fabric left after making a blouse, and I decided to use it for this album... As it's pure white dots on black background, it didn't look vintage enough to go with the paper collection... Without a second thought, I tea-dyed the fabric and TaaDaaa, I've a vintage polka dots fabric!!!

Though the overall appearance of this album is not as pretty as Nadya's, I was having so much fun doing this up especially with those scrabble tiles... These tiles just goes so well with the paper collection...