Shoes Addictions... The Dream of Becoming a Designer...

It's almost near end February... And... This coming Monday I'm heading back to school to pursue a professional Footwear Design and Product Development Diploma at Taf.tc, conducted by one of the renowned Italian Footwear Institution, Ars Sutoria... Yes it's a scholarship I had won in my shoes design competition last month which is like a dream come true...

To kick start for this wonderful journey, I decided to do a mixed media layout on my winning pieces which I designed for the competition using the sketch for this month Once Upon A Sketch challenge and Graphic 45 Bohemia Bazaar paper collection, which I had used greatly for my competition... The colours suits the summer theme so much and this is close to perfection...

As for The Technique Twist Challenge upcoming twisted challenge, I'm revealing this prematurely is incorporated here as well - faux frame...

I just love how the background turn out...

"Henceforth... I become a shoe designer..." Journaling text here
over a small piece of transparency...

A faux frame "framing" my shoes...

Supplies:

• Gesso
• Art Anthology dimensional paints (velvet; limeaid, sorbet; satin sheen gold)
• Tim Holtz alcohol inks (cloudy blue, aqua)
• Tattered Angel glimmer mist (crumpet, burnt red)
• Heidi Swapp color shine (coral)
• Unity Stamp (vintage handwritten)
• Staz On (jet black)
• Vintage dictionary papers
• Clear Scraps XL Deco Shapes
• Transparency

Good luck and have fun!!!

A Mini Librarian's Desk Matchbox Bookcase Drawer at The Art Republic

Upcoming class at The Art Republic in April is this little grungy mini librarian's desk matchbox drawer... The idea of creation actually comes from the various matchbox dresser projects I've seen throughout YouTube and online galleries... But I wanted to do something grunge, so I combined a bookcase and matchboxes and came out with this concept of a mini librarian's desk, which reminded me of a game I used to play; Typing Maniac!! LOL!! It's one of the craziest games that my sister always challenged me...

Well, I'd think this desk suits the guy in the game... Don't you think so??

Learn... Me... Explore Journey... Believe... Life is About Creating Yourself...

Abstract elemental art, clean aqua teal colours... One of the shabby-grungy look I've created as a design team member for The Technique Twist challenge, using a sketch and a mood board from Once Upon a Sketch and Scrap Around the World as an inspiration...

Mood board from Scrap Around the World..

Something inspirational... Something about life... About creation... About life journey... Exploration and believing... I love the sea... The breezes... And fresh air... I wanted a layout that depicts about my life, from all the life lessons I've learned - big and small... To get a shabby grunge look, I used quite a number of Ingvild Bolme's Junkyard Findings water pipes, frames, typo bulbs and various chalk inks and mediums for this mix media project; all inspired from the various elements and colours from the mood board... So here is the final look....

I actually used a mini altered terracotta pot here...

My hand-written journaling "Embrace the greatest
Lessons given, grow and make a difference..."

I'm using part of the elements from the Periodic table,
which are the basic elements in Life... 

Here is a list of supplies I've used for this project... Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day ahead...

Graphic 45 Sweet Sentiments Spring Blossom Album at The Art Republic

For my latest class at The Art Republic, finally I've created an album by request... Although it's not really my strength, for this album I've incoporate some mix-media into this project so that it won't be too boring for an album...

Using Graphic 45 Sweet Sentiments paper collection, the pages are empty enough for you to create and embellish the way you want... Happening in March, do sign up to avoid disappointment...

Immaginarium Design Team Call - 10 Chipboard Projects

I just manage to learn about Immaginarium design team call last Sunday. I wanna try this!! However, I don't have 10 projects to show that uses chipboards. So to give this a shot, I decided to go into this crazy scrapping marathon for 6 days to create 10 projects (but at the end of the day I came up with 8 instead) that will be my favourites. This would be one of the most memorable scrapping challenge I ever had in my life history. But I do have so much fun in creating and especially when time is constraint, I'm amazed in how much my brain works.

Sad to say, its really very limited here, and there's isn't any Immaginarium chipboards I could find here for my projects. Hence I'd have to rely on these limited chipboards I could find. The first 2 of them are old which I happened to use some chipboards in my past projects, the rest are freshly baked, a labour of lots of love from my past 6 days of scrapping marathon.

1. Graphic 45 Happy Hunting Halloween Album...

A close-up view of a chipboard frame I've used where
I misted and StazOn...

2. Graphic 45 Winder Wonder Layout...

Using flourish chipboards from my stash, I painted, stamped
and give some shimmer to add a little winter touch...

3. Ingvild Bolme Junkyard Findings mixed media 3D Layout...

I had this huge floral frame chipboard in my stash where I misted, distress
and embossed it to match the colours for the layout...
Since it's so huge, I'd have to cut them and re-position them...

4. MDF Altered Dressform... 

I bought some corner flourish chipboards from the USA...
Used tons of chalk inks and used them to dress her up!!! 

Using "dreams" chipboard for this altered piece...

5. Prima Lyric Altered Chipboard Frame...

I sprayed, painted and glittered a mini chandelier chipboard
to match the frame... To give some dimension, I
added some dimensional pearls on it...

6. Graphic 45 Sweet Sentiments Matchbox Dresser...

Used tons of Tattered Angels glimmer mist, glam, glaze and a blend of
chalk inks on the chipboard frame to match the paper collection...

7. Tim Holtz Idea-ology Altered Grunge Clock...

Right at the back of the clock, I image transfered
and distressed a steampunk clock gear chipboard...

8. Graphic 45 Couture Mini Top Hat...

This top hat is created using toilet paper roll and its only 2.5" tall together
with the flowers... This chipboard mask really looks big on the hat...

9. Prima Romance Noel Spool...

I created this spool using Prima's wood embellishment
together with a used plastic ribbon spool... This is one
small spool, stands at 2" tall, with the hot air ballon,
it's ~4"... I bought these tiny chipboard butterflies and
it's just nice for this spool..

10. Cupcake Pincushion, an Altered Manson Jar... 

I simply used the "love" chipboard solely as a decor on this
4oz mason jar... A great gift to be given...

Thanks for viewing and pop by here. I wish all the best to everyone who apply for this. Good luck and have fun!!!