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.

Love Your Life, a Coffee Break Layout

This Saturday on Clear Scrap blog post, I've done up my very first Prima layout using the Coffee Break collection together with a couple of Finnabair's new mixed media range of products...

I've been cafe hopping since last year and my most hops was over 20 cafes within 2 weeks!!! So here featuring is one of the Lattes I had when I was visiting Kith Cafe last August... The clear gesso certainly works on acrylic especially when I do not want to cover the entire surface with white gesso yet creating a "teething" surface for me to work on... And this actually allows me to use normal water based sprays which is great!!! I created this coffee spillage mess on the background before I "sat" my "latte" on it... Finnabair's texture paste certainly gives this layout a more 3D look, though it took a much longer time to dry...

Here is a list of supplies used to create this layout...

• Prima Coffee Break Collection (Fill it to the Rim, Cup O' Joe, Aromatic Blend & Coffeeology)
• Prima Colour Bloom (tea stain & soft teal)
• Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks (latte, aqua & cloudy blue)
• Finnabair's Elementals Bubble Stencil
• Clear Scraps Flourish Embellishments
• Clear Scraps XL Deco
• Clear Gesso
• Texture Paste (white sand)
• Glass Glitter (copper)
• StazOn Midi (ganache)
• Bo Bunny Stained Texture Stamp

Enjoy!!! And happy crafting!!!