Let Them Eat Cake

"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" - a traditional French translation of "Let them eat cake" is a common attribution to Queen Marie Antoinette. While it’s not on record that this phrase was ever said by her, it has indeed become very popular for modern art as well as for tea parties and bridal showers. As random as I could be, this phrase hit a nerve of mine and decided to do up a wall display plaque for this. This was a project done for Faber-Castell & Graphic 45 blog hop this week and was featured on Graphic 45's blog yesterday...

It was my very first attempt to use gelatos, so before I can really get use to the usage and function, I took it slow for this attempt. Gelatos feel like rich textured watercolour crayons to me. I've seen quite a lot on how the several Faber-Castell mediums are used online, hence I decided to give a try using their whipped spackle and gel medium. Love the smooth texture of whipped spackle and it has a subtle shimmer on it!!!

I hope you've enjoyed the blog hop as much as I did. The various projects done by my fellow DT members as well as Faber-Castell DT are simply amazing!!!

Caring Karie and Charming Mel Fairy Tooth Door Shrines

This month is not really a very smooth month for me as I was suddenly held up by a lot of unexpected things recently. My mind was very packed with quite a number of stuffs and have been taken up part of my time which prevent me to keep my projects updated on my blog. I hope I'm able to plan my time well enough. Nonetheless, I managed to find some time to update one of my DT project for Graphic 45, which is featured on yesterday blog post.

The inspiration actually comes from various shrines projects I've been seeing on various social media platform especially on Pinterest. That caught me thinking. Instead of finding stuffs to build the shrine up, I decided to use the various tags to create one. Something toy-like with a little whimsical fairy touch. The original intention was to do up something for my friend's daughter's birthday and this idea of building a fairy tooth door shrine popped up... And here I present, A Caring Karie tooth fairy for my friend's daughter. I've done up a video tutorial for this as well which I had further explained the inspiration behind this project.

I created another fairy tooth door shrine for my other friend's daughter using the sample I used for the tutorial demo in my video. I named this fairy the Charming Mel tooth fairy. The whole idea for this was Frozen inspired. I made the shrine that looks like an ice palace instead, especially build for a girl who has a cool personality. The whole shrine was actually glitter-ized, making it look "icy" and I added a little dish at the bottom for other treasure keeping.

The Mermaid Museum

For this month Alpha Stamp's kit is all about Mermaids... And I'd think most of us have probably watched Walt Disney's The Little Mermaid movie but how many of us actually read the story of The Little Mermaid written by Hans Christian Andersen?? While everyone of us familiarly referred the little mermaid as the red-haired Ariel and her happily ever after ending with the Prince in the movie, the actual fate of the mermaid's life in Hans' story was her ascension into the air where she dissolved and became foam...

For over 300 years since the day The Mermaid's ascension, historians and archaeologists are very curious about her afterlife... Although the marine and human life of the mermaid are pretty well studied by the experts, the aftermath after she became foam and varnished into thin air are poorly understood... For she had forsaken her lovely mesmerizing tail for a pair of human legs in order to live as a human, we thought the tail had indeed vanished... It was till very recently, a group of archaeologists discovered her tail, foam ashes and various marine and human artifacts at the Northern celestial pole of The Meridian, providing an insight story of The Mermaid's life; a series of mysteries therefore gradually unfolds...

This entire museum is available for sale HERE... 

It seriously took that much amount of effort, with so much special tools, chemicals and techniques to sort, restore and preserve the mermaid tail, her foam ashes and other discoveries which ultimately exhausted an enormous amount of energies and years... As much as we think we know this much about the marine and human life of The Mermaid, much of the discoveries reveal much more details than we ever thought of... With all the accomplished effort by the experts, The Mermaid Museum is finally fully erected, available for public viewing for the very first time in history...

Walk into the aftermath story of The Mermaid's life and experience the journey like you've never been before, for she has forsaken her tail for a pair of human legs in exchange for a human life... It's also for the first time, a treasury chest of her various belongings as a human are revealed...

Click here to get your entrance ticket to the museum...

The Mermaid's Marine Palace...

Painting of The Mermaid and her sisters...

The Forsaken Tail...

The Mermaid's Foam Ashes...

The Mermaid's treasury chest of artifacts from her human life...

The Mermaid's human artifacts...

List of Supplies:

• June 2015 Kit – Mermaids Kit  
• Mermaid #3 Collage Sheet  
• Seaside Slides Collage Sheet 
• Coral Chipboards 
• Seaweed Stem Chipboard
• Artsy Large Chipboard Frame Set 
• Iridescent Glass Micro Beads in Bottle
• Wooden Knobs
• Brass Box Feet
• Brass Shell Scroll 
• ½ inch Bronze Starfish Charms
• Golden Rod Sticklers
• Sea Glass Sticklers
• Waterfall Sticklers
• Twinklets Diamond Dust
• White Plastic Pearls 
• Iridescent Plastic Pearls
• Cheetah Shell Mix 
• Paper Mache Treasure Chest 
• 3cm Glass Bottles 
• Sea Glass – Green & Yellow 
• Shabby Chic Tart Tin Frame  
• The Sea Fiber Set
• Carnival Scrapbook Paper – Big Top
• Fancy Gold Buttons in Tin
• Fancy Bronze Hand Mirror
• Acrylic Clear Sheets
• Melissa Frances Mirror Resin
• Fimo Polymer Clay
• Shimmerz Paints (Shimmerz - tickle me turquoise & candlelight, Blingz - pixie dust, Texturez - patina, Inklingz - miner, miner, 49er & freshly minted, Creameez - ride the tide)
• Martha Stewart Craft Paint (mother of pearl)
• Prima Finnabair ArtBasics (soft gloss gel, 3D gloss gel)
• Glitter Dust Powder (iridescent white & aqua)
• Own Stash (large starfish, miniature starfish chair, mirror, anchor & heels metal charms, wooden windows, plastic sundae cups, plastic pebbles, rhinestones & crystals, blue felt, polyester filers, floral cameo and filigree setting frame) 

A Cute Welcome to My Little Candy World

As far as my brain functions, I realized I just simply couldn't create something without a story behind... And as I progress further, I notice I've been taking longer than usual to complete a piece of work...

Over here, I'm sharing one of my sweetest imaginations - the Candy World of my own with a little candy house sitting on top of a candy floss mountain... Yes, I'm using a ceramic watering can here, and made the candy floss mountain from scratch as though the candy floss is overflowing within... The inspiration comes from the fable of Hansel and Gretel's candy house... Instead of just building a candy house alone, I've created a Candy World instead using various chippies and mixed media goodies from my ScrapFX and Shimmerz Paints DT pack... This is actually part of a WIP (work in progress) project, which I'd be combining the idea of Jack and the Beanstalk to create a different story for my completed artwork... While I'm trying to piece up the chapters together, I just can't wait to share my little Candy World here...

I hereby extend my cutest welcome to everyone to enter into my little Candy World... 

My Official Return as Graphic 45 DT and A Crafter's Card Holder

Today is the day I come back to the Graphic 45 DT for the 2nd year. My first year with them was indeed a heavenly one and it's an experience that I'll never forget. Though there's a lot of changes in my life this year, it also means I'll have more work to do and there's a lot of adjustments to be made. While I'm "transcending" and adapting, I'm working hard to crack my brain cells more bringing more exciting artwork and projects in the near future.

As a start for my 2nd year with Graphic 45, I'm sharing here a tutorial for Father's Day or any other day which may deem fit for any other special occasion - a Crafter's card holder for the exquisite, rare and unknown. Beware of its size, it only holds a minute amount of cards exclusively where cards are only given to a few which make them uniquely rare.

Alright, I'm not exactly sure how many cards are usually given daily unless you are a salesperson. But in my previous work as a Innovator/Researcher where I held different level of position, sometimes I don't even issue one card within a day. I'd have to warn you that these card holders can only hold a maximum of 5 typical name cards and they are indeed for the rare and exquisite people. If you've gold plated or diamond cards, these are probably ideal.