travel log: dream comes true…

Amazing, wonderful experience with Ranger U… a dream comes true!… thanks to Papermarket!

 

Beautiful hotel i stayed in for 4 nights…

 

walking to Ranger U every morning and passed by this mailbox…

 

Great teachers in the workshops…

here’s Tim Holtz… all the coolest techniques and ideas from him!…

 

here’s Claudine Hellmuth… she is cute!… wonderful transferring and painting techniques…

 

here’s Dyan Reaveley… she is fun! coolest art journalling techniques and ideas from her…

 

fun classmates… especially Ted from Stampers Anonymous!… he is real fun to sit next to… my great honour…

 

amazing techniques i have learned during the weekend…

 

a nice weekend with messy fingers… and you know i like it…

 

wonderful products we have tried… and i know i am getting more of them soon… hmmm… on my list… i want…

 

here’s some of my artworks done in the class…

loads and tons of ideas swimming in my head now… got to get all organised…

it’s that simple…

a really busy week for me… till really sick this week… another big event gone through… another serious one coming up… i can do it! arrrggghhh…. just awhile more… here’s another simple tag i did just to release my stress abit… can’t really think straight this week so intend to do a fast and simple tag… all i did was to glue all the 3D letterings (Thickers), then I gesso white the whole tag… actually quite randomly… then i glimmermist the background with brown… then i stamp stamp stamp again… lastly just popped any cardstock stickers and prima flowers that i can grab from my stash bags… that simple… that satisfactory for me…

altered tag…

 

Happy Easter Day! Really enjoy this long weekend to create art with a friend from 11am … really enjoy continuing till now 4am to do art alone still and blog here… hehehe… but my eyes can’t really open wide now… here’s a tag i would like to share with you… basically most of the elements are from patterned papers… this tag was done in a 3D form with lots of form dots (double layered) and cardboards to hold the little matchbox and the embellishments in the box… love the big hand from G45… have the hand stretched out from the frame of the tag… did waxing, inking, embossing on the frame… fibre at the edges for the tag… actually i stamped on the second layered of the tag… but as usual all hidden… hope you like this tag! see ya soon…

thought of the day…

“Good and bad things are like your left and right hands; they all serve a purpose in your life!”…yap…i have to agree with this quote i found on the web…that’s life…hehehe…anyway…just like to share this tag with you today…background done up with watercolors…stamps from Crafty Secrets and Hero Arts…masking tapes and some little cut outs from stickers or patterned papers…that’s all i used today…going back to my art again…see ya soon!

phewww…….at last i am back…

aiyo!…. at last i have my blog back… hehehe… my little blog has been down since last week… managed to get the servicing done… hahaha… great support from the WordPress… fast response… thanks to all blessings and wishes… so glad to have them… and so glad to have you as friend!… here’s a little tag to share with you using graphic45 papers…

time flies really really really fast…

where my time has gone to?… so many things to do yet so little time… approaching February… and soon will be Chinese New Year… woah! time flies really really really fast… it just slipped past even without me realizing it sometimes… but i must say… am really happy with my time spent with my family, my little children at work and myself!… here’s the tag i am going to share with you this week… masking tapes… cut-outs from patterned papers…inking… and here’s the tag!

i have a dream…

just finished this tag… love bird images as usual… got a pack of 7gypsies paper pad… beautiful images on nature… it’s a simple tag… i sprayed glimmermist, appy distressed ink and layered the images on this tag… and that’s all… have fun this Sunday… back to my other projects again…

So looking forward to…

Beautiful Sunday today!… i have been working too hard these few weeks… looking forward to meeting my new students on Monday… been really hard and tough working with some human beings on earth… hope these children will help to lighten up my live a little… hehehe… i always tell myself… got to be focused on my children, my priceless diamonds… with them… i can survived better and richer… hahaha… back to my tag i have done up for Laines Papeterie…

What i do to my tag:

1) modelled paste my base and distressed it with ink.

2) stamps: Christmas Words by Inkadinkado (Santa and ornament images), swirl and text stamps on the base and transparency.

3) cutouts from pattern papers

4) add  KCO layered accents – Brenda Walton (December 25th)

that’s all… enjoy!

Christmas tag…

Another few more weeks… Christmas is coming!… Love this season… i going to share with you some Christmas ornaments and tags i did for Laine’s Papeterie these few weeks… for now… like to show you this tag i did…

Products used:

1) GCD Studios’ Chip art by Melody Ross (as base covered with patterened paper and washi tape)

2) GCD Studios’ Artsy Urban Transparent Shapes by Melody Ross (blue swirl with glitter)

3) KCO Brenda Walton’s Layered Accents (Peace on Earth)

4) Stamp from Inkadinkado’s Christmas Words (using green distressed ink)

5) Other materials used: Ribbon, paper doily and tissue paper

Let’s join in and create more Christmas stuff… yay!

 

 

wishes do come true sometimes…

Wooohooo… it’s weekend! It has been an exciting and fruitful weekend for me… feel good to be recognised by the company… and GREAT to be able to shop free! hehehe… still thinking of what to get… clothes? crafts supplies?? arrghhh… got to work hard this round for both my work and shopping… hahaha… Let me share with you this tag that i have made…

What did I add on this tag:

i glued down tissue paper for the base, inked with black distressed ink and glimmermist the background.. Then i cut and paste all the images, laces and other embellishment for this tag… i’m so in love with vintage roses pictures these few rounds… Hope you are inspired to make a tag today…