Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Tattered floral challenge…if there's a wheel there's a way

Good day everyone! The post that I am going to share with you now is for Tim Holtz tattered floral challenge. I have a confession to make before showing you how I did my project on this one. Again, to remind everyone that we are moving house in 2 days time. We packed most of my craft materials and send 95% of them to the Philippines. Papers, embellishments, paints, mists, stamps, ink stamps, tools, Big Shot, dies and name it. Anyways, there is this page on FB that I would buy stuffs for scrapbook and 2 weeks ago I asked her to reserve for me 3 dies (tattered floral, fanciful flight & love struck). Last Monday I saw this challenge post from Tim Holtz and contacted her If I can get my dies this Thursday and begged her if I can use her big shot for me to use the dies that I would buy from her (They have a shop and the one I bought are the opened ones which they used for samples). After a couple of hours, I can't wait for her response, and actually while typing this she still hasn't replied yet. As the saying goes, if there's a wheel, there's a way. I used to work at scrapbooking shop here in Singapore and those times we would play with the dies that we have. I remember to have some cut-outs of tattered florals and ta-da I found it. I have cut it from paper, felt and chipboard. Sadly the felt and the paper that I used was an off-color and not sure what to do with it. So, I traced my chipboard and cut it out manually using scissors. I hope this does not disqualify me from the challenge hahaha. Honestly, I love how it turned out and would love to do more to give as a gift to my nieces. I hope they would love it as much as I do.


I traced my chipboards to shrink plastic, cut it, punch holes and heat it up using my heat gun. I used Adirondack alcohol inks to color the cut-out pieces and let them dry. Then I try to find some old and unused jewelry that I can used to make my very own jewelry. I color the bracelet using Adirondack alcohol ink to mix with my beautiful flower.

Bracelet


Earrings


I hope you love them because I really do. Thank you so much for looking and have a great day! If you have time you can visit Tim Holz Blog and join in the fun.

xoxo,
Vanessa

A little birdie told me

Good day everyone! I am so happy to share with you that my post about Nostalgia won! Yippeee! I know there were 2 of them. The one with the book, feather and ink bottle won.

Another thing that I would like to share are my recent creations. Even though we're busy with packing because in just 2 days time, we would be moving house, I am still able to craft.


If you've been visiting my blog lately you would have noticed that I'd been using this particular stamp... Newsprint bird from Hero Arts. I just love that stamp. Take note, I didn't buy that stamp. It's my prize from winning at Hero Arts challenge.

I would like to share with you a mixed media canvass I made. It is for Prima Marketing February PPP challenge and Hero Arts February challenge. I hope you will like it.



Materials used: Canvass (Daiso); Patterned Paper (Prima); Stamp (Prima, Hero Arts); Paints-background (Kaiser); Color-flower-hair and headband (Faber-Castell Watercolour); flowers (Prima); MT's (Prima)

Thank you for looking and have a great day!

xoxo,
Vanessa

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Tweetheart

Good day everyone! Not really for me because my son is sick. We woke up so early today. I fed him and gave him his medicine. While he was resting, I sat beside him and made a card. It's for my hubby on Valentines day but he has seen it already ha-ha. Anyways, I hope you'll like it as much as I do.

Materials used: Adhesive (UHU, double sided tape); Stamp ( Hero Arts); Patterned Paper ( My Mind's Eye - Stella Rose, Prima); Cardstock ( American Crafts ); Watercolour Pencil ( Faber-Castell); Marker ( Zig); Misc.: Lace


Thank you for looking and have a great day!

xoxo,
Vanessa

Nostalgia - I miss you

Hi! I know, I just posted something about Nostalgia a few hours ago. Now I am posting something about it again. Just what I said in the earlier post, I am having so much fun in doing this one. This time, I used a water color pencil. I can't get enough of using different kinds of mediums. Why I never used them when I was young? Why only now that I am already on my 30's. Well, it only proves that you're never too old to try something new.

1) Feathers are on trends right now so I decided to draw my feather and ink bottle with a book.

2) I color it using Faber-Castell Watercolour Pencils

3) I used a wet brush to dissolve the pencil color into brilliant water color.

4) I added some stamp images from Hero Arts Stamp and stick some doily to finish my art.


Thank you for looking and have a great day!

xoxo,
Vanessa

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Nostalgia

Happy Chinese New Year to all! Today, I just want to share a page I made on my art journal. I had fun doing this one. It didn't make me think at all. No rules, nothing to follow... Just what I am feeling while doing it.

Materials : Faber-Castell Oil Pastel


Nostalgic - 1) unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things or persons. -2) A bittesweet longing for things, persons of the past.


Thank you for your time looking!

xoxo,
Vanessa

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Art Journal Pages

Good day! Time flies so fast... it's already February. I didn't notice it because we were so busy. I know I always say that I am busy but I really am. Only this time not about my crafting. It's because we were looking for a place to stay. The owner's son will use the unit, so yeah, this is not good news at all. We will send 95% of my things (scrapbooking stuffs) in Philippines. I've only left with some paints, papers and my notebooks. I won't be able to make scrapbook pages that much anymore. I decided that I would continue doing my art journal, and that is what I am going to share with you guys today. I made a few pages already after my first and I am happy with the outcome for a first timer.



Thank you for looking and have a great day!

xoxo,
Vanessa

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