True Friends

Hi there! I know I just posted something about my new hobby and here I am again. I know, when I am busy, It's taking me months to post here and when I am in the mood I can post as many as I want. But of course I won't do that... haha! Anyways, this one is different from the previous post so I decided to separate them. I like to share the mini-album I made using Carta Bella Paper - True Friends collection. I won this collection from Carta Bella when I did my altered mail box. Thank you for your time looking!



I hope you like it and thank you for visiting.

xoxo,
Vanessa

Handcarved stamps

Hello! I just want to share my new hobby. Yes! I have an addition to my crafts... handcarved stamps. I tried it on to some small erasers and all I can say is that I love doing it. I thought I just want to try it but nope, it's part of me now and I don't think I would stop. I would share a few of my creation and will share the rest later on. Happy looking!




TFL!

xoxo.
Vanessa

Take the challenge - March 2013

Good day everyone! The challenge for this month at Faber-Castell is about making something you don't make everyday. It's interesting as I am trying to do a lot of things lately. It is really challenging on my part. After thinking hard of what it is that I don't make everyday, I came up with 3 things.

1) This is the first time I would tear/destroy/cut from a pocket book. I treasure my books and never imagine myself tearing it. But when we moved house, my hubby threw all of it and I asked him to leave just 1 book for me to use. So, now is the time to use it.
2) When I am using my watercolour pencil, I would color first my image and use a wet brush for it to turn into watercolour. This time, I dipped the nib/point of my watercolour pencil directly to the water and color the image.
3) This is the first time I will make a coaster.




Thank you for your time looking and have a great day!

xoxo,
Vanessa

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

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