Holiday's Over

Today's my first day at school and I've already missed my holiday! I missed getting to sleep late at night and waking up late in the morning, I missed all the things I can do in my holiday! What I love the most from having a holiday is  that I don't have to rush! In school days, I have to spend my time effectively, eat fast, do my homework, prepare my books, study for exams, there's hardly any time left for my hobbies! :(

The best thing about going to school is that I meet my friends more often, which is nice, because it's rather hard to meet friends in holidays. We have to schedule our meetings at malls simply for a chat.

Sending you Letters of love

After making a couple of new year cards, I went ahead and made some love-valentine type cards. I know that it's still one month away until we celebrate Valentine, but we can never have enough Valentine cards right? :)

I was inspired by a post box image that I saw somewhere, and I thought that it will be perfect for Valentine type cards!

The focal point of this card is the sentiment, and if you have many different kinds of fonts of alphabet stamps, this is a great way to use them all together for the same card!

The 'love' word from the sentiment is from American Crafts Glee stamp set. The 'love' word didn't come as a single stamp, and instead, it was part of the 'Laugh [heart] Smile [heart] Love' stamp. I only wanted to use the 'love' word, so I decided to cut it off  from the whole stamp.

This is one of the advantages of having a clear mount stamp, if you don't like your stamp or you just want to use one section of the stamp, you can go ahead and cut it off, because you can use it on later if you want.

So, that's the card for today, Happy cardmaking! :)

Stamps at Kinokuniya

I was looking for a present for my 8 years old cousin in Kinokuniya bookstore when I noticed some stamps! Most of the stamps are woodblock stamps and there are also a few hero arts and american crafts' clear mount stamp sets. I wasn't really excited because the stamps were so expensive! A hero arts stamp set costs about Rp.320.000,- ! That was way too expensive! And a single small wooden snowflake stamp costs Rp. 60.000,-! Oh, man!

There were also some embossing powder, stickles and inkpads. In fact, the versamagic inkpads sold there were cheaper than the ones that I bought.

If you are a craft lover like me, you may want to go to Kinokuniya and have a look at those adorable stamps, although they cost like hell! :P

Happy new year!

Wishing you a happy new year, guys! Wow, time pass so fast, I can't believe it's 2011 already! Hopefully, by the changing of the year, we can all be a better person, enjoy life more, and spend more time with friends. I want to be a more confident person this year, be more outgoing and make some new friends, I also want to be focus on my goals and spend my time effectively.

Here are my new year resolutions:

 - Eat more! Gain weight! :P

- Practice piano everyday

- Do Chinese lesson's homework at least one day before the deadline

- Spend less money, save more! 
- Get organized!
-  And last but not least, make some more cards! :)

By the way, here are the two new year cards that I've made, enjoy!

The scales of the body of the dragon are made of a bunch of circles, which were piled on top of each other

The glossy dots background are created by adding dots of glossy accents, love them! :)

The roof of this temple is created by a bunch of circles too!

Though it seems like this temple has many details, it's really easy to make.  To create the wall and the stairs, you just have to cut strips of cardstocks and stack them together!

Friendship card

These are the rhinestones that I used

The sentiments were cut from this pattern paper

Enjoy! :)

Circle card gallery

 

You can make the stacks of present from regular cardstock or paper and you can decorate them simply by stamping patterns

Hi guys, how's your christmas? Mine was boring...

Anyway, sorry for the late christmas cards up-date, I haven't been around computer lately. Anyhow, enjoy! :)

Merry Christmas !!!!

Did santa come to your house? :)
                                                                  He didn't come to mine! :(

Circle Card

My first circle card! :)

Scallop circles

 This is how you make the circle card :

 - You can use a simple circle cutter but if you don't have it, simply draw two circles of the same size and cut them out manually

- Take one of the circles and fold a small section on the top of the circle, and cover it up with glue

- Align the two circles together and press hard on the glued section, and voila! Here comes your first circle card! :)

CardEnds

Hi people, guess what? I have a card brand now, it's called CardEnds. Actually, my elder sister is the one who suggested me the name, she explained that there's a book store named BookEnds and she thinks that it'll be pretty cool if my card brand's called CardEnds. It literally means that if you're looking for cards, you'll ended up finding the cards here, at CardEnds. 

Anyway, this is CardEnds logo:

Christmas Edition

I think that my sister is rather good at painting and she was the one who drew things and I was the one who told her what to draw. I said that I wanted some scallop circles at the bottom and a tree and a bird, and I wanted the tree to have gradations of color by drawing circles that are a shade lighter or darker than the other. See that cute bird over there? My sister took a such a long time to draw it, anyhow, she made it at last! :D


By the way, I have a CardEnds' account on Facebook and it shows all the cards that I've made since I was in primary school until now, so please check it out! Thanks :)

Book Tags

Besides cards and scrapbooks, things that you can also make from a bunch of pattern paper, cardstocks, and stamps are book tags! They're really fun and easy to make. All you have to do is cut a rectangular shape from a cardstock, and have fun decorating it!

Anyway, these are the book tags that I've made. Just showing them to you guys so that you all can have an idea of how my book tags look like. Enjoy! :)