Thank You and Goodbye Teacher

It's sad that Chloe's N2 form teacher is leaving her school soon (like today?). She's been a very good form and Math teacher. Perhaps I feel that we have the same educational values and she teaches Math as well. Hence, I have always been extra nice to her.

So despite the high stress level at work, decided to create a layout for her. And what's best to work on a school theme layout other than the Graphic 45 ABC Primer papers?

Pardon me for the lousy photo quality as I finished the piece late last night and couldn't wait till today to take the photos.

It's a pretty simple layout, with the typical G45 frame. I fussy cut quite a bit of little children from the papers. And I love the "My Present for You, A Kindergarten Painting Book". I thought it was so apt for the theme, so much so that this layout doesn't need a title!

I stole the idea of the moving pendulum clock from Sharon's doll house. Haha, I thought it's quite cool.

And as usual, I love my Kaiser Craft wooden embellishment. Ink them and put some dimensional pearls to them. And frames being frames, they create emphasis on your photos. I love it!

These little rulers, by Maya Road, goes very well with this series of paper as well. They make good embellishment for you to write little messages at the bottom.

Materials Used: Graphic 45 Pattern Papers (ABC Primer and Wizard of Oz), Maya Road wooden ruler, Kaiser Craft Wooden Flourish, Graphic 45 ABC Primer Chipboard, Kaiser Craft transparency, Tim Holtz metal word band and embellishments.

Shhh… Be Nice

I know I haven’t been writing often. But trust me, school is terribly busy. Term 3 is a horror for all school teachers.

But as usual, I have been scrapping! This project was made because I was super irritated with random people liking to hold small meetings/conversations/gossips just outside my work space, without the basic courtesy to keep their volume down. I was so irritated that I couldn’t help it by scrapping a notice. Hahaha, what an excuse!

Anyways, subsequently I think the situation did improved. But I don’t think it’s due to my notice though.

This was created using a Melissa Frances chipboard. Then I tried to dry brush it with gel medium to create a resist, and inking with both walnut and vintage photo. For the centre part of the background, decided to use a Prima mask and mist it with a mixture of lemon and gold.

Cut up some G45 Little Darlings to make the message less offensive. I’m also still hopelessly in love with the butterflies. I thought they look so soft and serene in this G45 series.

Inked up a Kaiser Craft wooden flourish to create a message. I’m really in love with these wooden flourish nowadays. Check out the new Christmas arrivals @Papermarket!

And basically that’s all. Simple project with an important message!

Materials Used: Melissa Frances Chipboard, Prima tiles, G45 Little Darlings pattern paper, Kaiser Craft Wooden flourish, Papermarket alphas, Prima Shabby Chic embellishment, Prima flourishes.

This Is Home

Yippee! It's August! I love August because of the holidays! And it's because it's Singapore's National Day.

Have you checked out the Uniquely Singapore album and page kits @ Papermarket? They are really cute embellishments, great for any very Singaporean photos. 

Good for souvenirs to any of our foreign friends and associates. 

Not to forget, Papermarket is also introducing START classes for both the page kit and the album kit. In these classes, you would be able to learn how to make good use of the pattern paper, stamps and other great techniques.

For example, the background behind the merlion is created using highlighters!

Many more layering using stamps and also how to stretch your stamps ability. 

  
So, quickly sign up for the classes now and you stand a chance to hop on a Uniquely Singapore Hippo ride with Papermarket talented designers Sharon and Merdrey.

Kaiser Craft Blissful Hearts Bookends

I simply love the wooden pieces by Kaiser Craft. Recently there has been some new stocks at Papermarket. I grabbed a total of 3 pieces.

This particular one is a heart shape bookend, which is simply a great gift for any newly weds.

As my good old neighbor is getting married this month, I thought it would be a great gift for his wife and him.

I spent lots of effort decorating the walls and the heart shape, paying huge attention to small details. However, I super enjoyed the whole process. It's like decorating your own house and walls.

I also did a fair bit of fussy cutting the Webster journaling cards. Just couldn't resist the beautiful wedding pieces.

 

This whole piece is really easy to assemble and decorate. So what are you waiting for? Quickly pop down any Papermarket outlets to grab your Kaiser Craft pieces now.

Materials Used: Kasier Craft Hearts Bookends, Prima metal embellishments, flowers, swirls, pebbles and pattern paper, Grpahic 45 Romantique Pattern Paper, Fancy Pants Wedding pattern paper, Webster journaling cards and pattern paper.

It’s Been A While

But I’ve been scrapping, just not blogging. As school has started, it’s really kind of madness. July and August is really packed, with almost every alternate Saturday having a school event. If not, I will probably be down at Papermarket@PS. Good time to catch me there if you would love to. J

Today, I wanted to share the new Prima arrivals. I must admit that I could have done a better job. However, I’m really short of time. Hence, this is a very simple card that I made for the Japanese teacher on an exchange trip.

The new Prima arrivals are a must buy. The new bulb like embellishments are simply too adorable to resist. You can treat them like a bulb or if you flip it the other way, you can use it as a hot air balloon. 

Not to forget their paper pack as well. The papers in the paper pack are only printed on one side, so you can write on the inside when you used them for cards.

There are many more cute and irresistible embellishments. Do drop by any of the Papermarket outlets before they are sold out!

Materials Used: Prima Pattern paper, Journaling cards, flowers.  

The Paper Stylist

Woo Hoo, Papermarket has recently brought in a new line/wing, The Paper Stylist. And it has lots of cool services.

For example, if you're thinking about a:

(1) Wedding Solemnization

(2) Church Wedding

(3) Hens Party

(4) Birthday Party

(5) Baby's Full Month Party

(6) .....

(7) .....  

And you want to personalize the decoration and gifts to make them unique and give your guests an unforgettable experience, The Paper Stylist is the solution. They offer classes (@very affordable prices) for you to learn techniques to personalize the decoration for your event, or you can even attend classes to make your own Ang Bao box or guest book. Trust me, you should go down to Raffles City Papermarket to take a look at the Ang Bao Box. It doesn't even look like one. It is so cool and awesome!

Or if you're too busy, you can even engaged their services to do the decoration and gifts for you.

I went for the make and take yesterday @ Raffles City and we made the mini rosette that can  be magnified 10 times to fit your decoration.

I was so tempted to get the letterpress kit. They make lovely cards/tags for any function you can think of. And if you already have a die cut machine at home, it compatible with your machine. You need not purchase the whole set of equipment. Amazing! Oh, oh, I'm so tempted. The only draw back is I don't have any parties recently, except probably my niece full month party? Which might be a good 5 months away? But perhaps, I can start preparing now? Oh oh, it's so tempting!

Anyways, do drop by Papermarket @ Raffles City, just to take a look at the amazing things that the Paper Stylist can do. I'm sure you will be impressed.

Graphic 45 Altered Art

Recently I realized that there is this craze about altered art. The altered art classes seems to be more popular than the layout classes, so I decided to try working on a piece myself.

And of course, I chose the papers that I simply adore, the G45 Once upon a spring time papers. I wanted to create not just a simple display piece but something useful as well. 

As Chloe always left her hair ties all over her room, I decided to include a little drawer in this project for her to keep her hair ties and clips. I could have a little more patience in painting the inside of the chipboard, but I was too lazy.

I love creating the drawer. It's rather simple. Just cut a hole through the front side of the chipboard and create a little open rectangular cuboid as a drawer. Remember to also raise the platform inside the big box, so that the drawer can slide in and out. The raised platform can be achieve by using foam dots.

The circular compartments are made using recycled toilet rolls. Cheap and good. I had initially wanted to make a door for each compartment, so that it opens up like a cupboard. But that was too troublesome. I didn't have the patience.

Hope you are inspired to look through your house to see if you can find any recycled materials to altered.

Materials Used: G45 pattern papers and metal embellishments Prima pattern papers, Tim Holtz Embellishments, Chipboards, Ribbons.