Cupcake Craft Challenge #31

This is for Cupcake Craft Challenge #31- Brown + 1 Pink/ Blue/ Green. I meant to try to submit this for their design team call as well but I realised I just missed the dateline already. But in any case, I did not have a camera with me to take pics of the card I made as my girlfriend who was visiting Shanghai took mine when she went around town.

Stamps are all from Technique Tuesday's Little Prince and I added the little key charm at the ribbon. It's so cute...I paper pieced the little prince's cloak. Overall, I quite like the card except for my coloring. I did this while watching the last few episodes of 'Little Nonya' (a hit TV drama series in Singapore which I only managed to lay my hands on the dvd during our last home visit). Must have been too agitated by the ending and my runny nose from my cold, not the tears to color in properly! LOL! Oh wells, will try harder next time!

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #51

This is my take for Cute Card Thursday Challenge #51. Its their birthday week and there are loads of prizes for grabs. The theme is on celebration and I liked the sketch very much. It gave me the idea to make a bookmark together with the tag for my girl's classmate. She is a good reader at 5 and loves reading, spelling and talking. Her birthday is just around the corner so this card shall go together with her present- a book, of course!

I found the big felt flower in a market here. There were 8 of them stringed together like some hanging ornament, but I just stripped them out and used them for my crafts. They make good embellishments especially if u want to draw attention to something, but because there are so many flowers and I wanted focus on the girl, I toned down my sentiment and just stamped 'Hugs'. The sentiment stamp is from my Clear Dollar Stamp collection and the girl is from Whiff of Joy's Spring Kit!!!

I am to rest now...feeling off color...change of seasons...too many visitors...sleepless nights cos' of the young ones waking...

Hip hip hooray!!!

I just wanna share that I received my parcel from Ericia of YSS!!! She has been so sweet, tracking the parcel for me, apologising over and over again and updating me whenver she has news and finally re-sending the parcel when it was sent back to her in a battered state. In my anxiety and excitement, I jsut ripped open the box and forgot completely about pictures! I send Ericia an e-mail immediately to thank her and share my joy at finally receiving my parcel. Order was placed early december if I remembered correctly and it took 4 months to finally reach!!! Thank you Ericia!!!

Friday Sketchers #42

This is my take on the card sketch #42 by Friday Sketchers. It is really very sweet and girly so I thought I would do a 'congratulations' card for a friend who is due to deliver her second baby girl next week. I met Wing at a summer camp class that I had signed up for Asher and myself last summer. It turned out we were living around the same estate and subsequently, both our kids went to the same playgroup class and we met again! Wing has been really helpful, offering me lifts for marketing sometimes especially since she knows we do not have our own transport.

I used the 'Postbox' Sugar Nellie stamp for the image. I must confess that I am not a 'girly girl' kind of person but I was totally impressed by this range of stamps from Sugar Nellie. The images are so sweet and lifelike and well- drawn. Its no wonder that their popular stamps are sold out almost all the time! Another plus, I like the size of their images too!

Back to the challenge, I have inverted the sketch 90 degrees anti- clockwise and replaced the flower motif with a cute romper sticker I found amongst my old stash again! So I am definitey feeling satisfied that I have been using up stash in my current projects...I stamped on the florishes at the sides too...hmmm, love the birds there.

Baby- Pencillines Sketch #124

I have sworn off more purchases except for papers and possibly, stamps, so I am now using all the stash accumulated just over 1 year of starting this hobby. I had wanted to do up first year albums for both the kiddos, so I ended ordering 'monster baby kits' on ebay a few times and now I have 2 cartons of baby related papers and embellishments, etc! No wonder my husband says I could easily buy a rolex by now considering all the amount I have spent on SB!

The sketch I used for this layout is from Pencillines Sketch #124. Pencillines provides sketches weekly for inspiration and I really like their sketches. Simple and clean. Although sometimes I do go overboard with all the layering and embellishing. This layout was completed in a night. I love how much stash I have used up and yet the layout does not have an over-cluttered look. And I love that blue colored paper!

Color Throwdown Challenge/ Cupcake Craft Challenge/ Whiff of Joy Challenge for Gust Designer Call

Wheee!!! I am on a high after completing my first craft project in a month! We have been back in Singapore for the last month, staying on for another 4 weeks after Chinese New Year. I thought I had completely lost my mojo so I was delighted to be so inspired after blog hopping amongst my favourite stamp challenge sites! There are so many challenges that I wanna participate in that I decided to try my hand at combining the Color Throwdown challenge as well as the Whiff of Joy Challenge for Guest Designer spot. Then I came across the Cupcake Craft Challenge, saw the bunch of daisies and decided I had to use my favourite flowers from my stash. I had discovered them at a crafts market here in Shanghai, so sweet and pretty and I am never sick of using them!

The Color Throwdown challenge was to use these colors:


I could not find a light yellow/ beige colored paper amongst my stash and finally decided to use the bright yellow paper to match the daisies I had intended to use! The stamp used here is from Whiff of Joy's Spring Stamp Kit. I took a gamble and placed a pre-order for the kit after seeing only part of one of the images. I have been impressed with their stamp designs so far and true enough, I wasn't disappointed!!! I lurveee my Whiff of Joy images and their sizes are just right for cards and even scrapbooking layouts!!!I shall try to use them on my layouts soon, just have to brainstorm on how to incorporate them in!


Speaking of scrapbooking, I am absoultey guilt stricken at how much I have spent at the LSS in Singapore when we were back. And on top of that, I am expecting more stash from YSS. One of my parcels sent around Christmas had been sent back to Ericia, stating 'bad address'. But Ericia told me that she had wriiten the exact same address on another parcel which I had received!!! Anyway, I am totally impressed with Ericia's patience and customer service, so I would strongly recommend YSS to friends now! I hope I will receive my stamps from Simon Says Stamp. It has been 2 months since Heidi sent out the stuff and its not here yet. On top of that I had just placed another order with them too! Add that to my win for Lotus Paperie (hip hip hooray! My first win!), I should have 5 parcels arriving!!! Will take pictures and share them with you guys.

New Releases from Elzybells

Elzybells Art Stamps has released some new sets of clear and rubber stamps today. You should really check them out. I like their stamps for their simple and clean cut lines, and yet their stamps are so fun to color in. Also, the sentiments thought up by Elizabeth are so witty, humorous and fits the themes of the stamps so well.

There are a total of 20 stamps released- 6 clear and 14 rubber. My top 3 favourites have got to be the 'Hey Cupcake', 'Just Desserts' and the oh-so-cute 'Gingerbread Man'. 'Hey Cupcake' for its versatility. Imagine the number of combinations u can get from combining the different stamps available! Check out Elzy's blogs and her fellow design team members' for inspiration. ' Just Desserts' has such cute sentiments with Elzy's trademark girl that I just burst out loud laughing over them at the laptop. My sis has to give me that weird rebel teen look! And of course, that gingerbread man looks so cute and yummilicious! Sigh!!!

On another note, being back in Singapore meant I went into a shopping frenzy. I am at the 2 LSS every week, checking out their new arrivals and every week I swore to myself that I will not be buying anymore and yet I am back the next week! All these, on top of my online sprees. I have amassed such a collection of stamps over the past month that I dunno how to face myself even when I look at the amount of stash in my luggage to lug back to Shanghai. And here I am still blogging away about Elzybells' new stamps and hoping to score at winning all 20 new stamps! Check out her blog for more details!

And I am returning to Shanghai this sunday. Sighs...