Friday, November 29, 2013

Tri-shutter Christmas Card

 Not just any Christmas card but one using the tri-shutter folding technique :)

See what I mean? :)

 I have been intrigued by this fold for so long but never have had the opportunity to try it out. I knew it wasn't one of those projects that I could just slip in between marking books and doing the laundry!

 I definitely did the right thing to wait till the school holidays... took me half a day to get this done.

But so worth the while :) LOVE IT!!!

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Sunday, October 13, 2013

Card making is addictive

 A friend needed some thank you cards and asked me if I could help out. Hence, these...

My first attempt focused on a teabag-folded medallion.

For the second, I thought I would test out my latest puncher... love it.

After 2 landscape designs, I just had to try a portrait.

I think card making is addictive... I couldn't stop at no.3

Ran out of card stock after that :)

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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Hari Raya Aidilfitri Card

 Origami-based greeting card

 Home printed greeting

 Happy to have found matching colored papers for the project



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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Thank you cards


 Printed out some designs for making Thank you cards.

 First of two that I made.

 Intend to leave the inside page blank.

 
The second card...


The inside page again will be left empty.

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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Hari Raya Cards

 Some handcrafted Raya cards for my Muslim friends.




Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri

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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Weekend inspiration

A spurt of weekend inspiration resulted in a few handmade cards... this being one of them. 
After my last project, I had so many left-over print-outs of cute little babies that I decided to make a few more Welcome Baby cards for stashing away.
After all, who has not experienced an urgent on-the-spot need before? And worse, at a moment when you have neither the time to run out to the shops nor the energy to create!












This is my favourite. I like the pretty pastel lines in the background together with the lace doily framing the simple announcement. The tiny roses added a sweet appeal too.
I have not tried putting up any of my cards for sale yet. I wonder if there’ll be takers as everyone is so into e-things these days.



Well, so much for this week. I wonder what inspiration will hit me next? Thanks for dropping by & have a good week.

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Thursday, March 24, 2011

New baby card

 I had a little time this afternoon so I thought it would be nice to make up a card to accompany the baby quilt I posted last week.

I downloaded this cute little fella from Google clipart, printed out the greeting I wanted, gathered together some card stock and coloured paper... plus a few fabric scraps and VOILA! Here's the result...

I also borrowed a verse from one of my favourite writers, Helen Steiner Rice, for the inside message.




Finally, the quilt is ready to be sent to my customer.

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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

More cards


These were born two days ago :-) This round, I was inspired by Roy Lessin to craft about Jesus's Assurance. I shared his creative writing here two posts earlier and was already toying with the idea of making it into a card (read that as ONE CARD!). It's a wonder how much some stockcards and lots of odds and ends can motivate you. Actually, my other half thought I was at it again - getting myself into some church fund-raising project or other... Yup, I got a little carried away and churned out more cards than I had planned. Then again, when you enjoy doing something, every second is bliss! OK, enough of babbling... I'll just let the cards do their talking :-) Scroll down and enjoy :-)

 



Thanks for dropping by :-)

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Monday, June 28, 2010

Patchwork cards

God thinks you're wonderful

So promise me you'll never forget...
that you aren't an accident or an incident...
you are a gift to the world,
a divine work of art, signed by God.

You were knit together.
You weren't mass produced.
You aren't an assembly -line product.

You were deliberately planned,
specifically gifted,
and lovingly position on this earth...
by the Master Crafts-Man.

I have always enjoyed reading Dayspring Devotions. They have really good writers. Today I was inspired to borrow a few of their verses for my papercrafting project. For starters, I chose Max Lucado's God Thinks You're Wonderful. Coupled with my love for fabrics, I came up with these four patchwork cards. I've seen samples of these before (some where, some time) and have thought of trying out the technique. Well, I got my wish today :-) and I love how they turned out. 



 


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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Quilting break

What do you think of these handmade cards I created some time back? I'm going to start another round of card-making this coming school holidays (two days time...HOORAY!). Nope, I've not turned my back on quilting :-) It's just that I'm forced to take a break... for now, at least. I have been working too much on the floor (my table is not big enough for my quilting projects) and that's why I've bursitis... THAT is according to the in-house doctor - my dear hubby! LOL! Anyway, with card-making, I sit at my table (he can't fault me there! Hehehe!) ...and yes, I can make some Christmas cards to start off... will post pictures of them when I have any to show.

Talking of Christmas, I also need to start on my presents. I hope to continue last year's tradition of giving out handmade gifts (it was table runners for 2008) but I've yet to come up with a project for this year. Of course, ideally, I would love to give a quilt to all my dear friends ;-) but we all know that is quite impossible :-) So...bright ideas, anyone?

Here... a few more cards from yester-year for you to enjoy :-)


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