Mini Album | Citrus Twist Kits - 2 Girls, 2 Perspectives Mini Album Class

Citrus Twist Kits has a new self-paced mini album class called '2 Girls, 2 Perspectives' from 2 designers using the class kit this month. At just $10 this class is full of ideas to create your perfect sweet mini and will be delivered to your email inbox as a 48-page ebook.

I decide to play along and joined the mini album class too. And here's a pic of my work in process using the class kit and online class which are available here. I love the new stamp sets that April Joy has designed for Citrus Twist Kits this month, so I used them on the album, and also my planner pages.

I love April's stamp set (Birthday and Hello Sunshine) so much that I have been stamping them on everywhere, literally.

I use two pieces of 6x6 canvas chipboards as my album covers and added some die cuts and paint for a simple cover. Oh, the theme of my little book is to record all the little things that made me happy. So it is actually like my Gratitude journal to remind myself to be happy and count my blessings. Of course I have to include photos of my little Sunshine - baby Ivan!

Here is the class kit, available here for $41 plus shipping: I love the mix of pastel colour and some whimsical / vintage embellishments added to the kit.

In this class designers Mira Wlosinska and Trina Craig share their individual approached on creating a mini album, each album a different size and approach. We have a private Facebook forum that you will be invited to join as part of this class to share your album progress and ask questions.

Here is a sneak from Trina's album with a little stitching, a lot of layers and some stamping:

Here is another sneak from Mira's album:

Thank you for dropping by today! We hope to see you in the 2 Girls, 2 Perspectives class! And yes, all the students that enrol to the mini album class will be added to a Facebook group where we can chat about the albums and sharing ideas! See you there!

p.s. Would like to share some simple cards that I have sent recently using April's stamp sets too. I don't do pen palling but it is always fun to include some handmade cards in some of my happie mails!

XoXo,

Cards⎪Prima Marketing New Collection - Coffee Break

Hello there! Have you checked out Prima Marketing's latest blog post on one of the new collection - Coffee Break? I kid you not, this is the MUST HAVE collection - I totally adore all the papers in pastel colour - that remind me of macaroons. afternoon hi-tea session with girlies and pink typewriter that I have!

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Coffee Break...sweet and fun. With a touch of vintage whimsy, Coffee Break offers delightful touches and a splendid color scheme for every paper crafter. Fabulous imagery, beautiful retro colors, these 3D stickers have everything you could ever ask for...including LOTS of delightful dimension! Item #576264

Just wait until you see the delightful flowers chosen just for Coffee Break! There's a wonderful selection of fabrics, papers, colors, and amazing centers! Want something REALLY unique...only Coffee Break has these wonderful wood picks! Perfect for a special tea party with girlfriends, or to add amazing texture to a craft! Product #576394

And here's a huge card that I made for my Instagram friend mixing the gorgeous stamp set from Bloom collection.

Prima Products: Coffee Break Paper #846756, Bloom Stamp (Sharon) #980177, Bloom Brads #980108, Color Bloom #573874, Color Bloom #573775, Color Bloom #573904, Color Bloom #573782, Instascrap Stickers #971175, Alphabets #559120, Alphabets #569785

Here's the close up of the card - I used the Prima Color Bloom spray to create a watercolor-effect background and stamp Bloom girl stamp on the paper. Didn't fussy cut or paint in details because I just how arty-fartsy it looks, and didn't want to take the focus away from the Bloom girl stamp.

Thanks for looking! Be sure to check out Prima's blog for more info and projects!

XoXo,

Blog Hop Happy NSD & An InstaScrap Giveaway *Prima Marketing*

**Giveaway closed**

Welcome to the NSD Prima Blog Hop! Prima Marketing has a fun-packed day planned with the wonderful Ambassadors, the talented Design Team, and our amazing Educators! We hope the projects inspire you to dig out your crafty supplies and have fun along with us.

Prima will be giving prizes away all day long on ALL of their social media outlets, along with a stunning main prize hosted on the Prima blog, so make sure you hop around and then comment on Prima's blog here! Not only do we have TONS of inspiration, but we are offering free classes too! Want to learn new techniques? Join in on the marathon of "Live With Prima" classes filled with gorgeous projects kicking off at 7 am PT! Click here to watch!

And here's the list of the blog hop:

Prima Marketing

Olga Vasilieva

Adrienne Ford

Magda Bolinska

Kasia Krzyminska

Kasia Tomaszewska

Felicity Wilson

Delaina Burns

Louise Nelson

Brit Sviggum

Jennifer Snyder

Solange Marques

Kelly Foster

Keren Tamir

Sharon Laakkonen

Patricia Fernandez

Elena Olinevich

Alberto Juarez

Frank Garcia

Maiko Miwa

Trina McClune 

Janine Koczwara

Misty Olsen

Sarinda Jones

Ramona Downing

Candace Hagler

Erin Reed

Sam Ho  >> You are here now!

For this year NSD blog hop, the DT girls are asked to make a simple 6x6 layout with some inspirational quotes. I love making mini layouts with inspirational quotes which I could hang it on my Inspiration wall or gift it to my girlies. And also, making one of these mini layouts would only take up about 15-30 minutes of my time. I pull out my supplies from InstaScrap collection by Leeza Gibbons and completed this under 15 minutes. Love the various sizes of the ATC cards in this collection and also the water-colour effect + calligraphy on the cards.

I made a layout with the quote 'Keep Going' which is very suitable for my current hectic schedule…. I just gotta breath in and out, and keep going =)

P.S: Just in case you are wondering, this pink vintage tappy of mine has really amazing cursive fonts! And no, I don't see myself destashing this in the long run, it is PINK, and it is in pretty cursive font! No way I could sell it!

When we have a blog hop, it normally comes with a G-I-V-E-A-W-A-Y right? I love Instascrap collection so much that I would like to share some of the goodies with you. All you need to do is to leave a comment on my blog post to win this prize pack that includes a Julie Nutting cling stamp, 45 ATC cards from InstaScrap collection and some random Prima flowers. 

Happy NSD and have fun blog hopping! Remember to leave a comment to stand to win the prize pack pictured above!

EDITED: I will pick a winner on 11 May 2014 8am PST and post it on the blog! Thanks again for leaving lovely comments =))

XoXo,

Layout⎪Hello My Name Is … *Made With Love*

Welcome to Made With Love Design Team members Blog Hop. From February onwards, we change the way we posted our monthly assignment and blog hopping a little. So now, Each week one of the DT girls will be given the spotlight as they share more about themselves. And this week it's my turn!

So let's get started with 5 things you might (or might not) know about me:

1) I can only scrap and create at night. When I said night, that means after 12midnight (graveyard shift ;)) Daytime is too busy and overwhelming for me, plus there are a lot of distractions too. Isn't that a common habit for a lot of crafters and designers to work at night? So I normally craft (and sometimes go online) till 4-5am, feed baby and go to bed around 6am. I am lucky that I have my in-laws and mum to take over the morning shift i.e. take care of Ivan in the morning while I charge my batter. 

2) I am friendly but it would take a while to warm up with me. Then I would share everything and anything with you. When I don't smile or don't talk, I look very defensive. 

3)  I like to scrap with some white noise in the background i.e. watching Chinese match making shows or Taiwanese variety shows. Don't ask me why I am addicted to those match making shows, I just love to watch them. Sometimes I would watch scrapbooking or art journals video tutorials when I am crafting too. I just cant craft without background noise, but no music please. I don't really listen to songs or musics.

4) I don't have a favourite colour but my favourite colour scheme would be pastel. I am currently obsessed with purple, since I saw Carta Bella Wild Flower collection by Kaitlin Sheaffer. The use of purple colours with other autumish colour  is just brilliant.

5) Other that scrapbooking (mainly doing layouts, Project Life and some random mini books), I crochet amigurumi, do wonky sewing with my beloved sewing machine, practise Modern Calligraphy and also do random watercoloring with my Gelatos / Inktense pencils / Distress Markers. And I cannot draw. hahahaha

These are some of my random facts and I hope that you don't font them boring. Would love to share more because it is just fun to share! Not limited to projects, but also love to share some random bits of my life + photos of Ivan.

Here's what I have made for Made With Love this month:

When I got my DT kit for February assignment and saw the cute scrabble tiles that spell out in Ivan's name, I thought of the title right away! I want the title to be' Hello, my name is IVAN SIEW'. lol. So I scroll through my 13,000 of photos in my iPhone and found this cute photo of him playing with flowers during our Sunday brunch session. 

I love these flair badges by October Afternoon. So I lined them up next to the photo, in order to use as many as I could in my page.

Close-up of the scrabble tiles - do grab as many as you can from MAde With Love store! They are selling out fast especially common letters like A,E,I,O etc. I remember seeing a girl at the store couldn't complete her friend's name because the letter A was sold out ;P

And these are the card + tag that I have made and as usual, i keep my cards as simple as possible so that I could mail them flat. 

Here's a tag that I made using scraps and bits from the DT kit and also my stash. Enamel dots, deer wood veneer and the cloud stamp is from my stash.. 

Thanks for looking! Remember to get these supplies from Made With Love store! They have new arrivals on every Thursday, just in case you are not aware of this! XoXo <3

 

Layout⎪Hello Hello Hello 2014 *Made With Love*

Hippo Hooray!! I have a great news to share here! I have been picked as Elle's Studio Design Team members for 1st half of 2014. I am so honoured to be part of this amazing team! God knows how much I love Elle's Studio bright coloured products ;))

This is my first layout for Made With Love for January 2014. I finally broke out my Cameo and start die cutting some white card stocks to be used as embellishments / titles for my pages. Can you believe this layout was created while my 9-month old was sitting on my lap? When I was arranging the papers and embellishments, he would try to help (as usual) and at times shook his head. I wonder of he show disagreement with the arrangement of the elements? >_< Who knows he might turn out to be a great scrapbooker when he grow up since he has been scrapping next to me since baby.

I Love the water-colour washed-out effect on the chevron paper by Pink Paislee. So I arranged the three die cut 'HELLO' and add some water-colour subtly by following the colour scheme of the patterned paper. 

As usual, I would layer patterned papers under my photo as photo mat and cluster embellishments (die cuts, stickers etc) around the photo. And most of the time, layering stickers or embellies over my photo is a must for me. Apparently I am not too worried about affecting my photo in the future, it is just one of my scrapbooking habit that i NEED to layer over the photo. Do you do that or you always try to avoid putting anything on your photo?

And here are the 2 love themed cards that I made using my DT kit. Love the ampersand papers from Studio Calico and also Crate Paper 'Love Note'. I have always prone to create simple and less bulky cards because they are easier to be mailed. 

I hope you have a fun and great weekend ahead! I can't wait for tomorrow because we are going for a mini getaway this weekend. It is our very first family trip (just the 3 of us) since baby was born! LEt's see how we cope and also have fun travelling!

*All the items used above are available at Made With Love store. Go grab them before they are out of stock!

List of Supplies:

Papers - Pink Paislee, Crate Paper, Studio Calico

Embellishments - Stickers (My Mind's Eyes), American Crafts Thickers

Others - Sewing machine, Watercolor, Punch (Martha Stewart), Die Cutting MAchine (Silhouette Cameo)

Now do drop by other DT girls' blogs:

Genevieve

Jeanette

Pooi

Priscilla

Yvonne  

Eat.Drink.BeMerry

Merry {belated} Christmas & Happy New Year to all! Not sure where to hang my DIY wreath so it goes to Junior's neck.

This is my $2 mini Xmas tree from Typo. The mini bulbs ornaments are way cuter in 'person'!

I love how we spent the christmas weekend together with my family & friends. We had pre-xmas dinner on saturday, Boxing day dinner and also an upcoming post-Xmas dinner/party this coming weekend. Busy busy eh? ;) I hope you have a great christmas celebration too!

And this is our log cake from FairPrice Finest. Not a big fan but parents were so excited having their very first log cake.

I made this using Studio Calico Sock Hop card kit. I dreamt of four pigs on my card & also the sentiment. So I made this card first thing in the morning when I woke up. I want the sentiments to be tone-on-tone while having a few colorful pigs. 

Made another postcard using the {left-over} die-cutting letters.  And I colored way too many ice creams after I got my new Derwent Inktense color pencils. 

I made this cloud mobile ages ago for Ethan's birthday. I don't know why I made him a baby mobile while we were dating a few years ago. Just to clarify, Ethan is my husband, not son ;P I think this baby mobile would be perfect for our baby room now. 

And these are the Xmas prezzies for the baby from My parents & Koko

No harm posting a few pictures of sunshiny smiles from my furkids right? We brought them out for shopping during Xmas. 

Me & Ethan. Trying to show off my baby bump @ Week 24. 

And I have been busy crafting + shopping + eating throughout the whole weekend too. I have started on making a {not-so-mini} xmas album for this year. Will definitely share the project once it's completed. Thanks for looking. XoXo.