Bookmarks

Here are some simple bookmarks for my girls' teachers.

SATW challenge Jul 2015

This is my first time entering a challenge over at Scrap Around the World and I am really excited.

Here is the moodboard for July 2015

and here is my take on it.

My eldest daughter learnt to cycle this summer (although there is technically no summer season here in SG) and she has been cycling everyday ever since. We lived next to a park and hence she has got ample space and time to practice and she has started to do stuff eg stand while cycling. This is an everyday routine in the evening just before dinner.

The colours were used to depict the time of day & location.

I used gelato for the background and sprinkled water on it. The droplets of water created a very subtle lightening effect, coupled with the white & yellow mist sprinkles.

There are "leaves on the pathway" as shown in the background (with stamps and emboss) followed by my paper layer. Trees & flowers (sparkles) & grass (glass glitter, mica flakes) to depict the environment. 

I misted the title with light blue and used a white-on-white emboss.

I had fun creating this and look forward to more challenges! :-)

Practically perfect

it has been a while since I had the mojo to scrap. Recently I purchased some chipboard from JittobearCo and with it, came new inspiration. the chipboard used were practically perfect & chicken wire.

What I did

1. clear gesso on solid blue paper

2. random stamping of the flower stamp and using clear emboss for "resist" effect

3. I then used Silver gelato on the stamping to 

   a. bring out the flower stamps

   b. lighten the intensity of the blue paper

4. arrange the different layer of paper

5. Gesso the edges to 'blend' in the paper. I also used dimensional paste with some blue ink to have some colour

6. Then I arranged the photos and used some Heddi Swap water-colour embellishments. (what I really like about HS water-colour embellishments is that I'm totally free to colour them as I like. perfect for mixed media work)

7. Finally, I embossed the title with bright yellow as I needed it to stand out among the whites & blues. I also deliberately used a light-blue for the photo mat, so the photo would stand out, without the mat fighting for any attention.

I really like this piece :)

HOME Made love

I completed this just before going to the hospital and after 4 days of brainstorming. 

that year, I made flowers for teachers' day using 3-d punches, straws, wires & papers. lots of work and lots of fun.. and I wanted to remember this effort of mine! in a layout..

here's what I did..

1.I used different shades of green paper and did a paper mache as the first layer. I sprayed some brown mists, added more gesso, more paper mache & some red mists too.. 

2. then I used a brick stencil.

3. I used ice-cream sticks to create the frame as I didn't have pretty chipboard frames. *cheapo*

4. initially, my photos were 100% coloured. however, no matter what i did for the layout, it looked weird and I finally decided to go for grayscale and it worked out fine. (i'm beginning to see a reason)

5. I altered the rose blooms using gesso to achieve the colour scheme I wanted. It was very fun and rewarding to it taking shape.I'm also beginning to see how others are able to achieve certain MM effects. 

6. I altered multi-colour mulberry leaves to green.

7.I dry-brushed small flowers to gesso to tone down its brightness.

8. ( altered my letterings too. as i didn't have it in the colour I wanted. 

then I assembled it altogether.

wasn't too bad .... :)

please feel free to leave your comments.

have a great day!

pink harmony

it was Racial Harmony Day and my girls were dressed up for the occasion.

not so obvious, I used matte-gel to adhere white tissue to form the background, with brown stenciling. with the same stencil, i did some pink embossing as well. 

I altered some chipboard using gesso, versa pink ink and gold emboss.

the Heart chipboard was coloured using gelatos.

taking a break from mixed-media - happy baby

my little one was going through the photos/video in my phone and she was watching a video of herself crawling at 9 months. 

looking through those photos just prompted me to quickly download them and do a quick layout. 

my most cheerful, photogenic baby... such a joy to behold...

I used MS doily maker for the centerpiece and lightly inked it. it's a good buy :-)

from another angle

i like this photo a lot and thought that I would do another take on this. 

I used gelatos to have the green background. 

I have quite a fair bit of green stuff, so I thought i could make use of them, ribbons, washi, buttons.

I"m beginning to like mixed media a lot.... :)