Buttons in squares....

I am so excited to post this design today.....especially since I haven't been posting a lot lately hehehe.....so this is pretty exciting for me. I love this new paper I got yesterday....it's yellowish brown in colour and slightly textured like most of the paper I have been using for my other designs. As you can see, this design is a continuity of the Father's Day designs that I have done before....I was so in love with the squares designs that I decided to make more of this type of technique in my future designs. I have so many coloured buttons in my collection...mostly of the same designs, just different colours....and I love playing with them in this technique....it's so fun arranging them in the squares and matching them with the papers I have available. This birthday card design would definitely be suitable for the men and boys.... :)

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Pin and buttons....

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I placed this cute tag inside the card

This is definitely not the first time I am doing a newborn baby card.....I have done some before for clients but was not allowed to post them in my blog..... This particular card design is for a newborn baby girl. It's not that big in size, only an A6 sized card. Adorned with a gold colored safety pin, buttons, laces and a crystal like flower.....I lined some gold glitter glue on the dark pink paper strip next to the soft yellow laces....I love the effect it gives to the paper...The card has a small tag with wordings "Baby Girl" on the inside and comes with a matching beige colored handmade envelope.

The ketupat card with wordings & decorations....

Ok.....I finally decided how I was going to decorate the ketupat cards that I designed earlier....I placed some simple wordings/wishes on them and also some very minimal decorations. These are for those who prefer the ketupat card to have decorations on them.....I for one prefer the simpler designs with no decorations or wordings on them so that I could be free to write whatever my heart pleases to do hehehe...... All these cards are available for orders now.... :)

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For this dark green with olive and green squares ketupat card design, I printed out the wordings... "Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri".....and pasted it on the front of the card....and decorating it with some gold color dots that outlines the wordings and squares... I also pasted some gold colored sequins squares to add some sparkle to it. :) This card also comes with a green handmade envelope. The inside of the card is left blank for writing on personal wishes.

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For this apple green with dark green and olive squares ketupat card, I hand cut and pasted the shape of the moon crescent and star using a shiny gold colored paper. I also pasted on the hand cut paper squares some tiny shiny green star shaped sequins that sparkles when it hits the light....There is very simple wordings that I made and pasted on the inside of the card that says......."Salam Aidilfitri"........

Ketupat card...

Alhamdulillah.....everything is back to normal again....I finally get to post my card designs in my blog. Phew! A lot of things happened this month and some has disrupted my mood to design and also to work....problems have been resolved and I am once again back to work. Hmm...so here I am now updating something I have been working on these past couple of days.....it is probably the most simplest card design I have ever done hehehehe! It's so simple that even I am in shock to see it actually being made in the first place. It is actually a ketupat or rice dumpling motif that I am using to make as a Hari Raya card..... I didn't even make any wordings for it yet....still thinking of what I want to write inside the card.....it could be "Salam Syawal 1429" or "Salam Aidilfitri" or even just the simple "Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri"........ will update regarding that matter soon.....but for now, here are the cards for my Raya collection this year......just for you! :)

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This square dark emerald green card comes with a matching handmade green envelope..... the card also has a soft green paper insert for you to write in your Raya wishes.....

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This square banana green card comes with a matching handmade green envelope......the card also has a soft green paper insert for you to write in your Raya wishes.....

Troubles....

Oh my goodness......how long has it been since I last updated anything in my blog? Been quite awhile now....and it hurts not being able to do so. I'm experiencing some problems lately with the internet service at my house...sob sob :(....not sure how much longer it's going to take to fix the problem, but anyways, I am trying my level best to fix it so that I can continue updating my work here in my card blog. If anyone out there is interested in ordering cards from me....you can always contact me via email, sms or just give me a call. Thank you all for your support and sweet comments......

Layers and layers of hearts....

It's been weeks since I last updated my blog.....I have been so busy making cards and keeping up with the orders plus I was also busy with the new blog I set up especially for my bead craft. Below are some few new card designs that I made recently for a new customer of mine. She loved the design I made for SGC003 (blue colour) as you can view here

It was a big order and she decided to have them in a variety of colours. So I gave it a go and came up with all these new colour combinations for SGC003. It now comes in colours of peach, yellow, beige, soft green and soft pink too. I packed them up 5 pieces in a packet with their handmade envelopes. It was quite a tough task to do this design in the amount of order requested.....I thought that it would be easy....never did I imagine the load of work that needs to be done for such a simple design. Layers and layers of heart shape paper was needed to make the main design and that itself has taken so much of my time. It indeed was a learning process for me, and I managed to come up with some ideas of how to make them at a faster speed. As you can see, some of the designs I managed to take their photos in a much better angle but some I didn't have the time to do so......so I just snap them before posting them to my customer.....so that's why you see some of them in their plastic packaging hehehehe...........sorry people.....I will upload new photos of them as soon as I can!

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Soccer Dad...

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Looks like I went button crazy again with this design hehehe......but it looks just right for the soccer ball motif since it has a round shape too! :) This design is especially for those fathers who loves soccer so much! A black and white colour choice that was inspired by the soccer ball itself....the inside of the card is left blank for your own personal wishes for your dear father.

Dad...

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Another similar design pattern for Father's Day.....simply titled DAD......the inside of the card is left blank for writing personal wishes....I love the colour combination here....the tile like pattern really stands out from the dark green background colour. The olive green coloured paper is just so sweet. All the square patterned paper are hand cut from a template I made myself. Even the word DAD is hand cut from a template...quite tricky but managed to pull through in the end hehehe..... :)

Happy Father's Day....

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Wow.....I've been so busy making beaded bookmarks lately that I have been neglecting my card making....I guess the beads really got to me hehehe.....how can it not...they are just so much fun to play with......well today I am posting this Father's Day card that I would like to share here. I guess with this project I got button crazy hehehe! Love using the the different coloured buttons to decorate the card :). I also wanted to use the new craft punch I got recently, it's a leaf motif....so cute...I've been searching for this pattern for quite sometime now and recently I bumped into it when shopping for new stuff. Inspired by the chess board and a mixture of ceramic tiles was what came to mind when searching for ideas......weird huh? Oh well! hehehe! I don't have a father to give this card to now, because my father passed away years ago.....this blue colour combination card is dedicated to him because he loved blue colours, just like me.... :)

A sweet combination...

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I got this soft green paper a few weeks ago and wanted so much to make a card with it with a combination of white and pink. And the day finally came for me to do that when a customer of mine wanted a soft green and pink card! :) Her request couldn't have come at a better time.....I was eager to experiment it and see how it will turn out. I have done a combination of soft apple green and pink paper before and I loved how the colour suits each other and wanted to see if this soft green would look good too with pink and it did.....so I'm very happy with it.....I even made the handmade envelope of the same colour....to match the card.... :) sweet!

HB019 (without name)

This is the same design I made for another customer.....but the only difference is that the wordings does not include any particular name on it.....just a simple "Happy Birthday" on the card. The colour of the card looks a bit different because this one I took using the scanner instead of the digital camera :).

Striking pink and red birthday card

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*This card is available for order.
(I designed this card as a replacement for HB018 due to the paper which is unavailable at the stores at the moment)

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This is another card request that I designed for my customer....a request for a pink and red combination......I love how the red + white flower stand out on the card....very striking and catches your attention straight away... :)

I wanted to show everyone this design I made which is exactly the same as the one above except for the wordings in front that does not include any name on it except for a simple "Happy Birthday". :)

Brown owl with a twist of green

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I designed this card a few days ago for a regular customer of mine....she requested for a birthday card with an owl on it. She requested a card with an owl before which was last year for the same friend's birthday...so I used the same template for the owl but I made the card a bit different in colours and layout design..a mixture of olive green and shades of brown which I love so much.... :)

For my favourite teacher

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This particular card has the same apple decoration on the inside of the card just like the one in MTD001. The only difference is the design on the front of the card, which is much more simplified with simple dotted lines framing the wordings on the card.

I'm so glad that I am able to blog about this card design before Teacher's Day arrives this coming Friday hehehe! As we all know, Teachers’ Days are intended to be special days for the appreciation of teachers. We honor and recognize the lasting contributions they make in our lives. On this special day, students expresses their respect to their teachers by preparing a special party for them.....they also prepare the food and drinks plus the gifts, flowers and cards that expresses their love for their favourite teachers....Even ex-students pay their respects to their former teachers by visiting them at their homes... :)

I've always wanted to design a teacher's day card with an apple in it! hehehe! And finally I did! The red apple has always been a symbol of appreciation for teachers by their students....and that's what I am trying to portray here in my design.....the red apple with a gold heart shape on it as a gift for their favourite teacher.....with simple wordings on the front of the card, says it all.....with the tiny heart shapes and flower decorations that are made by punched out papers and also cut by hand....adds a special touch to the design.....the gold vines are hand drawn as well........this card would be perfect for that favourite teacher that you have always wanted to show appreciation to..... :)
Happy Teacher's Day to all teachers around the world!!!!! :)