tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33069642012-02-13T13:58:42.112+08:00Where everything is paper-made with love<b>Miyyah</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11206568208179549230noreply@blogger.comBlogger2201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306964.post-42256810107283982922011-07-20T18:07:00.000+08:002011-07-20T18:07:23.302+08:00

This would be a perfect family portrait. The father sports Elvis' hair, and the mom with the wavy and curly do. And the kids were the exact copy of the parents. There were supposed to be 2 more little kiddos, but I think they got lost somewhere and yet to find their way home. Or was it that I was the one ditching them in one of the boxes and failed to find them back? Hmm.. Yet to find them

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This is more like a scrapbooking style, but with a lil quilling twist on it. Each quilled piece was carefully coated with sealant so the colours would stay, and it'll be a bit of water-resistant. I use rub-ons for the words and loving the effect they have on canvas. I'm not really good at quilling roses (they always ended up being slightly skewed LOL), but I kinda like these roses hehe. The

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I always thought he's a great man who knew everything. He knows all answers to my questions. He's my walking dictionary/ thesaurus when I need one. He's my grammar guru whenever I'm confused. He's my art advisor. My hardcore supporter. My no 1 fan. The moment I told him I dream of having my own studio at home, he threw away everything in the back room to make room for my stuff. He even plan

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O my luve is like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: O my luve is like the melodie, That's sweetly played in tune. As fair art thou, my bonie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi' the sun; And I will luve thee still my dear, While the sands o' life shall run. And

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There are many reasons to celebrate. Getting a new job is one of them. Getting a new studio is also one of them. And starting afresh is also a great reason to celebrate. What's your reason?

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Another set of typography, for the groom's lunch reception. My favourite, really, for the woody-wood feel to the words. (I need to do other names apart fro these two LOL)

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Out of all the handmade things I made for the wedding, this ought to be my favourite. These hantarans were made a day before the wedding reception, and took me less than few hours to assemble everything - it's nice to have natural resources (lots of trees) around your house hehe. Each of the hantaran was decorated with a pantun plaque. Pantun is a four verse poem that rhymes and always been

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The favours. Sorry for being quiet for a while. Life has taken its toll on me, and I was in a mess, trying to figure out things (my eyebags were really bad these few months!). It's calmer now, and I'm trying to pick up the pieces again. There are many new things I did and I can't wait to blog all about them! Let's continue from where we left, shall we? Here are the favours that we made for my

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A simple Well Wishes table. The handwritten words on the chalkboard (tr: well wishes for the bride and groom) was done by my father, who has a knack for calligraphy and he is REALLY GOOD at it! (Why didn't I inherit that?!). It's just a small table, where guests could come and pick a card, and then run back to their seating places. The original idea was to have a guestbook, but we wanted to

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'The royal wedding' is a pun, since my sister's wedding was a day after Will & Kate's. LOL. The wedding took almost all my free time for the past couple of months, since I was determined to make it a totally-handmade-wedding. Yes, I was the self-elected planner, and went a bit over the top with everything (complete with the freak-out before the wedding day LOL). The Royal Wedding will come in

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Simple is beautiful. I love polka dots. And pompoms are my favourite kind of quilled flowers, as it's one of those simple flowers that are very quick to do. I'm getting the hang of using pattern paper right now, and I think I might get addicted to them hehe. Well I had card craze these few nights and keep on making cards and cards and cards (and some bookmark samples). And I AM using pattern

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Update: Slot 1 only have 4 more seats available! More seats available on Slot 2!

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 Miyyah@Kertas and Simple Rhyme are organising QUILLING CLASS (for ADULTS) Venue: CASTOR & POLLUX Professional Styling Studio, 31-2 (2nd Floor), Jln. Wangsa Delima 13, D Wangsa, Wangsa Maju, 53300 Kuala Lumpur. (map will be provided later) Date: Saturday, 14th May 2011 Time: SLOT 1: 12.00 noon – 2.30 pm (10 participants  4 more seats left!) SLOT 2: 3.00 pm – 5.30 pm (10 participants 8

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Yep. That was me. On a live TV show. :) I was informed that I would be featured on Wanita Hari Ini (WHI) talkshow merely a week before, and I was in the midst of preparing for my sister's wedding. Luckily, I was still on leave on the proposed date, and agreed to the request. (For my international readers, Wanita Hari Ini can loosely be translated as Women's Today - it's a daily 'live'

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Thank you for being patient. Thank you for being such great supporters. Thank you for being the strong wall to protect me. Thank you for being the shoulder to cry on. Thank you for being the soul sisters (and brothers). Thank you for alerting me. Thank you for the constructive criticism. Thank you for the trust. Thank you for being cool. Thank you for the advice. Thank you for being nice.

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The last part of the series. That's vanilla (with extra colouring haha) and strawberry ice-cream.  Yeah, you can really see the mess I made on the card. Stamping is  really not my specialty, so I still need to practise lots! :)

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The 2nd in the series. From right to left: grape pudding, milk chocolate, chocolate cake and strawberry pudding. Yet to make the box for this kind of cards though. I'm in the mood for white cards recently. Simple, and straight to the point. :) ... And dessert always made me hungry. Hm.

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Let me just say this. Personally, I think this is wayy tooo cheeesy LOL. Like 3 pounds cheesecake with triple cream cheese on top. Yeah. I hardly take cheese, so that's like triple the effect on me hahaha. But again, some just like cheesy things, so the series are definitely aimed for them LOL. This is the first of three in the series, and I simply want to make cards using items that are

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Another experiment. For memorabilia. Made for one of the lucky draws during a family gathering at Cameron Highlands, Malaysia (yeah, the family lurves get-togethers as well hehe). ... and I even found myself a model to showcase the frame. :P (I may need to start giving commissions to the parents LOL!)

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There are lots of firsts in making this card. It was my first try at making a retro quilling card. And first try at using the ever-scary-but-gorgeous pattern paper (bought at S&C). And my first time using distressing technique.  And rub-on transfer. Yeah. Lots of scary firsts. But I survived! :) Thank you Nadiah, for the opportunity! :)

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It's been a while since my first Giveaway, and sorry for the delay in announcing the winner. Thank you so much for participating in my first Giveaway, and this quilling-adorned album is luckily won by... IBU LUNA ZAHRA: Congratulations dear! Hope you can use it for your little family okay! :)

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There are times words don't have to be spoken to be understood. And sometimes a simple hi is enough to make someone's day. So HI! :)

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Can you see the blurry blue sky? I like looking at them. It gives me an indescribable joy to do so. Looking up the sky has become a daily morning habit. On certain days, you could see fluffy white clouds forming, with little grey ones at their sides. Sometimes there are hardly any clouds, that you wonder where they went to hide. On rainy days, the sky's so grey that you really wish the fragile

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Perhaps I should add more words to the card. Or perhaps I should not. as simple is simply beautiful enough. Of all the typography I've made these days, this remains a personal favourite. Yeah. Coz it's green. :)

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Experimenting is... Typography really is an interesting subject to dig into. And I'm having a blast doing it. :) (And getting addicted to it as well hehe)

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As promised, the cards made during the GT2.0 have been put on auction. The Auction starts now and the closing time is at 11.59 am (GMT), on Monday, 7th March 2011.  (Some of the cards made during GT2.0) This auction is opened to serious bidders only, and does not include the shipping cost. Have fun! To bid, please go to CARDS AUCTION page, and put your bid on the first picture of the design (

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It has been a tiring, yet very fulfilling weekend. :) I was really looking forward for GT2.0, since it's been almost 5 months since our last GT1.0. I would like to consider it a success, and I had tonnes of fun meeting other crafters. I humbly thank everyone for attending, and for supporting this little get-together. Organising wasn't easy, but I've had help from other crafters and art

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Here's the map to Eco-Cents for Paper Crafters Get-Together tomorrow! (I'll provide the confirmed attendees with my number, just in case you'll get lost okay!) ** From Federal Highway - exit Subang Airport first. I know I wouldn't be able to sleep tonight hehe - am just so excited to meet everyone tomorrow. Probably lots of grinning and less card-making, but who cares! :) See you tomorrow!

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I can't usually think straight when my energy level is low. Especially at midnights. The decorations, and the additional labellings weren't in the original plan, but I think I went a wee bit crazy the midnight before the ceremony, and started printing out some weird things. LOL. (I always do funny things at 12 midnight haha). First, I printed the mineral water labels, and wrapped around all

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Thanks Miezam for the poster! :)  Click HERE to go directly to the Discussion Board. Feel free to use the poster to spread the words too. :) Pictures credit to: Namizam of MiezCraftShop Asma' of Simple Rhyme.

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A quick one. These are the favours that were given out during the Engagement Ceremony. The first one was the Ma'thurat, (a mini book of daily prayers), which we bought in bulk, and altered the cover using black and pink theme. We were trying to avoid using ribbons as much as possible (haha), so instead of using ribbons to tie the booklet, we used cotton string. We are aiming for simplistic

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IT'S BACK, AND YOU'RE INVITED! Come and join us for a day of paper-crafting fun! WHAT? Paper Crafters Get-Together v.2.0 WHEN? Saturday, 26th February 2011. 10.30 am - 5.00 pm(it's a very laid-back event so you are free to come and go at any time) WHERE? Eco-Cent$ 33B, Block L 1st Floor, Taipan 2, Jalan PJU 1A/1, Ara Damansara, Petaling Jaya, Selangor. (otw to Subang Airport) Tel: 012-2915181/

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THE GIVEAWAY IS OFFICIALLY CLOSED. RESULT WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER. THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING! :) 2010 has been a great year for me - both in my personal life, and my blogging experience. I've enjoyed a fair amount of joy this year - great graduation, new job, new niece, amazing holiday, great get-togethers, interviews, write ups, reviews, fairs and bazaars etc. I've met so many great people,

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I love repetitive geometrical patterns (and by now you should be tired reading that haha). I'm so into Islamic Arts right now, and been reading on the fascinating geometric patterns in Islamic Designs - the beauty of geometric ornamentation in stressing the importance of unity and order. I've decided to do something that is not too complicated, and ended up on this design. :) Bought the box at

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It started off as an experiment, but later I decided to feature the butterflies as part of the hantaran. The process of making them tested a lot of my patience (what didn't? haha). It took me almost 3 days to finish a butterfly (I only quill at night time), and took almost 2 weeks to finish all 7 (done leisurely while watching online kdrama hahaha). In order to have the butterflies stand on

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I've talked about Merisik in Malay culture before, and this time, it's my pleasure to share the uniqueness of Malay engagement ceremony. Unlike most parts of the world, the engagement ceremony in Malay culture is done in a much bigger scale, and it isn't just between two people. The ceremony (cum celebration) involves the whole of both families, and sometimes, friends. It's more like an official

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 *gasp!* Yes, I'm always the patriotic type haha. It's the logo of my alma mater: International Islamic University Malaysia. Quilling this one was like going back on a time-machine. It made me grinned (half-stupidly haha), and smiled back to the tonnes of memories I've spent there. I kinda miss my old unimates, and even though we are on each other's friendlist on facebook, we hardly met.

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He. He. He. Finally. My own LIKE button! (I'm pretty sure all the magnets on the board will LIKE their new friend as well. :P) I could have improved it better. It wasn't neat enough, the quilled letters were still a mess, and I know I should have put extra patience when quilling the background. Full of flaws, definitely - but they are my favourite mistakes. :) By the time I finished

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I'm totally loving this pre-schedule blog entries. I've just pre-scheduled the entries up until the first week of February :P. At least I won't have to worry about updating blog on time. To those emails that are yet to be replied, my apologies. I'll try to reply one of these days. Onto the rain, again! I made this while listening to Gene Kelly (it's very addictive!): I'm singing in the

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It's raining everyday now. Have I told you how much I love the rain? Oh I think I did. :P Rainy days have always been my favourite days. I always get giddy when it rains hehe. I love walking in the rain, instead of running. I love hearing the sound of the rain hitting the umbrella. I love when the raindrops hit my face, and ruin my make-up haha. I love holding out my hand, so the rain would

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I'm getting used to all the stickers now! :P It's pretty much making my life easier hehe, and making me do the cards faster. :P The olive green card-stock is definitely one of my favourite cards (what else is new :P), and I keep on replenishing the cards that I have tonnes of them now hehe, At first I thought of making this card a masculine one, since the green and brown were simply lovely and

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There's something about green that I couldn't really figure it out. I'm not sure when or why I'm always attracted to the colour, all I know is that I tend to be very bias where green is concerned. :P If you remember the Pastel Palette magical tree that got me pretty excited before, this one is simply a re-creation of the tree, minus the palette hehe. I use shades of green, out of curiousity of

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You need good mood to make good cards. Hehe. I've heard the phrases being uttered by my craft friends too many times now. Rightly so at that as well. :P I wasn't in a good mood to make newly-designed cards, but I was in the mood to simply make cards using quilled things I've made ages ago. I've one red box full of quilling items that I made whenever I'm bored, things that I experimented

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A quick one. As promised, here's the final look of the giveaway album/ photobook: It's silver in colour, donning greyish black & light grey 1mm quilling strips. Here's the look with a sample photo in front: The details: Aaaand the picture that shows the thinness of the 1mm quilling strips hehehe:   It's my first full project using 1mm quilling strips. They're way more delicate than the

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A dear friend once forwarded this story to my email, knowing I'd love it (I'm such a sucker for stories like this LOL!). I thought I should share this one here. Enjoy! The Girl With Clockwork Heart by C.L. Holland (from Everyday Fiction) Once upon a time there was a girl whose heart had broken from grief. Such was the pain of her broken heart that she went to a kindly watchmaker and asked

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For my gorgeous lunch partner. It's a very simple and quick-to-do card. It reminds me of the 70s. Not really sure why though. I simply love the retro look of the card, combined with the classic alphabet stamps. Mustard yellow is a great colour, and it gives out that poppy, cheery feel to the card... .... in which I think is perfect for the cheery Tania. May you have a cheery day, okay

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This album was done ages ago, but only recently that I managed to snap pictures of it for the blog. You've probably seen this from the Star Kids' Fair pictures. Here's the full blown on the album's details. It's another experiment of colour choices. The first album was done in greyish tone, but this time, I though blue could fit black perfectly. And it did! :) I'm yet to make the box to

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It wasn't a full blown patisserie, but it's a start hehe. It's very simple for a starter like me, but I'm happy with it anyway. Each of the items were delicately arranged on the shelves, and I simply love the drapes the doilies made for the shelves. (The doilies were perfect, Saza!!!). It did take me a while to decide on the arrangement, and at first thought, I had this multiple ideas on how

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These simple bookmarks are made for a close cousin's wedding last November. She designed her own calligraphic wedding signature (it's the combination of her name and her husband's in Arabic), and sent it to the rubber stamp shop (told her she should have it hand-made, but it was too late for that). The red butterfly bookmarks looked pretty simple, but they actually took about the same amount of

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  I decided to make this a day before Star Kids Fair started. I thought it would be a simple and nice way of introducing Quilling to everyone. I know it's tiring having to repeat yourself over and over again on what Quilling is all about, so I figured that this is a good way of achieving the same objective without tiring yourself. Heh. I adapted and adopted the Wikipedia entry for the brief

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  *Sigh* This must be the side effect of watching too much of food programmes on TV. I'm totally overloading with Top Chef Desserts right now! (I watch this online, not on TV) I'm craving for some miniature desserts hehe. Tried my hand at making chocolates, but later diverted the attention to making the whole of desserts instead. Let's see what we have here. There's the Melon puddings,  the

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...and you never know what you're going to get. Forrest's mama always said that. Yeah, run Forrest, run! What my mum always said was when you get a box of chocolates, you should cherish them, and enjoy every single flavour of the chocs. I'm a food lover. It's pretty obvious, really, since almost 80% of my fb statuses were always about food haha. I enjoy food, and believe that I should enjoy

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I'm still working on the detailed report on the Star Kids Fair last weekend (which went AWESOMELY WELL) aaand the Art is Enterprising Workshop that I attended 2 weeks ago, so in the meantime, this entry is a photo spam of all the lovely quilling artworks done by the kids (and their parents) during the Star Kids Fair workshop. I've spoiled myself with all the delicious quilling, so I wanted to

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Introducing Boyya, the green crocodile. He's a small creature the size of my palm, of which I found while trekking in Bukit Antarabangsa, Kuala Lumpur. NOT. Trekking and me will never mix haha.(I encountered him while doing Art is Enterprising workshop at Bukit Antarabangsa). He's a lost soul, and I suspected that he simply forgot where he landed his spaceship. Boyya is a vegetarian, and

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I love making cards for mothers. There's something special about showing your love towards someone who gave birth to you. Mums love flowers. At least that's the presumption people had on mothers. Personally, I think mums will love anything made/bought by their children. It's not the items, or the price, but it's the thoughts that count. Isn't it? I'm still experimenting on the colours. I

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When everybody else is still in the looping butterflies mood after the Get-Together, I'm currently addicted to this whimsical design haha. This was made out of personal request of a dear sister from Uni whom I haven't met in ages, for her husband's birthday. Green has always been one of my favourite colours, and being able to do a green-theme card is fun. However, the best part of making

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It was my first time going to a craft fair. And I had such a blast!  It was packed with people, and all the designers were so creative in decorating their small booths. Some goes for wow effects, some are cute, some attracted attention from far away, some hang banners, and some others prefer simplicity and put everything on the floor (which I think is simple, but successful in gaining attention

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Dear my dahhling readers, This is an official invitation from Miyyah@Kertas. Miyyah@Kertas, together with the other 3 ACG Members are collaborating with Parenthots.com is going to hold craft workshops for kids in conjunction with The Star Kids Fair on 27th and 28th November 2010 at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. The Kids Fair is opened from 11.00 am-7.00 pm and the ParenThots' crafting slots

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I hardly join giveaways, but I think these three deserved special mentions, and lots of LOVE from everyone! (Everyone seems to be on giveaway mood lately in Malaysian craft scene haha) There's always a little something that I learned from my encounters with online craft communities. Each blog that I silently read always encourages me to learn something new, something fresh, and mostly,

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Remember ages back when I said I'm on another photo album project? Well, here it is. Yes, finally. It's blue, and I think the album was meant for new born piccas or something - since they put the baby picture on the front. I'll change the front photo later once I've decided what to do with the album. I've done similar design on another project before, but back then, I only use black, white

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What would you do when you're itching to quill, but found out that you've lost your favourite quilling tool? Well, that happened to me recently, and I'm yet to find the replacement. *sigh* Yes, I do have other quilling needles, but it just.. felt.. different. :( So, after not quilling for quite a while, I decided to warm up a bit and do simple designs first. I haven't made flowers in quite a

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Miyyah@Kertas was featured in The Star newspaper yesterday! It was just few paragraphs, but enough to make me, the kids (and their parents haha) excited. It's kind of fun and thrilling to see yourself in the news, for the first time. :P Click HERE for the full article, which could also be found online. I decided to give STAR Kids Fair a try, just because it has been a long dream of mine to be

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Years before I started this blog, I hardly knew any paper crafter, and always wished that I could at least find someone who'd be able to share my paper-craze. Yup, it's kind of difficult to explain to people the needs of buying more paper and glue and scissors and ribbons, even though I have piles of them at home. I then started googling online for Malaysian craft communities, and found this

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Wheeee! I'm a wee bit nervous about this project, but I'm really looking forward to it. As most of you have noticed, I haven't blog lately, and had to put quilling in the backseat for a while due to some personal reasons. My apologies for those affected with this decision. :( However, I'm still quilling though, even if the project is too small and nothing to brag about. Quilling is like my doses

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To those celebrating their anniversaries, congratulations! A short one this time. This card was made for Faridah, for her anniversary. Congratulations dear! May you have beautiful years together! :) (never thought I could write this short ha ha ha!)

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I love Malaysian street burgers. Funny how we always found them sold in front of 7-Elevens. I don't know who started the culture of burger-sellings outside 7-Es in Malaysia, but it's one cute little culture I could live with. It's way cheaper than those nicely wrapped burgers of KFC and McD, and taste way better LOL. So what's your favourite street burgers?   Mine would always be Burger Daging

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I don't like the fact that I missed this wedding. :( But I love everything about these. It's a close cousin's wedding, and since I couldn't be there physically, I sent these to represent me lol. It's just a little something I loved to do, and a little something that is needed in the wedding. My aunty wanted something plain and simple, without too much of exaggerated design on the boxes for

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I've tonnes of fun making these. I like the fact that they are so simple in design, and yet the simplicity is what makes them stand out. This is definitely one design I won't get tired of making. :) I've used purple before, but only limit them to pastel colours.This marks my first time of combining purple and black, and those are really some joyful colours to combine! I love making sets

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My very first quilled lettering. :) There are some who are into simple cards, and there are also some who just love exaggerated, grandeur card. This card alone took me almost 5 times the amount of time I made for other cards.It takes up a lot of time, a lot of processes and a lot of hard work. and sweat haha. But as usual, I had fun. So that's all it matters. :P I know there are still a

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It's an experimental work on colour combination on repetitive quilling patterns. The 20-page photo album was on sale, so how could I not buy them?! At first I thought this looks a bit unfinished, but I was too lazy to add on more quilling on the cover, so I finally decided to just let it be. It's already too crowded being like that it almost wash out the beautiful quills. But after a while,

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Sorry, I'm so into the travelling mode right now. So here goes hehe: Would this be enough for two weeks? No, it's not. But these were the only items that I managed to repack haha. (That's my favourite orange-flavour shampoo, so-called antibacterial shower gel and fragrant-free mosturizer)

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I've been contemplating whether I should have a separate Miyyah@Kertas page on Facebook for quite a while. And I finally made the decision to have my Miyyah@Kertas page so it would cater to the rest of the facebook populations (read: my listed friends) who didn't read this blog. Ha. ha. Come and join in the fun at Miyyah@Kertas facebook page ya! I've already added some pictures, and planning

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I've been caught up with lots of things to settle before the week ends. There's a cousin's wedding to attend on the whole of Saturday, and my flight will take off on Sunday night. (And to think there are still few more World Cup games to catch up...)....So I have some very limited time with me right now, and am seriously hoping that I could settle everything and take off with a light head. Who

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I wish I have few more pairs of hands. These weeks have been chaotic and I've been trying to settle everything before June ends. Why? Because I won't be around in the first part of July, and will only be available after 20th. (Don't worry, I'll pre-scheduled my entries :P, and am still available via email) More updates on pre-order quilling/ craft tools. We've finally reached a decision (yeay!

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Told you it's going to be a wedding week at Miyyah@Kertas! :P This is another one from  the wedding cake series that I made. This was actually done very early in the morning (7.30 to be exact), and it was very impromptu. No previous research done, no sketching, no nothing. Perhaps it's because I've done the yellow cake on the previous day that the crafting of this became easier. \ The most

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The wedding season's back! It's school holidays, and as in every school holidays in Malaysia, weddings happen. There are some things that always fascinate me during weddings. I always thought Malay weddings are very vibrant and cheerful and happening, since it's always full of colours, came with plentiful of food, and a must-have hand-made touch for the hantaran (wedding exchange gifts)

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This is the angrier version of fence motives. Yes. I'm currently angry. And stress. And fed up. And upset. And frustrated. Don't ask. I thought of blabbering everything here, but currently resisting the temptation. I'm loving this kind of structural motives right now. Part of it reminded me of the traditional wood-carving motives that can easily be found in Malaysian traditional houses. Only

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This is the last of the three-part tribute to Child's Art. Fiqa is the first born in our family. She's the first daughter, the first granddaughter, and the first niece we ever had. She's now 9, and strangely enough, I think she skewed more towards the left brain (must inherited that from the parents, not the aunt, heh!), and she herself claimed of not having the hands of an artist :P  And yet,

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Afiq will be 6 this coming August (he's a Merdeka baby!), and he goes to the same kindy with his little brother. He's way more eccentric that his younger brother, and just loves to ask questions that will make your head scratch on it's own. Highly inquisitive, this kid. He recently told his teacher and his whole classmates that his father's favourite pastime is singing, and made it sound like the

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When you're having crafter's block, the best thing to do is to ask someone else to design for you. LOL. Oh wait - except when you're simply too fussy and don't trust anyone. :P My niece and nephews have always been my favourite comfort food, as they are always in awe with every quilled items I shoved on them. Even when they're half done, or half-cooked. :P. They asked me to teach them how to

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I'm guessing this Wonderland idea that I had at the back side (on the right corner) of my mind is starting to get a strong hold of me. Not in the sense that it had intertwined between the imagination and the reality (oh well, sometimes it did LOL), but in the sense that it has provided a great escapism  from the usual things. Diversions, at certain times, are always welcome.   I have a lot of

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Life is not a fairy tale. If it is, I would have changed everything according to my tale - no more wars, no more selfish people in the world, and that everybody should live in peace. I'm a proud Muslim and I believe in peace in the world. I hate wars, I hate selfish people and I hate heartless humans who behave much worse than animals. If we can show sympathies over harmless animals, even

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I've recently practised on how to schedule my blog entries, which I'm planning on using if things are getting even more haywire on my side. Most of the time I've posted 2 -3 entries per week (sometimes up to 4 - 5 as well). By actually scheduling my blog update, I could easily arrange my update, and could tell you beforehand too :P Today's entry is actually a continuation of previous entry.

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I've talked a bit about Shera in my previous entry.  So here's the mini scrapbook album that I made for her. Truthfully, after few failures of making good scrapbook pages, I was a bit worried that I couldn't do the album according to her requested details (which is like a page long hehe!). Aaannnnd I was a bit worried that I couldn't make the album 'young' enough, since both Shera and her friend

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The first time I tried my hands on proper scrapbooking, I thought it was ugly, that I scrapped it off after few days. Then I concentrated on making digital scrapbooking, mainly because I'm much better dealing with digital papers and embellishments rather than the real ones. I can do cards at any times, but scrapbooking need so much more - wider spaces, deeper thoughts, selection of pictures,

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I couldn't take full credits over these, since they were made by almost everybody in the house. My nephews are having Teacher's Day celebration at their kindy today, so they wanted something to give to their teachers. My sister bought some books and some wrappers and everyone sat down yesterday evening and wrapped everything up. I provided the brown recycle paper for the outer wrap, together

<b>Miyyah</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11206568208179549230noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306964.post-90682734254668743752010-05-20T00:30:00.003+08:002010-05-20T03:13:20.018+08:00

Making this card felt like shredding own heart to confetti-like pieces, and trying hard to scrap it back into the heart shape. The only problem is that when you shred your own heart, regardless of efforts to glue the pieces back together, the end result would always be completely different. Piecing together a shredded heart usually ended up it being a battered looking heart shape, with scars

<b>Miyyah</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11206568208179549230noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306964.post-15756097507770206672010-05-18T16:22:00.003+08:002010-05-18T16:28:23.571+08:00

Happy Belated Teacher's Day everyone! 16th of May actually marked my 5th year of becoming an official teacher. There were some gaps in between those days where I was more of a student than a teacher (and I'm still on 'leave' right now -read: jobless :P), but the fact remains, I stepped into the teaching business exactly on 16th May, 2005. So I am a teacher, right! I was born in a family of

<b>Miyyah</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11206568208179549230noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306964.post-30473821101248486812010-05-16T00:34:00.002+08:002010-05-16T03:07:10.196+08:00

This message really made my day, and I think it deserves a mention here. I'm so excited to share this! miyah, this tree reminds me of one of ur cards in your blog - the one with one small vase and tonnes of gorgeous, pastel quills.  And she tagged me this photo: She was, of course referring to this card: You have no idea how excited I was! I basically gasped and shrieked with glee. The

<b>Miyyah</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11206568208179549230noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306964.post-50020159990416389762010-05-10T12:35:00.002+08:002010-05-10T12:45:30.633+08:00

This is a slightly different card from the first owl Anniversary card. I love the fact that the owls can fit so many occasions! And yes, I know, the owls were such a hit even I couldn't get enough of them hehehehe... At first I wanted to make some singing owls, but finding it very difficult to cut out the tiny music notes, thus, I gave up. :P Next time, then. I then tried keeping it simple

<b>Miyyah</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11206568208179549230noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306964.post-78194630344599218292010-05-07T23:42:00.011+08:002010-05-09T21:22:43.441+08:00

I've actually written this entry for my personal collection before, but in celebrating Mother's Day, I think this ought to be shared, again. On one sunny morning in May 2004, I became the first caller to get through a radio station, and bravely dedicated a self-made poem to my mum in celebration of Mother's Day. The mention of her name on a famous radio station did create a wee bit chaos among

<b>Miyyah</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11206568208179549230noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306964.post-35524439516321943072010-05-04T17:42:00.002+08:002010-05-09T21:28:50.282+08:00

Again, this is way long-overdue cards. It was a last-minute request, so I basically had less than a week to prepare two cards. But since I'm the last minute type as well, and I've just finished settling other orders at that time, it didn't turn to be a problem. It's more like a challenge, because usually it's not really easy for me to design cards according to themes. Hehe. But I'm glad I took up

<b>Miyyah</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11206568208179549230noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306964.post-74444911352753702010-05-02T21:21:00.003+08:002010-05-02T21:59:59.065+08:00

Mind me, if this entry is going to be bombarded with lots of photos. I simply couldn't get enough of these, and keep on snapping the pics for the nth time, up until the day of delivery hehe. Are-ween emailed me way back in January, and told me she wanted to give something practical and special for her friends during her wedding, which is going to be in May. After few discussions, we settled on

<b>Miyyah</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11206568208179549230noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306964.post-18043992309200079162010-04-29T13:22:00.000+08:002010-04-29T13:22:07.487+08:00

First of all, sorry for the long overdue posts. There's something wrong with the laptop the whole of last week, so I have to rely on the house's desktop to go online. But it was hard to put a blog entry as usual since all my photos are stored in my laptop and I couldn't even reach them. And when the problem finally settled (got my laptop running again yeay!), the Internet went haywire for a

<b>Miyyah</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11206568208179549230noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306964.post-12196980199545136272010-04-21T20:24:00.004+08:002010-04-21T20:33:43.047+08:00

"Thy name is Konn.." I told him. "Why Konn?" "Just because." I said. "Okay. Then Konn it is." Isn't he an obedient piece of paper? Konn was born after Irie, but it took a while before finally being featured on Miyyah@Kertas. I love everything about Konn. He's bubbly, he's dreamy, a neat freak, a claustrophobic and such a cutie. And he flaps his bulky hands every time he walks down the

<b>Miyyah</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11206568208179549230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306964.post-75820128662530748552010-04-19T11:14:00.003+08:002010-04-19T11:19:20.674+08:00

So many things to do, so little time! These are some of the flowers and butterflies in my collections (told you I've made tons before), and since my paper clips collection are thinning down, I thought I should make some, and here they are. It's good to have pre-made embellishments like the flowers and the butterflies, as it took me less than 5 minutes to glue them down on the paper clips.

<b>Miyyah</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11206568208179549230noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306964.post-37876292193078317472010-04-17T19:21:00.001+08:002010-04-17T19:27:28.399+08:00

It's raining outside! *happily skipping to the window* I love rain. I always do. And I love to listen to the rhythm of the falling rain. The tippy tap sounds when it hits the umbrella. The soft rhythmic beats when it touches the window pane. And I wish I could always dance with all the raindrops too. Oh, listen to the falling rain Pitter pater, pitter pater Oh, oh, oh, listen to the falling

<b>Miyyah</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11206568208179549230noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306964.post-83450388057439564832010-04-15T22:38:00.003+08:002010-04-15T23:14:49.414+08:00

No, it's not just a rose. It's a bunch of roses. But I love the song, and it fits the theme, so be it. :P And I think everyone should watch this: I can't even read music notes, but I honestly think he's one amazing guitar prodigy. And his guitar rendition of Kiss From a Rose is simply amazing. He goes by the name Jung Sun Ha and he's just 14! (The above was an old vid). Try watching his other

<b>Miyyah</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11206568208179549230noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306964.post-84709116923191824362010-04-12T21:07:00.003+08:002010-04-12T21:13:38.504+08:00

I have no idea why this little head of mine keep on visualizing gumdrops, marshmallows, taffies, lollipops, jellybeans and so many other types of candies lately. And with the pastel-ish craze that I'm going through right now... I thought this card could give me toothache. Yes, this card looks nothing like gumdrops or marshmallows or taffies or lollipops or jellybeans. At first sight, I thought

<b>Miyyah</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11206568208179549230noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306964.post-60622413607025610562010-04-10T19:41:00.004+08:002010-04-12T21:21:28.560+08:00

It's going to be a very pastel-ish week at Miyyah@Kertas. So you're warned! I've been using the whole pastel palette for the past few days, and I keep on getting addicted to the colours! The softness of blue, the sweetness of pink, the lightness of yellow... all colours look sugary sweet and it does bring out the girlish side in me LOL! This dreamy ol' tree is exactly the way I envisioned it

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