Of Whimsical Colours.

It was hard to let go of this one.

...simply because I'm in love with the colours. It took a while to choose colours that could complement each other - but I was pretty satisfied with the outcome.

The colour tones reminded me so much of Irau Mountain, which I had the chance to climb a few months back. The gorgeous and whimsical sceneries on our journey to the top were breathtaking, and they inspired me so much when I designed this.

 

I'm glad that Anuar & Hani love the signage as much as I do, and may both of them have a wonderful journey going forward in life. Happy ever after! ;-)

Today's lesson.

Those who are the happiest, never did have everything.

But rather, they are thankful for everything they do have.

It's all because two people fell in love.

The story started when two people fell in love.

And decided they should spend the rest of their lives tormenting with each other.

Come rain and shine.

For better or worse.

May you both love each other every step of the way, Insya Allah. ;-)

Classic Wedding (Part 3: The Withered Roses)

(Please be warned that this entry is laden with pictures)

The withered roses - it started off as an experiment, as I love withered flowers so much. Then it became an obsession that was hard to let go, and the next thing I know, I had made aplenty of them. In variety of colours too. +__+

 So, we had the withered roses everywhere during the wedding hehe. I put them on some boxes for the bride’s family...

 

… and made some of the flowers as the corsages & buttonnaires…

 

.. . and some, on the wedding guestbook (one of those rare cases where I made one)

And plastered them on the wedding signage too…

The signage, bearing the groom and the bride’s names, was quilled in Jawi writing (Arabic alphabets being used to spell Malay words and pronounced as such). All quilling strips were hand-painted and hand-cut. Tedious job, but I’m loving the outcome so much I might do it again. ;-)

Classic Wedding (Part 2: Hand Bouquet)

The best part of preparing for our brother's wedding was that I was allowed to experiment with things I've always wanted to do, but didn't really have time to do them. Hee. This time around, I was going crazy over hand-painted papers, so I thought I could give it a try with this wedding.


Remember my first paper bouquet? It was such a mess and took a lot of my time that I almost gave up on doing another. However, with the current trend of handmade bouquet going rounds, I ought to give it a try again, right?

The tutorial for the ranunculus flower can be found here (amazing tutorial with detailed explanation). I made the hydrangea using a tutorial from a Chinese book (which I didn't understand, and relied totally on the pictures). Instead of using the ready-made coloured papers, I prolonged my suffering by hand-cutting and hand-painting my own paper to get the desired colours. Messy techniques.

It took me almost a week to frantically finish everything, but I think I'm quite satisfied with the end result. Yes, it could be improved in terms of durability and colour choice, but for a last-minute work, not bad, right? :P

I'm not sure whether I'd be able to do the bouquet again, since the process was so taxing, and I almost got insomnia from all these.. but again, you'll never know. ;-)

Year End

I've been very quiet this year. I can hardly take orders (apart from close friends and family members) since I didn't want to make promises I can't keep due to the instability of my current life. I'm hardly at home during weekends, and spend most weekends travelling around, thus limiting my crafting hours.

I'm still doing things I love, and love things I do. I miss writing, but sometimes I just couldn't keep up the messy editing of the pictures and writing entries for the blog. It seems ages since I wrote lengthy entries, and I seriously miss that (even when I know some of my readers are just reading pictures and not my words haha)

Hence, to end the year, there will be a few special entries, on a topic that got the most hits on this blog: Wedding.

I've had the opportunity to prepare for my brother's wedding in late November/ early December (thus, my long silence), and had a blast doing it. I thought of sharing them with readers of this blog, and since I have plenty to share (yes, lots of pictures!), it'll come in few parts. Watch the space ok!

With that, I end today's entry with a  hope that Miyyah@Kertas will blossom next year. :) (the above is a card made during Paper Crafters Get-Together v3, and yes, will blog about that too!)

Signing off for now.

Whiter than white.

Yes, I'm still obsessed with white. and flowers. and frames.

Unbreakable.

When you're down and feeling blue,
And the world seems to go against you,
Pick up the phone and give us a ring,
We'll have coffee and eat something.

These are the crazy bunch of people I want to grow old with.

Flowers in your book

I know it's easier to use punches or dies to cut the flower petals, but I guess I'm the traditionalist who cut everything using scissors. A messy  work, but I like it even more hehe.

Funny how I hardly use bookmarks (and thus, always scramble my way looking for the  right pages haha). I know  some people who love using them, so these girlish flowers are for them. :)

The bookmark tutorial was also featured in Remaja 15th June 2012 edition. :-)

The Imagination

My kind of card.

Classic, and monochromatic in tone.

And a dash of red to complement the colours.

Midnight Quilling

Mine (with a glass of teh tarik)

I went crazy one day and spent midnight hours at Mamak watching football with a couple of friends. And went crazier and taught them how to quill inbetween the football watching and eating my roti canai and teh tarik LOL. (Yes, quilling taught me how to multi-task!)

Mikko of Craftzmaniac

 Our tools were limited to quilling paper, cards, and glue, and suprisingly managed to get a few people intested LOL. One of the Mamak staff did approach and told us how much he's into arts and crafts too (drawing, in specific). It made us happy so we decided to give him my card LOL.

Fid of MisFidKrafts

And nothing beats the feeling of making someone happy. :-)

Creativity is contagious

So pass it on.

And I'm going Instagram-craze!

Paper flower hand bouquet

Thanks Martha! Thanks Youtube! for the lovely tutorials on how to make these!

It's an experiment, which involved paper, messy poster colour, glue, wires, tapes and paper strings.

It's nothing grand, just a small scale hand bouquet that was made out of curiosity. (It's more like I wanted to try my hands on new flower designs but don't know what to do with them LOL).

Surprisingly, these flowers withhold themselves stronger than I expected. Even after few battering, throwing, slumping, pulling etc. So you see... they are totally child-proof. :)

Perfect Day.

It's always a joy to attend another crafter's big, special event. You got to see all the gorgeous handmade touch, and you always know it's going to be a super-duper creative show-off event haha. I've known Saza during our first Crafters Get-Together back in 2010, we clicked instantly due to our paper craze, and spend lots of time shopping, sharing and chatting all crafts related topic.

She got engaged few months back so this card was made to commemorate the day.

Congratulations Saza! Can't wait for that big, crafty wedding!

Out of coverage

I was outside my usual craft-comfort zone, out of sources, and desperately needed to make a quick card. All I have are white cards, scissors, and glue. And pencils.

The trick is to make do with things you have, instead of things you need to have. Limited sources definitely does not equal to limited imagination.

Look around. There's always something somewhere that you create out of nothing.