Romantic Feel

After several months of paper crafting hiatus, I decided to come back with a card that I made for the 22nd Prakarya Kertas, Indonesian monthly paper craft challenge held by Dian Yustisia. This month’s challenge is “Romantic” it could be something related to romanticism and arts from that era, or could be any interpretation of romance.

Before my hiatus, I bought this very pretty colorful gingham patterned ribbon. I really want to incorporate this into the project, so I make a round shaped card with doily paper, put some buttons on it and make a bow with the ribbon as the center piece. I sand the sides of the card to add a vintage feeling to it. I like the result.

Sadly I can’t list the supplies because I don’t know the brand of these.

More Card for the Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #19

I got some excess punched flowers from the card I made before and I was inspired to make another one so here we go! This is my second entry for Dawn McVey’s Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #19.

Supplies :
Punches : Fiskars Threading Water Edge Punch, Carla Craft Petal 6 Flower Punch, EK Success Corner Rounder
Stamps : Mellisa Frances Crystal Clear Stamps, Hero Arts Wood Grain Design Block, Prima polka dot collage stamp, Basic Grey Flower Bitsy Stamp
Inks : Tsukineko Embossing Ink, Colorbox Chestnut Roan Chalk Ink
Papers : Brown Washi paper, random 100 yen paper, Kuretake Kolourboration (color: Koubai), Basic Grey Sultry 6×6 paper pad
Others : Signo White Gel Pen, Ranger Perfect Pearls in Turquoise, random buttons from my button collection

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #19

I made a very simple quick card for this challenge :

Even though honestly, it’s not quick at all figuring out what I wanted to do with these colors. It’s definitely not my comfort zone, and it’s a tough challenge! Personally, I love the heart button the most, it just matches the sentiment 🙂

When I used the distressed polkadot stamps from Prima, it just remind me how much I wanted the papertreyink’s polkadot basics stamps. Sadly since I live faraway from the US, if I order from the papertreyink’s website, the shipping cost even more than the stamp itself 😦

Supplies :
Punches : Fiskars Edge Punch, Carla Craft 6 Petal Flower, EK Success Corner Rounder, McGill Fancy Square Small
Stamps : Mellisa Frances Crystal Clear Stamps, Hero Arts Wood Grain Design Block, Prima polka dot collage
Inks : Tsukineko Embossing Ink + powder, Colorbox Chestnut Roan Chalk Ink
Papers : Random 100 yen paper, Kuretake Kolourboration (color: Koubai), Basic Grey Sultry 6×6 paper pad
Others : Signo White Gel Pen, Ranger Perfect Pearls in Turquoise, random button from my button collection

Green Wedding Card

My best friend was married last week on November 15. One of the disadvantage of being far from hometown is to miss a lot of weddings. And it made me sad. I made her a card, which I think is the least I can do for her. She loves anything green, even her wedding invitation was also green. So, inspired by her love of this color, I made her a super green wedding card. I know there are too many things going on on this card, but I quite like it. And finally I got to use my metal frame embellishment! It just finished up the card perfectly.

Small Happiness

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #18

It’s the time again! Dawn’s Raspberry Suite Color Challenge. Sadly I’m mistaken the challenge’s closing date *sigh*, so this doesn’t count as an entry, but it’s fun and the colors are beautiful so I did it anyway! For this challenge, again I’m using Hero Art’s Kraft Notecard (I think I need more of these!). And also still in my button craze moment, I decided to use *more* buttons for this project, and voilà! Here’s the card!

Supplies : Hero Arts Kraft Notecard, Hero Arts Clear Design Mix & Match Elements, Colorbox Chalk Chestnut Roan Inkpad, Basic Grey Sultry 6×6 paper pad, Basic Grey Bug Bitsy Stamps, Basic Grey Wild Flowers Stamps, McGill Fancy Square Paper Punch, Fiskars Upper Crest Edge Punch

Altered Clothespin

Ever since I’m obsessed with buttons again, I browse around Etsy for inspirations in using buttons for my crafts. So I bought a pack of wooden clothespin in 100 yen shop, the quality isn’t good, but I decided to use them anyway. I covered them with Japanese washi masking tapes. Put some buttons on top, voila, a brand new look is born!

Supplies : Wooden clothespins, masking tapes, buttons, embroidery threads

Non-Traditional Wedding Card + Gift Tag

It’s time for the 19th Prakarya Kertas papercraft challenge! It’s a monthly online challenge for Indonesian paper crafters in multiply held by Dian Yustisia. This time the challenge is tough. Using these colors; orange, black, dark green, purple, which are basically halloween colors for a wedding themed papercraft! I was thinking to incorporate the corpse bride or something Halloween-y so that I have the legitimate reason to use these colors.

Then, I incorporate just the purple and the orange (and a little bit of black) to make a non-traditional wedding card and gift tags! And wow that was fun. My experiment proves that these colors doesn’t always have to be about Halloween.

Supplies : 12×12 Go For Baroque (imaginisce), 6×6 Wisteria (Basic Grey), 6×6 Ambrosia (Basic Grey), Kodomo no Kao Rakuraku Koubou Flower Punch (in 4L and 3L), Carla Craft paper punch, Distress Inks (Spiced Marmalade & Dusty Concord), Haunted Ribbon from Cosmo Cricket.

LOVE

I stumble upon a scrapbooking sketch weekly challenge website, Pencil Lines. And one of their challenge project is a sketch from Stacy Cohen. I fell in love with the sketch, so I must play along even though I knew it’s waaaay way way too late for the challenge itself. I think hard on what pic to scrap, since I’m too lazy to go to the photo lab and print new pics. And also, the three boxes for photos made it clear for me, it’s either consecutive pictures, or one pic that I can perfectly cut into three.

Again I took one picture from my old album to scrap. This time it’s a picture we took in Shinjuku, Tokyo, in front of Robert Indiana’s artwork, the LOVE sculpture. It was a cold early spring in 2005, Anggit and Zulka just arrived in Tokyo and we held our first meet up. I love the picture, and the moment too. Here’s the result :

Supplies :
Stamps : Bug bitsy stamps, Wild Flowers stamps from Basic Grey, Tim Holtz Mini Ornates, Kodomo no Kao Distressed Heart
Inks : Distress Inks (Fired Brick, Vintage Photo, Scattered Straw, Milled Lavender), My Mind’s Eye Laundry Line ink pad.
Papers : 8×8 Cherry Hill Paper Pad from October Afternoon, 8×8 Honey Pie Paper Pad from Cosmo Cricket
Buttons : Hall Pass Collection from Autumn Leaves, Lemonade from Basic Grey, vintage flea market buttons
Others : Embroidery ribbon, Japanese Washi Masking Tapes, dymo, 100 yen shop paper & cotton lace

Buttoned Up!

Since this week is my button-crazed week, I’ll post several projects including buttons here, even though they’re not related to papercrafting at all. First is a buttoned up wool scarf. I knitted this 1-skein scarf last year. I used my dream yarn, the Noro yarn, but since I was broke and the yarn was very expensive (approx 8 dollars a skein), I only bought one. I made this long scarf (or anything you call it) and never wear it once because it ended up very odd-looking. So I decided, if I’m going to look crazy wearing this, why not go all out? I put some buttons on it using embroidery ribbon.

And here’s how it turned out :

This project is inspired by this very cool D.I.Y community (mostly include sewing) that I encountered via YouTube, The Thread Banger. I was so inspired when I read the blogs and watch their videos. But then again I remember, I always had problem with sewing that made me give up easily. But this time, since it’s quite simple I managed to finish it before I got bored or pissed. Here’s some zoomed details :