rainbow geo clouds

Found some Kaisercraft wooden clouds and animals at the shop last week and painted them with acrylic paint. Gold and mint are perfect together. Playing with pastel spring feel colours. With the use of MT tape, I have painted them in stages. MT tapes work wonders. They peel off easily. Acrylic paint dries up fast and does not smear. I bought some pins to be glued onto the back to make them into brooches. Magnet is another good idea. Or just leave them as they are. Stick them onto a card perhaps.

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faith, hope & love

Two weeks ago, Faith and I had a crafternoon at her house. One of the crafts we made was paper-making. It was a fun process, blending the old newspaper and magazines together 

with coloured pulp, sieve and flatten them to dry. 

Today i took some ink and scribbled Faith, Hope & Love on them. (1 Corinthians 13:13)

It's a season in life to learn these, Faith, Hope & Love. Especially it's drawing closer to the end of this year, I am thinking about the future, what to do next year, plans and dreams. Fear is lurking around. About the unknown and uncertainties. I need to refocus and trust and keep my hope. And love to see us through. What lies ahead... only God knows. I believe He has something planned for us. He knows what's best. 

Thanks Faith for the fun and bringing the dried up papers to me. 

Look forward to more craft sessions together. :)

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DIY stencil pillow

A while ago, i spotted this lovely DIY stencil pillow by Wit & Whistle via Pinterest. I pinned it to my DIY board and was hoping that one day i would give it a go.

So last Friday I took out my sewing machine and made a simple pillow case out of a canvas cloth i bought from Spotlight. Then i stenciled a lovely quote onto the pillow using a fabric marker pen. It took me a few good hours to complete it. I am happy with the end result. yay! =)

Quote:

'We are all a little weird & life's a little weird and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it L O V E.'  <3

DIY: Paper Bows

Lately I have also been making some paper bows out of old music manuscripts, old magazines & wrapping papers. They are so easy and fun to make. Good way to reusing your old magazines too.
Brilliant decoration for gift wrapping this Christmas. 

For instructions, go check out 'How About Orange' tutorial on making these lovely creatures here. 

DIY: Masking Tape (MT) fridge magnets

A vintage camera rubberstamp bought from Typo yesterday. $1.95.

I punched out some round pieces from thick papers with MT on them 

and adhered them to the cut-out magnets.

Adding colors to daily mundane =)

DIY: Paper Box Ornaments

This morning I made paper boxes out of old music manuscripts from thrift shop a few years ago. Finally using them in craft. It was fun making these boxes. So excited to see them forming together. 

Stumbled upon this origami box ornament tutorial by Samantha Miller via Creature Comforts' blog on making these little cute boxes. Go check it out! 

They are perfect craft idea for Christmas or any occasion really! They are so pretty as decoration. 

Imagine you can surprise someone with little novelties hiding inside these cute boxes.

Friday Five

Today's blend. Blueberries & Strawberries. 

Received a lovely card from Cindy today! Love the map envelope. Very randomly sweet of her. 

check out the pretty map envelopes by Bespoke Press.

Did a mini painting of Fish Tail Mountain and framed it in a red paper-mache photo frame i bought from Nepal. Haven't painted in ages so i thoroughly enjoyed myself this morning. Quite happy with the result. I used a card from Nepali friend & magnet picture for reference. 

Few nights ago, i cut out alphabets that spelled Merry Christmas. 

It begins to feel like Christmas except that i dream of a white Christmas.

Can't believe it's that time of the year already! Time flies when we enjoy the ride. 

love this Acrylic lasercut Ampersand from 'The Future Shelter' 

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Upmarket this Sunday 27th Nov at UWA! Christmas themed! Yay!

Pink sky & more crafts

Today's beautiful evening sky

Playing with MT tapes.

did a bit more cards this evening.

Weekend Craft

On Saturday my friend, Cindy came over to my place to play & make some Christmas cards. It's been a really long time since i had so much fun making crafts. Finally sorted my craft papers, punches, mt tapes & a lot more and putting them to good use! 'Clearing stock' we both agreed! haha. Here are some pics of the cards i made. Will post more soon!

Happy Friday

doodling on my mini whiteboard (a  piece of tile i got from Bunnings. hehe)

Verse of the Day: John 8:36

In Jesus there is freedom.

Love made of mini pom-poms? at Mt Lawley

sipping latte with bro at Exomod cafe, Mt Lawley.

a visit to Zakka Box & got a packet of MT tape stickers. Cute! 

Kind Yuka gave me a freebie! yay! 

been making some red buntings for Christmas...

bought some jelly powder for tomorrow! =)

Postcard from Germany

A while ago i swapped a postcard with a lovely blogger called Nadine after reading her post saying that she loves to send & receive postcards. I love to send & receive postcards too. Used to sign up for postcard swaps at swap-bot.com. I have collected many handmade postcards too. It's always interesting to read what they wrote. It could be a little something about themselves, their hometown & recent encounters.

All the way from Germany!

 lovely handwriting. =)

Once again, thank you Nadine for your lovely postcard! Go check out her lovely blog now!