Scrapbook Album - Purple Theme

This Scrapbook album is for my good friend's 30th birthday, she was someone close whom I know for the longer time. I knew her from my primary school days, she was very fierce then and was like my big sis during those days, but now, she is more a lady than I am. The older she gets, the prettier she becomes. I remembered that she likes purple colour, so I made this scrapbook with the purple theme in mind. However, some pages did not turn out to be purple, this album took forever to finish as I included to many effects in it.
There were a few sections to this album:

Cover and introduction - Her nickname was dreamy, so I used the word 'dream' on the cover. The purple 3D flowers were hand made (I will show the technique of  making this in a separate post). Add pearls into the words to make it look more elegant. Her name was made using the weaving technique. I spray the cover using some sort of protective spray, it end up coming out giving the bubble effect. I am not sure whether that is how it is suppose to turn out, but it actually turn out really nice.

About her - I used corset picture and ribbon corset technique here. I also added doilies and made Japanese doll bookmarks (will show in a separate post) here.

Family - Here I made a window which can open up, her family tree, a pop-up house and just a page with collage of papers.

Friends - Here I made a lot of pockets, there is also a pop-up with movable mermaids which seems to be the favourite page amongst my friends. Then, there is some messages from friends and she can keep other cards or messages from friends here too, she can also choose to display whichever she likes.

 Birthday - I made a month calendar which can't be seen clearly, I will probably show this in a separate post. There is also a tri-fold or shutter card in the 3rd picture below, just go to you tube and search for 'tri-fold or shutter card', there are lots of videos on how to make it. There is also a 3D popup cake here which doesn't look too good after being folded.

Candy Stand

For Christmas gift exchange last year, my was Secret Santa for my lil sis. I know my lil sis likes mash mellow, so I came up with this brilliant idea to make a candy stand for her filled with mash mellows (can substitute with other candies). Since Christmas is a special of the year, I wanted make a special gift for a special person. I used a rectangular styrofoam as the base, wrapped it with wrapping paper then started decorating it with the packet mash mellows using round head pins. Since it looks rather plain, I further decorated it with red ribbons and paper punched butterflies. As a finish step, I added lollipops on the top.

Balloon Stand Man

My best friend had a baby party when she was back and made a colourful balloon stand man which I thought was really awesome. She told me is was really easy to make, you only need a stand (she used a stand lamp) and balloons. What you have to do is have layers of 4 balloon twisted together as shown in the beginning of the video below. Then use twist long balloon any way you want it and place it anywhere in the basic stand man based on your own creativity. Her husband drew the face of the yellow balloon using freehand which I thought looks very symmetrical.

The Balloon Stand Man

 Front

Back

Scrapbook (Star Pop-Up Book) - Newborn Baby Boy Graphic 45 Little Darlings

I was browsing the internet on DIY craft projects and came across this nutcracker star pop-up book, I found the concept interesting because you can close it up for keeping and open it up as a display. I did not find any instructions on the internet on how to make it then, but it was definitely my inspiration for my next DIY project. The link to the project is http://stampenstein.blogspot.com/2012/10/graphic-45-canvas.html and the end product looks link this:-

Christmas star pop-up book

As my best friend from UK was coming back for Chinese New Year which was sometime in February, I decided to make this for her since it would be convenient for her to carry it back and she could display it when she reaches back to UK. My project is using the graphic 45 "Little Darlings" line which I simply adore. My project looks like this:-

Front (The process) - From Engagement, to wedding, to getting pregnant.......I didn't include a picture of the back as it is just a plain blue cardboard page.

 In its book form

Arrival of newborn baby boy 

 The whole family

Baby Owen with Mummy and Daddy

Pictures of baby Owen 

Hall of Fame - Pictures can be changed 

 In its star pop-up display form

Those pages with picture in the middle are movable parts using either brad or 3D buttons so that the picture will not get destroyed when folded into a book,

Scrapbook Album - Little Miss Sunshine

My dearest friend Florence Chooi's nickname is Miss Sunshine, so for her 30th birthday I made this special little miss sunshine scrapbook for her.

 Front - The cartoon figure in black and white, printed out on a yellow paper the stuck to a thin card board. I used the hair elastic and made braids for the hair. The Ribbon is made using red polka dot ribbon with the ribbon technique in the next picture, the wire is then tied to the back. I used brads to make the legs movable by placing them on another paper then putting it in between the cartoon figure card board paper and another thick scrapbook paper, using thick foam double sided tape to hold it together.

Ribbon technique

Back - using a yellow thick plastic board cut into a circle.

 The whole scrapbook - All the pages with lil miss sunshine are printed out, I only pasted another thick scrapbook pattern paper on the back then stick all the photos. The layout of this scrapbook with all the lil miss sunshine photos are in a powerpoint and still available in my computer for sharing. Not sure where I can save it to share, so till I found out.

Card (Thank you) - U r too kind

A Taiwan aunty was so nice to plan my Taiwan itinerary for me that I decided to make her a simple thank you card. She likes blue, white and orange, so I made the card based on those colours. Buttons used for the letter 'O' just makes the card look cuter.

Card (Valentines and Birthday) - Words

Below are a few word cards which I made last year. Word cards are simply awesome just because you can make the card using any word, just as long as it is not too long. The 'LOVE' cards were made for valentines day and the last picture is for my friend's birthday. The good thing about this card is that is could be a small scrapbook as well, I especially like words like 'LOVE' because you can modify the 'O' and then put a photo in the next piece of paper and it's like you get the submarine effect of looking through the hole.

Which do you like best?

Card (Birthday) - Vintage using graphic 45 paper

This birthday card was made for my lovely sis, I remembered we went for a flower making class together and she told me she like the vintage card. So, for her birthday, I made a vintage looking card, the only colour combination in this card is black, gold, white and brown. I used one of the Graphic 45 bird song paper which have that very Asian feel to it. I have black crepe paper, so I wanted to make rozette crepe flower in this card and that is where is started off with. My card inspiration from another blog which link is at the bottom of this post.

Front 

Pattern paper - Graphic 45 bird song

Butterfly - Ek Success butterfly layering punch, the gold paper for the was abit too thin, I glue both sides of the paper together.

Pearl embellishment - Dull gold colour

Flowers - Black with gold pen drawn on the edges

Picture - Modifies in Picasa using Sepia and other effects to have the goldish effect

Close up on the flowers

Inside of card

Sizzix diecut to cut out the flip frame

Words - Gold sticker and happy birthday stamp using metallic gold ink pad (Crystal)

Flower - White flower ribbon dabbed in a mix of metallic gold ink pad and vintage ink pad (Tim Holtz) 

My card inspiration is from Alex Hughes blog

Card (Birthday) - Sweet 30?

My friend turn 30 this year, so I thought why not make her a card and surprise her. It is always sweet 16, so why not sweet 30, I had sweet stickers so I stuck it round the peek-a-boo view, in which you can see a lovely girl which represents her. I wanted to doing something different initially but it was too much work, so I went with simple.On the front of the card I wrote 'You are 30 once in your life. Make the best out of it.'

In the inside of the card, you can see the happy birthday word which I use rubber stamp with versamark watermark stamp pad and pearl EX colour 650 Micropearl, it look abit smudged at the edges. The birthday girl was curious on how I did the birthday card word there, I explain to her and she said it sounds complicated, but it's really a very simple technique, I added a video of the technique below. Simple but looks great. For the girl on the card, I am using my 'Anya Angel' rubber stamp from greeting farm with a bit of changes by removing the hallow and adding bunny ears. I know her nickname is 'lola bunny' but have no idea why.

Front 

Inside

Perfect pearl technique video which I use to make the happy birthday wording

Scrapbook layout - Life at the Beach

This was a pretty last minute scrapbook layout since I was busy, I promised to make a scrapbook for my friend, so a promise is a promise and I tend to keep it. Although it might not be 'wow', but I actually thought it was simple and nice.

I pick the photo which he was with a sunflower, which I thought it was pretty cute. I haven't seen him for many years, so I remembered him as this guy that like bikini girls, guess I was wrong. When he got the scrapbook layout, he wanted to remove all the bikini girls. He has 2 pitbull dogs now and he loves them to death, so if I ever make a scrapbook, it will be those dogs.

Wedding guestbook - Pink castle

This is my first attempt making a wedding guestbook, it was a success because I am satisfied with the outcome. She told me she wanted a wedding guestbook, so I wanted to make something special rather than just the normal book, so I found the scrapbook like castle and put forward the idea to her. She bought the idea and said she wanted the castle pink, so we gathered some pink and white paper/ foam paper. so the guestbook colours used were mainly pink and white with slight purple here and there.

 Front - The bride chose the words 'our journey begins'......

Inside - Those pages which are part of the castle, are made up of photos of the bride and groom. 

The page on the left has yet to have a photo attached to it. 

Signing pages 

Bride and groom registration photos 

More pictures :) 

 Back

Binding - I have the 2 tabs in between the 1st 2 and last 2 pages of the castle sheet, then punch holes on top and bottom. Finally, use a brad from inside to put the tabs together. I looks much neater from what it was initially like where I use 2 rings.