Sweet Journalling Cards

Warning : This is a picture heavy post :) Not going to have a lot of words but would still be nice to go through the pictures with a cup of coffee or tea in your hands *winks*

When I design my stamp sets, I try to think of as many ways as I can to use them (I really do love versatility and that adds more bang for our buck too, right?). And so I think of using them for Project Life cards as well as for mini albums, scrapbooking and of course, card making. 

In this post, I am sharing project life cards that I made with my designs (you can get them over at Sweet Stamp Shop or for my Malaysian peeps, I do offer pre-order so we can all save on some shipping. Email me at evelin@evelintdesigns.com)

A monkey, an elephant and a bear :)

Life is a balancing act 

Lets fly away

Remembering today

And now, for some close-ups :)

I added Wink of Stella on the balloons. It really does glitter but can't seem to capture that on camera.

I know I have Copic markers but watercolor is so fun too!

And yes,  I fussy-cut all of them :)

Below are the stamp sets I illustrated and you can get them over at Sweet Stamp Shop or pre-order them with me at evelin@evelintdesigns.com (pre-order only open for Malaysian/Singaporean peeps for them to save on shipping. US folks get a great shipping deal from the Sweet Shop)

Juggling Bear

Monkey Business

Elephant Hearts

Thanks for reading all the way through. Hope you love my illustrations as much as I do and find them versatile as well. Remember to post a comment to link me to your projects using them, ya? :)

Card : Happy Birthday Bear

Here's another card I made with the bear that I illustrated. This time around, I replaced the juggling balls with hearts. I think that's pretty sweet, what do you think?

Added splashes of gold as well... I still love gold splatters!

Close up of the bear :)

Hope you like this card I made and also the bear that I illustrated. It is available as a photopolymer stamp from Sweet Stamp Shop. Go get your sweets!

Cork Embellishments

Before I started Project Life in 2013, I was just starting to get into scrapbooking. I wanted to preserve memories and I love how beautifully scrapbooking makes that. However, I wanted to remember daily bits and pieces too and Project Life made that so much easier :) I would still scrap big events but for our everyday life, I prefer the Project Life method.

And because of that, I am always on the lookout for embellishments that I could use to jazz up the little 3x4 or 4x6 cards. Embellishments that are pretty and yet does not add too much bulk (else it wouldn't fit in the pockets.. haha).

So when I saw that Studio Calico was selling these DCWV cork sheets, I knew I wanted to make some cork shapes for my Project Life pages. I bought my supplies and then I procrastinated (that and I needed new scissors. My old cutter bee basically destroyed my first batch of cork shapes).

I use Memento Tuxedo Black, PTI's vintage cream and Hero Art's Fresh Peach. You've got to wait a a little for the ink to set before handling them (else you get inky fingers... like me). Alternatively, you could heat dry them with heat gun. I want to try embossing them. I think that would be pretty too.

And you would need very sharp scissors to cut these babies. I used my old cutter bee and it was a disaster. The shapes frayed and turned out really badly. These were all cut after I bought a new pair of cutter bee.. So, do take note of that.

If you like any of these and don't have the time to make them, you could custom request and I will make and list them in my shop for you to purchase.

Instalovin'

This is my first scrapbook layout since I delivered my baby boy about 2 weeks ago. It's been a pretty challenging two weeks, what with the sleepless nights, crying and all, but it's all been good. So happy to hear from the Dr that he is gaining weight!

One thing I am so not used to (besides the waking up a couple of times in the middle of the night) is not being able to find time to scrapbook or do my Project Life. I have lots of photos in my iPhone that I have just finally uploaded into my laptop and hoping to find time to edit and print them soon (fingers crossed!!!)

Thank God my mum is here, though. Our meals are all taken care off and that's a big relief. I can't imagine a sleep-deprived me having to cook and clean the apartment too! At least things are not as topsy-turvy as they would be.. haha...

So, here's my layout that I made using Maggie Holmes line from Crate Paper. I super adore her designs and was almost gonna hoard everything and not use them :P 

Photos were taken during Christmas last year in Santa Monica. We went out for a walk and it was great. The weather was perfect and there were not many people :)

I added glitter to the punched-out hearts

And finally got the chance to use my tiny attacher... haha.... 

Eve

Remember

I am back....!! haha.... I know I've been missing for a while and yea, I really should try to blog at least once a week. Here's a piece of canvas art I did about 2 weeks ago. 

I mixed white and blue acrylic paint to get the color I desired, painted it and then modpodged the doily onto the canvas. I already know what photo I wanted to use so everything just came about perfectly :) Am loving the pink bloomers. At first I wasn't sure how to use it (but I love it) but then it went on perfectly with this layout :D I definitely want to make more and put it on our wall...

Eve

3-in-1

3-in-1 brings to my mind, pre-mix coffee... that is the first thing that comes to my mind (erm, cos I'm hopelessly addicted to coffee). 

This time around, 3-in-1 is a special request by a sweet girl for me to make a custom card for her boyfriend. It's for Chinese New Year, Valentine's and his Birthday... 

It was quite a task actually... I was thinking of how I'm going to incorporate all 3 elements into one cover.. and then, I thought, maybe I can make the card into something like a mini 'album'.... that will give me more room to add more elements and make the card more special :) So, that's how this idea was borned :) 

The dude is one lucky dude... Not many girlfriends will order cards for their boyfriends... normally, they expect cards from them... not vice versa *winks*

Quirky

Umbrella of Love

You know the song from Mary Poppins which goes something like, "a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down, the medicine go down ...."? Mine is "an umbrella of love puts a smile on your face, a smile on your face ..."

Been dabbling in cardmaking again these last few days. Had to restock as my handmade cards are running low on the stock count and I had to restock my consignment in CzipLee, Bangsar too :) 

Going to make more new designs so that you can have more choices in the coming craft markets! :)

Quirky

Valentine is in the air

Time passes so quickly.... it feels like I just entered into 2011 but now it's past February, celebrated (& is still celebrating) Chinese New Year cos there's 15 days of celebration and soon it will be Valentine's day... wow... I really hope that time can stand still for a while sometimes. Just for a while...

Anyway, I praise God that I received some card orders for Valentine's day. One of them is a custom order from a reader and another is from an ex-colleague. Received some non-Valentine day orders as well today.. will get cracking on it tonight!

Here's what I made... hope they both like it! :)

Order 1 : he wanted a custom card for his gf... guess he'll be seeing it here first as the card is en-route to him via Pos Ekspress :)

Order 2 : A blast from last year's card but with improvements! :D Girl, I hope you love it! I added glitter mist on the card! It glimmers! 

Quirky

Some Valentine Stuff

Hola.... sorry I've been so quiet in the blogging space. I've been very busy doing a lot of things, crafting included :) Will be sharing more soon, I promise.

Dearies, I'm very sorry I have not been leaving comments on your blogs as well but I promised that I did drop by.... oooh-ed and ahhh-ed at your cards and hurried off... so sorry....

I'm including some pics of some cards, gift tags and note cards I've made for the lovey-dovey Valentine's Day around the corner... well, actually they are quite versatile for non-Valentine use too, don't you think? *winks*

Hope you like these! :)

Quirky