A Journal for Emily

Recently, I received an email from a really nice customer enquiring if I am able to make a scrapbook/journal for his girlfriend who flies around the world. After a couple of emails are bounced between us, I started working on the project :)


He wanted to surprise his girlfriend, Emily, at the airport about a week from the time he emailed me and so we had a tight deadline :)

The cover has been mod-podged, sealed and varnished (3 layers of varnish) and I added nickel corners to protect the sides of the journal too.

The inside pages... they actually fold out so he has more place to put photos, ticket stubs and what nots when they travel together :)

There are 10 cities around the world that Emily travels frequently to and he wanted me to illustrate significant landmarks/things associated to those places... 

Can you recognize them?

It is and was a fun project!!! I love how they are going to make use of this journal to scrap their memories together.. how awesome is that? and the BF, my client, said he will update me on their pages when he can :)

How sweet of him, right? I hope Emily is happily surprised by his thoughtfulness and they are having a great time now :)

Quirky

Happy Valentine's Day

To all you lovely people out there....

Hope you're having a lovely day, where ever you are and whoever you're with :)

Quirky

Time for fun, again!

It's time to unleash your creativity and believe that with some guidance and perseverance, one can make something fun with their own hands! :)

It's going to be another fun session filled with laughter and glue on our hands... Learning new skills causes neurons to create new linkages to each other making our brains more active and delays aging of brain cells :)

Come, join me! Have fun! Email me at angelicquirk@gmail.com to register!!!

Quirky

Family

I don't normally do layouts, though I did mention that I will try to do more of it ... I think that should be one of my 2012's resolutions! :)

Here's a layout I did as a gift to my Dad for his birthday... photo was taken before my brother took his flight to the US. I hope we will be able to take another complete family photo again soon :)

I love putting layouts in shadow boxes because it allows me to give more depth to the layouts I create. But I'm thinking of another method to create 3D layouts as well... If I can stop procrastinating and step up to make that soon, I'll share it here... :P

Have a great day, everyone! :)

Quirky

Ink & watercolour

To those who know me long enough, they would know that I have been drawing and doodling since I could hold a pen :) Back in school,  I was doodling when the teacher was teaching... frankly speaking, I am not sure how I paid attention to the teacher and passed my exams since I am mostly doodling... I even mastered to doodle as if I'm taking notes!

Though, I kinda stopped doodling altogether when I advanced to college.... at that time, I somehow stopped doodling altogether. I think I stopped reading books too! (well, except textbooks.. boo hoo)

There was an obvious drought in drawing for many years in my life from college to when I started working.... it was during the last couple of years that I dived back into the 'artistic side' of my soul. Recently I have started drawing more and it feels good :)

All the illustration you see above are my originals in ink and watercolour. They are available in my Etsy shop if you wanna get your hands on them. They come in the black frame ready for you to display it.. all signed and dated... erm, the sheep stays with me.. LOL... 

Quirky