Valentine's Day Card made with just ribbons and twines - No punch, no stamp, no tool needed. Super easy!

Remember back in my home I had tons of washi tapes and I made all kinds of cards such as this one?

Cards like this takes little time to finish, and usually with simple lines washi tapes make great CAS cards.  Therefore, when I saw CAS-ual Friday's challenge this time, I knew my one hundred and one washi tapes will make it work. 

And then what do you know?  I forgot to pack any washi tape with me for travel this time.

So I looked around and found some ribbons I got from the local scrapbooking shop right before leaving Singapore.  And so I made this card. :-)

What I did was to position the two ribbons and fixed with double-sided tapes.  Then I hand-cut the hearts and stacked them together with foam tape, tied a twine, (notice that I cut the bottom of the bigger heart so the twine stays in place) and adhered with foam tape on the card.

Style-wise, since this card is for my husband, I want it to look modern and masculine.  I picked a geometric patterned paper and then use one pink and one chevron heart.  I think that pink heart is all he can take LOL.

And a close-up look at it you'll see the laminated crowns on the pink heart.  Cute!  :-D

So you see, no punch, no stamp, no tool. With just scissors it's surprisingly easy.  Happy card-making! (when you travel light :-D )

Greeting cards made with only one 6" by 6" paper pad!

As the past few weeks being the busiest time of 2013, and the following relocating move to Dubai in early 2014 wasn't any easier.  Straight after Christmas in Oz, I had to put paper-crafting aside for two whole weeks and focused on the whole moving thing. But good news is, after all the chaos I've finally checked into a hotel on Orchard road last week and finally managed to produce some projects.


Because straight after the hotel stay(Peter has to fly to USA for meetings from Singapore and I'd rather wait for him and fly together to Dubai, rather than I go to Dubai first and wait for him there) I have to pack the luggage and fly to Dubai, I really don't have much space for my crafty stuff.  But the end result is still good.  This is all I have, and I'd recommend for anyone going on a trip to take these with you:

1. Scissors and glue (I got liquid glue, double-sided and foam tape)
2. One or two stamp sets and one or two 6 by 6 inch paper pads,
3. small Punches and maybe distressing tools
4. Embelishments such as several buttons, pearls and ribbons.

It is best to decide on the theme or style of the project you want to make first, and then pick the tools/materials that surround the theme of your choice.  Also don't stop if you don't have the tool you need.  For example, I didn't bring any distressing tool with me, which was a mistake. Luckily someone told me I could use the nail file provided by the hotel to do some distressing around, which I did for the card later on. It's such a great tip and it totally works!

First card

Second card

Third card

Fourth card (distressed with a nail file)

I didn't take a photo of my completed mini album because I was in a hurry to give it to a friend for her birthday.  Here are some basic pages but they're a bit plain before applying the ribbons and tags etc. They are also from a different 6 by 6 inch paper pad:

Mini Album - Family Trip to Phuket

It was a sunny day, a great day for a trip to Phuket, Thailand.  Couldn't be better.  Until it was when we were just about to leave home... and suddenly Peter had trip on the stairs!   Next thing I saw he was lying down on the floor, howling from the tremendous ache.  I was terrified. Ashley was terrified too, and started to cry.

For the next thirty minutes I was trying to make him feel better (marginally) by placing ice pads under him, checking and making sure his spine was ok.  Ashley was trying to calm his father too by readying a Princess book (too cute but not helping either)  The taxi's here and I had to tell him to wait another 20 minutes.  In the end Peter managed to drag himself to the taxi, while the driver and myself got the luggage cases in.  I almost thought we couldn't make it until we took off, landed, and checked in at the hotel.

For the entire vacation, not surprisingly, we were mostly in the hotel resort.  I was only grateful my Peter could at least ease his pain in water most of the time.  Seriously he could well be in hospital.
Surely we didn't do much, not any of the tourist thing except one afternoon in the Phuket Town.  But I'm happy we all had some rest and nice food.

Fortunately, after the trip and seeing the doc and taking X-ray, Peter was told he probably had a small fracture but is self-healing without a surgery.  We are truly grateful it wasn't anything too serious.

My first real mini album with photos.

It's not a well-planned design in terms of colour, styles and theme but I'm happy to have finished it.
Pad on my shoulder.