Tanika Iswandari: July 2011

Hi there,

Hope things are going well with you! :) Sorry again for my lateness in uploading the challenge, I was supposed to upload this challenge on Thursday, yesterday but quite frankly my internet connection at home has been unreliable and haven't got any other choice yet. So just have to stick with it for a while before I can get a better service provider :P Well, another week has come again for new challenge at AI Factory. The theme is stripes and spots. Use any of your material that has spots and stripes pattern, can be papers or cloths :)

I'm using the above beautiful "Princess" image from AI Factory which you can find here. She's so elegant and cute at the same time! I just love her! :) Anyway, I make another simple card, I created few layers of frame with spots and stripes pattern and I made them all on word program. I glued the princess on a plastic scraps, embossed the background with floral pattern and stamped the sentiment on the bottom side of the frame then embellished it with small metallic ribbon & four red spots on each corner of the frame.

~ Princess Image - AI Factory; Stripes and spots - myself; Bloom Dots embossing folder - Cuttlebug; Hello stamp - Stampendous!; Metallic ribbon - personal collection; Coloring - Prisma Coloring Pencils; Skin coloring - Copic marker

Now it's your turn to show us your creations. You know what to do :) You'll have until Wednesday, 20th July 11:59EST to upload your project here. Remember, you don't need to use AIF images but it would be appreciated if you do and they'd love to see the outcome! For more inspiration, don't forget to check out other fabulous creatios from the DTs.

Happy Crafting and have a great weekend all! :)

HI Everyone,

Hope you're enjoying your weekend :) Mine is gonna be ended within few hours. I must say that this has been really exhausting weekend for me! I managed to clean all the mess at my house :P and found stacks of scraps papers that I compiled with deep intention to use them all someday :P Well, I then took the time to use it at least for one project. So I ended up choosing label papers scraps. You see, when I made wedding invitations, I printed out the address of receivers on sticker label papers and I have many of them that were rejected because the results of the printing was bad or wrong. And as always, I didn't have the heart to throw them away as I can still use the back of the paper to write notes or even to make a sketch.

Then I decided to make a notebook out of these scraps sticker label papers for my weekend project :P as I didn't have much time to make it so I took a simple way by using the Microsoft Word program :) And below is the result. The clipart and border are available on the word program and I put a sentiment from one of my quotes collections.

You can find a very easy and very simple tutorial to create the notes book cover on this link. A big thank you to Asma (AI Factory) who had requested me to make a tutorial! It's a great honor, dear! :) Oh, make sure you also check out other tutorials on AI Factory Graphic Blog, there are so many of them :)

Sooo, back to these sticker label papers, next time if you have them, don't throw away, you can recycle them by using the back of the papers again as writing pad or sketch paper :) Okay, I'm off to bed now! Coz am so sleepy and my note book has filled with many things to do for the next six days hehe.. yeah, at least I have got something to do although my hands are soo tired :P

Thank you for reading all and see you soon! :)

Warmest Hugs

Hi Everyone,

Back again and this time I'm a bit earlier than last week but still same lateness ;) another new challenge time at AI Factory challenge has started yesterday. This week the theme is Double Time! Which means you have to use two of something on your project, it can be anything :) two buttons, two ribbons, two images etc.

Myself, I'm using the above Ella at Peace image from AI Factory which you can find here. She is soo cute, isn't she? Really enjoyed playing with her image :) I make a simple greeting card and a bookmark, both are in one place. I printed out Ella image as the center piece then use it as a pocket to hold the bookmark. I used bamboo embossing folder from Cuttlebug for the background and embellish the card with small red ribbon and two old coins..

~ Ella at Peace image - AI Factory; Bamboo embossed - Cuttlebug; Coloring - Prisma Coloring Pencils;

Old coins - Caramel Crafts; Red ribbon - myself; Sentiment - my personal quotes collections ~

So, show us your creation and if you ever need more inspiration, just go visit other DTs blogs to see their stunning creations! You will have time until Wednesday, 13th July, 11:59EST to submit your project here.

You are not required to use image from AIF but if you do,

they'll be glad to see it! :) Can't wait to see your creation!

See you there!

Hi Everyone, OOhhhhh I'm finally able to upload this challenge at AI Factory, really sorry for the delay. It's been quite chaotic weeks at work and home, not to mention the pathetic internet connection here is really frustrating.. well, just grateful to be here again :)

Last week, new challenge has started at AI Factory and will end by Thursday this week. I hope you have visited AIF challenge blog here. The theme is Embellish It! Use any of your favorite embellishment to make your project more beautiful and attractive. This time I'm using troy train clipart from AIF which available here and embellished it with a very cute wood crafted embellishment. I didn't make any changes on the clipart, just added the carriages by duplicating the single carriage using crop tools, copy and paste on photoshop program to get those extra carriages. Once I got the number of carriages I wanted, I adjusted the size and printed out the train image from CorelDraw program.

This card is for Belated Birthday card and I created a little poem too :)

Here's my card

~ Troy Train clipart - AI Factory, Wood embellishment & ribbon - Caramel Crafts,

Background papers - my wrap paper scrap :P, Wording - myself :) ~

The challenge itself will be ended by Wednesday, 6th July at 11:59EST. Soorrryyy :( I know I'm so late in posting this challenge but I really hope you can join us by submitting your project here. And do not forget to get inspiration from other DTs as they have make wonderful projects!

Thank you all for reading! See you at the challenge and happy crafting! :)