Hello there!

Hope you're doing great.. Today, I'm uploading one of my ATC card which I made to join the October Challenge of Mbak Dwita Fb and blog Crafter's Life in order to celebrate the World Card Making Day 2015.

I actually found out about the "Friendship" few days before the due date. So, I rushed and created this simple ATC. I use kraft paper, hand draw the two girls image with drawing pen and use Prisma Color Pencil for the coloring (which I'm still learning to do it :P) and for last touch, I used word stamps from Stampendous for the words "my and Friend" and Kaiser Craft Christmas Sentiment for the "Love". Yep, I only have those stamps set and I always have to mix and match them :D

Alhamdulillah, Thank you God! I'm glad that my creation is among the top 10 which is at no.7 (my lucky number actually :D:D). Guess what I got, whole bunch of great stuff!!!! From Mbak Dwita, a kit for November challenge and also I got a beautiful handmade bag created by herself and a Magnolia stamp!! I am so excited!! Coz believe it or not, this is my first ever and the one and only Magnolia stamp that I ever have in my life!!!! :D :D  And that the bag I use it to keep my make-up tools, yeaahh I usually don't use make-up bag, but now I have one that is so lovely!!! Also I got stuff such as lovely sequins from Mbak Hanny, flower punch from Mbak Judith and other lovely stuff an ATC card from Mbak Nova!

I am so excited and thank you so much for lovely people who voted for me.. GBU! :) And most of all, thank so much for Mbak Dwita for your generosity, hard work and effort for making these challenge possible! and thank you for the sponsors.. you all really made my day! :)

Thanks to you friends for reading this! 

Love you all and see you soon! *kiss and hug* :)

Hello friends,

I'm posting late post tonight from a Sunday Market Event that me and my friend participated back in August. It took place in Segara Village Resort in Sanur, Bali. 

The location was by the beach, so our booth is exactly by the beach in the resort area.

It was actually nice and cozy resort, especially for my daughter as they have children playground there. Many booth sell handicrafts, clothes, beverages etc. and also had acoustic band entertainment.

Me and my friend shared in one booth. The event was so okay and although we made some sales but generally it was quiet. From our point of view, the booth location wasn't in a strategic place for people to come and have a look. So I really hope that they can make a better booth layout and provide interesting program especially for children as Sunday Market is more about family hang out :)

Anyway, we did have fun and I was so happy that my hubby and daughter accompanied me for a whole day! Love them both so much. Here are some pictures that I managed to take. I couldn't take any picture in the afternoon coz our booth was being on the spotlight from direct sun light :D 

So really sorry if they are blurred as I took these when the sun was almost set and I had to rush to bring my daughter home coz she was so exhausted! :)

Thank you for reading this and Take care! :)

Our booth

Hello friends,

I have been playing with inner tube recently. And yes, besides paper crafting now I really enjoy jewelry making even if I am just starting to learn :)

Anyway,  I'm inspired by my hubby who loves motorcycle very much. Instead of him wasting the old inner tube then I decided to create jewelry out of it. This is also one of my purpose to recycle the inner tube as you can find them everywhere and they are so easy to find. The rubber is very strong and that it will last long.. Not so easy to handle though but I'm happy to be able to cut it manually using scissors :)

So here are some of my creations which are now available at my crafts boutique HERE.

Oh, just for your information, I do ship worldwide and accept payment through Paypal so if anyone outside Indonesia is interested to purchase then please don't hesitate to contact me :)

Thank you very much and hope you enjoy your day!

Hello friends,

I hope you're doing great! 

I'm happy that for the past few weeks I have some time to play with my cork sheet. And the result is that I am able to make new jewelry creations made of cork sheet. 

I love cork sheet very much. They create a natural, unique and ethnic look :) 

I manually cut them with scissors and cutter knife, I stamped it using ink and regular stamps then for the finishing I used ModPodge Dimensional Magic to keep it sealed and waterproof.

I'm glad they are now ready at my crafts boutique Plumeria Crafts.

I do ship worldwide and so if anyone abroad is interested then you can contact me directly for the details, and oh, payment can be made by Paypal too :)

Thank you very much and Enjoy your day!

Hi friends,

How are you? Wow, I really missed my blog. 

I've been busy with few events which I will write later :P Well, I do hope you are doing great and enjoying your day :)

Today I'm going to upload my simple creation to join challenge in my facebook group. The group is called "HandicraftQta"managed by talented Indonesian women and this is my first time joining their challenge :) 

The theme for this time is White and Red in order to celebrate 70th years of Independence Day of our country on 17th August 2015. So, here's my creation:

Red and white cards and pair of earrings all are made of paper using "Gunungan" image that I created few years ago

Pair of paper earrings. I printed out the Gunungan image and then add Mod Podge Dimensional Magic to make the earrings wearable and waterproof.

I created this Gunungan image on 2012 and at last I got the chance to use it this year :) Check out the details on my old post here. I draw images like fish, ocean, trees, flowers etc. to describe how rich our country is and praying that God will always unite and shower us with lots of love and courage. So that we always remember His blessing and take really good care of it.

Thank you for reading and See you soon!

Hello friends,

This is another rope necklace that I created. 

I'm using black string, feather and little heart charms and combined with some silver beads and black glass beads.

The feather is made of metal and I wanted it to be the symbol of strength but yet it is soft.. just like a woman! on the outside woman can be so gentle and warm but on the inside it has a strength that can endure all the pain in life :) 

This necklace is soon available on my crafts boutique. Should you need more details, you can contact me directly :)

See you and take care!

Hello friends!

Today, I'm making a very simple necklace. Using dark brown string, wood beads and metal butterfly charms.

I wanted to describe the forest which is represented by the wood beads and the branches is represented by the dark brown string.. and I hope to let this little butterfly flies away in the forest but also always be with you everyday :)

This necklace will also available at my online crafts boutique soon. The link is on the right side of this blog. For more details, you can contact me directly :)

Hello friends!

Here's another result of my work, another necklace with pearls and in bronze/brown colors..

Brown is an earthy color and pearl is an elegant symbol. I combined the ivory pearls with bronze chain to leave an elegant and a unique impression for woman as well as a down-to-earth feeling. This is a "just be yourself and be present" necklace :)

This will be available at my online store soon. So stay tune and keep checking out my crafts boutique! You can find the link on the right side bar of this blog. See you there!

Hello there,

I managed to make a necklace using china beads with flower pattern.

I'm combining small chain and some jump rings, I wanted to show the beautiful flower pattern on the beads. They are so pretty and the color is so romantic :)

This necklace is soon to be available at my crafts boutique with other new collections. You can find the link on the right side of this blog. So stay tune and keep checking out my online store! :)

Hello all,

My special friend is having a birthday and I decided to give her a necklace made by myself ofcourse :P 

She's a very strong woman, a single parent who is now fighting cancer. To me, her life story is almost the same as a novel, full of ups and downs and I honestly loves her and proud of her. She's still full of spirit and doing her work activity as many of us do. At the same time, treating herself with medical therapy every three months and being a mother of her teenage daughter.

I guess whatever I give means nothing compare to what she has gone through.. She deserves the best things in her life. I made her a special necklace and I chose black glass beads and combine with silver beads. Black represents strength in which I mean it to represent her spirit but not only that, I also wanted to make a simple but yet an elegant necklace just as her character, a strong and elegant character :)

This late afternoon I'm gonna meet her, I just hope that she will like it! *finger cross* :P

Hello friends!

As you'd probably know that I had resigned from my previous job in a company months ago! (hmm I think it's soon gonna be a year :P) Anyway, although I'm not working there anymore, I'm happy that my friends still remember me hehe.. 

Well, one of them contacted me and asked me to make a necklace for her. She chose one of my bracelet design and wanted to have a necklace with similar design. The necklace itself is used to replace her ID card rope because she thinks that the current rope she's using is not always fit for some of her wardrobe.

So last week, in an afternoon, after chatting with her and discussing the length sizes etc, I made this simple and rope (about 30 cm length) necklace below. I delivered it to her office in the evening on the same day :)

Hi all!

So today is all about late posts hehe.. I've been juggling to have some time to update my blog and today I'm glad to have a little time for that :)

Here's another work that I made from last month. Another jewellery artist was interested in purchasing my bracelet packaging. I customized it a bit, he asked me to add a small instagram logo and do not want his details to be printed out. 

He wanted to use this packaging for his ring. The rings sizes are quite big, so in order to fit and balance it, I had to resize twill tape rope length and also put the logo a bit down below than usual. All printed on black ink and I still use kraft papers for the packaging body :)

Here's the result:

Hello everyone!

Hope you all are doing fine. I've been missing my blog very much but haven't got the chance to update it yet. For the past few weeks, I've been busy with my online store and some custom order. 

Ow, remember that I uploaded my personal bracelet packaging months ago? Well, someone actually liked it hehe.. and I got an order from a jewellery artist who needs to make pack her bracelet with my packaging design. Anyway, I managed to make some for her and customized it a bit. I printed out her contact details inside and only used her logo on the label. As requested, I printed out in black ink and change her logo to black as well.

I was glad that she liked it :) And here's the result:

Hello friends!

Sun is shinning and birds are singing, It's June! 

Well, I hope your weekend is as fresh as summer breeze! :)

Today, I'm going to upload a birthday greeting card with vintage theme. But since I don't have any kind of stamping tools for this style, so it's very challenging for me. Instead of using regular stamp, I decided to go digital and make my own line art (from my own photo). I created it using Adobe Photoshop and I put vintage fonts and sentiments from the internet.
So it's a vintage card with a digital touch :P

Below is the result:

The result of my photo that I converted to line art

I took the vintage font from Font Space and got the sentiment from Wishes Quotes. I created the line art, vintage frame and sentiments in Adobe Photoshop. I printed them all and reprint the birthday sentiment on the back side of the craft paper then cut it manually and put it using foam tape.

I enter this card to the following challenges:

CASology - Week #149 Vintage

Crafts 4 Eternity - R#229 Birthday

Simply Paper Crafts - Challenge #6 Anything Goes

Sister Act Card Challenge - Challenge #109 Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting my blog and have a lovely day! :)

Materials I use:

Card - Craft linear paper

Sentiment - wishesquotes.com

Fonts - fontspace.com

Frame - Adobe Photoshop

Hello friends,

It seems that everywhere I take trip to the blog land, the theme is about flowers. So I created greeting card using flower image as below.

Firstly, I color the background strip using Distress Ink Tattered Rose and a strip stencil that I created myself from plastic cotton pack. Since I don't have flower stamps yet so I'm using flower image from a wrapping paper. I glued the image on a paper and cut it with scissor. I manually cut the flowers into two, one I use double tape to attach it on the card and another, I use foam tape. Thus, would give a paper tole effect. I also add coloring to the image with Prisma Pencil to make it more alive and less stiff.

For the finishing touch I add some sequins and a happy birthday die cut sentiment which I got from -mbak Nova- two years ago from her die cut pack of challenge gift back in 2013 :)

 

I enter the card on the following challenges:

A Gem of A Challenge - Challenge #145 Flowers

Artistic Inspirations - Challenge #132 Anything Goes with a twist of die cuts

Melon Headz Friends - Flower Everywhere Challenge

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Challenge #229 Anything Goes

Sister Act Card Challenge - Challenge #108

Thank you for visiting my blog and hope you'll have a lovely Sunday with your loved ones!

See you soon!

Materials I used:

Cardstock - local paper white color and cream pattern

Strip background coloring - Distress Ink Tattered Rose

Strip stencil - DIY from plastic cotton pack

Image - Flower from wrapping paper

Word - from a friend

Sequins - non branded collection

Hello friends,

Today, I created a very simple card using only sentiment that I made myself. When I heard a word story, so many things came up in my mind.. fairytale, success story, career story etc., but one thing that is really linger is of course.. a love story :) However, since I don't have a stamp that can represent my idea, so I decided to create one and used it as an image for the focal point.

To make it a bit romantic, I add a butterfly stamp from a stamp maker company (I got this years ago and this is the first time I've ever used it) and colored it with Prisma Coloring Pencil. I hand drawn the dots on the card to frame the sentiment with Staedler brown color pen. 

I created the sentiments using Stampendous (Happy Messages) for the word "You" and Kaiser Crafts (Christmas Sentiment) for the word "Love" and the "line" image (which I used to give impression of stack of papers). As for other alphabet, I'm using non branded Alphabet Stamp from local book store. I add sequins to give the card a bit of light :)

Hello friends!

I hope that you all have a great week. Myself, this week I have been more productive than I was on weeks before or maybe compare to last years too hehe... 

This week, I'm using Tilda and as this is my first ever time to use her so I really hope that the result is good :) I got Tilda from my talented and lovely friend -Melissa from Melz Handmade- and the die cut sentiment is from my talented and lovely friend -Ayu from Mimipipi Crafts-. The die cut sentiment is originally a polaroid die cut and mostly used as frame. But I decided to cut the frame and use only the sentiment.

I colored the image using Prisma Pencil and created the background using >> DIY Stencil from snack pack << that I made last week. I colored the background using Brilliance Galaxy Gold Ink and for finishing touch I add some sequins.

I enter this card to the following challenges:

Indonesia Magnolia Lovers Challenge - Tantangan #16 Clean and Simple

Sister Act Card Challenge - Challenge #108

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Challenge #229 Anything Goes

Thank you so much for your visit and have a lovely day! :)

Materials I use:

Card stock - local kraft paper

Coloring image - Prisma Coloring Pencil

Image - Tilda in bee costume from my friend

Sentiment - smile die cut from my friend

Background coloring - Brilliance Galaxy Gold Ink

Hi friends,

I made another cards to join in two great challenges. 

My card theme is get well soon with simple and clean design.

I used white and black card stock from drawing paper. I created the simple and easy-to-make roses from paper, just cut them in circle and roll it starting from the edge then stick it to the base with white glue. I created the background using black drawing paper, colored it with Simbalion pastel color and attached it to a white card stock. I wrote  the sentiment on computer and then printed it on vellum, glue it on a tiny paper and attached it on the card. For finishing touch, I added some sequins just to make it more alive :)

I join this card on the following challenges: 

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog  - Challenge #117 Get Well Soon

Check out their blog to see fabulous creations from the DT and participants

  

AND

The Card Concept - #35 Frilly & Fabulous

 The theme is focusing on simple and clean design. I was inspired by Kerin Sylvester with her clean & layered style. I love her paper roses and the background wood she created! Check out their web to see amazing creations from other DT.

Thank you for reading my post and have a lovely day! :)

Hello friends!

Hope you had wonderful weekend holiday with your family and get more energy to start your weekday activities tomorrow! :)

I managed to make some cards this weekend and here's one of them:

It's very clean and simple card. I used white card stock and put a wedding ring sticker which I got from my lovely cousin and then stamped it using Brilliant Dew Drop Ink Galaxy Gold with sentiment on it from KaiserKraft "Being together is the best gift of all". Well, even though the stamp is from Christmas theme collection, I use it coz the meaning of the words is quite universal to me.

I made this card to join the following challenge:

CASology   - Week #147 Wedding

Thank you for reading my post!

See you soon :)

Hello friends,

I'd like to share my newest greeting card.. for you.. yes, you my friend!... coz you've come here and spend your valuable time to visit and read my post.. so thank you and you're the best!! :) 

On this card, I'm using my >> DIY Stencil from plastic snack pack << which is also another way for me to recycle the plastic. I have to tell you that the stencil really does work!! Well, I'm sure it stays long until I can afford the proper one :)

So for details, I created and printed out the sentiment on vellum paper and then stick it on a masking paper tape. I made flower from cork sheet and cut it manually, I created the background using the plastic stencil tool and color it with dew drop ink (olive color), give small pearls on the flowers, leather twine and added some sequins for the finishing touch :)

I join my greeting card on the following challenges:

Crafty Creation Challenges - Challenge #289 Color Palette

Die Cuttin Divas - Challenge #216 Water a Flower Day

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog  - Challenge #228 Anything Goes

Simply Paper Crafts - Challenge 5

Challenge Up Your Life  - Challenge #15 Ribbon, Buttons and Twine

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by and reading my post!

Have a lovely day, friends :)

Materials:

Cardstock and Paper - local paper no brand

DIY Stencil - personal collection

Dew Drop Ink Olive

Cork Sheet - plumeria crafts

Leather Twine - plumeria crafts

Sequins - personal collection

Pearl - gift from a friend

Hello friends,

I'd like to upload my newest greeting card today and to join in some challenges. This time I made a very simple birthday greeting card with a slider. The idea is like giving a present to someone and let her/him open it :) well, something like that I guess hehe.. anyway, here's the card:

Then make the gift box in square, colored it with water color and wrap it with ribbon embellishment which I made from fabric tape. Make sure that the size of the box is a bit bigger than the frame so it gives a tiny space to move.

Then, make the card primary base. Cut paper in rectangle form for the slider. The rectangle must have a space fit the gift box to move left and right.  On the rectangle paper, I hand draw a simple high heel stamp as the gift (this one is special for my friend Mbak Monika who loves shoes stamp and whom having a Birthday Linky Party on her blog HERE :) I created the image using a black Snowman drawing pen 0.2 and colored it with Staedler pen and Copic for the shadows.

Fold the edges of the rectangle paper. Make sure to fold and leave a space about 0,5 mm on each side so that the gift box can move to slide. When you're done, put double sided tape on each side then insert the gift box inside and test the slider by moving it left and right. 

Once you have insert the gift box, attached it to the card by turning it upside down and adjust it with the frame you made previously. Make sure that the double tape stick properly.

I hand drawn dots and small arrows with pen so the receiver can slide and open the gift box :) Oh, I forgot, before attaching the gift box, make sure to stamp the sentiment first to avoid messy result.

I decorate the bottom card with similar washi tape as the gift box.

Voila, finish and you get a very easy and simple greeting card with slider :)

Hope this is useful for you and thank you for reading my post! 

Have a great weekend everyone! :)

I join this card on below challenges:

Creative with Monika - CASE-ing My Card Birthday Linky Party

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Challenge 308 Make Your Own Embellishment

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge - Challenge #113 Ribbon and/or Lace

Simply Paper Crafts - Challenge 3 - Anything Goes or Lots of Layers
Crafty Creations Challenge - Seeing Spots

  Sister Act Card Challenge - Challenge #103 - Anything Goes

Crafts 4 Eternity - Recipe #223 - Anything Goes

Hello friends!

Hope you're doing well. 

For the past few days, I've been making simple packaging for my bracelets.

I'm using scissors, krafts paper, twill tape, magnets, double tape foam and cloth. I make pocket cloth to keep the bracelet and also to reduce plastic usage.

Below is the result:

Use A4 size kraft paper, measure the space for the bracelets. 

Score the paper depending on the size of the packaging you need. Make sure that it covers the height of the bracelets too. Cut the excess on every sides of the papers and form the edges as desired. 

I put the bracelets inside a cloth pocket.

Then close the package by folding each side carefully.

 I printed a label and stick it on front of the package using double tape foam. Measure and cut the twill tape, glue it on the back and pull it to the front. Stick small piece of magnetic sheet on the edge of the twill tape. The magnet on top side is longer than the one below, it's made so it can still move depending on the bracelets thickness. Glue the excess of twill tape on the edge so it won't messy.

Slip the twill tape beneath the label so magnets on the edges can meet to secure the package.

Voila, the package is done and my bracelets are ready to be shipped! :) 

Thank you very much for taking your time in reading my post!

Have a great weekend all!