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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.

This is my original photo that I converted to line art

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 :)

I enter this card for the following challenge:

CASology Challenge - Story

Thank you so much for visiting my blog and hope have a lovely weekend! :)

Materials I used:

Card Stock - Local papers

Coloring image - Prisma Color Pencil

Coloring frame - Staedler Pen

Butterfly image - free sample from a stamp maker company

Word "you" - Stampendous happy messages

Word "love" - Kaiser Crafts Christmas Sentiment

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.