Layout with Polaroid frames.

I have kept these polaroid frames for quite sometime now... :D I was intending to hoard them actually, but I figured, argh, I should use them, it will be wasted to just chuck them aside. Created a layout of my trip to Sabah during my birthday last year. Using mostly embellishment from Crate Paper, The Pier collection. I might have sprinkled too much mist (the one at the bottom was accidental) >.< 

I love to create dimensions with pop up dots for most of my layout. For this layout I layered the frames with different "heights" with pop dots. Love the dimension it created. I also mat the "Fun" wood veneer from Freckled fawn behind the frame. It fits nicely behind the polaroid frame... :)

Thanks for dropping by!

Workspace Wednesday

My dear friend, Sharon, blogged about her beautiful space. She's doing such a great job documenting about her space... So envy of those who have really clean & neat space. My craft room is often in a mess! @.@ I spend almost two weekends to clean up starting from a smaller area and working my way through.

The mess was intense. (keeping it real) Everything was everywhere and this was just the beginning of me organising my stuff. Rearranging everything from scratch.

I cut out all the phrases from Crate Paper's accent paper and stick them to transparency paper. That way I can use them like stickers afterwards, and they are all in one place.

Finally, I have a small area which is no longer an eyesore.

Hopefully, it will stay this way for a while.

Documenting February & March

This time around I'm using a different layout for my spreads. These are a few of my favourite pocket design as well.

Some journalling on the pictures for a change.

A little bit of this and that on this spread, less journalling.

The last spread for February... Yeay! 

P.S. : The sweet lil baby is Cindy's newborn, Annabelle. She's finally here.

Kicking off March by highlighting my recent Taiwan trip. I really wanted the trip to be summarised in a glance, a whole 9 days would be too much, hence, I decided to use the square pockets and place the pictures by days. I have also pre-labeled the pictures before printing as well, that way I know where the picture was taken on which day. :) Nothing fancy, just simple titles.

There are too many street food in Taiwan. I did the same layout for street food as well. I love how they turned out and how I can see everything in a spread. 

I'm Back!

After a week long break, I'm back and home. Will blog about my trip to Taiwan soon. Mummy is finally home as well. After changing from hospital to hospital, and more than 2 weeks in the hospital, we finally found a good doctor who was able to root cause and make things better.

Time to catch up on Project Life. I'm almost a month behind! O.O I manage to finish up till mid feb as of now... Here's my lil "assistant" while I was taking pictures of my PL.

Well here goes, January - Page 5, 6 & 7.... Oh yes! I have 7 pages just for January! What an eventful month...

As we step into February, also another eventful month... :)

More to come as I'm determined to catch up till March! :)

Somedays...

I must admit that I'm never good at handling emotions & difficult choices. When I'm stuck in crossroads, I tend to shut everything & everyone out, to be in my own zone, to feel silence just being away from people & feel so much better. Yet, when doing so, sometimes, people get hurt as they don't understand what I'm going thru & they will keep going on about how they are hurt... I guess, that's how life is... Just gotta breathe, learn to let go and keep moving on... May your days be better than mine.

Found this song which has some very meaningful lyrics...

Tutorial : Photoshop & Your Silhoutte Cameo

Today, I'm going to share how to create this layout with photoshop & silhouette Cameo combined.

*title cut file from Pink Paislee

Firstly, launch photoshop and select File > New.
Next, select the width of the paper to be 12 inches, height to be 12 inches.

To draw a star, select the polygon tool & check Star & Indent sides by 50. 

Make sure the colour is Black before you proceed with drawing the stars.

You can then compose the stars whichever way you like on the workspace.

Once you are done, save your file in a .png format.

Next, Launch your silhouette studio app. Open your earlier saved image. 

Your saved file should appear on your silhouette studio workspace.

Next, select the trace function. Click on SELECT TRACE AREA.

Uncheck the HIGH PASS FILTER option. 

Set the threshold to 100%.

Then, drag your cursor across the image. Make sure everything is covered.

When all the stars are highlighted, select Trace. You should be able to see a red outline for the stars.

Next, select the image & delete it, leaving only the cutting guides. As shown in picture below. Then, you are ready to send the job to silhouette. 

I mat a gold foil paper behind the cardstock we cut earlier to created the background for the layout below. The gold foil paper I used didn't turned out as nice as it should as it started to crinkle on the sides... 

The tile is a cut file from Pink Paislee. I painted it with glimmer glaze - Sugar cane, then applied my favourite stickles - diamond on it. Other elements from Maggie holmes flea market.

After a long break...

Hey, How has your long break been? By now, everything should be falling back to normal as many has started working after the long break. Emails are pouring in. Before I know it, work is piling up. 

Manage to update a PL page for January...

Oh, since Chap Goh Meh (Chinese Valentine's) falls on the same day as Valentine's Day, I bet it will be jam pack as all the lovey dovey couples enjoy some quality time on this special day... :)

In conjunction with such a loving day, I made a simple Valentine's Day card. So in love with Amy Tangerine's alpha stickers... :D