Splattered Paint on Flowers

This is such an easy technique and add that extra little touch to your flowers instantly. Just use a toothbrush with some acrylic paints or water colours. Apply some acrylic paints to your toothbrush and gentle use your fingers or another medium such as ruler or twizzer and scrape the top section of the toothbrush. Make sure your toothbrush is facing the flower. With a more watery consistent in the paint, you will get bigger splatters. Try this technique in your next project with flowers.

I'm a Malaysian Scrapper

This is my second project as the guest designer for Prima this month. I've always wanted to scrap about me being a Malaysian scrapper. I've noticed that I've been quite often misunderstood as a scrapper from other countries.

Since this layout is about me, I would hope to include more elements that reflect me on it. This of course would include loads distressing. Do try to study this page and click on the song "Find Yourself" at my song playlist on the right.

Here are the steps.

1) Use a Prima Angelique pattern paper as the base for this page. Distress the edges using the scissors distressing and the tear in technique. Include a huge tear in on the upper right of the page. Ink the edges using vintage photo and black soot distress ink. Add eyelets on the huge tear in and lace it using a twine. I've used a black pen to highlight some swirls around the pattern paper.

2) Cut out another rectangular piece from the Prima Angelique pattern paper and distress it. Ink it with frayed burlap distress ink and paste it on the left of the huge tear in.

3) Use a piece of Prima Pasties Note and distress it using the crinkling and inking technique. Paste it on the left of the page.
4) Distress the photograph using the "Distressing your Photographs using Hole Puncher" and the scissors distressing technique. Paste it in the middle of the page.

5) Mask an arch above the photograph using some black soot distress ink and hand stitch along the edges using the "Net Stitching" technique.

6) The word "Malaysian" are actually Prima stamp stickers which I've arranged along the arch. The word "scrapper" had been printed out from the computer and cut-out. I've used some foam adhesive to paste it to the page for some dimension.

7) Add a strip of Prima IOD Clear Tape under the photograph.

8) Add a piece of Prima Angelique chipboard button on the end of the huge tear in.

9) Cut a circular piece from the Prima Angelique pattern paper and ink it's edges using black soot distress ink and paste it on the left of the page.

10) I've cut out some swirls in black and paste it on top of the strip of clear tape. Add some stickles to it for details.

11) To create the huge flower, cut out a huge flower from a white card stock (use any flower as template) and stamp on it using some timber brown solvent ink. I've used the "Distress your Flowers with Punchers" technique to distress it and ink it with black soot distress ink. Curl the petals and add some Prima flowers to layer above it.

12) I've also added quite a few Prima flowers all around the swirls. Use some Prima Say It in Crystals flower centers to embellish it.

13) I've also added some fibers underneath the huge flower stretching vertically and horizontally.

This is a very meaningful layout to me and I hope through this layout, you all will know me more.

Sources: Card Stock: Bazzill; Pattern Paper: Prima Marketing; Inks: Ranger Distress Ink, Tsukineko Staz On; Stamps: Prima Marketing; Others: Prima Angelique chipboard buttons, Prima IOD Clear Tape, Prima Say It In Crystal Flower Centers, Prima Artful Collage Flowers, Prima Panty Lace Flowers, Prima Stamp stickers, Prima Pasties Note, Ranger Stickles, brads, fibers, eyelets, twine, zig pens, uni-ball signo gel pen, floss for stitching, glue dots and other adhesives.

Heaven Sent You

This is my first project as the guest designer for Prima Marketing this month. Prima had sent me loads of gorgeous stuffs to play with and I just can't get enough of it...lol! This layout is on Chloe and I love that photograph of her. She's so pure and true. Therefore, I've decided to use this title and some feminine colours for this page.

Here are the steps to it.

1) Use the Prima Angelique pattern paper as the base for the page. I've used the "Create your own Scallop Paper Template" technique to create the scallops template and use it to cut out the scallop edges on both sides of the pattern paper. Punch some small holes in each scallop and ink the edges of this pattern paper using vintage photo distress ink.

2) Use another piece of Prima Angelique pattern paper and cut out part of the swirly design on it. Ink it with vintage photo distress ink and paste it on the right of the page.

3) Cut out a big square masking template from scraps and use it to mask a square towards the left of the page using frayed burlap distress ink.

4) Ink the edges of a piece of Prima Pasties Note with old paper distress ink and paste it in between the layer of Prima pattern paper and the masked square.

5) Distress the edges of the photograph using the scissors distressing technique and ink it with frayed burlap distress ink. Paste it in the middle of the page.

6) Add a strip pf Prima velvet ribbon on the right of the photograph and anchor it with a metal decorative staple. Hand stitch some cross-stitches in between the photograph and the ribbon.

7) Add a Prima Angelique rub-on on the upper left of the masked square.

8) Hand stitch around the masked square and add a little design with some horizontal stitches on part of it.

9) Add a huge pink bloom from Prima Belle Fleur Daisy (ink it with a little black soot distress ink) on the upper left of the page. Before pasting it down add a Prima lace which had been tied into a bow under it. Add some Prima Say it in Crystals Swirls in red around the bloom. Put more smaller flowers from Prima around it and add a Say It in Crystals flower centers to each of them. I've use the "Freshen Up your Flowers" technique to freshen up the bloom.

10) Use the Prima Angelique Epoxy Stickers to form the title for the page.

11) I've used Prima Angelique Chipboard Journaling Box on the lower right of the page to add my journaling on it. Add some crystal swirl and a small Prima flower to it too. I've highlight part of the chipboard piece with a white and black pen.

Prima had always been one of my favourite brand and I just love all the products that they've come up with. Hope you all like this project of mine using their wonderful stuffs.

Sources: Pattern Paper: Prima Marketing; Inks: Ranger Distress Ink; Others: Prima Angelique Ribbon, Prima Angelique Rub-ons, Prima Angellique Epoxy Stickers, Prima Angelique Chipboard, Prima Say It In Crystal Swirls and Flower Center, Prima Belle Fleur Daisy, Prima Esprit Flowers, decorative staple, zig pens, uni-ball signo gel pen, floss for stitching, glue dots and other adhesives.

Some pictures from Stockholm, Sweden!

Here are just some pictures taken during my visit to Stockholm, Sweden. It's such a beautiful city with lots of interesting architectures and sea view. Love it! Hope I could visit it again in future.

Celebrate Card

This is my last project using Queenscraps November Kit. I hope you all had gotten your kit too! It's such a gorgeous kit with all the Prima pattern papers, My Little Yellow Bicycle Die cut card stock and etc.

Here are the steps to this card.

1) Use the yellow Bazzill card stock as the base for the card. Fold it in halves and use a decorative scissors to cut the bottom edge of the front. Ink it with vintage photo distress ink.

2) I've stamped a circle on it using some black solvent ink and add some stickles and liquid pearls to it for details.

3) Add a strip of the Bazzill Just The Edge card stock (scallop) at the bottom of the card and use some liquid pearls and a white pen to doodle on it.

4) Add a strip of the My Little Yellow Bicycle Fabric Borders (included in the kit) on top of the strip of scallop.

5) Use a My Little Yellow Bicycle - Vita Bella - Fresh Verse stickers for the "celebrate" title and ink the edges with vintage photo distress ink. Add a Prima ribbon to it using a brad.

6) Cut out a small square from the reverse side of the "Michiavelli" pattern paper and ink it with vintage photo distress ink. Cut another small square from "the Hunt" pattern paper and ink it with black soot distress ink. Paste it on the right of the card. Add some hand doodle stitches to it.

7) Cut out the huge flower from "the Hunt" pattern paper and ink it with vintage photo distress ink. Add some stickles to it for details and paste it on the left of the card.

This had been an awesome kit to work with. I'll be posting the details to my Prima guest designing projects soon.

Sources: November Kit from Queenscraps: Card stock: Bazzill; Pattern Paper: Prima Marketing; Embellishments: My Little Yellow Bicycle verse sticker, Prima Ribbon, My Little Yellow Bicycle Fabric Borders, Others not included in the kit: mini brad, Inkadinkado circle stamp, Tsukineko Staz On, Ranger Distress Ink, Ranger Stickles, Ranger liquid pearls, zig pens, uni-ball signo gel pen, glue dots and other adhesives.