Faith & Love Christmas Ornaments

Hi, dear blog friends, so glad you are here. We had an icy cold weekend here at Dallas and we enjoyed it!

This week at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, we want to see your project with tissue. From decoupage to giftwrap, home décor to cardmaking there is so much possibility for tissue of all kinds to be used on this challenge. Perhaps you want to take this a little different direction and alter a tissue box or make something tissue thin. Sounds fun, doesn't it?

I created a holiday project using tissue paper and tissue tapes to cover the ornaments.

I have used lots of tissue paper in many of my mixed media projects and I love it. So for the challenge this week, I wanted to use something a little different - tissue tapes.

I covered the ornaments with tissue tapes, colored with Distress Stain, applied a layer of glaze, and sprinkled them with Wow! Glitter. 

I love these beautiful glittered Thickers letters. They are totally perfect on my sparkled ornaments. 

I also used burlap to cover one of the ornaments and decorated it with Prima trinket and stamped tissue paper. 

You can make your tissue tapes by stamping on the tissue paper and add adhesive on it. It's so easy and fun to use tissue paper on holiday projects.

I hope you enjoy my creations and make something beautiful with tissue for your holidays. 

Supply List:

Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $50 gift voucher that will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. Please join us for this fun challenge by using any type of tissue on your project. I can't wait to see what you come up with.

 

I really appreciate that you drop by. Hope you have a wonderful day!

Meihsia ^_^

December Life Day 2 ~ 6

Hi, my lovely blog friends, hope you all stay warm and enjoy your weekend.

We had some snow and ice today so kids and dad were all at home. I finally had some time to print out the photos for my December Daily from day 2 to day 6. Yes, I already put the day 6 photos in my album.

Here are the spreads for day 2 and day 3.



I am very happy using the Simply Stories album and photo protectors to document my December life so far since the format is very flexable and once I take at least one photo a day, I could do the journaling whenever I have time. I also try to use as many left over embellishments and journal cards as possible.

Here I used some wood veneers, Thickers and stickers on the photos or journal cards.  



These are the photos of day 4 and day 5.

 Sometimes I also love to edit the journaling on the photos using CS6 and print the photos out. 

 I took this photo today which is day 6 of December. Natalie and Christopher enjoy the cold weather a lot.

You can find most of the supplies or similar products I used on this project at Simon Says Stamp Shop.

Supply List:

Thank you so much for stopping by. Hope you all have a wonderful day! And happy crafting!

Meihsia ^_^

December Life Day 1

Hey, my dear blog friends, hope you all enjoy the winter weather or summer in your area.

December is the most exciting month of the year to me. I had so much fun documenting my daily life in December 2012 so I decide to record it again in 2013. I'll still keep it simple so that I can complete this project this year. So, here is my first day of December Life.

I decorated the cover of this album with my name, month and year using Thickers and stickers

The first day is quite simple. I took some pictures while we were having outdoor activities. The weather was nice.  ^_^

I used some cute Kelly Purkey washi tapes from Simon Says Stamp Shop. They are very easy to use, great to decorate the journal card and secure photos or embellishments.

I wrote something we did on the first day using AC Precision Pen. This pen has been my most favorite pen since I started scrapbooking.

 

You can find most of the supplies or similar products I used on this project at Simon Says Stamp Shop.



Thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!

Meihsia ^_^

Be Brave, Be Bold

Hi, my dear blog friends, hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving holiday. Oh...I can't believe the December is already here. This week at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, we want to challenge you create something with a flourish.

Whether you add a fancy swirl, or simply give your project a little extra pizazz this week we invite you to join us in the challenge.

I was inpsired to create a mixed media project on a burlap canvas using flourish die cuts.

I love everything with shabby chic style and to me the flourish is a must have for this style.

This week I was inspired to make a cheerful mixed media burlap canvas using many beautiful Bo Bunny flowers and Tim Holtz die cut flourishes with a bright color scheme on it.

The sentiments on the stickers and lightbulb were very cheerful so I decided to attach them on this canvas.

I also applied some Gesso on the background, flowers and embellishments.

The die cut flourish was colored with distress paint and the edges were distressed with pigment ink pad.


Supply List:

Please join us this week at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. As always, Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $50 gift voucher that will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. We'd also love to see your work on our Designer Spotlgith on our Friday Post.

I really appreciate that you visit my blog and hope you all enjoy the beautiful December days.

Happy crafting!

Meihsia ^_^

ATC Advent Calendar 2013

Hi, Simon Says Stamp friends, it's time to play our new challenge again. This week at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, we are playing the holiday countdown. Whether you're working on December Daily, doing an advent calendar, creating home decor with numbers, or perhaps just making holiday cards and counting down how many you have left to make, we want to see how you count down to the holidays this week.

I was inspired to create an ATC advent calendar with non-traditional Christmas color scheme.



This is my 3rd ATC advent calendar since I made the first one in 2011. I used this calendar to count down to Christmas and document something I learned or was important to me that year.

All these ATCs are 3.5" X 2.5" with .5" excess on the top with two punched holes to hang on the burlap canvas for displaying.  The numbers on the calendar were stamped, punched out, distressed and pasted on the ATCs using foam squares.

I used the pigment ink pad to distress the edges of these ATCs. We had some traveling and vacation this year, so I attached some transportation wood veneers on some ATCs.

I also attached one word that inspired me from the Tim Holtz Chitchat Stickers on each ATC. All ATCs were made using Prima Flower Printery Paper and decorated with Prima Flower embellishments.

Supply List:



Please join us for counting down to the holidays by making your countdown project. As always, Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $50 gift voucher that will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator.  And you might be on the Designer Spotlight on our Friday post.  

Thank you for stopping by. Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving holidays.

Happy crafting!

Meihsia ^_^

Oh My ! Christmas Cards

Are you ready for the holidays? Hi, my dear blog friends, today, I'm so happy to share some projects with you. Two of them are holiday cards and one is a very colorful tag featuring my recent favorite blending tool - the Art Dauber.

I made the first card for the Paper Bakery using the Paper Bakery Capture 365 Kit. I love the beautiful October Afternoon patterned papers in this kit.

The tag and mistletoes were cut out from the October Afternoon papers in the Capture 365 Kit. They are just perfect for the holiday cards or gift bags.

I combined the Mixed Media Kit and Capture 365 Kit from the Paper Bakery to make my second holiday card. 

I applied the gold crayon which is included in the Mixed Media Kit directly on the wood veneer to make the color cordinate the project scheme. I also applied the Viva Modeling Cream on the veneer with a stencil to make the beautiful dimension.

Be sure to check the November Mixed Media Kit and Capture 365 Kit from the Paper Bakery Shop, and make some beautiful projects for your holidays.

The third creation I'd like to share is this colorful tag using my favorite blending tool - the ColorBox® Art Daubers from Clearsnap.

I just had so much fun playing these Art Daubers since they are so easy to blend and add the colors on any project.

On this tag, I first embossed the background with Rollagarph Design Wheel and Petal Point pigment ink, then stamped and embossed the tree. The birds and speak bobble were stamped and die cut using Sizzix die and stamps.

To blend the background colors, you can easily fit your fingertip in the art dauber and apply the Petal Point pigment ink directly on the tag with circular motion. I also try Art Daubers to do the stenciling on some other projects and they are very easy to work on small areas.

The ColorBox® Art Dauber is also available in bulk packages so you can use one dauber per color for the best result.

For the full supply list of this tag, you may click here. 

I hope you enjoy my projects and are inspired to make something fun. Love to have your comment love and see what you've been creating for the holidays. 

Have a wonderful weekend and happy crafting!

Meihsia 

 

Kids Fun Card

Few weeks ago, I received lots of fun and awesome goodies from Clearsnap and my kids have been having so much fun playing with those goodies since then.

One of the projects we made is this card which needed some basic card making techniques and they love making this simple card! So I think I'll share this card and a quick video to show you the fun.

Since this is a project for kids, I am not worried about cutting very straight lines or coloring the images perfectly. That's the fun part of this project to me. 



I love the cute stamps and the beautiful color of Izink pigment ink. The Colorbox preprinted card makes the great card base.

 

You may check Clearsnap blog if you are interested in more information about the supplies I used on this project.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Meihsia ^_^