go for another challenge

 

challenges. feel like big pressure sometimes but chances to give a new twist to everything consisting my old habbits @ crafts...

1. I feel comfy when working with things have big contrast among them. usually color & tone. If I take pink in pale tone, then I certainly pick teal or aqua in very strong or deep tone to get some interval. I think I put a little camping chair there and stretch there to hold some embellishments poured on the paper. I guess that habbit originated partially from my personality, believe it or not. I am an indisputable sagittarius. CLEAR, APPARENT, EVIDENT, CERTAIN, OBVIOUS. These are my favorites. I love those soft and subtle moods expressed on designers' layouts, but they are just masterpieces. I just could adore them from a distance.

 

Ah, but...

when I saw the mood board challenge by JOT magazine, I could nothing but say this is it. I saw that lovely color palette I've never thought and tried before. This might help me out.

 

and this is the result. You can see that I could not break 'make contrast' habit perfectly here. see that black cameo cut? :) But I'm satisfied anyway! I'm comfident with this.

 

* BTW, I just figure out that journaling card by Bella Blvd is a quite popular @ this challenge. :D

 

season for crochet is comming

 

two new pot holders, and a doily. I love this grey color makes a great harmony with others! It calms down that strong tone of teal and the result is better than I thought.

 

I don't like blocking very much cause it's too annoying to pin every picot hole. That's why I used iron to press it down... but this time I tried that thing called BLOCKING for the first time and it was worth enough. Now I understand why blocking is quite necessary for a crochet doily...

 

picots look great but not that great work to do.

 

Fall is just around the corner and time to prepare for it. Need to make some warm blankets, preserves, clothes for my kids... and I have to think more.

watercolor fun

 

Sunnie's hooked on roleplaying... honestly playing a princess. She was happy enough with this mesh 'cause she thought a PERFECT princess should have a veil on her head.

 

 

& I am still palying with my watercolor palette. I love those half-transparent look of watercolor.

 

 

little flags to decorate photo

Thank god! Finally back to school. It was just 4 weeks but was like 4months...
I was out of my mind this week because of the new semester, hopefully, coming week would get better. Hope to get everything back on the track as I thought (the only problem is that life gets off the road quite).
Bunch of photos to work with, and delayed project life spreads are waiting me on the desk. So, time to work on another project :) gotta go.

got some new supplies!

 

I haven't bought any scrap supply (kits are exception, :D) recently... which means it's time for some shopping, isn't it? And I've got these brand new things! Bluebonnets 12X12 Plum Seed Paper from WEbster's pages appears on the right side. This floral print is so lovely. Background paper is from Studio Calico. You might see the subtle hexagon print behind the teal color.

 

I tried some stencil like thing on here. Ink splattered more than I expected, but it looks okay to me :) I'm satisfied anyway.

Now I'm having real fun with all the skills and techs I've learned from online classes... sometimes I can even think of a new one. That makes me so happy.

 

 

love always

 

 

 

found my 1st daughter's photo taken 6 yrs ago!  

 

 

now I am getting addicted to ink mists... want to collect all them. I am looking forward to get my scrapbook supplies from 2ps... I almost forgot what I had put in the cart!  

 

cutting these little pieces was not that easy but I love what I come up with. I love this striped pattern.

and some machine stitches and a litte arrow sticker, the end!

you've grown up so much

 

Sunnie bring me itty bitty things made by her all the time. They're mostly adorable, she's so proud of herself about that mommy loves to use her handmade things on scrapbooks. but rarely she just draw some illegible figures and forces me to use them too... no matter what she shows me I have to show a huge happiness and pleasure to have such a gifted child like her. Yay~

 

but these drawings were really cute. I cried wows and OMG more than 3-4 times.

 

Baby June was trying hard to climb up a bench one day, which was so cute but dangerous.

Try it some other time, a little later...

This Glitz design paper perfectly matches to a question pops up in mind, 'did he make it?'. I love the little interval between this question and answers. ♥

my 3rd motif blanket

Now I am done with my crochet blanket!

I started this one on a midspring day, which means these colors made quite good harmony with the weather, mood, and everything I can think of... but it looks so hot right now. It's over 35 degrees celsius(95F)in here, and I feel like being tortured in an oven. What is worse, the Meteorological Administration said the climate is changing to subtropic. WAO. I miss the cold freezing weather of Lapland.

Whatever, no matter how this boiling weather bothers me to kneel down desires toward crafty things, I still stick to crochet hook, patterned papers and sewing machine. so, comming up project will be... what would it be? :)