YEA ~ MORE TAGS

What can I say?  i can stamp and i can blotch...and because i have just bought some new distress inks i thought it was time for more colour as well..

Blooms away ~ i always thought that using 3 different colours were max in one space..but 4 seems to work as well...so long they have the same tone ...

Moonlit Blooms ? more collage than card really .....

Smile! ~ Because its a Beautiful Day ~ did the clouds with a super technique I had learnt that anyone should have thought of...gee..

Missing You ~ the effect a simple coat of PVA glue gives ...

I love ephemera tags...or part ephemera tags..never lose Hope ~

Because Dreams can come true ~ 


That's all folks ~


I hope you have a beautiful day and may your (good) dreams come true ~


xoxo
Zurina


PS :  We shall pray that my next post won't be more tags. 

TAGS, TAGS & MORE TAGS

I have developed a penchant for tags, grungy tags. I came across an image on the internet that I think best describes me. Here it is ~

Having said that...here are more tags that I have been making in utter oblivious obsessiveness....


I Love using Tim Holtz's distress inks and am trying hard to apply new techniques each time. At the moment i have only 3 up my sleeve. Distressing the edges, blending colours and water blotching with different colours.


By the way, if this all sounds like the beginnings of a craft blog rather than an ongoing food blog....you may be  right. I think its beginning to be one. I have also ditched my DSLR for my mobile phone camera. The DSLR unofficially belongs to R now. I think. Even more so for his next semester.


This all started (the crafting I mean) when I bought a few paper craft tools to make favours for N & J's wedding later this year. I had stictched some linen and lace pouches and crafted some other things. I will not be posting them until after the wedding though. But they are all done and ready....and quite beautiful..if I have to say so myself. Very pleased indeed.


I cant wait to make the wedding cake.


Anyway, here's what i've been 'tagging' .....I LOVE tags. I make them for no reason. I have not given or used any of them...Yet.....maybe i just want to build a collection...I don't know...what do people who make tags and cards do with their stuff? Especially in Malaysia? Card giving and tag attaching is not quite  a culture here. But ...ho no...that's not going to stop me form making them. It's artsy. I like artsy.

I love flowers too ~ fresh and paper....can you tell?

Mmm hmmm I love grungy-ness ~

Now these flowers are a no brainer. Cut out a circle. Any size you want. And then cut the circle into a spiral beginning at the circumference and ending at the centre of the circle. Then roll it up and glue the bottom. You will figure it out when you attempt.

Got my mom's left over chiffon from her tailor and scrunched it up into this flower. Literally scrunched it up. And quickly glued it together before it opened up again. Then I glued the faux pearls into the middle.

It's got to be love. I can't make a hate tag. Can I ?

This flower was easy peasy too. But fiddly. Nothing new to flower making world.....made form organza. Cut out plenty of circles in 3 different sizes.. Pass the edges over a candle flame to singe it. Place the circles on top of one another in descending sizes...smallest at the top and stitch into place..add whatever you like as the flower centre. Just in case you're wondering, I do not intend to do photo or video tutorials because that would give me stress. Right? I craft to de-stress.

Flower made from a  printed music sheet. By the way ~ I am a Purl Gurl. Love pearls (even fake ones). 


All photographs were taken from my mobile phone.


I do hope you have a lovely day today :)


xoxo
Zurina

CRAFTY EYE CANDY

Hi Everyone...if you're still there...remember me?


Sorry for the long absence. 

But I've been crafting. 

For a reason. 

I hum when I craft.


These are some of my excuses.......

A cake card ....makes me want to make a wedding cake in this colour....draped with pearls...

Dried paper roses made from cardstock ~ cardstock by K & Co...love them ~

Beautiful water colour bouquet cardstocks by K & Co. LOve the doily lace edging. I made it using the doily lace Martha Stewart punch... i love punches ~

A 'letter card' .....I love old world scripted backgrounds ~

A grunge style tag ~ flowers made from pages of a vintage book...and used a bird cage stamp that is so cool and elegant ~

Now this I love....a vintage insipred Thank You tag. Flower was made from pages of a vintage book 


The end ~


This requires no washing up ~ ;)


PS ~ All photos were taken using my mobile phone...do excuse the poor quality..