Guest Designer at CSI A Scrapbooking challenge

This month, CSI (Color, Stories, Inspiration); a scrapbooking challenge blog has invited 2Crafty designer team members to guest star in their blog.

If you have not heard of them, it's high time to check out their blog.
CSI is the only scrapbooking challenge blog that holds weekly challenge.
Which means that there is a new case file (moodboard) to play with every week!!
You will never get bored! Cool right?

I have created this layout based on case file #194. 

Had lots of fun trying to follow the rules....... 5 colors, 3 or more evidence and 1 or more testimony

This is case file #194. You can go to this link below for more details. 

http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/forum/topics/case-file-no-194-case-closes-on-march-25-2016

13 prizes to be won this month.
So hurry, deadline for this moodboard is on 25th March 2016.

Here are some close up photos for a better view

These are the supplies used:

2CRAFTY CHIPBOARDS

Chicken Barbed Wire Medium 

Halequin Clumps

Number Panels

Captured Memories

PAPERS

Bazzill - 12x12 White Cardstock

American Crafts - 12x12 smooth cardstock - Lagoon

My Minds Eye - Spread Your Wings and Fly collection

STICKER SHEET

Kaisercraft - Shine Bright

Echo Park - We Are Family

Echo Park - That's My Boy

MEDIUMS

13Arts Ayeeda Paints - Matte Blue, Matte Yellow, Matte Black
Daler Rowney - Simply Acrylic Paint - Red
Daler Rowney - White Gesso
Staz On Ink Pad - Jet Black
Zig Writer Pen - Black

TOOLS
Tim Holtz Stencil - Stars
Tim Holtz Stencil - Stripes
Tim Holtz Stencil - Harlequinn
EK Success 3D dots
Beacon 3-in-1 glue
Date Stamp - from a local stationery store
Corrugated White Paper - from a local stationery store

Think you would like to take the challenge of designing for CSI blog?
They are currently having a design team call and this moodboard is one of project you can work on to submit as your masterpiece.
Deadline for submission is on 9 April 2016. For more details, do visit this link below.
http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/forum/topics/design-team-call-spring-2016-term-runs-from-may-2016-october-2016

Thank you for popping by and I hope you like what I have shared today.

Happy Crafting!

Me - A Layout for Scrap Around The World

Alright this is the happy moment for me.....my very first layout for Scrap Around The World.

Since it's my first layout, I thought I scrap a photo of my headshot to double up as an official introduction from me to you :)

Here are some close up photos at different angles to capture the dimensions on this layout.

For those who are wondering what's Scrap Around The World...it is a challenge blog for worldwide scrappers! 

Challenge is held monthly from 1st to the end of the month and every first of the month, a mood board will be publish to provide some inspirations for crafters to work on. 

Below is the mood board for July. 

You can be inspired by anything on it not just the color palette. Isn't that great?

And that's not it!!!

Every month 12 winners will be chosen to win awesome prizes. 

Yes. You did not read wrongly and there is no typing error. It is 12 winners!

I know I got you interested...yes?? 

Do visit this link for more details of the challenge and of course the 12 awesome prizes to be won.

http://scraparoundtheworld.blogspot.sg/

Thank you for popping by and  Happy Crafting To All.

Double Challenge Canvas

Hi everyone,

Popping by to share a 9" x 12" canvas I have created for 2 challenges.

Photo was taken last week when we made a short trip to the beach and as usual Gabriel will try to pick up some seashells for me. So this canvas was adapted. Decided to have some fun with words..... Instead of using the the tongue twister "she sells seashells on the seashore", I changed it to "he picks seashells on the seashore"! :)

The whole background was created with loads of Prima products:

Prima Bloom Spray: Glistening Waves, Soft Teal, Summer Sky and Sunshine
Prima Finnabair Art Basics: Heavy Gesso in Black, Heavy Gesso in white and 3D Gloss Gel
Prima Finnabair Art Extravagance: Texture Paste in Platinum Crackle and Texture Paste in White Sand.
Prima Finnabair Art Ingredients: Glass Beads in Zinc and Glass Glitter in Pearl
Prima Shabby Chc Treasures Resins
Prima Junkyard Findings Junkyard bulbs

Other supplies:
Mixed of seashells from craft store and some picked by my boy
Anchor wood veneer from SaCrafters
Medical Gauze

Here's some close up shots for a closer look at the textures. Love all the bumps and cracks!

Let's focus on the challenges,

First challenge I'm taking part in is the Prima PPP April challenge. Out of the delicious color palette, I choosing with work with green, yellow, blue and beige.
Here's the link to their challenge: http://prima.typepad.com/prima/2015/04/aprils-bap-ppp.html#more

Next Challenge, of course it's one of my favourite challenge blogs :) 

Scrap Around The World!

This is the link to their April challenge: 

http://scraparoundtheworld.blogspot.sg/2015/04/april-2015-challenge-24-textural.html 

This is a gorgeous mood board! Cause I love everything I'm seeing! I think I have taken inspiration from the whole board!!! From the seahorse, to the star fish, sandy beach, seashells and colors. LOL.

Alright, that's all I have to share today. 

Thanks for popping by and happy crafting!

Prima March BAP challenge

Hi everyone,

Back again today to share a layout which I have created for Prima March BAP challenge. Below is the sketch board. For more details, you may visit this link: http://prima.typepad.com/prima/2015/03/come-join-in.html#more

I had difficulty finding my creativity mojo this month which is largely due to the sadness over the lost of our founding Father, Mr Lee Kuan Yew. A hero in my heart that has built Singapore from a 3rd world country to a first world in a short span of 50 years.

During the mourning week, through all the exposures in school and television programmes, Gabriel grew to understand what Mr Lee Kuan Yew has done for us. He surprised us by writing a Thank You note to Mr Lee. Hence with that sweet note, we brought him to one of the tribute centre - Marina Barrage. When we arrived at the tribute centre, he wrote another message to him in the condolence book.

Naturally as a scrapper, I documented all these moments for him to look back many years later.

This is the layout I created.

Supplies used:

Prima Pattern Paper: Butterfly Collection - Princess Papillon

Prima Pattern Paper: Divine Collection - Canzone

Prima Pattern Paper: Romance Novel Collection - Time Travel

Prima Pattern Paper: Cigar Box Secrets Collection - Perfecto

Prima 6x6 Stencil - Crackle

Prima Color Bloom Spray - Soft Teal

Prima Metallic Chalk Edger - Platinum

Prima Metal Die Doily - Pineapple

Prima Metal Die - Leaves

Prima Flowers and butterfly

Prima Trim - 5 petal flowers

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Tea Dye

Daler-Rowney - White Gesso

Twine - my own

As usual, sharing some close up photos before I end this post.

Thank you for popping by and Happy Crafting!

Double Layer Canvas - Wish Come True

Hi lovely crafters out there,

I'm up super duper early today to share a mixed media canvas created for SaCrafters which I will also be submitting for Scrap Around The World Challenge.

I have used a 2 canvases on this project for a pop up effect. Base is a 9"x 12" flat canvas panel and the top is a 7" x 9" stretched canvas.

There is alot going on here, from the texture background to the mosaic effect using scrap pieces of chipboard diecuts on the front canvas. Most of all, I love the heart gear which is one of the new items from SaCrafters store. Hence it became the centre of attraction.

I'm also proud to mention that I managed to transfer some used embellishments taken from an old layout to this mixed media canvas project. That's the idea behind scrapping right? To use "scrap" pieces :)

Do check out my 6mins video on the whole process. 

In the video, I have also listed out all the supplies I have used at every stage. 

So you may want to get ready a pen and paper to note down any details.

And these are the direct link to the SaCrafters items used. Remember to type in Priscillafans for a 10% discount in SaCrafters store.

Mini Fairy
http://www.sacrafters.com/product/wood-mini-fairies-2-pieces/

Sentiment Tag
http://www.sacrafters.com/product/endearment-sentiments-set-1/

Heart Gears
http://www.sacrafters.com/product/c-heartgears-3-pcs/


When creating the canvas, I have actually worked around this lovely mood board from Scrap Around The World March Challenge.

I was inspired by 3 things in the mood board.
1) In the top left photo, the background and horse mane has lead me to create the the crackle and sparkling base. The horse mane looks soft and feathery; inspiring some feathers going onto the canvas.

2) The quote "There is sunshine in my soul today". That leads me to being happy, hence the "be happy" tag on the hot air balloon. In addition to that, the pretty sunshine also means "the start of a fabulous morning" which you can find this quote on the chipboard embellishment above the mini fairy. With all the motivational tags, hopefully everything goes well. Hence, may all our wishes come true!

3) The color of Yellow and shades of Blue in the mood board inspired the whole background color. There are some tint of greens on the canvas cause yellow + blue = green. Agree?

Do click on this link to find out more details on this challenge.
http://scraparoundtheworld.blogspot.ca/2015/03/march-2015-challenge-23-minimalist.html

Alrighty that's all for today. From the sunny side of Singapore, I wish all a great week ahead :)

Happy Crafting and thanks for visiting my blog.

2 piece Inspirational Canvas for SaCrafters

Hello everyone, how's your weekend?

I went for a late night movie...Kingsman. It was a great movie. I love Colin Firth! Caught him in Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jones Diary and still love his movies after all these years :)

Well the reason I'm back today is not to discuss about Colin Firth; I'm here to share a 2-piece inspirational canvas (7" x 9") which will double up as a great decor piece. So here it is!

As usual, I do not use traditional paint brush. I find that I paint better with my fingers and sponges. So this background is created with a facial sponge. Don't believe me? Scroll down and catch my video :)

I really enjoy the whole process of creating this striking background inspired by the great mother nature......sunset is the theme. Do you? 

Oh I nearly forgot, the quotes are printed on a cardstock and layer of matte medium has been applied to ensure that the ink will last.

Well, my boy loves it and said that we should keep this and not give to anyone. But I'm thinking of doing some good deed with these 2 canvases. Sell them off and donate the proceeds to an appointed animal rescue centre. Good idea right?

Supplies used as follows:

Direct link to SaCrafters items:

    

  

Canvas and Papers

7" x 9" canvas

American Smooth Cardstock - White

Paints, Ink and Mediums:

Kaisercraft Paint - Sea Breeze

Kaisercraft Paint - Marine Blue

Kaisercraft Paint - White

13arts Ayeeda Paint - Vivid Orange

13arts Ayeeda Paint - Matte Lemon

13arts Ayeeda Paint - Matte Black

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Peacock Feather

Daler-Rowney Gesso 

Daler-Rowney Texture Paste

Claudine Hellmuth Multi Medium - Matte

Tools

Edge Distresser

Tim Holtz Ink Blending Tool

Beacon 3-in-1 adhesive glue

Facial Sponge

Foam Brush

Here are some close up photos :)

I decided to add more fun for this 2-piece canvas by submitting them for Words & Paintery challenge!

Here's there mood board for 15 Feb to 15 Mar. Inspiration taken from Yellow and Orange banner. To find out more, please visit this link
http://wordspaintery.blogspot.sg/2015/02/february-2015.html

Thanks for popping by and Happy Crafting!

Layout for Prima February Challenge

Finally I had time today to create a layout for Prima February Challenge.

This month, I'm going to take part in both challenges; Prima Product Pick and Build-A-Page challenge

Saw this PPP palette at the beginning of the month and I fell in love with it immediately. Pastels!! The colors just looked so gorgeous :)

Next the Build-A-Page challenge by the talented Keren Tamir. 

This sketch is so flexible and easy to work on :)

My interpretation based on both the mood palette and sketch. If I'm not wrong, I have used a 100% Prima products on my layout :)

Do visit this link for more details on the challenges: http://prima.typepad.com/prima/2015/02/join-the-fun.html#more

Before I end, here's sharing some layout

Thank you for popping by and Happy Crafting!

Double challenge post

Hi ya all,

Back today to submit a canvas which I have altered recently for 2 challenges.
This canvas was a DT project for a local scrap store in Singapore; Made With Love located in 313 Somerset. For more details, of this canvas you may visit http://growingwithgabriel.blogspot.sg/2015/01/mixed-media-canvas-love.html

Now back to the 2 challenges.

First Challenge

Love this color palette! So soft and dreamy. 

What more blue and teal; some of my favourite colors to work with :) 

You may click on this link to for more details or take part in Prima's challenge

http://prima.typepad.com/prima/2015/01/januarys-challenges-are-here.html#more

Second Challenge: Words & Paintery December/January challenge.

My canvas is getting some shimmer and shine from the subtle shimmer of Prima Color Bloom Spray, tattered angel glaze and Prima bling bling crystals!!

Do visit this link for more details on the challenge. 

 http://www.wordspaintery.blogspot.se/2014/12/december.html

Deadline is 15 Jan. So there's still time to participate!

Before I end, some close up shots to share :)

And the final look from another angle.....

Thank you for visiting my blog and Happy Crafting!