Hello there! Anybody missed me? =)

I was sick for awhile, then went to Outerbank, NC for a week. And I’ve been on a lazy mood since the beach vacation. I still LOVE crafting, but it has been so easy doing nothing. Just goofing around with my kids are fun. And I plan on doing nothing much while they are home for summer break. Heehee.

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This Thursday would be my last day selling templates at AfterFiveDesigns. I might re-release those templates in the future, but I am a big procrastinator so don’t know when that would happen. *sigh* I know I just began selling my templates at A5D, and it’s very irresponsible of me to leave them so soon. But, Kristen who helped me so much with starting my designer career there was leaving, and I wanted to do the same.

I was planning on moving to another digital scrapbook store this Friday, but after my recent vacation, I didn’t want to “work” anymore. I’m very wishy washy, so I might change my mind. *sigh* I still have a lot of template ideas/drawings so I do hope to design again. Hopefully soon. But for now, I’ll be closing my shop at AfterFiveDesigns this Thursday.

I’m VERY grateful to all my customers! Thank you! Thank you!

And MANY many thanks to all who used my templates to create awesome projects!

I am SO sorry that I have been terribly bad about leaving comments on your blogs/galleries, and this I will try to be better.

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This Saturday, PaperWorks Co. will release 4 new Rachelle Anne Miller stamps and we are going to have a blog hop! Lots of prizes!

Look what my dear son did to the silhouette tile that I made the other day!

So I did make these tiles for the teachers (+ a friend) end of school year gift. Heehee, I blurred the faces since I didn’t ask their permission to use their photos.

Whenever I show my husband what I’ve made, he just says, “Hmm… that’s nice.” without really looking at it. But, he was impressed with what I did with this. Heehee.

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Okie, here is the winner of my blog candy (Paper Works Co. stamps and my template)

It’s Wendy!

I had to postpone the Flower Stall Card Box template release. Sorry!!!

And Thank you everybody for all your loving support!

Heeheeheee. I need to write names on my kids baby photos so they’ll know which one is who. It is my duaghter on the photo, but she looked so much like her older brother. Thank goodness for her long hair, these days people don’t ask if she is a boy or not.

Created this layout for a baby scrapbook contest at the Kodak – Tips & Projects Exchange. Contest ended past Sunday. But, I’m sure they’ll have more in the future.

I’ve used the following digital kits for the layout:

Polka dots by Boutique Cute Dolls Designs

Bliss by Boutique Cute Dolls Designs

The Book Baby by Boutique Cute Dolls Designs

By the way, have you guys heard of Paperclipping Roundtable? If you love scrapbooking, you will love to listen to this podcast. They had famous people like Tim Holtz, Jessica Sprague, Ali Edwards on the show. They just started a digital show podcast and Steph from theDailyDigi.com is hosting it!

I’ve been thinking about what to give to my kids teachers for the end of the school year gift for a long time. I thought about making silhouette images of teachers etched on glass frames or vinyl on glass frames. But, that would take too long to make and I wanted something simpler.

I liked the style from ModernBirdStudios and thought about using woods. But, didn’t feel like asking anybody to cut the woods. Thought about using stretched canvas, but I wanted to save this for a future project.

Well, I remembered seeing a tutorial from theHybridChick.com on how to use Modge Podge to transfer images onto tile, and decided to use the tiles.

I liked this side profile photo of my kids.

I used this tutorial for creating two tone silhouette in Photoshop.

I made this one to test. But, for the actual gifts, I plan to use teachers photos. I hope I have all their photos. Heehee.

The tutorial said to use a laser printer, but I did not listen. I only have a black and white laser printer and really wanted to use brown color. So I tried the technique TWICE using images printed on my ink jet printer, and it did NOT work.

So, I tried the b/w laser printer and it worked like a charm (gray color). The ink scratched off from the tile when I was rubbing the transfer paper off (regular white printer paper). But, when I cleaned the title again the next day, the ink stayed on the tile. This technique will work on stretched canvas as well.

It doesn’t show on the photo, but I added clear liquid glue (Crystal Lacquer) over the image. It looks like embossed and I love it.

So if you haven’t decided on what to give to teachers, why not try this? =)

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The winner of Here’s To You Wine Box Template Set is…

Jackie! Thank you so much, and I’ll email you shortly. =)

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This is another mini album. A pull-out album. It’s about 3.5 x 3 inches.

Flag is attached to a toothpick.

Connected each piece with eyelets.

I covered inside the castle with a plain green card stock paper.

Digital kit: Sundri by MK-Designs

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I’m participating The Greeting Farm’s Royal Battle. It’s a team challange, and our team is called, “International Ink”. Because we have 3 Canadian (Stephanie – team leader, Sheena, and Tanya) and 2 Asian-American (Corinne, and me =) stampers. This week, Tanya created a gorgeous scrapbook page for us to compete. Please head over to TGF galleria and vote for our team!

THANK YOU!!!