Folk Art

I would like to share with you about my art teacher who patiently taught me folk art last week and her work are amazing. Here are some photos taken from her house and her paintings are mostly up for sale, if you are interested please do email her at : luckylaksh11@gmail.com

all these are for sale and painted by her

these one too for sale

these one as well

this canvas piece was done by her


cabinet painted by her

tissue holder for sale


canvas piece for sale

this canvas piece is also for sale

this is painted on an old "kampung" door/window and it is nicely hang on her wall
(I now know what to do next)

she even painted her pillar!

painted her wall

"My Milk Maid" this is her masterpiece

another view


another piece of "kampung" window/door hang outside the house

bird house




these "kampung" windows'/doors' are waiting to be painted

Please visit her blog to know more about her. On another note, I have finally bought all the Jo Sonja's colour, now I have about 70 over colours and a lot of brushes. I can't wait for my next class and looking forward to paint more and I am also starting my tatting class this Saturday and thanks to Kak Faizon.

Have a good day, and thanks for dropping by!

Today

Today I am so happy as I managed to get my supplies for my folk art class - Jo Sonja's colours, not all colours are available however I managed to grab 39 tubes of Jo Sonja's, stay wet palette, brushes, charcoal pencil, some books and etc. I have to look for the base coat colour and some other stuff at Craft Haven may be tomorrow.

the maid is kind enough to put my name on each tube

Fun-filled weekend, Folk & Decorative Art

My family had a great weekend as we spent our night and day at Renaissance Hotel Kuala Lumpur and my girl is the happiest person on earth when it comes to swimming. She just want to lie flat on the water, she thinks she is a pro and she keeps on screaming whenever I hold her. Below is her picture playing with the telephone, she loves playing with the telephone in the hotel room.

@Renaissance Hotel - picture taken using my iPhone

@Renaissance KL

@ Renaissance KL

cooking class started, who wants to join?

The week before we was at Holiday Villa Subang and my girl was just too happy seeing the pools. Holiday Villa Subang has huge swimming pools', they have like 4 pools altogether and it was fun entertaining my girl. Once I said "enough" she screamed at the top of her lungs and everyone are looking at us.

@ Holiday Villa Subang

Despite the weekend activities I managed to attend my folk art class and did a couple of layouts over the weekend. I am now into country folk art & decorative and I just want to share with you my first project on folk art and it was fun. I am now into folk art and I can see my shopping list I wrote Jo Sonja's and I have a list of colours that I need to buy for my next class. Thanks to my Guru for being so patient on teaching me and I learned a few basic skills like the universal strokes and etc.

For the first project, I wanted a white base coat paint and since it is my first class and I don't have the white paint so I had to used Azian's paint which is green colour. That's ok, the end result, not that bad...

this is what I did!

Share with me your weekend activities, thank you for dropping by and have a great week ahead.

your sad face

This layout was done before I did the layout tittle "growing". Reason why I blog this layout after the "growing" layout is because I am waiting for an e-mail from Shannon. This layout was scraplifted from Shannon Tidwell, I scraplifted her 2007 layout tittle "mother & son". It is so me when I scraplift someone work I will always ask their permission, in this case I scraplifted first and I ask permission later (which make me feel guilty). Once she has given the green light I quickly blog about this layout.

How I found her? Before I ventured into this hobby, I love to read books - Borders, MPH, Times or bookstores are my favourite place. I bought a lot of true stories books and I subscribed for Readers Digest (even this year) and since I am into scrapbook I also bought some scrapbook book. Shannon was featured in Better Homes and Gardens, 365 days of scrapbooking ideas which I bought this book last week. I was amazed to see a lot of beautiful layouts in this book and Shannon layout was quite simple to scraplift so I did. Thank you Shannon!

Here is my scraplift...





Material used: Creative Imaginations Blue Polka patterned paper, DCWV chipboard, Creating Keepsakes mat stacks paper, American Crafts thicker, Jenni Bowlin button, Rhonna Farrer buttons, pin, beads, cotton designer fabrics in variety of colours, lace from Scrappingville, some sewing and lots of loves.

growing

This is the last layout that I did last night and I ran the yellow creamy like pattern paper with Tim Holtz embossing dies and put a little here and there distress ink, I punched holes' the paper and ripped the holes with my embossing pen/tools and it gives the look like it is a note pad page. I used acid free tiny pin to attach my tag/journal to the purple ribbon.

Acid free tiny pin to attach the tag journal

Material used: Artisan Die-Cut Dot Findings By Making Memories patterned paper, Sassafras Cherry Delicious patterned paper, plain yellow creamy patterned paper, Embossing dies by Tim Holtz, Numbered tape ribbon, Maya Road chipboard, Maya Road doilie transparency in white, crochet flower and pearl bead, Shimmerz spritz (4 leaf clover), American Crafts thicker, Purple ribbon/lace, acid free tiny pin from local scrapbook store, journal tag and pin by zig.

walk@the park with daddy

I did this layout yesterday afternoon and I really mixed everything on this layout as I haven't been scrapping for 2 weeks and in this layout I used a little canvas piece where I wrote the tittle, cut the printed cotton fabric and used as the side and bottom background, sewed the layout using my Singer sewing machine, weaved the colored wools at the bottom layout and many more.




Material used: DCWV The Madly In Love patterned paper, DCWV glittered butterflies chipboard, Prima flowers, All kinds of colours and shapes of brads, Creating Keepsakes mat stacks paper, Mariposa patterned paper, American Crafts patterned papers, colored wools from the local art shops, canvas piece for the tittle, cotton printed fabric, Whirligig buttons, Rhonna Farrer buttons, Slick writer by American Crafts, Zig, Tim Holtz distress ink (vintage photo) and lots of loves and happiness while doing this layout.

the braids girl

I did this one 2 weeks ago and I love this layout as I used a lot of buttons.

I embossed all the pattern papers using my big shot sizzix and I just love the result and I stapled the ribbon on top using my Tim Holtz tiny attacher.

Material used: The Girls Paperie by Margie patterned paper, 7 Gypsies patterned paper, DCWV The Madly In Love patterned paper, American Crafts thickers, Ribbon from the local scrapbook store, Tim Holtz tiny attacher, Rhonna Farrer buttons (A Rhonna Farrer Christmas Collections Hundreds of Buttons), Prima flower, EK success puncher, Devivan Kindy Glitz, Tim Holtz Distress Ink, Tim Holtz Sizzix embossing folders and corner puncher.

Wonder Girl

I did this layout 2 weeks ago and have yet to share with all of you. Here is the layout of my girl, photos taken at the park. I did wrong by using a green pattern paper and my photos are green as well. Whatever it is, enjoy the pictures.

I used Andirondack Dimensional Pearls to colour the tittle

for the bird, I used Quickutz

Material used: Martha Stewart punchers, EK success punchers, Quickutz die, Andirondack Dimensional Pearls - Espresso, Terra Cotta, Lettuce and Bottle, Prima flowers, Mariposa patterned paper, DCWV The Madly In Love patterned paper, October Afternoon patterned paper, The Girls Paperie by Margie patterned paper, American Crafts thickers, 7 Gypsies patterned paper, Rhonna Farrer buttons and Devivan Kindly Glitz.

Baby Diaries

It has been a long time I did not update my blog. Last week I went to Scrappingville and did this paper bag album with the guidance from Sharon. I am loving it to bits, just love the colours, unevenness of the pages and everything. Here some photos taken using my iPhone.










Last weekend I did one layout but I keep on forgetting to share with you guys, will do perhaps tomorrow. Thanks for dropping by and have a good week ahead!

Just a little update...

Thanks to those who have commented on my blog recently and I know I have been slacking on updating this blog and I just can't help it. I have been busy with few other things at home and work and the virus hit me again and again I am down with fever.

I did scrapped last week and managed to finished a couple of layouts which I am yet to share with all of you. I promise I will share all of them soon, I have also signed up with the upcoming class that will be held in November at Scrappingville and I just can't wait to go. Thanks to Sharon for inviting me to join the class. Plus, I received a lot of orders on scrapbooks which friends and family requested me to scrap their photos and I just can't say no. I also did a lot of shopping just to replenish my supply and it is never enough. Do you agree with me?

On another note, I have also found a new "guru" for my tatting after so many e-mails back and forth with her and I might be going for my tatting class next week. I have bought all the tools and threads for my tatting class and I just can't wait to tat.

To all that visiting my blog, thanks and have a great weekend everyone.