Elephants ATC

Herewith, my recent creation again. Love elephant, especially cute & chubby elephant like Disney animated cartoon Dumbo with two huge ears! Signed up immediately whilst seeing this swap at swap-bot.

My initial idea on the blue elephant was plain, just blue. Then, I found it's dull and I begun doodling swirls on it, however, the ball is really piece of flaw on this ATC. I hate it! Nevertheless, I love its ear, as I said, I like big ears like Dumbo! I stamped tiny flowers image with silver ink and cut a heart shape and glued it. Simple yet lovely, right? heehee...

2nd ATC, big ears again! Feminine elephant decorated with a flower gem and I filled the tusk with liquid pearl (it doesn't look clear in this picture). I applied the wide-spreading joke "elephant scared of mice" on this ATC, thus, I drew the little mice with long tail connected to each other as frame on the edge.

這是我近期的ATC，可愛又胖胖的小象。一直以來非常喜歡迪士尼動畫裡的小飛象，特別是它那對大大的耳朵！看到swap-bot裡有這個ATC就好不猶豫就參加了。

藍色的小象最初的概念只是純藍色罷了，完成後覺得有點單調而隨手劃上了漩渦狀圖案；不過，那可球卻是這張ATC的敗筆。恨死了！至於它的耳朵就如我喜歡小飛象的大耳朵，我裁出心型造型並蓋上銀色印台的碎花印章，然後再黏貼。非常簡單又可愛的，不是麼？

第二張ATC是一張非常女性化並帶上小花的粉色象，它的象牙則填上乳白色liquid pearl(照片拍的不明顯)。最後，我運用遠古流傳“大象怕老鼠”的笑話而劃上長長尾巴的小老鼠來點綴ATC的框框。

Inchie again...

My 2nd batch inchie for swap-bot! Woohoo...I was gradually hooked on inchie, it's so challenging to work on this tiny craft!

This is free theme inchie and my partner likes cupcake & cat, thus I take these two to make 2 inchies. Then, doddle the elephant and paisley and I like them most. Which one is your fave, eh? Besides, I also recycled card board to make a mini holder to fit these inchies and tied with ribbon.

再次製作inchie。我想我已漸漸迷上了這項迷你手工，非常有挑戰性。

這次也是自由主題，而我的交換夥伴喜歡杯子蛋糕和貓，所以我就以這兩個為主題做了兩張；其他兩張則自由發揮也是我的最愛 - 大象以及渦紋圖案！你比較喜歡那一張呢？

我還利用廢棄的紙盒裁出一個小套子並栓上絲帶來放這四張inchie。

WOJ Women's Delight Candy

Whiff of Joy Stamps will be releasing the fabulous Women's Delight today, 14th June 2009! These stamps are exquisite, please pop over to WOJ store to have a look or place your order.

In addition, Katharina is holding a blog candy for this new released stamps and the candy will be drawn on 15th June 2009.

Felt Owl Magnet

Aren't these felt owl magnet cutie? I'm totally fell in love with them! Reluctant to send to my partner.

I drew the owl template and cut into felt pieces and sew, simple yet cute!

This is mini owl, just 1.3 inch. I'm thinking to make more, not magnet, perhaps fill up with fiber.

這兩個小傢伙很可愛吧！它們是磁鐵喔！我對它們可是愛不釋手，非常不請願地把它們寄給我的夥伴！

它們只有1.3英吋大，而且製作非常簡單。自己起草繪圖再裁不織布以及縫合，就那麼的簡易又可愛！

心理還想著過些時間要多縫幾個，不過會以纖維取代磁鐵。

Thank you...my friend

This surprise reaches my mailbox while I was out of town. Thank you so much, my friend - Jiexi, sending such a lovely card to get rid of my low-spirited mood! She claimed that this card was made in the early day when she begun her making card. It's my honor to have it!

*muak*

Inchie

Hi everyone, these are the inchie that I mentioned in my previous post.

Again, this is my first attempt, just an inch craft piece! It's so difficult to trim it exactly an inch without trimmer, I think I need to put trimmer in my top and first "must-buy"wishlist. hee...hee...

I'm lucky to have a kind partner, she loved my finished work. Myself not gratifying with the result, obviously there are still a few defeats, such as smear of gel pen, charaters embossing were not striking...etc

哈囉～這就是我前些時候提及的inchie。

又是第一次嘗試這只有一英吋大的inchie！真的很難裁的準確，我真的需要一台切割刀。呵呵～～多虧我的交換夥伴很仁慈，對我的成品讚不絕口！真的很意外...因為就連我自己對這樣的結果不是太滿意。因為有幾個很明顯的瑕疵，如：gel pen的顏色化開、字體凸燙糊掉...等等等

Dottie's World Party Time

Dottie's World is celebrating their 1-year-old blogoversary and re-launch their blog in new look. Pop over to their lovely blog for more information and images about the fabulous prizes. Everyone is invited to participate this celebration!

Fortune Cat Mini Whimsy Jar

Hey everybody, a quick post for my felt fortune cat mini whimsy jar. Initially hesitated to post this as dissatisfied with the outcome. The body of the fortune cat looks alike pear-shaped. LOL

This is my 2nd felt cat/kitten, the first one was a kitten softie; it was adopted by my swap-bot partner in Thailand last year, I missed her so much!! :P

2nd piece - Fortune cat on her way to USA. I hope my partner will like my work and the filled mini jar.

ps: my partner received my package and she loves it so much! I'm so happy that she likes my craft. :) yeah...(29/05/2009)
朋友們，今天簡短的po這個已完成好幾天的作品 - 招財貓迷你創意小罐。不斷的在考慮要不要把這個不是很理想的作品放上來分享，總覺得牠有著梨型的體型。哈哈哈...

這是我的第二只貓成品，第一只很可愛也已經在去年就送了去泰國。而如今的第二個作品正在飛往美國，我希望我的交換夥伴會鍾意我的作品和裝了飾品的小罐。

◎注：我的交換partner收到了，而且還非常的喜歡！能讓對方那麼的開心，心理也喜滋滋的。 (29/05/2009)

Short Update

I am here to have a short update! Well, still...no craft to be updated. Sigh...

May...a hectic month for me. Workload increased, responsibility so. I am rushing to gather and update past several months data before attending the coming training and proceed to migrate trial database to live. It's sickening to stare on the screen more than 8 hours, daily!! yuck!! I'm about to shout "give me a break, please!" LOL

Craft making could be a solution to de-stress, but my brain was blunt after get off work. I am now doing a set of inchie (4 in total) for a beginner swap. I always love beginner swap! Will update/upload picture new post after the inchie done.

來個小更新，仍舊沒有新作品。

真是一個忙碌的五月天！工作量陸續增加，責任亦隨之而來。目前忙著蒐集和準備過去幾個月的資料，以便應用在來臨的訓練；續而把實驗數據轉移到活數據庫。就因為這樣，我每天必須盯著電腦超過9個小時，累人呀！有時候真想大聲地喊“讓我休息一下吧！”...呵呵！

做手工是放鬆心情的一個辦法，不過我的腦袋往往隨著下班而變的不靈活。我現在正在做一套4張的inchie，這是個給新手交換的機會。待我完成後再來po文和照片分享。敬請留意哦～～

Thanks

It has been two months apart from my last post. I was just idling away my time and unable to rivet on crafts making. Between times, I went to Singapore to meet up a few good friends and go to Malacca for attending a girl friend's wedding ceremony! It was a great time to talk about old days!

Phew! I made a card eventually! It was in process about two months to complete, as mentioned, I was unable to focus and no idea on paper positioning, colour matching, stamp image selecting (as I've no much stamps in my collection...*sob*) and image colouring. Anyway, I'm quite satisfied with the result of my card, though there is many progressive space compare to those masters. I'll keep up with my skill.

距離我上一個PO已經是兩個月前的事了。懶散是最大的因素，無法集中在手工製作。此外，我也走了一趟新加坡，主要是和一班好朋友見面敘舊並一同前往馬六甲參加好友的婚禮！真是一舉多得之旅，呵呵！

終於，今天完成了這張卡...呼！半成品從二月拖到今天才正式把它給完成，一直沒有概念要怎麼排方位；用什麼圖案(擁有的印章太少了 T_T)和該怎麼上色的問題等等等...困擾！不過，我還挺滿意的這樣的結果，當然和高手們還有很多的進步空間...我會繼續加油的！扛八爹唷！