Let's Get Trendy Now!3 online workshop!

Dear friends,
This week, a group of amazing ladies over at Let's Get Trendy Now!3 will be showing 5 hottest trends; Neon, Sequins, Handmade Embellishments, Stitching and Textured Layers, to spice up your creative endeavors even more :). I'm excited to join them this year, sharing yet another fun way to use Stitching in altered art projects.

Day 1: Neon (Monday 3rd June)

Day 2: Sequins (Tuesday 4th June)

Day 3: Handmade embellishments (Wednesday 5th June)

Day 4: Stitching (Thursday 6th June)

Day 5: Textured layers (Friday 7th June)

Not only will you be inspired by 32 never-been-seen projects, you will also get a chance to win some prizes if you play along with our challenges.

Signups start today, Wednesday 29th May at 12 a.m EST. You can sign up by adding your name to the linky tool at the bottom of this post or, join us at Let’s Get Trendy Now!3 site from 3 - 7 June. 

My project will be revealed on June 6th (Day 4: Stitching) and the detailed tutorial will be shared here too. Do come visit again on Thursday!. Here's a peek of what I made;

So, see you at Let's Get Trendy Now!3 for a week-long, awe-spiring ideas next week!. Most of all, have fun and good luck playing along!. HUGS.

B is for Bella!

Hi. Last night I was looking for some more things/projects to decorate our 'Twilight tree' @ Scrappingville. And I found this!. An old project of mine, the letter 'B' for Bella. 
Sorry, no 'E' for Edward though.

I thought it was such a good idea (then), to make a wall decor out of alphabets. At that time, I was into the vampire-human-love theme, and particularly looking for big wooden letters B & E. So, I was pleased to have found it at my favorite store Art Friends. I wished they have a bigger one.

I started out by painting the wooden letter with some acrylic paint (cream for the front, purple for the back) and decoupaged on some roses from tissue papers. I was trying to make the design looked more gothic, like 'dark-mysterious-girl-with-tattoo' thing. So I stamped all over it with black intricate floral patterns on all sides, especially on the roses. 

I glued on a skeleton key (it was a pendant) and a wooden heart (an earing) at the back. You know ... key to my heart, sort of :). Then added the 'ELLA' red stickers, the pearl strip and some rubons. Lastly, I tied up an old bracelet with the letter 'E' charm ('E' for Edward, mind you) and a silk ribbon to complete the project.

I really like to upcycle old things (or junk) & incorporate them in any artsy projects that I'm working on; be it scrapbook layouts, mini albums or simple altered project such as this one. Such joy. 

Happy creating!

XO,

Shahrul

LESSology Challenge #9

Finally an altered project challenge!. I saw this cool altered project challenge blog called LESSology on Nida's blog (thanks Nida!). Their latest challenge (LESSology Challenge #9), is to create an inspiration board using at least one upcycled item. I love giving an old, unwanted item a new life ... so I decided to give it a try.

I found an old wooden sign, 'My Room' in the storage. Gave it a few coats of white paint and doodled on it. And I also used three pieces of IKEA's wooden picture frames and some wires to hold them together.

With a little paint job, 
just two coats of lovely acrylic colors,

... Baby, this is us NOW. Yay!

These three BIG words had always been my favorite creating mantras. To see them hang on the wall while working at my desk, I am reminded and ever so inspired to make something beautiful (or useful).

I used running stitches to make the words because I almost ran out of chipboard alphas! LOL. And I just learnt how to crochet the flowers a couple days ago.

Here are some close ups of the needlework...

Okay, I had fun today making these. It's been a long day and nite nite to all.