Winner of March 2013 Blog Giveaway

Ok....I'm super early this time in announcing the winner for my blog giveaway ehehe! The lucky winner for March 2013 Blog Giveaway is lucky Miss Bhawana! Congratulations to you Miss Bhawana for winning the blank cards, colourful buttons and die cut pattern paper from Wholeport.

Please email me at inaabdul_21@yahoo.com with all your details so that I can post the gifts to you as soon as possible. :)

Thank you also to all who took the trouble to participate in my blog giveaway last month. Thank you for promoting it at your blogs and Facebook......I truly appreciate it a lot :).

For April's giveaway, something really cool will be in the list of stuff I'll be giveaway. Something from Wholeport as well....hehe.....so be sure to participate in my next giveaway ya! Will post about it soon :)

Featured in Papercraft Inspirations

 

About a month ago, I was approached by Miss Lucy Evans who is the Operations Editor from Papercraft Inspirations, which is one of Britain's leading card making magazines to have one of my handmade cards featured in their April 2013 issue. I was really surprised to get this opportunity and was really happy because it's one of my favourite magazines from United Kingdom. Even though it's just a small feature, I'm still thrilled about it. Never thought that one day one of my handmade cards would be featured in this magazine. ^.^

In each issue of the magazine, they will put together a two-page gallery of wonderful, inspirational cards that they have spotted from blogs from around the world. And my "Just For You" card was one of the lucky cards that was chosen for this two-page gallery section of the magazine. The magazine is already on sale in the UK starting from the 14th of March and overseas around 2-6 weeks later.

I've bought the magazine before when I was staying in Kuala Lumpur some years back. It's not easy to find them here in Alor Setar. But it can however be subscribed so that we won't miss a copy of their issues :).

Thank you so much to Papercraft Inspirations for giving me this wonderful opportunity to have my handmade card and blog featured in their magazine. Hopefully more card makers from around the world would check out my blog and find some inspiration from it.  I shall never forget this sweet moment and will always be grateful for it :).

You can view more of the featured card at the link below:
 http://azlina-lin.blogspot.com/2013/01/just-for-youdear-friend.html

March 2013 Blog Giveaway

Peace be upon everyone today! I hope everyone is in good health and happiness surrounds you always :). I have prepared some gifts for March 2013 blog giveaway and you can view them at the photo above. Just a little something from my sponsor, Wholeport and a little something from me.

The gifts includes, 5 pieces of blank cards (half A4 size), some origami paper, and some blank paper, all of which I have cut using the scallop dies with my die cut machine. Last but not least some colourful buttons! :)

The rules for entering this giveaway is very simple.....everyone is eligible to enter......all you have to do is just promote the photo and the link of this giveaway to your Facebook account or to your blog. For those who have a blog, you can either write a post about it or just paste the photo and link of the giveaway at the sidebar of your blog. Then, just put the the link of where you promoted my giveaway at  Mr Linky below, and write your name there too. Please, please remember to put the link of where you promote it at Mr Linky, otherwise I wouldn't know if you promote it or not. Do Follow my blog and Facebook Page too......Thanks!

GIVEAWAY ENDED ON 31ST OF MARCH 2013.

BLOG GIVEAWAY CLOSED

Winner of February 2013 Blog Giveaway

Now is time for me to announce the name of the winner of last month's blog giveaway! It's lucky number 19! Miss Sonia! Congratulations Miss Sonia.....hope you can contact me at my email address and give me your details so that I can post to you the prize as soon as I can.

Thank you so much to all who participated in my giveaway. I truly appreciate your support. I wish I could give the prize to everyone but unfortunately I'm not that rich yet to do that ehehehe....not yet! :D Who knows one day I might be able to give prizes to more than one person per giveaway. 

I am in the middle of preparing the prize for this month's giveaway now. The prize that the winner will get is a little something that I received from my sponsor and also a little something from myself.......hopefully everyone will like it and join the giveaway. ;)

Thanks again everyone! Big hugsssss! ;)

 

Pop up envelopes card

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Pretty excited about this card.....big smiles.....all because I did something new for myself this year...yeah...I wanna do a lot of new things this year....for example this is the first time for me to use distress ink hehe! Been wanting to try out this technique for a long time now but never got the "feel" to do so. I just bought the stuff and kept it inside the box and wait for the feeling to play with it to come by me someday. And that feeling came today.... :D I had fun blending the distress ink on the paper using a makeup sponge haha....it was really fun! I didn't buy a blending tool because I thought that perhaps the makeup sponge was good enough for now. 

I also used a wrapping paper for the front design of the card, it's sponsored by Wholeport which I love so much. I think it suits the card really well. Hopefully I can make more ready stock cards of this design :).

The pop up envelopes are the best part of this card for me personally.....because this is also the first time for me to make the paper pop up in the centre like that, from the top till bottom with no cuts at all in between.  I made the envelopes sometime ago using the scoring board.....it was nice to make them....kinda cute cause they are so small in size. When I made them, I didn't have any idea yet what to do with them. I just made them because at the time I just bought a brown paper stock that looked perfect for making envelopes.

You can view how the card pops up at the video below....do check it out :)

Cherry blossom tri shutter card

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I was playing around with one of the the free origami paper I received from Wholeport the other day and I thought of cutting them up this way using the die cut machine and pasting them all over the tri shutter card. I've never done something like this before and I find it quite amusing :D. 

I wanted the tri shutter card to look like as if the card itself was originally with patterns even though it was not.....it's just a plain white cardstock. But now it is heavily embellished with pattern paper all over it. It looks a bit messy with the pattern paper all over it, which is not usually my style but I still gave it a try to see how it would look like in the end.

The yellowish scallop circles are for writing on personal wishes. I purposely made them in different sizes hehe.....so the personal wishes can be written in different sections of the card. :)

The pop up hearts I pasted at two different sections in the card is something I am excited about. I've never done it this way before.....usually I only make the heart pop in one section. It's new for me and I'm getting a few more ideas for new tri shutter cards to be done in a similar way.

Another thing I love about this design is the tiny cherry blossoms! I love embossing them this way and arranging them this way. It's simple and yet so cute because of their small size! hehe! I love making them! They suit the pattern paper a lot ;) You can view how the tri shutter card opens up and pops the hearts inside it at the video I prepared below....do check it out :).

Lovely loops flower tutorial

Back in 2011 I created this lovely loops flower just by coincidence.....after making a lot of those tiny loops flowers which I learned from Anastasia Wahalatantiri, I thought of creating a new flower using that technique....and that's how it was created, which was by just  folding the tiny loops the other way around. It was not easy to do and quite tricky.....sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't but after much practice, it gets easier.

A lot of my blog readers have requested me to make this tutorial.....but only now I have some time to do so. Hope you all like the tutorial and try making the lovely loops flower ....all the best! ;)