Thoughts, Tales, and Whatnot

Category: Crafts

  • Birthday Card: Quilled White Flower against Embossed Purple Cardstock

    Background: Plain purple cardstock that I painstakingly embossed against an embossing plate (AE 1217) using Fiskars Dual Tip Stylus. I said painstakingly because this was the first time I tried this method and the effort of tracing the stylus against the plate was quite tiring. But the end result’s all worth it. Borders: Both top…

  • Giftwrapping: Recycled Plastic Bags and Lay’s Potato Chips Packaging as Wrappers

    Now that I’m not so busy with Christmas preparations, attending Christmas parties and anything Yuletide-season related, I will share how I wrapped my Christmas gifts for friends and colleagues. I have long stopped buying giftwrappers (unless I use them as sheets or cut-outs for scrapbooking or cardmaking) and prefer recycling whatever’s at hand.  And since…

  • Christmas Card: Quilled Angel and Quilled Star

    Background: The top is plain dark blue paper crumpled and creased then sprinkled with Leeho glitter glue in turquoise and blue. The bottom is yellow gold corrugated cardboard. Main design: Quilled angel. On the upper right corner is a quilled star sprinkled with gold glitter, also by Leeho. Accent: Four light yellow sequins placed on…

  • Giftwrapping: Raffia Ribbon on a Handmade Gift Tag with Letter Cut-outs

    Wrapper: plain pink cartolina. Gift Tag: plain white folder piece cut into a circle and colored blue using Crayola crayon in cerulean. It was then coated with Leeho Glitter Glue in light blue. The recipient’s name was from colorful letter cut-outs from a magazine. The gift tag was ribboned on the gift box using pink…

  • Giftwrapping: Recycled Newspaper Wrapper with Sunflower Accent

    Wrapper: Newspaper cut-outs glued together with the corners dotted with Pentel Maxiflo Permanent Marker in black. Accent: Sunflower made from wood discards.