Congratulations Card

This card I created while I was still in Indonesia. I just love its simplicity and elegance. It's now listed on my shop.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel. My husband has accepted a job offer in Vancouver. YEI!!! We'll be relocating from Toronto to Vancouver. I'm not too sure if I'm excited in going back to Vancouver. Somehow I would rather stay in Toronto. Perhaps because Toronto is a much bigger city. It's more alive and things are more accessible compared to Vancouver. And perhaps because it's a new environment where we could explore and discover compared to Vancouver where we've-been-there-done-that.

But who am I to complain? In this tough time, we are grateful that my hubby can secure a good job after a couple of months of job searching. We have surrendered everything to God and if this is where and what He wants us to be, then be it.

We'll be packing up our stuff again. We also need to find a place of our own while in the meantime staying at my parents' place. Until we have a place where we can call our home, I have to be pretty flexible on where I'm going to craft.

To celeberate the end of job searching, get 35% off of everything in my shop (10% off on sale section). Enter "GotJobSale" on the notes to seller and I'll send revised invoice or do refund. Sale ends on July 31st, 2009.

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Baby Page: So Tweet

Another 2-page I created recently for Ethan's album. So Tweet!


The theme is sweet and tweeting bird seems perfect for it. I used my felt bird and a few 'sweet' stickers as well as stamped the word sweet. I printed the journal, cut it into several pieces and ink the edges. Instead of buying the ready-made arrow, I made it myself from scrap papers.


This 2-page scrapbook captures a special developmental milestone where Ethan's neck was strong enough that he could hold his head high.

Working on 2nd Baby Album

While I'm waiting for my scorer (EK success cutterpede score) to arrive on the mail, I thought I work on my son's album. I finished the 1st album a couple of months ago but because I just love all my baby's photos (I'd bet any mom would say the same thing), by the time I finished the 1st album, I realized I only scrapbooked his photos from delivery day up to him being 2 months old. Now if I don't learn to choose less photos I would end up with too many albums and that would beat the purpose of scrapbooking, wouldn't it? Or I would end up with empty albums since the task looks so daunting.


In the past I felt that baby boy album is tougher to create since flower embelishments should not be used. I tried to find patterned papers with rocket, car, train, airplane designs, anything that is boyish. If you've been seeing my cards, you will see that I love flowers. I use flowers almost all the time.

However, since seeing some pages for boys with flowers in craft magazines, I thought, "Hey, if it's not a taboo for others, why should it be for me?" Flowers are not for girls only. So here the pages that I made with some flowers.

Front Page Worthy

WoO HoO!

I made it to the Front Page, dedicated to Canada Day yesterday. I've been wanting to be on FP, so yesterday...it was just like a dream come true. The first time after a while being on Etsy.

There was a time when I was advised by a curator that her treasury made on a FP and one of my cards was included. I was so excited and tried to look at the archived FP (I didn't get a chance to see the live FP) but soon found out that mine was an alternate and unfortunately did not make it to appear on the FP before it expired.

Having my cards and tags on treasuries always makes me happy. It feels so great to be included and be a part of talented artists. Past treasuries with my products can be found here.

So yes, I was doing my happy dance yesterday and a big full grin smile on my face just like when I was on Storque Shop Local Asia Spotlight. I told my husband about this great accomplishment. Is this a big deal? It is for me. There is 160267 sellers on Etsy as I'm writing this article (and growing) and those photographs of artworks made to the FP, they always left me in awe. The facts that my product was picked and made to the FP just provided me with a confirmation that I'm on the right track in making my dreams come true.

Being on a FP for a short period of time translated to 9 new hearts on these tags, 12 new hearts on my shop, and 16 new hearts on other cards/ tags.


This set of 3 Leafy Green Felt Tree Tags are one of my favorites of all time. I made about 5 sets of these, a couple was sold as part of wholesale to a boutique in Nelson, BC and the set that is on sale on my shop is the last set and I won't be able to make more as I don't have the patterned paper anymore. Talking about this interesting paper, I didn't think that I would be able to create something beautiful as these tags (read here).