SHERA'S BORDER

Out of coincidence, we exchanged postcards today.  Our postcards shows how different our designs and personalities are.  Different pattern, different style, but same heart, same direction, doing same thing, serving together.  Its amazing how God puts people together - 3 coffee kaki's having lunch together and started this project.  Thank God for G-BOX, thank God for awesome partners ^^

有时，默默等待也是一种美。。。

Things were a little messy today and kids were a bit hard to control.  But still........ Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaari inih, kurasa bahagia! Thankful for the chance to serve and learn :)  How can you not love these smiles? 

For GBOX sunday school this week, I got this idea to let the teens make a wooden cross since we will be teaching about Christ.  I got the idea from a gift i received - also a wooden cross, made by an elderly who has passed.  Think it will be simple and fun for the teens to try out, and it could be a home decoration.  Hope this craft will remind the kids of what Jesus did for them on the cross.   Planning to make a rugged cross and hence I search for sites on how to distress wood.  Found how to stain wood a cheap way on this site:  http://www.huntedinterior.com/2012/02/natural-gray.html Anyways, just thought of sharing the process of making the cross... it's pretty easy :)   I soaked steel wool in distilled vinegar overnight These are some other stuff I prepared.  From the left: wood adhesive, tea in hot water (boh/lipton will do), wood varnish, steel wool in vinegar Firstly I prepared the wood by sanding them and gluing them together.  It is so kind of

In house barista.... she story her dad used to hand roast and hand grind local coffee himself.  He was a chef :)

Upcoming simple craft for GBOX this Sunday.... lesson about Christ :)  I find it really really fun and enjoyed it a lot myself.  Got the idea from here:  http://ministry-to-children.com/painted-cross-craft-project/

This is one of my favourite sites which I have been following for a few years now.  Many fun recycling ideas can be found here and its really inspiring.  I tried submitted some of my cards and journals here for fun and it has been posted!!! Woots!!! Soooooo excited to see my stuff on the Home page! Here's the link to the page of my post ^^: http://www.recyclart.org/2014/05/handmade-cards-journals-using-recycled-paper/

Made this for one of my client.  She's one of those people who repeatly buy cards from me since few years ago.  I'm quite touched to have 'loyal' customers who appreciate my works and also I think its sweet of her to always get a card to care for her friends and families.  She kinda mentioned she likes my green cards so I decided to make her a quick card using my handmade recycled papers.   Ingredients: Card Stock: Popular Card - Ivory Background Recycled Paper: Made using milk carton, toilet paper roll, pos ekspress information paper, some brown scraps Flower Recycled Paper (Bottom Layer): Made using milk carton Flower Recycled Paper (Top Layer): Made using milk carton, toilet paper roll, GBOX wrapping paper (red part) Stamp: Technique Tuesday / Ali Edwards - Loving Words, Hero Arts - Hugs and Hearts Ink: VersaFine - Vintage Sepia Die: SU/Sizzix -  Embosslits (Beautiful Wings), SU/Sizzix - Bigz L (Fun Flowers) Others: Pink Flower, White Flower Butt

This is another mother's card I made for sale.  The sentiment stamp is my favourite stamp :)  Simple card with washi tapes.  Washi tapes make designing so much easier sometimes :)  Ingredients: Card Stock: SU - Crumb cake, Popular Card - Ivory Stamp: SU - For the Birds, Technique Tuesday / Ali Edwards - Loving Words, SU - Teeny Tiny Wishes Ink: VersaFine - Vintage Sepia Punch: SU - Modern Label Others: White Brads, MT Washi Tapes I'm entering this for Simon Says Stamp Blog (Spring Flowers)

I made this mother's card for sale.  Just a simple card using my recycled paper scraps :)  It's sold out.  I hope it makes the mommy happy :)  Ingredients: Card Stock: Popular Card - Ivory Background Recycled Paper: Made of Milk Carton & Toilet Roll Flower Recycled Paper (Bottom layer): Made of Milk Carton Flower Recycled Paper (Top Layer): Made of Milk Carton, Toilet Roll, GBOX wrapping paper, Tea Leaves (Gryphon, Hanami Flavor - Japanese Sencha with Cherry Blossoms) Stamps: Technique Tuesday / Ali Edwards - Mom=Love Ink: VersaFine - Vintage Sepia Dies: SU/Sizzix - Embosslits (Beautiful Wings), SU/Sizzix - Bigz L (Fun Flowers) Others (No Brand): Lace, Pink Flower, Wooden Button, Straw Rope, Pearls I'm entering this for: Spring Flowers

A young pastor couple is getting married soon.  My grandma has always been very fond of the groom and wants to buy a wedding gift for the couple.  She's really cute where she keep asking me if I'm gonna buy them a present and actually is she who wants to get it.  And she kinda make me share the present, without paying for it but just my name is there too.  She also made sure its packed/wrapped nicely and requested a card... really putting lots of thoughts in it.  XD I hope the couple will like the gift and God bless their marriage ^^ Ah Po wishing them to have twins next year. ^^ Ingredients: Card Stock: Popular Card - Ivory, SU - Rich Razzleberry Patterned Paper: Kaiserkraft - Photo Friendly Stamp: SU - Occasional Quotes, Inkadinkado - Wedding Ink: VersaFine - Vintage Sepia Punch: SU - Heart to Heart Die: SU - Framelits (Apothercary Accents) Others (No brand): Bronze Eyelet, Pink & Purple Flower, Purple Rope I'm entering this for

Look who's here! Hui Chun surprised me by volunteering for GBOX.  Ah! So happy! And she brought me souvenirs from taiwan.... yummy yum yum! She got me washi tapes too!!! I'm so so so blessed!!!  These are the washi/fabric tapes I received for the last two weeks.  I am totally soooo overwhelmed.

I made a new friend recently from postcrossing and I am really touched by her story to foster then adopt a kid.  There is just so much love in her :)  She showed interest in my cards and I promised to make one for her.  Since Mother's Day is near, I thought of making her a mother's day card.  I played around with my handmade recycled paper and distress inks.  Find it pretty fun and unintentionally created a little rugged elegance, which I would never thought of putting together.  Just posted this out and this card is gonna be belated though using snail mail.  Hope she likes it and has a very special mother's day this year :)  Ingredients: Card Stock: Popular Card - Ivory Recycled Paper: Batch 006 Stamp: SU - Teeny Tiny Wishes, SU - Trust God Ink: VersaFine - Vintage Sepia Distress Ink: Tim Holtz - Vintage Photo, Aged Mahogany, Tea Dye, Scattered Straw, Mustard Seed Texture: SU/Sizzix - Manhattan Flower Dies: SU/Sizzix - Embosslits Beautiful Wings Others:

Mummy's best buddy Auntie Susan's birthday is around the corner and she asked if I could make a card for her.  Being on short notice to make the card in less than an hour, I decided to grab this ready card to make one.  Pretty happy with the outcome I must say ^^  Getting pretty papers makes card making so easy!   Ingredients: Card Stock: Popular Card - Ivory, Espresso Patterned Paper: Sn@p! Cards - Life Stamp: Avery Elle -Picture it! Ink: SU - Cherry Cobbler Letters: SU/Sizzix - Decorative Strip Billboard Punch: SU - Heart to Heart Others (No brand): Bright Blue Brads I'm entering this for Retrosketches #113 Anything Goes

Last Frid ay we also celebrated Uncle Dan's birthday, whose birthday is only a week away from Jeannie's.  Even though we are not blood related, but Uncle Dan has been family ever since I could remember.  He's the one who fix everything in my house, who babysat us when we were little, have countless meals in my house and after he got married and has children, his family also became family.  He's the only one person who doesn't live with us but holds our house keys and can come and go whenever he wants.  He has been truly a blessing to our family. ^^     Ingredients: Card Stock: SU - Early Espresso Patterned Paper: Sn@p! Cards - Life Stamp: SU - Teeny Tiny Wishes Punch: SU - Modern Label, SU - Heart to Heart Letters: Tim Holtz Alterations - Typeset I'm entering this for Anything Goes