Graphic 45 Mini Album

Hi everyone, I just finished making my very first mini album using Graphic 45 Renaissance Faire collection paper. These papers are so beautiful and I love love love graphic 45 paper. Here is the album:

I used about two days to finish this album, and really..... this is my first time. Even though it takes a lot of time to complete the whole album, but I have a lot of fun while making it. The 3 pockets with tags inside the pockets are the insert of this mini album. Here is some more pictures:

The album is measured 5.5*8.5 inches. It has a lot of pockets for you to slice notes, tags, photos and so forth. It also contains photo mat that you can display your pictures.

My first mini album, turned out so good and I love making it. I also sell this mini album on my etsy store: http://www.etsy.com/people/LilacCreations?ref=si_pr  I sell this album for $35.00 plus shipping. Please email me or leave a comment if you have any question.

Thanks for stopping by.

Serina

Flowers

Hi everyone, I have been very busy lately making mini album and I will post it on my blog after I complete everything. Anyway....... I have a card that I want to share with everyone and this card is also designed for Anything Goes Challenge Blog .

 I made those flower on my own. The paper line that I use for the base here is Butterfly Garden from Pink Paislee and the flowers are from Tim Holtz Shabby Paper .  I use Tim holtz Tattered Florals die to build those flowers------ the bigest flower which is in light pink (three large petals, three medium petals and three small petals). The middle flower-----four of the medium long petals and the last flower is from EK Success punch. The blink that I use here is from Recollections.

It has been an honor to be a guest designer for Anything Goes Challenge Blog for July and I wish there will be many more to come.

If you have any question, please feel free to contact me. Thanks for the opportunity.

Easel Card

Hi everyone, I am back...... This week I am so honor to be a Guest Designer for Anything Goes Challenge Blog this month. This is one of the opportunity that I have been waiting for. Hooray!!!

As everyone knows that I am inspired by Tim Holtz. On this card, I use most of his elements to make it.

Here is the card:

I use one of my Accucut butterfly die to make the base of the easel card. I cut out the heart from medium-weight chipboard using Tim Holtz Heart Wings die. I painted it with red acrylic paint and apply a layer of Rock Candy over it. The wings and the sentiment is from one of the Tim holtz stamp set. I embossed the wings with gold embossing powder and cut those out by hand. The paper that I use here is also from Tim Holtz which is Vintage Shabby and Lost and Found paper stash. On the middle of the heart, I also use one of the Tim Holtz Philosophy Tags that you can get it in Craft Den Store.

Please stop by Anything Goes Challenge Blog to find out more creations. I will see you guys there.

Thanks for having me as a guest designer.

Please Leave a comment if you have any question. Thanks for stopping by.

Simon Says Stamp and Show a Word

Hi everyone, I come back with another project that I took few days to put all together..... a Vintage romantic decor. I also use this project to enter a challenge called Simon Says Stamp and Show . I was going to make a hanging decor, I tried to put something to hang it but I like it the way it is.

I adore vintage, collage and mixed media crafts, especially the techniques that apply to all those arts. Every pieces has its own uniqueness to it. I love, love, love it. Here is my Masterpiece......

I cut out 8*8 from paper box and decoupage it with text paper using Mod Podge (I like this technique a lot). The ornate frame is from sizzix. I dry embossed it, painted it with regular acrylic paints. I stamped "LOVE" with one of the Tim Holtz stamp with Fired Brick distress ink from Ranger. You also can see some shine to the "LOVE" because--------I applied some clear distress crackle paint, it also called Rock Candy. I know I put few words there but I would like to emphasize it.

I hope you all enjoying it. If you have any question, please let me know or leave a comment. Thanks.

Serina

Color Challenge From Our Creative Corner

I am a new crafter and don't have much experience, all I do now is visiting other blogs, get inspired and create. I am inspiring all of them especially those are the designer for the blogs that I love to read always.

Yesterday, I was reading others' blogs and found out other challenge blog which is Our Creative Corner . The color for this week are:

I think the combination of the color will be a challenge for me. So, I decided to challenge myself and create this card:

This card I completed it today and it just hard to put those together plus I have to use at least three punches, and one of them have to be border punch. Challenging!!! Finally, I like the way it turn out and I am pretty satisfied with the result. I would like to play along in a near future. Thanks for stopping by.

Serina

Simon Says Stamp and Show Some METAL

Hi everyone, this is Serina and I have some new card to show to everyone. I am so busy lately because all the card-making contests and fabulous challenge that I will be participating. It will be so fun and I can not wait to see what is everybody going to create. Ok..... This week, Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge is METAL. I like to put different kind of texture and dimension to my cards or projects. Metal is one of them. Here is the card that I created:

I am using Tim Holtz patterned paper, bigz dies (Gadget Gears). For the metal here is also from Tim Holtz Ideology (Sprocket Gears). I used them right in the middle to the die cuts. I hope you guys can see it. I tore the edges and distress them with Vintage Photo Distress ink. I also used the die cut itself to mask the paper and spray with my homemade mist which is also Vintage Photo.

I enjoy creating and have so much fun to learn more techniques from all of the talented crafters and get inspired. Thanks for stopping by.

Serina

Lilac Creations Store

Hi, everyone I have excited news to share with all of you. I open up a page that called Lilac Creations Store. The link is just on the right hand side of my blog.

I sell some die cuts and special paper that go with the die cut too. Please stop by often to check out the latest die cuts available on my blog. Some of you might like the die cuts but you have your own desired paper to cut. Please e-mail me and I will try my best to find the paper and cut it the way you want. Thanks for stopping by.

Serina

Shabby Card

Hi everyone, here is another card that I made to enter couple of challenge. The main challenge for this card is the color. The combination of these colors are so gorgeous that I have to try it out.

I distress the edges just to give a shabby look to it. The stamp set that I am using is TPC Studio Vintage Birdcages. I love these stamps.

I stamped the birdcage onto Pink Paislee Butterfly Garden collection paper and glittered the edge with Gold Stickles from Ranger.

Here is another flower that I made. I added some tulle and lace behind the flower. The leaves I am using right here is from IAMROSES. I am inspired by them all. Thanks.

This card is made to enter the following challenge:

CR84FN #31 : Light Pink, Medium Green and Neutral

Wee Memories #59 : Anything

Serina

I'm Sew Excited!

Hi, everyone..... I have a new project that I want to show eveybody. Lately, I am into "Dress Form" so much and sewing machine, especially VINTAGE one...... love them. I've created this card to enter "I'm Sew Excited! Callenge in the Moxie Fab World. Here is the card.....

The spool is made out of wine cork. The flower is handmade by me using EK success flower punch. I added lace and tulle behind the flower. The paper collection that I am using right here is Heartwarming Vintage Collection from Crafty Secrets. Their papers are gorgeous.

I sprayed the flower with my handmade Barn Door distress ink mist and distress the edges with Vintage Photo distress ink.

Moxie Fab World has a lot of fun challenge to participate in, here is one of them. Make sure to check back on them all the time because there is always something new. Click here

Thanks for stopping by....

Serina

Favourite Stamp and Male Tag

Hi everyone, how is everybody......Today, I am going to show you my favourite stamp that I owned for long long time--Tim Holtz Clear Stamps LIFE'S POSSIBILITIES Stampers Anonymous. I think these stamps are so cool, especially for male. There is a challenge for me to create a tag or card for male. Most of my creations will have some sort of ribbon or flowers and so forth. Guess what...... here it is.

This week, Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge is my favourite stamp and the theme for the Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog is Father's Day/Male card. I will enter their challenge constantly from now on because I like to create and to share. I hope you all enjoy it. Thanks.

Serina

I am Roses "In the Garden" Contest Entry

Hi, everyone... here is the project that I made for the I am roses "In the Garden" contest entry. I just got my Accucut machine and I am super excited to create something out of the dies that I just got. I created this butterfly hanging decor.

I use Accucut dies and Tim Holtz dies, of course some roses from IAMROSES. I hang some charms from Creatively Chloe. Here is the closer look of my butterfly........

I use Pink Paislee Butterfly Garden Collection paper for this project here and the background is Mariposa paper.

Please email or contact me if you have any questions. Thanks for stopping by.... bye bye.

Serina

Some More Card-making

Hi everyone, it has been a while that I haven't posted anything since last time. I think it has been a month. So sorry guys..... I have been very busy lately to get some of the projects done for friends. Here is some of them:

Here are some of the cards with the dancing theme that request by one of my friend. I made them all kinda VINTAGE and I really like working on these cards. I hope you all enjoy and thanks for stopping by..bye!!

Serina

Show Some Metal

Hi, everyone..... I am back again... I have been very busy lately that I haven't have a time to create anything until now. Today I would like to show you guys the card that I made for a friend for birthday...... Plus, I got whole lot of Tim Holtz's products lately and decided to try out some of the new things that I have never used before..ready?

I got Tim's Gadget Gears bigz die and play around with the acrylic paints with it. I use gold, copper, silver and black acrylic paints. At the center of the gears are washers. I put a fragment on the top of the two numbers there which is 3 and 11 together. It is hard to see..... I use Tim Holtz mini paper clips to hold "WISH".

Here is a closer look to it and the back of the card. I hope you all enjoy it. Thanks.

Serina





Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger: Flower Power

Hi everyone and happy Sunday.... I just found out there are a lot of challenges from the Moxie Fab World..... I was inspired by this:

I love flowers and I like to make them. So, I decided to enter this challenge. But the problem for me for this challenge is the color--orange, purple and blue. This is a real challenge for me and I would like to try my best and put all those colorful flowers together in one piece.

I hope you all like it.

Thanks.

Serina

Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge: A Tag

Hi everyone, Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge for this week is showing a Tag.... here is my submission for this week challenge. Enjoy!!

I like this tag a lot. The background of this tag is wood...... and I distressed around the edges with Walnut Stain distress ink. For this tag, I also want to play with the Old World textured cardstock stack by DCWV. I just got it and I love the vintage and shabby look of the paper. Here is the closer look to it:



Both of the flower is fully made by using EK success flower punch.....the smallest and the medium one. I hope you all enjoy my work. Thanks.

Serina

Rusted Enamel

Hi, everyone... I am making this decor for my craft room and guess what -- entering the Studio L3 challenge for this week, Rusted Enamel technique..... The detail will be in Tim's book calls A Compendium of Curiosities.

All of the die cutting right here are All Tim's... Caged Bird, Baroque and Tattered Florals. The bird cage right here is made by the technique (Rusted Enamel) using Weathered Wood distress ink. Besides, I did some extra work on the cage. I applied some of the brown acrylic pain over it after everything is done.

I hope you all like it, thank you for stopping by.

Serina

Embossing

Here we go...

I like 3D projects. Besides to embellish the project with charms, buttons and so forth to give it some dimensions, embossing is one of the technique that I love the most because I like to give everything that I make a little dimensions and textures, no matter it is dry embossing or wet embossing. So, I decided to make a tag by using few techniques for my husband valentine's.

This tag right here is also to enter Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge this week: Embossing. As you can see, I used few of the Tim Holtz texture fade embossing folders for the background and the heart wings die. I applied Fired Brick Crackle Paint from Ranger to the heart and embossed it with UTEE. For the crown, I embossed it with gold embossing powder for few layers. The flower is made out of Tattered Florals die and the letter is from Tim Holtz Carnivale die.

I hope you all like it and please leave your lovely comment  right below here, thanks so much.

Serina

Valentine's Card

Valentine's Day is just around the corner.... I have made few cards with valentine theme......

This is one of the Valentine's Card. On this card, I applied few techniques to make this background. I like how it comes out and in love with this technique. Again..... I am using Tim Holtz texture fade embossing folder to dry emboss it and then I used Weathered Wood distress ink from Ranger to ink it up the raise part of the embossing area. Most of you guys know that distress ink can be an embossing ink, so I wet embossed it with clear embossing powder after I inked it up with distress ink. After that, I inked the background again with Walnut Stain distress ink. The Walnut Stain distress ink give it an old look to some of the area that is not being embossed. I like the effect very much and just could stop playing with this technique again.

I used Tim Holtz Heart Wings die and Tattered Florals die here. I used one of the coolest Tim Holtz texture fade embossing folder to emboss the heart and applied some pearl acrylic paint. If you guys have any questions, please feel free to email me and I will be very happy to answer and thanks for stopping by again...

Serina

Childhood Memory!!!

When it comes to my childhood, I think about my lovely mom. She is a talented women. She used to sew a lot back then but now she stops. She made curtain, bed sheet, blanket, pants and so forth. When we were young (with both of my sisters), my mommy made us a lot of scrunchies out of the pieces fabric that have to be trashed by her sewing company. I was impressed because she knows how to make all these things without teaching by others. Also, she made us pajamas. It was so lovely and beautiful....thanks a lot, mom.

This week, Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge is showing some childhood memory. I have made this project with sewing theme that tight closely with my mom. Enjoy.

This project, I used 6*9 in. clasp envelope. I got this idea from Prima Makerting Gallery. I think it is good idea that make a window like that and also can fit dimensional embelishments instead of making a shadow box. I used one of the Prima Lace stamp, Tim Holtz stamps and the one that look like script is from Inkadinkado. I used Walnut Stain distress ink to distress the edge of the whole envelope and for stamping too. I also used Fired Brick distress ink on my stamping.

This window is cut by using Tim Holtz Bigz Die Ornamental and the image I got inside the envelope are from Clearly Vintage (http://clearlyvintage.blogspot.com/) and Vintage Feed Sacks (http://vintagefeedsacks.blogspot.com/).

For this flower, I used Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die. I used two of the medium flower and used tweezers to give it a texture and twist. In the middle is the baby prima that I made which is inspired by Prima Makerting.

If you guys have any question, please email me and thanks for stopping by......

Serina.

Birthday Card.....

Here is a Birthday Card that I made for my sweet sister.....Tammy, she just turns.......shhhhshh.... SECRET!!!!!!  I didn't know I like flower so much until I started making them. I mean I like to make them but not to keep them..... here we go:

Again, I am using Tim Holtz Alterations Tattered Floral to make this flower. I used three of the big flower and two of the medium flower. In the middle, I used Ek Success flower punch. The pale green card stock is from Stampin Up and those pattern papers are from K & Company. I love those pattern papers.....Thanks.

Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge: Polka Dots

This time I am making home decor. I would like to decorate my craft room with all my master pieces, so when people come to my home, I have something to show them already...

This project, I am mostly using Tim Holtz Alterations Bigz Dies which are Tattered Florals for both of the flowers, Caged Bird and Ornamental. For the yellow flower, I used Hero Arts Raindrop background stamp, and the other one, I dry embossed it with Cuttlebug embossing folder.

I hope you all enjoy it. Thanks.

Flowers....

I like to make paper flowers and so addicted to it. Once I started making those flowers, just cannot stop making them, keep prepping and producing, which is good for me because I have a nine-month old son. He is always keeping me busy. So prepping is good for me. Whenever I feel like I want to make cards, I just find some coordinate color flower to match the card that I will be making. Here is one of them:



The card is inside the box

Here is the closer look of the flower. Again, I used Tim Holtz Tattered Florals bigz die to create this flower. The one in the middle of the flower is made by using EK Success flower punch. I used some feathers, ribbon and burlap behind the flower.

I hope you all like it and I am looking forward to produce more of those amazing flowers. Thanks for the inspirations and the tutorials that are available on You Tube. Thanks for visiting.

Inspired by Prima

I have been making a lot of paper flowers lately because I like flowers especially Prima Flowers. They are gorgeous. I watched a lot of flower-making tutotrials on You Tube and now I made them my own.

The white flower, I used Tim Holtz Tattered Florals bigz die and dusted each petal with Diamond Dust. I used EK Success flower punch to make the rest of the flowers. I hope everyone will enjoy my work. Thanks for stopping by.....