A Pocket Full of Sunshine

Hello! 

I am back from the land of Oz! Really wanted to blog on this platform but dayre makes it so much easier to blog nowadays and I don't have to edit 10001 photos to post on dayre hahaha. I promise that I'll still blog about my trip to Oz, but will probably just blog on Melbourne and some of my favorite food places in Sydney? I have over 1000 photos to sieve through so give me some time okay! Hehhh. Thanks for still checking back to this little space of mine! <3 

I was taking a shower and these thoughts just came into my mind so I had to blog it down, so here goes!

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 Happy Glen with the lovely bouquet which he bought for me hehe. 

 

Happy me hehe. Glen really pampers me soo much hahaha. 

 

Roses in really pretty shades of cream and pink, with cute crown decorations! Hehehe.

But anyway, I was working on Glen's birthday card for the past few nights before he came back to Singapore! He's a huge fan of Liverpool, so I wanted to do a birthday card that was related to Liverpool!

I must confess that this design is not my own, I googled and found the card selling on etsy, but I decided to handmake this myself! 

Here's the end product!! Quite proud of myself HAHA. It takes about 3 hours to do this!

Materials you need:

1. Tracing Paper

2. Printed Liverpool Emblem and T-Shirt Design (on A4)

3. White Card Paper

4. Red Paper 

5. Super sharp pen knife (You can get the pink ones from Artfriend)

6. Cutting Board 

7. Determination and tons of love 

So firstly, you'll need to trace out your printed designs onto the tracing paper, to trace it on the white card!

After tracing on the main card itself it should look like this! If the lines are faint, just go over them again so that you can see the lines clearly.

And...here comes the tough part! You'll need to use the super sharp pen knife to carve out the design.

I made a mistake and bought a paper which was way tooo thick haha. Took me eons to carve out the design! Try to get a lighter gsm paper instead, but not too soft if not the card will be too flimsy!

And tadahh!! Also, I'll like to suggest for you to carve it inside out instead, meaning on the reverse side so that the cut outs will be cleaner. This means that you'll have to trace the reverse design on the inside of the card so that you can carve it out from the inside! I noticed that the cut outs were not clean enough boo. Perhaps I had used a paper that was too thick. :( 

 The red paper is to be placed underneath it so that the colors of the liverpool emblem will show nicely! Hehe.

Cut the red paper to fit the first page and glue it underneath!

You can also change the design accordingly.

Good luck if you are intending to make a card like this! :D

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 Heheheee. <3 We didn't really get to spend much time together this time because I was busy with launches etc. :( Booo. But it's okay! We'll be spending time together in Oz next Feb! Hehhh.

We had dinner with his bros (hahaa) at a supposedly popular zi char place near NUS! :) 

Shrimp fried riceeee.

THIS IS SUPER GOOOD. I think it was chicken!! (or pork hahaa)

Another popular dish, salted egg calamari! :)

Teehee. 

More hot air balloons!! :) 

 

   And one of my favorite cities, London. :)

  

More adventures to come dah! :)

 My OTD for the affordable art fair! 

Top: F21 

Outerwear: *Premium* TCL Distressed Denim Jacket

Bottoms: ASOS

Shoes: TCL Ankle Cut Out Boots

 Close-up of the details! Loveeee this jacket so much hehe.

Glen and I went for Chic Kiss Love launch on Saturday! If you haven't heard, TCL has a rack there too!

Chic Kiss Love Store

2 Kallang Avenue, CT Hub

#01-26/27

S339407

11am - 8pm daily 

 

Our racks at CKL!

 Do go down and support if you are nearby okay! ;)

Met Mas, an NUS friend there too! We should really meet up with the rest of the NUS gang too heh.

With pretty Franc! :)

With Glen! Even though he doesn't like to go for such events he still accompanied me to work / events. So lucky to have him. :)

 Group picture hehehe.

And that concludes our short 4 days which we spent together. :(

These lyrics below are from one of our favorite songs from Mindy Gledhill! 

I love you dah and thank you for everything you have done for me. :') 

 Okay, off to dinner now!! Oh, if you haven't seen my post on IG, I'll be holding a flea with  Bree, Melody and Constance at our office next week to sell our personal stuff!

Look out for details soon! :)

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