Artist Feature - Nadhrah Maidin

The whole year seemed to have flown by really quickly.  We are all at the verge of a New Year and I have selected one final artist feature as a finale.  Here she is - Nadhrah Maidin who is coincidentally the owner of ScrappingGlitz.  

Nadhrah was kind enough to answer a few questions for me. I asked her on when she first started scrapping. Nadhrah replied - "I first started scrapping when i saw my sis in law, Ruslina's scrapping work . She is my partner in SG. I fell in love with it and I started with first ever project...a birthday gift for my husband. I did a 2 page layout and I framed it. The layout is a story about how we met." Awwww - that is so sweet...

Nahdrah rates swirls, stamps and rub ons as her favourite elements in scrapbooking. I can attest to that during a visit to her abode that she is another hoarder like me. This petite powerhouse also is another avid stamp collector. To my surprise - she seems to fancy acrylic stamps to rubber stamps. But I hope she will be a convert soon.

Armed with a Canon 400D, this petite lady can be seen snapping away - capturing beautiful portraits of her kids and landscape. A self-confessed scrapaholic, Nadhrah is one of those who is willing to sacrifice her sleeping time to scrap! At the moment - Nadhrah is designing beautiful creations for her shop. You can see most of her scrapping creations here.

Thank you so much for sharing with us Nadhrah.

Scrappingchix News

Spotted at the SC blog:

More new stuffs uploaded. We now have Ranger in the house! Lots of colourful utee, perfect pearls and distress embossing powder. Also some ink pads. Other new stuffs: colourful buttons & brads."

Apologies for no updates here

Due to a scrapping rut, I have not updated this blog. I will be back soon by the following week with more inspirations soon. Thank you for your patience...

Thank you Astro Awani

We would like to say a BIG Thank You to Astro Awani for giving us the opportunity to promote scrapbooking in Malaysia. We were on the program "W W" invited by their producer - Dang Suria Zainurdin to talk about scrapbooking. Sharon from Scrappingville and I were there to explain and show a simple demonstration on how to do a simple layout. SI would also like to thank the following scrappers for allowing us to bring their works of art with us:

1) Yatie Tajuddin - your lovely box with canvas
2) Nadia Jalil - Your beautiful cheeseboard
3) Wati - your heart-shaped wedding layout
4) Nadhrah Maidin - altered canvas
5) Liza - your gorgeous mini albums

Thank you everyone for all your good wishes and we hope that Malaysia Boleh Scrapping too!

ScrappingChix End of Year Sale

Its the time of the year again - SALES SALES SALES!!!

Spotted : ScrappingChix's Year End Sales as follows...

Hope everyone doing well. How time flies, it's the end of November already. Before we know it, December will pass us by. So in conjunction with the YES (year end sale), Scrappingchix will be having it's biggest sale, up to 50% off. Grab this opportunity to grab your favourite items for you scrapbook and altered projects. Sale ends on 31st Dec 2008. Don't miss the boat!

I'll be away from 5th Dec to 12 Dec. Any orders in between that period will be processed after 12th December.

Regards,
Nadia
http://www.scrapping-chix.com
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p/s: I'll be back with more goodies... Stay tuned after 12th December ;)

Kg Tekir Charity

We are pleased to announce that the Kg Tekir charity is a resounding success.  We would like to thank the Kajang Assembly of God who have been diligently going into the estate to teach these very bright kids every tuesday and saturday.  We would also like to thank all the people who have helped towards this donation - all money raised will be channeled towards the Kg Tekir education fund.  Here are some pictures from our visit today.  

Jessy going through what they have learnt from the book by Eric Carle - "The Hungry Caterpillar". Most of the kids have not tasted pears,  plums,  strawberries,  sausages,  watermelon,  salami,  and etc.  ALL of the kids have not tasted cake before and do not know what is a birthday cake!  

Kids enjoying the lesson and revision.

The twins playing a game.

Standing in line.

Standing on a small piece of newspaper game.  Some were inventive and clever enough to piggy back each other to win the game.

We brought some food to share with the kids.  Thanks to Linda - who brought extra cupcakes for the kids.

The kids at Kampung Tekir.

Playing with distressed inks

I have always loved the look of the distressed inks. Here I have used some distressed inks to create a messy background on a piece of white bazzill paper. I love the effect that you can create your own patterned paper. This is what I have done. Will upload with the full layout soon.

Firstly - I used a light colour "OLD PAPER" and lighly dab it onto the photo paper. If you do not have the Inkssentials Foam Appplicator pictures,  just use a normal facial sponge.  This works as well.

Next I added a stronger colour - Scattered Straw.

Thereafter - these few colours were dabbed on sparsely to match the photo of my layout.

I was quite satisfied with the inking then.  I then proceeded to add some stamps and emboosed the images using some distress embossing powder.