Another quilled monogram!

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Alhamdulillah managed to complete these 2 quilled monograms ordered by my teacher. It is an A3 size and I mixed it with 7 types of blue colour.  :)

Lin Handmade May 2012 Blog Giveaway

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Yeah! Kak Lin is giving another giveaway this month. I do participated on last month giveaway, but there was no luck for me. So, I think it is not kind of late for me to participate in this blog giveaway. And I hope I can  win this month. :)

Quilled 'F' monogram

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After 4 days, at last I manage to complete this A3 monogram ordered by my teacher..I made this monogram on A3 mounting board requested by my teacher.. Alhamdulillah, my teacher like it so much..

This is the final result.

Progress!

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At last!

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Alhamdulillah. I took nearly one and a half month to complete all the 10 order from my teacher.

Lin Handmade Greetings Card April 2012 Blog Giveaway

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Okay this is my first time entering this giveaway and I really want to win this because the prize is awesome and I really want it! InsyaAllah. So, I have been following this blog for several months and this blog has brought me into this quilling obsession. Thank you. So, the owner of this blog have organized one give away. And the prizes will be the quilling frame!

Awesome right? I hope I will win this.. Aminn....

Another quilling project.

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Yesterday I made another card and gave it to my twin's friend whose also my friend eventually. Luckily she like the card that I gave. And before that I posted the photo of the card in the Facebook and guess what. My former English teacher during my high school commented on the photo. She asked me either she can order it from me. As you all know, I'm just an amateur in this field. There were many people outside there who are really good in this field. 

So I told my teacher, that I'm not really good in it but what she replied, she just want something different and don't care either I'm an amateur or not. Oh! So, she order 10 of it and I think this is the start of my business. But I'm not confirm with her yet what kind of design that she want. I hope she just choose the design that I made on the photo that I posted in the Facebook.  :)

It is not hard to make this card since I'm just using a simple technique, but it needs time..I hope I can do it..  :)

Until we meet next time. Wish me luck. Assalamualaikum  :)

I miss doing quilling

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Alhamdulillah I have time to update this blog even though I'm quite busy right now. I thought being a research student will be more easy and have a free time but it turns out on the other way. I was super busy. I have to read journals, make a summary of every single journal I have read and the most important thing is to understand the journals since I have to explain it back to my supervisor every time I see her. But this week my appointment was cancelled. It supposed to be today, but since my supervisor have an important thing to do so, we postponed it to next Wednesday.

Since I'm quite busy with my master, I don't have time to do quilling. I feel very sad, because I love doing it and how much I miss doing it. I also have bought a proper quilling tool from online store and InsyaAllah it will a arrive soon. But the problem now is, I don't have time to do it. I have to find a suitable time but it kind of hard, since I don't really good in manage my time.

But before I came here in Shah Alam I have made a lots of quilling and some of them I have gave away to my friends. But last week, I decided to make a card. And now I'm interested on doing the card. I have made two and both of the card I gave it to my friends  :)

This was the first card I made after I'm going to Shah Alam. Before this I thought it is impossible for me to make this card but it is not as difficult as I think instead it is quite easy. And as usual, youtube is the best teacher that you can get. I gave this card to my roommate  :) 

These was the quilling that I have made when I was still in Perlis. It quite a lots but most of them were given away. But mostly I gave it to my friends. And they love it! Gonna do it some other time and gave it to more friends! :)

And last weekend,my friend was also a housemate of mine during degree came to Shah Alam. I was so happy since I don't have any activity on weekend. At first she came just to get some stuff from but then we decided to go out. Even though we just went to PKNS,SACC and PAS but I was happy to go out with her. We bought cupcakes and ate it at Taman Tasik Shah Alam. :)  The cupcakes was so delicious, and I think I will grab some of  it another time  :)  

Until we meet next time. Assalamualaikum  :)

Falling in love with Quilling

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When I start learned quilling I just learned the basic technique, and I never knew there was another technique which is very cool and not really hard to learn. As I said before,practice makes perfect.Just believe with this quote and I bet you will not give up! So, yesterday, when I was browsing the internet I found one of the quilling tutorial on husking technique . And it was super easy to follow.!!

Since I was sick for a couple of days, I had been away from quilling work. And I really hope that I will recover soon because I really want to make another quilling because I have fall in love with it. Now I have recover from fever, so I decided to start quilling back..And when I was browsing it, was in the middle of night. But since I can't wait for the next morning, I made the quilling using the new technique in the middle of night. I really into it. I feel very relax when I'm quilling. And this is the flower that I made using this husking technique!

And I also received the official letter for my master. Alhamdulillah. I will start on the end of February.. I really hope I can still do quilling while I 'm in the middle of study..I don't want to miss doing it, because it makes me feel very calm and relax while doing it. Owh, I don't know how should describe it.. You should try it by yourself!!

My first quilled monogram!

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Finally, I succeeded! I just can't believe it turns out quite good for the first timer like me. Well, practice makes perfect!

Quilling obsession and Korean language

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안녕하세요!

Hurm, the title does not present any connection at all..hahahha. As you all know I have been learning Korean language and it has been like almost a year. However, I still in the beginner stage since I didn't study hard.hahahah...It's not like I don't want to study, but I don't have time to do that.. And luckily after 2 months reading a lot of journals, the proposal is now ready. Alhamdulillah.. 

My research proposal  ^^

Since the proposal was done, so now I don't have any excuses. I start studying Korean again, but when  you have left something for a long period of time, of course you will forgot some of the terms. So, I have to review back the first lesson.. and seriously I don't like review lesson because it takes time, so I decided to answer the tutorial. And the tutorial was good since I can review it in less time. So, now I just need to complete the tutorial and start back the second lesson.

Beside that, currently I have been interested in quilling. For those who doesn't know what is quilling, just google it. I really like it so much. At first it quite stressed making this quilling art but practice makes perfect. When you have the skill, it is so easy to make it, but you need a lot of ideas. Actually to make this quilling, you don't need any tool but it is a lot more easier to use the tool rather than roll it using your hand. But the tool is quite expensive but I found a blog where they sell it with a lower price. 

However the result was not so good using the cheap tool, so I decided to make my own tool. And I really regret because I bought the tool since the tool that I made was quite good and the result was awesome. But people make mistakes and that was my first time doing it, and I never thought to make my own tool. But now I know it. I just use the bamboo stick(lidi satay) to make the tool. You just need to shape it using knife and make a small round like a needle. But don't make it too small because it will fracture. 

Tool from bamboo stick

Actually there are 2 types of tool to make this quilling art. The first one is needle tool as in the picture above. The another one is slotted tool. This slotted tool is for beginner since needle tool need more practice before you can get a final result. But I took a couple of weeks to master with it..hahahah..just need a lot of practices. For slotted tool you can just modified the needle tool by cutting between the stick. But don't cut it too deep because the bamboo stick is quite soft so, you will broke the stick..Just a small cut will be perfect.. And this slotted tool is really easy to use. You can master it for a couple of minute. 

But for those who don't want to make the own tool, you can just simply buy it online since it is really hard to find in store. And the price quite expensive. And to make this quilling art the most important thing you need is paper. A lot of papers. But to cut it to 4 mm seems so hard. yes. It was hard. I have tried it before. huhuhu.but then I read some of the quilling blog and most of them cut it using paper shredder and some of them bought the paper which quite expensive. 

So, I decided to buy the paper shredder. Did you know paper shredder is expensive? Yes electronic paper shredder absolutely expensive. It can goes to thousand ringgit, but you have another option buy buying the manual paper shredder. And you know what, this manual paper shredder was hard to find it in Malaysia. Seriously. Even in online market, you hardly find one. But one day, when I was googling, I found this online shop where they sell the paper shredder. They become the middle person where they help the buyers to buy something with the lower price either in Malaysia or oversea. 

Since there were no stock in Malaysia, they ordered it from China. And, don't be surprised. The price was quite reasonable. I bought it only for RM36 including the postage directly from china. You don't have to make any Paypal account just pay it through online banking or just bank it to their bank and they will do the rest. Quite easy right? But you have to wait for two weeks to received the items. But it is worth of waiting.

Paper shredder. It comes in 2 colour, pink and blue.

Once everything is ready, you can start quilling!! Let see some of the item that I made.

This is the first quilling that I made. ^^

Once you have fall in love with it, you really want to make it a lots.!

 Snowflake 1.

 And then I try to make paper frame and also the swirl.^^

 Snowflake 2.

 This I made for my twin. But I don't like the colour.

 You need skills to do this. And I don't have it, so I made it halfway and threw it away..hahahha

 It takes 2 days to complete this art, but I really don't like it because it is so big!

Then I try a little harder to make this one.

 After a few weeks I started to made a card and I really love it!^^

 My favorite card.

 The big flower on the left card with yellowish green and red in colour, was so hard to made. I have tried to made another one, but I give up. I need more practices!

My another favorite card!^^ 

My friend asked me to make a card for her. She told me how she preferred the card. So, I made this one. My previous card was too plain so, I think I want to do something to make this card more outstanding. So, I decided to make a pop up card! And I made it.!!^^ I love this card so much but I have to give it to my friend..huhuhu

These all were the art that I made. Some of the design I copied it from internet and some of them from the book, and and I change it a little bit depend on my creativity. A lot of my friends asked me either I sold or make a business. But It is not a business, I just having fun making this art.But I don't want to say that I won't make a business, but maybe later on. It just like stress medicine, and you have to pay attention when you doing it.

Those were 2 things that I really love to do at current being, but I thought I will still doing it in future. I just have to istiqmah. I realized that, when we have hobby, we will not waste our time, instead we can manage it well. I have experienced that. So, friends start searching for something you like. Don't care what people might say. Just do what you like, just like me.  ^^