My first Card

     I made my very first card today. Although I had limited resources, I tried my best to make one. 

     Cardstock is hard to come by here in my country. What we have are sold as "boards" these are used to make invitations and business cards. 

     Patterned paper is also sold differently. It's being packed as 4 pieces of 12x12 patterned paper and  there aren't a lot of choices.  Maybe I'll use wrapping paper next time.The violet strip is sticker paper. The bears and the ribbon I bought at a scrapbook corner of the local book store.

     Here's the finished product...

    I wanted to stamp some saying but there aren't any clear stamps being sold here. Well, there are some but it's mostly patterns or pictures. I'm thinking of having rubber stamps made for the sayings...

    Well there's my very first card. 

Knitting

     I've started knitting today after almost a month of looking for a pair of knitting needles. I was near desperation and was about to ask my mom to send me one when lo and behold, a department store near our house still has a few stocks.

    I had previously bought some yarn and thread for a crochet project which I had given up AS OF THE MOMENT. I started knitting as soon as I got home, putting my piñata making on-hold. This is as far as I got...

   I also got some cute knitting patterns from The Krafty Cupcake. It' her Mom's patterns but she gladly gave me a copy. I love it coz it's Kokeshi Dolls....

    Will post pics once I've started these dolls... 

Rainbow brite invitation

My attempt at making an themed invite from scratch. Before I would just look for themed backgrounds and add the picture and words. But this one I made with photoshop, layer by layer. I made this for my cousin's birthday. It comes with nametags, thankyou cards cupcake toppers & wrappers.

Will try to post the complete collection once I'm done...

Welcome to my Blog

     This is actually my 6th blog.  I have an LJ account for my fangirling purposes. I have a Wordpress account, which I have given up since I'm having a hard time with layout. I have a Dreamwidth account for... well just for the sake of it. I have a Tumblr account for pictures & gifs and I have another Blogger account which acts as my personal journal. So why open up another blog you ask?

     Well the answer is simple... it's because I'm CRAZY.... hehehe...

     Kidding aside, I wanted another blog just for crafts & stuff. You see, recently I've been hooked on crochet, yarns, felt, buttons, scrap and whatnot. So I wanted another blog where I can share my "amateurish" crafts.  

     My crafts does not only include "actual" paper, cloth, needle & thread kinda crafts. I'm also trying to do some digital crafts, if you can call them that. I'm not an artistic person in the sense that when I am asked to draw a person all I can give you is this...

    I try to compensate by doing some layout & design using the computer, so you'll be seeing some of my again "amateurish" works here.

    Oh and before I forget, my name's Riya, I'm a nurse but not working as one (don't ask why). I'm currently into some Japanese stuff. I love the color green. I HATE frogs and I'm afraid of mascots & clowns. My site's named after my 2 "IMAGINARY" daughters. Imaginary because these are the names I made that I wanted my "FUTURE" daughters to have. It's actually their nicknames.

         SAORI = Yori & RISAKO = Yayie

Did I mention I'm into things Japanese? Hence the names. The character in between is the Japanese character for the syllable "to", that when placed in between two things would mean "and". So it's read as Yori to Yayie. Yori "and" Yayie.

   Ok so I'm done with my explanation. hehehehe. Hope you'll have a blast visiting my "new" blog. Leave comments if you can. I'll try to update often since I'm back online after a 5 month hiatus...