HK Memory Chest May 2015 Kit

hi everyone, first I would like to congrate HK Memory Chest's designer Belly Lau has been selected as Graphic 45 and Maya Road's design teams in the year of 2015-2016! She is a very talented paper crafter and a hard working person. We are all looking forward for her amazing design in the near future! 

today i would like to introduce you of May kit from HK Memory Chest. This kit is very special with watercolor papers from Cosmo Cricket, i had a lot of fun to play with it.

The collection is called Just Add Watercolors, they are printed with gold and clear foil resist. like the name says, you just add watercolours and watch the magic happen!

Let's see what's included in this magic kit: 

Paper
Cosmo Cricket Paper Pad 12″X12″
Watercolor Painting Set With Tin

Embellishments
Prima Watercolor Mulberry Paper Flowers – Aquarelle
Prima Art Ingredients Mica Flakes 1oz – Gold Leaf
American Crafts Mini Bags 3.94″X2.6″ – White
BoBunny Double-Dot Alpha Stickers 12″X12″ – Tuxedo
Crate Paper Craft Market Ephemera Die-Cuts
Crate Paper Craft Market Printed Wood Crate Paper Veneer Shapes with Gold Glitter Accents
Crate Paper Craft Market Wood Veneer Hoops – 2.5″ To 4.5″
Cottage Living Stickers – Jewel
Cottage Living Jumbo Paperclips – Gold
Gold Twine
Felt Pom Pom – Assorted Colors

Here are two of my design team layouts to this kit:

Amazing You

This is a project life style layout - pieces of square, rectangle cut papers with different patterns are collaged together to create the background. i drawed double sewing lines to create a more clear outline of each puzzle.

Actually i painted the centre circle in different colors as well as a heart, but it is finally covered by my amazing girl : ) and that's fine. 

This Wood Veneer Hoops from Crate paper, is so cute and comes in different sizes to choose from. 

Beside adding watercolour on the paper, i also draw lines to connect foil dots to make it more interesting.

And of course, cannot miss out my hand draw Zentangles on each piece.

At the end it comes with my handwritting title using the watercolour! 

Enjoy Now

This layout I would like to do something about painting, rather than just add watercolor. I referred to a painting I did last month as below.

and start drawing on this foil resist paper for the blue banner, pink flower, green leafs and the yellow cactus. Then cut them out. 

The best thing about this resist paper is, you just need to paint in a normal way but the pre-designed pattern will just turn out automatically. 

You just need to add watercolor, darnken the edges and highlight the outline. Easy, nice and it is personalised.I especially like those small hearts on this yellow cactus, so i use my pencil to trace the outline again.

This stamp is the add on material to this kit. 

Craft Market Self-Inking Stamp  Love You To The Moon & Back

It is a very interesting kit and i think it is worth to try. HK Memory Chest's kit is always a surprise: )

Visit www.hkmemorychest.com for more information.

Erika

Miss You!

A scrapbook friend Adri is leaving Hong Kong to Zambia and I feel I need to do something for her, so I made a card. I am not a card lover or a professional card maker, but just want to send her my message so I tailor-made a card for her.

She is happy to receive this card, but what surprised me is, she ask me to put on a page!
OK, she is a scrapbooker and let me try something new for her. Then I used We R Memory Keeper's Lucky 8 punch to make a big doily, plus inking some flouish.

And this is the final look!

I hope she will like it and every time she look at her album, she will miss me too : )

Best wishes to Adri!

Erika Lui

Product used:

We R Memory Keeper - Lucky 8 Punch

Ranger - Distress Ink

Cosmo Cricket - Evangeline paper

Matha Staward - Doily Punch

EK Success - Wooden Rubber Stamps