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It’s Lil’Lance! He is my nephew from my youngest brother who lives in Jakarta. He was born last year on the first of September and oh boy, he is such an adorable cheerful baby! And so I created this brand new Lil’Lance Series for him! True to his cheery personality, this series is bursting with happy bright colors and fun cute pals in the form of floppy animals fashioned from finest digital materials crafted by his proud auntie *smile*. I’m tellin’ ya, this kit took way longer time to complete than I thought! I hope you’ll like it: As usual, a matching Lil’Lance Ensembles and Lil’Lance QuickPage Album is also available as well as Lil’Lance Package Saving! With the Lil’Lance Package Saving, you will save as much as $7.00! Awesome eh! Oh and you can see pictures of cheery Lil’ Lance himself in my layouts here. |
Now have you been browsing Ztampf! Gallery at SBG lately? Take a look for some inspirations. Don’t forget to check out the Ztampf!Ztampf! CT Gallery there too – the Z!Girls have been putting out quite a few amazingly gorgeous pages recently *smile*. While we’re on the topic, please vote for Lynn’s Heritage Page created with Ztampf! Adventouriste Collection HERE! It is a very beautiful layout – it’s one of my favorites of hers! Thanks in advance *smile*. Any of you on Twitter? I have finally joined in and still learning how to use it. You are more than welcome to follow Ztampf! on Twitter! I plan to tweet any updates pertaining to Ztampf! so if you’d like to get immediate updates, just follow @Ztampf. I promise not to tweet too often though! *laugh* Did you know that I’ll be sponsoring the chat over at SBG this Tuesday, May 18th? Well, I’ll be there to join the fun for sure! Yes, there will be fun games and prizes and pssst… I’m preparing a little something for those attending too! So be sure to be there: Tuesday, May 18th – 9 PM EST at Studio Chat. I’ve been told that the chats there are hilariously fun! Hope to see you all there! In closing, here is a 20% OFF Discount Coupon that you can use with anything at Studio Ztampf! The code is: happyztampfing and it is good through Sunday, May 23rd. Have fun with it! |
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Blowin’ Baubbles has just arrived at Studio Ztampf! in SBG:
I’ve made a layout with it! The AlphaSet used in the layout comes from the GelloGlass AlphaSet, which has also just been made available at Studio Ztampf!!
Now the layout:
There are two things to point out in the layout:
1. How to make the bubbles look more realistic on the photo itself
2. How to make the bubble spray appear so seamlessly floating out from the photo
Now, the keyword to question No.1 is ‘blending mode’. I use Photoshop, but I am sure that many other software have similar feature. For the bubbles that I placed on the photo, I just set the blending mode of the bubble spray layer to ‘Pin Light’: voila! The bubbles now look like an original part of the photo!
Next, but then the part of the bubbles spray outside the photo now looks funny! There is a very easy trick to fix this:
– Copy the bubbles spray layer
– Change the blending mode to ‘Normal’
– Crop the part that is overlaid on the photo (use your Lasso Tool)
Now the bubbles spray pop up even more!
Easy peasy :)
Actually, I have another version of this layout done with a different background paper! Which one you like best? The peach one above or the aqua one below?
For complete credit list of other products used in the layouts above, just click on each of the layouts above.
Well, I hope you will find this little trick useful!
The Resilience Kit and Springlets Kit are now available in Studio Ztampf! @ SBG! Each comes with a Bonus Set of QuickPages to jumpstart your scrapping in no time. Check them out:
Oh and I have added a new BeLaced Ensembles too:
Here are a couple of layouts done with the BeLaced Ensembles – the background papers are from BeLaced Kit.
Enjoy :)
Yes, I am back in Hong Kong now – finally! :) It’s been a very long trip and I am happy to be back home!
But before starting designing some brand new kits, I would like to tell you about “The Classics”. What are they?
The Classics are kits that I made in the first several months of my first year designing digital scrapbooking products: between September 2005 – February 2006. Prior to discovering digital scrapbooking, I have been doing paper scrapbooking for several months – which probably show in the kind and style of elements included in my first few digi-kits back then. But even then, I have already tried to create something truly original and unique – something unexpected and yet work very well. There are quite a few gems in these kits that many customers still love and use to this very day which I won’t change a thing about them even if I were to create them now. However, to be completely honest, there were a few things that I would like to improve. Almost five years have passed since I made them after all. My techniques and tools have improved, and I have a better, bigger desktop screen since then; so every tiny detail is even more visible to me now. As someone who is obsessed with details, I can’t ignore them although most people probably would never even aware of to begin with. And when they do, these minuscule details are visible only at 75%-100% view on the computer screen while the printed out files are at approx. 33% of the file size you see on the screen. So most probably they are not noticeable. However, they still matter to me. Hence I decided to do something about them before re-releasing them at Studio Ztampf! @ SBG!
I start with the Batique Kit and BeLaced Kit since there have been a few requests for them. Plus, the time is just right: Batique Kit and BeLaced Kit are just wonderful for spring, weddings, Mother’s Day (for those of you in the US) and well, many other themes/projects as well!
I made some minor improvements on a few elements in the Batique Kit. I also added a few new elements to both Batique and BeLaced Kits, and… both kits are now come with a Bonus of 3 matching QuickPages (12″x12″). Plus, they are now at 25% Off Discount!
If you have previously purchased these kits, you are eligible for a Free Upgrade to download these revamped and improved version! Just email me your Order ID(s) and I’ll email you a coupon code(s) to download them at Studio Ztampf!
So here they are:
For those who have been waiting patiently for the release of RoboKit Series at Studio Ztampf! @ SBG, here it comes! The new RoboKit AlphaSet is freshly made for this release – I hope you’ll enjoy it too!
And here is a Free Gift for you – a cool 12″x12″ QuickPage created with the RoboKit Series. Click the sample layout made with the QuickPage below to download the PNG QuickPage and enjoy!
Just a quick post to let you all know that Structure Kit and Structure Add-On Pack are now available at Studio Ztampf! @ SBG:
Enjoy :)
A traveling edition – published early while I have a reliable internet connection:
What’s Up? |
I’m having an adventure on a 6-week journey so this would be a very brief edition. But guess what: I have something for you! Just click on the image below to download it! It is a “Bon Voyage” stamps in three finishes: In case you haven’t noticed it, the Paper Park Series is now available at Studio Ztampf! in SBG. It consists of the Paper Park Kit, Paper Park Ensembles, Paper Park QuickPage Album and Paper Pack Package Saving which wil give you all three packs above plus a BONUS. If you have never seen this series before, check it out now! If I could get a good internet connection next week, you can expect to see Structure Kit and Structure Add-On Pack available at Studio Ztampf! in SBG. So please wish me luck with it *smile*. |
Coming up on the following week afterwards would be the Robokit Series – I know many of you have been expecting it for sometimes now *wink*. That’s all for now! I hope you’ll enjoy using the “Bon Voyage” stamps! Ztampfest | Ztampfever | Ztampfaqs | Behind The Scenes | Ztampf! | Studio Ztampf! |
is now available @ Studio Ztampf! in SBG!
Enjoy :)
So for those of you prefer to get just some bits and pieces from the Adventouriste Collection, the first batch of individual packs are now available at Studio Ztampf! @ SBG:
This is what started it all… the wings! Adventouriste Wingz:
Some of the wings included here are from my own original artworks! Particularly precious are the porcelain wings – they are called “Soaring” and are part of my art installation entitled ‘flight‘ which marked my comeback to the contemporary art world in early 2005 after a decade of hiatus. It was a successful exhibition in many ways.
In 2007, the remaining parts of ‘flight‘ was selected to be shown in the International Ceramic Biennale in Korea. To my surprise, at the end of the biennale they decided to purchase ‘flight‘ for their permanent collection! Of course I’d just have to say yes *smile*. It’s just that I haven’t said good bye to the wings! The wings have flown and never to come back to me again! But… I hope they are happy in their new home and that it enables more people to enjoy them.
And then in 2008 I received an email from Mr. Emmanuel Cooper – which at first I thought was a prank because I knew his name and his works; I used his books on ceramic when I was studying in the university ages ago! He is a renown ceramicists and his books are widely read by ceramic artists worldwide so who am I to get an email from him? But no, as it turned out, it wasn’t a prank at all. He was writing a book on contemporary ceramic and would like to have some photos of ‘flight‘ included in the book! Yay! The book “Contemporary Ceramics” by Emmanuel Cooper has been published by Thames and Hudson in the fall of 2009. They have unfortunately misspelled my name (omitting the ‘h’ between f and u) and placed Korea instead of Hong Kong as the city where I live. Oh well! We all make mistakes, including giant publishers like Thames and Hudson *smile*. But of course, I feel so honored to have my works there and I am truly humbled by most of the works also shown in the book. There are so many talented artists out there!
The bright orange wings here are made from copper wire-mesh which I cut and shaped into pairs of wings. Originally they were housed inside some bottles – there are 9 bottles total (my poor husband had to drink all the content which happened to be a not-so-great-tasting wine!) and they are part of the ‘flight‘ installation. They are entitled “Self-Exiled 2“. The ambassador of Mexico to Indonesia has acquired this piece when it was shown in a group art exhibition in Jakarta in 2009. So these wings have flown away too!
Now, I made these metal wings for a mascot for my latest art project, the “Dream Archives” that was shown in my solo art exhibition “Corporeal Dream” in Nov.-Dec. 2009. They are made from copper and aluminum sheets, and I used rivets (eyelets) to join the pieces together. Love me some metal! These wings stay home though. They are perched on our door – guarding the peep hole *smile*.
The big paper wings are made out of my drawing, they are residing quietly in my sketch book. The dragonfly wings are 100% digitally created by myself. The rest of the wings are mostly made from photographs that I took myself – then digitally worked (as are others) into what you will receive in the “Adventouriste Wingz“! I hope you will enjoy playing with these wings for your various projects… there are so many styles here from angelic to mythical (dragons?) to nature and (almost) everything in between!
And here are the other four packs that are now waiting for you at Studio Ztampf! @ SBG:
And here are some more fantastic layouts done by the fabulous Z!Girls:
Enjoy!!! And drop by to this blog tomorrow – I have an introduction to make *smile*.
Enjoy this second serving of Ztampfever #53:
Adventouriste = Adventure + Tourist + Artiste. It all started out with wings. I wanted to create an accents pack filled with various kinds of wings. I have always loved wings. Some people said I am obsessed with wings. They could be right. After all, I did created many wings for my many art projects, started with ‘flight‘ and continued on to my latest, the ‘Dream Archives Projects’. The wings got me thinking about time and so I created the ‘Pieces Of Time’. Then I thought why not creating some papers to go with them? Next it got me thinking about steampunk – which I have always had an affinity with, and then I was thinking about travels too as I’m going on a 6-week trip very soon – and finally, about adventure! To close down Ztampf!Shop and go totally exclusive at SBG is definitely a new adventure to me! So, it is more than appropriate that this Adventouriste Collection should be debuting at Studio Ztampf! along with my exclusive debut at SBG. And let me tell you that I am truly excited about this massive Collection! It has taken me countless intensive hours to complete it. I honestly think this is a truly ztampfilicious collection! It is super versatile for various projects, filled with scrumptiously unique elements you won’t find anywhere else which you will find yourself reaching for – time and again. The Adventouriste Collection – Package Saving is now available at Studio Ztampf!. Individual packs from the collection will be released over the next following days. Save a huge $40.65 when you purchase the Adventouriste Collection – Package Saving. Remember that you can also use the special coupon given in the Part 1 of Ztampfever No.53 to get this ztampfabulous Adventouriste Collection to get an ever bigger saving if you wish! Here are a few layouts done by the fabulous Z!Girls with the Adventouriste Collection – more will be posted in the next following days in Ztampfilicious Blog: Now, to celebrate the Grand Opening of Studio Ztampf! @ SBG, I have a Free Gift with any purchase! You will get this delicate nano kit when you make any purchase at Studio Ztampf! between Mon, March 1st – Wed, March 3rd 2010 (US EST). So act fast! And then of course you can also use the 20% OFF Discount Coupon given to the wider public. That’s not all! I have a little gift for you right now – just click on the preview image below to download it. It is a 12″x12″ QuickPage created with the Adventouriste Collection: |
Watch out for more behind-the-scenes stories on the Adventouriste Collection at Ztampfilicious Blog in the next following days. I will be posting previews of individual packs of the Adventouriste Collection as they are made available at Studio Ztampf! @ SBG. That’s all for now, folks! Enjoy all the coupons and goodies! Ztampfest | Ztampfever | Ztampfaqs | Behind The Scenes | Ztampf! |
This is Part 1 of Ztampfever No.53. Part 2 will be released next weekend (either Sat, 27 Feb.. or Sun. 28 Feb.). Enjoy!
Life is A Constant Change… |
Yes, changes are afoot and a major one is coming soon at Ztampf!Shop… If you like the Tressa ARTiStrokes, you might like the brand new Tressa2 ARTiStrokes: The Antique Gold and Rainbow versions here are lighter and slightly brighter than in Tressa ARTiStrokes. Tressa2 ARTiStrokes sure is a wonderful addition to your elegant flourishes and swirls collection! |
Now let’s get to the changes mentioned above! You will still be able to access your account and download your previous purchases at Ztampf!Shop and also to continue browsing there. But, as of March 1st 2010, Ztampf! products will only be available for purchase at Studio Ztampf!. Ztampf!Shop will serve more like a ‘showroom’ or a product catalog where you can see the products but in order to purchase them, you will have to go to the shop – which is Studio Ztampf!. Although you might still be able to add products into your cart at Ztampf!Shop after February 28th 2010, you won’t be able to checkout any new orders because all the products would have been set to “For Display Purpose Only” (except for the ‘Samplers & Gifts’ category). So, from March 1st 2010 onwards, just visit Studio Ztampf! to get your usual dose of ztampfiliciousness! And how about the new collection that I mentioned last time? Well, this newsletter is done with just a few bits and pieces from it and now I can tell you the name! It is called “Adventouriste Collection” : Adventure + Tourist + Artiste! So Jenna has guessed the word ‘Adventure’ right! Congrats! She will get to get the collection at 50% OFF when the collection is debuting at Studio Ztampf! on March 1st 2010! Watch out for the Part 2 of Ztampfever #53 next weekend when the “Adventouriste Collection” will be unveiled with a little give away for all of you. Don’t miss it! It’s been quite a while since the last time we talked about the Z!Girls! There are two active Z!Girls at the moment, they are both very talented scrappers and such nice persons too: Tracy and Lynn. Let’s get to know them closer through a series of interviews starting this Tuesday, Feb. 23rd 2010 at Ztampfilicious Blog. You can take a look at Z!Girls Gallery now for some inspirations! |
Oh and I do have a coupon for you to use at Ztampf!Shop for the last time! Don’t forget to visit Ztampfilicious Blog to read about the fabulous Z!Girls this coming Tuesday, Feb. 23rd and Thursday, Feb. 25th! That’s all for now, folks! Until next weekend :) |
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It’s red. It’s shiny. It’s delicious. It’s here…
By request by you know who you are ;). I hope you will like it and find it useful:
This lusciously high gloss alphabet kit is versatile for various themes from modern Valentine’s projects to food, summer, teenagers, boys and even Christmas themed projects.
Included in this set:
Upper Case A-Z, Lower Case a-z, Number 0-9, plus Punctuation and Symbols: & * { } ( ) [ ] <> ? ! @ # % $ , . ; and Foreign Characters for Spanish and European languages is also included in both Upper Case and Lower Case: à, á, â, ä, å, ã, ç, è, é, ê, ë, ì, í, ï, î, ¡, ñ, ò, ó, ô, ö, õ, ø, ù, ú, û, ü. Six Extra Shapes are also included: Heart, Star, Curved Arrow, Straight Arrow, Fleur-de-Lis and Pointer.
Individual PNG files, all created at 300dpi for optimum print out quality. Questions? Email me!
Available from Ztampf!Shop and Studio Ztampf!@SBG.
What – another ztampfever already? Well, since I haven’t released a brand new series in quite a while I think it deserves a Ztampfever to announce it – don’t you agree? So here it is complete with a coupon and a name-guessing game with a prize – just scroll down and enjoy!
The Tiger is Rising! |
Unleash the Year of the Tiger 2010 with the brand new Tiger Rising Series… |
Those of you celebrating the Lunar New Year will love these sets to create unique, personalized Chinese New Year Greeting Cards and Hong Bao (Red Pockets/Lai See) created mostly with the Tiger Rising Kit: And I do have a coupon for you too! This 20% OFF Discount coupon: z5210013020 is good for any downloadables at Ztampf!Shop and Studio Ztampf!, valid through Wednesday, February 3rd 2010. |
In case you’re wondering about the brand new series in the work that I mentioned last time, no, it’s not finished yet! It’s evolving into this big collection, you see! What is it, you asked. Some hints: the name of this collection is a made-up word – mashed up from 3 words. It starts with an ‘A’. The collection has something to do with travel and it has a lot of wings in it! Now, the first person who could guess at least two words (from the three mashed up words) will receive the entire collection for free! And the first three persons who could guess just one word, will receive the collection at 50% OFF (and remember, the collection itself as Package Saving is already at a discounted pricing!). Just type in your guesses under ‘Leave a Reply’ in this entry before midnight of Feb. 7th 2010 US Eastern Time (so, you have the chance to post your guess up to 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 6th). |
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