Ztampfilicious

Today I had the chance to play with my new ztampfilicious stuff – just click the image for larger view and detailed info:

And don’t forget that you can always use the “View Latest Updates” feature from the left navigation bar under the << Album Actions >> in the Ztampfest Gallery.

Yes, and there are 3 brand new ztampfilicious goodies too:

All 100% digitally made using my own hand-drawn motifs, these lace series are especially fabulous for those romantic layouts. As with most Ztampf! stuff, these are versatile enough for various other themes and projects as well :).

If you haven’t subscribed to Ztampfever, you would want to ;). Just click here to subscribe. Enjoy and have a wonderful Sunday!

Yippeeee…!!! What a looong… sleep-deprived weekend it was!

What happened was I decided to move to another server to enable me to provide you with the Single Zip Download Option for more products at Ztampf!Shop. Unfortunately the site transfer process was more complicated and taking longer time than it should be. But now it’s finally done and I managed to restore everything properly :). Well, more than that, actually. I have also upgraded and fixed a few issues with the Ztampfest Gallery so now you can browse for inspirations with ease again there. Thanks so much to Joelle who notified me of the problem before – I wouldn’t have noticed it otherwise!

Over the next few days I will be working on providing Single Zip Download Option for more products. I know those of you with fast internet connection will appreciate this feature :).

If any of you noticed any glitches or problems while browsing any parts of the site, please kindly inform me so I can fix them as soon as possible. I want your visit to Ztampf! to be smooth and enjoyable. Thanks in advance :).

Don’t forget that the next edition of Ztampfever Newsletter will be issued on June 15th! Make sure that you are subscribed so you can enjoy the benefits :).

That’s it for now… Have a good week!

Pheeew… so many unusual problems with the server this weekend!

As most of you might have noticed, the site has been down for the past 48 hours. This is due to a serious fire in one of the largest Data Centers where many webhosting companies get their servers from. Ztampf! Site was one among thousands of sites affected. Now things are back to normal! Yay!

For those haven’t got a chance to make use of their Coupon given in this post for Bohemian Rhapsody Package Saving, I have extended the expiry date to midnight of 6 June 2008, US EDT (New York). Enjoy :).

Happy Ztampf!Shopping…

So go on grab the “Bohemian Rhapsody” now :)

Thanks again for your patience and understanding. Have a wonderful weekend!

… because there have been problems with missing orders earlier today in which I received the PayPal payments but the Shop didn’t process the orders properly so purchasers didn’t receive neither the Order Confirmation email or their download links. I then quickly sent them coupon codes to ‘re-order’ and to download their purchase without being charged again.

In the past, thing like this might happen when my web hosting is running certain server maintenance. In most cases, the order and the download link(s) email came up just a bit later. But today it happened almost consistently across the orders so I decided to take down Ztampf!Shop while an expert is working on the problem.

My apologies for any inconvenience caused. Please come back in a few hours, hopefully everything will be back to normal by then and you can enjoy your Ztampf!Shopping :).

Thanks a lot for your patience and understanding. Much, much appreciated :).

Yay! First off, I have started scrapping my Artist Residency trip – I have 2 pages done so far; just click to see larger versions with detailed info:

And… I am oh so very excited with this newest series that I have just completed called “Bohemian Rhapsody“:

The kit is big with 18 background papers and a generous amount of unique elements – most of them are very labor-intensive and really trying my patience at times! But I am so pleased with the result when it’s all done :). I hope you all will like it too!

But before you run to the shop, take note of this coupon code: ztampfiliciousborhap0806 to enjoy $2.00 OFF when you purchase the Bohemian Rhapsody Package Saving. That’s right, you will save a total of $5.00 (if you purchase the series separately the combined cost is $20.55 while when you get the Package Saving it is just $17.55; with the further the $2.00 off coupon you pay just $15.55 for the entire series!). Oh and of course you will also receive the Bonus Pack with it! Sweet hmmm… ;)

Now go take a look and let me know which part is your favorite!

Have a ztampfilicious weekend :).

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Because…

Well, you know… often there is something tucked in there that you wouldn’t want to miss ;). So go ahead and subscribe – I will requeue the newsletter several times within the next couple of days: http://ztampf.com/ztampfever/?p=subscribe&id=1

New new new at Ztampf!Shop released today – I can’t wait to play with them myself!

Have a wonderful weekend, Everyone :).

Yeah… it feels sooo… good to be home after being away for 2.5 months! Sooo… nice to be with my man again :). It’s been a wonderful trip but I’m so glad to be home! I’m lucky that the weather has been nice too… coolish with low-ish humidity: a real treat for Hong Kong!

My Toronto trip went well too: I really enjoyed spending time with my niece Olivia (11) and my older brother and my sister in law. I helped Olivia made a very special Mother’s Birthday Gift – she’s so proud of it :). We went to Scenic Caves in Blue Mountain – it was fun and interesting. There were some snow still over there! My last day in Toronto was spent in Toronto Wonderland – we took some really scary rides, well, really scary at least for Olivia! She was scared but also really wanted to go on those rides so she really had to work her courage up while waiting in a looong… line. We all so proud of her! She did it and ended up really enjoying the rides too: The Thunder Run, The Time Warp (used ot be called Tomb Rider) – where you were lying down in a ‘cage’ and ‘turned’ into a roller coaster car, The Bat – where the roller coaster cars went backward on the second round and the Klockwerk – the least scary ride we took (except for the SpongeBob 3D Show!). It was a fine sunny day – the park was so full. I wanted to try out the Behemoth, the new huge roller coaster there but it wasn’t operational by the time we got there. It was running earlier in the morning though. Oh well. We did have a fun time regardless.

The flight back to Hong Kong was very long (a total of 18 hours: Toronto – Chicago O’Hare – Hong Kong) and full of delays. It was pretty boring and I was so excited when we finally landed in Hong Kong Airport. My dearest husband already waited for me there – we had a sweet reunion :).

Now tons of work are waiting. First, I will have to get re-organize, and then I have to start Ztampfing… yup, creating brand new kits! I can’t believe I haven’t created anything Ztampf! except for a small accent pack recently for the past 2.5 months! The problem now is to choose which one to make first… I have a long list of kits to make! I also can’t wait to get back to my studio to make more art – but this will have to wait until I got this month’s Ztampfever released on the 15th!

Thanks to everyone who has emailed/left me comments regarding my trip and my art making :). So heart-warming! Talk to you all again on the 15th! (have you subscribed yet?)

Yeah! Finally I managed to finish this little accent pack that I started making while I was still in Vermont:

This Pinned Petals pack is perfect for your Spring projects and Mother’s Day projects alike. But actually, it is just wonderful for many more! You can always use some fresh unique flowers, can’t you ;). So go get this pack now at Ztampf!Shop today!

I just wanted to share with you all the thank you letter I wrote for the Freeman Foundation who has funded my Artist in Residency at Vermont Studio Center. I had such a wonderful time there – far beyond my expectations…

Well… time sure does fly fast! Here I am in Toronto, last leg of my trip! New York was great – especially since my darlingest man came and met me there ;). We had a wonderful reunion after almost 2 months being apart! My first three days I was staying with an artist couple that I met during my first month at the Vermont Studio Center, Ken Jan Woo and his wife, Cheng Zhong Qi AKA Camille. They are painters – great ones too! They are so generous and kind to offer me to stay in their place in New Jersey – about 20 mins bus ride to Manhattan – before my husband arrive in New York. Ken is a very rare kind of artist. He paints icons for churches – it’s just amazing. One of his works can be seen in the Church Of Our Savior, New York – it was mind blowing and humbling to witness it with my own eyes when I attended the Sunday mass with them. Check out his website at http://www.kenjanwoo.com.

In New York, I got together with some fellow artist residents from both March and April – it was so fun and we missed each other already! Me and TEO we mostly walked the art museums: The Met, MOMA, Whitney Biennial and P.S. 1 – trust me, it is a hard work to be cultural tourists in NYC! We’re exhausted at the end of each day but we didn’t regret it, of course! TEO gave me a couple of surprises too! Wednesday evening we watched a play by an Irish theater company, Druid of Galway and it was very very good: “The Walworth Farce“. Thursday evening it was Philip Glass’s “Satyagraha” at the Metropolitan Opera with director Phelim McDermott and designer Julian Crouch (artistic directors of London’s provocative Improbable theater company). It was very impressive and I love the visual too… especially the ‘puppet’ made using newspaper held by several people in certain configurations. It was so clever! Very effective and artistic! Simply amazing! I only wished that we weren’t so tired already – I have to admit that we nodded off to sleep several times during the 3.5 hours performance. Philip Glass’s music was mesmerizing but sometimes the repetitive parts of it could work like a lullaby! Especially for people like us who were very tired already. But I’m so glad that we experienced it. I found it so inspiring!

Well, that’s it for now… Here are some pictures taken in New York and Brooklyn:

So I’m back at VSC from the laundromat now. I have less than 15 mins before lunch so I’m just gonna post some photos for now…

Sparkling Gihon River under the afternoon sun – last month is was frozen!

The first sign on Spring… in Louise’s garden…

My favorite spot just behind the Schultz Sculpture Studio. Great for thinking and sketching.

Beautiful sunset over Johnson

The Gihon River is now rushing with very strong currents…