Ramadhan Journal 2012

Hi crafty folks ....

Finally another posting. :). I guess I am not a good blogger. Or just been a lazy person. :)

I've made tons of thing. Would love to share all with you. But first things first, I want to show you what I have been up lately.

I've been invited by PrettyPaperStudio as their Ramadhan Journal Kits Guest Designer. Thanks Neelu. This is something that I've been so long wanted to make. Every year I tell myself that I would make something like Ali Edwards December Daily, but in Ramadhan month instead. Here is the photo of the so lovely kit.

The detail of the contents is as follow;

Chapter Stitched Daybook from Amy Tangerine Sketchbook
EXCLUSIVE Ramadan Kareem / Eid Mubarak Flairs by Sasha Farina
Dear Lizzy NEAPOLITAN Thickers Glitter Chipboard Charmed Peapod (Alpha)
Dear Lizzy Neapolitan Tile Letter Stickers Ballerina
Amy Tangerine Sketchbook Bits (Pack of 24 Die Cut Shapes)
Hero Arts Midnight Black Pearl Accents
My Mind's Eye Follow Your Heart 'Be Amazing' Paper Clips
My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline "Adventures" Label Stickers

As most of you have known, Ramadhan is one of the twelve month of Islamic Calendar Year. This is the month where all the Muslims are requested to perform fasting. The month where the first surah of Qu'ran was sent down to Prophet Muhammad pbuh. There are lots of benefit of fasting. One of the explanation that I love is from this website, particularly the below;

By the very nature of human beings, they are susceptible to sins and transgression of Allah's limits. This may be due to their ignorance, worldly struggle for ephemeral and tantalizing things, or satan's handiwork. In particular, Muslims are warned against gossiping, backbiting, slandering, hypocrisying, lying, cheating, duping, hatring, nursing grudge, keeping malice, fornicating as these vices negate the teachings of the Holy Qur'an. But since Muslims are like any human beings created to err as a result of forgetfulness, they need to be reminded and coached against any social vices from time to time. This will requires a fixed trainning period where Muslims will know and learn how to put an end to vices, learn virtues and get nearer to Allah. That trainning period is chosen by Allah to be the Ramadan fast which occurs once in every year

Back to my Ramadhan journal, since the length of an Islamic month is between 29-30days, and the Amy Tan daybook is not particularly thick, I've decided to divide it by 3.So I'll be updating it at every 10 days.

So tonight, I will show you on how I've done the cover. The first thing that inspired me when I look at the book is how I could use freehand and watercolor to embellish it. I want to make it looks messy and full of colors!

 

And that's where I got idea to handwritten the Ramadhan title. And this is how it turned up.

love it!!! ... messy and full of colors .... :))) ... happy !!!. I have added pink washi tape from my own collection. I feel the need to cover everything with washi tape this lately, especially since I had about 3249852 rolls of washi tapes. =^_^=

the back cover is just simple, also with pink washi tape and Amy Tan bits .... 

So that's it for the moment, I will continue filling up this journal when Ramadhan has started. I also will make few handmade embellishments following Amy Tan Sketchbook Bits, doodling n watercolor. Will hopefully able to share something very soon with you guys ....

Thanks for reading. Have a nice week ahead! xoxo