With a computer and business background and love for arts and crafts, digital crafting was the next normal thing to do and that is how Soft Treasures came to be. All my designs are either digitally crafted or by hand. ery craft work I do or have done is a result of my hobby. I must admit it is quite an expensive hobby to have that I decided to sell some of the things I made every now and then. Not able to afford rent to open a craft shop which would have been good for total craft business exposure, I decided to make it home-based and still is until now.
Photos-Art printing on any type of fabric is my specialty to preserve memories in the form of memory quilts, photo-friendship pillows,bags, scrapbooking but I also make and sell not-easily-found children's softbooks or books made out of cloth, fabric cards, softcovers and scrapbook items. I did not go to a craft school or any kind of craft workshops to learn how to do things but I go to craft shows. I learned everything on my own including using a sewing machine and an embroidery machine and slowly but surely developed my craft skills through books, magazines, internet surfing during my spare time and just out of pure curiosity ! And just imagine how curious I can be!
I have been printing photos and original works of arts on fabric using my old S300 Canon printer for almost 4 years now and have made quite a few memory quilts. Eight months ago I invested on a Canon large format printer that would allow me to print photos or any work of art in bigger sizes. I love making family tree quilts. I am not what you would call a traditional quilter as most of the quilts I have made or make are landscape quilts or picture quilts. Traditional quilts always amazes me and enjoy looking and admiring them but I still have to build-up my momentum to be able to make one large traditional quilt.
Some of my cards if not all are made of fabric and they are called fabric picture cards. l donate a $1.00 to the Breast Cancer Institute of Australia for every card that i sell. Quilt-a-greet-in-a-tin is a new project and so are the greeting pillow cards and the greeting towel cards. You can all see samples of these products in my card gallery.
Caring for the environment introduced me to the environmentally-friendly Soy Candles which is made of 100% natural soybean wax.
Determined to always look for something new and fun to do, late last year we decided to start expressing through buttons. We now carry Badge-A-Minit badge making products and all its parts, pins and accessories. You design it, we print it. We make it, you wear it !!
Soft Treasures carry a long list of craft books and magazines, the how-to books and magazines, craft books that you will not easily find in big book shops which you can use to learn yourself. Remember I learned everything through reading that is why the books and magazines that Soft Treasures carries are the same kind of books that I used and will use to learn myself....and I still am continuing to learn!
We will and always will be striving to be a one-stop-online-craft-shop that promotes handmade products and top quality craft supplies to help you come up with your own handmade item. Some of the craft supplies that we carry are hard-to-find, sometimes only one-of-a-kind and could be easy-to-find but they all have one thing in common.....quality at its best!
Soon we will be updating our 'Projects and Ideas' category to help and guide you in crafting... and.....if you have any questions, ideas, recommendations, looking for a specific item or just about anything you want or can think of...no one to talk to about crafting, please feel free to write to us! If you do not ask, you would not know!
Handmade items through quilts and softbooks, handpoured items through soy candles and expressing yourself through handmade buttons !!! That sums up Soft Treasures !!
We need to take care of the world we live in and what the world needs now is Love.....and Craft! Live, Love and Laugh through Craft !
Take care everyone and Happy Crafting !
