Day 4 - Just Saying Hello

Gee... I forgot to upload this card yesterday as my commitment for "A day a card". This card was inspired by Dawn's creation. So, here we go :

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Supplies: PTI die cut for the stack, butterfly and leaves; PTI stamp; Magnolia die cut border; Carla Scalloped Circle punch; October Afternoon for the pattern paper

The closer look on the elements:

I stamped the line background from Hero Arts on the card with versamark and on the envelope with Victorian Velvet ink. The butterfly die is the one I adore most. I used it and even shared the result with some friends. On the envelope below, I also stamped the PTI leaves. I send this card to my Flickr friend in the USA, Arlene. Hope she likes it.

Challenges:
Crafts and Me - Anything Goes (18/01)
Anything Goes - Anything Goes (23/01)
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Die Cut special (17/01)
Teddy Bo Challenge - Anything Goes (05/02)

Thanks for viewing my card.

Just A Note

What??? Two months were away without blogging? Ohlala....

And I am in love seeing someone's creations all in vintage colors. So I tried this one. Yes, I imitated hers a bit. Hope she doesn't mind. Mixing so many elements is a challenge for me. Wow!! It's quite a hard work to find the matching papers and colors. What I like, it's about using scraps. I have tons of scraps and it's time to use them. Hope these scraps go along perfectly. I am just not satisfied with the red flower. It should be bigger than it is.

I used Hero Arts stamp (Starburst Lace) for the red doily at the back. The doily in front of it was from Die-namic MFT. They are quite new in my craft room.. ;D

Ok, then, thanks for looking..

May CCC - Just Saying Hello

Update: It's here. (June 1, 2011)

Friends,

Ohh, I was sooo glad that I found again Deb's blog to join the CCC. The limited time for me had made me do this simple card. Hope the recipient likes this one. Thanks for organizing the CCC, Deborah...

The CCC is much different from the previous I joined. Now, we have to make the card, link it to Lily Pad Cards. Then we are counted to join. This is my card for this CCC.

The card is based on the sketch like this:

Thanks for looking, friends.......and can't wait to send this to the lovely lady out there in this globe...

Hello

Hi friends, meet again...

I just finished having my craft room painted. It was painted light creme, and now it is painted light mix of purple and pink. I will show you the craft room later on. Now onto my card. I bought this dies several weeks ago and I really wanted to make this card when I finally got this dies.

Challenges:
Charisma Cardz - To Die For (to use dies in the project)
Paper Play Challenges 11 Week 11 - Embossing ( I used the border embosser)
Die Cut Dreams Challenge #85 - Special Friend (or Mother's Day)
Stampacular Sunday Challenge #103 - Are You Talking To Me? (yes, the sentiment says "hello")
Digi Doodle Best Challenge #51 - Anything Goes
Fun With Shapes And More - Without DP
Papercutz Challenge #83 - Our Choice
Crazy For Challenges C4C79 - Color challenge (Pink, Kraft, Turquoise, Brown)

Thanks for looking and I appreciate your sweet comments.

Tilda on the box

Hello friends,

It's Tilda time. I love all the new Tilda stamps. This time I used Tilda With A butterfly Dress. But I only stamped the head and upper part of the body, to suit the die cut that I used.

Challenges:

Magnolia Down Under Challenge : Two of Anything (flowers) - Happy 2nd birthday, MDUC..

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #125: Flowers for Mum.

Fun With Shapes And More #78: Happy Birthday (this is a birthday gift)

Stampin' For The Weekend: Spring

Cute Card Thursday #155: Happy 3rd Birthday

Delightful Challenge: Butterflies

Thanks for looking and really appreciate your nice comments..

Just Saying Hello

Hi friends,

Wow... how long did I miss posting here? I miss you and your comments so much. This is the card I made just now. I used my new die cut, a bird cage. It seems to me that anything goes with a cage is a vintage look. Well, not that easy to make a vintage look. So, I decided to make a monochrome card with a hint on the bird itself.

This is my card.


To embellish the cage, I used punch outs: leaves, gave distress ink. The flowers were stamped and cut. I added the bling-bling and some stickles to make it a bit shiny. I know, it doesn't turn that good.Or, I was not good enough to take the picture. ;D

Sources: Hero Arts Stamp (the bg, flower and sentiment),
Punch Bunch (Giant Fern), Bird die cut

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamps - Make Your Own Embellishments
Cute Card Thursday #152 - Shiny Happy Cards (the bird is happy going out..LOL)
PaperPlay Challenges 11 Week 7 - Add Shine
Digi Doodle #47 - Anything Goes
Dutch Dare Card Challenge #100 - Glitter/Bling
Creative Inspirations Challenge 53 - Distress

Thanks for looking, friends. I feel good making a new card today. Hope you do as well.

Hello New Year

Hi friends,

Happy New Year 2011

Wow, the day has finally arrived!! It's a new year!! What are your resolutions? Have you listed them down?
Mine? One of them is minimizing the use of air-conditioner... Woohoo...going green eh...

This is the card for today. Just a simple one. As I promised myself, that this year 2011, I will use more die cuts and more handmade flowers of mine.

Just enjoy my Hello to you all.... Have a fabulous New Year day!!


Thanks for stopping and for your comments... Love ya..

Hello Ribbon

Ahh, the tiredness made me do some mistakes in writing the challenges and the title of the post in the previous post...

This is the card I made before really going to bed. I used the PI stamp, colored with Copic markers. The ribbon is one of the newest ribbons I just have.

Challenges:

Wee Memories Challenge # 33 : Bowtiful Ribbon
(glad to be able to join the challenge again...)
Charisma Cardz # 47: One For The Girls

Thanks for looking, friends...

Hello Swirl

Hello friends,

I'm back from the town that I love most, Balikpapan, East Borneo... I joined the bazaar held by the Expats' Wives there, visited the house I occupied years ago, visited the campus where I taught 5 years ago, and of course, ate favorite food. I really enjoyed my time there.

Some quilling cards of my friend were sold out. Some of my vintage and Christmas cards were sold either. Here is the pic of my table.


And this is the card I made. The stamp is from PI. Well, not a good pic to focus on the hair. The hair was colored with Popcorn marker, a black one, then heated. It is popped.

The challenges:
Card Positioning Systems Sketch 195
There's Magic is In The Air: Anything Goes

Thanks for looking, friends...

Cosmos 3-D flower

Hi friends,

Do you still remember that I dug again and again all my punches and craft books? Yesterday I made the Peony. Today, I made this Cosmos. The punches used are actually the basic punches that most crafters have. I bet you also have punches of Heart, Sun, Cosmos, Leaf. They are from Carl Punch and Punch Bunch. It took me not too long to make this one. It's quite easier than Peony.

I put the flower on the card based on the sketch given for Mojo Monday 155. It's a contest. This is my flower on this sketch.



The closer look on the 3-D Cosmos.


Thanks for looking.. Happy creating with everything we have...

Peony 3-D Flower

Hi friends,

Meet again. Last week, I dug my drawers to see my collection of punches. There are more than 200 punches, small and big. They were and still are adorable collection. Then I came to the collection of craft books. They are also more than 300 books, thin and thick, hard cover and soft cover. I finally found the books that I bought 2 years ago in Ebay. Lovely books about using punches to make 3-D flowers.

Then today, I tried to make one, ane here is the result.


I used Carl punches : CP2 Apple for the petals. CP2 and CP1 Sun for the stamens. I used PB Dusty Miller for the leaves. So, what do you think? An apple punch can create a peony? So lovely. I shall try to make another flowers like Dogwood, Daffodil, and Iris. Two years ago, I managed to make an orchid. I'll show you the result later. Wow.. I feel good to come back to my collection of punches.

You can find the tutorial here. Worth to try, happy to see the result...

Thanks for looking, friends...

Let's Go Green

Hi friends,

It's late Thursday here... The weather is fine. And I just remember to make this card. Digging in the stamp drawers had made me find this tree set stamp and the bamboo stamp. The theme this week in OLW Simplicity is Trees... So here are my takes.

The card below used Hero Arts. The sentiment is my hand writing. The slogan has been announced so well everywhere. Do we go green by using papers for our cards? Eh...


The other card is lovable. I love this bamboo stamp. It's from All Night Media. The sentiment is from Hero Arts.


I enter this bamboo card to join DDSB this week: Write Me a Message.

Thanks for looking, friends....

Just Saying Hello, Tilda

I'm back again this late afternoon. I made this card, because I had this image alone. So, I colored this Tilda with some Copic Sketches. And made this card with the sketch from Card Positioning System Sketch 181. Here is my take.


I enter this for Cute Card Thursday Challenge 127, with the theme: Dieing for a Punch! That means no nesties, no punches, no CB machine, but the paper trimmer. Ohlala....

Sources: Magnolia stamp: Peachy Tilda, Sentiment: Hero Arts.

Thanks for looking.. Have a pleasant afternoon..

Update: It is here... Thanks, Paulette.

Be Glad of LIFE

Hi friends,

It's my Mom's b'day today. I'll go there this afternoon by train with my youngest DD. I made her a birthday card. I used the technique given by Hero Arts, embossing. I join this card for this month's challenge, second round.


The closer look.

My other card for her is the one with Tilda on it. I like the sentiment made by Create With TLC. It is really suitable for the challenge by Just Magnolia #69. I used the sketch from IC Sketches #79. Look at the grass. That's what I learned from Color Me Copic blog. Well, I think my grass is not that good.. LOL... And the colors, I used five colors: orange, pink, green, brown, blue as it was stated in MDUC Color Challenge.


The closer look.

Thanks for looking, my friends.

Update: It is here. Thanks, Paulette..

Just Saying Hello With Flowers - DDSB Challenge

This is another card I made today. I join the CCC August held by Deborah Nolan. This month, we must have a contact with the recipient of our card. We did. The sender sent me email. That's Rikke Poulsen from Denmark. I am now waiting for her card. In the meantime, the conversation went on and we made a deal. I make her a card and she'll send me something, some kind of a goodie bag.. How lovely.. So this is my card for her.


I used HA stamps. I colored the flowers with Copic Sketch markers. This time, I just colored them, without thinking of the color gradation. I gave 'ticks' to the buds and the center of smaller flowers, using All Purpose Ink from Tsukineko. Love this ink. I enter this to DDSB Challenge 20: Flowers. Like a saying says:"Say it with flowers". My hubby never gives me ones...Hahaha.. But he lets me grow the hibiscus in many different colors..

Thanks for looking...

Hi There - Hero Arts June Challenge

Hi friends,

This morning, I watched the video from Jennifer McGuire about embossing, which you can also find in here. Love it and tempted to try it myself. Then when I came to Hero Arts blog, I saw the card made by Nancy about using the clothespin. I do have the stamp used on that card. So, after lunch, I made this card. Ohlala..., something went wrong. The Top Boss tinted embossing pad was flattened. How long didn't I use this pad? That long?? Oh no.. So, I opened the new one which is not tinted. The result was not good enough to share here..LOL. I tried thrice (though I don't have a Pearl to make it pearlized). I used Distress ink to color the green one. Here is the result.

CG 181 - Bird In Circle Stamp, CL Hi There, Cling Dot, Silhouette Grass

I stamped again twice the flowers and the birds, colored them with watercolor pencils and brushed them with little water. The first layer was quite flattened to the white image. The second layer was attached using foam tape. The bg was made using 2 stamps, dots and grass at the bottom. Then I added some gems and a pearl and tied the dotted ribbon.

This is the closer look on the details on the card.

Love this stamp. I am thinking of using this stamp again later.

Thanks for looking, my friends.

Hugs,

(...another) Quick Card To Make - One Layer Wednesday

Last Saturday night, I happened to open Donna Mikasa's blog. Her blog is always surprising and full of fabulous creation of hers. I found that she joined One Layer Wednesday by Simplicity. The theme is overlapping. That means, the sentiment is overlapping the image. Then, my mind directly worked on what to do. This afternoon, after teaching my little students, I had a very little short time to make one card...

(..though I ever mentioned that I wouldn't be able to post anything on my blog for a couple of week, still... I COULD....Ohlala..)

Here is my take for One Layer Wednesday card.

It's very quick to make such card. I just colored my stamp from Penny Black with markers from Versamark, sprayed it with my Mini Mister from Hero Arts, and then stamped it on the card. The last thing was to stamp the sentiment from My Sentiment Exactly, overlapped the image. The result somehow looks like a painted image.

Below is another card, using the same stamp. After stamping on the first card, I just sprayed the used stamp and stamped on the second card. The color is brighter. Here is the result.

Which one do you like most?

Some blogs might have ever promoted this technique. However, the person who directly taught me first about this technique was the one from HA store, JDA, S'pore. Thanks to him. This is the technique I like most in stamping.

I do hope I can get that short little time again and again.., between my tight "schedule". That's between teaching my kids for the tests and the preparation for the retreat. (..and actually is also between teaching my students and cleaning my craft room - which is still in a big mess...LOL)

Thanks for looking...

SNB # 6 With the Chicks

Hai..hai.., I'm back this afternoon. After giving some calls to my lady friends asking them to join the "retreat", then I went back to my craft desk...ups, no..not my craft desk, but a desk where I teach my little fellows. My craft desk is still in a BIG mess..LOL. I can't work on it.

Here is another card today... I just took me half an hour to finish it. Too long, I guess, as I already printed and colored the chicks the other day. Sometimes it's not that easy for me to mix and match the PP. This card is made based on the sketc given by Stretch N Bubbles Challenges # 6 plus the digi image in its blog. So cute, isn't it?

Digi image from Stretch N' Bubbles blog.

The sentiment is from Hero Arts.
The swirl is from Paper Shapers Punch.

Thanks for looking and your kind comments are really appreciated.

Simply Softly Afloat in Brown

Hi everybody, it is good to be back stamping and coloring this early week. I forced myself to "steal" a little time between cleaning my craft room and taking care of my kids.So here is a card for today.

I used the digi image, Softly Afloat, given by Nina in her blog, There's Magic In The Air and join the challenge this week. Hope it's not too late. Oh..no, can't get to Mr. Linky..


I colored the flowers with Copic sketch, beige color. Then I printed one more, cut three flowers, colored them and attached them with the foam tape. The butterfly was as well. Here is the result.


Since I used the brown, I enter this card to join Paperplay Challenges Week 19: Brown & ... white.

And I didn't use any other color but brown and beige, so I enter this card to join the challenge by Mami Doodles Challenge 3: Monochromatic.

Thanks for looking. And your appreciated comments really make my day...

Have a pleasant start of the week..

Cook Up A Card - May Recipe

May comes so fast. It is the month I adore. Love all the happenings that will occur in this month. In this May, there are so many works to do, such as preparing everything for a "retreat" in a silent place with around 120 people in the community. I do hope all the preparation goes well.

Here we go, for May Recipe in Cook Up A Card... Congrats to the new DT: Monika and Loulou.
Join us in this sweet recipe:

3 leaves, 2 flowers, 1 bird.

This is my take on that recipe.

The Sunflower stamp is from Penny Black. The Birds and the sentiment are from inkadinkado

I made another card with that recipe and I enter it for the Digi Doodle Shop's Best Challenge 5: Anything Goes.

The tulips is a digi image from Hero Arts. The birds are also from Hero Arts. The Sentiment "Beautiful" is a free digi from Digi Doodle Shop's Best.
This is how I pieced the tulips and the leaves.

Thanks for looking..