Heartfelt Thanks - Inspired By.

Hi friends,

I am back from school break vacation. We went to Bali, as you can read in my previous post. I will show the pictures of the vacation in the next post. But one thing I want to tell you, Bali is an amazing place to find handmade things. Two of them were this lovely bracelet and the embroidered white blouse. I love the color combo of the bracelet. I adore white blouses. So at that time, I forced myself to go back to the store to buy the blouse.

From these two things, I was inspired to make these creations.

 

This is the card below. The card stock is linen card stock. The white background is made by a die from Stampin Up! I forget the name. The blue leave is from PTI die cut. The white swirl is from Marianne die cut. As usual, I love attaching this kind of rose. A black rose is so protruding on this card.

And this is the box. It is from Sizzix die cut. The white die cut out is Amira from Lifetime. The  black leaves are from PB punch. The handle of the box is a Japanese mizuhiki cord.

Hope you enjoy my creations. This is also a challenge in my Facebook account. Click here, to join the challenge.

See you later..

Hugs and Kisses

Hi friends,

This is my second card this year.. I chose these two colors, because Heroarts Challenge this January is about color tones. The theme is Love, Hugs & Kisses to celebrate Valentine's Day. These are the colors:

And this is my take on that challenge. What else have I done? A flower, of course! ;D

Supplies: Heroarts stamps: Envelope Pattern, Four Dolls, You & Me; PTI Mat Stack 1 & Turning New Leaves dies, MFT Pretty Posies for the pink flower; Lilac twine from The Twinery.

Challenge:
Heroarts - January 2012 A
Pink Elephant - Anything Goes (08/01)
Kabbodle Doodles Challenge - #100 Let's Celebrate (08/01)
Incy Wincy Designs - #127 Anything Goes (08/01)
My Time To Craft Challenges - #170 Hugs & Kisses (16/01)

Thanks for looking and your lovely comments.

Scrapbooking in frames

Last month my close friend asked me to make some scrapbook frames for the ladies in our community. Actually, it's only the frame. But come to think of it, we decided to put in some photos of theirs. Here are what I made for them.

I used many die cut outs to decor them. I love those versatile dies that I have. The flowers are from My Favorite Things die. The leaves, tags and the butterflies are from Papertreyink dies. The fern are from Cheerylynndesigns dies. THe birds are from Marianne dies. The words: ept, are from Stampinup! dies. The border leaves are from Martha Stewart punch. The sentiment are mostly from Hero Arts and Papertreyink. The twines are from The Twinery. The background papers are from Ledger Pad of Prima Marketing. So pretty. I love the papers.

Well, these are just 4 frames among 30 frames that I made. Hope these ladies enjoy what they see.

First Scrapbook Photo Album

Updated, August 30. My Mom was soooo touched viewing each page of the album.

Wooohooo....

This is my first time making a scrapbook photo album. And it is dedicated for my Mom, who has her 72nd birthday. I used the papers from DCWV The Lace & Linen Stack. The color scheme is very pretty: pink, brown, light creme. Vintage? Perhaps. And to stay on those colors was not that easy. I really tried hard. I need to find all the colors that match the DP. I made this album in 2 days. I used Spellbinder dies on kraft cardstocks to make the pages.

This is the cover album.

I used CLD die cut for the butterfly and the swirly leaves.

The sentiment in the middle: 'born to shop'. That's right, for my Mom and me, always buy 'batik' cloths and clothes.

The back cover. Yes, I made it with LOVE for my beloved MOM.

New word die cut from PTI. Lovely.

I embossed the image with white embossing powder, and rubbed it with Victorian Velvet Distress Ink (with a piece of tissue.. LOL)

I used Staz-On to stamp the names on the button.

I inserted some other photos. There are 3 pockets in this album to accommodate the photos.

I used Hero Arts, My Favorite Things and PapertreyInk sentiment stamps for this album. The distress inks were only Victorian Velvet, Vintage Photo, Peeled Paint and Shabby Shutter. Wonderful colors to match the colors of the DP. I also used twines from The Twinery: blossom, cappuccino and honeydew. The dies are from various companies that I adore sooo much...

The wire binding was free. The store owner said, it was free just for me. Oh, my..they are so generous.

Thanks for viewing my creations. I hope you enjoy what you've seen.

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..