Tag 7 - Joy

Hello friends,

I was missing in action yesterday. I attended the funeral of my uncle in Jakarta. I met so many close relatives. Here are some pics. Sometimes, it is necessary to join the funeral, because that's the best time to meet the relatives who scattered. You know, if we meet like this, we always use Betawi language. That's the original Jakarta language. Hehehe...

And this is my tag 7 of 12 tags of Christmas. I used MFT for the tag. The Christmas ornaments and the sentiment were from Stampin Up. The sentiment was stamped using Versamark, and then heat embossed with the black embossing powder. I also embossed some frantage. The bow was something like burlap in red. Well, this is just a simple tag...

See you again in the next tag..

Day 25 - The last day of ODOP Christmas - Frosty

Hi friends,

The ODOP - One Day One Project - has come to an end. Today is the last day. Wow!! I cannot imagine that I have to stop creating something for Christmas. I love Christmas. This 25-day time to create didn't make me bored. Not a single second. I always got the ideas. Where did I get them? From Pinterest, Google, other blogs, and even from the creation and techniques my friends did.

Today's theme is snowman. Due to the fact that I only have one snowman stamp, and I don't want to use it, I drew it on a white card stock. First with a pencil. Then I drew it with the Copic Multiliner.

I saw the design in the Pinterest, but I forgot the link. I tried to find it, but I couldn't. Perhaps, I'll try later to find the link. The hearts and the carrot nose were colored with Copic. Then I added a braided scarf using twinery. The letters f.r.s.t.y were from Stampin Up die cut. I randomly cut a piece of white card stock, then highlighted it with a light blue Memento ink pad. To the parts of the letters, too.

Here it is....

Do you like this card?

Day 22 - ODOP Christmas - We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Hai friends,

The day has almost come to an end. And I just managed myself to make this card with the glitter embossing powder. Nothing special, as I made it with a very sad heart and thought. Yeah.. what happened yesterday continued today.

Anyway, this is my take for the one day one project: glamorous. I used a stamp set from Stampin Up. The sentiment was from Papertrey Ink. Just simply heat embossed the Christmas ornaments. And added 1 bling-bling on each of them. That's all.

Anyway, I remembered this picture. It's #tbt #throwbackthursday. Can you guess which one is me?

And after class, one of my student gave me a parcel. Just take a look what she gave me. Everything in green tea! Sooo yummy.

Take a closer look. Look at the card. It's a simple one. I love it. She has a genuine heart. She is one of the best students of mine (inside & outside). She never pretends about everything. So honest. That's what I like from her. Thanks, sweetie..

That's all for today. I'm still in BITERHAMEN = bibir tersenyum hati menjerit. Hahaha.

Happy Thanksgiving. Thanks for giving me bitter...

Share Kindness - November Challenge

HAPPY WORLD KINDNESS DAY

Hi friends,

Here comes November Challenge. I want to share kindness and so do you. I will send to you the kit: a card with a stamped sentiment and 3 small card stock that you can decorate. All you need to do: leave your comment below, and email me your address. I will send the kit to you. Please send me back the picture of your creation to my email address. I will upload the pictures by November 25. Then everyone can vote. You can add my Facebook Account here.

When it is already on the Facebook on November 25, then it's your turn again to send your card to someone you think you want to share your kindness. Feel free..

For my card, I used stamps from Hero Arts and Penny Black. I always love flower stamps. The sentiment was from Stampin Up stamp set. So versatile stamp set.

Share your kindness... #sharehandmadekindness in Jennifer McGuire, 2nd week.

I made several of this, and will send them to several people who work in the sewing community, who need a real help for their children's school tuition.

Day 11 - ODOP Christmas - Do Not Open 'til Christmas

Hello friends,

I'm feeling much better when I woke up this morning. But the body still needs to keep calm and do nothing. So I just checked everything in the craft room. The cupboards came yesterday. So this morning, the carpenter fixed them in my room. He needed to take out the previous cupboard from the wall. Then fixed it higher. What a work. Now I need a ladder to get the things on the upper cupboard. Hehehe.. I couldn't make anything until this late evening. I just stayed on my bed, except sorting out the ATCs. My assistants helped me distributing all ATCs.

The theme is Santa Claus. I just made this. To make this, I needed much much effort. Because I had to find where each tool was. Everything was not in each place. They still laid down on the floor.

I saw this tag in Pinterest and I felt I just wanted to make it.

 

I manually cut the tag. Because I couldn't find the tag die cut. It's easy, actually. I embossed a red cardstock for the hat. The face was cut using Spellbinders circle die cut. The eyes were stamped with a clear stamp from Hero Arts. You know, almost in clear stamp set of Hero Arts, we could find tiny little stamps. This big dot was one of them. So lucky me to have it. :D

The moustache was from Stampin Up punch which was actually a bird punch. Hehehe. The sentiments were also from Stampin Up. All the punches were also from Stampin Up. But, the punch for the sterns was from Punch Bunch. And as usual, the twine was from The Twinery.

And.... just to make this little tag, I needed these all.. Can you imagine? So many... Hahahahaha... Crazy...

Tomorrow, I will rearrange my own craft room. I will show you the pictures of "before and after". Hehehe.. I think it would be a fantastic change.. 

See you tomorrow...

ODOP - Day 17 - Long TIme No See

Happy weekend, my friends..

I am in Surabaya now. Just the two of us, with my DH. Here in Surabaya, I have lots of time. I can relax, doing nothing or even just watching TV. That's one thing I rarely do. One thing I enjoyed last night was eating 'kwetiau rebus' at my favorite restaurant. So yummy.. This morning at 9, my DH will go to his office because there will be a special event there. I will drop him to Gresik then I'll get back to Surabaya. I'll meet him again later after 3. I have a plan to look for a sewing machine. I mentioned this yesterday. I'll tell you my find later. I can't wait for that.. Wooot..wooot... Well, wish me luck..

Today's theme for ODOP is Friendship.  Actually, I have been thinking of the window die cut from MFT. But, I don't want to buy as the dollars are still high. And, come to think of it, I remember that I have a window die cut from Stampin Up. I have one, two or three. Yes, three different window die cut on one plat. I chose the biggest one. I cut the paper from "Gnome Sweet Gnome" from My Mind's Eye. Inside the window, I stamped the stick figures from Altenew on the white cardstock. But before that, I stenciled the diamond using Tim Holtz stencil and Shabby Shutter Distress Ink. The small dots and hearts were stamped using the Mama Elephant stamp from a London stamp set. The leaves are from Punch Bunch leave punch. The bird is from Stampin Up punch. The flowers were made by using a die cut from MFT. Finally I added some sequins and a punched heart.

Here we go...

I love how they turned out... So lovely.

I hope you agree, that everything on white is always adorable.. :D

PS: I'll be back on Monday morning. If you need anything from Surabaya, just let me know. :D

ODOP - Day 16 - Happy Birthday with Bling

Hello friends,

It's Friday and I'm about to go to Surabaya. The train leaves at 12.12 in the afternoon. I will spend 3 nights there. I visit my hubby and I have a plan to look for a sewing machine. Yes.. I'm so in love in sewing. Almost every night before sleeping, I open Youtube to learn all the things about sewing. I don't want to sew dresses. I want to sew accessories and daily need such as pillow cases, clutch, tote bags. etc. I will find the best sewing machine. I worked hard for this, especially on Jogja Japan Week 3 weeks ago. I earned so much that it is enough to buy the machine and fix the craft room. I asked the carpenter to make some short cupboard to accommodate everything. If you come here today, wow... everything is so messy. Lol..

Btw, the theme of the ODOP today is using bling bling. The card is so simple. I used the die cut from Stampin Up. The hexagon. I cut 3 times on 3 different papers. I added some blings from Kaiser Craft and Prima.

The sentiment is also from Stampin Up. I adore the 'birthday' word. It's inside an oval stamp. I only wanted the sentiment without the oval shape. So I colored the sentiment with ZIG Art & Graphic Twin. It took quite some time to dry. When I wanted to add the bling-bling, I accidentally touched the sentiment and touched other parts of the card. Oh my.... So I repeated making the new one. I just took what I could save.. Lol... Look at the mess I made on the card.

I think everything on white is always adorable. Right?

See you tomorrow. It will be another white card. I think.. :D

ODOP - Day 14 - Wherever You Go

Hello friends,

It's Wednesday. The theme for today is Paper Flower. My favorite theme. I love flowers.  This card carries so many famous brands for each thing on the card. This time I play with flower stamps from Stampin Up! They are from 3 different stamp sets. They also come with punches. The punches make the work easier. I just stamped and then punched. The ink pad was the new one from Hero Arts Shadow Ink: Fresh Peach (mid-tone). I love that color. The leave stamp was from Papertrey Ink. The word stamp was from Hero Arts. The die cut for the circle swirl was from Sizzix. The new one in my craft room. The pattern paper was from Doodle Designs. The four-petal flower punch was from Carla Craft. The sentiment was from Mama Elephant. See that, so many brands. They are my favorite ones.

Here is my creation:

I took several photos. These two were under the sunshine:

Hope you also enjoy the flowers around you.. :D

ODOP - Day 9 - Postcard

Hi friends,

The theme for today's ODOP is a postcard. This theme enabled me to use my only postcard stamp from Stampin Up! one one side. I like this stamp. I really wish I could make more and more postcards, so that I could do swap with other postcard lovers.

Anyway, this is the postcards I made this late afternoon (after coming from school, of course..). These is each side of the postcard.

The other stamps are from Hero Arts. They are old stamps, but I still adore them. They are: Hydrangea, Old French Writing, a bird from CardArt Decorative Birds and a butterfly from a set of Antique Engraving. I still can remember how difficult it was to get those famous Hero Arts stamps at that time. Wow! So that's why I won't exchange these staamps to other ones. I love them all.
The other stamp is the dots stamp from Kaiser Craft. I don't understand, why it is so difficult to peel the stamp from its plastic.

I used DI ink pads: Victorian Velvet, Tumbled Glass,  Old Paper and Shabby Shutters. Those are the colors to form a shabby look, I guess..

I didn't use any embellishments, because I want to send it via post, which means I need to glue a stamp on it. I hope it reaches Sylvia.

What do you think, friends?

Smile

Hello friends,

It's been such a long time. The school holiday went so well. Then followed by an event of a birthday party of both of my parents-in-law. They are both 75 years old. Then, returned home, cleaning my craft room. So messy. Today was the second day cleaning the room. I finally finished it and made this card. The technic was in Jennifer's blog and video here.

I used three Distress Ink to color the white card stock. First the Evergreen, then the Mustard Seed, and finally the Chipped Sapphire. I don't have Pearl Perfect. So I just leave it that way.
I cut 'smile' with Little Yellow Bicycle die cut. I bought it in Hobby Lobby. Then I misted it and doubled it. Before I adhered it, I embossed the white one with Honeycomb embossing folder from Stampin Up!

If you see the picture above, yeah.. I tried the technic for 4 times. Hahaha.... Not bad...

Try it and feel the ease in inking the paper. Love it...

ODOP - Day 13 - Thank You For Everything

Hello friends,

These are my submission for one day one project. The theme is flower.

I made 35 cards for my friend. She asked me to make these to say thanks for the dear ones.

The flowers, the leaves were from StampinUp!. The banner was from Simon Says Stamp. The circles were from Spellbinder.

Hope you enjoy my cards.

ODOP - Day 8 - ATC - Let's Go for a Ride

Greetings from Bogor,

Yeah, I'm still in the middle of the Refreshing Course in Bogor. We had so much fun today. We went to the Botanical Garden after lunch time. We took so many pictures. We loved the togetherness with my mom, too.

Right now, I just finished all the sessions and had a chance to upload the "one day one project". The theme is ATC about summer. What I like doing in summer are swimming and cycling. So I chose this bicycle stamp from StampinUp!. But before that, in my mind, I thought about 'friendship' theme. I made the first ATC with that F monogram. I will make each of the ATC 15. They will be swapped among the participants of the ODOP.

The sentiment "let's go for a ride" was from Hero Arts. The other sentiment was from StampinUp! stamp set. I added some frantage, too.


I'm waiting for the ATC from the swap.. You?

ODOP - Day 1 - Ta Ta For Now

Hello friends,

Meet again in "one day one project". This time for 16 days. The theme is yellow. I used this pansy flower. I love it so much. I stamped twice on a white card stock then punched them. I cut one white leaf. The stamp, the punch and the die cut were all from Stampin Up. On a rectangular card stock, I stamped splotches from Hero Arts wood stamp set called Random Splotches. I was so glad when I found this stamp set in the store. I used DI ink pads: weather wood and mustard seed. I also stamped dots and circles. The stamps were also from Hero Arts, old collection. The frame was from Label Eight die cut from Spellbinder. I added some sequins. They are new in my craft rooms. The pattern paper was from Echo Park Paper: here & now. I adhered the rectangular white card stock on to the grey card stock. And finally I adhered it on a yellow card.

Below: after I stamped the splotches, before I adhered anything.

And this is the closer look. 

The sentiment "ta ta for now" was from Hero Arts, old collection. I want to give this card to my colleague who will return to Canada and has finished strong teaching at school. I don't think I will meet him again, as he has decided to teach in other countries. I'm quite sad, because he has been my only close friend at school, who happened to understand my wishes for the school. I wish him a wonderful journey of life....

ODOP - Day 31 - Find the Good in Everything

Hello friends,

Wow! It's a very hot day today in Cirebon. I couldn't stand the heat, eventhough the air-conditioner was on. I wish I could make 2 more cards. Well, I still can wait until this evening, when the sun has set and the heat has gone.

Anyway, I managed to make this card. The theme is: something gothic. Gothic is not horror. Hehehe... I don't like skulls nor spiders nor something to do with a long-hair lady and everything that goes with her. So I just chose the color. It's black. The black card stock was from Kaiser Crafts; the Halloween paper pad. I cut it with a die cut from StampinUp! The purple card stock was actually quite glittery. But, I couldn't take a better photo than these.

The Summer Dragonfly was cut from a die cut. Brand: Couture Creations; I bought it from Simon Says Stamp website. It was in great sale; less than $5.

What do you think? Does this card have a gothic style? Lol...