Day 51 - Thanks for Mom

Hello friends,

Happy Friday!

Yesterday I got two boxes of gifts from my crafter friends. They are the sponsors for the challenges I hold in my facebook account. Wow! It's really a surprise. Niken sent me a handmade daisy flower. The flower was punched and using white metallic card stock. And fortunately, Nova sent the goodies, the die cut outs, in black metallic. They are perfect match, right. So, I decided to make this card using all the goodies.

 

What do you think? I love the black background on the ivory. Black is not always bad on a card. It looks that the black background really strengthens the flowers. Adorable. Thanks, Niken and Nova. I'm sending this for my Mom. She deserves the beauty of the nature for always listening to my stories (any stories..)

The closer look on the flowers:

Challenges:

Paper Pretties - Flowers.

The Pink Elephant - Spring Time.

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes.

Oldie But A Goodie - Die Cuts & Punches.

My Time To Crafts - Gardening Gems.

Truly Scrumptious - Distressing with Die cuts / Punches.

Papercraft Star - Mother's Day.

Delightful Challenges - Mother's Day Project.

 Dare To Be Sassy Thursday 123 - Frame It.
The Cuttlebugspot - Flowers for Mom. 
Aud Sentiments - Anything Goes.

Ok, then, hope you have a wonderful weekend. It has started, right? Me? Every day is a weekend.. LOL...

Day 20 - Love Is In The Air - CFAS Challenge

Hai, it's me again..

Here comes the day... This is the day I submit my first DT card for Crafting For All Seasons Challenge #20, it's about "Love Is In The Air". February seems to be the month of love, doesn't it?

This is my card. I took an image from Digi Doodle Shops, Heart Candy & Flowers:

Supplies: Cheerylynn Design Heart dies, MFT cloud dies, The Twinery, some bling-bling, Glossy Accent, Diamond Stickles, sentiment from font in the computer.

These are the details of the card.

The 'candy' was given Glossy accent on top of them.

And these are the Copic markers that I used to color the beautiful image.

Sponsors for the challenge: Digidoodleshopbest, Bugaboo and Lili of The Valley.

Don't hesitate to join the challenge. Do pop over the challenge blog to see the inspiration of all the DT.

Challenges:
Elphine House - Heart
Papercraft Star - Hearts
Penny's Paper Crafty - Love Is In The Air
Simon Says - Love Is In The Air
Sisterhood of Crafters - Valentine's
Paper Shelter - More Love
Truly Scrupmtious - Love & Hearts

See you again tomorrow, friends. Thanks for all your lovely comments.

Day 12 - Happy Valentine's Day

Hello friends,

I am not a Chinese. I, actually, don't celebrate Chinese New Year, of course.. But, I live in a town where the influence of Chinese tradition exists. C'est pas grave.. J'aime bien ca.. I like all cultural traditions. So, my daughter is going to join an event to celebrate that day. And me, join my DD to practice singing.. I just managed myself to make this card this late evening in my craft room. I made this card for a valentine card exchange program held by Anita in Hero Arts Flickr group. My card will fly to Robin Kubasik in New York, USA. I used all Hero Arts stamps from 5 sets. I used Victorian Velvet distress ink. Love that color on this pink card stock. These are my favorite combination of pink. And the sentiment was stamped using Rich Cocoa Memento ink.

Supplies: Hero Arts stamps; PTI label and tag dies; Heart punch; The twinery twine; some blings and big button

This is the closer look on the elements: The big button is one of my favorite embellishments, besides the half crystal and half pearls. But this kind of big buttons has been forgotten for long. Yesterday I needed something 'bling' and big. Voila! I found this pretty thing.

And together with the envelope:

Challenges:

MTTC - # 171 fave embellishment. (25/01)

Truly Scrumptious - #72 Something Forgotten (23/01)

Creative Inspiration - # 146 Fave color + white (23/01)

Papertake Weekly - Buttons, Bows, Bling, Bloom

So tired, and need good rest. Good night from here, but have a good day to you all...

Vintage TAG

Hello friends,

Meet again after some time. It's quite busy here at home. The helper went home and I had to do all the hustle and bustle as a real SAHM.. ;D. So glad to be able to cook again, clean everything, prepare everything, and manage my time among the house works, the schedules of the kids, the teaching at school and at the gallery, the serving the customers and the boarding rooms care. Do hope I always stay healthy, fit, and of course fun..

Here is one of the tags I managed to make today. I used PTI die cut to make the tag. It's adorned with some patterned papers from October Afternoon. I realized, that using the papers from one pad is much easier in combining colors and patterns. Adorable paper pad!
The butterflies are from a punch with no brand but it's awesome. It's a gift from my brother. He bought it in Paris!! So faaar away... The buttons are from PTI die cut. And the checked paper was punched with MS famous punch. Then I distressed it with Vintage Photo distress ink. I stamped the sentiment using PTI stamp. And finally tied it with a blue velvet ribbon.

Challenges:
The Crafty Pad: VINTAGE
Stampacular Sunday Challenge 15/10: SO DISTRESSING
Crafty Cardmaker 16/10: ANYTHING GOES
Simon Says Stamp & Show 19/10: THINGS WITH WINGS

Oldie But A Goodie 17/10: WINGS
Truly Scrumptious 19/10: SO DISTRESSING
Whimsy Stamps: DIE CUTS/PUNCHES
The ABC Challenge: ANYTHING GOES
One Stop Challenge: ANYTHING GOES

Thanks for looking and your lovely comments..

Have a Blooming Good Day

Hi friends,

I feel good to be able to join challenges again... ;D

I love dies so much. And the ones I really adore are from My Favorite Things and Papertrey Ink. Love all their dies so much, especially the ones that have stamp sets. Here is my card.

New Challenges (for me to join):

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Bloom & Grow

Truly Scrumptious - Anything Goes

By The Cute & Girly - Anything Goes

Fussy And Fancy Challenge - Recipe

OTWC #53 - Inspiration Colors

And one more creation that I made today, using the PTI dies, for the bag and the leaves. Sooo pretty dies.

Challenge: Polka Doodle - Anything But A Card

Thanks for looking, friends.