Cook Up A Card - June Recipe

Hai, we're back with June Recipe in Cook Up A Card.

The theme is WEDDING, with the recipe:

3 DP / PP
2 Rings
1 Vellum

Here is my take on that recipe:

Don't hesitate to join.... See you then.. Thanks for looking..

(...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...

May CCC

I am glad to be able to join May Card Chain Challenge hosted by Deborah Nolan.

This is the card I sent to Jenny Suchin.


And this is the card I received from Vera Rhuhay (..that Hero Arts hostess alumni..)


So cute, isn't it? Love to receive this card. Thanks, Vera...

Thanks, Deborah...

Featured in DDSB Shop & Custom Stamp Challenge

Hello everybody. It's not posting a card or anything. I just don't have much time to create anything, though my desire is sitting right on my craft chair and do something with the digi stamps that my friends have sent me.

I will return next week, or the next two weeks with my creations, as I have to take care of my Dds for their final tests. They need me badly. So, I want to be next to each of them while they are studying. The tests will commence June 1 until June 9. Hope they can do all the tests well.

And in the middle, June 5-6, we'll go for a retreat in a Catholic place. Do hope everything will be okay, as I am one of the committee who take care everything in that place. Quite busy with all the things.

I only want to let you know that after having my Custom Stamp and made something using the stamp, I just found today that the photo, the stamp and the creation of that stamp are now featured here. So glad to find them there. As I said previously, this stamp was just like a birthday gift for me. And for that case, I have a challenge, using my custom stamp, please make something. You can get the image in my facebook account. You can just let it be in your blog or you can send it to my home address. Just let me know your post by writing it in the comments.

Thanks, Judy, for uploading. I am flattered. The other custom stamp for Sandra is also adorable. Just if I have known I could send you the pic of not my face, I would have sent my favorite pic. Anyway, the custom stamp of mine is worth a million for me... Hope to join the challenges in the future....

So many hopes I said here. Just hope (the biggest one) that Jesus may let every hopes of mine happen.

Thanks for reading. Have a great time, friends...

Happy Birthday To Me - with Custom Stamp

Hai..hai.., it's my birthday today. Every single thing seemed so special today. Got 2 birthday cakes from friends of my hubby and a big bouquet of flowers, too... Then, we had a dinner with kids and a friend in PH resto. When I was home again, I finished what I had to upload.

Last week I won a Custom Stamp from Digi Doodle Shop's Best. So I sent my picture and got the result last Monday. Well, they asked me to put the stamp into a creation. I was happy with the result of the custom stamp, but...it's not that easy to make something with that stamp.. So, my friend, Fika, suggested me to make a scrapbook. So here it is, the result...

Hero Arts for the pattern papers. MS punches for the border

Below is the closer look on how I colored my Custom Stamp of my own face....

Thanks for looking and I really appreciate your kind comments....

DDSB Challenge # 7 with Ribbon

It's a hectic week. And today there was much to do. I could manage make one card and one scrapbook. This is the card with orange ribbon.

I enter this card to join DDSB Challenge # 7 with ribbon.

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..

Birthday Cards

This late afternoon, I finished three birthday cards. One is for my Dd's friend, and the other two will just stay in the gallery.

This card is following the Card Positioning System Challenge 164. Here is the sketch:

This is my take on the sketch:


And the second card is followint the sketch from Card Patterns Sketch # 61 :

And this is my take on that sketch:


The last one is for the challenge by Cupcake Craft Challenge 88 Don't Be Square. So, I decided to make a small card, using my Blossom Nestie. Just a simple one, embossed it with the flowers, attached the Anya image and the sentiment.



Thanks for looking.

Thinking Of You

Good day, everybody.... This morning, I tried to make this card with the three color combo : blue, green and yellow. Here is my take.

I enter this card to join :
1. Dogi Doodle Shop's Best Challenge # 4, with the color challenge : Blue, Green, Yellow. What great DT takes there... Take a look.

2. Sketch Saturday Week #100, with the sketch below, a simple one.

3. The Magic Is In The Air , with this lovely free digi image. Nina, I love this Easter Lilies... I printed several times and colored them in so many colors...

Thanks for looking...

Thinking Of You - Two Cats

Just finished this card this noon time. I enter this to join the Stretch n Bubbles Challenge # 4. You can always find free digi every Wednesday here. This time is the cat. Love the digi cat. I printed them in the patterned papers and also in the white papers to get the paws.
This is the sketch given :
And this is my take on the sketch using the digi.


Actually I already printed another little cat to be put near the tail of the bigger cat. But, when I put him there, it looked too crowded, so, I keep him for the latter card.

Thanks for looking....

Happy Mother's Day (2 & 3)

As I ever said, if there is number 1, there will be number 2, etc. So, here they are, the "Happy Mother's Day" cards number 2 & 3.

I entered these two cards to join Hero Arts Challenge the second round this month. I used HA Digi Vintage Women. Love this digi. I could cropped as I wished. And that's all for the challenge...

This is the second card. I love the green dotted ribbon. A new one in my gallery.


This is the third card. I pleated the ribbon. This is my first attempt in pleating.. Wow... I added the punched borders.


These two cards had been posted to Hero Arts Pool here and here...

Thanks for looking....

Hero Arts April Challenge

Today I made two cards for Hero Arts April challenge. The theme is Home/Mother's Day. Love stamping with the Row of Houses.... I inked the stamp with 6 colors of Zig brushes. Love the result. The white cardstock was cloud stamped with the shadow ink, then I die cut with the nestability. I also adore these three-girl stamps. Love them..really love them. It seems to me that they represent my DDs. The third girl was not adhered to the card. She was there just for "Action..!!"... LOL... I used 6 kinds of Hero Arts stamps for this card.


Then I made the second card. I printed the digi image twice. The second one was not this vibrant. I cut it along the image, then I masked the first image with the second one. Then, I stamped the Japanese writing. I used Tim Holtz Distress ink.

This two cards are all in my Flickr Photostream and already posted in Hero Arts Pool, here and here....

Thanks for looking...

Happy Day

This is a belated birthday card for my friend. We met some days ago and felt touched with what she shared, so I decided to send her this birthday card, one day late.... Hope Neneng enjoys this card.... She loves everything Japan...

I combined Anya and Hero Arts stamps. Embossed the card base with Birthday folder

I enter this card to join Cute Card Thursday Challenge 109 with this sketch:

And also to join My Time TO Craft Challenge 88 : Quick Quotes.

Thanks for looking..

TMITA 4x4 card base

Wow.. this is my fifth card today... Catching all challenges, Dwita??? LOL...
It's been quite some time that I don't join any challenges in TMITA (There's Magic In The Air).

This time the recipe is :
1. any Paper Cupcake image (ups, I only have the free ones..)
2. a 4x4 size card base ( well, this is the first time using this measurement..)
3. 1 ribbon (no problem)
4. 1 single type of embellishment (I chose a button, though I hardly tried not to use the punched leaves)
5. 1 stamped/printed sentiment (I prefer to print the words I long to wish..)
6. No patterned papers (wow..quite difficult, so I just stamped the cardstock with green leaves..)

So, this is my take on that recipe:

Hope it meets the recipe...

Thanks for looking..

1 Card, 3 challenges

Good afternoon, everybody. It seems that today i am really in the mood of making cards. This is my fourth card today. And this time, not fuschia, but all brown. I have this stamp image colored some time ago, and it's time to use it.


This card is my take on the sketch by Friday Sketchers, Sketch 99 :


I enter this card for Just Magnolia Week 52 : Anything Goes. And also to enter PaperPlay Challenges Week 16 : No Patterned Papers.

Thanks for looking ..

3 cards, 3 challenges

I don't know, why at the meantime, I really adore Fuschia..., in cardstock, in marker.... My eyes always fall to anything with that pretty color. I even have double Fuschia Copic.. (LOL)..

First take is for Card Patterns Sketch 60. It's been quite long time that I don't join challenges from Card Patterns. This card is for Eva, my friend. I combined 2 Anya stamps: Stella and Geisha. Not on the fuschia cardstock, a bit nuance of it...

This my take on that sketch:

I combined the stamps, based on the card given by Vera Rhuhay. She gave me when I met her last Wednesday night, in Surabaya, her home town. This is her card :

Second, I enter the following card for Stretch N' Bubbles Sketch Challenge 3. Love this blog with pretty free digi image and the sketch..This is my take on that sketch:

The third one, I enter CPS 163. It's been also long time that I don't join this challenge.

This is my take on the sketch:Hero Arts Stamps, Nestabilities, Fiskars Punch, Copic markers. (already sold just now in my gallery)

Thanks for looking..

Hope your day is full of sunshine

Just got lots of stamp images of TGF. And I really enjoyed coloring each of them.
This card will be sent to one of my friends. I will enclose some stamp images, too, to her.


I enter this card to join Digi Doodle Shop's Best Spring Time Sketch Challenge 3.
Hope it's not too late.

Thanks for looking..

Happy Mother's Day (1)

Reading at the title, you'll think there will be more Mother's Day cards. You are right... As May is the month to celebrate the day, I'm sure I will make 2 or 3 more cards for my beloved ladies...

In this card, I used the stamp image (digi stamp) from Stretch and Bubbles Blog.

Colored the chicks with Copic Markers. The sentiment was printed from the computer.

I enter this card to join SNB Challenge.

Update: This card won the challenge.

Great Sista

Made this for my sister on her birthday on April 11, 2010. This is the second card for her, which I finally decided to give this one...(LOL).. She is a piano teacher. And when I searched my pp, I found this musical paper.. Ow, I was glad, and used it here. Well, from five siblings, she is the only one who continued learning piano until the Teaching Preparation and has been a piano teacher for more than 14 years. Proud of her...

The Tilda image was a gift from Maryann, colored with Copic; Punches from Fiskars; Butterfly digi stamp from Hero Arts

I enter this card for Just Magnolia Week 50: Pinch It Out challenge. I was inspired by the DT Donalda's card... So pretty in red.

Thanks for looking..

Love Begins From Home

I'll visit my Mom tomorrow evening (Sunday, April 11, 2010), as it is my sista's birthday as well. I need to let my Mom know how I love her and the love she showers me from time to time. Indeed, that's the her love that I inherits from her. So, I made this card for her.

The closer look of the open door

I enter this card to join Hero Arts Challenge in the Flickr, April 2010A.

Thanks for looking...

Un JOur A Celebrer - CPS 161

My sister is going to have her birthday next Sunday. Since we've been not met each other long, so I stamped a big house and houses on the card. We'll all celebrate it in my Mom's big house in the capitol.

Stamped HA Clouds, Home With Flourish, Row Of Houses, and C'est Chouette; HA Shadow ink; Spellbinder nesties, Fiskars punch; Flowers from local thread store, and some pearls

I enter this card for CPS 161. Hope it meets.. Just a simple card..

Thanks for looking..

Celebrate - Mojo Monday 133 - Contest

Well, a very pretty sketch to take today. As my friend loves purple, so I made this in two colors: purple and white. This is for her birthday. I know she will love this card... (LOL)

Spellbinder nesties, embossed the purple with "Birthday", stamped the white with HA Silhouette Spray and Silhouette Burst, colored the stamps with ZIG brush, and Carla Punch Vinca-a.

I enter this card to Mojo Monday 133 - Contest. I love the one made by the DT Sarah Bigelow. Love her take.

Thanks for looking.

Start Again - Digi Doodle Challenge

Wow... it's been more than a month that I didn't post anything here.
Teaching craft from town to town really occupied me and made me away from my craft room.
Tonight, I just finished starting again, stamping again. I made 30 Biblemarkers for the ladies in the Praise & Worship where I belong. As the youngest among all, I sometimes give them something. So, these tags are for them for the Easter celebration, Tuesday, April 6.

I used 5 flower stamps. Four Hero Arts flower stamps and one Penny Black flower stamp.

Here they are.
The sentiment "Selamat Paskah" means "Happy Easter".

I enter this creation to Digi Doodle Easter/Spring challenge. My friends, Monika Reeck and Vera, are ones of their newest DT. Congrats to you.

Thanks for looking...