Happy New Year! #3 (for Coffee card swap)

Aloha~

I love this postage dies and stamps. I also used stamps and dies from different companies, 7 companies to be exact, from stamps, dies to stencils to finish the front panel! 

It's hard to see it in the picture but I cut the top part, after I made the whole front panel before attaching it to the card base, because, in person, I felt that 2/3 of the panel "looked" heavy with all those die cuts. I used the foam tape to give a bit of dimension to adhere the top part to the card base in the end. 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Stay safe & stay warm! 

Love, Eve

Happy New Year!! #2

My 2nd card in 2024 which I used the same stamp set from the previous post but the different stamps. I used the same colors and the medium for the main dragon stamp. Same background, using my very old clouds stencil from Print Works/1997! I have a couple of clouds stencils but I still use this old one, sometimes. It was $2.79, probably found at nearby stamp store, in late 90's..."Stencils" never go bad! lol I used different embellishments from different company. I layered that front to the white card stock which I just swiped with my Honeydew Encore inkpad from Tsukineko, directly around the edge of the card stock. The sentiment is from old stamp set from HA. 

This is going to my godmother. 😊

Well, my friends, it's cold here, too... yesterday morning, it was the 2nd coldest in the record! That was 58F! The coldest day ever was 57F which was recorded in 1978! It's definitely a hoodie weather in this "tropical" island. Stay safe, stay warm! Love, Eve

A Happy New Year!!

This is my 1st card in 2024! I received a Christmas card from someone whom I didn't expect to receive it from but unfortunately last 2 months had been very busy and I hardly could make a card, so, I decided to make a New Year's card for the sender. 

2024 is the year of Dragon, the only non-real life animal among 12 Chinese zodiac. The main image is new from Mama Elephant stamps. My mom's sign is the Dragon and she kept some decoration of dragons. They were all green and gold, and that's how I remembered the dragon and decided to use those colors. For "mane?" and the tip of the tail, I used light green color, and picked the gold color from Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolor palette, using a watercolor brush pen, to color over the light green colored areas. The photo didn't pick up well but it's a bit golden. The vertical sentiment is from Purple Daisy Designs.  

Wishing you an abundance of happiness for 2024! 

Love, Eve