"Iced" Coffee card for May swap

Aloha~

This is the card I made for May. I LOOOOOVE this Coffee Shop paper pad from Echo Park! 🥰All the papers for background and the printed sentiment are from the same pad! I used one of the "postage nesting die" to cut the sentiment. Glad it was the perfect size! I added MC/Ecru floss to finish the card. This "special" floss has a couple of threads of gold in the whole thread and looks nicer in person. 

The weather has cleared up much earlier than the weather forecast predicted. I'm not complaining, though! This Spring has been little harsh, even in this island of Oahu. Hope you are enjoying the spring with lots of flowers wherever you are! Thanks for stopping by my blog today! Love, Eve

Happy Mother's Day!

Aloha~

I made this card on Mother's day for my late mother. I like to spend time, thinking of her on Mother's day. 

I used Waffle Flower's "MOM" script dies on Lawn Fawn papers and vellum. Those sentiments are all from new Waffle Flower's stamp set, and attached with the "thin" foam. I stamped a couple of "butterflies" from the same set, since my mom loved butterflies. Have you ever used "Brilliance" inkpads? I love the color from my color swatch and used it. Well, they are really old and some went bad but 2/3 of the inkpads are still in good condition, without even reinking! So... probably this color inkpad is 25? years old.... I used mini slim stitched nesting dies from Trinity Stamps. 

Sorry for a couple of days delay to post this. Hope you had a wonderful day to celebrate your moms in person, on facetime or even in your heart. Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Love, Eve

Happy Birthday!

Aloha~

This is the card I made for my godmother, for her 80th birthday!! I do hope she will have many more birthdays! 

So, for 80th birthday, color "Gold" signifies, so I placed some "gold" colored elements on the card. 

I'm not sure about you guys but my case, I sometimes get stuck at least once while I make a card. I had totally different design but when I was looking for a perfect element for other elements I already made, I found a 3D embossed background paper in my stash. When I receive a new product, I often try it out and keep them in a stash, and that was this one. Then, I could imagine the whole card, using the background (although, I decided to change the color and embossed it to make a new background) and this is the end result. The fan & bow are also from Spellbinder. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn. I wanted to "curve" the sentiment along the fan instead of just placing it to the top, straight. Like most of us wants to use "birthday" elements on the card but since I've been making her birthday cards more than 30 years, I decided to use something which is not a cake, birthday candles, etc. I did find the sentiment, googling, and did write that in gold inside.   

Hope you'll have a great Mother's Day tomorrow. I'll make a Mother's day card tomorrow, thinking about my late mom. Mahalo for stopping by my blog today. Love, Eve