Happy Birthday #4

Apparently, there are many who are born in summer. 😀 Usually I don't send this "many" "handmade" cards in summer because I'm usually busy but the ideas have been popping up in my head and I keep making, with less time. 👍

I love this stencil, I mean, the background from Pretty Pink Posh, but had never had a chance to use it. I'm happy when I get to use something I bought a while ago! And of course, the strawberry short cake from Waffle Flowers! And, the darkest color of blue is called Capri from Concord & 9th. I'm in love with this color.😍 I bought the 2026 assorted color collection (card stock), and this is one from that package. 

As most of you know, Hawaii had a Hurricane LALA and Honolulu lost power for several hours to four days? ... severe weather everywhere... please stay safe! Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Love, Eve

Happy Halloween!

Aloha~

This is the card for my BFF.

I used the Paper Rose paper for the background. I customized a little~Those cute 3 kitties in ghost in disguise are 2 of the recipient's kitties (American shorthair rescue) and their friend, a black stray cat! Those dies and the sentiment dies are from Poppy stamps. Little jack o'lantern and bats are from SSS. I added Mama Elephant witch with MY orange kitty on the bloom, colored in Copics. 

This is inside. Everything is from SSS. 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Hope you are enjoying a long weekend! Love, Eve

Happy Spring, Happy Easter! #2

Aloha~

Cherry blossoms are blooming everywhere, and Easter is coming up! This is another Spring/Easter card I made. This Cherry Blossoms are made from Sunny Studio's stamps and dies. I used little critter stamps, sentiment and background papers from Lawn Fawn. Little pearls are from Honey Bee Stamps. Golden eggs are Simon Says stamps. The recipient used to live on ' "Fox"field lane' and I often use "fox" on the cards I make for her. 🦊

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Hope all flowers and trees are blooming in your area, too! Love, Eve

Happy Birthday!

Happy First Day of Spring! 💮

I'm sending this card to a birthday lady in my coffee card swap group. 

I recently purchased the newly released stencil & die set from Waffle flower. This cupcake looked so yummy and wanted to use it right away. 😊I made a dozen die cuts with the cupcake images in different color combinations, and from there, I started to make a card. I often use color yellow for the cards I make for April. Her birthday is in the beginning of April. Here is the card I made.

I wanted to include a special sticker sheet and didn't wanna fold it, so I made a Slimline card. It fitted perfectly with my card. 

Inside, I stamped a sentiment stamp from MFT, and added extras, using the stamps from Honey Bee stamps, the Greetery and Stampendous!

How's the first day of Spring look like in your area? 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Weekend is almost here! Love, Eve 

Coffee card for March swap

Aloha~

I received these layering dies (scallop and stitched) from Poppy stamps as a freebie during Black Friday sale last year, and had been wanting to use them. The glitter paper is from Lawn Fawn. I used Newton's Nook Designs mug cup stencil, using white ink. Those little mug cups are from Simon Says Stamps. Since St. Patrick's day is near, I added those clovers, from Pretty Pink Posh. I usually place some kind of sentiment on the front but for this one, I decided not to. 

Inside, I used the sentiment from Lil' inker designs.  

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Hope you are having a relaxed weekend. It's always something going on here in Honolulu and feels like no relaxing day, ever. lol 😅

Are you ready for wearing green tomorrow?! 💚 Love, Eve

Christmas Card #6

Aloha~

This isn't a "normal type" of Christmas card but since it is for my godmother who had a port visit (Honolulu) recently, I decided to make a card like this. She & her husband had a wonderful time, and although it was so short (only for lunch with me), we had a great time! They flew from east coast, had a couple of days in LA, and 5 days on the ship to Hawaii. 

Inside, I stamped "Mele Kalikimaka" (Merry Christmas in Hawaiian language.)

I can't believe 2024 is almost over... Some places have been snowed in but here in Honolulu, I've been feeling the hottest December... last Saturday, I sweat a lot, running errands, and had to take a shower twice! 

Mahalo for stopping by my blog in your busy schedule today! Mele Kalikimaka! Love, Eve

Happy Halloween! #3/Coffee card swap

Aloha~

This is my last Halloween card this year. I really wanted to make a shaker card, because I've been purchasing and "hoarding" Halloween shaker bits and wanted to use some of them.

I decided to make two themed combined card; Halloween and Coffee. I had to choose the sentiment first (Trinity Stamps) and then, made a design afterwards. 

I used Waffle Flowers' block die, but used two out of four windows to place shaker bits. The stamp I used in the block die cut out are Lawn Fawn, Pretty Pink Posh, and dies are from Simon Says Stamps and Poppy stamps. Shaker bits are from Pretty Pink Posh and Trinity Stamps. I just love the colors of tiny ghost bits from Trinity Stamps! So cute! I used Poppy Stamps ' cauldron die by the block die, and spider web die from Lawn Fawn. I die cut this cauldron from the shiny black package of my skin care product, although it shows as if it's rather "blended" on the top but I didn't. For some reason, the photo doesn't show the total shiny black color. I kinda liked this photo instead of the actual color of the cauldron, though. lol 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Love, Eve

Happy Halloween #2

Aloha~

Can you believe that Halloween is coming up soon?? You would think that it's a month away, but before you know it, it'll be here! lol 👻

This is the card for my BFF, who grew up with dogs but after the marriage, almost 30 years ago, they decided to rescue kitties, due to their work schedule. Ever since they always have kitties. Anyways, I used the cross stitch chart and the dies from Lawn Fawn. Black cat's faces are Washi tape which I never used as a part of the design before. I like how it turned out.😸 I used Lawn Fawn dies of spider webs, new Simon Says Stamps bat dies, and the background was done, using Concord & 9th stencil. And, I love the sentiment on the front! lol 

I also decorated the inside of this card, with all stamps from the same stamp set with the sentiment on the front ~ Fun Stampers Journey stamp set which I bought from Spellbinders website a couple of years ago. I just stamped inside and heat embossed with fine white embossing powder. 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Love, Eve

Happy Easter! 2 cards

I made 2 Easter cards. It took me a while to come up with the ideas but finally finished and mailed them yesterday. 

I used Simon Says stamp Egg shaped die to cut one of Lawn Fawn's paper with the sun beam. I stamped the sentiment from Poppy stamps and heat embossed in gold. I attached the lily brad from my very OLD stash so I don't know who made it. lol...I attached "the egg" to Tim Holtz woodgrain white card stock. I attached the watering can die cut from Memory Box. I die cut bunnies using Lawn Fawn's dies and little eggs using Memory box. To finished it off, I attached butterflies using Lawn Fawn's dies & shimmer paper. 

Inside, I stamped sentiments from Poppy Stamps stamp set. Since I couldn't finish the card earlier, I made it for "spring" greeting, too. 😅These aren't getting to the destinations before Easter... Oh, so, I used Memory box little egg die to cut out "the Golden Easter Egg"! The picture doesn't show it well but it's an "gold" egg. 😊 The last picture shows "gold" a little better.

I also made another card, which is similar to the first card. I used different card stock, and little bunnies are die cut using IO dies. Inside is the same, with "the Golden Easter Egg"! 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Happy Easter! Love, Eve   

Coffee card ~ January 2022

Aloha~

I'm glad that some NICE and "Caffeinated" people on FB have decided to "continue" this coffee swap card group under different group name, after the original admin. has decided to close the one which ran.. for 4? years?... It's not an easy task to run the group like this. I've done it before so I know, and I was just a moderator. So I'm thankful for the original admin and the people who took it over. In 2000s', when PC became more popular and back then, YAHOO groups became very popular, before FB nor My space (if you remember!) nor the Pinterest! There were so many "card swaps" going on, by "snail mails"! But things have changed. Not many people do card swaps any more...😢 I also learned that USPS will increase their postage rate TWICE a year from this summer!! 😞

Anyways, here is my card. 

I used yellow and orange ink for the background stencil. The coffee cup and the building die cut are attached with foam tape to give a bit of dimension. I placed the velum behind all those little cut out windows. I found those stars from the containers of embellishment. I planned to make a card for a "New" Year/January, but instead, I made the card for a "NEW" day 😊 

Hope y'all had a great starting month of 2022!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today! Love, Eve   

Happy Easter!

Well.. a week delayed post. I'm sure that most of you "went" to Easter Sunday Service online...

This is the only Easter card I made this year... I just wanted to say "Blessings" to my godmother in this unsettling time.. Made it very simple. Shimmery card stocks, background paper & glitter paper are all from Lawn Fawn. Love using these colors this year for the Easter card. I die cut the sentiment from one of my packaging of Lancome cosmetics I keep! They come in gold, antique gold, silver, black, coated black, and so on. I keep them for mainly die cutting since the paper I could use are not that large, cutting off the original wordings of Lancome. 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Stay safe! 
Eve

Christmas #2

Hi! When I read the theme of "Furry Friend" at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge, I had to use this kitty from SSS, from their Halloween set! I love cats, and altho I love Tabby (orange cat) the most, my first kitty was Siamese. I used foam tape to elevate the front panel, to give the center design a bit of room because of the little bell this kitty is wearing, since I'm mailing this 😊
I love the stencil from TH, and used the texture paste over it. I DID add glitter afterwards but the picture just can't capture that well... 

Cat ~ Simon Says Stamp
All other stamped images ~ Lawn Fawn
Background panel ~ Tim Holtz

Finally I'm starting to feel Christmas.. 
Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Have a nice Thanksgiving~EVE! 

Eve