Mother's day cards

First one is for my mother, and 2nd one is for my godmother. I also put the same white shiney card stock inside, to stamp "happy mother's day" in red, and heat embosssed. Hope everybody had a nice mother's day yesterday! :-)

The Play Date Cafe Challenge - PDCC #27

... this is Guam...

When i saw these colors of this week's challenge, it reminded me of Guam right away... Guam is a tropical paradise & US territory in the Pacific. The island is just gorgeous!! These 3 color combination reminds me of White Sand, blue sky, and blue/emerald green (or this case, light minty green) ocean. Also i remembered i bought this ribbon, the color of blue & green, wanting to use for Ocean/beach themed cards, so here they are! And i didn't use any other colors than those 3 colors !! :-) A bit of explanation on the cards here. I used Vellum on the front, and on underneath CS, i did embossing. And that's why it's a bit fuzzy looking, but toned the white embossing down, to make the color, more "off white".

I luv "color theme challenges" but unfortunately my old digital camera doesn't show the actual colors very well...:-( someday, hopefully i'll be able to buy a better camera... also, i realized these CHALLENGE becomes a big CHALLENGE since i don't have all my stamping supplies here... but i'll do my best :-)

"Things with Wings" Challenge

After I saw “Things with Wings” in Simon Says Challenge, I thought….hmmm…I have some butterfly punches, I should make a card!… and this is what I came up with. Recently I’m really into Color Combination. The stamp is from Inkadinkado, small butterfly punch is from Fiskars, and the little flower punch is from Marvy Uchida. Since I colored the THANK YOU flower stamp in Blending Blox (has some gradation in the color), I used the same inkpad to ink the white Card stock first, and punched butterflies out. It’s rather hard to tell in the pic. but those butterflies are not in ONE color, so it would match the stamped Thank You Flower image. I put the large pearl on the letter “O”, in “YOU” on the stamped image. Oh, I also cut around some petals (center still attached), using X-Acto knife, to give a bit of dimension. I lifted up those petals (like one in every three petals or so.) It worked better, having similar orange colored layering card stock underneath so the similar color peeks under the petals! I also bent all the wings of butterflies to give a bit of dimension, to match the stamped THANK YOU Flower image. I used stickles to give shiny look in the center of punched flowers in the end.

Luv these butterflies!

i luv the way these butterflies came out. I used Dee's Blending blox & brayer, to make the paper, and stamped hero arts' butterflies in black, embossed with Black embossing powder, mixing with glitters. These Green butterflies would look great, esp. in "rainforest" designs.

Cherry Blossoms Cards

Washington D.C.'s Cherry Blossoms festival inspired me to use Posh Impressions's Cherry Blossoms' stamp. Cherry Blossoms are soooo beautiful in D.C. & Japan in early April.

Happy Spring HM card

I also made a "Happy Spring" card to my HM club friend. White dots on both sides are Liquid Pearls.

Easter Cards & Sweets

Hope everybody is recuperatinng from BUSY Easter weekend! & maybe FOUND a GOLDEN EGG! :-) Well, my GOLDEN eggs were found on my Mini Cheesecake i baked! :-) Since i FINALLY watched the WHOLE movie of Charlie & Chocolate Factory about 10 days ago, i was happy when i found ONE bag left on the shelf at the grocery store, with full of WONKA's GOLDEN EGG CHOCOLATES, right before Easter sunday! So this is my Mini Cheesecake i baked. For the easter cards, the first 2 went to my non stamping friends, and the rest 3 went to my HM club friends. Hope everybody had a great Easter! ...we DID have Gorgeous Weather!!