Tilda~Blue~My Fav.things...birthday card

I received another box from Guam, more of my stamp collection :-) This porthole stamp is one of those stamps which JUST arrived here :-) I'd been wanting to make a Birthday card for Audrey B. from Magnolia group I belong to, cuz she made me a BEAUTIFUL Japanese Tilda card for my birthday, and her birthday is coming. I also wanted to make a card for Magnolia Stamp Lovers' "Blues" challenge. I had another image, already colored in blue but after receiving this porthole stamp a couple of days ago, I changed my mind, and used my new addition, MINI Tilda Mermaid stamp. Good thing I did, cuz I just learned that at Just Magnolia blog, the latest challenge is "my fav.things", and One of my Fav. things is anything to do with the Beach/Ocean!! Esp. now, it's sooo tooo coooold here, and I miss my islands lives very much...when I'm making beach/summer cards, I'm very happy! :-) About my card...on the front, I attached stamped image of porthole with 3D pop up glue dots, after I used nesties to cut out the circle from the center of this stamped image, and other layers. I also cut the transparent sheet to make a "window", but when I took a pic. of inside of the card, because of this "window", you can see the reflection of my camera...lol... Inside of the card, I stamped Mermaid tilda, colored with watercolor pencils and glitter. For water bubbles, I used plastic stickers & glossy accent. I put some space between tilda and sea shells, to write the message to Audrey.

Tilda with buttons!

This week's Challenge at Just Magnolia is "Anything goes, with buttons", and I made this card for that challenge, using this week's Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge. I turned this image in 90 degrees, and here it is! When I heard the words, "button", I wanted to use this Stitching Tilda image! Then, a couple of days ago, i found this "sewing" theme background papers (2 different kinds) at nearby scrapbooking store. I distressed the lace ribbon, using the same distress inks i used for main image & the layering CS. The place I put the heart gem is where the stamp shows, "cross stitched heart". I used pop up glue dots for the main image, to give a bit more dimention. It's rather simple but I really luv how it turned out. I luv this sketch, and I luv the colors of this card, although it's rather subtle, and doesn't show the actual color well in the pic.... I tried to take a better pic., but it shows a bit more orangish than beige...

HM "New Beginnings" - Easel Card

That's the challenge this week at Simon Says Stamp & House Mouse Friends Monday. I don't have House Mouse "Happy New Year" kind of stamp nor Babies. I don't have Wedding related stamp nor School related stamp, so my "new beginnings" is "New Relationship"! :-), and I chose this stamp. I luv this nesties & colors I chose. I put a bit of glitter on the edges of tulips' petals in clear & red. I got these little hearts from the border punch, and I always keep those hearts for confetti and something else :-) Sentiment is from House Mouse image swap I participated a couple of months ago. I put glitters in the heart image. The swirls I attached is from Fiskar's this year's new punch. I'd been looking for swirl punch for a long time, and I really like this one when I found it at Joann, just 2 days ago, and in fact, that was the last one on the shelf :-) And of course, I could use 40% off coupon, so I was really happy! :-) I put a tiny red gem on each swirl, to finish this card :-)

Clean & Simple 122

I luv this sketch!! esp. when I have Pretty Papers! I recently bought Martha S.'s paper stack and wanted to use them! I embellished a bit MORE than "Clean & Simple" but I can think of making more cards with MORE embellishments, using this sketch! I didn't have a Pink Glitter paper so I made one!, filling all the cuttlebug heart die cut outs with quick glue pen, and pour the pink glitter. I really luv this effect! I couldn't help embellishing with tiny pearls around the words "love". I used the same glitter, tracing the shapes of hearts to give more accent. After I stamped the sentiment, I traced the whole sentiment with pink gel pen. I attached two tiny pink heart brads to finish the card! :-) oh, I made this card in 4" x 6". Easy to cut squares in 2"x2":-)

Lawnscaping Challege #1!

I made this card for new Lawnscaping Challenge. Everybody knows that I never liked Winter but when I saw this stamp in a set called Winter Critter (by Lawn Fawn), I had to have it! LOL! They are sooo cute! After the whole month of December (except 30th & 31st), the ground being covered by WHITE stuff & teens to 20Fs temperature, I really didn't want to make any WHITE card, but the challenge calls for "All About Snow"!! so, after a while of consideration, I made this card. I luv this Bear stamp! This is a Tent Card. This year, i plan to make more 3D shape cards than regular 2 folded card. I drew many dots with quick glue pen around the sentiment, and added glitter. Well, this is my First Post in 2011. Sorry that I'd been rather quiet. I'd been trying to catch up with many things I neglected to do in last 2 weeks after Christmas. Wishing you all the happiness in 2011!! :-)

Simon Says ...Silver, Blue, White!

... and this is my 3rd card submission! Apparently i made more christmas cards in these colors for most obvious colors in this month! I get inspired by the NATURE the most, and Early Snow & cold December in this area this year made me to make cards with "snow" a lot... I luv to make Christmas cards in Red and Green, and i remember i made those colored cards back in July for a couple of "Christmas in July" blog challenges... I don't know when was the last time the temp. went up to 32F... so snow which has fallen early this month still stays on the ground! And looking at the ground every day for last couple of weeks, i got inspired more for making cards with these colors. I'm mailing this christmas card to my online friend in Michigan, Elizabeth who sent me my winning of her blog candy a couple of months ago. I hardly win anything if somebody choose the random number, and i didn't know i won her blog candy for 3 days after she announced it on her blog, and she tried very hard to reach me! lol! I was soooo happy when i found that out! Anyways i made this for her, and realized again, that i could submit to Simon says challenge this week too! :-) I used Frosted lace stickles on the ground (under the chick's feet). The stamp is from Penny Black and Elizabeth is in PB DT, so i decided to use this image which i recently received from another online friend of mine. (thanks Josie!) I've written "jingle bells" in silver gel pens, as if these chicks are singing the song! :-) I used cuttlebug's snowflakes folder, used Stickles here & there, to give some more sparkles on the already white shimmery CS.

...Another House Mouse christmas card to my local friend!

I made this card to my local friend, Linda M. She likes "Cute" too, so i thought this would be really good, to mail it to her. I first layered the brown mouse & candle with the candle holder with the grey mouse. Then I colored grey mouse again, on the candle holder. I should've taken the pic. from the side... it's already mailed out so i can't... I used distress ink around the edge of the main image & the twine. I used another color of distress ink to color the off white lace border. I used the glossy accent on the candle's wax dropping and the mouse's eye ball!, and yellow glitter stickles on the candle. I used white liquid pearl to make decoration on the candle holder, just for fun! lol!