Anniversary Card

I made this anniversary card for my House Mouse friend. She is living "happily ever after" and I wanted to send her the card with lots of hearts & in red. I also wanted to make 3-D card since she luvs to layer a lot on her cards. This is my first time, making a Wiper card, something different :-) It's kind of hard to see in the picture, but lots of gems are placed, esp. on the main heart cut out. Since I put lots of gems, and the theme at House Mouse & friends Monday challenge this week is "Adorn with jewels", I decided to submit this card. Although this card is 3-d itself, I also layered a big heart with dimentional glue foams, and trimmed HM image and layered it with dimentional glue foams on this big heart also. I'm also submitting this card to CRAFT and Me Challenge #39, "Bling it On". Thank you for visiting my blog today! :-)

Father's Day Card

I was kind of lost about the idea of this year's father's day card, mainly because I didn't find any stamp for it...then I remembered that I'd seen this origami folding shirt & tie, so I made them :-) This reminds me of my childhood... I used to luv folding papers, making lots of different things... My father passed away several years ago, but I always send father's day card to my mothers' where my father lived. I remembered that he liked light blue short sleeve shirt in summer so I used this paper for the shirt. Tie is ... the paper of ocean/water photo! But it worked! lol :-) Sentiment is computer generated. I used Argyle embossing folder for background paper. 2 "photo corners" were STAMPED, trimmed and attached. Thank you for visiting my blog :-)

Graduation Card

This is a card for the sketch at Mojo Monday challenge, and I have less than 10mins. to post! lol. Here is the sketch & my card. I used "star" embossing folder for background, for both black & silver CS. The stamp is $1.00 at Joann! :-) I heat embossed the image.

4 Bookmarks for Travel the world Bookmark Exchange

Recently I joined this yahoo group, because I read this swap on their blog; Travel the world! Sounded Very Interesting so I joined this yahoo group, to be able to join in the fun of the swap! These haven't been my style, as most of my friends know ~ I luv Cute, Clean, a bit of Fancy... it took me a while to get used to tim holtz Distress ink cuz they weren't bright colors! lol! But I always admired the stampers who luvs to do the Vintage style, Collage, etc, and that was why I've been "following" this blog. It's also nice to get inspired from different perspective. Anyways, I enjoyed making these! They are different! One thing I noticed is that to make a piece like this, it's better to have all kinds of knickknack! lol! You'll never know what comes in handy, to finish the card. When I was deciding what places/cities/countries I want to make the bookmarks of, I could think of US (and Hawaii and guam), Japan, Australia & Germany where I lived long enough to get to know the places, but I don't have enough images for Australia & Germany. When I remember Sydney, Opera House & all different kinds of animals and birds came to my head and I even searched online for digis (so that I can just download right away) but no luck. When I think of Germany, all drinks & food & beautiful buildings/bridges but not enough images to make a card/bookmark. Then I remembered ONE 12x12 paper of the pic. of the collection of Stamps from all over the world, which I bought, like 2 years ago but never had a chance for my card yet. In fact, I was looking for a German postage stamp in there, but instead, I found the Jamaican Stamp!! I lived in Montego Bay for 3 months, so I got to know the place, just a little bit, and remembered Blue Mountain Coffee!! "Coffee/tea" theme has been my fav. for many years so I have those stamps. And other than coffee, I remembered the word; "ya man", and Beautiful beaches, which I have plenty of stamps of, from me living on tropical islands for 12 years. I made Jamaican flag, using the distress inks. I used the distress stickles for sand on both Jamaican & Hawaiian bookmarks. I made my Hawaiian card first. That was easy, from the recent memory. I still remember, being able to watch many turtles on the beach, like a couple of feet away, although this turtle stamp is from Guam. I used glitters on the flowers, incld. on hula dancer's heads. Small plumeria flower & "aloha" are stickers. All stamps for Japanese bookmark is from Posh Impressions' Japanese Collection. I used sakura clear star gel pen for wings of the butterfly, to give a subtle shimmer. It's hard to see it on pic. though... The small nestie label says "Japan" in Japanese, and RED in the middle, to imitate Japanese Flag. Those bubbles are stickers. I used stamps from different companies for US one. I also have many selection of Patriotic stamps. I used "liberty" stamp, trimmed them with stamp edge scissors, and attached them. "D.C" are stickers. So, here you have it! My long post on these 4 bookmarks! Those stickers I used are leftovers from my scrapbooking, which I hardly do, so i don't have that many, and when i found places to put, I was happy :-) Thank you all for visiting my blog & reading this long post! :-) You'll all have a great day! :-) ps. I'm submitting these to Simon Says Stamp and show challenge blog for this week's theme "Tags".

UPDATES; These are the returns I received; from the left Paula Akero, Gerri Herbst, Trisha Too, & Cathy Peper. They are fabulous!! I'm glad I joined in this swap! :-)

my 1st Christmas card this year! :-)

I really wasn't thinking of christmas, but it turned out to be a good thing that i will make ONE LESS christmas card toward the end of the year, when I usually get more busy, like everybody else! lol. Anyways, I made this card to the house mouse group I belong, to upload my card, with the sketch I used. The sketch is from Mojo Monday but last week's one. I really luv this circle sketch but I wish I had GRAND nesties for a BIGGER card, and more selection of the stamp. Yes, that was the problem. This House mouse CHRISTMAS stamp was the only one, which fitted in the size of this circle!! Also I really wanted to show the Pretty papers behind the main image, too. I think it turned out Very Cute, as I wanted :-) I might use this sketch with some other stamp (non HM) in the future. I used MS flocking powder on his cute santa's hat. Thanks for visiting my blog today, and have a great day! :-)

I won "top 3" at Magnolia Stamp Lovers Challenge Blog

...for Dry Embossing background challenge! This is the card I won. It's a Center Step card, and I'm having hard time, getting that CUTE blinkie for my sidebar...:-( but meanwhile, this is the link to the winning post on the challenge. WooHoo!! :-) oh, and I even won $10.00 gift certificate among those 3, so I can get another Tilda with that! Another WooHoo!! :-)

Birthday Card ~ Tilda

When I was thinking of making a birthday card for my "house mouse/magnolia" stamping friend, I remembered my Birthday embossing folder. Then I remembered that this week's challenge at Magnolia Stamp Lovers is "Dry embossing for background", and this is the card I made. I'd been wanting to make this Center Step Card after I saw this on tutorial. It's not as difficult as it looks, and I really like the card. I might make another Center Step Card soon. :-) Anyways, for the challenge, I also embossed the swiss dots on the background of gift boxes. Those gift boxes are attached with dimentional glue foams, as well as Tilda with a balloon image. Each gift box has ribbon tied, as well as the buttons with glitters. Recently I received a big RAK from my "house mouse" stamping friend, and Everything was in Lemons & yellow, and it really cheered me up, and now I want to send a Very Cheerful card to my friends' birthday :-) I even decorated a bit inside, which I hardly do! lol Well, my friends, thank you for visiting my blog today! Have a great weekend! :-)