"Happy 4th of July!" ...from Tilda

Tilda has already started, celebrating this weekend for Independence day! :-) This week's challenge at Magnolia Stamp Lovers is "buttons", and I wanted to use these STAR buttons. Also I wanted to use old CTMH's Fireworks on the background, using perfect pearls; interference RED & BLUE. To be able to see them better, I used the flash to take the picture. I stamped "USA" in the flag, and glazed it with a glaze pen. I "faux stitched" around the word USA, using dark blue glitter pen. I also used glaze pen to make her RED shoes shiney & ribbon. This week's challenge at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge is Stars & Stripes. Perfect use for THAT ribbon on the card! :-) I also made two flags, using distressed DP, and distressed the edges, using distresser. I also embossed those papers, cut the each star, attached on the top left corner & on one of the flags. Background RED CS is also embossed with the same embossing folder. Tilda's image is attached with pop up glue dots, to give a bit of depth to the card. I'm submitting this card to Magnolia Mania where this week's challenge is Distress :-) I'm also submitting this to ...Wee memories where the theme is "party!". I've already submitted one card to them, a Birthday "party" card, but now, getting close to July 4th weekend, planning some 4th of July parties (and birthday parties) to go to, my mind is to CELEBRATE & Party for this weekend! :-) At Fresh Brewed Coffee, the theme is ALSO PARTY! (any kind) :-) Well, my friends, thank you very much for visiting my blog today, and have a happy 4th of July LONG weekend in US, and have a great weekend if you live outside US :-)

Enjoy the Ride!

This weeks' challenge at Simon Says Challenge is this Sketch. This is the card I made, and I'm very happy that I finally could use this stamp from Lawn Fawn!! :-), with new echo park's summer days papers, too! I used hero art's Clouds stamp to make one of the backgrond papers, stamping it with chalk ink. I used my new addition; label steel die from memory box for the sentiment. I luv this steel die! I punched clouds out from glitter papers which I embossed with swiss dots. I stamped the old CTMH sun, used sakura glaze pen to give a subtle glazy look over it, trimmed, and attached it. I adhered the shiney circle sticker on the button, and attached it on the center of the Ferriswheel. Isn't this a cheerful card?? :-) Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Have a great day!

Aloha~ :-)

As soon as "she" was released, I had to order her :-) This is the sketch at TESC141 this week. "She" & the sentiment are from Taylored Expressions. The card is pretty much self explanatory. I used leaf punch to give more Tropical island feeling, where the dotted red strip is, in the middle of the sketch. The background paper (on the top) is from "me & my Big ideas" and Hero Arts' on the bottom. "Mahalo~" for stopping by my blog today!

Penny Black Critters!

I made this card, using my fav. image which I hadn't used for a year. Now it's time for all Critters on Penny Blakc Saturday Challenge! When I started to think of the card design, I saw this nice sketch at Card Pattern challenge, so I combined those 2 :-) Those 2 hedges are colored, trimmed and attached with dimentional glue foams to give a bit of depth, and the sentiment also. I used Glossy accent on ladybugs, cuz their red wings are always shiney :-) I used yellow glitter glue on the bee's wings. Others are pretty much self explanatory. Thanks for visiting my blog today. You'll all have a nice evening!

Tilda is having "Fun in the Sun!"

I luv summer. I luv beach, white sand, sunshine, blue sky, ocean breeze... I'm definitely a 80Fs girl, all year around! The temp. never gets lower than 74F (the lowest, one day in January in the past!) in Guam. Hawaii was a bit cooler. I remember I wore a pair of jeans to go out at night in January & february. One morning, after my graveyard shift, the temp. dropped to 58F, and I was shocked, and it was cold, taking a bus home, early in the morning... . I can make Summer cards all year long! lol! I only wear jeans to go to see the movies & doctor's office in Guam, all year around! Anyways, this is my card for "summer" challenge blogs; the Official Magnolia Inspiration challenge "Summer", All that scraps challenge "Magnolia challenge Summer Time", Stamptacular Sunday Challenge "Fun in the Summer", and Papertake weekly challenge "Here comes the sun"!! I wanted to color this image and make a card with it in the summer, and summer is finally, officially here, so I decided to use this image, with the float image. I used sakura clear glaze pen over the float to give the Shiney vinyl look. I used sakura clearstar gel pen for her wings. I used the scrap paper from my scrapbook on Guam, the ocean & the waves and used the nesties. I used dimentional glue foam for this main image to give a bit of dimention. I used the punch to make flip flops. The sentiment, sun & seagulls are from Inkadinkado. Others are all left over stickers from my scrapbook on Guam; seashells, plumeria flowers, and bubbles. I added 2 gems in the end. Oh "the sand" paper is also from the left over from the same scrapbook :-) I tored it using my hand, to make the natural line for the sandy beach. ... oh how I miss the beach & ocean breeze!! Hope this card made you feel like you were on the beach, too, feeling the ocean breeze... Thank you for stopping by my blog today!!

House Mouse Birthday Card

I made this card for the house mouse group. I used the sketch from stampendous blog a couple of weeks ago, and I thought it was cute but til today, I didn't have time to make a card. Also at ...Wee Memories, the challenge is "Party time!" So I made a Birthday card :-) I used Fiskar's "everywhere punch" to punch the squares out, to make it looks like the party mice, peeking out from the windows :-) The sentiment is from Penny Black. I used the gold & silver glitters on the little swirls & the ribbons on the top of the hats. I used gold & silver gel pens to draw the dots around the squares. I'm going to mail this to my friend in the group next month for her birthday :-)

Strawberry Yummy Tilda

When I saw this Tilda stamp, I had to have it :-) I luv anything, anybody, with Berry image stamps, and I mean, all kind of berries :-) I made this card for Just Magnolia week111 "paper piecing to dress" challenge. I luv Paper piecing! And I found this strawberry paper from my stash. :-) When I thought of the design, I saw this sketch at Magnolia mania #13 "ribbon and sketch" challenge. So I made this card to submit to these 2 challenge. I think everything is pretty much self-explanatory :-) I did put glitters on the lace of her sleeves, which is hard to see on the picture, as well as the shining on strawberries and tilda's boots, to make them look a bit real, using sakura clear glaze pen. Thank you for visiting my blog today! I appreciate your time & comments :-)