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 Halloween #1

Aloha~

This card will go to my godmother. Since she will travel late October, I need to mail this soon. 

This is my 2nd "cross stitch" design on the card. As you can see, I'm addicted. LOL I used my new Halloween vertical sentiment stamps from Pretty Pink Posh, for something different. All little cut outs are from Lawn Fawn's stamp set. The background is from Lawn Fawn's die. The bottom hill and grass die cuts are from HoneyBee Stamps. Since it's at night, I cut "grass" in dark brown. 

Inside, I used new Washi tapes; one from Lawn Fawn and another one from Japanese "Dollar store", nearby (in Honolulu). The sentiment stamp is from Lawn Fawn.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. If you were in the path of Helene, I hope you'll have a speedy recovery. Some of you remember that I went through Super Typhoon in the early 2000s, the eye literally passed right above me! Please take care. Thinking of y'all. Love, Eve

Coffee Card for Sept.2024

Aloha, I'm back on the list of Coffee card swap. 

Here is my card. Now, I'm addicted to this cross stitch thingy. Once upon a time, I cross stitched A LOT, sometimes 8 hours a day, as if it was my job! LOL Back then, of course, I did very detailed, and large cross stitch patterns, like 28, 32 and even on 36 on linen. I hadn't cross stitched for, liked 2 decades? and Lawn Fawn released these stitch dies. These are much easier to complete, like this one, in 50 mins. while I watched the rerun of NCIS. I have many flosses left from like 20 years ago, so I used the ones I had. You'll see more of these cross stitched pieces on my cards for this fall and winter. I've already finished a couple of them for Halloween and Christmas! LOL Again, I used several different company's products; Lawn Fawn, Sunny Studio, Honey Bee Stamps, and The Greetery. 

This is the inside of the card.

This weekend arrived early, thanks to the long weekend in US! 

Please stay safe from the heat in the areas with Heat warning, like Arizona and California. 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Love, Eve 

Happy Birthday!

This is the last birthday card this month.

I wanted to use my new Hero Art's fancy die. My design started from there. I used "sandy" paper from my stash, stamped the Waffle Flower's sentiment. I love this font as if it was written on the sandy beach! I used the MFT stamp's stitch frame for the whole front. I noticed that I've been using this frame die often.😊 I stamped the ocean stamp from Papertrey Inc. The puppy on the float, both stamps are from Sunny Studio. I'm a cat person and I think this is the only dog stamp I own, but the recipient loves dogs, so I chose this stamp. The sun, the clouds and seagulls stamps are from Lawn Fawn. 

Hope you are having a great week! If you are in heatwave area, please stay safe and stay hydrated! Here in Hawaii, a couple of storms coming this way, from Sunday... two already got their names; Hone & Gilma. Thanks for stopping by my blog today! Love, Eve

Happy Birthday!

The birthday of my former boss is coming up next week. When I started to think about what kind of cards to make, Simon Says stamp came up with this stamp set~ Football Season! She loves college football as much as I do. The last time I talked to her was in April when the NFL draft started. Without hesitation, I ordered it right away! This stamp set is amazing, esp. if you love to watch football, and have many friends who love to watch football, college and NFL. So, what do you think of my card, the front and inside? 

I used LF's paper, making "grass" (inking) on the bottom. I used these SSS stamps and colored with Copics. I adhered the front panel onto the Doodlebug design's football paper. 

Inside was a little more complicated. I colored the helmet with her alma mater's color first. I used Tim Holtz alphabet dies for her school logo. The real design of the helmet is "warrior's head" (Trojan) but it was hard for me to make one. lol Instead, I used another logo USC uses, like on uniforms etc. on this helmet. "Fight On!" is their saying so I hand wrote in Uniball's gold pen. I used SSS "printed" sentiment, attached to the card stock which I colored in their school color, with Copics. I placed the whole panel onto the back of the football paper again.  

I'm mailing this with this Oven mitt. I bet she will have a big smile when she opens the mail! We DO LOVE to watch football games, esp. NCAA. 

Hope you are having a good weekend. Here in Honolulu, POKEMON world championship is being held. Yesterday, I saw so many tourists at the mall which is a couple of blocks away from the convention center where it's being held. Some of them are dressed up with their hats, t-shirts and carrying Pokemon's tote bag, so it's easy to spot them. lol Love, Eve

Hello~

I'd been wanting to use the "fruit" papers (esp. lemon) from LF and the mason jar dies from MFT stamps since last summer. Finally I got time to use them!

"hello" sentiment is from Hero Arts. I stacked up 3 times since I attached the bulky shaker parts next to it. This mason jar isn't the shaker dies but I managed to make it fine, I think...? 😊 Shaker bits are from Q&C and Hero Arts. Very summer-like, right? 😊

It's going to my godmother. 😊I wanted to use "Thinking of you" on the front but I didn't have the die which fits in the place instead of "hello", so I stamped that inside 😊

Have a nice evening! Thank you for stopping by my blog today! Stay hydrated! Love, Eve