Happy Birthday!

Aloha~

This is the card I made for my godmother, for her 80th birthday!! I do hope she will have many more birthdays! 

So, for 80th birthday, color "Gold" signifies, so I placed some "gold" colored elements on the card. 

I'm not sure about you guys but my case, I sometimes get stuck at least once while I make a card. I had totally different design but when I was looking for a perfect element for other elements I already made, I found a 3D embossed background paper in my stash. When I receive a new product, I often try it out and keep them in a stash, and that was this one. Then, I could imagine the whole card, using the background (although, I decided to change the color and embossed it to make a new background) and this is the end result. The fan & bow are also from Spellbinder. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn. I wanted to "curve" the sentiment along the fan instead of just placing it to the top, straight. Like most of us wants to use "birthday" elements on the card but since I've been making her birthday cards more than 30 years, I decided to use something which is not a cake, birthday candles, etc. I did find the sentiment, googling, and did write that in gold inside.   

Hope you'll have a great Mother's Day tomorrow. I'll make a Mother's day card tomorrow, thinking about my late mom. Mahalo for stopping by my blog today. Love, Eve 

Happy Mother's Day!

Aloha~

I'm happy that I finished the card for the occasion on timely manner! 😉I already mailed it! yay!

This is for my godmother. 

I used SB's April issued dies. That is also "timely"! I usually don't get to use the ones I purchase, til, like a year later...😅My godmother loves flowers a lot! I used the dies as it was originally designed, although I first thought to "wrap" the flowers like a bouquet instead of potted flowers...oh well...I used SB's older frame die on the textured card stock and added the sentiment from new WF's stamp set. I embellished some to finish this card. The hardest thing to make this card for me was that there were too many choices for colors to choose!

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Hope your week has started out great! Love, Eve

Happy 30th Anniversary!

Aloha~

I made this card for my BFF from college. She & her husband is celebrating their 30th anniversary! 

I used Spellbinder's "Better Together" die set and customized it for 30th anniversary, which is also called "Pearl Anniversary", so I placed some little pearls on female owl's head instead of the wreath with tiny flowers on their design sheet. Those are tiny stickers. So are the heart ones. I also used other regular heart shaped stickers to attach on the front of the card. I had the stickers of large numbers in glittery brown and used the 3 and 0 to make it 30. The background papers (light brown and dark brown) are from lawn fawn card stock, which is already embossed with growth rings, so I used those. The sentiment is from SimonSaysStamp's printed sheet. 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Hope your week has started out great! Love, Eve

Coffee swap card for April

Aloha~

The recipient of the card in the group is someone I've chatted recently cuz of her birthday a week ago. From our conversation, I made this card. 

I had the sheet of "washi" stickers of cherry blossoms from last spring but never had used. For this card, I used 2/3 of it, and it made me happy! You, all card makers would understand the feeling! lol The stickers had gold lines, like 'foiling', so I heat embossed the sentiment and tea cups in similar gold color powder. I also found the glittered alphabets stickers in light green in my stash and used them for spelling the word "SPRING". "I poured tea and green tea" in the cups. 😊I used the woodgrain card stock and background sky-like paper from Lawn Fawn. 

Hawaii is having a bad weather. You've probably heard about Kona Low, two weekends last month, and we had a "break" on Easter weekend but again, we had bad weather. But yesterday, we had a day break with a bit of sunshine! 

Hope you are having much better spring weather in your neck of the woods! Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Love, Eve 

Happy St. Patrick's Day #3

Yes, I DO love St. Patty's day and Four-leaf clovers. I have a fond memory with my mom, looking for a four-leaf clover from the clover patch in her garden when I was a child. 💕 I made this card for my BFF. 

I used the same "girl" (Whimsy Stamps die set). For the sentiment, I used Waffle Flower stamp. The four-leaf dies are from Lawn Fawn. Making these cards makes me "happy" & "feel calm' in this chaotic world...

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. 🍀Love, Eve

Happy St. Patrick's Day #2

Aloha~

This is for my godmother. I used Whimsy Stamps girl die set once again for the focal point. All other papers are from Echo Park. The sentiment which was heat embossed in white is from Lawn Fawn. 

I added some accents using gold gel pen. 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Hope you'll find some good things to start the new week! Love, Eve

Happy St. Patrick's Day ~ Coffee card swap

Aloha~

So, what do you think about this "Irish Coffee" for March card swap?! 

I got this Girl die set from Whimsy Stamps and wanted to use it. First I made this card.

I dressed her up using the papers from Echo park. I let her hold "Irish coffee" in her hand for "good luck", I guess. lol That dies are from Newton's Nook Designs. I used "stickers" for "Irish coffee" word. The background is the stencil from Simon Says Stamps. 

Hope the recipient will have a "lucky" day when she opens the envelope! 🍀

Thank you for stopping by my blog today! Hope you are having a great weekend! Love, Eve

UPDATES: I just realized that SSS Wednesday challenge is to use Whimsy stamps product. So, I decided to enter this card for the challenge. Background stencil is from SSS, so perfect! 😉