3rd Lawnscaping Blog Hop!! :-)

Welcome to the Lawnscaping Blog Hop ! So glad you’re here! You should have come to me by way of Erika M. This month's theme is all about Spring! The hop runs from Friday, April 6th - Sunday, April 8th! Now sit back and relax and be prepared to be inspired. We have lots of designers on this hop so we want to make sure you have time to see them all! You have the whole weekend to hop along.... Make sure to comment on all of the blogs because there are LOTS of prizes to be won! All the details can be found on the Lawnscaping home page .

Here is my card.

To make this card, I used 4 Lawn Fawn Stamp sets. I changed the stamp image of birdbath to a little fountain, and used paper plane TRAIL stamp to make the water coming out from the of the bottom. :-) I used sakura gel pen over the water. I also made a new kind of trees, using a big tree stamp with 3 layers of leaves to 6 layers (and embossed with swiss dots embossing folder), and a chopped trunk/log stamp to make trunks of the trees. Except the watering can & tulips, everything is paper pieced. I did sponging on the background; sky & ground. I used hero arts envelope pattern stamp, to use fiskar's cloud punch (small) and used hero arts bigger cloud stamp, trimmed it, and stamped an old CTMH's sentiment. At last, the fox is smelling the tulips! :-) "Spring" reminds me of many birds, and that's why I made this card :-)

Thank you for participating Lawnscaping #3 Blog Hop, and thank you for stopping by my blog! :-) Next head on to Patricia Hays blog. If you've gotten off track, don't worry! Head on back to Lawnscaping to see the complete list of the hop participants and prize information! Have a great weekend! :-)

updated : April 13, 2012, this card was picked as one of 7 Fawny Flickr Friday  card! yay! ;-)

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!! :-)

3 Sweet Surprises!!

well, today, i received the e-mail notification from my flickr, that Kelly-Marie FAV.this card which I made & uploaded it a week ago. Kelly-Marie is the owner of Lawn Fawn. I just thought that was nice. Then later, when i was checking Blogger, I realized she fav. it cuz she picked my card in First Fawny Flickr Friday on her blog! What a sweet surprise!!

Earlier this week, I received Stylish Blogger Award from 2 people (Cricketscreations & HandmadebyTLC) by Surprise, too! Thank you all for making my week Sweeter :-) To accept this award, I need to pass the award to 8 stylish blogs and list 8 things about myself.

1. I am an Island Girl & also a City Girl



2. I was a Mountaineer only during my college years



3. I luv making cards & dolls, and sewing



4. I luv Swimming & Snorkeling



5. I luv SUMMER



6. I'm Multilingual



7. Nature inspires me the most!



8. I luv Baking!... well, I luv EATING FRESHLY baked sweets so I bake! LOL!

The following are my picks for the Stylish Blogger Award:

1. http://www.dancinginthepuddles.com/



2. http://www.seaofcreativechaos.com/



3. http://elizabethallan-blog.blogspot.com/



4. http://mystampingnest.blogspot.com/



5. http://angsandy.blogspot.com/



6. http://simplysandy-sandy.blogspot.com/



7. http://sparkly-train.blogspot.com/



8. http://virginialusblog.blogspot.com/

Award Day

I received this luvly award from Mary Anne at Sparkly train. I'm so honored she chose me! She has just started her blog but with Great Creations!

There are some conditions i'm very happy to fullfil!

1. Thank the person who sent it - Thank You Very Much, Mary Anne!

2. Post a fav. photo to my page - this is the Gorgeous Sunset in Guam!! I've been around the world, but i must say, Guam's sunset was the most beautiful!! (even more beautiful than hawaii & jamaica!) You all have to go there to ENJOY the gorgeous sunset!!:-) 3. Snatch this award and post it on your blog

4. List three thing you like about yourself - very indepent, outgoing, and like to RAK (to surprise them!)! ;-)

5. Choose 5 fav.blogs to receive this award. (in alphabetical order)

Darcie at "Crafting Darcie" http://craftingwithdarsie.blogspot.com/

Curt at "Curt's World" http://curtsplayhouse.blogspot.com/

Pam at "Making Stuff Daily" http://makingstuffdaily.blogspot.com/

Patty at "Patty's Kreativ Seite" http://pattyskreativseite.blogspot.com/

Julia at "Stamping Ground" http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/

I have many more but i have to choose 5, and a couple of people has already received this award, so i didn't include them (i can tell from their blog), even i wanted to...

woohoo!! I won!! I'm the winner of Etsy Inspired Challenge #101

wow, i just saw my name ONLINE, as a Winner!! ha!! I'm doing a happy dancing now! If you are interested in the card, it's under EIC101 blog post. Now i can use this Blinkie on my blog! woohoo!! I DO have a shop in Etsy, and i'm happy to win in this blog!! although, my shop is right now empty... what a timing...lol... i'm planning to upload pics.of my goods in my shop by the end of this month :-) Again, THANK YOU to Etsy Inspired Challenge!! :-)

Being Published back in 2004! Old cards! :-)

today, one of my yahoo club friend asked whether anybody has ever been published in the magazines. I had 3 cards in total, being published, but oh boy, those cards are rather simple compared with the cards in recent years! For the card with ship, i even got a phone call for the interview, like where i live, how long i've been stamping, where i get the inspiration from, etc. There was the interview details in the magazine beside the card. For the second card with fish ("under the sea" theme), i got the e-mail of "interview" (Q&A), and also some introduction about me, but shorter, and the 3rd card with the cat was published just in the READER's submissions page, without any comments, only my name. (NOT the shaker card one). Back then, lots of TECHNIQUES were introduced, and for the first card & the 3rd cards, i used Posh impressions' rainbow sponging. For the 2nd card, i used polished stone technique. I was living in Guam (US territory), the tropical island, tourist destination & the land of US Navy, all three cards were made from the inspiration, just me living there. no, cats don't fly there!! LOL but in rainy season, we get squalls every day, and we can see rainbows so often!! The colors of the ocean sometimes becomes the one with the polished stone technique. Water is clear & beautiful colored fish are all around! And the ship... not only Cruise ship sometimes stop by there but BIG NAVY ships stop by also. Anyways, i was inspired by the nature & life all around me, living in Guam :-), and that's how i answered to those interviews :-) They were all published in Scrap & Stamp Art Magazines by Scott Publications. I was getting excited but then the life took a turn to bad... and i had to stop stamping...