Thinking of you...

I've been thinking of my MOUSE friend (house mouse online group friend) in California. In fact, I have TWO mouse friends I've been thinking of in California but this goes to one of them, and also later, I'll upload another "thinking of you" card for another friend...
She's been rather healthy (like me :-) ) but for the last couple of months, she has been having more doctors appointments than she's ever had, in such a short time. So I've been wanting to make a card to give her a bit of smile, and shows her I've been thinking about her and praying...
Lavender & purple always calm my nerve down :-) I luv working with the color & the flower. It just relaxes me, since I was a 4th grader... :-) And now you know why I have THIS blog name & profile picture. :-)  Flower soft never appealed to me til I met THIS house mouse stamp & this color of flower soft :-) I luv how it looks. Hope you agree with me too. lol :-)

I also loved this week's challenge sketch at the Sweet Stops. And I finally got a chance to USE new papers from DCWV which I found at Joann right before I left PA, and BROGHT them with me in my carry on, because I got nervous for missing luggage & in the mail. I fell in love with these 2 stacks of papers from DCWV, and guess what the name is; the Chateau Lavender Matstack & its Cardstock Matstack. :-) Now you know how much I love Lavender! lol! When you have great papers, you just want to use them as many as possible, and so do I :-) I usually don't decorate inside of the card, but I did, for this, using the same paper I used (circles) for upper and bottom corners of the front. I even used a small part of the paper for the sentiment from this stack :-) It may not show on the pciture but the card stock I layered the main image & the sentiment are shimmery paper. Hope this card will give her a bit of relaxation when she looks at it ...
Thank you very much for stopping by my blog today. Have a great long weekend! :-)

House Mouse Swap Cards

I belong to House Mouse Yahoo group, and we have monthly swap. Last month, it was Anything Goes & this month, "GUAM swap!" LOL! I know, probably nobody nor no group ever had this theme before. LOL! I was back in Guam from last October, and although I have tons of Stamping supplies there, they are all 8~10 years old things, BEFORE the stamping industry came up with so many fancy things (til this day!), and I missed the CURRENT trend, esp. Cuttlebug which I couldn't bring. Anyways, Guam Swap is to make a card using the things which was available about 8 years ago, which means, no cuttlebug, no fancy dp, etc. This is the card I made for my partner. ONLY thing I missed is that THIS House Mouse stamp is rather new, not available about 8 years ago.. LOL! Some Mousie friend mentioned, and I realized after finishing making it! LOL! The card is rather self explanatory. I STAMPED all over on the background paper. Back then, there weren't many fancy DP available, and we MADE our own, stamping lots on the paper. I stamped the two mice on the front and a coffee cup on another paper & card stock and layered them to give them more dimention. Jute cord was there to show the tie for the coffee bag you usualy see in real life, to close the bag. :-) oh back then, there were no Distress ink, and I SPONGED the dye ink around the image :-) The 2nd card is last months' swap card; anything goes. I made this card, with bright colors & rather summery image, cuz I HATE winter... I LUV SUNSHINE, Blue Sky & WARM temp. :-) I stamped another mouse & some of the flower petals, layered them with dimentional foam to give the depth to the image. I cut a little where the oar goes into the water, to give the smooth look from the height, into the water. and I colored the white edge of the slit with the perfect pearls I used for the water, for more natural look. Yes, we had Perfect pearls, and I luved using them a lot back then :-)

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Hope you all are having a nice long weekend :-)

Hibiscus ~ my fav. flower :-)

I luv Hibiscus. When I was in elementary school, my mother used to take me to Tropical islands for summer vacations, and Hibiscus was the one I remembered the most. For a kid, the flower looked BIG & Beautiful! lol. When I think of Guam, I think of plumeria & bougainvillea more but hibiscus has been my most fav. Tropical Flower. Now, of course, we don't have those beautiful flowers here BUT I was very surprised that they SELL these flowers here! I even saw a lady buying a couple of pots of hibiscus at the grocery store where I was. I couldn't resist to take some pictures. And these are the ones. I'm also adding the yellow one which I took a picture at my friends' house a couple of days ago. I know, they aren't by the beach... oh well... Red hibiscus was the first one to remember from my childhood but aren't they all so pretty?? :-)

Tilda with Summer Flowers!

When I think of "summer flower", I think of Sunflower :-) I used my new hero arts envelope pattern stamp to make a background paper, stamping in yellow first, brown , second, but moved the stamp a bit, and again, I stamped it in yellow, moved a bit again so no stamping image would overlap each other, to make this background paper. Then I distressed the edges. I also colored the white flower with yellow ink to match, cuz I didn't have a yellow flower. I'm submitting this card to Magnolia stamp lover, where the "summer Flower challenge" is going on. Thank you for taking time to visit my blog today! :-)

Another Birthday card with Hydrangea!

Yesterday when I was visiting fellow stamper's blogs, I stumbled onto these 2 challenges. ... I realized that there are soooo many challenges on the blogging world!! Anyways, when I saw this color challenge at CR84FN , I thought of my fav. Hydrangea stamp. Then I stumbled onto another challenge. It's a sketch challenge at Splitcoaststampers, and I, again thought of Hyrangea stamp. Then I remembered I needed to make a Birthday card for Birthday swap I participate throughout the year, and need to make a card for June, I decided to make this card. I embossed the Kraft CS with Cuttlebug embossing folder for background. I cut out the hydrangea image, attached it with dimentional glue foams, as well as the sentiment. I punched out 2 butterflies from 2 different colors of papers. One on the top has shimmer in it, but it would blend in to the background CS color, so I punched the darker paper to adhere it underneath. You can see them on the 2nd picture. I used purple color stickles for centers of little flowers of hydrangea. You can see them on the 3rd picture. Thank you for visiting my blog today :-) Hope everybody is safe from "severe weather"...

cheerful "Thank You Card"

for Etsy Inspired Challenge #138 I made. I didn't realize that ETC now runs one challenge for 2 weeks, but today is the last day anyway! lol! I have only 1 hr left to post! This is the photo I was inspired by, from Bear Creek Design and Felting. All stamps except the sentiment are from Inkadinkado. The sentiment is from TPC studio. All are heat embossed in clear EP. I draw the stitch line right on the embossed frame line. The main nestie die is attached by dimentional glue foam, and small nestie die in the middle is again, attached by dimentional glue foam to give even more dimentions.

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Have a wonderful weekend! :-)

"May Flowers"

This week's challenge at House Mouse & Friends Monday challenge is "May Flowers". This is the card I made. I colored the mice with water color pencils, used glossy accent on the mouse's eyes, and a bit glitter on the flower. I inked the inside of nesties with distress inks. I punched out the small butterflies from shimmering purple paper. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn. I also stamped the flowers from my HM Lavender stamp (partially inked the stamp), and put some glitters here & there. I used pop up glue dots for the main image & the sentiment.

"Friends" card for CIC #110

Over 2 weeks, I didn't make a card. ha! Lots are going on here (mostly not good things :-( ) But I finally found the time to make a card! I got inspired by the photo at Cupcake inspirations challenge #110 ; flowers, bees, butterflies, grass, green, yellow, pink...so here is my card! The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn and luving it! I used TH's distress ink in 3 different colors around the sentiment. It's attached with dimentional glue dots. I also colored white CS in those color inks, and stamped flowers, then cut & attached to the stamped images on green with dots background paper. I luv the way those flowers colors came out, instead of using other coloring media. I used border punch to create Grass in two different colors, layered them, attached on the buttom of the flowers. Those bees are old CTMH. I paperpieced their bodies, attached them,and used vellum for the wings, and used stickles to give them a bit of shimmering. I also paperpieced the butterfly which came in a stamp set of flowers from Fiskars. I used sakura clear glaze pen for body & antenae of bees & butterfly, to give more definition. It's very hard to see in the pic. but they are there! :-) I used sakura white opaque gel pen for dots inside of the blue flowers. Those bottons are clear yellow & clear lime green with glitters in them. I used baker's twines in two different colors. A bit of gems & tiny pearls and the card was finished! :-)

"Welcome Spring"

at House Mouse Monday challenge #91 this week. Despite of my emotions being overwhelmed by Japan's quake & worries, I really wanted to make some cards, and I made this before the challenge expired :-) It's still cold here though, for "Welcome Spring" challenge...lol... I guess I wanted to make Cheerful card & punched out many flowers as you can see them on my card :-) The front petals of the flower & the mouse are colored, trimmed and layered with foam adhesives, but for the flower petals, only the top part, and the bottom parts which are connected to the stem are attatched with regular glue. It gave the depth for the flower, looking like the flower is actually blooming :-) Glossy accent on rain drops & mouse's eye. I don't mind the rain as long as it's WARM, pleeeze!! lol :-)

Clean & Simple 124

I luv this sketch. Simple, yet, the card looks nice :-) Anyways, I luv the way my card turned out :-) The rose stamp is Penny Black (old one! :-)) and the sentiment is a dollar red rubber stamp from Michaels :-) I used heart brads on where the stamped heart images are. I used the pop up glue dots for sentiment & the roses.

HM "New Beginnings" - Easel Card

That's the challenge this week at Simon Says Stamp & House Mouse Friends Monday. I don't have House Mouse "Happy New Year" kind of stamp nor Babies. I don't have Wedding related stamp nor School related stamp, so my "new beginnings" is "New Relationship"! :-), and I chose this stamp. I luv this nesties & colors I chose. I put a bit of glitter on the edges of tulips' petals in clear & red. I got these little hearts from the border punch, and I always keep those hearts for confetti and something else :-) Sentiment is from House Mouse image swap I participated a couple of months ago. I put glitters in the heart image. The swirls I attached is from Fiskar's this year's new punch. I'd been looking for swirl punch for a long time, and I really like this one when I found it at Joann, just 2 days ago, and in fact, that was the last one on the shelf :-) And of course, I could use 40% off coupon, so I was really happy! :-) I put a tiny red gem on each swirl, to finish this card :-)

HM Birthday Card

I made this card for my online HM friend, Mary Ann for her birthday. I layered 3 nesties, with the different papers. I used yellow glitter in the center of the flowers. I often end up making "purple" card! lol, just luv the color... :-) The name of the stamp is "One Mouse Band". This mouse is playing "happy birthday to you~~"

PB Sat. Challenge wk117

... is a color combo of Purple, Cream & Brown! I haven't made a card with this Pansy image for such a long time! Saying stamp is Hero Arts. I didn't think Purple & Brown can go together but i'm glad i could make a card with this challenge :-) I used yellow stickles on the center of the flowers. Sentiment is heat embossed, attached with pop up glue dots, but can't tell on this pic. lol :-) oh, yea, the card stock color of main images are both CREAM :-)

Color Throwdown #104 Challenge

When i saw these color combination, it reminded me of the tropical island life, with beautiful flowers & beautiful leaves, under the sunshine :-) ... again, i miss the life on the islands...

The Play Date Cafe Challenge PDCC38

I always luv the colors the play date cafe challenge ask for. Of course, it doesn't mean that i come up with a great idea, using those colors, every week. Sometimes, it frustrates me cuz i can't come up with the design, even i think those color combination are Beautiful! Anyways, here is my card. I luv Purple flowers, all kinds :-)

the Play Date Cafe Challenge PDCC 34

Black and White with a bit of Blue... that is this weeks challenge at the Play Date Cafe. On the right, the lace looks a bit real in the pic.but i stamped the image (SU! from a long time ago), and white embossed, mixing with glitter. I luv this week's color combination!

"Things with Wings" Challenge

After I saw “Things with Wings” in Simon Says Challenge, I thought….hmmm…I have some butterfly punches, I should make a card!… and this is what I came up with. Recently I’m really into Color Combination. The stamp is from Inkadinkado, small butterfly punch is from Fiskars, and the little flower punch is from Marvy Uchida. Since I colored the THANK YOU flower stamp in Blending Blox (has some gradation in the color), I used the same inkpad to ink the white Card stock first, and punched butterflies out. It’s rather hard to tell in the pic. but those butterflies are not in ONE color, so it would match the stamped Thank You Flower image. I put the large pearl on the letter “O”, in “YOU” on the stamped image. Oh, I also cut around some petals (center still attached), using X-Acto knife, to give a bit of dimension. I lifted up those petals (like one in every three petals or so.) It worked better, having similar orange colored layering card stock underneath so the similar color peeks under the petals! I also bent all the wings of butterflies to give a bit of dimension, to match the stamped THANK YOU Flower image. I used stickles to give shiny look in the center of punched flowers in the end.

Cherry Blossoms Cards

Washington D.C.'s Cherry Blossoms festival inspired me to use Posh Impressions's Cherry Blossoms' stamp. Cherry Blossoms are soooo beautiful in D.C. & Japan in early April.

Happy Spring HM card

I also made a "Happy Spring" card to my HM club friend. White dots on both sides are Liquid Pearls.