2 Thank you cards

Hello, friends, today, I would like to share two "thank you" cards I made.

 I've been wanted to use these two Hero Arts stamps (flower~Solid/non Solid) I ordered last Christmas, but due to my "life's complication" (as always.), I finally got these in my hand, and could stamp! Since it's "fall" in US mainland, I used "early fall colors" (to me :)) . I used two different colors of pearl pens for the center of the flowers. This is going to my Godmother's sister in Richmond, VA who let me stay at her house for 4 nights, in very short notice (long story). The last time I stayed in Richmond is 1986! Time surely flew...and flying by even faster every single day!

For this, I used current trend, "Bokeh" technique. You can check it here. This is fun stamping! I used three different colors of die ink. I used gel/shimmer pen to randomly draw "sparkles". I'm also sending this to my Godmother's son who took me to the dinner one night in Richmond. I met him when he was 7 years old. Now he is ...41? I saw him at his sister's wedding some years ago but didn't have enough time for chatting. Before that, I saw him when he was in middle school... like 13 years old?. ... We did catch up the past, this time tho :)

Hope you are having a nice evening. Thank you for stopping by. :) 

thank you card

ok, lots of places have started to see the White Stuff which I don't like. lol... but I wanted to share this card with you today, the one I made for our "Thank you" swap for my House Mouse group I belong. It was the swap of November, and it went out on 30th, the last day of due date :) The recipient will be receiving it, very soon. I couldn't take a good picture. I haven't figured out how to take a good picture at the place where I am now, yet... with lighting and all.. so I have a bit more to explain about things the camera didn't pick up.... the leaves on the main image, I used the glitter pen to draw the veins of most of the leaves. Two falling leaves & mice were cut from the 2nd stamped image, and were adhered with foam tape to give a bit of dimention. I used distress inks for trees, before attaching them on the card. I also used the weavy textured paper to punch out the dark brown trees. I don't have a cuttlebug where I am at now... I chose this image for this swap because I wanted to say, "for being a friend" inside :-) The mice got a ride from this doggy, because they are friends :-) I also distressed the fall leaves DP because the white parts of the paper was "too" white. Hope the recipient of this card will be pleased with my card :-)
Thank you for stopping by my blog today :-) Have a nice evening~~:-)

Thank you card for World Cardmaking Day Challenge

at Lawn Fawn blog. The challenge is to make a Thank You Card, and send it to someone, so I made this card, and will mail it to my best friend from College. The sentiment stamp is from Lawn Fawn, of course (:-)) and tiny maple leaf is from their new halloween set. I luv this little stamp! It's so small but it became in handy, and I know I'll be using it often! :-) The sentiment is attached with pop up glue dots for a bit of dimention. I distressed the edges of the front panel and inside of the scalloped heart, with the mix of those distress inks I used for maple leaves. Thank you very much for stopping by my blog today! Hope you all had a great World Cardmaking day & weekend! :-)

House Mouse with Strawberries... Yumm! :-)

I made this YUMMY card for this week's challenge at CardPatterns, using the sketch shown. I rotated it by 90 degrees. It's rather a simple pattern but I thought it's perfect for this house mouse strawberry image! I love anything/anyone with Berries (any kind) images!.. I might've mentioned that before. lol :-) I also made this card,using the color challenge at the Corrosive Challenge; Red & white. Sometimes it's fun to change the colors from the original colors, and it still looks nice. For this card, I punched the leaves out from red glitter papers, instead of green, which I normally would use. After coloring strawberries with watercolor pencil, I used black pen to trace the seeds. Then I traced all the black colored seeds with sakura clear glaze pen to give a bit of shiney look & a bit of texture. Thank you for stopping by my blog today! :-)

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! :-)

"Clean & Simple"!

That's the challenge at Penny Black Sat. Challenge blog this week. Here is my card. I LUV this PB cats' image, esp. for spring card! I luv this sentiment from Lawn Fawn too :-) Since it's "Clean & Simple", I didn't do too much, other than coloring the image, put a bit of glitter on butterflies, corner heart punches, placing tiny white pearls in them, baker's twine, nestie die, and distressing around the sentiment.

Fancy Tilda in Black, Red & Pink!

That's the the challenge at Manolia-licious challenge blog, and this is my card. Black & Red is MY colors (lol!), not Tilda's in my mind, and it was hard to choose the image for this colors challenge from a very limited numbers of Maggie's images I own... Well, Tilda is invited to Edwin's Piano concert, and she dressed up & waiting for him to play at the concert hall :-) I stamped music notes randomly in light pink & grey around the white piano. I used my new addition tool; Sakura's clear glaze pen for her pretty black shoes, her rose corsage, her black ribbon & belt, on the black keyboards and the wheel. I found this pen very useful. I would've used Glossy accent for those places but since this pen doesn't give too much dimention, other than GLAZE, I chose this pen for this card. Besides, it's a pen and easy to "glaze" in smaller places too. It's a bit hard to see them on the picture, though. I adhered glitters on her earrings & frills of her dress. I placed red gems on black corner punch which is a bit hard to see on the picture also. I put white stitch lines around the background paper, with Souffle white pen, to match with the white stitched black ribbon. The background paper is Bo Bunny's which Sue Kment sent to me. (luv it, Sue! :-))

House Mouse cards to my online friends

I made this "Gate fold card with a twist" (from stampTV), using my fav. House mouse for my online friend, Yara's birthday. You can see how it opens, in the second pic. I used the glitters on mice's birthday hats & candle flames to look Festive :-) I mixed the clear heat EP with glitter, for the sentiment, to heat emboss. The background paper is from my fav. stack of DCWV, "Sweets". I used the same paper inside of the card. I really like this stamp image :-) Another house mouse rak isn't actually a card but made a little bag to hold the Marshmallow lovers' hot chocolate mix, to send it to my another online friend, Mary anne. She remembered that i really like Marshmallows, and when this Stamp of the month (marshmallow design) came out, she just sent the image to me. How sweet of her! So, i decided to make a bag, with the colored image, sent it back to her, saying "thanks", with the hot chocolate mix in it! :-) I'm uploading these cuz i just read that they received these safely :-)

FTL104

This week's sketch at Clean & Simple Stamping is Really Simple! lol! And this is my card. I got this color combination from my friends' mother's t-shirt which i saw yesterday! lol Stamp is from Tim Holtz collection, stamped on dry embossed CS which is really hard to see, but that's the reason why the stamped image looks like that beside the original stamp doesn't have solid lines either.

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...

Simon Says... Martine's Sketch Challenge

I think this kind of sketch makes a nice "thank you, Just a note & hello" card. I used Icicle stickle in the centers of flowers. I luv Purple Flowers, all kinds :-)

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 :-)

Clean & Simple challenge #98

This is my card for this Sketch. It's hard to see but the background paper has marble design. It doesn't show it in pic. very well though...:-( I luv to make Thank You cards :-)

Penny Black Sat.Challenge wk 105

This weeks challenge is a Sketch. And this is my first time, trying to distress PB image :-)

"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.