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

Halloween cards

Aloha~

I made a couple of Halloween cards, using Whimsy Stamps papers. When they released this paper pad, I had to have it! 😄I made these cards, making those papers as a focal point, finishing them with some dies and sentiments. 

I used dies from Lawn Fawn, Tim Holtz/Sizzix, and some papers from Honey Bee stamps. 

Inside, I used a ghost die from Memory box. It's hard to see but I used "shimmer" paper to die cut the ghost. I die cut the little Frankenstein from a Poppy Stamps' die. I also purchased "Halloween sentiments (already being printed out on a white card stock)" from Simon Says Stamps this year. There are so many sentiments in the package, and I cut the appropriate ones to the cards I made, attached them randomly. 

I had hard time, photographing the card below, in the right color. In person, the whole card is rather darker and vivid. I used Lawn Fawn dies, Tim Holtz/Sizzix dies and Honey Bee Stamps paper, as well as those sentiments strips from Simon Says Stamps, and colored them a little. 

Inside shows more "true" color of card stock. lol... "boo" is from My Favorite Stamps. 

Only 2 weeks to Halloween...

Mahalo for stopping by my blog today. Have a nice day! Love, Eve 

Happy Halloween! #1

Aloha~

This is my 1st Halloween card this year. Last year, due to the family emergency, I was out of the state for almost 3 months, and missed entire "fall" season which is my most fav. season to make cards. 

I bought this Haunted houses dies of TH last year. And, I saw the release of the SSS's sky scene making stencil set this summer. I had to use them together for my 1st card! It's always a challenge to work on the "dark" color card stock. Mostly you can use "white" ink underneath and it works much better but sometimes, you can't know exactly what kind of color you would get. For white clouds, they look fine. For the moon, I used 3 different colors and brands of ink pads. For the ground, that was the hardest. I used the "grey" tone ink, starting from the lightest grey. I really like how the color turned out to be. I used stamps from LF's stamp sets (a couple of them) from the past. For the sentiment strip, I recently read the tip on TH's distress embossing glaze. I love the colors, and I've "collected" 12 colors so far, but had never found the chance to use them. SSS sells the white sentiment strips these days, and Nina Marie, one of the DT's at SSS mentioned this. So, I didn't buy the sentiment strips but stamped the sentiment on white card stock, and used the glaze over the sentiment. I love how it turned out! I don't like using Archival inks on clear stamps cuz it usually stains but from my experience, trying several different black inkpads I own, I like the Ranger's Archival black ink for embossing TH's glaze the most.

I couldn't fit a black cat die cut so I place it inside 😊 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Hope you are having a nice week!

Love, Eve

I'm playing along in these fun challenges;

Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge ~ Spooky/Halloween *challenge with SSS exclusive products

Simon Says Stamps Monday Challenge ~ Spooky/Halloween

3 Coffee cards, to start the new year!

 Aloha~ 

I made these 3 cards in January, all 3 for different reasons but the recipients are all in the same coffee card group on FB. Yes, I'm behind to post these as usual.. lol.. 

I love these coffee stamps from Lil' Inker Design! I can "customize" them a lot! 💓

Wishing all of you the MUCH Happier 2021!!! 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today! Love, Eve

Merry Christmas #4!

Aloha~ 

This was my #4 Christmas card to another card maker, who also loves House Mouse. I used the water color paper, and colored with Prismacolor pencils. Sometimes, it's relaxing to color with colored pencils. I cut out the sentiment and the design with a circle die from designer's paper, attached it with the foam tape. I die cut and placed the berries and pine needles on the branches. I cut thin strips from gold colored paper. 

Inside, I stamped my new house mouse stamp and the sentiment, again, colored it with Prismacolor pencils. 

Sorry for delayed posting for Christmas. 

Hope y'all are having a nice weekend! Hugs, Eve

Happy Holidays! #3

This is my 3rd Christmas card, for my godmother. I made this scene, masking, stamping 3 different stamps. I colored the whole scene with water color markers. Holly dies are from poppy stamps. 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Merry Christmas! 

Hugs, Eve