Happy Birthday! #2

Aloha~

My BFF's birthday is coming up and I made this card. I've known her since early 80s, and I decided to use this fun dies from Trinity Stamps which was released in April. This set really makes me remember Good Old Days in our lives. But, many of these great die sets are very intricate and the card becomes "labor intensive" and this was one of them. 😅Of course, you can make it simpler and can adjust in different ways which is also a lot of fun, but this one, I made it close to the "original" pac man (original release in 1980, 5 months after the release in Japan). I also chose to stamp "25c" from Newton's Nook Designs in the middle of two coin slots. That was actually the amount we inserted (a quarter) back then, and I wanted to emphasize that, instead of just hand writing on the coin slot buttons.

Inside, I really wanted to use this fun stamp from Riley and Company. When they released this stamp with big "80s", I HAD TO GET IT! 😄But, since this is the birthday card, so I had to adjust how to use it on this card. This is the result. 

I used some sentiment strips from Simon Says Stamps. I love these strips. They are easy to use! Nowadays, several companies make them. 

This is how much I love Pac-man. I'd like to brag here a little (!!) that I spent a quarter to play Space Invaders for 35 minutes before Pac man was released.😁I never forget that! Fun time! 😀

Hope you are having a nice weekend! Severe weather continues. 🌩🌪Stay safe! Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Love, Eve 

Happy Mother's Day!

Aloha~

I made this card on Mother's day for my late mother. I like to spend time, thinking of her on Mother's day. 

I used Waffle Flower's "MOM" script dies on Lawn Fawn papers and vellum. Those sentiments are all from new Waffle Flower's stamp set, and attached with the "thin" foam. I stamped a couple of "butterflies" from the same set, since my mom loved butterflies. Have you ever used "Brilliance" inkpads? I love the color from my color swatch and used it. Well, they are really old and some went bad but 2/3 of the inkpads are still in good condition, without even reinking! So... probably this color inkpad is 25? years old.... I used mini slim stitched nesting dies from Trinity Stamps. 

Sorry for a couple of days delay to post this. Hope you had a wonderful day to celebrate your moms in person, on facetime or even in your heart. Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Love, Eve

A Happy New Year!!

This is my 1st card in 2024! I received a Christmas card from someone whom I didn't expect to receive it from but unfortunately last 2 months had been very busy and I hardly could make a card, so, I decided to make a New Year's card for the sender. 

2024 is the year of Dragon, the only non-real life animal among 12 Chinese zodiac. The main image is new from Mama Elephant stamps. My mom's sign is the Dragon and she kept some decoration of dragons. They were all green and gold, and that's how I remembered the dragon and decided to use those colors. For "mane?" and the tip of the tail, I used light green color, and picked the gold color from Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolor palette, using a watercolor brush pen, to color over the light green colored areas. The photo didn't pick up well but it's a bit golden. The vertical sentiment is from Purple Daisy Designs.  

Wishing you an abundance of happiness for 2024! 

Love, Eve