February Coffee Card

 Aloha~

This is the Coffee card I made for February swap for the group. Someone mentioned in the past that she expected "warm" breeze from the card I make, in her winter weather before, so I made this card. Hope the recipient in Illinois will feel the warm breeze! I used Newton's Nook designs' stamps to create the scene. It is the Diamond head in the center, and plumeria flowers I "no outline" colored with color pencils.   

By the way, this mugcup die is new. In 2000's, I remember I drew this kind of cup, cut it from the card stock by hand, using a scissors. When Trinity stamps made this die set for purchase, I was so excited but had to wait for Black Friday sale. 😉 I'm so happy I have this die now and the shape I die cut with the machine is perfect than the one I drew and cut it by my hand! 😄 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today! Hope you are having a nice week! Love, Eve

Happy New Year! 2013 is here! :-) 4 cards to show! :-)

well, as you all noticed that my blog went to HYBERNATION since... April?? Lots had happened, bad & good & ok... but one thing I can say here is that I don't get enough time for card making any more because of my job. It got even worse lately, but I managed to finish one hanukkah card and three Christmas cards in December. yeah!:-) 

I used Lawn Fawn Hanukkah set stamps and a little star stamp from their different set of stamps. I stamped with Memento dye ink, cut those dreidels and attached with foam adhesive, to give a bit of dimention, and hung them with silver strings. I used stickles for the candle lights, and used brilliance ink for little stars in the background. I distressed the edge lightly. I also used the gel pen inside of those four punched out stars. Insideof the card, I stamped the Star of David in the middle on the top  and punched out four little stars, to match the front.

For this Gingerbreadman card, I used my OLDEST sizzix die & the ORIGINAL sizzix die cut mashine. yes, I have it here in Guam, my First die cut mashine, although I hardly used it back then. I'd never imagined that Personal die cutting mashines become so popular years later! :-) Anyways, I used "Reverse" die cut out, and attached the craft color top on the brown card front. I used tiny round stickers on his eyes, to give a bit of dimention & shine. I used the ribbon for "white icing", and white pen for his mouth. I used DCWV's christmas paper inside of the card. I also used "zigzag" scissors to cut the red paper to give more decoration to the inside of the card. This was meant to send to one of my dear HM friend so I colored the house mouse stamp in watercolor pencils, cut it out, and adhered it. Then I found this sentiment from the stash of images I had... maybe 9 years ago?? but thought perfect with this house mouse stamp :-)

This Christmas card is for another HM friend. I found this image again, from my stash from many years ago, but found this hero arts christmas sentiment, to be the perfect match, and used it :-) Don't you get excited when "perfect matching" just happen while you are making cards?? It does to me! hahaha I used markers to color the image, cuz this image was stamped on glossy paper, and marker worked well. Although you can't see it, the candle is colored by clear gel pen to give the shiny look, and the yellow stickle to the lights.

The last Christmas card is for my mother who luvs "Tropical island", so I used the stamp of ornament with Plumeria inside for the focal point of the card. I stamped with brilliance ink on speckled cs, and colored it with markers, cut it out, and attached with the foam adhesive to give a bit of dimention. I stamped banana leaf (from Vivid Jungle) randomly with dye ink on both yellow & green card stock. I used Lawn Fawn Star stamps randomly in brilliance ink, used pearl pens for those random dots.

I still won't have enough time to make cards & blog on regular bases but when I do, you'll all know :-) Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Wishing you all the great 2013!! :-)  with LOVE, Eve

~ Blue Christmas ~

That's the theme at Delightful Challenge, and this is the card I made for my best friend & Godmother this year. Well, right now, I'm in Guam, USA, "where America's day begins", so it's like on this card here, at the moment, Santa is coming from the sea, with dolphins! ;-), with lots of sunshine, blue sky, blue ocean, seashells... all stamps are from Guam's original stamp company. On the small ornaments on the right bottom corner, you can see Palm trees on one and "latte Stones" on another one. "Latte Stones" are found on Guam and neighboring islands, and nobody really knows why they are here... You can't really see it from the picture, but the main image is more shiney, from me using sakura clear star pen to give more shimmers on the sun & waves. I put fun flock for santa's clothe too :-) Both are going to VA where they expect Snow flurries on Christmas day, I'm mailing this card, with lots of sunshine & WARM feeling! :-)
Hope you are having a nice Sunday evening~~ Thank you for stopping by! :-)

Aloha~ :-)

As soon as "she" was released, I had to order her :-) This is the sketch at TESC141 this week. "She" & the sentiment are from Taylored Expressions. The card is pretty much self explanatory. I used leaf punch to give more Tropical island feeling, where the dotted red strip is, in the middle of the sketch. The background paper (on the top) is from "me & my Big ideas" and Hero Arts' on the bottom. "Mahalo~" for stopping by my blog today!

Lawnscaping challenge #4 ~ Paper Piecing

When I saw these lanterns on sneak preview, I knew I had to have them! This is my first stamp set I ordered on the RELEASE DAY! Yes, I LUV these lanterns, and seriously, these stamps & paper piercing are Addictive! LOL!! This is my first card. If time allows, I might make more, and if not for this challenge, i'll still be making more cards with these lanterns!! Lanterns remind me of my life in Guam, Hawaii, and another place (I won't reveal here yet!) a lot! Maybe Guam & Hawaii have lots of Asian influence. These were introduced this month because of the inspiration from Chinese New Year, according to the owner of Lawn Fawn. I chose "tropical island" themed papers for paper piecing. I used baker's twine for strings. Wave & sand stamps are Old CTMH. I watercolored the waves. I sponged the white CS with the light blue dye ink. One leave, lanterns and sentiment were attached with dimentional foams. I luv making Tropical feeling cards! Those always make me happy while I'm making them! :-) The challenge details are found at here.

Editor's note : This card was featured by the owner of Lawn Fawn as FIRST Fawny Flikr Friday Five on their blog on 3.4.2011! :-) You can see it here.

Color Throwdown #129 & WMC44

Every time I see these colors (with white or no white), it reminds me of my tropical paradise life... so this is my card for Color Throwdown (#129)! Also, I'm submitting this card to Wee Memories (#44), for this week's challenge; Source of Inspiration! I get inspired by the NATURE the most, on my cards creation, and living in 2 tropical paradise for 12 years makes me to come up with the ideas with summer/beach/ocean/rain forest... anything to do with tropical islands life, very easily! The picture of the beach is from Guam, USA. So, "the sorce of inspiration" for this card is from my vivid memory of the islands & color challenge at color throwdown blog. For those butterflies, I colored the paper, using brayer with blending blox (multi colored ink pad), stamped the butterfly on the gradated blue card stock with versa fine black ink, then trimmed them. I used my latest addition of sakura glaze pen on those butterflies, here & there after everything dried. I cut & attached the center of the artificial flowers, for the large butterflie's antenas. I used dimentional foam for 2 front Banana leaves. Bamboo frame is Posh Impressions, Butterflies are Hero Arts, Banana leaves are Guam's original stamp company, and the sentiment is a dollor clear stamp from Michaels :-). These colors are really relaxing for me...

Mojo Monday 175

Ok, I miss summer, beach & tropical islands very much, as you can tell & some of you alreaday know... I decided to use these two stamps from Guam for this week's sketch at Mojo Monday. These flowers are named Plumeria and you always see them all over Guam! I saw 11 turtles on the North Shore of the island of Oahu, Hawaii, when I went there for the 2nd time, after I moved there. They come to the shore and I could even touch them because I was so close to one of the turtle! But I was told that it was inhibited. I also saw another turtle overturned by the wave, when it was trying to "climb??" the small rock on the beach. The group of 3 (2 young men & a girl) also saw this turtle, and a man went to HELP it, kind of pulling the turtle's hand, to the ground!! I'm attaching those pictures. We can see Dolphines often in Guam, and I even saw a Baby Shark during the low tide but this was my first time to see the TURTLE in wild, and there were even 11 of them! I counted them! LOL! That was a nice, fun & WARM day... while I'm typing this, Pro Bowl is on TV... they are showing the sites of Hawaii...I lived in Waikiki where I could see Diamond head... two blocks from the beach...To make the turtle's shell a bit real, I used the glossy accent. I attached Plumeria & the turtle with pop up dimentional glue. Good thing that I had this "bubble" embossed CS in my scrap, to use, because my cuttlebug is broken...

Simon says ... Sparkle!

This is the kind of Christmas trees the tropical islands have! lol :-) This christmas "palm" tree is from Guam's Original Stamp company. For this week's "sparkle" challenge, i used gems under the sentiment. I used yellow Stickles in the middle of Plumeria flowers; tropical flowers you can find all over on the tropical islands :-) I also used silver gel pens to the ornaments & wreath. I used red liquid pearls on berries on the wreath. I used simmery light blue card stock too, so in person, this card is even more Sparkling than on the pic! :-) I also luv all the blue colors i used for this card. To distress the main image & the sentiment, i used Tim Holtz' Faded Jeans & Broken china distress inks. I saw the great image,using these 2 colors, recently, from Kathy's blog (The Daily Marker), so i bought myself the Faded Jeans color inkpad. The little hard thing i did was to cut all little ornaments, to attach with 3d glue dots, cuz they are very small to handle. I also did that for the wreath. I'm also sending this to my NEW online friend, in Wisconsin, as RAK (swap), to surprise her, with this card (she doesn't know my blog address yet! ;-)) I don't think she's ever seen Christmas "Palm" tree before, on the christmas card! ;-) For this RAK, i'm supposed to attach the holiday recipe. I stamped on the corner of the recipe card with CTMH stamp, as you can see it on the 3rd pic.... Now you can see how much i miss my beautiful Tropical islands life...

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...

Lovely as a Tree Challenge!

This card is for "Challenge #59 for Stamputacular Sunday Challenge", and the theme is "TREE"! And of course, me, missing "PALM TREE" a lot (even i'm now surrounded by so many trees in the mountains...), i had to make this card :-) It's hard to see but all stamped images were heat embossed.