Accordion Birthday card

I made this accordion card for the list mom of the birthday swap I belong. This swap took the sign up in December, and the swap started on Jan. 1, so, my birthday being on 12.31, I'm the last one of the list, the last one to receive, from all the members on this list, the end of the year. But when I signed up, she sent me the birthday card right away, in December. How nice of her! I even received a couple of cards from the members on the list too! So, not to mention she keeps this list, sending the reminder for next month's birthday every month, I thought I would make a card, not a regular 2 folded card, but looks like a little present instead :-) And this is what I made. I got the instruction here. The first picture shows you the inside of this little booklet. All stamps are from Fiskars. I luv wine, esp. RED wine, and that's the reason I bought this set :-) I colored with color pencils, inkpads (using the brush & a bit of water), used copics for shades, and Glossy accent on the wine bottle & glasses. I used Swirl punch on dp around the Grape, to match with the vine. I cut thin pieces from the same dp to make a design on the last page. I also used many tiny pearls on the front and the last page inside. I layered two die cuts using pop up glue dots on each layer, and ribboned through the bottom layer. I really like how it turned out. The base is rather easy to make but it took a while to make a design, to make a book which has a "Story", from the beginning to the end. I'm mailing this tomorrow to our list mom. I'm also submitting this to some challenges.

Thank you very much for visiting my blog today. Have a nice evening! :-)

Card Makin Mamas ~ Fancy Folds

DYSU Challenge ~ Swirls

Ladybug Crafts Ink ~ Fall and/or Fancy folds

Delightful Challenge ~ Pearls & Swirls

"Pop it Up" !

I made this card for "Pop up card" swap in the yahoo group I belong to. I also saw this challenge at the Pixie Cottage. At Cute Card Thursday, they are also running "Animal Crackers" challenge. I'd been wanting to use this Stove stamp for a very very long time. I mean, I think I bought this stamp like 8 years ago, but never inked it before! lol!! Anyways, I found "chef Amanda" from House Mouse this summer. I knew I would be making a card with these stamps soon :-) Finally the right time came, and I made this card! :-) The Pop Up parts are Chef Amanda & the image of flour sack. You can see where I used the "stages" in my 2nd picture. The flour stamp is also an OLD CTMH stamp! ...like old as the stove stamp! LOL! The little cupcake in the middle is the center of sentiment stamp I found at Michaels ($1!). I stamped, colored and cut another mouse on the right. I colored the mouse image with a truffle, cut it from a larger stamp with 3 mice but I used only this mouse. I used color pencils, copics, paper piecing, perfect pearls, glaze pen... it is more shimmery in certain parts of this 'kitchen scene', in person. The sentiment stamp is from All Night Media . I used another dollar stamp for the front. I paperpieced the cupcakes and watercolored the cupcake stand. I found the pink CS with white dots heat embossed from my scraps. I used scallop circle nestabilities on this scrap. I used two dp from DCWV, cut them in triangle. Those yummy looking round embellishments are from my winning prize of Bingo game, from Peggie :-) It took a while to make this card but I enjoyed making it! :-)

Hope you all are having a great weekend. It's been a gloomy, cold weekend here...

HM Postcard Swap Cards

These are the postcards i made for the swap. I was required to send 2 postcards. I enjoyed making these 2. For the first card, the palm trees stamp is from Vivid Jungle (Guam's Original), and the sand stamp is from CTMH. For the second card, Ice Cream Parlor stamp is from Darcie's and the bee stamps are from CTMH. I paperpieced the awning of the parlor. Since they were the postcards, i didn't put any embellishments so the surface stays rather flat. These were rather fun to make! :-)

Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge #148

I just had fun making this card! For the tea cup & tea pot, i did Paper Piecing! I think these came out cute! :-) And the strawberry icing on chocolate doughnuts! Yum! I had only ONE doughnut stamp so i did masking, making into two doughnuts. Looks MORE yummy! lol! All stamped images are heat embossed, and put 3D glue dots to give some dimentions. ... i forgot that i can make more than one loop ribbon, using my new bow-easy! , so i made 3 loops! LOL! This card ended up looking more whimsical than my ordinary cards. oh, i HANDDREW the team from the tea cup! Very Fun Sketch!

House Mouse & Friends, Monday Challenge #71

The Theme is "Sweet"! What a difficult theme to chose a stamp image from, cuz All House Mouse are "SWEET" themselves, in my eyes!! :-) I think i can make many more cards with this theme with House Mouse stamps!! ;-) Anyways, here is my submission.

Clean & Simple Stamping Sketch FTL 93

This week's sketch & my submission! :-)

What's Cooking??... on Memorial day...

Happy Memorial Day! This card is for What's Cooking Challenge from the Corrosive Challenge, #66. Again, it was at the right timing for me to make & upload this card - cook out and Red, White, Blue!

Birthday cards for Men & an extra!

First card is for Hockey player & fan, and the second card is for an older man. This was the fisrt time i used Jolee's boutique stickers on the card. The skate is a stamp. Inside of the second card, I stamped "Aged to perfection"! The additional card (the 3rd one) is the similar design, made it for another older lady, but it's 3-d on wine glass & wine bottle, and gave a glitter on "happy birthday". I enjoyed coloring wine cards, with watercolor pencils.

Mint Chocolate COLOR swap

HM club i belong to held "mint chocolate COLOR swap", and this is the card i made. Chocolate stamps are from Penny Black. Again, i love the colors of card stock i chose; really Mint Chocolatey! :-)

House Mouse Cards for Swaps in February

These are for the swaps i participated, in House Mouse club; One Image Swap ("Berried") and Unused Stamp Swap ("You snooze You lose"). First card, i stamped little butterflies from Penny Black stamp. Those grass are attached with foam adhesive, to give the dimension. Green layer is to give the extension of the greens of the berries, and stamped the leaves. Second card, the openings of the card overlap slightly. Pink Flower Ribbon is attached, and also cut two of those flower from the ribbon, put the gems in the center, attached them by ice cream images. I punched out tiny hearts to embellish, both side of the ribbon. Inside, i attached the same hearts by the saying.