Thinking of you too...

As I mentioned before, I have another friend who's been dealing with her health & her husband health in California. I made this card for her, hoping this will give her a bit of smile, and also let her know that I've been thinking of her also. She sent me this Tilda's stamp late last year. I think that was for my birthday. I've been wanting to color her ever since! :-) I now have Flower Soft, and wanted to use it for the Lilac Tild is carrying. I knew it would work for my lavender image but wasn't sure for lilac, especially for smaller image, but I like the way it turned out :-) When I want to cheer someone up, I tend to use the color Yellow :-) (also for the birthdays:-)) . I also tend to go rather clean & simply for Tilda. I think Tilda herself is so cute, and I don't want her to be burried in too many embellishments. This style works for me :-) I stamped flowers from Rubber Stampede, on the top, to make it look like lilac she is holding :-) I added glitter glue (puprple) randomely to give a bit of shimmer to the card. I used swiss dots embossing folder for background paper. The sentiment is from Hero arts. To finish it off, I used a pretty white ribbon! :-) I layered the main image & the sentiment with dimentional foam to give a bit of depth to the card.
Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Happy Easter!! :-)

I'm submitting this card to Magnolia-licious challenge.

Thinking of you...

I've been thinking of my MOUSE friend (house mouse online group friend) in California. In fact, I have TWO mouse friends I've been thinking of in California but this goes to one of them, and also later, I'll upload another "thinking of you" card for another friend...
She's been rather healthy (like me :-) ) but for the last couple of months, she has been having more doctors appointments than she's ever had, in such a short time. So I've been wanting to make a card to give her a bit of smile, and shows her I've been thinking about her and praying...
Lavender & purple always calm my nerve down :-) I luv working with the color & the flower. It just relaxes me, since I was a 4th grader... :-) And now you know why I have THIS blog name & profile picture. :-)  Flower soft never appealed to me til I met THIS house mouse stamp & this color of flower soft :-) I luv how it looks. Hope you agree with me too. lol :-)

I also loved this week's challenge sketch at the Sweet Stops. And I finally got a chance to USE new papers from DCWV which I found at Joann right before I left PA, and BROGHT them with me in my carry on, because I got nervous for missing luggage & in the mail. I fell in love with these 2 stacks of papers from DCWV, and guess what the name is; the Chateau Lavender Matstack & its Cardstock Matstack. :-) Now you know how much I love Lavender! lol! When you have great papers, you just want to use them as many as possible, and so do I :-) I usually don't decorate inside of the card, but I did, for this, using the same paper I used (circles) for upper and bottom corners of the front. I even used a small part of the paper for the sentiment from this stack :-) It may not show on the pciture but the card stock I layered the main image & the sentiment are shimmery paper. Hope this card will give her a bit of relaxation when she looks at it ...
Thank you very much for stopping by my blog today. Have a great long weekend! :-)

another SHAKER card!

ok, this is my 3rd Shaker card this month! lol! After us, the house mouse group members have decided to have a Shaker card Swap this month, I've already made two, and at last, I made this card for the swap, and it's in the mail to the recipient :-) I made the INSIDE of the card first. This month, due to the warm weather at the east coast of US, Cherry Blossoms have started to bloom early in D.C. And this year is their 100th celebration after they received trees from Japan as a gift. Everytime I see cherry blossoms in D.C. in pictures, I remember my childhood when I was living in Tokyo, Japan. Cherry Blossoms to me are not only the symbol of spring but also "APRIL"! lol! "April" in Japan is the start of school year when many kids carry their Brand New leather bags, with their new textbooks & new school supplies, IF you are the first grader and 7th grader, and because of leather, they look so new! :-) The same can be said for many new employees, after they graduate from universities in March, and Japanese companies, schools, etc. hire certain number of newly graduates, and they wear New Suit, incld. usually new leather shoes, and they also look so fresh! :-) To me, those are the SET incld.cherry blossoms, in early April, every year. I love cherry blossoms! I used old hero arts' Inches (I think they don't call that stamp that. lol) of cherry blossoms, randomly stamped to make a frame so that I can write something in "that frame". I happened to have a left over rick rack in matching color so I adhered it and I trimmed another house mouse stamp image (the mouse carrying the jelly beans) and adhere it in the end of the rick rack. I used sakura glaze pen for jelly beans, and just used the matching color for the card; Pink only. On the front page, I used Posh Impression's cherry blossoms stamp, using markers to ink it. The sentiment stamp is Memory box. I adhered the left over cherry blossoms stickers (I believe it's Jolee''s, but am not sure without the packaging...) on the corners. I'm submitting this to Simon says stamp challenge ; "Anything goes" :-)

Thank you very much for stopping by my blog today. Although Guam (where I am right now) doesn't have cherry blossoms, hope some of you see beautiful cherry blossoms in your neighborhood :-)

Happy Easter! :-)

This is the easter card I made, for Three Non stamping friends, for this easter, and I just mailed them. :-) I bought this stamp set last spring but hadn't had a chance to ink them. Since I love Chocolate Bunny (!!), this was perfect! lol! Inside of the card, I stamped "Wishing you a Sweet Easter" sentiment with an egg image. The stamp set was a Dollar at Michaels! ;-) I think this was my FIRST CAS Easter card, and I like it! :-) I used the technique, "Partial cuttlebug embossing" I watched the video clip of at Stamp tv a while back, and in her talk, she mentioned about using the same embossing folder on top & the bottom, so this is what I did. Actually when I first watched this video, I made a card for CAS-ual friday but the challenge expired before I uploaded mycard and I can't find the picture and the card is still in PA... Anyways, I used Swiss Dots embossing folder. It's pretty much self-explanatory. The petit oval die is from my stash, and I had to handcut the larger oval from brown card stock, because, I still haven't received C-plate yet... some of you know what's been happening to my C-plate... oh well... do you think my HANDCUTTING dies getting better ??!! lol! All stamped images were heat embossed.

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Hope you all are having a great weekend! :-)

I'm submitting this card to EASTER challenge at;

Cute Card Thursday

Delightful Challenge

Paperplay Challenge

One Stop Craft Challenge

Bugaboo Challenge

Masculine Birthday Card

I needed to make a Masculine birthday card, and saw this sketch at this week's challenge at Mojo Monday Blog . Here is my card. The recipient is a Pittsburgh Penguins' Fan (NHL). I don't like "Black & Gold" but it's Team's color so I can't change. lol :-) Hockey Jersey is from Stamps N'More which I bought last summer at stamp convention. I've never used this stamp til now :-) The skate is from INKADINKADO. It's a Roller skate but since he plays roller hockey, it's fine :-) I stamped Lawn Fawn's Cheveron pattern and trimmed one side, to make it close to the sketch. The sentiment is from Penny Black. All stamped images were heat embossed. The hockey jersey is adhered with pop up glue dots for a bit of dimention.

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Enjoy the rest of the WARM weekend! :)

Get Well Soon...

well, it started out to be a "get well soon" card after I heard she had a Stroke, and had to be in rehab. for 2 months. I finally made a card, and heard that she was getting out in two days! I was happy about fast recovery! So I changed the sentiment from "Get well soon" to"Thinking of You" :-) well, this is the thing. We play cards everytime we get together. That's "OUR" thing, and I found this House Mouse image so perfect, even with the wooden chair in the back!, just like their Dining table where we usually play! :-) I used a darker yellow DP (same design as other light yellow poldka dots paper I used for this card) to punch the flowers out, and I used gold gel pen for the center of the flowers.
Thank you for visiting my blog today. Have a great day! :-)
I'm submitting this to : Cute Card challenge ~ anything goes

Sending Love your way...

from Guam, USA in the Pacific to Pittsburgh, PA. !! :-) And that's what this card front shows! :-) I found this background Cute Map stamped image in my stash. I remember this was from Stamping gathering at CTMH's consultant's house, about... 10 years ago... I had an idea using this mail box stamp & sentiment from Lawn Fawn but needed the MAP image on the background. I don't have a printer for digi image nor anywhere I can find nice DP here on the island, BUT very fortunately I found this image!:-) The background image was a bit larger but I cut off the top where it said Canada. I tried to place the mailbox "in the pacific", trying to not cover the stamped image of the words, "Pacific". I placed the envelope on Pittsburgh area. :-) I could punch those little hearts out BUT I stamped the hearts from another Lawn Fawn set, and put the strip of the red card stock with the images through Xron tape adhesive maker, and trimmed them, because I loved the shape of this heart to this card compared to the heart punch I had. I colored the WHITE background card stock, using 2 distress inks to look more like an "old map". I paperpieced the mail box, and also used the distress inks around the edges. I also "distressed" this little "envelope"! :-) At last, I used the twine to make it look like "wrapped" mail. :-)
Thank you for stopping by my blog today! Have a great day! :-)
Challenge I'm submitting to: Creative Inspirations #155 Anything goes http://cinspirations.blogspot.com/2012/03/challenge-155-anything-goes.html