Birthday Blooms - Happy Mother's Day Card

So, on Monday hubby just mentioned that perhaps I can make a Mother's Day card for mum, and all of a sudden it left panic for a little bit.  I mean I know it's Mother's Day, but I forgot to make one for her!  And Tuesday somehow I forgot again!  (What is wrong with me lol)

So this morning (Wednesday thank goodness I remember it today)  I've made a card using the Birthday Blooms set, and couldn't be happier with it.

(Mind you I actually coloured and hand-cut the flower last night, so technically I didn't forget on Tuesday.  I was just slow lol)

As mentioned the flower image is from the gorgeous "Birthday Blooms" set, which is applied with heat embossing then coloured.  The sentiment "You are Made of Wonderful" is from another stamp set called "Picture Perfect" (fantastic set that comes with layering rose +leaves, humming bird, and star fish stamps.  The cardstock colour is "Pool Party".  See below.

Blue and aviation - Father's Day Card

Question: When is Father's day?

Well, the answer is pretty confusing, as unlike Mother's Day, (commonly known to fall on the second Sunday of May) people tend to disagree on the dates ( in other words dads are never comparable to mums.  Oops did I say that?)  And it didn't help that I have lived in so many different cities and none of them have the same one.   

For example, where I'm from, Taiwan, it is August 8, as this date spoken in Chinese is 'ba yue(month) ba ri(day) ',  which is the exact sound of father(bah-bah.) in Chinese.   And then I was in China for nearly four years, Indonesia for two, Singapore nearly 3 and now Dubai, which all have different dates.  To add to the confusion, Peter is from Australia, and it just happens that today is Father's Day in Australia!

But the surprise doesn't knock me down.  As I'm a crafter and there ain't nothing crafters can't do, I quickly skimmed through my stash of papers and found one that's masculine and has nothing frilly attached to it. And then I made this card.

And I remember someone told me this.  "Remember, it doesn't matter what you like, men don't like buttons, flowers or any cute pattern added to his manly card.  So don't add glitter or sparkles or any girly decorations.  Because it's for him, not for you. "   So I added only the eyelets to complete the manly look of the card.  


Another small mission accomplished.  Happy Father's Day, Peter.  :-)

Inspirations! Lovely Doily Christmas Card

As mentioned earlier this month, the end of 2013 and beginning of 2014 is going to be hectic - and it is.  My daughter and I just came back from Dubai last week, and we were both exhausted.  Good thing is we're lucky to be given enough time to recover, and now I'm good to make some more cards again.

Although not very productive I still managed to make a very cute birthday card for a friend's son, and another Christmas card inspired by this one:

http://mercedesweber.blogspot.ca/2013/11/aww-nov-1.html

My version is not as pretty but still not too bad, with a change of colours

For the snowflake shape and the round label I downloaded them from Silhouette Online Store. One is a Print-and-Cut file and the other a plain cut. The rest is all pretty easy.


It is really fun making this card although I know I need more practice to make it as beautiful as the original. And as always you'd think you got it all perfect and clean and bam! a scratch of my gel pen is left on the card.

Christmas Card - Rustic Label and Blue and White Snowflakes

And Christmas is just 'round the corner... especially for card makers.

The other day I have bought many cheap Christmas stamps and have spent the next three days experimenting with them.  For 1.9 SGD each they are fantastic deals!  

(Pictures above are from Made with Love, my favourite local scrapbooking shop)

http://madewithlove.com.sg/fantastic-new-arrivals-friday/  

Admittedly I'm not a fast card-maker.  And too much play means not much work done.  Eventually I only produced one Christmas card.  Barely.  

PS: Not a pro shot since I only got one ordinary Canon camera and no special lighting equipment.  And hey it's homemade and low budget, and it's the heart that counts! Love.

Heat-embossing Happy Birthday Card

In general, I'm quite a happy woman - I have a really cool husband who is a big supporter of whatever I do, a 3.5 year old daughter who throws her tantrum like - never, and a whole bunch of good friends who are funny, interesting, and share their lives with you sometimes in a silly way just as you do with them.  And I sleep well, eat well, and have little things to worry about. As a result, I don't have migraine very often. Maybe once a month?  

But yesterday I had one that lingers in my head, on and off for a whole day.  Perhaps that explains why out of the blue I made a card using these colours.  But they turn out great!  :-D

To shift my thoughts away from too much youtube, which I think is why I had migraine, I 

1. Made card base

2. Picked a blue patterned paper and red embossing powder and heat-embossed it.  

3. stick it to the card. Adhere ribbon

4. Affix pearls to Happy Birthday die cut and adhere the piece to card.

Tools used

1. Zing! Embossing powder - Rouge

2. Spellbinder - Nestabilities Labels 4

3. Cuttlebug (to emboss) 

4. Staz On Solvent Ink Pad -Blazing Red

5. Martha Stewart Butterflies Stamp Set

And the result is a really cool combination of red and blue, and the red embossed butterflies really pop!  It also proves that it's really not my fault to burn the paper the other day when trying to emboss a panel at Nathalie's place. Hint: Someone should probably consider changing her 10-year-old heat gun. Hehehe.

 

Just look how beautiful the emboss is!

Make Waves Card - simple and bright. Inspired by Amber Daigre's design in Papercrafts Magazine JulyAugust 2012

There are always brilliant artists who can make simple things wow, just like Miss Amber Daigre (http://www.damasklove.com/).  This morning I was just flipping through my old magazines, and happened to find a simple yet beautiful card creation by Daigre.  And it just happened that I also have the stamps (Borrowed from my good crafty friend Nathalie Durand, when she's on vacation to Bali two weeks ago!)  So I thought, hey, why don't I try with my white embossing powder?

What can I say? I love the embossing effects and am so excited about the look on this light orange paper.  Woohoo!

1. Make white card base.
2. Make orange panel. Stamp Shell and Make Waves with glue pad.  Emboss with white embossing powder and heat tool.
3. Mat panel with cardstock and adhere with foam tape.