Sending You Monster Thanks

Hello there!

Is it a Happy Monday or a Blue Monday for you today? Mine is an ok-ish Monday. Hopefully it will get better as the days go by.

Anyway, I am here today to share a card for Make the Day Special Stamp Store September Colour Challenge. You need to pick a minimum of 3 colours from any one of the 3 images below.

I couldn't make my mind up which 3 colours to pick so I decided to use all colours from the left image. So here is my card:

I used the Monster Mash stamp set and Cole's ABC's Dies, both from Lawn Fawn, for my card. I also used Cuttlebug- Swiss Dots embossing folder to add some texture for the background. Here are a couple more closer shots.

I don't know if you can see the sparkle? I literally used the clear Wink of Stella brush pen on nearly everything!! ^_^

This card is cheerful and full of colour. I am sure it will make the recipient smile! ^_^

I hope you like the card and thanks for reading.  

          

Another Thank You Card

Good evening everyone!

Hope you had a pretty good day today. I am here for a quick post. Just want to share another 4" x 4" thank you card with you.

I used my new Clearly Besotted stamp set- Honeycomb for this card. I really like this stamp set. It has 9 different patterned hexagons, which you can use on their own or stamped inside the honeycomb outline, as I did here. With these stamps, it is also very easy to create the honeycomb shape you like. I think Clearly Besotted is discontinuing this stamp set, so it is currently on sale with 50% off, while stock last. If you like this stamp set, you better take the advantage of the offer and be quick!

I am also braving with my colour combinations. Never used green, pink and orange together. I am not quite sure about them but I think they are ok together right?! The sentiment is from Mama Elephant - Tiny Heroes. I stamped on black card and heat embossed it with Hero Art White Embossing Powder.

At the top of the card, I used washi tape which I got from Taiwan this summer. Then, I added a pink and white bakers twine and a mint small button. I think they work well with my colour theme.

Challenges:

• NBUS Challenges #5 - Clearly Besotted- Honeycomb stamp set is my never-before-used-schtuff.

•  Virginia's View Challenge #18: Geometric Patterns 

• Craft Your Passion Challenge #279 - Always Anything Goes

I hope you like the card and thanks for stopping by.

          

I'm Back With A Butterfly Thank You Card

Hi There!

I am still here! ^_^ Just gave myself a summer holiday from blogging. We had a fantastic summer break as we went back home to Taiwan to visit my parents, sisters, family members and friends. We have been spoilt by everyone and none of us wanted to come back really!! But unfortunately, life has to go on. We will just have to keep our spirits up and look forward to our next trip to Taiwan again.

School has started for more than a week now and so I shall be back in blog world too!!

I will start with a small thank you card (4" x 4") today. Some lovely parents of my daughters' friends were extremely helpful during the summer holiday. They saved our lives by looking after our daughters while me and my husband went to work. So, I made some thank you cards and gave them a big box of Cadbury's chocolates each to show our appreciation.  Here is one of the cards that I am sharing today.

I am in the mood for a bright and colourful card. So, colours of  the rainbow it is!!

I am entering this card to the following challenges:

• NBUS Challenge #5 - I have used the Clearly Besotted Honeycomb Die for the first time. This card was put together quite easily with these two little dies. 

• Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 193 - Tiny colourful snippets of cards and papers have been used for all those hexagon shapes.

• Craft your Passion #278 - Always Anything Goes 

Thank you for coming back to visit me. I hope you like this card. I think it is quite sweet! ^_^  See you soon and enjoy the rest of your week!

          

A Tini Note

Happy Weekend!

I broke my favourite water glass at work ages ago. It had different patterned, coloured apples on it. This highball glass was very cute! Since then I haven't found another glass that I like. The other day my lovely colleague Jenny who sits next to me came back from her lunch break and she found and bought me a glass. It has different small flowers on it and it is so sweet! So to thank her for thinking of me and her wonderfulness, I made her this card.

It couldn't be more suitable to give her a shaker card of various shaped glasses to say thank you for my water glass!! ^_^ This is a small 4" x 4" card. I used the Free Spirits stamp set and its coordinating dies from Paper Smooches for this card. I used Versa Mark ink and clear embossing power to create a tone on tone back ground. Here is a picture from the side:

I filled these glasses by using nail art beads and a very small amount of sequins. I actually found these nail art beads in my local pound shop. It comes in these cute small jars with twelve beautiful colours.

These beads are so so tiny and they are fantastic for shaker cards. The thickness of a children's fun foam will be enough for these beads to run freely in their space. No bulkiness, easy to put the card in the post and twelve colours for a pound! You can't go wrong with that!! Hee hee!! ^_^

When I say sequins.... they are actually the middle part of the sequins. Crafters never let things go to waste! All those little circles that fall out from the centre of sequins, that is what I added!

 

I love this card so much, I made another two but filled in different coloured beads each time!

 

I am also entering this card to:

• Paper Smooches Spark: June 7-13 Anything Goes (wk1) challenge

 

• Make the Day Special Stamp Store: June Colour Challenge 

I picked the image on the right and I think I did use all the colours!! ^_^

 

Hope your weekend is going well and thank you for stopping by!

          

Thank you! (Honey Bunny from Mama Elephant)

Happy Wednesday!

Half way through the week and we are a bit closer to the weekend again! Yeah~

Yes, I am lucky enough to get hold of this Honey Bunny stamp set from Mama Elephant. (Another item ticked off from my wish list!) Thanks to Make The Day Special Stamp Store for bringing these wonderful stamps from the U.S. to the U.K. So here is a thank you card made by using this cute stamp set.

I made this card for my lovely sister-in-law to thank her for helping us to get hold of a second hand 10 foot trampoline. She and my brother-in-law also gave us a hand to put the trampoline together. In less than 2 hours, the trampoline was up and now our two girls have been on it every single day. They absolutely love it!!

With the cute bunny image, I managed to put this card together easily in no time. I will be entering this card to Make the Day Special Stamp Store Challenge 2  based on the colour palette choice below:

I love pink and grey. It is one of my favourite colour combinations! I used the heart shape stamp that comes with  the Honey Bunny stamp set and made my own background. Then, I simply stamped the bunny, the bow and the flowers on a piece of white card. Copic marker pens were used to add a touch of colour and then this was layered onto various patterned papers. Finally, I used silver ink to stamp 'Thank You!' directly on the card. (Sentiment stamp is from See D's Clear Rubber Stamp - Thank you.)   

 

As you can see, a little bit of colouring and some shiny gems will simply make you go awwww... to this sweet bunny! 

I am sure I will make more cards with this Honey Bunny stamp set. I had to show you all the cute images that are in the set. They are just adorable!

Have a nice evening! ^_^

 

Lawn Fawn CHA 2014 Catalog Challenge - Card 1

Hello,

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

I simply love Lawn Fawn designs! Their stamp sets, dies and papers are just so cute! Although I don't own many of their products (it's hard to buy in the UK), as soon as I saw the Lawn Fawn CHA 2014 Catalog Challenge, I just had to try and give it a go!!

I could enter the challenge by using previous Lawn Fawn card I made (see here). However, as the rules stated no patterned paper and no other company's stamps, I had to recreate a new card but used the same idea.

 

 

All stamped images and the sentiment here are from the Summertime Charm stamp set. This is the very first Lawn Fawn stamp set that I purchased. I also bought the coordinated die which makes cutting out images so much easier. I just love this little jar. You can literally fill anything you want in it!!   

Ribbons and sequins are from my own stash. To add shine and glitter on some of the stars, crystal Stickles glue has also been added.

I will be back with another Lawn Fawn card tomorrow.

Partying soon

We have recently been invited to a wedding evening reception by my hubby's cousin. His daughter will be married in April this year. I love weddings!! Another chance to dress up, party and have fun! Just can't wait!

My friend Erin has recently recommend this Get Sketchy Card Challenge website. So I thought I would give their latest sketch #74 a go. Here is the sketch. A very simple sketch. 

So I have made this card for accepting their wedding invite. It is very difficult to photograph this card. I tried many times, without flash it is blur and with flash the shining pearlescent paper just reflects the light. This is as good as I can get.

I always find simple sketch/ designs difficult. I admire people who can make clean, simple but powerful cards. I hope you like this card. My hubby said it looks better than their wedding evening invitation. Not sure if it is true or he simply said that because he loves me!!

Bed time now. Sweet dreams!

Just Magnolia

Here is a thank you card which I made over the weekend for entering in the Just Magnolia Week 64 Challenge - Bev's sketch.


When I saw the sketch, I just fell in love with it! I flipped the sketch 180 degrees and it took me no time to create this card.

Tilda was coloured by Copic markers, Brushables pens and Sakura Glaze pens. I bought the pink beaded chain a while ago. It is very pretty but I never knew how and where to use it. Finally I got to use it this time! I pierced two small holes on card and pushed the first bead of the chain through the holes which hold the chain in place. I then used silicone glue to attach the beaded chain on card. Background paper is from "My Minds's Eye" which is my favorite at the moment.
I enjoyed making this card and I certainly will use this sketch again! Have a nice day!

Love,