For my Valentine!

Hello!

How's your Saturday so far?! It was such a windy and rainy night, last night. I was worried that my roof might get blown away! ^_^ This morning the wind continued to blow hard and strong. One of our back fence panel has finally came down. Not good! :'( Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed your Valentine's Day yesterday. For those who are Chinese, or Taiwanese like me, I hope you also enjoyed the Lantern Festival yesterday and hope you all had those yummy sticky rice balls!!

So I am here today to share the Valentine's card that I made for my husband yesterday.

 

I thought of the card game that my daughters play sometimes. You have to shout out "Snap!" when you saw the same matching cards that have been turned over. (Is this card game just called 'Snap'?) It is quite exciting to play. The main fire on the log stamp image is from Lawn Fawn's Cosy Christmas set. The two little hearts above the cute fire is from Lawn Fawn's Making Frosty Friends. It just shows that Christmas stamp sets are not just for Christmas. I then created a simple border on the top and bottom of the card by using the hollow and solid heart stamps from Summertime Charm set, also from Lawn Fawn. Sentiments are created by using the studio g- Alphabet Stamp set  Series 1, cART-Us clear alphabet stamps and Stampendous!- a la Mode Alphabet. Finally just added crystal Stickle glue on those small hearts for some shine.

 

Here are some more photos of the card.

 

 

I am not sure if this card is masculine enough for males but hey it's Valentine's day! It's got to have some sort of reddish colour, hearts and the feel of lovey dovey in it, right?! ^_^    

 

Oh! Just to mention that we, in the UK, are so lucky to have an internet shop called Make The Day Special. They stock and sell all famous U.S. brand stamps, dies and craft supplies, like Lawn Fawn, CAS-ual Fridays, Mama Elephant, Paper Smooches etc. If you also love these hard to purchase U.S. brands then you must check it out! Make the Day Special is currently running a romantic theme competition. You still have time to join, just enter it by tomorrow the 16th on their Facebook site. That is where I am going next!

 

Hope you have a nice weekend and I promise I will be back to share my daughter's birthday invitation and party goodies soon.

    



 

All my love...

Hello Blogland!

Now it has been a long long LONG time since I last blogged. I guess it is about time that I picked this blog up and gave it a good dust and polish. I've been continuing to make cards while I was having a break. I think it really is the time to share those creations!!

I hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day the other day. Mine was fantastic! Had a lovely dinner, cooked by my lovely husband, at home with my two sweet girls. What more can you ask for huh?! So to start the blog off again, I will share my Valentine's card:

This is a 4" x 4" card. I stamped a faint swirl image and embossed it with more swirls. Not sure if this makes the card look too busy? Stamped and heat embossed the heart in silver and added a red gem in the middle. Then I added a pink ribbon and attached the tag and heart with foam pads. This is quite a clean and simple card for me- white with a little colour. I like it!

Here is a close up shot of the card:

 

Of course, I will not miss the chance to enter a challenge or two:

 

Moving Along With the Time: Love is in the air

Divas by Design: Love and Romance

Craft Your Passion Challenges #149: My Valentine

 

I hope somebody is still out there reading this.... not just me talking to myself!  Or hope that someone will find me again and leave me a little love~  

 

Thanks for reading and hope to see you soon!

You're the cream in my coffee

Hi blog friends,

Didn't think that you will see me again this quick huh?! ^_^

Talking about quick, this will have to be a quick post. As it is very very late and I should really be in bed by now!! Just want to share the card that I made for my husband tonight. It is not the usual Valentine colour but I like it!

I guess this is the quickest card I ever made too! I think I am getting used to clean and simple styled cards. All the stamped images, including sentiment, are from TPC Studio Coffee Cafe Clear Stamps set. I have paper piecing the coffee cup. Stamped the row of coffee beans in Brilliance Coffee Bean ink colour. (I am not sure about those coffee beans. I don't think they are straight!!) Then stamped the sentiment "You're the cream in my coffee" at the bottom and added gems on each side.

Here is a closer look of the main image.

I am entering this card to the following challenges:

CAS-ual Fridays - CFC39: Clean And Simple Paper Piecing

Less is More: Week 54 One Layer Card with Stripes (I don't think I ever made a one layer card. It is hard to keep it to the basic. Hope paper piecing still count as one layer, if not feel free to remove my entry.)

*Edit: Just found out that "paper piecing is actually adding a layer as it can't really be regarded as an embellishment". Nevermind, first attempt. Now I know it. Will try again with one layer card next time.

Sweet Stampin': Clean and Simple

Hope you have a great day and Happy Valentine's Day to you all!