One card, two challenges

I made this card last Friday for my neighbour's little boy's 6th birthday. All kids had a great time at the Hollywood Bowl playing two games of bowling!

                 

This is the first time I used this George stamp from Elzybells. Sadly Elzybells is closing down and all their stamps are 50% off. Unfortunately George is now out of stock. But if you like their stamps, you better be quick. As you need to get them while you can!

OK, back to the card. I used water colour pencils to colour in the stamped image. All background papers and border are from Cardmaking and Papercraft's free summer paper and docraft's Daisy & Dandelion Picnic Patch collection. Here is a closer look of the image:

I am entering this card for Cardmaking and Papercraft's Sketch Challenge. The sketch is quite easy to follow and I like it.

I am also entering The Play Date Cafe Challenge 42 by using the colour combination of dark brown, green and beige. I have to say for a million years I would never use these colours together. Now I made this card and I think I am starting to like these colours together. Quite masculine, great to use on men's cards!

It's getting really late now. Better get off to bed. Sweet dreams!

Happy Father's Day , Dad!

It's Father's Day today in Taiwan. I made this card for my dad nearly a week ago and I hope it has arrived on time by airmail!!

I am sure you all agree that it is difficult to make men's cards. For a few days I couldn't make my mind up as to which image or style I should make. In the end, I decided to use a few of my daughters recent photos to make the card. Since my dad hasn't seen them for three years, I am sure he will appreciate the card! This is the first time I have used photos on a card. I quite like it! These are the strawberries which we grew in our garden this summer. It was quite lucky that I found this brown backing paper in my card stash. The lime green boarder and 2 large strawberries just coordinate with the photos so well!

I had to make this card into an easel card. It is one of those cards that should be displayed on the mantlepiece. Hee hee! Here is another photo from the side. The strawberry boarder at the bottom is quite cute too.

I used peel offs for the greetings and added green coloured gems along the lime green boarder.

This time I thought I will try acetate for the card. I used white coloured ink to stamp the swirl image and I've also used white colour ink to stamp 3 stars and placed peel off alphabets in each star that reads Dad. I think acetate always gives the card another dimension
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Hope dad will like this card and I am sure mum will find a place to display it somewhere in the house proudly!!

Happy Father's Day, Dad! Hope you have a wonderful day!

Love,

Suspension Card

It's been a short while since my last post. I have met two of my high school friends in Cambridge last Saturday. We had such a great time. It has been a good 10 to 15 years since I last saw them! WOW! Time flies and looking back at it, it's kind of scary!

I have been busy making cards over the last few days and now all I need is to find the time to post them! So I will start with a quick and short post today.

I made this card for my neighbour's little boy's third birthday last week. On the most recent August issue of Quick Cards magazine, it has featured a suspension card under their Card School project. It has been a while since I last made a suspension card, so I thought I will give it another go. 

The stamped image of Bentley Bear blowing candles is from a free stamp set which came with Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine. Text and number have been stamped by using Stampendous - a la Mode lower case alphabet set.

I just love the movable element , with its spinning centre, on a suspension card. It's fun, it spins and it's eye-catching! Here is a picture of the greeting on the other side. 

It certainly impressed my neighbour and her little boy!

Smiles,