Happy Independence Day!

It's 4th of July tomorrow, Happy Independence Day to all! Made this simple card last minute with watercolor, stamp and star sequins. Have a great celebration everyone!

Supplies:

- CutCardStock #100 White Cougar Card Stock

- Core'dinations White Card Stock

- CutCardStock Metallic Stardream Blue

- Loew Cornell 36 Watercolor

- Star Sequins

- gStudio Clear Stamp (Celenrate 4th of July)

Submitted this card to the following challenge(s):

- Quick Quotes #41 Star Challenge
- DL.ART #135 Thankful Thursday Challenge

                                                                   Thanks for looking! :)

Upcycled Oatmeal Container

My recent project - recycling an oatmeal container to a home decor (wall frame). I had been wanting to do this for awhile now but got demotivated due to never ending house chores and two young kiddos. Until two days ago I got so determined to start this project and tell you what, I finished it! lol. How many of you have unfinished project(s)? I have countless! ***guilty*** I feel so satisfied to get this one done and in such a short time too!

Here is the final result, to be honest it looks a lot better in real. I cut the container manually to like 1.5" wide for each of them.

Wrapped them around with patterned papers and embellished with embellishments.

My daughter in picture

This wired flowers I got from recent's Basic Grey warehouse sales, I didn't know what to do with them at first but now I think they found their home. lol. 

Prima trinkets, alphas and American Crafts Pins. 

My little handsome man in the house :-)

This is before the project! We are oatmeal lovers!

I submitted this project to Cricut's I Made It contest, if not mistaken the contest ends 30th July so get your entries in for the chance to win a Cricut Explorer machine. Fingers crossed. :)

Supplies and tools:

- One empty Oatmeal Container (cut into about 1.5 inches wide)

- Prima Flowers

- Basic Grey Wired Flowers

- Prima Chipboard Alphabets

- Prima Embellishments/Trinkets

- Prima Butterflies

- Webster Pages Trim

- Webster Pages Flowers

- Webster Pages Pin

- Heidi Swapp Paper Bow Tie

- Celebrate It Ribbon

- Offray Ribbon

- American Crafts Cloth Pins

- Recollections Papers

- Blings

-  Xyron Mega Runner

- Xyron Adhesive Dots

- Heat Gun

- Hemp rope

- We R Memory Keeper Eyelet Setter

Submitted this to the following challenge(s):
- DL.ART Thankful Thursday July Challenge
- Southern Girl Something Round Challenge

Thank you for looking!

Wonderful News!

Yes! I have some wonderful news to share with you all! I have been selected by Just For Fun Stamps and Clear Scraps to be one of their team designers recently ! I'm so very excited and grateful to be given such an amazing opportunity to work for them, they have such great products that I can't wait to get my hands on! For some of you who have not heard about them, Just For Fun Stamps is a stamp manufacturer (they manufacture/sell many different types of stamps for different occasions such as Birthday, Wedding, Anniversary Halloween - just to name a few) whereas Clear Scraps produces stencils, masks, albums, inks and many more (they have monthly kit too, great for scrapbooking and card making if you are interested)! Take a moment and check out their websites to learn more about their products, I'm sure you will like them. :-)

I will start posting for JFF Stamps in July and the beginning of August for Clear Scraps. Don't forget to come back to see what we will create! 

Here I want to take the opportunity to thank both companies for giving me the chance, it truly is a great honor to be on your teams! THANK YOU! XOXO

Now move on to the card, made this card after I saw a color combo of grey and green on my hubby's phone when he showed me something. So I used shades of black to make this Thank You card. I only had three ink pads, black (Versafine), Charcoal and Granite (Hero Arts) thus the flow of color from dark to lighter grey is not vivid. 

The background flowers and Thank You words are stamped image.

Stamped another flower image and colored it with Spectrum Noir markers in green.

As for you, thank you too! You have been an amazing and loyal reader/supporter! :)

Love You Bunches!

Here is a love card on a non-valentine's day! I was playing with dauber and inks and this is the result of my experiment, totally worth the time. hehe. I daubed the background with different colors of ink and sprayed with gold and white Color Shine (one after another, spray the gold and let dry before applying the white color) from Heidi Swapp. It gives the card a beautiful shiny treatment. :)

Embossed with Cricut embossing folder side-ways, leaving enough room for title

"XOXO" embellishment alphas are from Basic Grey, I recently purchased their warehouse sale's box and it contains pretty much alphabet stickers in there. So I picked one of the styles and embossed it in gold embossing powder.

Co-incidentally, the heart-shape embellishments they are also from BG.

Close-up, love the gold!

Thank you again for taking time to look at my project, I'm grateful for your support! Thank you and have a wonderful day!

Supplies and tools:

- Core'dinations White Card Stock (Card Base)

- CutCardStock #100 Cougar White Card Stock

- Jilibean Soup Stamp

- Basic Grey Heart Embellishments

- Basic Grey Alphabet Card Stock Stickers

- Cricut Embossing Folder XOXO

- Recollections Embossing Powder (Gold)

- Heidi Swapp Color Shines (Gold and White)

- Daubers

- Momento Dew Drops Color Ink

- Xyron Mega Runner

- Xyron 150 Sticker Maker

- 3M Double-Sided Foam Tape

Late Night Posting

Time for bed but can't help but to share this card that I just made! I love it, what do you think? Perfect for soon-to-be bride!

Bride-2-Be Card

Thank you for popping in to check out! I hope you have a great weekend, I can't wait for my weekend to start tomorrow. :) Good night!

Supplies:
- Recollections Ivory Card Base
- Basic Grey 6x6 What's Up Paper Pad
- CutCardStock Basis #80 Coral Card Stock
- Doilies
- Lifestyle Crafts Chain Embossing Folder
- gStudio Embellishment (Bridal Shower)
- Flower Charm (forgot where I had gotten this)
- Celebrate It Satin Ribbon (Yellow)

Coloring with Spectrum Noir

Coloring flower with Spectrum Noir Markers.

Water-colored the embossed greens in the background 

Second attempt, somehow the same color doesn't work as well as the first card shown above. The blue flower looks great though, love the color just spread out smoothly and evenly. I should perhaps improve the red/pink flower by adding another layer of light pink all over.

Title stamp from Jilibean Soup. Background flowers are from the same stamp but embossed in white embossing powder.

Supplies for Card 1:
- Core'dinations White Card Stock
- Prima 6x6 Paper Pad
- Fiskars Stamps
- Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers
- Martha Stewart Punch 
- Darice Embossing Folder
- Loew Cornell 36 Watercolor

Supplies for Card 2:
- Recollections Kraft Card Base
- Fiskars Stamp
- Jilibean Soup Samp
- Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers
- Inkadinkado Embossing Powder (White)
- Darice Embossing Folder
- Loew Cornell 36 Watercolor
- Doodlebug Sequins (Pool)

Entered these cards to the following challenge(s):

- Southern Girls Challenge (Punches)

- Quick Quotes Challenge #40 

Thanks for stopping by to check out my creations! :) 

Enjoyed My Little Break Time

I have two cards to share today, made them while my second child was napping. Feeling satisfied, indeed it is therapeutic :)

Card 1 - Wishing you Joy

Background is embossed stamped image in clear powder, water colored all over in grey followed by daubing around each star with grey stamp pad from Tsukineko

Embellished with cut-outs of stamped image from Hero Arts Stamp

Title from Jilibean Soup Stamp

Supplies:
- Bazzill Teal Card Stock
- CutCardStock White Cougar #100 Cardstock
- Loew Cornell 36-color Watercolor
- Hero Arts Year Round Stamp 
- Jilibean Soup Stamp
- Tsukineko Dew Drop Grey
- Inkadinkado Embossing Powder (Clear)

Card 2 - You make the world a better place

The current trend is water-coloring so I have been playing a lot with watercolor too lately. Used Loew Cornell 36-Color watercolor.

Paper is not flat due to the water-coloring, I have seen some people does not have such problem. Anyone of you know how to solve this issue? Any guidance is greatly appreciated!

Love embossing in gold, stamp from Inkadinkado

Supplies:

- Bazzill Teal Green Card Stock

- CutCardStock White Cougar #100 Cardstock

- Loew Cornell 36-color Watercolor

- Doodblebug Sequins (Pool)

- CAS-ual Friday Stamp

- Inkadinkado Stamp

- Inkadinkado Embossing Powder (Gold)

Thanks for looking!