ABNH -Tone on Tone

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I can't resist making another card for the challenge at ABNH.  This time, I stamped the HA Magical Background in Desert Sand on a kraft cardstock.  Then I used staz on to stamp HA Wildflower Garden on a acetate.  Lastly, I heat embossed the sentiment in gold on a torn piece of vellum.

I would like to pop this card into the following challenges :  CASolgy, Stamping Sensations, CAS-ual Fridays. House of Cards and Simon Wednesdays Challenge.

A peep on the separate pieces.  I also stamped the inner card.

It's going to be a long weekend over here and we are driving to the the north of France for a short trip.  Thereafter, school begins ):  Enjoy your day!  

ABNH

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This is my second week off and I am treasuring every moment of it.  I did a lot of spring cleaning - OMG!  Everything is so dusty!

Have you heard about the latest challenge over at ABNH - all about Tone on Tone!  It was kind of a challenge to me as I took awhile to figure to make a reasonable card.

One thing I like about ABNH is that they encourage using old HA stamps and I decided to pull out HA Starburst Lace.  My tone on tone stamping is simply by using black ink on the black background and a contrast HA unicorn ink.  The sentiment is heat embossed in white on a torn vellum.

I would like to pop this card into the following challenge Stamping Sensations, House of Cards, CASology and CAS-ual Fridays.

Here are some more of the tulips photos which I promised a few days ago.  Have you seen this colour before - it is dark purple.

I love this shocking pink...

 DH behind the scene!

Hope you have enjoyed the rest of the tulips and I am going back to creating cards again....WOOHOO!

Lawn Fawn

Made this critters card for my nephew who will be celebrating his 10th birthday. I used several stamp sets from Lawn Fawn, coloured in copics and fussy cut them.  Popping this card into Lawnscaping challenge.

Added some glossy accents

Made a small envelope for gift card inside

I am glad that DH's party is over now and I was very happy with how things went.  I would like to share some things which I made.  I decorated these disposable plastics....

with washi tapes.  Don't really use my tapes so much but I was very please with the result.

Made some fruits on sticks.  It was a big hit!

Meat balls on sticks

I did made more than these but somehow I was too busy and rather stressed that I forgot to take more pictures.

I am glad that you drop by today.  We are having some glorious weather here!

PTI MIM #247

I made this card for my father as his hearing is getting poorer.  Everytime, I call home, he could barely hear me and I had to shout at the top of my voice.  Three days ago, when I called him, I spent 5 minutes explaining that it was me and he still could not get me until my mum took over!

Therefore, I decided that I should go back to the old fashion way to communication by sending him a card.

At PTI MIM, Melissa showed us some fun with watercolouring.  For this card, I used PTI A Little Agryle which I used it for the background stamping.  The tree is from PTI Father Knows Best which is stamped on watercolour cardstock and heat embossed in white.  Then, I used TH distress inks to watercolour the image and did some sprinkling.  Lastly, I added some clear sequins.

Weather has been very nice the last few days and it's going to continue for the next days....  

Yesterday, DH and I decided to go cycling to look for fields of tulips which we always do almost every year!  We cycled about 17.5km knowing what is ahead of us until we saw this.... and I thought, I still need to go home.....

We missed the season-my heart sank!  Then we cycled a little bit further to look around and found these.  These are nothing as compared to previous years but I was happy with them.

The fully bloomed tulips.

At the far end whereby you see the greens, they should have been colours!

 A peep inside the orange tulip

I will be back to show you more of the tulips of different colours soon.  Hope you enjoyed the tulips and thanks for dropping by!

Notebook

I made this mini notebook for a colleague's birthday sometime ago.  The die cut is from Lawn Fawn Stitched Party Banner.  The stamp is from PB Posies which is coloured with TH distress inks, sprayed with water and stamped.

Added some embellishements and coloured with copics.  I also stamped the inside of the notebook with PTI Topiary Trees.

I would like to pop this into the following challenges : Stamping Sensations, Penny Black and More and CAS-ual Fridays.

Thanks for coming by today!

Paper Players #293

Weather is going to be good this coming days-it's going to be above 18 degrees celcius from Thursday onwards!  Woohoo! Good for my DH as he is celebrating his 50th birthday!

Today's card is a very typical dutch scene.  It's tulips season at the moment and with the good weather coming up, there are going to be tons of cyclists.  So, I thought I should incorporate this into my card.

The background blue is stamped on a watercolour paper.  The tulips are from HA Antique Flower Engraving which is stamped on TH distress inks, sprayed with water on it and stamped on the cardstock.

The bicycle die cut is from Memory box.  I am popping this card into the following challenge : The Paper Players.

Have a good day!

ABNH

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Woohoo! Finally, it's holiday and I am really looking forward to it to be able to catch up with my card making!  My first card to celebrate my 2 weeks holiday!

I am going for a clean and simple and a one layer card!  First, I covered the four corners with masking tape and I stamped the image from HA Good Thoughts on a watercolour cardstock.  Then watercolour the background with TH distress ink salty ocean.

The sentiment is from HA It's Your Day which is heat embossed in white on a black cardstock.  I finished the card with some black embellishments and applied Wink of Stella.

I would like to pop this card into A Blog Named Hero, Simon Wednesday Challenge and Time Out Challenge.

very difficult to capture the glitteres from WOS!

I remembered planting several white tulips last November but only two bloomed!  Anyway, just wanted to share with you the beauty of white tulips!

 Thank you for dropping by and have a good day!

Simon Monday Challenge

Has it ever occurred to you that when you wanted to make something, that something just doesn't work out!  Yesterday, I wanted to make a card but it just didn't work out as planned.

Today, I wanted to make something of spring related card whereby butterflies and flowers to be in the pictures, I found some scraps which I made ages ago but they were failure. OK, now it came in handy as I used them for my butterflies and tulips die cuts.  They were originally coloured in watercolour but somehow I didn't like them then.

The background is distressed in several colours. HA unicorn ink is lightly pressed with a sponge on a TH stencil and I wanted to use HA Manuscript stamp on the background too.  Then I applied paste on honeycomb stencil randomly.

I am popping this card into the following challenges : Simon Monday Challenge and Craft Stamper.

Have a good Sunday and thank you for dropping by!

STAMPlorations Stencil Sunday #42

This is my second posting of the day.  Just found out that there is a Stencil linky party over at STAMPlorations and it's closing in 13 hours' time.  Here is my card for today's party.

The stencil which I used today is a butterfly stencil from Imagination Craft. Instead of using modeling paste, I used watercolour for this project.  The colours which I used are from TH distress inks : mustard seed, peel paint and peacock feathers.  The quote is from Kaisercraft Blue Ray which I stamped and heat embossed in a piece of torn vellum - there are a number of quotes from Blue Ray which I love.

Thank you for dropping by again!

CASology-Pink

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When I first saw this card made by Jennifer McGuire I fell in love with it immedietely and I knew that I had to make it.  Yeah!  Finally, I got the time to make it and I just love the softness, the feminism  and most of all the simplicity of it!

The stamp which I used is from PB Divine which is stamped in black and watercoloured.  The vellum part is heat embossed in white.

I am popping this card into the following challenges :Curtain Call, CASology, Inspired by all the Things and AAA cards.

Have a good Sunday and thanks for dropping by!

Viva la Verve Sketches Apr #1

It's sketchy week at Viva la Verve.  I don't usually use patterned paper but I can't resist using this one today.

The sentiment which I use today is from the set Verve Because of You. The spellbinders for this card are labels seventeen, label ten and majestic elements. I also did a triple bow to balance up the sketch!

I am also popping this card into Simon Wednesday Challenge.

Have a fabulous weekend!

The Card Concept #52

Yay!  It's Friday which means it's my off day.  Looking at the photo inspiration at The Card Concept, I am inspired by the music notes, the ribbon and the black/ white theme.  I am going for the Clean and Layered style.

The music background is from HA which is heat embossed in white. Then I die cut spellbinder Diamond Effect and stamped the sentiment from Reverse Confetti which I thought it matches well with the background notes.

Thanks for dropping by!

Reverse Confetti #35

Made this little gift card for my colleague by using the sketch from Reverse Confetti.   The kraft flowers are from Confetti Cut Petal n Roses and the sentiment is from the set Lots to Say.

I am also popping this into Simon Wednesday Challenge.

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It's towards the end of the day already and we had lovely spring weather today.  I hope yours is as lovely as ours!  Thanks for dropping by.