SSS Flickr Challenge #39

Some of you might recognise this overlap stamping during the Simon Says Bloghop which happened a couple of days ago.  There is a video tutorial done by by Jennifer McGuire during the hop.

I decided to give it a try on a tag which is also the challenge over at SSS Flickr Challenge.  Since the tag is so colourful, I decided to leave the pot of cactus from SSS Cups and Succulent white except clear embossed the cactus.  Then, I used the SSS Thanks die cut as an inlaid.  The background is stamped with SU Grunge and some glossy accents are added randomly.

Thank you everyone for your well wishes. My voice is slowly returning but I am still not talking too much yet.  Some of you might wonder, how can I not talk for a week long? Well, by nature I am a quite person, so this doesn't really affect me! However, my DH is kinda affected because there is not much response from me!

Thank you for taking time to drop by...

Craft Stamper Feb 2016

I am a ColourQ Coutiers!

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I am back!!  School is having a week break this week which give me sometime to go back into the blogging and making some cards again.

I am combining this card into two challenges which are at ColourQ by using black/ white with a spot of colour and at Craft Stamper which is all about "text".

This poppy might look familiar to some of you - it's from PB Divine set.  The original set comes with two poppies only and I added the third one to fill-up the space!

I thought, besides colouring onto this big space, I could also stamped some text onto it - I used HA Newspaper Background stamp.  I did some paper-pieced on this project.  The background splatters are from SU Grundge.  I decided to pop my colour on the leaves.

I added some glossy accents on the leaves to give it a little morning dew look.

Today, is the fifth day that I lost my voice.  The first three days was the worst as I could barely talked just because I had to work with the children. 

As it was towards the end of the second term, we had a bake and sale at school.  I had to bake some cookies with the 4-5 years old children.  As you could imagined already, how could I work without talking to them so, I had to force myself with my whisper voice to give some instructions.  I tried to explain to them that I lost my voice - but they just stared at me and gave me a look "why are you whispering, Ms. Lai Yoke?"!  There was one boy who just whispered to me just because I whispered to them!  At times, it's fun to work with this little children as you don't know what to expect from them.  

So much for the week and I hope my voice will be back soon!  Have a great Sunday!

Reverse Confetti Feb

Hiya, sorry I have not been around much lately as I am so exhausted after work. I still make cards but I don't post them so much lately as it took up more time then I thought.

Anyway, here is a card for sketech from Reverse Confetti combined with the colour challenge fromColourQ.

The background is stamped with SU Grundge in white.  This card is more of using die cuts from Reverse Confetti Petals 'N Posies with elements such as vellum, burlap, velt and button.

Thanks for dropping by and have a good weekend!

LIM #218

"Predominently Black" is the colour challenge over at Less Is More.  I have chosen to use the set WPlus8 Fresh Cut Floral which are stamped in HA Soft Granite and black.  The background stamping is from SU Grunge set and the die cut is from SSS which is die cut in black and blue as a second colour.  The corner stripes is from Reverse Confetti set.  Added some matching blue rhinestones on the flower.

I am also popping this card into WPlus9 - Thursday Throwback and The Paper Players.

This card will go to Taylored Expressions - Share the Joy Campaign.

Thanks for dropping by.

Color Throwdown #324

Hello everyone,

I am back from the warm country about two weeks ago but as usual, it took awhile before my mojo is back again.  If I am still not too late, I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year!

I am starting off this year with a Valentine card for a card drive which is organised by Winter Wonderland and using the colour inspiration from Color Throwdown.

The banner set is from SU.  As this card is heading to the hospital, there is nothing of buttons, glitters, sequins or anything that can be pulled out as it might pose as a choking hazard!

Besides visiting Malaysia this year, we flew to Krabi, Thailand for a couple of days for snorkeling and rafting.  Although, the flying was only an hour, the weather was surprisingly different from Malaysia as the humidity in Krabi was lower which made it very pleasant to walk around.  Here are a couple of photos from Krabi...

Krabi is a small town and as I understood that there were only three traffic lights and I spotted this zebra crossing!

Getting ready for snorkeling trip in our purple boat

Stopover for lunch on the white beach

"Take Away" boats along the coast

At a waterfall and our feet were "cleansed" by the fishes!

One of the temples 

Spotted these elephants after our ride

Thank for dropping by and have a great day!

Make The Day Special September Sketch

Yay, it's Friday and the weather has been absolutely beautiful for the last few days.

Today, I am using the SU thinlit dies for Make The Day Special sketch challenge.

The front part of the turnable circle is from Lawn Fawn Critters in the Snow which is heat embossed and distressed.  The backside of the circle is a sentiment from HA.  The background is from HA Snowflakes which are heat embossed in white and silver.  Clear sequins are added onto the background.  I am popping this into Stamplorations challenge.

 

top view of the card  

backside

Have a great weekend!

AEIHeart U #15

Happy Sunday to all! My daughter, Claire and I would like thank all of your sweet wishes for her 14th birthday.

A friend of mine needed a new home card and immediately I thought of using the Avery Elle Fill-in-the-Blank die cut.  The die cut is cut into several colours which I used the colour challenge from Colour Throwdown.  As I wanted some skyline onto the card, I stacked up a few of the houses into a high rise building accompanied by some colourful houses.  The background embossing is from SU.

The sentiment is die cut several times in orange and top up with white to give an orange shade to the whole.

Have a great Sunday!   

   

Stamping Royaly #236

One more week before our summer holiday starts and I am really looking forward to it as all the students are so tired that they tend to mis-behave or just refuse to listen.

Usually, I like to give some of my cards as a gift to someone but this time I thought, instead of giving ready made cards, I decided to pre-cut and pre-stamp them.  This is to allow the recipient to be able to assemble the cards themselves so that they have the feeling that they made the card themselves.

Today, I am using the retired SU Best Blossoms for this project.  First, I made a goodie bag from kraft wrapping paper and stamped it.  I would like to enter this project into Stampin Royalty challenge.

As for the "to make"card, I also used the same set but giving two options for the sentiment. 

Second card is simply stamping everything is red.

I wonder if anyone of you encounter problem with your pc/ laptop that it is running very slow for exmple when I open a page, it takes quite a while.  I had this problem two/ three years ago already and I thought it was because it was time to upgrade our laptop.  But it proved to be wrong because with our new laptop (only one year old) this problem still persist after several months.  Any advise on this is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for dropping by and have a good day!