Guest Designer at PB and More

Hi there,  I am so excited and happy when Brenda of Stamping Sensations invited me to be a guest designer for Penny Black and More.

The theme is "Anything Goes" and I have chose a floral card for this posting.  I wanted to experiment with silver embossing and coloured the beautiful PB Divine in TH distress inks.  Love softness of the coloured poppies with the silver linning.  The background splatters are inked TH Ice Spruce with SU Grunge set.

The sentiment is from Stamp It Australia Friendship which is also heat embossed in silver.

Love to hear your comments on the above card. Have a good day!

Share Joy #11

It's Tic Tac Toe challenge at Share Joy Challenge. For this card, I used TE Lavender Bouquet set and chose the following elements "thank you, flower and ribbon".  I am popping this into Inspirational Challenge and AAA Cards.

Stamped and heat embossed the image in silver and coloured in copics.  The background is stamped with SU Gorgeous Grunge.  Recently, I bought this new MFT Basic Stitch Lines and I am so happy with it as I can decide on the size of the cardstock and not limited to the pre-cut size.

Somehow the silver embossing does not pop up as it's in real

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Stamping Sensations - Colours of Autumn

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It seems like I am squeezing as many cards as I could make this week before the school begins next week again.

I feel like colouring today so I ended up stamping PB Divine onto a watercolour paper and started painting in TH distress inks.  The poppies are coloured in spiced marmalade, winter berries and aged mahagony and the leaves are coloured in iced spruce and evergreen bough.  The background is stamped randomly with SU Grundge.  Then, I doodled along the branches and sprayed some glimmer mist. The sentiment is from Kaisercraft Blue Bay.

I am popping this into the following challenges Stamping Sensations, 30 day coloring challenge by The Daily Marker, The Mixed Media Challenge and Penny Black and More.

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ABNH - Metalic

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I am starting with my first Christmas card of the year. Today's card, is about metalic at the A Blog Named Hero.

The side panel is stamped with HA Tiny Stars in black and heat embossed.  The splatters are heat embossed in gold by using SU Grundges.  Added a narrow gold strip.  The sentiment is from Wplus9 and the cute little penguin is from Mama Elephant.

In-laid the die cut sentiment

Here is part two of my Scandinavia trip, if you have want to see part one, you could have a peep here.  There are lots of pictures on this posting and I hope I won't bored you.

Nobel Price Center in Olso, Norway

There are lots of waterfalls in the region

We had a train and ferry tour.  Up high in the mountain, the glaciers are still visible.

I 've been wanting to see The fjords for several years already and finally the day has arrived....

Several narrow waterfalls within a small a mountain

To our surprise, there are so many tunnels in Norway and I think we had driven about 70 tunnels within 2 weeks ranging from 500m to 24.5km.  

Yes, 24.5km tunnel - it's the longest tunnel in the world.  Because it's so long, every 6km there are special lightings designed in the tunnel and there is even a round-about!  This is my first very special light-up and a round-about in a tunnel!

Another waterfall along the way

Bergen - World Heritage City

more fjords....

Ok. I won't lie!  This is the coldest summer holiday we ever had and everyone was not happy with it - it was about 12-18 degrees celcius.  But with the breathtaking landscapes and views - I am ok with it!

One of our chalets in a beautiful nature area

view from our chalet

view from our chalet at 11pm - sun still shinning.  It never gets dark when we were there!

Did a hike to a mountain. About 400m above sea level

Towards the end of the holiday at Southern part of Norway, Stavanger.  One of the cutest and colourful wooden houses I have even seen!

I hope you have enjoyed some of Norway.  I know the fjord pictures were not as great but you have to be there to exprience the real thing.  DH has driven more than 4000km in total out of which I drove only 20km in Germany.  I know I am not a driver but I had to drive in Germany as some part of the country has no speed limit so I drove my top speed at 150km!  Woohoo!

The kids are going on camp this weekend and the two oldies are taking the opportunity to fly out to Newcastle, UK.  

Thanks for dropping by and have a great weekend!

TKJ #236

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I fell in love with this TE Perfect Pairs Burger & Fries stamp the moment I saw it - they are just adorable.

I am going for Red, Die Cut and Tag for this challenge at The Kraft Journal.  Stamped the image on a white cardstock and colored in copics.  The background is stamped in red with SU Gorgeous Grundge.  The awning is a die cut from TE and the label tag is from SU.  The sentiment is from PTI Year Round Pun.

This card also enters into The Craft Stamper  and Double Click Connections challenges.

Here are some photos which were taken during our trip to Scandinavia.  Our first stop which took us about 900km ride from home was Copenhagen, Denmark.

city of Copenhagen

Christiansborg Castle.  Part of the castle is still used by the Royal families.  Built in 1733.

Christiansborg Church

Copenhagen Opera House

Opera house from a different angle

 A peep inside the Opera house

Outside the Opera House with a special glass design on the background

A close-up of the glass piece

Leaving Copenhagen and driving towards Olso, Norway.  Breathtaking landscapes

I shall leave you today with Copenhagen and will be back with more breathtaking landscapes in Norway.  Thanks for taking your time to visit me.

Pretty Pink Posh Watercolor Blog Hop

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Paulina of Pretty Pink Posh is hosting a Watercolor Blog Hop from today till Monday, 8 June with lots of prizes and inspirations.

For my card, I painted  lightly with distress inks on the background.  Then

I used PB Delicate Floral, coloured with distress pens and spritz with water before stamping it onto the cardstock.  Then I took an old brush to lightly pound with the inks and water on the image. The background turned out to be too light and I decided to colour it once more to make it more intense.  The sentiment is from SU, stamped and heat embossed.

I am entering this card into Mod Squad Challenge and TGIF challenge.

Over at Kathy, The Daily Marker is hosting her second 30 Day Coloring Challenge.  I like what Kathy said "The idea is to color something everyday even if it’s for five minutes. Just five minutes that’s it. Some days you will have more time and that’s even better.It’s just about adding more time to color and carve out a little time for something that makes you happy".

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