Posted on Wednesday, August 31, 2016

August Card Chain Challenge: Have A Lovely Day

Today is the reveal day for one of the August Card Chain Challenge. It is a monthly card chain hosted by Deborah. This is a fun way of sharing handmade kindness to crafty friends (old and new). I met lots of new crafty friends through this challenge and sending one of my handmade card to them is a joy for me. If you love making new friends and sending handmade cards, then you might wanna check out this challenge 🙂

Every month, Deborah will have a sign up link up on her blog and you can play along by linking up your information on the recent month. For September sign up, you can go here. If you are new to this challenge, you can read all about it here.

This is my card that I sent to my new friend in Canada.

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Deborah provides options for us to create our card. This month CCC, I picked the Product Option – Paper Smooches stamp, Theme – Friendship, and the color palette.

I stamped the flower cluster from Blossoming Buds stamp set on Canson Watercolor paper with Versafine Black Onyx ink pad. Then I colored it with Tombow Dual Brush Pens and watercolor brush to give the watercolor look. On a piece of vellum paper, I stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set with Versafine ink pat, too. Then I dried it up with my CTMH Craft Heater.

I added the vellum paper on top of the watercolored panel then using CTMH Mini Stapler, I secured the corner. Then added the panel on the navy blue card base using Tombow extreme adhesive runner.

I love the softness given by the vellum. And hopefully you are inspired today to create handmade card to send out to your crafty friends 🙂

THANK YOU so much for visiting me today! Have a fabulous and blessed day.

Posted on Wednesday, August 31, 2016

DIY Color Blooms Bookmarks

Coloring is becoming a fun and relaxing thing to do not only for children but also for adults. And even more, it is a popular technique for cardmakers, papercrafters and mixed-media artists. And there are so many ways you can use your colored pages.

Earlier this August, Shery from STAMPlorations just released her first coloring book, Color Blooms, specially designed for cardmakers, crafters and mixed-media artits. I was blessed to win her book from her first release blog hop and link (doing happy dance… :D)

This book is full of beautiful blooms that you cannot resist to color them! I cannot wait to color them with any coloring mediums I have in stash 🙂

And today I am sharing bookmarks that I made from the free sample pages (download it here), that I colored them with watercolor paints and ShinHan Touch Twin Markers.

My daughters love reading and these bookmarks will be little gifts for them 🙂 I wrote their names with Black Tombow Dual Brush pen. You can tell one love pink and the other loves purple.

And these other 2 bookmarks I stamped the sentiment from Bold Sentiment – Hashtag Authentic with Ranger Archival Ink. These will be a little gift for my crafty friends when I send out happy mail to them 🙂

All four of the bookmarks I laminated with Self-Laminating Plastic and added some twines on them.

There a link up and blog hop party over STAMPlorations blog now to see gorgeous inspirations and if you love coloring but not yet have her book, you still can donwload the free sample page she provides there. It will be fun link up party!

Thank You so much for visiting me today and have a fabulous blessed day!

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Color Blooms Link Up Party

SSS Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes

Posted on Monday, August 29, 2016

Love God Greatly: You Are Forgiven

The newest study from Love God Greatly, You’re Forgiven now online and available for you! It is a study on God’s word and truth about forgiveness. Why we need it and why we need to extend it to others. God is merciful and gracious by forgiving all our sins.

This is the study where you will be reading God’s word and meditate it. You are encourage to write in your journal what God speaks to you personally. And we are encouraged to apply what we learn on our real life.

You can download the PDF format from the Love God Greatly website. It is also available in Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian) in pdf format there!

You can support this women ministry, you can buy the paperback book on Amazon that also have journal pages and beautiful coloring pages. You can get the study book HERE. And also available for Kids Bible Study and Journal.

Join us on the blog on every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, for more insights and encouragements from the writers.

This new study is also available on the LGG app. Looking for more Bible Study and Devotional materials? You can download the Love God Greatly App and you’ll find the list of Bible studies you can choose for your time digging deeper into God’s word.

God is good! You are forgiven!

Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2016

1 Stamp Set, 2 Tags

It has been a while since the last time I made mixed media tags. And today, I feel it is tag day 🙂

My plan to make a tag a week for this year. But for I missed several weeks so I try to catch up and enjoy the process of making it. Today, I made 2 tags with 1 stamp kit.

On both tags, I used Canson Watercolor paper because I worked with watercolor paint and acrylic paints. Stamp set I used is Unity Stamp Company – August Kit of The Month.

On the first card I was inspire by the tag from Michelle Short at Tag Your’re It Challenge #54

I created my first tag background with watercolor paint. I dried it with my CTMH Craft Heater. And then I stamped the flower with Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pen Big Brushes, sprayed some water, and dried it with the Craft Heater. Once the image dried well, I stamped the quote with VersaFine Onyx Black. I added some orange gems from Hampton Arts.

I also enter this first tag at Unity {Show & Tell} – Tag Challenge (8/18 – 8/25).

This second tag is a mixed media tag. First, randomly I stamped the border stamp from the Unity August KOTM with Versafine Onyx Black. Then using old credit card, I added 4 shades of FolkArt metallic gold paints on the tag. I dried it well with my CTMH Craft Heater before stamping on it.

Once the painy dried, I stamped the flower heart with VersaFine Onyx Black.

I painted the stamped flower heart image with FolkArt Hot Pink and Purple Acrylic Paints. Then I traced the flower line back with LePen Archival Pen. And I felt like it needed some sparkle, so, I added some glitter glue with brush on the heart 🙂

I wrote the quote with Sharpie permanent marker. It write smoothly on painted surface! Love it!

Loving these tags! My goal when I decided to make this tag ring this year is to have a collection of encouraging words and God’s words by the end of the year of 2016. And I can look back these tags for reminders later in the future.

I hope you all are inspired today and thank you so much for visiting. Have a fabulous day!

Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2016

Recycling and Card Making

Good Morning… It is Thursday and it is time for taking a coffee break with us at Coffee Loving Cardmakers.

Today we are talking about how we, cardmakers and papercrafters can be part of making the world green-er by recycling our coffee boxes and wrappers into something else.

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I have been collecting some K-cups boxes and cup sleeves to use them as embellishments. For sample, I made a card using one of the the cups I cut out of the K-cup box.

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I cooperate Paper-Smooches – Cyber Cafe stamp set on this card, stamped the background and sentiment using Distress Mini Ink Pads. The glitter papers and foil chevron papers from the pad I found at Walmart last Fall 🙂 I finished this card with orange twine from American Craft. I have Fall colors in my mind when I made this card.

I hope you will visit me at Coffee Loving Cardmakers today and share your ideas of recycling for making cards.

THANK YOU for stopping by today and have a fabulous day!

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