Posted on Friday, May 1, 2015

Welcoming May With Flowers & A Challenge

The first time I heard this quote “April Shower Brings May Flowers” was from my husband when I experienced Spring for the first time in 2009. I did not quite understand at the first time, but after rainy days, I then understood. And also it from one of the stories about a boar named May Flowers.

In th last couple of weeks my daughter who is at Kindergarten told me about how she learned planting flowers at school and told me about the quote she learned. 2 weeks ago she kept asking her Papa to take her to store to buy Sun flower seeds so she can have a Sun flower garden this year, so they did. the planted at least 3 kinds of Sun flowers.

Sun flowers is low maintenance plant. And we hope to see the flowers and enjoy them when we come back from our Summer Mission Trip.

This month theme challenge from Scrapping Everyday Miracles is Time For May Flowers. There are 3 challenges this month:

Layout Sketch Challenge
Card Sketch Challenge
Bible Verse Challenge

You can create any new projects to enter thoses challenges. You have until the end of May to play with SEM challenges. Please link up yoir projects here.

This month, I created a card base on the skecth challenge:

The color combo from this Blossom collection is so beautiful, just perfect from Spring and Mother’s Day projects.

Supplies from Close To My Heart:

Cardstock & Papers: Blossom Paper Packets, White Daisy cardstock
Stamp sets: Shower Flowers, Flower For Mom, Brushstrokes
Exclusive Inks Stamp Pads: Cananry, Honey, Pear, Crystal Blue, Juniper, Smoothie.
My Acrylix Blocks: 1×1, 1×3 1/2, 2×2, 3×3

Others:

Sparkle gems
3D foam
Adhesive runner

Thank You so much for visiting today and hopefully you can play with the challenges this month. If you need inspirations, the team have created beautiful projects for you here.

Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2015

You’re My Type

Today I would like to share my project that made for Stuck On U Sketches Die Cut Challenge this week. The theme is Industrial. You are challenge to create any projects that has die cuts such as: typewriter, gear, telephone, lamp, light, etc.

I created a card using my Silhouette Cameo. I cut the typewriter die cut from Jamie Koay, You’re My Type Typewriter out of a piece of White Daisy cardstock and added on the card using Martha Stewart ballpoint tip glue pen.

And I stamped the sentiment from Happy Everything stamp set on a piece of velum, heat-embossed it with Ranger White Embossing powder and Craft Heat Tool. I used Tombow Velum glue runner to glue the velum on the card. And I finished it with 2 CTMH chevron wood veneer (retired).

I hope you can play with us this week and I’d love to see your projects, too. You can link up using the Mister Linky HERE.

Thanks for visitng today!

Posted on Friday, April 17, 2015

Spring Handmade Birthday Cards

Spring always always goes together with flowers, blooms and bloosoms.

One of the new products from Close To My Heart Spring/Summer Seasonal Expressions 2 is WOTG Blossom Cardmaking Kit. This beautiful kit makes 15 beautiful cards:

In this kit includes:

1 My Acrylix Blossom WOTG Stamp set (D-size)
2 Blossom BT Duo papers
4 Coordinating Cardstocks (1 Pear, 1 White Daisy, 2 Kraft)
Embellishments: Glacier Thick Twine, Coral Sequins
15 cards & envelopes
1 instructional brochure

And the other tools required to finish this project:

Black Archival Ink Pad
Pear Exclusive Ink Pad
Smoothie Exclusive Ink Pad
Honey Exclusive Ink Pad
Liquid Glass
Adhesive runner
My Acrylix block: 1×1, 1×3 1/2, 2×2, 2×2 1/2

Here are the 15 cards I made today, they are gorgeous Birthday cards!

You can get the cardmaking kit and supplies to makw these beautiful cards at my CTMH Online Store.

Thank You for visiting and shopping with me!

Posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Can’t Thank You Enough

I am so grateful for a lot of people who have been partnering with us to do the ministry God has called us to do.

One of the ways people partnering with us to bring the Good News to the people in SEA* is they buy things I made for giving back to the ministry. As a thank you for all of them, I made a card that I put on the paper bag.

I stamped the sentiment from Neat and Tangled – All My Heart with VersaMark ink pad and heatembossed it with White Embossing powder.

And I created that watercolor-batik background. First, on the craft sheet, I smudge some Thistle and Gypsy exclusing ink pads, then spray some water, not too much just enough to wet them to mix. Than then add the embossed paper on it, twist a little bit to mix the color and to cover all paper.

And using Craft heater, dry the wet paper and done.

Using a lot of glue runner, I added the watercolored paper on a black mat cardstock and then add them on the white square card.

I finished the card with bunch of sequins I got from Neat and Tangled using Tombow Mono Liquid Glue.

And this is how I add the card on the paper back. With a paper doily and clothes pin.

Simple and made out of a thankful heart.

This project I link up at:

Thank You for visiting today!

Posted on Friday, April 10, 2015

Handmade Card Set For Teacher

We are so thankful for our daughter’s kindergarten teacher. She is so nice, kind and patient dealing with 22 students in her class. And the National Teacher Appreciation Day is on May 5th, this is the day set aside specialy for teachers, the day when we can show our appreciation for who they are and what they do for our children.

Today I would like to share a project I made for my daughter’s teacher. You can make handmade card set for Teacher. And the Cut Above Card kits is great kits to make handmade card sets as gifts for teachers. There are 2 choice of kits you can pick from:

Thank You Card Kit

Happy Birthday Card Kit

These kits are easy to assemble, even you can do this with your kiddos. And here are the cards I made using the Cut Above – Happy Birthday Card Kit: