Posted on Friday, October 16, 2015

The Stamp Nation WCMD 2015 and 30 Day Coloring Challenges

This week I joined 6 of 10 WCMD 2015 Challenges at The Stamp Nation that inspired by 10 countries. This cardmaking forum is amazing. They have lots of challenges, inspirations, technique tips and tutorials to improve your skill of making cards.

Here are the cards I made to enter those challenge:

1st Card – USA

Supplies:

Paper Cut Flowers stamp set (Neat and Tangled)
Jubilee paper packet (CTMH)
VersaMark ink Pad (CTMH)
Ranger White Fine Embossing Powder (CTMH)
Craft Heater (CTMH)
Thick 3D foam tape (Elmer’s)
A2 White Card
Black Cardstock
Natural Baker’s Twine

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2nd Card: Canada

Supplies:

So Very Blessed stamp (Neat and Tangled)
Black Ink Pad (CTMH)
Acrylix Block (CTMH)
Art Grib Pencil Colors (Faber Castell)
Canson Watercolor Paper
Simply Art Watercolor paint
Plaid Watercolor brush
Micro-Tip Non-Stick Scissors (ekTool)

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3rd Card: Switerland

Supplies:

Wallflower Stamp Set (CAS-ual Fridays Stamps)
Bamboo Ink Pad (CTMH)
Black Ink Pad (CTMH)
White Daisy Cardstock (CTMH)
Kraft Cardstock (Neenah)
White Primio Ribbon (American Crafts)
Red Sequins (Hobby Lobby)
Aqua Mono Liquid Glue (Tombow)
Multi Mono Liquid Glue (Tombow)
3D foam tape (The Recollections, Michaels)
Micro-Tip Non-Stick Scissors (ekTool)

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4th Card: Scotland

Supplies:

Pumpkin Digital Stamp (Neat and Tangled)
Gelatos (Faber Castell)
Aquash Water Brush (Pentel)
Crayons (Crayola)
Watercolor Paper (Canson XL)
Woodgrain Washi Tape (CTMH)
Mini Stapler (CTMH)
Corner Chomper (WRMK)

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5th Card: Japan

Supplies:

The Big, The Bold and Extrass (Winnie and Walter)
The Big, The Bold and Blessing (Winnie and Walter)
Picked Raspberry Distress Ink (Tim Holtz)
Black Ink Pad (CTMH)
Primio Twine Ribbon (American Crafts)
Clear Sequins (gift from a crafty friend)
Mini Gemstones (The Paper Studio, Hobbo Lobby)
Multi Mono Liquid Glue (Tombow)
3D Foam Tape (Recollections, Michaels)

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6th Card: Malaysia

Supplies:

Handstitched stamp set (Neat and Tangled)
Distress Inks: Peacock Feathers, Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade (Tim Holtz)
VersaMark ink pad (CTMH store)
Ranger White Fine Embossing Powder (CTMH store)
Craft Heater (CTMH)
White Cardstock
Black Cardstock
3D foam tape (Recollections, Michaels)
Gemstones (Darice)
Kraft A2 Card (The Paper Studio, Hobby Lobby)

I had so much fun making these cards and learned some techniques from the Stamp Nation challenge hosts.

I also link this card up at Kathy’s blog – The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge

Hopefully you also enjoy my cards and THANK YOU so much for visiting today! Have a great weekend!

Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2015

Merry Everything: A Christmasy Coffee Cup Card

Christmas is 2 months away. I started my Holiday cardmaking adventure since September. Today, I’d like share a fun card for coffee loving friends 🙂

First, using my Silhouette Cameo, I cut the kraft cup shaped card from Juliana Michaels. It is a free cutting file – download here.

I use CTMH October Stamp of The Month: Twinkle (S1510). I stamped the lights using Black exclusive inks stamp pad and colored them using Faber-Castell Mix & Match pencil colors.

I stamped the circle stars slightly at the bottom corner card using White Daisy exclusive ink pad to create a background for the label tag. But I felt like it needed something. Then randomly stamoed the mini stars all over the card with White ink pad, too.

On a piece White Daisy cardstock, I stamped the tag label and sentiment using Cranberry exclusive inks stamp pad and the fussy cut around it. I finished my card with neutral baker’s twine and some clear gemstones.

This SOTM Twinkle (S1510) is D-sise stamp set that you can get it only $5 with qualifying order of $50 or more during the month of October.

I also link this card up at Kathy’s blog – The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge

Thanks for stopping by today!

Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Sending Prayers

In the last couple of weeks lots of people been praying for us, especially for our daughters who were sick at the same time. They caught the virus and took some times to heal. But this week they are recovering, the Big girl is going back to school and the Little girl’s appetite is back. We are truly grateful for all of you and for your prayers!

We need prayers every moment, every day. It is not only when we are in troubles or having hard situations, but also in many things we give thanks to the Lord in prayers. We are so thankful for people who join our prayer team to pray for the ministry we do among the people of SEA*, to pray for the Bibleless and Unreached people groups there and for us.

It is an honor and a blessing for us when we can pray for you and others, too. Prayers is powerful and we have seen how God answered prayers in the past and we are looking forward to see His glory revealed when He answer prayers.

I would love to share a card today I made for a dear friend. She just got a news from doctor that her husband has cancer. It is devastating news for her and her family. My thoughts and prayers for her and her family. We have hope in Christ. We have faith to see God be with them to go through it all and heal her husband from cancer.

On this card I did the ombre watercolor background. You can let it dry on the side or you can use Craft Heater to let it dry. I let the watercolor paper dried on the side while I did some diecutting.

For the prayers sentiment, I cut 6 times and stacked them together so it will be thicker like that. To stack them together, it is best using fine point glue pen.

I added some Silver glitter cardstock strips to the top and bottom of the ombre paper. I saw there were some empty space around the sentiment, so I added some of the hearts, scattered them around the sentiment.

Thanks for visiting today! Have a wonderful day!

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Supplies:

Prayers Stamp & Die set (Hero Arts from SSS Stamptember)
Black & Gypsy Exclusive Inks Stamp Pads (CTMH)
Watercolor paper (CTMH)
Glitter cardstock (American Crafts)
Watercolor paint (SimplyArt)
Watercolor brush
My Acrylix Stamping Blocks (CTMH)
Black cardstock
Evolution Advanced (WRMK)

Posted on Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Shaker Cards with FUSEables Kit

Making cards is a hobby that I find it challenging me to be creative with designs that is mailing-friendly, not requiring too much extra stamps to send it. Shaker card is one of them.

I learned making shaker cards using thicker foam tapes. Shaker cards is so much fun, don’t you agree? But to send the shaker card is required more postage compare to regular mail. I do not mind at all to send with more postage especially sending cheers to others!

Few weeks ago, I got the FUSAable Tool and Card kit from HSN. This kit includes the Fuse tool, mat, rulers, Fuseable sleeves, and Fuseable cardmaking kit (including the matching color sequins!!)

I learned to make shaker cards using this Fuse Tool with Fuse Sleeve. It is super easy and quick!!! I am in love with this new FUSEables kit from We R Memory Keepers.

Check out these 4 shaker cards I made in less than 30 minutes!

When using this FUSE tool it is safer with no kids around because it is super hot! It came with the stand but it is best to put the stand on the silicon mat so it won’t slide when you put the FUSE tool on it. If you put on the table, it will slide. Be careful.

The FUSEables papers and embelishments make making cards easy and fun. It gives extra texture on the card, just like you sew your card, these cards you can see the texture of the FUSE tool when I attach the embellishment on the background paper.

And these shaker cards are flat enough to mail with regular postage and they are still fun and cute, right?

I love this kit and will make more cards. And I think wanna try pocket scrapbooking now with this FUSEable sleeves!

Thank You for visiting today and I hope you have a fabulous day!

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Disclaimer: This is not a review blog post. It is all my own opinion about this kit and I bought the kit on my own. We R Memory Keepers and HSN did not ask me to do review on the kit and did not provide me free kit.

Posted on Saturday, October 10, 2015

WCMD 2015 Challenge with Winnie & Walter: Day 3

Today is the third day I am playing with Winnie and Walter Challenges on their blog. You still can join their challenges until Sunday, October 11th, 2015. Read the detail of these challenges here.

This is the card I link up today at these challenges:

On this card, I stamped those flowers and leaves from The Big, The Bold and Extras stamp set using using Faber Castell Mix & Match – Stamper’s Big Brush Pens(*). Then I stamped the sentiment and banner from The Big, The Bold and Happy stamp set using using Faber Castell Mix & Match Stamper’s Big Brush Pen set of 3 – Gold(*). These Faber Castell Stampers Big Brush Pens are amazing! They do not bleed through my card. They are high quality India Ink that you can apply directly on any kind of stamps.

I finished my card using Sequins Assortment Gold from CTMH. They already have glue dots and ready to use on the project.

Thansk for visiting today!

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