Posted on Saturday, November 1, 2014

Happy Autumn Card

Every month Deborah Nolan hosts a monthly challenge for card makers who love swapping their cards with others. This is a fun challenge and she even provides options for you to choose how you want to make your card either using the color palate, or theme, or sketch, or product. Also starting couple months ago, she offers prize also for those who sends their card out before the deadline.

You can join this Card Chain Challenge with us 🙂 Check out here for the details on Rules & FAQs of this challenge and go here to sign up for November 2014 CCC, sign up is open until Nov 15th.

And here’s my card I sent to Cat for the Oct 2014 CCC. I picked to use the sketch and theme.

The front and envelope:

The inside:

Supplies (Close To My Heart):
– Woodgrain embossing folder (Z1996)
– Happy Autumn (D1550)
– Pathfinding paper packet (X7186B)
– Huntington Paper Packet (X7174B –> reduced price & available while supply last.)
– Exclusive Inks Pads: Autumn Terracota, Chocolate and Olive
– Scallop border punch (Z1851)
– My Acrylix Starter Blocks (Y1501)

Other Supplies:
– Tombow adhesive runner
– Xyron 1.5″ sticker maker
– Old book paper for the flower
– EK Scallop Circle punch
– Crystal gem
– Glue gun and glue stick
– Thin glue dots

Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Some Fall / Thanksgiving Cards

Last week my friend asked if I could make her some Fall/Thanksgiving cards. I am so thankful to be able to do this for her. I have been working on some cards and I would like to share some them that I made yesterday.

Lately, I have been so much fun with embossing and watercoloring. I tried some techniques on these 4 cards:

I really enjoy making them 🙂 Thank You for visiting, I hope you’ll like them too!

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I link up these cards at:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Use Watercolor.

Inspire Me Monday – Week 145

Supplies:
Close To My Heart: Thankful Heart stamp set (B1463), Gold Embossing Powder, Craft Heater, Natural Buttons, Adhesive runner, Liquid Glass.
Others: Tombow liquid glue, Pearl gems, gold sequins, hemp cords, leave glittered foam, and watercolor.

Posted on Saturday, October 4, 2014

DIY Quick Note Card Set

One of the things I am always thankful for our church is that they care so much for missionaries who come to visit and share with us what God has been doing through their lives on the field. There is a little closet we called it as Missionary Cupboard, where missionaries who visit our church can find supplies (school supplies, stationeries, note books, kids toys, craft supplies for kids, diapers, soaps, towels, hand sanitizer, toilet papers, etc.) if they need any.

This weekend is our Mission Focus. And there will be some missionaries visiting and sharing with us. And we need extra supplies for Mission Cupboard. I have been making note card sets for this cupboard 🙂

This is one of the sets I made. I made them quick and easy. I found a box of lace border cards at store and been sitting in my drawer for a while. I cut piece of ribbon as wide as the card, stapled it using Mini Stapler on both edge and then add the sentiment with 3D Foam Tape.

The frame is from one of the stamps from Holiday Tags set (D1560). The sentiments are from Give A Lift (D1581). I stamped them using Canary Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad (new color on the block!)

Posted on Friday, October 3, 2014

SOUS Die Cut Challenge: We’re All Mad Here…

It’s Friday. Wow… time just flies so far and here we are in October. Trees on our backyard is changing colors, that for sure Fall is in the air.

Today is time for Stuck On U Sketches Die Cut Challenge. The new challenge theme is WE’RE ALL MAD HERE.

It has challenged me to think hard for this one. But our team is awesome, they came up with a lot of ideas for this challenge that you can use any of these die cut shapes for your project: a top hat, tea cup, tea pot, saucer, etc. You also can go all Alice In Wonderland idea if you’d like. Totally up to you, but this is another one to totally go crazy with your project 🙂 Link you your finished projects here to win our monthly blog candy!

I picked the tea cup and saucer for this challenge. I found Lori Whitlock Tea Cup easel card at Silhouette Online Store and cut the shapes using my amazing die cut machine, Silhouette Cameo.

Supplies I use are from Close To My Heart:

Kraft Cardstock
White Daisy Cardstock
Balloon Ride Paper Packet
Lovely Birthday stamp set (B1462)
Sorbet Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad
Pear Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad
Black Inks Stamp Pad
Liquid Glass

Supplies not from CTMH: Pearl gems adhesive

Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2014

Thankful Thursday

I have 2 gifts I am thankful for today…. First, I am thankful for my little sister, Gisella. She is celebrating her birthday today! Hip Hip Hip Hooray, Sis! Though she is so far away from me but she is always close to my heart and thoughts. And…. I heard my mom reveal to me her secret! A BIG SECRET! I won’t tell you today but maybe with her permission, next week 😀

On her special day, I made this very special card just for her…

Batik Happy Birthday Card, By Helen Gullett

Supplies from CTMH: Beautiful Friendship (B1400), Joyful Birthday Stamp Set (B1419), White Daisy Cardstock, Black Cardstock, Gold Embossing Powder, White Embossing Powder, VersaMark inkpad, Gypsy inkpad, Pacifica inkpad, HollyHock inkpad, Craft Heater, 3×3 Acrylic Block, 2×6 /12 Acryclic block, Adhesive. Not CTMH supplies: Xyron Max, Velum

I found one awesome YouTube Tutorial from Catherine Pooler how to create this pretty batik background using background stamp, embossing and watercolor. Check out her tutorial here.

And second is that today we are Indonesians celebrating National Batik Day. Batik is:

Batik (Javanese pronunciation: [ˈbateʔ]; Indonesian: [ˈbatɪk]) is a technique of manual wax-resist dyeing applied to whole cloth, or cloth made using this technique. Batik is made either by drawing dots and lines of the resist with a spouted tool called a canting (IPA: [ʈ͡ʂantiŋ], also spelled tjanting), or by printing the resist with a copper stamp called a cap (IPA: [ʈ͡ʂap], also spelled tjap). The applied wax resists dyes and therefore allows the artisan to color selectively by soaking the cloth in one color, removing the wax with boiling water, and repeating if multiple colors are desired. (source Wikipedia)

We had a chance to go back to Indonesia visiting my family in 2010 and took our family pictures. All of us wore Batik clothing 🙂 Hopefully one day we go visiting again and will have additional on the pictures. And now we have 2 daughters, so we need to have four of us wearing Batik.