Posted on Friday, September 25, 2015

Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop & Giveaway

Happy Fall Y’all!!! The Autumn season officially started on September 23rd according to the calendar.

This is the season where we can enjoy the beautiful colorful leaves and cooler, crisp air. And it is also the time for…

The Fall Coffee Lovers Bloghop starts from today, Friday, September 25 through Friday, October 2, 2015.

Since it is Fall Bloghop, so theme of your project(s) must be Fall. You can create any project(s) that has coffee, or tea, and/or cocoa on it.

You need to link up your NEW project(s) using the Inlinkz button at the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog from 6 am Pacific Time (9 am EST) on Friday, September 25 through Friday, October 2nd at 11:59 pm Pacific Time (2:59 am EST on 10/3/2015).

There are no limits to the number of entries, the more the merrier. Please remember to keep the projects with a FALL theme and NO BACKLINKING, please! Your project (s) has to be a new.

Kicking off the first day of this Fall blog hop, here’s my card:

I always always love the colors of Fall leaves. And that wanna try to jump into a pail of leaves! Wish I was this coffee cup 😉

I heat-embossed the leaves with Gold and then color them using the new color ink pads from Close To My Heart: Saffron and Pemogranate. Starting with the Pemogranate at the bottom and them the Saffron from the top of the leaves, you can see when they mix in the middle it turns into a beautiful orange. I fussy cut them and added them on the card using glue dots. Glue dots give extra dimension but not too thick like 3D foam tape, also they quick and stronger than using adhesive runner on that woodgrain embossed background.

Giveaways!!!

I am giving away a pack of prize from Close To My Heart

There are new Treat of Friendship stamp set, new Mini Calendar stamp, Paper Packet samplers, Black Mini Pigment Ink Pad, Cocoa Mini Pigment Ink Pad, Wood Veneer, and some extra stuff I will throw inside the package for you 😊

Amy will use Random.org to pick the winners.The winners will be posted at Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog.

And now to the extra prize to win on my blog! You have few chances to enter to win this stamp set:

You can do all of them or some. But if you do all, the more chance you can win! You have until Sunday, October 4th 9.00 pm EST (6 pm Pasific) to leave comments on this blog post. And I will pick the winner using Random.org and will be announced on Monday, October 5th on my blog

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Thank You for hopping by and I hope you all have a wonderful Fall!

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Supplies:

Pathfinding Paper Packet (CTMH)
White Daisy Cardstock (CTMH)
Woodgrain Embossing Folder (CTMH)
Ranger Gold Embossing Powder (CTMH)
Craft Heater (CTMH)
Exclusive Inks Stamp Pads: Pomegranate, Goldrush, Saffron, Black
My Acrylix stamping blocks (CTMH)
Watercolor Pencils (CTMH)
Sequins Gold Assortment (CTMH)
Aquash Water brushes (Pentel)
Watercolor Paper (Handmade Modern, Target)
Non-stick Micro-tip Scissors
Adhesive runner
Glue Dots
3D foam tape
Evolution Advanced Diecutting-Embossing-Letterpressing Machine (WRMK)

Posted on Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Fallen Leaves

Leaves start falling on the ground, their colors start changing and the air is cooling down. I love it here. Four seasons give different experience to me especially I came from the country only has 2 seasons: summer and rainy season.

We have a big tree behind our house and this tree’s leaves cover the ground when they fall.

I love the new stamp set, Fallen Leaves. They are beautiful leaves’ images and perfect for this season. I made a watercolor card set:

I stamped some of the sentiments from Thankful Heart stamp set and Harvest Wreath stamp set. These stamp sets are my favorite for Fall theme cards 🙂

How about you? What is your cardmaking style? Do you make Fall/Thanksgiving cards?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me and thanks for visiting!

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These cards I link up at:

Simplicity: Thanksgiving Crusade Challenge 2015

Create With Joy: Inspire Me Monday – Week 194

Two Purple Couches: Creative Spark Link Party #73

The Creative Exchange Link Party #71

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – Use A Stamp Challenge

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – No designer Paper

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Supplies:

Fallen Leaves stamp set (CTMH)
Thankful Heart stamp set (CTMH)
Harvest Wreath stamp set (CTMH)
Exclusive Inks Stamp Pads (CTMH): Pomegranate, Goldrush, Safforn, and Black
My Acrylix Stamping Blocks (CTMH): 1″ x 3 1/2″, 2″ x 2″, 2″ x 3 1/2″, 3″ x 3″, 4″ x 5″
Embossing Powder (CTMH): Gold and Clear
Woodgrain Embossing Folder (CTMH)
Craft Heater (CTMH)
Evolution Advanced, diecutting-embossing-letterpressing machine (WRMK)
Watercolor paper (Canson, XL, 140 lbs)
Watercolor paint (Simple Art)
Aquash Water Brushes (Pentel)

Posted on Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Watercolor Card with Watercolor Pencils and Dye Ink [Tutorial]

Today I would like to share a tutorial how to make this watercolor card using watercolor pencils and stamping.

I made a short video of pictures how to create the watercolor circles that you also can use the same technique to make balloons or any image that you draw with watercolor pencils and add some water to give the watercolor effect.

When the watercolor image is completely dry, you can stamp your sentiment. For this card, I wanted the sentiment also looks watercolor-y 🙂 It’s very easy to do. First, you cover your image or sentiment with ink and then spray with some water. The amount of water on the inked image or sentiment will give you the watercolor effect when you stamp it on the cardstock or watercolor paper.

I hope you will give it a try and share with me your project 🙂 If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comment box.

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

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Supplies:

Watercolor Pencils (Close To My Heart)
Slate Diagonal Striped Ribbon (Close To My Heart)
Hello, Life!—Cardmaking Stamp Set (Close To My Heart, available until 9/30/2015)
My Acrylix® Block 1″ x 3 1/2″ (Close To My Heart)
Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad (Close To My Heart)
Paintbrush Set (Close To My Heart)
Watercolor Paper 140 lbs (Starthmore)
White cardstock
Black cardstock
Adhesive runner
3D foam tape
Water
Mini Bottle Spray

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Link up at:

Inspire Me Monday – Week 192

Creative Spark Link Party #71

Posted on Friday, August 28, 2015

Merciful God

God is merciful. That is the truth.

It is also human nature and how easy we can see in the Bible how they went back to their old life style even though God had driven out them of their old land to live in the land God had promised to them. I see this happens to us too. To me.

How easy I can feel discourage and disappointed when what I got from others was not what I expected from them. Or when I was stressful I easily yelled at my daughters who made mistakes instead of telling them gracefully.

I went back to my “old habit” even I fought so hard to not to be like that.

I fell off the wagon.

But God is strong enpugh to pick me up because He is merciful. It is because God is God, loving God, God of grace.

This is why I need Him every single second, moment in my life to live to be a child, to be a wife, to be a mom and to be a friend to others.

This is why though now I live in the new life in Jesus Christ, but my flesh is week. I need His power and desire to do what pleases My Heavenly Father’s heart every day.

This is why He never stop showing us His mercy and grace repeatedly. Oh what a wonderful God!

God bless your weekend friends!

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I link up the post at:

Faith Filled Friday

Friendship Friday Blog Party week 187

Posted on Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Joyful Birthday Banner Card

I got my Fuse Tool and Card kit from We R Memory Keepers early this week. This kit is now only sold by HSN. SUPER EXCITED to try this fuse tool after hearing some review from my crafty friends 🙂

And today I had a chance to make this cute birthday card to celebrate one of my favorite stamp & die companys. Neat and Tangled is celebrating their 3rd Birthday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Neat and Tangled! Wish you the best all year long!

I am inspired by one of the Card Examples come with the kit:

Using the fuse tool I made this card in less than 5 minutes and with no kids around because the fuse tool is very HOT. Background and banners are fusable papers. This fusable papers are smooth and have to be very careful when want to fuse them together, they could be very slippery. Simply add the banner on the background paper and fuse them one by one, overlapping them little bit.

Then I added some crystal clear sequins from Neat and Tangled using Glue Dots Mini. I got them from as a little gift from them when I ordered stamps and dies 🙂 Their sequins have beautiful colors and thick, check them out and you’ll love them, too.

For the sentiment, I stamped the sentiment from Joyful Birthday stamp set (LOVE this set from CTMH!) using Desert Sand Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad on a piece White Daisy cardstock, then using Non-Stick Micro-Tip Scissors I cut the dove tail. I used 3D Foam tape to add the banner sentiment on the card.

In my opinion, for making this fusable papers into cards, they are not strong enough and too slippery and smooth to write on. There are couple tricks. First, if you still want to make the card using this fusable paper, you can add a piece of white cardstock inside the card for writing space and make it stronger. Second trick which is what I do for my cards, that I use White Card as the base. After decorating the fuse paper with embellishments, I add it on the front card using glue runner. I almost covered the whole card with glue to make sure they glued together.

And my card is done 🙂 Hopefully you’ll like it as much as I like making it! Have a wonderful Wednesday!

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