Hello Sunshine

Hi all. I am back with more MFT sweetness. This time, I am combining Copic coloring with water-coloring. Torico is definitely one of my favorite stamp designer. Her sets always so cute & adorable. Love her!

MFT Supplies: Sunflower Sweetheart

At first, I was just highlighting the flower (by coloring it with Copic marker) and keep the rest black & white, no coloring. But then, it just feel too simple. So, I decided to pull out my watercolor marker and went to town with it. The result is this pretty soft coloring. I though the orangey hair turned out pretty darn cool.

Oh yeah, the card above is a mini card. I looooveee making mini card. My SIL use them all the time, so I am building my stash for her.

BTW, with today being Wednesday, you do know that means time for new MFT sketch challenge, right? We have a fun sketch. Here's a peek of my card. Check out the full card & the sketch at MFT Challenge Blog. 

That's all from me today. Till next time. Cheers...

XOXO

Today marks the 13th anniversary since my dad passed away. That year back in 2002 was a blur to me. I still miss him. I think as children, you'll never stop missing your parents. Especially during happy moments. When  you wish they were here to celebrate, to enjoy the moment with you.

I wish hubby had the chance to meet him. To get to know him. Hubby loves my mom. He call her mama-san. So, I am sure he'd have love my dad. My dad had great sense of humor and when he laugh he'd have that loud laugh. I know I could always make him laugh with my Mr. Bean dance.

With my dad in my mind, I made this card. Not quite a Valentine card. Just a card to show someone you love them. Pretty much an all occasion kind of card.

MFT Supplies: All My Love, Pure Innocence Heart Banner,
Dienamics Stitched Traditional Tag STAX

Well peeps, short one today. Somehow, I just don't know what else to write once I started thinking about my dad. I don't want to pass the day without acknowledging him, yet it still bring some sadness. Well, sadness is not the right word, more like an ache like when you miss someone, you know. With that in mind, make sure that always tell your loved ones you love them.

Have a blessed day everyone.

A Gnome & A Duck

Dude, I don't know what is it about gnome, but they're so darn irresistible! I fell in love with this cute Gnome Sweet Gnome set from SugarPea Designs from the moment I saw it. 

A gnome & a duck?! For a girl who loves cute stuff, this is definitely an "aw...." inducing set. ;)

I made this card just for fun. My SIL, Kristen, loves gnome, so this card will probably go to her. 

Other than that, my mind kind of blank as what to write. So, short one for today, peeps. Thank you for stopping by here.

PS: Would you like to win SugarPea gift certificate? There's new SugarPea sketch challenge started today HERE and also, our birthday bash party still going on. Join the party with your birthday creations HERE. 

I Woof You

Whenever I see stamp set with cute doggies, I act like when a dog sees squirrel. I got all excited. That's what happened when I saw the adorable Reverse Confetti Puppy Love set. I was like, "Puppppyyyy!!" Chase. Hah! Okay, maybe not chase, but I did get it right away. :)

And, today I am using them with Reverse Confetti sketch #20.

Here's my puppy love card.

On purpose, I didn't glue the ears, so they can be flop forward. It just more fun that way, don't you think?

That's it for me today. Hope your Friday is a good one. 

MFT Color Challenge 14

Hi peeps. It's time for new color challenge at MFT Challenge & Inspiration Blog! Here's a peek of my card.

To see the full card please go to MFT Challenge Blog. You have 2 weeks to play along. Join us will you. :)

MFT Sketch Challenge 212

This is my 2nd post for today. For SugarPea birthday blog hop please scroll down or click HERE.

Happy Wednesday, my friends! It's time for a new challenge over at MFT Challenge & Inspiration Blog! Here is this week's sketch.

Here's a little peek of my card. You'll have to go to MFT Challenge & Inspiration Blog to see it in full!

Hope you'll join us this week. Cheers. :)

Sugar Pea 1st Birthday Blog Hop

It's P.A.R.T.Y time! SugarPea Designs is so excited to be celebrating our 1st Birthday – and what an amazing year it has been!! We are celebrating this momentous occasion with a Blog Hop featuring our AMAZING SugarPea design team and some very talented Special Guests!

For my 1st card, I used the Let's Fiesta set. I love this cute & fun set. And, that donkey!! Too cute! What can I say, I can't resist any set that has cute critter in it. Even hubby thought this is a cute set. I guess, because it's pretty rare to have cute fiesta set. :)

For my next card, it's all over sweetness. I was inspired by Wendy Ramlakhan's  card HERE. Her card is all teal and I go with pink tone. 

My favorite part of this card? The cupcake. This little cupcake is also on the Fairy Sweet set. And, I used watercolor technique on it and I feel like it compliment the bright fairy perfectly with it's softer look.

Now you can’t have a Birthday Bash without prizes and there are lots of prizes to be won along the way! A few of our blog hop participants will be giving away a SugarPea Designs stamp set so please leave some love on your travels. In addition to this, one lucky winner will be randomly chosen from all the comments left and that winner will receive a:

Wait... we're not done. We also want you to be part of the party. Once you have completed the hop, we’d love for you to help keep the celebration going, by creating a Birthday card or project and linking it up here for a chance to WIN a $25 Gift Certificate!

Hop & link up ends midnight, January 28th with winners being announced and poste don February 1st. Finally, enter coupon code BDAY01 at checkout to receive 10% of all orders - valid till January 24th, 2015.

Take a look at this list of insanely talented designers, how lucky are we?!?!

SugarPea Designers    SugarPea Designs Blog  Lesley Croghan  Anita Madden  Jenny Peterson  Kim O'Connell   Mary Johnson Wendy Bond  Tracy Valure  Simonne Clay  Stacey Schafer   Wendy McGaffey  Vera Yates  Kerri Michaud Lisa Lara   Cathy Preissing  Shanna Shands  Cibele Glazer    Our Special Guests  Tracy MacDonald  Danielle Lounds  Tara Godfrey  Veronica Zalis  Angel Rivera  Jen Shults  Isha Gupta  Amy Tsuruta  Dina Kowal  Chaitali Narla   Brianna Loeffelbein  Lisa Henke  Piali Biswas

Make A Wish Fox

Right now, I am loving the banner look and I totally love the way my banner card turned out.

Supplies: Avery Elle To The Point set, Bunting set,
Storybook set, More Storybook set

To create the soft coloring on  the fox, I used my colored pencil and a stub dipped in turpentine to even the color. It always make me happy when my card turned out cute & sweet. 

Also, by now, I am sure you already heard that i {heart} papers is closing. Everything in the store is now 40% off. I mean EVERYTHING. I stocked up on 6x6 paper pad. Check out the store now to get better selection. Thank you for stopping by here and may your week starts off wonderfully.

Ollie's Pages

So, I decided to change my Ollie page a bit and after 2 days, I managed to finish the 2nd page. Lots of crying, of course. I always know that scrapbooking her pictures would means re-living the memories all over again, but at the same time I know it's good for me to do it. Part of the healing process. It's been over a year since Ollie went across the rainbow bridge, but it still kind of hard to journal about her.

Here's the 1st page updated.

And, here's the 2nd page. My letter to my baby girl. I'll keep this post short. The journaling speaks for itself and I don't want to cry all over again. It still hard to see her being so skinny and fragile on these pics.

Supplies for both pages: MFT All My Love, MFT I Love You More, MFT Planner Basics,
MFT All My Love dies, MFT Bubblegum premiumdye ink pad. 

Am definitely  much slower when it comes to scrapbooking compare to card making. But, there's certain joy that comes with it that totally makes it worth it.

That's it from me. Going to try to scrapbook more this weekend. :)

Always & Forever

Before Eli, there's Ollie. My 1st pug. My very 1st dog that's all mine. I grew up always having dogs, but Ollie was my 1st dog I have as an adult. I did my research, learned about the breed, learned about being good dog mommy before I got her. I wanted to do it right, because for me, having a dog is for life. 

I got Ollie back in 1998 and she is every little bit a pug. Spunky, bossy, loving, stubborn, loyal. She's my loyal companion that always by my side through the up and down of life. When I went through a hard time, to the point of debating whether I should just go back to Indonesia or stay in the US, she's the reason I kept moving forward. I just couldn't leave her.

She taught me to never give up. How? Easy. After every meal time, she always check my other dogs's bowl to see if they eat all their food. Never fail. I was like, Ollie you know they always eat their food. But, she'd look at me as if saying, so?? Nothing wrong with keep trying. You never know when you could get lucky, like hey he missed a kibble there. :)

She was with me for over 15 years. I cried for days when I found out that I had to let her go back in October 2013. Last night, I finally took the step to document how special she's for me.

Supplies: MFT All My Love, MFT I Love You More,
MFT All My Love dies, MFT Bubblegum premiumdye ink pad.

I am still struggling to do the journaling. There's still more pics of us that I want to scrapbook, so I'll probably write my journaling on that page. Right now, this is a start of what I know going to be difficult pictures to document because I do miss my girl.  So, yes, the page is super simple. I simply add the heart & stamped the sentiment.

I might add more to this page, but right now, this is it. That sentiment says it all. 

It feels pretty darn good going back to scrapbooking. As you can see, my scrapbooking style is the same as my card making style. Clean & simple. :)