Rambling Thoughts

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During Caring Hearts Blog Hop, what Savitri wrote captured my thought perfectly. Here's what she wrote: "I have a thing for old people, especially little sweet old men, they make me go “awwwwww” and reminds me of my own grandpa. But in general, lot of them just brings a smile to my face. A little squeeze on my arm, a little laugh, home made cookies, whatever… old folks gives me the warm and fuzzies."

That's exactly what I thought & feel about the elderly. I always have soft spot in my heart for kids & the elderly. I love those jovial old folks that greeted you with a warm hug & smile. They remind me so much of my dad, who always have huge smile on his face.

Am I rambling? Sorry, just really want to share what Savitri wrote, since I can so relate to that. Also, another note, Nancy Krueger, one of my HA Flickr friend, has an aunt that run a a non-profit charity called Letters from Home, in which she sends letters to lonely people in retirement homes. Here's a link to the website: http://lettersfromhomeinc.org/ It's kind of like what I am doing with Caring Hearts Card Drive. They don't accept cards, but they do accept donation to help with mailing cost and all. Thought I share the link here if it's something that you'd like to support.

On to cards, shall we? Since, I am working on tons of holiday card, sticking to simple & quick is a must. Here's a quick cards I made using the soon to be released Digital Doodles "Frosty Friend" snowman (you can purchase him starting next week at Two Peas In A Bucket). For this week though, you can win this digi stamp. Check out Kathy Martin's blog here for details and for eye candy from the DT.

Challenges:

Crafty Pad - christmas

Gingerloft - winter

Stamp Something - use something digi

This next set is for Thanksgiving. This turkey from DeNami is one of my favorite! He's sooo cute! 

Challenges:

Marks Finest Paper - die cuts or a punch

Fairy Knoll - fall

Simon Says Stamp - give thanks

Thank you all for stopping by and hope you have an awesome day! Don't forget you have till Friday midnight to enter Wee Memories "Cute Holiday" challenge! Cheers....

Pink

Pink, pink, pink! That's my theme for today. :) Since October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, Digital Doodles dedicated this week challenge with pink theme. For my card, I used Digital Doodles Home Sweet Home, Banner Bird, and Song Bird.

Challenges:

Wild Orchid - pastels

Corrosive Challenges - no white paper

Totally Gorjuss - pink

Penny's Paper-Crafty - so long as it flies

This card is for my mom. My family & home in Jakarta has been in my mind a lot lately, so this card kind of symbolized that. The bird flying with the banner is me wanting to fly home.

I've been searching for good ticket price for weeks now. The ticket could be reasonable, but once they added the tax, that's where it goes crazy. Seriously, the tax is 1/3 of the ticket price. Still praying for some miracle that I can find one good deal, so I can be home for Christmas. I haven't been able to come home during Christmas since 1997. Sigh... the downfall of living on the other side of the world.

Don't forget to check out all the Digital Doodles DT projects here! Also, if you want to sign up for Caring Hearts Blog Hop this Saturday, 10/23/10, please email me you name & blog address. There's $25 GC prize from Wplus9 stamp company!! Thanks for stopping by. Have a wonderful day.

Digital Doodles Day

Hm... I sure get my Christmas card making an early start this year. New record for me. Hah... I usually don't start on them till it's December. But, I am planning on putting lots of my cards for Caring Hearts Card Drive. One of the nursing homes has 150 residents and I am not sure how many card we will receive through the card drives, yet, so I better get busy, right?

And, yesterday did feel almost like Christmas for me with all the goodies that I received in the mail. :) I never thought I'd need that many Christmas stamps, but for this year alone, I think I have ordered at least 6 different stamps (a couple of them are sets) and still probably end up with more. Sigh... too many cute stamps.

To continue with the Christmas theme, today, I have a second round of Digital Doodles 'Night Before Christmas'. For this card, I used Hero Arts Friends definition digi stamp to paper pieced the stocking. Love the way this color combo turned out. So sweet looking.

For a bit of fun, I added wiggly eye on the mose. Love it's curly tail. For the scallop on the stocking, I used Martha Stewart double scallop on vellum paper. Yep... I've been playing with vellum a lot lately.

Check out all the Digital Doodles DT amazingly creative creations here. These girls are so talented and I am so honored to be working with them. Enjoy your day!!

BOO!

Do you know one of the thing that makes me super happy? Cute images!! When I spotted this cute bat, I knew right away I have to have it! Just look at that smile! Makes me want to cuddle it. LOL.

Challenges:

Fab 'n' Funky - use a digi image

Digital Tuesday - DIGI STAMP and ribbon, buttons or bling

One Stitch At A Time - halloween

Come on, how cute is that? I am planning on making lots of cards with this cutie patootie. Not only for Halloween, but also for other occasion. Easily, he'd fit for birthday, congratulations, etc. Yep, this li'l fella makes me happy just looking him!

Continue with Halloween theme, remember a couple weeks ago, I made a Halloween table decor using Digital Doodles "Happy Howl-oween" set? Well, I decided to make a matching card. I pretty much using the same concept and only did a little variation here & there and added a cute witch from Tiddly Inks. 

And, I am thrilled that this card was featured at CARDS blog here. Even more thrilled when I see some other blogging friends were featured as well, including Trinh, Paulina, & Ayana.

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - Halloween

Shirley2Girls - SCARY and the word boo

Crafty Pad - spooky

One Stitch At A Time - halloween

Thank you all for stopping by here and I am sure you are ready for the weekend. Hope you all have a super duper great weekend! Cheers...

Happy Birthday, Hubby!

Today is my my dear hubby special day. He's truly one of the most thoughtful, loving guy, and I just want to let him know how thankful I am to have him as my partner in life!  Happy birthday, honey & please figure out where you want to go for dinner! LOL, every year he makes it so difficult to celebrate his birthday. He always like to keep it low key & I always want to make it special. He's like, why don't we just go out on t he weekend? I am like duh.... your birthday is today! :)

Other happy news.... Yesterday, I got tagged on facebook here, for winning a goodie box from Susan Opel from Paper & Crafts magazine. Yay!! Then this morning, lovely Deirdre left a comment & telling me I won another giveaway from the fabulous Cath at Moxie Fab! I rush to check out the announcement here & sure enough there's my  name. What a great blessing.

And the blessing will be shared. I am not keeping everything, I'll be adding some of the stuff to the prizes for Caring Hearts Card Drive. Yay... more stuff for you to win. :) I also have another donor adding prizes, this time it's Hero Arts! Double yay! Will be adding their prizes as soon as I receive their prize pic.

Anyway, have you start making your Christmas cards, yet? I am slowly working on them. The latest release from Digital Doodles "Night Before Christmas" sure helps me get in the mood to work on Christmas cards.

Edited to add "link" to the set.

Challenges:

Incy Wincy Designs - sparkly glitter (glitter, stickles, rhinestones, etc)

Gingerloft - glitter or bling

Sew Many Cards - DIGI STAMP and anything goes

Charisma Cardz - christmas crafting

Did you see the two li'l mouse? I think they're such a cutie! Here's an up-close view of them. I want to show how their tails are not glue & actually curled out for extra fun dimension.

The fireplace is courtesy of Silhouette. I just drew some lines to create the brick look & use my Prismacolor pencil to create the shadow lines. Loads of stickles on the fire. Love how glittery & shiny it looks. I did the same thing on the lights. 

What do you think? Also, check out Kathy's Digital Doodles blog to see all the fabulous projects the DT gals created. From the sneak peek I've been seeing, there are lots of eye candy! Thank you for all your sweet thoughtful comments that you left yesterday about Coco. I say it again and again, the card making industry is filled with many amazing, thoughtful people and I am so glad to be part of this community.

Have a blessed week everyone & thank you all for stopping by here. Cheers...

Halloween Decor

Usually, I don't really do Halloween decoration. I guess because we don't have any kids, yet and my neighborhood usually pretty quiet during Halloween. But, last week, I got this Happy Howl-loween set from Digital Doodle and the DT gals really inspired me to step up my game and create something besides cards.

So, here we go. My very first Halloween table decor. All made with papers.

Challenges:

MFT Wednesday Stamp Club Challenge, Make A Scene!

Freshly Brewed - paper piecing

AiFactory - anything goes

Alice in Wonderland - with a window or hole

Incy Wincy Designs - anything goes

Stamps R Us - halloween

View from an angle to show the layers.

For the bats, I attached them using a strip of acetate. I curled one of the acetate strip and attached the bat at the curled end, so it looks like the bat flying in front of the "Boo!" moon. The other one, I left it straight the way it is.

Here's a look of the decor in a dark room. Kind of fun to see how the yellow papers just glow. I thought it looks pretty darn good in the dark and not too scary looking. LOL, I avoided putting anything scary looking in our house. Only cutesy stuff for me. Sorry for the poor quality of the pic, it's really hard getting good picture in the dark. :)

Each of the DT member get to pick which set they want to work with, so you will really see variety of project from the Digital Doodle gals. Go check them out here and enjoy some inspiring eye candies.

By the way, this weekend is World Card Making Day. Do you have any plan to celebrate it? I'm thinking about doing a a little contest or a card drive to make it more fun. Awhile back my mom has this suggestion of doing cards for the elderly. We have many elderly in nursing homes that are lonely & sometime forgotten. She thought it would be nice if we remember the elderly as well and not just kids (she knows I supported Cards For Kids). Would you join me if I do this theme?

Pitch in your suggestion and if you have any particular nursing homes in mind, please email or left a comment & we can organize to mail the card there. Or if you know anyone in a nursing home who could use a cheerful card to brighten their day, send in their info. On Thursday, I'll decide what we would do, how, and I'll get some prizes ready. Since international shipping is expensive, those outside the US can join if you don't mind sharing the shipping cost. Sounds good? Any and all suggestions are welcome! Cheers...