Under The Sea

Today is one of those day where I just don't know what to write. :) No story to share. So, let's just get on with the card, shall we? 

Here's my bright color card. I have this KI Memories paper forever, from when they first started. Yep, I have lots of old patterned papers that I just love and still keep in my stash waiting to be used. Well, this one finally get some extra love. ;)

I fussy cut all the images. Love this mermaid image. Have her for what... six months maybe? And.. yep, first time I used it. The seaweed is actually leaves ribbon from May Arts. I layered a couple of the leaves with a lighter color ones for dimension.

I honestly not sure how I feel about this card. I love bright colors, but sometime certain combo can be too bright for my taste. And, I think this is the case for this card. But, on the other hand, kids will probably like this card with it's bright, cheerful colors. Oh well...

Have agreat Thursday everyone!! I am sooo looking forward for Grey's Anatomy tonight. Love that show!

Pretty Flowers

Good morning peeps! How are you doing? I want to thank you all for the lovely anniversary wishes. Hubby check out my blog last night and he loves reading your comments. He thinks I have the sweetest followers. And, I couldn't agree more. :)

Dollar... ooppss... I mean Ollie, is doing better and already back to her normal crazy self, runninng, and dancing around. She's still milking it though, giving this pathetic look, so we would let her sleep with us instead of sleeping on her own bed. And... daddy is such a softie, he caved in. Sigh... she trained us so well to follow her wish. ;)

Today, I have a sweet & cheerful card for you. Sometime last year, I won a few super cute sticker sets from Sherri. And they were so cute, that I keep putting them on display instead of actually using them. Well, I finally decide it's better to share to cuteness. So, here's my card using one of Tiffany's sketch. I love her sketch. They're always so fun.

  

Challenges:

Tuesday Throwdown - Florals 

 How cute is that smiling flower? I stamped the background with Hero Arts Friends definition stamp, then added the blue washi tape, the flower sticker, and the sentiment. Easy peasy & super quick card!

Another thing that brighten my day yesterday was to find this fabulous package from one of my blogging friend Alexandra in the mail. Her card is gorgeous. I keep staring at the sky background, it's so pretty. I think her coloring is perfectly done. And ... she made these crochet flowers herself!!

Thank you Alex for these awesome package!! Love, love, love happy mail, especially when they're from my lovely blogging peeps. :) Hope you all have a wonderful, gorgeous day! Hugs...

Happy 3rd Anniversary

Oye... I had my post all prepared Sunday night and Monday I found out it has disappeared. Even after I already saved it! Let's see if this post come up! :)

Yesterday was my 3rd anniversary!! 3 years since I married my sweet hubby. What did we do to celebrate? Hm... how about taking our pug to the vet? My pug, Ollie gave us such a nice present.. a nice chunk of vet bill! Sigh... at the end hubby and I can only shake our head and make jokes about it.

I told hubby, maybe we should change Ollie's name to "Dollar" or "Richie Rich". She had scratch by the eye and her stomach was hard like rock, so of course, like any responsible, loving parents, we took her to get check out. She got antibiotic for her eyes and they had to do x-ray on her. Advise to pet owner: "always ask how much an x-ray cost".

After the bill, hubby and I pretty much just look at each other and said happy anniversary. We still went out for dinner afterward. Just low key dinner. As much as the vet bill hurt our pocket, we both think how blessed we are that we're still able to go out and enjoy a nice dinner, that our baby is doing okay.  

So, in honor of our anniversary, here's a couple pics from our wedding day. We got married at Playa Del Carmen. It was a small, intimate wedding and I love it! Professional pics were taken by my brother, Jerry Aurum, the photographer. :) If you visit his blog, he has post mostly in English and a few in Indonesian.

Since, it's my anniversary, I am just going to gush away about hubby. He's seriously one of the most thoughtful guy I know. Just this past weekend, he bought me an Indonesian recipe book. Nope, not for me to cook. But, for me to pick recipes I like for him to cook. How sweet is that? These kind of thoughtful gesture that mean so much that make me so grateful for having him as my hubby. Love you to pieces, honey! :)

Now, what would an anniversary be without a card? I made this card using Tiffany's sketch.

Challenges:

Penny Black - Wet embossing

Paper Playtime - Anything Goes

Can't go wrong with embossed cute hedgehog from Penny Black. That webby looking ribbon is from May Arts. LOVE it!

Thank you all for stopping by here and welcome to the new followers! :) Really appreciate you all taking the time to check out my blog. Hope you enjoy your visit and have a blessed day everybody!

Wee Memories Free Your Creativity

Yay... Saturday! Don't you just love that beautiful word? :) I love weekend.

Hmm.. this weekend going to be an interesting one for me. I am such a people pleaser sometime. A couple months ago my mother-in-law asked me if I'd go with her to a polymer clay class. And she's such a sweet lady and I figure it would be a great way to spend some time together. Well, later I find out that not only it's 2 days class, it's from 10-5 each day! Eeek... There goes my weekend.

I love my MIL, so I do this for her, but seriously, I am not that interested on polymer clay. So, 7 hours each day would be a long one. Hubby already said that I can't bail out as he made the cough sounds. LOL. Usually when I don't want to go somewhere I'd whine I don't feel well and make the cough sounds pretending I am sick. My MIL said that if we finish our project early, than maybe we don't have to stay for the whole day. Crossing my fingers... :)

Now, on to card. This week Wee Memories is sponsored by the awesome My Favorite Things and our theme is "Free Your Creativity" which means anything goes. Create whatever your heart desires.

For my card I used MFT Die-namics Polka Dot Greetings Die & Stamp Set Duo. I love everything about this die & stamp set. The die shape, the polka dot frames, and the sentiment style. It's also fun to play with the Pure Innocence image again. I almost forgot how cute they are. I covered the heart with Frosted Lace stickles.

Check out the DT gals fabulous creations and  the challenge details at Wee  Memories blog. Since this is such a fun and easy peasy challenge, I hope many of you will join us! I am looking forward to check out your creations. Hope you have a wonderful weekend. Meanwhile... I am going to spend my precious weekend at a polymer clay clas. Hi ho hi ho off to class we go.. (imagine the 7 dwarfs from Snow White singing this) .... :)

Papertrey March Blog Hop Challenge

Welcome to Papertrey Ink March Blog Hop! I missed the PTI blog hop for the past few months and so excited that I can join this month blog hop. This month theme is to use embroidery floss.

I've been wanting to use Melissa's Flower Fusion # 1 set and when I saw Moxie Fab's Tuesday Trigger "A Citrus Celebration", I knew right away how I want to create my card.

That cheerful polka dots green got my attention right away and I have this Bella Blvd papers that I adore, that reminds me of that cupcake liner. Then the orange and yellow.. ahh.. what a fun & happy combination. So, here's my card. I used the embroidery floss to stitch the flower stems.

With such cheerful card like this, I think that sentiment is perfect. There's many blog for you to hop to, so I'll keep this short and sweet. Thank you all for stopping by. Wishing you all blue skies & sunshine! :)

Sweet Spring

Happy Friday peeps! I am happy to report that my mojo is only taking short vacation. It still in lazy mood, but it's willing to come out and play a bit. :) At las minute, I was able to complete a card for A Day For Daisies new releases.

I love the way Tammy draw her images. It's always have such whimsical feeling to it. If you look closely, those colorful dots are actually cute li'l birdies. And what do you think of this color combo? I think it looks different, yet pretty.

Challenges:

Creative Cottage - Spring

Stamp with Fun - Spring

Stamps R Us - Spring
PWCO SS # 74 - Sketch

Here's a peek at a few of the images. There's 8 images being released today and this one I used on the card is only $2 just for today!!

Here on my neck of the wood, the weather been gorgeous and the trees are growing their leaves back in full force. I wish we have colorful flowers like in Seattle or Vancouver area. We do have flowers, but the colors just okay. Is it just me, but I notice that in area where they have super cold winter, their spring flowers are more brilliant and robust in colors. I love the colors and could just stare at those pretty flowers for the longest time.

Anyway, I am happy to see all the greens and the beautiful weather. Hope you're enjoying a waonderful weather as well. :)

Paper Play Distressing

This week at Paper Play it's team B turns to play. Our challenge is distressing. And... let me tell ya... distressing was stressing me up! :) I think in my head I always associated distressing with vintage and as much as I adore other people vintage style, it just not my style.

And on top of that my mojo decided to just go on vacation and leaving me stranded. I wasted 3 cards. Each time I felt like they looked too messy. At the end, my clean style won and I just stick to this simple card. I distress the image with distress inks and use SRM sticker for the sentiment.

Challenges:

Oldie But Goodie Challenge - Pink, Blue & Brown

The other DT gals did such fabulous works. Mine is the simplest one! Sorry, when mojo is  on vacation, it's ON VACATION! No trace of it left whatsoever. Hah! :) Check out the DT work at Paper Play Challenges.

Hope you have a great Thursday! :)

Stamping On Canvas

Good morning everyone! For Paper Crafts September 2011 issue I submitted 3 cards and got 1 accepted. Yay... All in all I have 5 publications coming up. Took me almost a year, but hey it finally happening. :) Last time my work got published was 5 years ago, before major life event happened and I took a break from scrapbooking & card making. 

Anyway, today I am sharing one of the rejected card. I had lots of fun making this one. My first try stamping on canvas.

I do use this Critters In The 'Burb set a lot, don't I? And that banner from Bannerific set. Both from Lawn Fawn, which is one of my favorite company. I colored the dog and the cat using Copic markers. They work really well on this canvas.

Reject or not, I think this card will bring smile to who ever going to receive it. :) Thank  you all for stopping by and have a blessed day!

Wag Your Tail "Hello"

For today I'll share a card that I made last month for magazine submission. It didn't get pick up, but I still love it. It's actually one of my favorite card. I love the simple and clean design of this card. The stamp is from Eat, Cake, Graphics.

As soon as I saw this cute doggy peering down at something, I knew it's coming home with me. :) I got like 5-6 stamps from them (really reasonably priced, especially when you get the unmounted ones) and most of them are the doggy ones.

This stamp just reminds me of my pug, Ollie, who always so curious and like to check on everything. Her way of thinking: "Oh... mommy has plastic bag filled with goodies, let me see what's in there. Or.. oh... there's the trash can, let me see what's in there, hmm... if I tip it over, let's see how much mess can I make. Well.. hello there goodies to scatter!" Yep, always peering down and checking on things.

It also makes me think of my other pug, Milo that I lost 6 years ago. Cute, cuddly little bugger that I still miss to this day. I like to think that he's hanging out with both of my dads up there now and every now then I imagine him looking down from heaven, wag his tail and say, "Hello, I am up here looking at you and looking forward to seeing you again." Maybe it just my imagination, but it sure makes me smile.



Loosing your love ones, whether it's people or pets, is hard regardless whether it's been week or years. Today is a week from when I received the news of my dad. The ache still there. But like many of you say, sweet memories of our love ones will make us smile and bring us comfort. This card makes me smile and think of many good memories. Thank you all for stopping by and I really appreciate all your sweet comments. You truly brings me comfort this past week. 

I'm Here For You

Good morning and happy Monday! This weekend was so theraupetic for me. Hubby and I spent the weekend at Galveston and it was such a nice break from the daily routine. Being by the ocean is so rejuvenating. 

Saturday morning, we woke up early, went for breakfast, got a beautiful flower bouquet for my dad and headed to the beach. As we laid all the flower blooms, we said prayers for my dad, and I really feel that he's helping me being strong.  When we finish, we walked back to the beach, and there half buried on the sand was this perfect sea shell. It's the gorgeous spiral, elongated one. And it's in such perfect condition. When I touch it, I was thinking, this is so perfect and we couldn't find  another one like that at all. And, somehow in a way I have a feeling that it was my dad's way to say he's "perfectly" happy on the other side. :)

                     

I have several very thoughtful people around me who show me that they're here for me and I truly hope that I am as good of a friend as they are to me. The sentiment, " I am here for you" when prove by the actual gesture of kindness, means so much. Some people truly have touched my life by showing me their support, by truly being here for me. And through this card, I want them to know, I'm here for them, too whenever they go trough tough time.

Thank you everyone for your kindness, support, thoughtful emails, text messages. You help me tremendously. Thank you and I am grateful for you. :)