Lily Pad Birthday Blog Hop

Hi everyone and welcome to Lily Pad Cards' 1st Birthday Blog Hop! I am thrilled to have you joining us. You should arrive here from Jess' blog.

I know you have many blogs to visit, so let's go straight to the cards. My first card is using this super cute mice stamp from Lili of the Valley called Sprinkled With Sugar. I've been eyeing this stamp since it's been released last year and finally got it like a couple months ago. Yeah... bad me... not playing with new stamp right away. :) 

See that little one that jumping off the sifter? Yep, I got this stamp because of that little one. He's just too cute & fun! I fussy cut this one mice and adhere it with pop-dots for an extra dimension.

The next card is using the cute gnome, Jerome from Paper Smooches. Love me some gnome. And turquoise hamster??? Why not?  :)

Now, we're not only celebrating with a blog hop, we're also giving away 3 prize packages with a total retail value of over $300!! These prizes will be awarded by random draw. To be eligible, you need to "like" Lily Pad Cards on Facebook. 

You can also better your chances by leaving comments of the blogs participating in this hop (including the Lily Pad bog). For each comment, you get your name entered again (but only one comment per blog, please).

The blog hop will last for a week. That  means you can leave comments for a chance to win prizes until 12.00 pm EST on Sunday, April 8.

From here, please hop on over to Darlene. Thank you all so much for stopping by here. Have a blessed Sunday everyone.

Some Odd Girl Color Challenge

Good morning everyone and happy Sunday! And happy April Fool's day! :) Has anyone pull a prank on you, yet?

Today we have a new color inspiration challenge from Some Odd Girl. Here's a look at the inspiration pic:

How yummy & cheerful is that color combo? And here's my card using Kaylee image from Nutsy Kaylee set.

We will be picking 2 winners from this challenge. One first randomly chosen winner will receive Love Letters Kaylee and one winner whose project totally knock Kristy's socks off will receive Crushin' Gwen set. 

To get your creativity going, how about checking the fabulous projects that the DT gals has created for this challenge at Some Odd Girl blog. Enjoy your Sunday!

Sunshine

Happy Friday!! Yikes.... before I know it, this week has flown by so fast and I have missed blogging almost the whole week. Been totally in spring cleaning mode, so I've been busy cleaning & trying to re-organize my room. 

I cleaned up my stash quite a bit and I found good home for all the goodies. I am sending the stash to Kelly Latevola, who currently collecting crafty goodies to help her friend Angie who lost everything in an apartment fire. Please check out Kelly's blog post if you are interested to help out.

Now the cleared up space didn't last long at all. Hah! I have quite a few new stuff coming in thanks to a couple fabulous gift certificate that I won recently. This time I ordered a few sets that's been on my wish list for a while. A couple of my favorite sets are Technique Tuesday Ali Edwards Summer sentiment set and this Hummingbird set from Kaiserkraft. 

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

I just love, love, love them! The font combination in Ali Edward's sentiment designs always make my heart beat faster. Yes... that's how much I love her designs. :) And how  true is that sentiment? In case  you are wondering, no I don't work for Technique Tuesday, I simply believe in gushing about products that I do love. I only have a few of Ali's sets but every time I used them I cannot help but feeling wow, I love this and it's so great that you can use her set for card as well as for scrapbooking. I have a long wish list for Ali Edwards set. Hm... when is my birthday?? Sigh... still months away.

And that birdie stamp?? Make my heart pitter patter, too. For some of you who have followed  my blog for awhile you know how much I love bird stamps. The moment I saw this one I know I have to have it.

Now, since I didn't post anything this past few days, we can play catch up, right? How about 2 cards for 1 day? This next card is a card I  made for Hero Arts flower challenge. Yep, my rare moment where I use flowers for my card. I always find them pretty but challenging to use.

Note to self: have to remember to try stamping with white on colored cardstock more often. 

Thank you all so much for stopping by here and just an an fyi, we will have a big & fun blog hop coming this weekend as Lily Pad Cards celebrating their 1st birthday! Hope you will join us & help us celebrate.

I wish you all a day full of sunshine.

May Arts & Blog Hop Winner

Quick post. Today I have a fun project up on May Arts blog. This week we are teaming  up with Sweet Stamp Shop and I get to play with May Arts new burlap ribbon. Check it out & you can also win some fabulous goodies. Simply leave a comment on the blog post HERE.

And, thank you all so much for all your lovely comments on my Paper Crafts Practical Solutions blog hop post. I read all of them and appreciate them very much. The lucky winner from the blog hop is:

Comment #60 left by Lynda!! Lynda, congrats.... you win the Paper Crafts Practical Solutions. Please email me your mailing address. Thank you again to everyone and have a blessed Monday!

Lily Pad Flower Challenge

**For Paper Crafts Practical Solution and PSA Essentials & Basic Grey 

blog hops please scroll down.**

Wow, today is a busy day for me. I couldn't remember the last time I ever made 3 post for once day. :)

New challenge is up on Lily Pad Cards and this time our theme is flower and this fun challenge is sponsored by Simon Says Stamp.

And, here's my card using flower in a teensy weensy way (hm... not sure if teensy weensy is actually a word, but I like the sounds of it).

My flower came in form of fabric tape. I think it's a great way to include flower in your card without using actual flower embellishment.

The DT gals has created some fabulous inspirations, please check them out at Lily Pad Cards and I am looking forward to checking our your creations for this challenge. Happy Friday!

Paper Crafts Practical Solutions Mini Blog Hop

** If you're looking for PSA Essentials & Basic Grey blog hop please scroll down.**

Hi everyone and welcome to Paper Crafts blog hop as we are celebrating the release of Paper Crafts Practical Solution. I love, love this issue as there are so many awesome ideas on this edition. 

For the blog hop we want to focus on the theme "Five for $5". To make 5 cards for $5 or less. And, I went to town with this challenge. :) 

First up is a small 3" x 4" card set.  

Here's my price break down for this set:

Cardstock: $0.38

Layered sticker: $0.65 

Digi sentiment set: $1 (This sentiment set is called A Kind Word - love part 2 designed by Deena Rutter & I got it on sale for only $1, normal price is $3.99)

Total: $2.03

The moment I saw this K&Company sticker pack, called Meadow designed  by Susan Winget, I fell in love with it right away and it such a good deal. Normal price for this set is $4.99 and with 40% off coupon I only have to pay $2.99 for the pack and it has 24 beautiful layered stickers, which make it to only $0.13/sticker.. 

Always, always, pay attention at what's on sale & I use coupon whenever I can. Oh, did I mention, I have Michaels, Hobby Lobby, and JoAnn all within 10 minutes from my house? Coupon, sale, & craft galore!!

Not only this card set is easy on the budget, it's super quick & easy to make as well.  

Next, I make a set of standard size card using the same supplies like above (but this time I used  the colored cardstocks), just to show that you can make a standard size card set as well for less  than $5. I love this set because each card has a bird. I notice that my favorite card to make are the ones that has bird. :)

The price breakdown for this set:

Cardstock: $1.06

Layered sticker: $0.65

Digi sentiment: $1.00

Total: $2.71

As you can see, it didn't cost much more to make this bigger set. Simply by using the right ingredients you definitely can make beautiful cards at affordable cost.

Check out these talented ladies and see what they have created for today hop, which I am sure is awesome & fun!

Emily Branch
Lorena Cantó Laveria
Chan Vuong
Vera Wirianta Yates ------ you are here 
Agnieszka Malyszek

If you'd like to order a copy of Paper Crafts Practical Solutions, you can order it HERE. And, PC also has generously give me one issue for giveaway. Simply leave a comment on this post by midnight CST Sunday, 3/25/2012. I will pick a winner on Monday and post the winner name on the same day. You can also leave a comment on each blog and on Paper Craft blog to increase your chance to win.

Thank you so much for stopping by here and I hope you enjoy our mini hop.

PSA Essentials & Basic Grey Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to PSA Essentials & Basic Grey blog hop. If you arrived here from Megan Klauer, you are on the right track. In case you missed any of the link, you can always go to PSA Essentials blog for a complete list of the participants.

For my card, I am using this beautiful grayish patterned paper from Basic Grey Boxer collection. The red dots on this paper, makes it perfect  to use with any of  the image from PSA Essentials Rosettas set.

I simply use the red dots on this paper as my placement guide to stamp the image. I then colored the image with markers, cut the paper into 3 strips before adhering them to the card. The silk ribbon is from May Arts. It's my favorite ribbon to use to do double bows as they're thin and not bulky at all.

Now, a blog hop wouldn't be complete without a giveaway, right. There's several way for you to enter (see below)  and here's what you can win:

2 Peel & Stick stamp sets & 1 PSA Stamper (MSRP $55)

1 Basic Grey Plumeria & 1 Konnichiwa paper pack (MSRP $50)

Great prizes, right? I've been eyeing the Basic Grey Konnichiwa paper pack. Saw them at CHA and I LOVE them.

From here, please hop on over to your next stop... Jamie Cripps.  Hope you enjoy the hop and thank you so much for stopping by here. 

Hey Gill.friend

I just have to share one more of my card that get published in Paper Crafts Practical Solutions, because this one is absolutely  my favorite from all the cards I made for this edition. 

I love this yummy stripe twill ribbon from May Arts and I save every scrap of this ribbon. They're too pretty to be thrown away. The way I look at it, every strip counts. :)

So happy that I can make a CAS card using this ribbon fish. I previously made this kind of ribbon fish a couple years ago like you could see on my blog header. I love this one even more, because I think the stripe twill pattern works so much better & makes it more fun compared to when I just used solid ribbon. Don't you agree?

Come back tomorrow for a couple fun blog hops. As always... if there's blog hop, there's giveaway, too. Oh yeah.... did you THIS official announcement? Yep.. I'm officially on board the Lily  Pad Cards crew now. Have a great Thursday everyone!

Scraps & Household Item

This week, Paper Crafts is celebrating the release of their special edition Practical Solutions. And, I am so thrilled that for this publication I have 7.... yes 7 cards!! I was jumping up and down when I got the acceptance email. I worked hard for this edition and submitted a bunch of cards and  so thankful and grateful when that many got accepted.

Here's a peek at one of my card that focus on creative way to use scraps as seen on PC Practical Solution page 70.

I have to say this edition was one of my favorite to work on. I like the idea of using household item and using your scraps (which I have tons and tons of. Eli the puppy been trying to help cleaning it, too by stealing a piece of scrap whenever he could and ended up with me chasing him. Heh...).

Somehow my brain starts piling all these ideas to use unusual stuff. I even made a card using nail polish. Nope, that one didn't get accepted, but I still had fun playing with it. :D

Anyway, for today I want to enter this next card for Moxie Fab household item challenge. For my household item I used real party candle and those pretty dots on my card were made using wax by melting various color candles.

This project totally bring back college memories. Back then, I love doing artsy stuff on my diary, one of them was dripping wax on the paper, then scrape the wax to create the translucent look on the paper. On this one I didn't scrape the wax. I left it the way it is. 

Have you tried this before? Thank you for stopping by here and have a great Wednesday everyone! Cheers...

Lawnscaping Inspired By

Happy Monday, lovely peeps! It's time for a new Lawnscaping challenge. This time our challenge is to create any project inspired by a fellow crafter. It could be from a magazine publication, or from blog project, pinterest, etc.

And for this challenge we are sponsored by the fabulous Lawn Fawn.

For my card, I was inspired by THIS card that Teri made. I love Teri's works. Her cards always so fun. Of course, for my project, I was inspired by her CAS card. :)

Please check out the Lawnscaping blog for more inspiration from the DT gals and I sure hope you will join us on this fun challenge. Please let us know who inspire your project.

And, BTW, I got happy email this past Friday. I have 2 of my projects get accepted for Paper crafts Sept/Oct issue. And one of them is not a card. So excited!! 

Now, how about a couple puppy pics? My boy is growing taller and he starts doing what I called his crazy dance, where he'd suddenly run around the house really, really fast. And, I am so proud of him, because he has learned to let us know when he needs to go outside by scratching the door or the wall. 

I was so excited when I realized that he understand he has to go outside. For his age, he's very smart. We really don't have that many accidents in the house and right now, he's only 3,5 months. 

He usually hang out with me when I do my crafting. I have a comfy pillow for him and lots and lots of toys in the room for his entertainment. Above is his pic right before he went for a nap. Now, he'll need to learn that his mom is a scrapbooker and likes to take pic. My other pug, Ollie, she knows this. She's a poser. Eli... not so much. He tends to go after the camera, except when he's tired like on these pics. :)

Oh yeah, he needs to lean that papers are off limit as well. He likes checking my scrap box and seem to think papers are toy.  Thanks for stopping by and may your week start off wonderfully.