Freedom Is Not Free

I saw this pic on Pinterest and the note underneath said: "A reminder that whether you like to admit it or not, whether you agree with it or not, your freedom is not free. It never has been, it never will be. Someone gave all for YOU."

This pic totally stopped  me in my track and the quote is so true. It also reminds me that for all the soldiers that serve our country, their spouse, their kids, their parents serve with them. They're the ones that have to live with the day-to-day worries whether their wife, husband, or kid will be safe or not in the war zone. They're the ones who has to be a single parents while their spouse serve in another place.

In honor of Veteran's Day, May Arts is taken part of OWH Blog Hop. With the other girls in the DT, am sharing my card on May Arts blog. You can check out what we all created HERE.

And, this is my card:

I am using bleach to stamp my flower image and I really love the way it came out on this particular cardstock. Instead of just coming out washed white like the typical result when you used bleach for stamping, this one came out like teal color. LOVE!

Thank you to all our troops & their families for our freedom. Thank you for reminding me not to complain about minor things. If you have a house to come home to, have a bed to sleep in, have food to eat, really we have nothing to complain. We're luckier than so many people. Not just the troops (who often have to sleep in dirt, deal with harsh weather), consider the homeless, the people in poor country, the people who lives in war zone, you'll realize how blessed you are.

As I count my blessings, I am also grateful for this hobby. :) Making cards bringing me lots of joy. Here's another card for Cards That Care card drive, using the latest releases from A Day For Daisies.

Thanks for stopping by here and happy 11.11.11!! :)

Last Day With Kelly

For my last day of pairing up with Kelly Latevola, we use this pic for inspiration.

Isn't this pic just gorgeous? I love the soft colors and use that as my base to create this CAS card.

Thank you, Kelly for doing this with me. It's always a pleasure teaming up with you.

Also, yesterday, Some Odd Girl released 3 cute Thanksgiving images, that you can get HERE. And here's my cards showcasing the latest releases. The first card is using Indian Tia.

Then, I have this second card, using the Turkey image. 

Challenges:

Aud Sentiment Challenge - Thanks

Penny's Paper Crafty - Give Thanks

Challenges:

Whimsical Wednesday - Thanksgiving

Creative Card Crew - Thankful

I have heard from half of the winners from Cards That Care blog hop. For those of you who haven't send me your info, please do so ASAP please. Thank you so much and have a blessed Thursday everyone! :)

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

LOL, cheesy title I know. But, I've been wanting to say it. :)

I know I already say it, but I will say it again, I really appreciate everyone's participation for Cards That Care blog hop and for the card drive itself. You make it possible for Jennifer and I to make it successful. :)

Now, let's get on with the winner list, shall we. I randomly choose which blog to pick the winners from using random.org, then from there again randomly choose the winners.

Here's  the list of the prize & the winners. I listed the prize, from whose blog I pick the winner from & the lucky winner.

Avocado Arts Stamp sets

From Laurel Seabrook's blog: Lisa

Hero Arts 4 stamp of your choice (clear, cling, or wood)

From Amy's blog: Judy1223

Jennifer McGuire Holiday Boot Camp Class

From Cristina Kowalczyk's blog: Crafty Texan

Lawn Fawn Pa-rum-Pa-Pum-Pum, Making Frosty Friend, & Winter Fox set

From Wendy Morris blog: Erin (Handmade Cards By Erin)

Mami Doodles - 5 digital stamps of your choice

From Amy Tsuruta's blog: Gail

May Arts - 3 spool of ribbon of your choice

From Nicol Rixon's blog: Tanya

Monika Wrights I Love It All Print

From Kathy Racoosin's blog: Jennifer Rzasa

Penny Black - 2 cling stamps of your choice

From Anita Recksiedler's blog: Michelle

Sweet Stamp Shop Thanksgiving Owl-Fits & The Core of it set

From Trinh's blog: Emily Keaton

The Crafts Meow - A set of stamp of your choice

From Monika Wright's blog: Samantha Mann

Ladies, please email: wirianta(at)hotmail.com with your information. On  the subject line please put which prize you won. Thank you again everyone and congrats to all the lucky gals!

Day 2 With Kelly

Continuing my pairing up with Kelly Latevola, today we're making card inspired by this cute pic. Isn't this shoes just so adorable?

I love the colors on this pic and use that for my cards base. Every time I make a card using hedgehog stamps, I can't help but remember my own spiky critter, Coco, whom I got for Christmas about 3 years ago. She went to critters heaven last year. Now, since I used to own a hedgehog, I can't help but feeling very partial to hedgehog images. And, the ones from Penny Black are my favorite. If I have unlimited fund, I'd get their whole hedgehog collection. :)

And, to my delight this time I actually able to capture the glitters on the shawl. You know how it is with glitters, sometime they're just hard to capture with camera. I am entering this card for Lily Pad texture challenge.

Please check out Kelly's card HERE. Next post.... winner list for Cards That Care blog hop!! Yay...

Day 1 With Kelly

A few months ago, when I went through a creative slump, Kelly Latevola invited me to pair up with her in doing a challenge. We decided to do it again. This time we pick some pics from Pinterest as our source of inspiration.

I am addicted to Pinterest. So many gorgeous images and so many things you can learn about. Anyway, for the next three days, starting today we'll be sharing our project. For today we based our card on this gorgeous bird pic.

And, here's my card. I know, Kelly, you must be gasping right now... that I actually use flower stamp.  LOL, for our last challenge, I whined on how hard it was for me to use flower stamp. Seriously, as much as I love flower stamps, it's always quite a challenge for me to use them. But, this time, I am pretty happy with the result.

I am also making this card for Hero Arts monthly challenge. 

Well, thank you for stopping by here and don't forget to come back  tomorrow to see the winner list from Cards That Care Blog Hop. See you then and don't forget to check out Kelly's card.  :)

Lawnscaping Challenge

Wow, your response to Cards That Care blog hop is amazing! I so feel the love from all of you. Thank you to all of you for your support for this card drive. It means so much to me and your creations for the blog hop are simply fabulous and I gained so much inspirations. And thank you to all of you that hop along with us and left us with wonderful comments. We really appreciate it.

I will pick up the winners either later today or Tuesday. Winners will be announce on Wednesday.

Now, how are you adjusting with daylight saving time? I don't know about you, but it always kind of messed me up a bit. Just wasn't feeling the best. And, to top it off, hubby is down with cold. He sound so horrible with his nose all stuffed up. Haven't seen him this sick for a long time. I am taking airborne, so cross fingers I wouldn't get sick, too.

          

 Anyway, it's time for a new Lawnscaping challenge sponsored by Simon Says Stamp! Our theme is "Thank You" and here's my card for the challenge.

This time I used my Faber-Castell color pencils to color the leaves and use Copic marker for  the fox. For more inspirations please check out the DT gals creations HERE. 

Hope your week start off fabulously! :)

Wee Memories Blog Hop

Happy Saturday everyone and welcome to Wee Memories blog hop! If you arrive here from sweet STEPHANIE, then you're on the right track. As always, you can find the complete list of the blog at Wee Memories.

Do you realize that this week Wee Memories challenge marked our 75th challenge? I just want to say thank you to all of you who join our challenges. We really appreciate your support & loyalty. This week we are sponsored by Oh My Crafts! and our challenge is to create handmade gifts, tags, boxes or bags.

Hope you'll join this challenge and who know you might be the lucky gal who win this week prize of bundle of paper.

For my project, I decided to use a small paint can container. I think this would be great to hold candy, small jewelry, etc.

Made the penguin using my beloved Silhouette. Love that machine! I like to think of it as the little engine that keep chugging & makes me happy. :) Well, I am your last stop. To start from the beginning, please go to Wee Memories blog. Thank you for stopping by here.

Cards That Care Blog Hop

                                           

Hi and welcome to Cards That Care blog hop! Cards That Care is run by the sweet & fabulous Jennifer McGuire and  me. Our goal is to collect as many cards as we can for the elderly who lives in nursing homes. 

And, for your support & generosity, we have many offer many prizes as well. You can find all the details for the card drive HERE or by clicking on the badge. Just a reminder: you have till Nov. 30, 2011 to send your cards.

Now, to help promote the card drive, we're hosting a blog hop. We have quite a few fabulous & generous sponsors for the hop (see below for complete list of prizes) and you have the whole weekend to complete the hop. So, make sure you leave your comment by Sunday, Nov. 6, midnight CST. We will pick the winners from comments left on the participants blogs. So, the more blogs you left comment on, the better your chances are.

I made a couple cards for this hop. Here's a look at the first one, using stamps from my favorite companies. The cat is from Penny Black, background from Hero Arts, & sentiment from Papertrey Ink. BTW, Penny Black & Hero Arts were the among the first stamps I owned when I started stamping back in '97. And, yes.... still love them to this day!! 

Lots of layers on the cat & wreath image. Looks more 3D if you see it in person. Next, is another CAS card using another favorite of mine, the Lawn Fawn stamps. I used the masking technique for this card & used stardust stickles for the snowy hill.

Now, are you ready to hop? From here, you'll hop to the gal that everyone know as the stamp guru, Jennifer McGuire. I am sure you'll find fab inspiration from her blog.

Here's the complete list of the hop participants:

Vera Yates <------ you are here

Jennifer McGuire

Kelly Marie 

Laurel Beard
Lynette Kauffman
Melania Deasy

Amy Kolling

Cathy Fong

Brandi

Christy

Cristina Kowalczyk

Stephanie Muzzulin

Judy Marino

Annie Lung

Laurel Seabrook

Rachel Izakowicz

Kathy Racoosin

Amy Tsuruta

Kelly Bertram

Sheri Feypel

Kathy Martin

Becky Williams

Alice Carman
Wendy Morris

Sue Mylde

Gretchen McElveen

Loredana Bucaria

Deanna Misner

Kimberly Neddo 

Sweet Stamp Shop
Savannah O'Gwynn

Aga 

Donna Mikasa

Nicole Rixon

Trinh  

Monika Wright

Brenda Urbanik

Annette Allen

Samantha LaRoe

Karin Akesdotter

Kelly Latevola

Amy

Jenny Suchin
Anita Recksiedler

Giovana Smith

And, of course, no blog hop is complete without fabulous prizes!!! We have some superb & fabulous companies who donated these awesome prizes for this blog hop. Please visit them when you can. They have tons of great products. Huge thank you to all of you for your support & generosity.

OUR AMAZING PRIZES

Avocado Arts

4 stamps of your choice - clear, cling or wood

Jennifer McGuire

A spot on her Holiday Boot Camp Class

Lawn Fawn

4 digital stamps of your choice

3 rolls of ribbon of your choice 

Monika Wright's I Love It All

8 x 10 print of this gorgeous design

2 Cling Stamps of your choice

A Stamp set of your choice

New Addition

Yesterday, I received the news that my brother, Jerry, has added a new addition to our family. He has adopted this adorable puppy, Kopi (English ranslation: Coffee). Yay!! Welcome to the family Kopi!! Here's a pic of him and Kopi.

Isn't Kopi cute?? I love his colors. And, my brother  looks like the proud daddy. :)

Okay, enough gushing about our new addition. Let's talk about card. At Some Odd Girl we have new challenge starting today.

Create a project inspired by this 1902 piece by Alphonse Mucha, who is called the father of Art Nouveau, the Thistle from the Sands. Maybe the color will inspired you or some of the design elements. We just need to be able to clearly see the inspiration. 

And, here's my card based on the pics. I took the colors as my inspiration.

Make sure you check out the fabulous creations that the DT created for this challenge at Some Odd Girl new blog.

Please come back tomorrow as we start Cards That Care blog hop festivities! We have some serious prizes line up for the offer. You don't want to miss it. See you tomorrow.

Birthday Pelican

Hi there! How's your Halloween? Hubby and I pretty much hiding. LOL, with 2 dogs that bark like crazy whenever the door bell rang, it's easier for us to just turn off all the lights and make it look like no one's home. I know, I know... what a party pooper. But, with no kids, Halloween is just not a big deal in our household. 

I do dressed up Ollie my pug now & then. This pic from a couple years ago when she got her li'l devil costume. And, the costume didn't stay on her for long. :) She actually has 2 costume. I got her an angel one when I first got her then this one. 

Isn't she a cutie? I know, I am bias. I am her mom and like any mom I think my "kids" are the cutest. Hah!

Now, how about a cute card? I entered this card for Paper Crafts WCMD, but obviously it didn't make the cut. I still think it's super cool, seeing I came up with the idea of the crab holding a birthday candle for the pelican. And, yes... it's real candle. 

Challenges:

Lily Pad - Texture

Paper Take Weekly - Anything Goes

The cute pelican and the crab are from Paper Smooches, who is one of the fabulous company that donated prizes for Cards That Care card drive. They have the cutest stamps!

And, just a reminder... in 2 days I'll be hosting Cards That Care blog hop!! We have about 40 participants and lots of prizes! So, come Friday, make sure you check back here as the hop will starts right here. Have a great Wednesday everyone.