Lawnscaping & Card Drive Question

Happy labor day lovely peeps! I hope you're enjoying this long weekend. I met up with Trinh for a long lunch yesterday as she's in town to visit her family and I  truly enjoyed it. I love it whenever I get to spend some time with her. Sigh... wish my card making friends live closer.

Now, to start this week, I have a sketch challenge from Lawnscaping to share with you sponsored by Simon Says Stamp.

   

The funny thing is I made this sketch, yet I was struggling to create a card for it. This past couple weeks, I feel like I've been in major card making slump. Hoping my card making mood will be back soon. Anyway, here's my card that I made.

As you can see the circle doesn't have to be a circle, you can use an image in place of the circle. My team mates definitely rock this sketch more than me. So, make sure you check out their projects HERE.

Now, question for you all. As some of you know, each year I do a card drive to collect card for the elderly in nursing homes. Last year I teamed up with Jennifer McGuire and this year she couldn't as she just had a new baby (who is super cute). My question for you, are you still interested to participate? Do you think I should do it again this year?

Do you have a nursing home in mind that can benefit from this card drive? Anyone want to volunteer to help bringing the card to the nursing homes when the time comes?

At this point I am still debating whether I should do it again or take a break. On one hand I know many people could use the cheering up our cards bring, on the other hand it's a lot of work with organizing, promoting, and finding sponsor to make the card drive successful. Please share your opinion. If you're interested to help or have any suggestion, please email me at wirianta at hotmail dot com. Thanks so much.

Inching By

Hi everyone and happy weekend. Can you believe it's already September? Before you know it, Christmas will be here. Sigh... time flies by so fast.

Today, I have another card from Avocado Arts using the latest release "Grateful Season". This time, I decided to do fun & cute CAS card.

Isn't this li'l worm adorable? You can find more inspirations from the Pit Crew. Please check out their creations. Thank you for stopping by here and have a fabulous weekend!

Ashley Harris

Cristal Hobbs

Becky Oehlers

AJ Otto

Latisha Yoast

Grateful For You

Good morning everyone. Today I am here to show you the September release from Avocado Arts, called Grateful Season.

I love the sunflower image from this set, so needless to say that's the image I use for my card. :)

Keeping it clean and simple. The cut file is so easy to line up with the stamp image. Love that! Now, the DT gals has created some fabulous eye candy using this set. Check  them out, will you.

Ashley Harris
Cristal Hobbs 
Becky Oehlers

AJ Otto

Latisha Yoast

Speaking about grateful, I am very grateful that my mom will be visiting me from Indonesia in a couple weeks. Yes, I am counting the days. Cannot wait to hug my mom again and of course, hubby and I are looking forward to my  mom's wonderful cooking!! Nothing like your own mom's cooking, isn't it? Well, unless a kid get me as their mom, that's a different story as I don't really cook. Hah.. yes, I am blessed that hubby is a good cook and doesn't mind cooking.

Oh, another wonderful news, last night, I found out that a while back There She Goes Stamps was showcasing some of my cards for their Trendsetting Spotlight, HERE. I couldn't believe that I missed it. They posted it on August 9. Yikes. This month I've been so swamped with works that I didn't get to visit all my favorite blogs as much as I want to. To TSG, thank you so much for the honor. I really wasn't expecting it and I do appreciate it very much.

I want to thank everyone who kindly visited my blog and appreciated your sweet comments. Thank you and have a blessed  day. :)

A Couple Cards

Quick post to share a couple cards that I made for SP & Company. My mind hasn't really been on blogging lately and to be honest, I am not sure what to write. I guess, you can say I have a writer's block. :)

So, let's just look at the cards, shall we?

The stripe ribbon is from May Arts, my new favorite at the moment. I am loving gray color at the moment.  Am entering this card for Simon Says Stamp anything goes challenge. Next, is a card using the flower from the same set as above, called For Every Woman.

And, SP & Company is holding a guest DT call right now. If you're interested to apply, check out all the details HERE.

Sorry for the short post. Hopefully, my writing mojo will come back soon. :)

Carta Bella Collection at Two Peas

Hi all. Quick post to let you know that the new Carta Bella collection is now available at Two Peas In A Bucket. In case you didn't know, I am an affiliate for Two Peas In A Bucket. I hope you will consider to shop at Two Peas through me. All you need to do is click on the badge below or the Two Peas badge on my right side bar and it will take you to Two Peas.

Here's the code for free shipping for any order over $50.

• Code for August is: H3QJ4R
• Code for September is: 8VTFE2

And, from now till August 31, they have Back To School sale going on. Might want to take advantage of the sale. Happy shopping. :)

Pretty As A Peacock

Yay for Thursday. :) I love Thursday. Is it weird that Thursday is my favorite day besides weekend? Usually at work it's also my busiest day, but I love it. I am one of those people that kind of thrive under pressure. And the funny thing, I put the pressure on myself. My boss find it amusing when he look in my office and see the floor and desk covered with binders and papers. 

I do love it when I have a productive day and Thursday usually a guarantee to have a productive day. Yep... come Thursday morning and my mind will be buzzing and I am excited to start the day.

Oy... my mind is wondering all over the place. Time to focus. This week Some Odd Girl is releasing some fabulous digi stamp. And, even though it's not my team's assignment, when I look at the image, I know I had to play.

You can check out the other images that's been introduce this week at Some Odd Girl blog and here's my card today using the newly released Peacock Kaylee.

Can't resist the chance to color the awesome peacock tail. And I think almost all the girls has the same idea to add glitters on it. :) Seriously, love the  gorgeous peacock costume on Kaylee. I definitely want to play some more with it and use different color combo that scream let's party! :)

Do you know that you can win the digi images that's being released this week? Simply leave a comment on each post of the release at Some Odd Girl and you'll be entered for the giveaway. Good luck and may your Thursday be a pretty day.

Verve Birthday Wishes

Today, we're back to card. :) I do have a couple layouts in progress, but as I said, I am slow when it comes to scrapbooking. Not for the design part, but the journaling part. So, usually I would have several layouts laying around waiting to be completed.

While waiting for the journaling inspiration to hit me, I made this card for Verve Card Carnival event. 

The flower is from Verve Stamps set called Hope Blooms, the leaves is from Bloom & Grow, die-cut with Elegant Leaves die, and sentiment from Making A Statement. I colored the flowers with Copic and covered the center of the flower and trace part of the leaves with Stardust stickels.

I kind of dig this color combination. What do you think? Short post today.  May today goes wonderfully for you.

In This Family

I started my journey in paper crafting world with scrapbooking. I got into it way before I get into card making. And for me,  there's different joy in scrapbooking.

I love card making, but when I scrapbook, I could literally feel like my heart is singing. I know, it sounds cheesy, but that's how I feel. I just love, love, love doing it. I think  the main reason would be because I am working on preserving the memories of all the important people in my life. And as I grow older, it's also about remembrance. So many moments, sayings, stuff that I don't want to forget.

I am a bit hesitant in sharing my layout on my blog, because after all my blog focus on card making, but this past few weeks, my heart been wanting to do more scrapbooking and I think since it's also part of who I am, what I love, I should just post it. So, no card for this post, but a layout of my family.

The journaling is inspired by wall plaque "In This House" that I found on Pinterest. For this layout I made it into "In This Family" and of course, I adjusted it to how it goes in my family (you can click on the picture to make it larger if you want to read the journaling). 

This picture is from my visit to Indonesia back in December 2010. Taken on New Year's eve. I love this pic as it capture our family closeness. Yep... to this day, even when we're in our 30's and 40's, we all still like to pile up on the bed and sharing stories, just like we did in our childhood.

And, one thing that I realize.... my scrapbook style totally change from when I first started. :) You can expect more layouts from me, that's for sure. Am a slow scrapbooker, though, so there would always be more cards than layout. Thanks so much for stopping by here.

Make Your Own Patterned Paper

Good morning lovely peeps and happy Monday. :) My weekend didn't go quite as I planned. That plan to clean up my scrap room... yeah, not quite happen. I woke up with layout ideas in my head and ended up playing and create more beautiful mess. Oh well, there's always next weekend, right?

One of the creation that came out from my weekend mess is this card that I made for Lawnscaping latest challenge, make your own patterned paper.

Here's my card:

I simply stamped the airmail & plane sign repeatedly in various colors to create the background. I do find it more freeing when I let go of perfectionism. Instead of stressing out and restart all over when the stamped image didn't line up perfectly, I just kept going and ignore the crooked line. And  that platypus... love. I  got the Critter's Down Under set really just because of the platypus. :)

Are you feeling inspired to play along? Well, come on... And check out what the DT gals and our August guest designer,  Julie Ebersole has created for this challenge HERE. Hope your week starts off wonderfully!

Happy Friday

TGIF! :) Are you ready for the weekend? I sure do. I want to do some major cleaning & organizing of my room as right now my desk looks like a ship wreck. Sigh... I am  trying to be better at using my scraps and all, but if I don't see it I forget. So, I've been leaving them on the desk as a reminder, but the pile getting dangerously high. 

As much as I want to be the super organized crafter, I am not that kind of crafter. No matter how many time I organized everything, my room will never look like the ones you see in the magazine. Anyway, am planning to do some cleaning and I don't know about you, this is actually exciting for me. There's something about sorting things out and finally able to see your desk. :)

Well, last night despite the mess on my desk, I made this card for Market Street Stamps Paint The Town color challenge. I didn't have the  best lighting as it was late night when I did this card, but the brown part of the woodgrain really is not that dark.

I believe in giving honest review and I don't get paid to say this, but when it comes to customer service, many companies could learn from Market Street Stamps. Last year, when one of my stamp broke in two, I emailed Angelica and no question ask, she sent me a replacement immediately. And, yes that's another thing that I love. I order stamps from them and I receive them 2-3 days later.

Love the quality of their stamp, too. It was one of the rare moment, where I stamped something and feel, wow, this is so cool. Their rubber has kind of a bounce feeling to it (I don't know how to explain it, bounce came to mind) and it stamps very clean and clear. I just remember feeling very impressed.

Again, I am not trying to sell their stuff. Just want to share my review. One of my friend pointed out that I like to try stamps from many different company, so I thought hey, why not share my opinion about them. 

That's it for me today. Thanks so much for stopping by here and I wish you all a wonderful & productive weekend. :)