Happy Chinese New Year

Made a couple cards to play along with Papertrey Ink birthday sketch challenge. I followed 2 of the sketch.

The 1st card using sketch #4 which caught my interest right away.

And here's my card using Pretty Peonies set.

Then I made another card using sketch #5.

Instead of circles I decided to use the hexagon stamp which I have had on hand for months and only now using it. So, I am pretty happy that I finally got to use it.

Yep, spent my morning making cards even though today is Chinese New Year. A day that used to be a big deal for me when I was a kid. We'd all get new clothes and I always pick one with red on it. Then we'd start the morning by going to the temple, and then we went out to visit family & friends. The tradition is the younger person visits the older person or family.

Now that I am in the States unfortunately I don't  really celebrate it anymore except in spirit. It's not like I have people visiting us since none of my friends here celebrate the day and among my cousins family here, I am one of the younger ones, so I supposed to go to them. 

At least this year there' a bit of excitement. I get to Skype with my whole family including my niece Shakira who is about 7 weeks old now. This is her 1st Chinese New Year and she dressed up to the 9. I just have to share her cute pic here.

She is such a smiley baby and sometime I could feel my heart ache for not being able to see her in person, yet. But, I made my mom & brothers promise to tell her about me. And am hoping that by the end of this year I'll get to meet her. With that note, to all my family & friends who are celebrating the Chinese New Year I wish you all a very happy New Year. May the year of the snake brings you joy, health & prosperity. Cheers...

PTI Birthday Celebration

I have several stamp brands that I do love. One of them is Papertrey Ink. This year they are celebrating their 6th anniversary and to celebrate they have challenges & giveaways throughout their new release time.

This time the challenge is to create some type of wrap, tag or gift packaging project that inspired by a pic you found on pinterest or other site. I found this pic from pinterest:

And, I have this PTI set that I haven't get to play much with and decided it's perfect for this challenge. I love the wood and brown tone of the picture and took it for the base of my tag. Although, since I love colors, I have to add some extra colors to my tag.

Am also entering this to Simon Says Stamp have a heart challenge.

That's it. Just a quick post while waiting for skyping time with my mom and my brothers to celebrate the Chinese New Year. My family is gathering for New Year lunch at my mom's place and I get to join via skype. So thankful for technology. :)

You Make Days Brighter

Yesterday was a  good day. I was swamp at work, but as I finished off my work I did a quick check on the email and... booyah.... my day becomes brighter. I got happy email from Paper Crafts magazine for 3 of my projects.

And then, when I get home and browsing around, I found out that my card made it as one of the card being shown on Paper Crafts blog, HERE.

Pic borrowed from Paper Crafts blog. :)

This card is published on Paper Crafts Stamp It 3 Way (available in stores right now or you can get it HERE).

When I first got the assignment, I freaked out a bit. I was paired with Julie Campbell and Chun Yuan, who are both super talented and whose works I admired. On  top of that, when I got the stamp set, I was at first stumped on how to use it. This set has so many itty bitty images.

Yep... I was in panic mode. But luckily my mojo was nice to me at the end and I ended up with a sweet card that I love.

Thank you for letting me share  my excitement here and thank you to all of you who kindly cheering and supporting me with all your kind words on FB and here. Thank you all so much for making my days brighter. :)

Just For Fun

Somehow I am always easily pulled by sweet images. I think the kid part of me will always like cutesy & sweet stuff. I've been debating whether I should get this cute Wryn images from Tiddly Inks or not since I first saw it. Well, I finally gave in and got it and give it a whirl.

Sometime when I am feeling overload, it's fun when I get to create just for fun. No DT requirement, no submission, just making card for fun.

Challenge: Simon Says Stamp - have a heart

Currently loving making card in size 3 x 4.25. Love the small space, yet it's still provide enough space to allow your creativity to show. :)

Shy Fairy

Since I was a kid, I always love reading mythical story. I wasn't a big fan of princess story or anything like  that. But, when it comes to anything that has fairies, unicorn, or Greek mythologies, I love them. And, yes I even have this gorgeous fairy tale book that my mom bought me when I was in 6th or 7th grade and it has beautiful illustrations and I still have it! And yes, it still in pretty awesome condition. I do treat my book collection very well.

This interest continue even now. Have you read the Fable Heaven series by Brandon Mull? It's a series that has fairies, unicorn, elf, troll, etc. It's a tween series, but I love it. Recommended by my niece. :)

Now, speaking about fairies, I also love it when there's cute fairy images to work with.  Like this new release digi stamp by Some Odd Girl.

I think this one fairy has a pretty sweet expression and I have lots of fun playing with it. Check out SOG blog to see all the new releases. 

Paper Made Bakery Day

Hi'ya everyone. It's my first day at Paper Made Bakery today. Here's a peek of my project.

And, here's their February "How's the Weather" kit.

Please stop by the store blog and say hello.

May Arts Valentine's Blog Hop

Hi everyone and welcome to May Arts Valentine's blog hop week. All the Ribbonista are participating in this hop to provide you with a week of inspirations.

For today, there are 5 blogs that you can visit (see links below), including mine. Since it's Valentine theme, I go with pink for my card.

For this card, I used May Arts solid reversible stripe ribbon (ME17) and sheer dots ribbon (JD22). 

 pictures courtesy of May Arts

At first I was going to use just the stripe ribbon, because it is so pretty already on its own. On one side it's soft pink, dark pink, soft pink and on the other side it's dark pink, soft pink, dark pink. Love double sided ribbon. However, since the ribbon width is 3/4" I'd end up with pretty thick/big bow. Not in proportion with my card. So, I decided to layer it up with the sheer dot one.

I simply cut a slit on the the fold of the card and thread the ribbon through it.

The patterned paper is from Carta Bella, die cut & emboss with Spellbinders frame die. And I distress the edges a little bit with distress ink. Then, die cut and stamp the key (from Papretrey Ink - Key To My Heart set) and add it to the layer and finish by adding a banner stamped with sentiment.

Simple but still elegant & romantic. 

I hope you will join us and hopping along. As always May Arts is very generous with their giveaway. The lucky winner will get 4 spools of ribbon of their choice. Please check out what the other Ribbonista has created and leave some love along the way. Thank you for stopping by here and may your week starts off wonderfully!

• Virginia Fynes
• Karen Baker
• Lalo IK
• DeeDee Catron
• Vera Yates

A Couple cards

While many enjoying the Superbowl Sunday, I am enjoying the Superstamp Sunday. :)

Spent the day playing with stamps, with a nap break with the puppy who is in super snuggle mood, and stamp some more.

Anyway, I made these 2 cards. The first card I made for Avery Elle January challenge. I love their stamp. Their clean design simply caught my attention.

Next, is a card I made using one of my favorite image from Paper Smooches, this cute li'l hamster. I made this card for Moxie Fab create your own background paper challenge. I made the heart background by repeatedly stamping the heart in various color inks and color in some of them with markers and leave some of them blank.

The yummy wood Polaroid frame is from patterned paper by Lilybee Designs. Love this paper!! I get so many frame from 1 sheet of paper. Also entering this card for Simon Says Stamp anything goes challenge.

Now, back to snuggling with the puppy. If I can snatch him back from hubby. LOL, yes we sometime battle on who get to snuggle with Eli!

Paper Made Bakery February Blog Hop

** This is my 3rd post for today. Please scroll down for Avocado Arts & Some Odd Girl post. **

 

Hi there  lovely peeps and welcome to my first post as part of Paper Made Bakery team. I am very excited of this new adventure and honestly a bit nervous. Why?? Because I have to use more patterned paper!! And, if you've been following me for a while you know that my style is clean & simple. The thought of layering papers is something that I have to get use to.

This is part of my new year resolution. To step out of my comfort zone and try something that I don't normally do.

Anyway, enough rambling and let's get on to this month kit, shall we? This month PMB has assembled this kit called "How's The Weather" which include these fabby goodies.

And, here's what I made.

4 different patterned papers!! Pat, pat on my back. LOL. When I first saw the 6x6 paper pad, I was like... this is so not my style. Vintage looking paper. Hmm.... Then an awesome friend of mine said when you have no idea what to do, paper pieced! (thank you, Kimberly!)

So, I paper pieced the umbrella and then the rest kind of just come together. And, to my surprise I actually finished 4 projects (which I will share at PMB blog through out February). I guess the benefit of the paper pad, you know that all the patterned paper will work together. For this CAS girl, it just a matter of accepting a bit busier card is okay. ;)

Now, I hope you will join us and hopping along. Please check out what my teammates has created and leave them some love. And, yep, you know it... for all your effort, we have "Hearts'n-goodies prize package" to giveaway to one lucky random winner. Each comment you leave equal one entry for the giveaway.

If you are interested to purchase this kit simply click on the BUY CURRENT KIT tab on the left side of the menu bar on PMB site. The Baker's Dozen kit subscription is also a popular option.  You can find out more about it HERE.

I am the last stop of the hop. In case you missed anyone, here's a complete list of the hop participants:

Paper Made Bakery                                

Amy Tsuruta                                            

Angi Barrs                                                

Glenda J. Wyatt                                        

Julie Tucker-Wolek                                 

Piali Biswas                                              

Vera Wirianta Yates <--- you are here                               

Thank you for stopping by here and hope you have a fabulous Friday!

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Love Bandit

** For my Avocado Arts post please scroll down. **

Ah... February... month of love and pink and red. :) Not that I need a special date to celebrate my loved ones, but hey more reason to send out cards, right?

I am making this card for my cutie-patootie niece using this month sketch from SOG February challenge. This card is just perfect for her, because she did steal my heart. :)

I love this li'l love bandit! Isn't he so cute and adorable? 

I hope you will play along and join the challenge. You have 1 whole month to enter it. For challenge, prize detail and more inspirations, please check out Some Odd Girl blog. :)