Silly Donkey

How about starting the weekend with some silliness? I bought this Donkey University set from There She Goes Stamp because hubby and my brother-in-law often call each other donkey. They don't say it in a mean way, of course. I think it's a guy thing.

 

I laughed out loud when I first saw this set. I think my brother-in-law would appreciate this card. Here's my donkey card:

 

I paper pieced the shirt part and color the rest with Copic marker. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches Slang Gang set.

Short & silly one for today. Wishing you all a wonderful Friday!

Blooming Birthday Wishes

Yesterday, I was super happy to see THIS announcement on Moxie Fab. First time I get pick for Trigger Targets. And I want to thank everyone for their sweet & kind comments. I really appreciate you girls. So happy.

 

Now, is anyone as obsessed with The Voice as I do? I think this season is one of their best one. Strong vocalist and I am very impressed with Usher coaching. Never been an Usher fan, but I do now.

 

I was soooo disappointed that Amber Carrington didn't make it to the final. I think she has awesome voice and every week always blow the judge with her performance. I do like Michelle & Danielle as well, so I am happy that they made it. But, I think Amber deserves the spot more than the Swon Brothers. Nothing against them or anything, I just prefer Amber. I think she show more versatility that she can sing something other than country songs.

 

The way hubby look at it, he said the show is called "The Voice" not "Voices". We're both pretty disappointed as well when Judith & Sarah didn't make it. Oh well.... But, I have to say I love seeing Terry McDermott & Nicholas David back on the stage. They were my favorite from last season.

 

Anyway, let's move on to card. I made this card a while back. It's one of the publication reject. But, since I didn't make any card this week, I figure it's time to share this one.

 

This flower background from Hero Arts is really a beautiful set. Here, I heat embossed the flower background and then rub the color in. Die-cut the label and adhere it with pop-dots. I think I'll have to re-do this card in spring color. I made this card for the fall call, but as much as I love fall color in nature, I am not a fan when it comes to card. I love pretty, cheerful or pastel color.

 

What do you think? Do you think of fall color when you look at this card?

Happy humpday!

Paper Made Bakery Day

Hi everyone. Today is my day at Paper Made Bakery. Here's the sneak peek of my card and you can see my full card HERE. Please check it out. Thank you so much!

I {Heart} U

Happy Monday! I think starting the week with some cuteness is a good way to start the week. So, today I am sharing this card I made for There She Goes Stamp inspiration challenge. Here's the inspiration pic:

For my card, I decided to use the color scheme. White, yellow, pink, and a bit of aqua.

These duckies are just so cute & adorable, aren't they? I think I'll be sending this card to my li'l niece. I am a bit behind in mailing card monthly to her, so it's time to catch up. :) I hope this card makes you smile and may your week starts off wonderfully!

All Sweetness & Light

Now & then you see some pictures and you'd go, oh my gosh that's so pretty! That's how I felt when I saw Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger All Sweetness & Light pic. This inspiration picture makes my heart skip a beat. It makes me want to decorate our room just like this. I mean, the colors, the pattern... love, love, love.

So, of course I had to make a card for this challenge. I mean, seriously, how could you not? Everything about this picture makes me think beautiful spring weather with colorful flowers blooming everywhere. And, I had this new stamp from Wplus9 that's perfect for what I had in mind.

This flower set is called Fresh Cut Florals and I have to say it's my top favorite flower set. It was love at first sight and seeing the samples made by their DT I know I have to have this. It arrived yesterday and I played with it right away to make this card. 

Dude.... this card makes me so happy. Actually the stamp set makes me super happy. You can bet that I'll play with this set a lot!

That's it from me today. Hope you're having an awesome weekend!

 

The Other Side of Paris

I know, I know I promised to be back with more Paris post yesterday, but I just didn't quite make it. Too much thing to do! But, I am here now and it's going to be a long post. :)

Today I am sharing things that I saw there that makes me happy. First up, dessert picture!Oh-em-gee... so many awesome pastry place. Their pastry display is so pretty and being a dessert person, I want them all. Good thing that our goal was to visit as many places as possible, so we're always out and about and by the time we come home usually the pastry places already close. Otherwise, I'll be in s much trouble. I did get some macaroons, though.

Yum.... yes please...

Then on our fist day exploring, we found this super cute store! My kind of store. Filled with so many cute, funky & smart stuff. And colors! Happy colors every where!

They have these colorful fish hanging from the ceiling and I just thought they're super cool. You can click the pic to see them in larger size. Did you notice that the fin or tail were made of fan? Or on the case of the second pic that has head made of super cute tea kettle. I am always drawn to cool, unique stuff.

Cute stuff & happy color galore.

Seriously, this store Pylone just makes me happy. If budget was no problem, I'd have bought a bunch of stuff from here. From cutlery to stapler to wall hook, everything in bright cheerful color & super creative designs. I don't know if you could see the cluster of 3 birds on the bottom left corner of the above pic, those birds are so fun. It chirps like real bird when you hold them. I had to buy one because I think Eli would be so curious about it. :)

 

With the awesome architecture and art in Paris there's always place to find inspiration. Below is the stained-glass window in Notre Dame. It is pretty awe inspiring to stand in this church, considering that it was built in 1100. Imagine if this church could talk the history it could tell us.

 

I have to admit though, that as grand and amazing Notre Dame is, I actually love Basilique du Sacre-Cour better. It's a much smaller church, but inside it feel so welcoming and when you look up you'll see this beautiful painting of Jesus on the ceiling dome.

 

There's no picture taking allowed on  the inside, but I found a picture from the internet, just so you could see what I am talking about. And, no this picture didn't even do it justice.

 

 

I was walking on the left side when I look up through some of the pillar and from that one spot all you could see is Jesus spreading his hand as if he's blessing you in person. I was so stunned by the effect and the beauty that I stood there for a while and said a prayer for my family.

 

The atmosphere, the beauty and warmth of the church filled me with so much gratitude that when I prayed I can't help but get teary eye. It wasn't a prayer asking for thing, it simply a prayer to say thank you for all the blessings, for my life, and for the fact that I was there able to see this beauty in person and being there with my mom & hubby.

 

This church located on the highest point in Paris, so you do get amazing view from the step of the church. So, we came back here for the second visit to enjoy the sunset view. And, we were so blessed that on this second visit, we catch the end of a mass where the nuns were singing the choir. Yes, it's one of the few church where the nuns still singing the choir. It was beautiful.

 

My mom went back to Jakarta on Saturday and hubby and I went home on Sunday. So, for our last night, hubby and I determined to really explore and luckily for our last night the weather decided to be nice and dry.

 

Literally we walked all the way from the Notre Dame to the Eiffel Tower. It is a long walk, people! BTW, if you're going to do lots of walking, invest on Skechers GoWalk. Best walking shoes out there. And, no they don't pay me, I am just recommending them because I love them so much.

 

Walking away from the tower to the Trocadero (where you get the best view of the tower), hubby was looking at a window when he said oh, look at all those flash. LOL, we thought people just went crazy with taking picture (thus all the flashing), but we turned and look back it was The Eiffel Tower itself twinkling. Right on the hour starting at 10pm, the tower lights twinkling for 5 minutes.

                                              

So, hubby and I decided to hang around for another hour to catch another twinkling of the lights. And while waiting we captured this picture of the sun going down on the horizon. Kind of weird to experience sunset around 10 pm, but cool as well. I think this is one of our best picture from the whole trip.

 

 

The twinkling lights on Eiffel Tower

 



I know, this last picture is not the best, but it captured the twinkling light the most. Well, I hope you enjoy today's showcase. No people picture... just things I saw that makes me happy. I hope you like them and thank you so much for visiting. What's on your travel bucket list? Do you have one? I have a long one. LOL, I get itchy if I don't travel at least once a year. It's what I am saving for every year. :)

Panda Me Happy & Paris In A Glance



Today I am sharing some panda love from Some Odd Girl. If there's one animal that I associated with since I was a kid, it was a panda. Growing up there was this famous panda called Lingling and since that's my name often people would said, "Oh like the panda." :)

When Kristy shared the sneak peek for this month digi release, I immediately fall in love with this super cute guy. He may be  nerdy, but he is cute nerdy. Hah....

This card in general makes me happy. Cuteness, check, the colors work together, check, CAS look, check. Yep... panda me happy is right. 

Now, I promised to share some Paris picture. This is only a very small fraction of the amount of pictures that we took. I think I have deleted at least 200 pictures and still working on filtering more as hubby played with the camera setting quite a  bit during the trip and some of the pics just didn't come out good.

First day we arrive, we ventured out and thanks to a sweet & helpful lady she taught us how to understand the system. After that I was the metro guide. I might be horrible with direction when it comes to driving, but boy.... metro, I love. Just our luck, during the whole trip it was cold & drizzling a lot. We had only 2 days where it's really sunny (but still cold). But that didn't dampen our spirit as at least we can still do lots of sightseeing.

Me & my mom posing pretty with our umbrella. :)

Of course when you're in Paris, you have to go to Notre Dame. The architecture of this cathedral is amazing. That's what fascinate me about Europe, so many old building, so much history. To think that this cathedral has stand there for over 800 years. We didn't climb up the 400 stairs to go up to the top (where you supposedly ill get amazing view of the city & the famous gargoyles) as the weather was gloomy and we figure we wouldn't get very good pic (this excuse sounds better than the real excuse that we don't think we could manage climbing 400 stairs. Hah....)

Me & hubby.

I consider my green backpack as my good luck charm when it comes to travel (it has travel with me to many countries & cities), hubby consider his Chicago Bear sweatshirt as his good luck charm. He insisted on taking this sweatshirt to see if he could get anyone in Paris to say "Go Bear" because everywhere we go in the States, someone always say that to him. Sure enough... we got someone who say that and heh... they are American of course.

Anyway, while we were kind of prepare for some chilly weather, we weren't really prepare for really cold like winter weather. I mean literally, I was wearing 4 layers to keep warm. Now, my super skinny mom only brought thin cardigan and windbreaker. And, she's the type of person who's so worried of become a burden that she would never tell you how uncomfortable or miserable she is. Only when I caught her with shaking hand that I realized... darn, she's not wearing anything that's close to warm. I had to lecture her a bit for not saying anything. ;)

So, emergency purchase was made and she got a hoodie. We picked the simplest hoodie there is that available from the place where we were in and this Paris one she's sporting was it (all the other were too loud).



My spunky mom at the Louvre

I have to say my mom looks like a punk! I think many people were quite surprised when they saw her. With her skinny figure, fitted jeans, hoodie up, from the back and side she looks like teenager. LOL. I noticed many people stared, but hey... I think my mom looks like a rock star! ;)

For a 71 years old lady, my mom pretty awesome. She could keep up with us most of the time. She did spent 1 day off just chilling at the apartment after 3 days of shaking from the cold weather. But, all in all she is a trooper.

On this next picture, we were on top of the Galleries Lafayette which has awesome view of Paris. Of course with the cloudy weather it's hit and miss whether you can get good pic or not. Since we're in the city of love, I have to do the love pose. Hmm... only after seeing the picture I realized my outfit is way too preppy here. I look like school girl.

Cheesy is my middle name. ;)

And... look.... one picture where the weather was bright (this was maybe 10 minutes before rain came down) at Palace de Luxembourg. Beautiful garden that I wish we could explore more has it not rain.

Well, as I mentioned I'm still not done sorting the pictures, so I'll have more tomorrow. Besides I don't want to make super long post. Hope you enjoy the pics and thank you for letting me share my story here. See you again tomorrow.

PMB Sneak Peek & SOG New Release

Hi there lovely creative peeps. Today is my day at Paper Made Bakery and I hope you will swing by THERE to check out my card. Here's the sneak peek of my card:

Yes... doggy!! How could you resist playful doggy? :)

And, I have another card to share. This week, Some Odd Girl is releasing some new cut file and digi stamps.  For today I am sharing the star card cut file.

I find it refreshing & fun whenever I made non-rectangle card. How about you?

Okay, hopefully on Wednesday I can share some of vacation pics. I think hubby break  the record by taking about 1000 pics. And I get the job to sort & filter them as we are not keeping that many pics. Hubby can be very snap happy sometimes. ;) See ya tomorrow....

Paper Made Bakery June Blog Hop

Hi everyone and welcome to Paper Made Bakery June blog hop. We have such fun goodies compiled for this month kit and I know you'll just love them! Here's what you can expect in This & That kit:

You can get the kit HERE (and since this kit is super cute it might goes out fast, so you better hurry).

I love it that this time the kit including a super cute set from Lawn Fawn stamps. They are one of my favorite stamp company and since I am a big time doggy lover, this set is perfect for me. And this is what I made using one of the doggy stamp:

I decided to do a non-sentiment card. Sometimes you just need this kind of card. :)

As always, whenever we release new kit, we love to share some love. Simply leave a comment and you'll get your name entered for a Mini Fresh Baked Kit giveaway. Find out all the details at Paper Made Bakery blog. Don't forget to check out all my team mates creations to see more fun inspiration from this uber cute kit. Thank you so much for  stopping by here.

Amy Tsuruta

Angi Barrs

Glenda J. Wyatt

Julie Tucker
Piali Biswas

Vera Yates <--- you are here

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Keep On Rockin

Happy June! Sorry that my blog been a bit neglected this week. The down fall of vacation is when you come back to work it's crazy. Between fighting the jet lag and trying to catch up with work, every evening I am just whooped and all I want to do is just crawl to bed. Mojo is no where to be found. :)

Well, as much as I cross my fingers & wishing & hoping, my birthday train card didn't make it to Gallery Idol Top 20. Was I disappointed? Of course. I'll be lying if I say I am not. We all been through this. You enter a competition or you apply for a DT position and you didn't make it. It's okay to be sad and disappointed, but it's not okay to wallow on it. Always remember things happen for a reason. :) Then, we shake ourselves, we move on and we cheer on those who made it! 

I still have reason  to be super excited, though, because 2 of my besties did make it to the Top 20. Big shout out to Emily Leiphart & Emily Branch. I'll be cheering on them and all the girls and looking forward to  their creations as they are taking the challenge each week.

Now, since it's the 1st of June, it means time for a new sketch challenge from Some Odd Girl. Here is my card for the challenge:

I am loving this Rockin' Mae stamp. I think she looks pretty. And look at my background! This polka dot background is so fun. 

I hope you will play along. You have 1 whole month to create and join the fun. Need more inspiration? Check out the sketch, prize details and fab creations from the DT at Some Odd Girl blog.

Enjoy your weekend!