The Ton Spring Release Day 4

On to day 4 of The Ton spring release. I can honestly say this release is beyond my expectation. There's just so much awesomeness. When I saw today's sets, the first thought that cross my  mind was oh my goodness, how freakin' awesome are these sets. Second, men, this sets will sell like hot cake.

First  up, is this card I made using Flaming Print Cling Background. I mean, come on... how fun and cute is this set?

With fun background like this, you could create a super CAS card in a jiffy. I think the card is both fun & modern, don't you think? I just  let the pink flamingos shine!

Next is a set that is just too fun to pass. The Doughnut Party Cling Background along with the Doughnut Bar set is perfect for all kind of occasions. You could use them for birthday or thinking of you or just to say hello or to let your peep know that you love them more than doughnut! Hah.

I stamped the doughnut background on a piece of watercolor cardstock and then heat embossed it with white embossing powder. Then added some watercolors (I used Spectrum Noir Watercolor Markers), let dry and adhere to the card base. The cute puppy is from Love and A Dog set from the previous release. And, with so many cute doughnuts to play with, you could have lots of fun choosing & coloring them. I finished the colored doughnut with some clear glaze to make it shiny like a real one.

Are you hungry, yet? Make sure you check out The Ton blog for more eye candies from the DT. And, don't forget to enter our giveaway. Leave a comment on The Ton blog post (and the other Release posts from this week – four altogether) to enter our Daily Release Giveaway! We are giving away four $15 gift codes to our shop. You can increase your chances of winning by leaving additional comments on the design team member blogs. The comment period for the Daily Release Giveaway will end on Sunday, April 10 at 11:59pm and winners will be announced thereafter.

Come back tomorrow and join us for the Spring Release Blog Hop!

Ruby

Jessica

Mayline

Emily

Vera

Keeway

Eunji

  

  

The Ton Spring Release Day 3

Two days down, three more to go including today. Like I promised, The Ton have more amazing sets to introduce.

Now, the 1st set that I want to show you is truly awesome. I was tossing a bunch of ideas to Effie and when I saw what she came up with, I literally gasped in awe. Peeps, without further delay, the here's the beautiful Floral Border Cling Background. 

How gorgeous is this set? This one is definitely my MUST HAVE!! To create this card, I used my oldie but goody ZIG marker. When I said oldie, I am not  kidding. Most of my ZIG markers are from 1998! I got them from my very 1st scrapbook convention. I used them mostly for journaling in my scrapbook back in the days and they are still juicy.

Anyway, back to the card. I did use my Misty to do this card. Just in case, some area needed to be recolored. I simply  brushed the markers over the image in various colors. For the solid part, I dab the ink pad directly to the stamp.

This image is so pretty, you really don't need much afterward. I simply add the sentiment from the new Bokeh Burst Heart and finished with some Bermuda Blue sequin.

On to the next card. The Ton is coming out with 3 bokeh sets. I think they're simply brilliant. 

For this card, I used Bokeh Burst Heart and Bokeh Burst Round set. I love the bokeh effect. It's perfect to create color gradient. You can bet that I'll be using the bokeh sets quite a bit down the road. And, as you may guess, yes, I finished with sequins (Fairy Pink Sparkling Clear). Sorry peeps, I am addicted to sequins.

Well, that's all from me for today's sneak peek. Hope you enjoy today's sneak peek. And, don't forget to enter our giveaway!! Make sure to leave a comment on The Ton blog post (and the other Release posts from this week – four altogether) to enter our Daily Release Giveaway! We are giving away four $15 gift codes to our shop. You can increase your chances of winning by leaving additional comments on the design team member blogs. The comment period for the Daily Release Giveaway will end on Sunday, April 10 at 11:59pm and winners will be announced thereafter.

Here's a complete list of the DT blog:

Ruby
Jessica
Mayline
Emily
Vera
Keeway
Eunji

See you again tomorrow for some super fun sets!

The Ton Spring Release Day 2

Day 2 of The Ton spring release! Today's sets are among my favorite. But, then again, I also love the set that we're going to show tomorrow. There's just that many fabulous sets with this release.

Let's get on with it, shall we? First up is this card featuring Sending Peonies set.

I was going for no line coloring, but my skill in coloring flowers in this technique is far from adequate. So, I call this, semi line coloring. Hah! Isn't this set is just gorgeous? I can see myself playing a lot with this set. Of course, I can't call it finish, without sprinkling some sequins (from Soft Mint Gelato Couture Mix).

Continuing with my obsession with peonies, on to the 2nd card using Happiest of Peonies set.

If my 1st card, all soft, for the 2nd one I want to go with bold. I just love how the blue just popped against the white background amid the peach & purple peonies. Add some sequins in matching Midnight Blue color. Then, I feel the card need some glitter, so I add a strip of Silver adhesive glitter paper on the bottom of the card panel.

Seriously, playing with this set, kind of creating your own adult coloring page. Good therapy to calm the mind. ;)

Make sure you head on to The Ton Blog to see more amazing inspiration using our new products.

DAILY RELEASE GIVEAWAY: Make sure to leave a comment on this post to enter our Daily Release Giveaway! We are giving away four $15 gift codes to The Ton shop. To qualify for the Daily Release Giveaway you must leave a comment on The Ton blog & increase your chances of winning by leaving additional comments on the design team member blogs. The comment period for the Daily Release Giveaway will end on Sunday, April 10 at 11:59pm and winners will be announced thereafter.

Here's a complete list of the DT blog:
Ruby
Jessica
Mayline
Emily
Vera
Keeway
Eunji

Good luck and see you tomorrow for more goodness. :)

You're A Cute-a-saurus

Hi peeps! I am popping in to share a fun card I made for SugarPea Designs. This time, I am using the sweet dinosaur from Prehistoric Pals stamp set along with  Woodgrain Journal Card, Prehistoric Pals dies.

Sometime, I do get stuck to where I feel I need to color certain thing in certain colors. I have to remind myself that sometime it's okay to color outside the line, it's okay to use colors that one not normally used to color certain critter. In this case, the dinosaur. For the longest time, I keep thinking I can only color it in green.

But, you know what, that's the beauty of art. Of card making. Or creating in general. You could color things whichever way you want. It's all about having fun. Yellow dino, why not, right? Well, that's my deep thinking for today. LOL. Be color happy, even if it goes against what normal.

Want some more fun eye candy? Check out SugarPea Designs blog. Cheers!!

Altenew - Celebrating Parents Card Drive Blog Hop

** For The Ton Stamps Spring Release Sneak Peek Day 1 please scroll down**

Hi and welcome to Altenew Celebrating Parents Card Drive Blog Hop. You should have arrived here from Altenew Blog. I am honored to join Altenew on this card drive hop. When Altenew planning this card drive, they reach out to me since the goal of his card drive is just like my Caring Hearts Card Drive. But instead of collecting holiday cards, Celebrating Parents Card Drive goal is to send cards for the elderly that lives in nursing homes or shelters to let them know they’re not forgotten. What a great cause, right?

You can check out all the details about the card drive HERE. I hope you will join us and send in some Mother's Day ad Father's Day cards.

For this card drive, Altenew is releasing a special collection of 3 new stamp sets (Best Dad, Best Mom and Penned Rose) which would be perfect for creating Mother’s Day and Father’s Day cards. They are available in the store starting today. These stamp sets were designed especially for the Celebrating Parents Card Drive and 20% of the profits earned by Father’s Day will be donated.

I made a couple cards for this hop. First up is this soft beauty using the new Best Mom set.

In person, this card has a very pretty shimmer to it since I used Spectrum Noir Shimmer on all the flowers and leaves. Here's a close up look that showed some of the shimmer.

Next is a Father's Day card that I made using Ori Kami & Invisible Alpha set. I can't believe how long this alpha set been sitting in my drawer. I bought them with the intend to use them on my scrapbook page, but I haven't get to my scrapbook page, yet, so it's been sitting there waiting to be used. And boy, it is fabulous!

Altenew is collecting the cards till April 26, 2016. So, you still have plenty of time to join. Let's make this card drive a successful one. Thank you for your support and thank you for stopping by here. From here, your next stop is Svitlana Shayevich blog.

  

Of course, no hop is complete without prizes. There are TWO $50 gift certificates up for grabs. Winners will be picked randomly from the comments left on the Altenew blog by Thursday April 8th, and we’ll announce two winners on Sunday, April 10.

Also, on my end, I am giving away a $30 gift certificate to Altenew store. Simply leave a comment here and I'll announce the winners here on 4/10/2016. Good luck and happy hoping!

Altenew Blog

Vera Yates <-- you are here

Svitlana Shayevich

Yana Smakula

Agnieszka Malyszek

May Sukyong Park

Lydia Evans

Nicole Picadura

Sveta Fotinia

The Ton Spring Release Day 1

Hi peeps! I am so excited to finally be able to share the new sets from The Ton. We have quite a big line up of fabulous sets for our spring release that I am sure you will love.

Seriously, I thing that I notice in working with The Ton, how Effie (the owner of The Ton) can turn our ideas into amazing sets. We give her suggestion and she makes it happen. And the final result is simply stunning. I love new release time as it feels like Christmas, excitement up in the air.

One of my FAVORITE set from this release is the Hello Hummingbird set. If you have followed my blog for a while, you know I love working with pretty bird stamp. And, this beauty is simply gorgeous. And, even better, because of the layering, the color combination you could do with this bird is endless!

There are 4 layers to this hummingbird plus the neck detail layer. For my card I did the 1st layer in yellow, 2nd layer in green, 3rd in aqua and 4th in slightly darker aqua. For the sentiment, I used another new set called Basic Labels (stamped in Orchid Crush) and Basic Sentiment (stamped in Iris Blooms). Pretty much with these 2 sentiment sets, you'll have sentiment for all kind of occasions.

Here's a pic of the bird from different angle:

Peeps, this is just day 1!! Are you excited, yet? I promise, we have more beauty coming.

Now, for extra fun. How about some giveaways? We have a daily release giveaway. A $15 gift code to the store. To qualify for the daily giveaway you must leave a comment on The Ton's blog and to increase your chances of winning you can leave a comment on the design team blogs. The comment period for the daily release giveaway will end on Sunday, April 10 at 11:59pm.

Here's a look into the sets that are being introduced today. Check out The Ton Blog for more inspirations! Come back tomorrow for more sneak peeks! See you then.

  

  

Pop-Up Box Birthday Card

Hi peeps. This March, I had the honor to guest designing for Taylored Expressions. Today, is my last day. I had so much fun playing with their stuff and I thank Taylor for this opportunity.

To mark my last day, I want to go out with a pop. LOL. Here's my pop up box card as my last project for them.

Check out Taylored Expressions Blog to see the full view and details on this fun card. And, there's also fun giveaway!! They are giving away a copy of the latest issue of Scrapbook & Cards Today **PLUS** a $10 Gift Certificate to the TE Store to one lucky winner! So, enter today and good luck!

Thanks A Latte

What? More coffee related card? Well, what can I say, the Coffee To Go Cup from SugarPea Designs is just so much fun to play with. It's kind of become my go to set when I feel stumped and not sure what to make.

And, sure enough, as soon as I started playing with it, things just start to come together in no time. The doily and the pink background gives sweet, girly feeling to the card. And, the round corner instantly make it different than the regular rectangle card.

Meanwhile, this week is crazy week for me. I have so many new release sets to work with within a short time. All I can say, get ready for lot of fabulousness!! I know, I know this is such a tease, but trust me, it's worth the wait. ;)

For now, we have more fun inspirations on SugarPea Designs blog. Check it out HERE.

Effie's Surprise Birthday Party Bloghop

Sometime, an opportunity showed up at your door and you get to work for a pretty darn cool peep and you can't help but feeling lucky. That's how I feel, when Effie the owner of The Ton asked me to join her team. Seriously, I want to join The Ton ever since I found out about them and was daydreaming of how cool would it be to join the team.

Low & behold, out of the blue I got  an email from her. Dude... I was estatic!! I was pinching myself. As I get to know her, I learn that she's fun to work with, always open for ideas and I am grateful to be on her team.

So, tomorrow is Effie's birthday and I thought it be cool to surprise her with a birthday blog hop to celebrate her birthday. Why a day early? So, she could celebrate all weekend long, of course. And, the Ton team member are scattered all over the globe and with this hop we can all celebrate with her.  After all special people deserve special celebration, right?

Supplies: The Ton Fresh Cut Peonies, ink pad: Soft Garden,
Crystal Pewter, Light Onyx, sequins: Yellow Belly

Happy birthday, Effie!! Hope you have a wonderful birthday celebration and may all your birthday wishes come true. Wishing you all kind of happy!

I hope you all join us in wishing Effie a happy birthday. Thank you for stopping by here and enjoy your weekend. 

Jess

Ruby

Mayline

Emily

Vera <--- you are here

Eunji

Keeway

Latte Birthday Wishes

Yay! It's official, spring is here. And the weather on my  neck oft he wood been gorgeous. A bit chilly this past couple days, but I definitely can't complain. And,  the doggies definitely been enjoying the longer day light. 

Anyhooo.... I am excited that my mojo was cooperating this past weekend. Not much, just enough. At least I managed to make a card that I just love the way it turned out. Here's my card that I made for SuagrPea Designs and linking up to Spring Coffee Lovers Bloghop.

I used the Hot Diggity Dog and Espresso Yourself stamp set, combined with SugarCut Dies Coffee To Go Cup and Coffee Words. The patterned paper definitely helped me in creating this card. It's so festive and it just help me in putting everything together.

Well, since I tend to be a bit forgetful in sending birthday card, I think I should stock up on some "latte" birthday card. Hah! That' all for me for today, folks. Catch y'all later.