Birthday cards

Good morning everyone,

Quick post today. Here are some cards that I made for my coworker's niece and nephew. The girly one, I also enter for Stamping Bellas weekly challenge. Thank you for stopping by.

Cheers,
Vera

Die cut: QK Sihouette
Embossing: Cuttlebug
Patterned paper: KI Memories

Stamp: "Ketto" from Stamping Bella
Ribbon: Stampin Up!

Early present for me...

Yay...., yesterday coming back from work, a big box was waiting for me by the front door. My early birthday present. I told hubby, how I'd love to have a good photo printer. And he said go for it (thanks, honey). I did lots of research and compared sooo many different brands. You see, I'm the type of shopper who have to do some research before I buy anything big. Read a bunch of reviews, compared rating, etc.

Anyhoo, I decided to give HP a try. Previously, I had a couple Epson printers, but seems like my HP last longer. And I found this awesome deal on the HP that I want on Ebay, so of course I had to take advantage of it. I was still a bit worry, because I am very picky with the quality of my pictures. Well, long story short, I printed my 1st picture with my new baby, and I was deeeelighted!!! :) Happy dance...

The picture came out beautifully. Showed the picture to hubby and he thought I was showing him picture from the lab (I just received my 1st order from Scrapbook Pictures that afternoon, too). Which, I also highly recommend Scrapbook Pictures as the place to print your pictures. Their results is really good.

So, yeay, yeay, yeay... I am a happy girl. Haven't get a chance to play with the scanner, yet. Hopefully it'll be just as good.

OK, enough babbling, here's some cards for you all. I made these cards a while back, but thought I share it here.




Stamp: Hero Arts
Embossing: Cuttlebug



Stamp: Hero Arts
Embossing: Cuttlebug

Stamp: Hero Arts

Embossing: Cuttlebug

Cheers,
Vera

More Stamping Bella cards...

Second day... So far so good. Able to update the blog. :) For me, blog is great place to find inspiration. Most of my scrapbooking & card ideas comes from various blogs that I visited. I do have a few blogs that I checked daily as these blogs have the most amazing & creative ideas.

One of my top favorite blog to visit is Jennifer's blog. Check out her site when you get a chance. Her works always inspires me and she's really nice, too. When I went back to school and took a business class, I had to do some reports and ask her to help with some input, she graciously answer all my questions. And she didn't even know me. Yeah, she's my scrapbook idol. :)

I also check Hero Arts & Stamping Bella blog regularly. Sometime it feels like I collect more ideas than actually making the cards. Well, I work full time, so I can only make cards when I have free time or when I don't feel lazy. ;)

This past weekend I was actually very productive and made a bunch of cards. Here's a couple more.

Stamps: Stamping Bella
Glitters: Stickles
Cardstock: Bazzills
Pencil color: Prismacolor

Stamp: Stamping Bella
Glitter: Stickles
Cardstock: Bazzill
Pencil color: Prismacolor

I love the bright cheerful color of the first card. And the second one, I actually hand stitched the border. Lost the cord for my sewing machine, so hand-stitched it is.

Okay, have to focus on getting some works done. Till tomorrow.

Cheers,
Vera

Welcome...

Finally, I decided to start my own blog! This is a big step for me. I am new at this and any suggestions are welcome.:) I am hoping that I can maintain to update this blog regularly.

A little bit about me. I've been scrapbooking and stamping for about 13 years. But, as far as I can remember, I always love doodlings, making things, and organized my pics. Used to cut my pictures and try to arrange them creatively.

And, I love colors. No matter where I am, when I see a bunch of colors, I get excited. Colors inspire me. Colors makes me happy. Since I love colors, easy to say that I love papers and pens. Especially love, love the many shade of blue. When I am in a place where there's tons of colors my mind just start swirling with ideas. That's probably why I also like knitting... (hehe... my SIL get me into this recently and I haven't reach that point, yet where I can say love knitting). When I walk into yarn shop I think I am more excited by the wall to wall colors of yarns than the actual yarn itself. Well, I can honestly say I like crafty stuff as long as it involves pretty colors.:)

Scrapbooking & card making are on my top list, though. Scrapbooking allows me to preserve my family pictures while being creative at the same time. And I love card making for its instant gratification. Speaking of card making, recently I found the Ketto stamps from Stamping Bella and I fell in love with them the moment I saw them. They are cute, funky, and has loads of personality in my opinion. Very fun to work with. So, this past weekend I spent some time just making a bunch of cards. Here's a couple cards to start.



Stamps: Suzzette Ketto from Stamping Bella
Glitters: Stickles
Color pencils: Prismacolor
Embossing folder: Cuttlebug

Stamp: Ivy Ketto from Stamping Bella
Glitters: Stickles
Color pencils: Prismacolor
Embossing folder: Cuttlebug

Aren't these Kettos just adorable? Well, hope you enjoy them and thank you for stopping by. Will post more cards later.

Cheers,
Vera