Gratefulness & Welcome 2012

Happy New Year, everyone!! I hope all of you start 2012 wonderfully. I am looking forward to this year. :)

As 2011 closing, I want to take a quick trip down memory lane & look back at 2011. Many things happened this past year, but above everything else, I am grateful that all my family members are healthy and doing well.

Thankful that my mom is still doing great and healthy. My big brother get promoted as vice director for the cardiology department at the hospital where he works. My little brother got engaged. My SIL, Regina, took the big leap to quit her corporate job and pursue her dream of opening a bakery. My future SIL, Denada, is doing well with her career and of course, she got engaged to my brother. :)

So very grateful for my hubby who's been there for me through all the ups and downs. With him, I know we can face anything. He's strong, compassionate, and so supportive, loving, and thoughtful. Thankful that he continue to love me the way I am, imperfection and all. Very grateful that God lead me to him.

Grateful for the time I had with my foster dad. What I learned from him will stay with me for the rest of my life. Grateful for my dad who passed away almost 10 years ago, because I know he's still watching over me. Grateful for my foster mom and brother who enrich my life with their presence. For my amazing parents-in-law who welcome me to their family with open arms.

Grateful for all the friends I met through card making. For the enjoyment & fulfillment that I received through it. I spent so many  hours of my days doing this and it's something that I truly enjoy. I simply have so many things to be grateful for. I am grateful for this life and all it has to offer.

While we're looking back, how about looking at some of my favorite cards from 2011? Here we go:

Not often I do what I consider fancy card, which means lots of layers. And this one,not only it has lots of layers, I even did a french knot for added details.

This one capture my love for animals. And of course, for Lawn Fawn critter sets!

I guess, this one what I would call my favorite reject. It didn't make it for submission, but I really love the bright and cheerful colors on this circus theme card. And the cute elephant. 

                                              

I sent this card for World Card Making Day. I just love the overall design of this card & the colors.

My super CAS card with a dash of bright color. Love how the bright colors stand against the white background. 

One of my favorite CAS card using Penny Black stamp. I have this stamp forever, it's an oldie but goodie. :)

This year, I am blessed to be joining Some Odd Girl team and this was one of the first card I made for the DT. Again, love the cheerfulness of the card. Did you notice a pattern here? Me and bright colors?? Yep... I love cheerful card. :)

 

One of my favorite Christmas card. I bought this stamp set because of these birdies.  Funny, I used to think I am a pastel color kind of girl, but I realized I am actually a bright color kind of girl. 

As we welcome 2012, I wish for all of us that may 2012 bring us health, joy, prosperity, and blessings. Thank you for your friendship, for your visits to my blog, for all your encouragement and support. I really appreciate you all. Have a blessed 2012!! Cheers.....

Goodbye 2011

Hi peeps! Happy Saturday, happy New Year's eve. I've been super quiet this week due to mojo refusing to work with me. Kind of freaking out a bit as I really need to finish my brother's scrapbook album. Only about a month left and I am still far from close to finish.

Anyway, today I am here to share the last Wee Memories challenge for 2011!

With the new year coming, new beginning, new chapter, you can guess our challenge theme is "NEW". Create anything that's new related. It could be using new stamps, or celebrating new addition to your family, or happy new year card, etc. For my card, since today is the last day for 2011, I go with Happy New Year card. This card actually recently published on Paper Crafts A Card A Day.

I love the CAS look of this card. The word new & year were cut using my li'l engine, Silhouette. Sigh.. have I told you how much I love that li'l engine? ;)

For more inspiration please check out the DT creation at Wee Memories.

Looking back at 2011, it's been quite a year. But, I am thankful that it's been mostly good, that through everything that happened this year... I still have my family that I love oh so much (very grateful that I got to start the year with them), that I have a new job, met new friends, have a home to come home to, hobbies that allow me to unwind and be creative, etc.

I am optimistic and hopeful that 2012 is going to be a great one. As long as I have my loving and supportive family I am good. And, I wish you all that may 2012 be a prosperous year for you and your family and may it be filled with great moments, great joy, and blessings.

To my mom, my brothers and their other halves.... I love you all so much and cannot wait to see you again. Love to you all and cheers for 2012!! xoxo

Love Inspiration Challenge

I am late, I am late, I am late! Yikes.... I am  totally spaced out and forgot to blog for Some Odd Girl Love Inspiration challenge. So sorry. This month has been such a crazy & busy month that I forgot things constantly.

The challenge at Some Odd Girl is to create a project inspired by this pic:

I just love the little hearts and re-create it using Echo Park hybrid collection. And here's my card using Romantic Gwen.

I am loving Romantic Gwen at this moment. She's just so sweet! I hope you will join us on this fun challenge. :)

Merry Christmas...

To you and yours! :)

Last year, I was lucky & blessed that I get to celebrate Christmas with my family in Indonesia. Just being there with them was the best present ever. The joy that I felt just being with them reminds me what Christmas all about.

Being with family, enjoying each other company. Creating a joyful family memories. A time to reflect and count your blessings. I will never forget the laughter and merriment of all of us together. To hear my mom saying how happy she was to have all her kids gathered together and hear all the laughter. 

This year, I am with them in spirit. I get to skype with my mom, my brothers, and my SILs last night. It was great that I could see all of them, even though just through the internet. And, yes, all the dogs get to make appearance as well.

I am counting the days till I get to see all of them again at my brother's wedding. Yes... my little brother is getting hitched and I can't wait to see him marrying his funny & loving fiance.

From our home to yours, I wish you all a  very merry Christmas and may your Christmas be a joyful and memorable one. May you always remember the reason for the season and may Christmas blessings be with you all year round. Merry Christmas with lots of love from me to you!!

Christmas Cheer

Hi all, today is my day at May Arts blog. This week we are teaming up with Bazzill Basics (love, love, love them!) and I get to play with super cheerful papers. I made a card and a tag.

Here's a look at my happy card:

Want to see what the tags looks like?? Check it out at May Arts blog. And, would be so awesome if you could leave some loves. Spreading love is good, right. ;)

Let's see what else going on my world. How about crazy?? LOL, this year I am so behind. I am afraid I didn't even get to send out too many Christmas cards. I am working on finishing my brother's scrapbook like crazy. I want to give him and his fiance a meaningful presents and I always believe scrapbook is one of the most personal and meaningful present you can give.

I have about 6 weeks left to do this. You might say that's plenty of time. Not for me. When it comes to scrapbooking, somehow my perfectionism come out full force. Like everything has to be super straight and perfect. Especially because I want this album to be as special as can be. I can whip up a card in no time, but scrapbook, I am S.L.O.W. 

Oh... and another exciting news. See this?? That's my li'l brother's house-studio on the cover on Home Living magazine (Indonesia edition)!! Accck.... How awesome is that? I asked him to buy a copy for me. :)

                                                  

Congrats, Jerry!! If you check out that link, you'll be entertain by some amazing photographs. I couldn't be more proud of both of my brothers. They're both so successful, but most importantly... they love me like nobody business and spoil me whenever they can. I couldn't ask for better brothers. Love them both so much!

Thank you all for stopping by and enjoy your long weekend!!

Cards That Care Winner List

Good morning, peeps! As this post go up, the cards from Cards That Care are being distributed to many happy recipients across the States and Canada. Thank you to all of you who send cards for this cause. With more  than 3800 cards collected, we are able to bring joy to many nursing homes.

Thank you all for making this card drive such a success. To the participants and to the generous companies who support this drive... we couldn't have done it without your support & generosity.

Without further delay, here's a list of winners for the card drive. Congrats ladies!

Bella Blvd package:  Wanda Knott

Hero Arts 6 stamps of your choice: Lisa Haines

Lawn Fawns stamps package: Shannon Winbun

May Arts 3 spool of ribbon of your choice: Mary Pat Siehl

Paper Crafts 1 year subcription: Christine Fitch

Paper Smooches $25 GC: Debbie Kissel

PSA Essential package: Donna Przybylowski

Simon Says Stamp $25 GC: Amy Page

Some Odd Girl $20 GC: Jenny Riedel

Market Street Stamps $25GC: Krista Baginski

The Twinery Sampler Twine: Ruth & Erin Gauss

The Crafts Meow stamp package: Dixie Cohcran

Sweet Stamps Shop stamp package: Donna Hanley

Penny Black 2 cling stamps of your choice: Sherrie Mannion

Avocado Arts stamp package: Linda Wetterlin

Jane's Doodle $25 GC: Leesa Berry

Eclectic Paperie $25 GC: Divine Elamparo

Inspired Stamps package: Jacqueline Smith

True Scraps class: Sheryl Pierce

There She Goes Stamp $25 GC: Cheryl Yamashita

Again, we want to thank each and everyone of you who's been so generous with your time and participation. This card drive is a success because of you.

I wish you all a very merry Christmas and may your Christmas be filled with joy, love, and happiness.

Lawnscaping Texture Challenge

Good morning peeps! Today, I am back with Lawnscaping challenge #24. This will be our last challenge for this year and our theme is all about texture. You can use felt, flocking, embossing, etc. For playing along you will have a chance to win a set of your choice from our sponsor Lawn Fawn.

I am a bit worn out with Christmas cards, so I decided to make a thank you card, instead. :) Here, I went with embossing for texture using Tim Holtz wood grain embossing plate and adhere the cutie dog with pop-dots for dimension.

I hope you will join us on this fun challenge. For more inspiration please check out Lawnscaping blog. Can't wait to see your creation! Have a blessed Monday everyone.

Wee Memories Free For All

                                                  

Happy Saturday, peeps! It's time for another Wee Memories challenge. This time the challenge will run for 2 weeks due to the holiday schedule. To make it easy peasy with everyone busy schedule our theme is "Free For All" a.k.a anything goes.

You can find challenge and prize details at Wee Memories blog. 

For my card, I used the mice from Penny Black' Bubbly set.My favorite from Penny Black stamps always the hedgehog and the mice. This time, I figure this smiley mice on top of the champagne cork is perfect for a card to celebrate New Year.

Please check out what the DT gals created for this challenge at Wee Memory blog. Short post today. Need to take my card to the shop for service. It's been making this ticking noise that drive hubby crazy. :) Enjoy your weekend!

PS: In case you don't know, I'm  now an affiliate for Two Peas In A Bucket. Whenever you shop there, I'd love for you to shop through me. To do that simply click on  Two Peas logo or link on my blog. It has special link that let them know you're coming from my blog. They're having a year end clearance sale going on right now. Thank you & hope you can take advantage on this sale.

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May Arts & Graphic 45

 ** For Some Odd Girl new release post, please scroll down. **

Hello and welcome to May Arts and Graphic 45 blog hop!! In case you missed it, May Arts and Graphic45 is doing a blog hop for this whole week and you could win some fabulous goodies.

And, today is my day for the hop! You know, honestly this is my first time playing with Graphic 45 and at first, I was a bit worried. Most of you who's been following me for awhile,  you know vintage is definitely not my style. 

But, low and behold, I created a set of Christmas cards and they're all vintage looking!!! Aaannndd....  I love them! The papers coordinated beautifully and make it a breeze to create these cards. On top of that, their papers works awesome with my Silhouette. No need for double cut at all. I tried this for some cards that I made for submission and I am now hooked on Graphic45.

For all the cards I used Graphic 45 Christmas Emporium set. They're gorgeous!!

For this first card, I used May Arts 1/4" silk ribbon (SK26). The silk ribbon is definitely my favorite. They're so silky and easy to work with. The music scores all come from 1 sheet of patterned paper. Is that a good deal, or what? This set goes a long way!!

This second card is using May Arts sheer twinkle ribbon CT16. One of the sheet of paper has a bunch of tags that you could cut apart and I fussy cut one of the Santa. The greeting image below came from the same sheet.

Now, this card.... I {heart}. I think this card is my favorite. Simple and May Art silk ribbon (SK16) compliment the greetings perfectly. Less is more is definitely a do for this card, don't you think?

And,  this last card totally capture children's joy on Christmas. Somehow it reminds me of our Christmas when we were growing up, where my cousins would come over and celebrate Christmas with us! On this card I simply adhere the ribbon behind the image panel. 

So, what do you think of my venture to the vintage side? Yay, nay? Kind of fun pushing myself outside my comfort zone. :)

Now, you ready to hop? Today's hop include:

Kimberly Jones

Peggy Cain

Vera Yates <--- you're here
Tara Orr

Nancy Wethington

Nicole Eccles

In case you missed any other days, be sure to hop on over to these blogs too:

Thursday's Hop:

Jinky Kowalski
Britta Swiderski
Karen Baker
Sherry Cheever
Hilde Janbroers

Wednesday's Hop:Jenifer Cowles

Jingle

Robin Shakoor

Yuka Hino

Gloria Stengel

 

Tuesday's Hop:Ellen Sosnoski

Charlene Driggs

Jen Shears

Laura Denison

Melaine Forbes

 

Monday's Hop:

Latrice Murphy

Candy Rosenburg

Lynette Carroll

Jane Tregenza

Jack and Cat Curio

Thank you for stopping by here and have a great Friday!

SOG In Stitches Tia

Ack.... Did you hear me squealing last night? Did you see this post at Papertrey Ink blog?? Yep, yep.... I am the lucky girl to win ALL the December stamps from PTI. I almost missed it, too. I just scrolled down and wasn't expecting to see my name at all. I've been entering for the past 2 years and never get picked. Till last night!!

I want to scream with joy, but I couldn't since hubby already asleep. So, I just made a tiny squeal. ;) I mean, truly blessings comes in many ways and sometime when don't even expect it. So grateful. This brighten my day so much!! Happy dance!

With such happy news, how about a happy card? Today Some Odd Girl is revealing the last set for this month new releases. Let me introduce you to In Stitches Tia.

Challenges:

Delightful Challenges - Anything Goes

The Paper Variety - Anything Goes

All images and sentiments are from the set. I popped a couple of the button with pop-dots for extra dimension. I'll be giving this card to my niece, because she is awesome and yes, she can sew better than me. I still can't sew a straight line.

I can still remember how my dad used to joke all the time whenever me or my mom start sewing. He would acted so surprise and asked us whether we poke ourselves or sew our fingers together. :)

The DT gals has created some fab samples to showcase this set and you can check them out at Some Odd Girl blog. Enjoy! :)