Thanks So Very Much

Keeping things simple and showcasing my love for birds.  Almost a one layer card. I ended up framing the sentiment to make it a bit more stands out. Hm... looking at the soft colors, makes me want to meditate. :)

Entering this card for Moxie Fab World Spatter challenge and Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes challenge.

Have a fab Thursday, peeps. :)

Eli

Well, how fun, it's Wednesday already. Love short work week.  :) Time seems to fly by faster.

Yesterday, hubby and I took Eli to the dog park and he had his first experience of being completely submerge in the pool. It was by accident of course. He was chased by the other puppy and by the time he flop down, he was totally in the pool. I wish I had remember to take picture, because his face was just so comical. It was like, what the heck just happened here? And, being surrounded by 3 bigger dogs, not much time to think of the wetness.

Then, he started walking around the edge of the pool and I guess he din't know what's the splash all about as he was busy trying to catch the splash he made. He kept trying to bite at the splash. At first, I thought he was trying to chase a dragonfly that I saw flying around the pool, but nope... chasing splash was more interesting for him. He cracks me up! :D

That's what I love about Eli, how he could find things to entertain himself. Needless to say, he slept on the way home. Sorry, babbling on about Eli here. :)

I do have a card to share. This time I actually pull out my patterned paper and combine it with some stamping. This beautiful sentiment is from Market Street Stamp. I'm entering this for Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes challenge.

Yep, slowly vintage looking project starts to grow on me. I only like it in small dosage, though. Heh... Have a great day everyone. :)

Fun Filled Weekend

Hi lovely peeps! How was your long weekend? I started mine early, by leaving work early on Friday to pick up Laurel Beard who is in town for a few days. We went to check out the Archivers, where we met up with Gretchen and then because she's not feeling well, I took her back to my place so she can chill out. That whole afternoon, Laurel was nauseous due to her migraine med side effect and we basically drove around with her holding a plastic bag, which thankfully she didn't have to use. :) 

The next day, I spent the morning at the dog park with hubby and Eli the puppy. It's just so much fun watching him trying to keep up with the big boys. In the afternoon I went up to north Houston again  to pick Laurel up, this time for some pampering time. We got a pedicure with matching colors. Yes, we are cheesy like that! :) I seriously, just love having her around. She's so bubbly and she makes me laugh continuously with her no nonsense respond. And, her hubby, just as nice as can be. 

Here's a couple pics from our weekend.

Laurel finally get to meet Eli.

My favorite pic. No, I wasn't being camera shy, but the camera was
about an inch away from my face and that's just way too close. :)

Sunday, totally chillin' out day. Picked up some flowers from Home Depot and hubby panted some colorful flowers & started a little veggies garden on our backyard. I don't have green thumb at all, so I am leaving the gardening stuff to hubby who enjoys doing those kind of stuff. Monday, went to see Man In Black 3. Missed Frank the pug, but if you see the movie, you'll see a few reference to Frank. And... I want the pug puppy poster just like on J's house. Yes, I am a bit obsessed with pug. Ha.. :)

Then my girlfriend came over in the afternoon with her sweet toddler, Mia. Let just say, Mia and Eli enjoy each other company. They played non-stop all afternoon. As I typed this, Eli is totally crashing on the pillow, snoring softly  now & then.

Of course, I made some cards, too. Quite a few actually. And, one of the card is this fish ribbon card, which is my last entry for Paper Crafts 2012 Gallery Idol. And, I know right away that for the encouragement sentiment I want to use the mantra "just keep swimming" from Finding Nemo. It is one that I often repeat to myself when things get a bit rough. 

I partially embossed the top part of the panel and added American Crafts glitter POW paper behind the fish.

I hope you all had a wonderful long weekend and yay... for short work week!!

Happy Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day day, everyone. :) And, I want to say thank you to all of those in the military & their family for everything they do to keep us safe. Thank you for everything you do. And, I have a few friends who has spouse getting ready for deployment and just want to send huge hug for you all.

As Memorial Day rolling in, it also means summer has started. Yikes... cross fingers for not too many 100 degree days. Now, speaking about hot, today at Some Odd Girl, we are featuring this hot pair Toasted & Toastee.

I decided to go with baby theme. I know,  usually it's bun in  the oven, but I think toast popping out from toaster work just as well. Hm... what do you think? :) For the next 2 weeks, you can grab them from the shop for 25% off. You can see more example using Toasted & Toastee at Some Odd Girl blog.

And, I want to do a quick birthday shout out for my brother, Jerry who's celebrating his birthday this past Saturday. This year is a big year for him in many aspects. To Jerry, may this year continue to be a year filled with many blessings and may all your birthday wishes come true. By the way, he just won 5 bronze award from the Epson Pano Award, which is the largest competition for panoramic photography. You can check out his fabulous winning pictures HERE. I am so very proud of him. 

Check out his super cute birthday card from his wife. :) I want a birthday cake that's cute like this!

Have a fabulous day everyone!

Lily Pad Cards Star Challenge

Happy Friday, everyone! Quick post as I have quite a long to do list for today. We have a new challenge at Lily Pad Cards sponsored by Simon Says Stamp. The challenge is to create any project featuring star. 

And. here's my card using the fabulous glitter POW paper from American Crafts. This paper is so gorgeous and no flaky glitter either.This card is my fourth card that using stuff from my girl get together. 

Seriously, getting together with crafty friends was just what I needed to get out of creativity block. :)

Have a fabulous Friday, everyone!

Flower or Bird

As promised, I continue to make cards using the images that I stamped or created from my weekend get together with the girls. When I was at Brenda, she let us play with her Memory Box dies. They are pretty cool. Trinh and I were definitely cranking the die-cut machine a lot that night.

One of the die is the Piestra border die. I managed to repeat the border side by side to create this beautiful background. I wanted to use it as a mask with the spray mist. And, that's exactly what I did with my first card, which I made for Young Crafters Unite Challenge # 10.

 

The beautiful flower is from W9Plus set that I won from Stamping Royalty. I love W9Plus stamp. I think they are gorgeous and stamp so well. I plan to get more sets from this company. The sentiment is from another company that I am not familiar with, called Flourishes. The set which this sentiment come from is gorgeous, but a bit too serious looking for my taste, but I just love, love the sentiment. I haven't get a chance to check out their collection, but plan to do so when I have a chance.

Since I love the card so much, I had a duh...  moment when I realized I only cut one Piestra background. I wish I had cut more so I can also use it for more cards. Then, my Mister Q (aka Silhouette) came to the rescue. I found out that they also have this background. Awesomeness. So, for my next card, I kind of repeat the same design, and this time I am using the cut out background directly on the card and the bird from Memory Box.

Which one you like better? Since, I love bird, I kind of a bit  more partial toward the second card. Love the sharp contrast of the white and the colors. But, love the softness and the flower of the first card. Hm...

So, any plan for Memorial Day weekend? I am guessing I'll be spending a lot of time crafting, and most likely go to the movies as well as I want to see Johnny Depp's Dark Shadow and also spend some time with Laurel Beard who is coming to town today!! Yippeee...

Enjoy your Thursday....

May Arts Post

Hi peeps, today is my day at May Arts blog. This week we re teaming up with Core'dinations. Please check it out and if you would kindly leave some love, I'd so appreciate it. And, did you know that when you leave comments there during this week teaming up, you'll get entered for the giveaway. :)

Here's a peek at my card. You can see the full card HERE. 

It's also my day at SP & Company, and you can check out my card HERE. Thanks so much.

Faith

Last night as I snuggled with hubby and the doggies, I was reminded how blessed my life is. Granted it's filled with many ups and downs, after all that's what make life a life. You can only fully appreciate the good things in life when you have experience bad stuff as well. And, I have went through some bad moments that makes me appreciate my life now very much.

And, one thing that I've learned to do through the ups and downs is to pray. Not only in bad time but in good time as well. I truly get this from my mom. You cannot only pray for when you needed help, you also need to pray when life is good. Praying saying thank you is just as important as praying asking for help, don't you think?

And, when things seem so bleak, I think as human being the one thing that help us keep going are hope and faith. As long as we have faith, we'll keep trying, keep going. Have faith that thing will gets better.

Oh, before any of you wonder if something happened to me, nothing is wrong. Ha... sometime I just go through one of my mood, where I just feel reflective and pondering about life. I am deep like  that... sometime. LOL. Other time, I am just plain goofy. :)

Stamps from Hero Arts & Papertrey Ink.

I just love this card. Trinh, see... I used the stuff that I stamped from our weekend get together. From all the stamped images that I made this past weekend, this is one of my favorite. The color is soooo me.  I think with it's soft colors it will brighten anyone's day and  the sentiment hopefully will give encouragement for when they need it.

I am entering this card for Paper Crafts 2012 Gallery Idol.

Another note, if last weekend I get to hang out with the Texas' girls, this weekend, I get to hang out with my Florida girl, Laurel Beard. I am so excited! I miss this tiny girl (hah... I don't get to say tiny to others that often) and this time our hubby will get to meet each other, too. So, looking forward to this weekend!!

Life Is Good

Today, we're continuing with Some Odd Girl May Clear Releases. Let me introduce you to "Sunny Mae". This set come with cute clouds & a fab sun ray.

The sentiment is from SRM Stickers. Isn't Mae looks so pretty & sweet? I love her summer dress. This set is now available at the SHOP and you can see more fabulous samples at Some Odd Girl blog.

Now, let me share a couple pics from my stamping get together with the girls. All I can say, I am so thankful that I met these kind, funny, talented, and generous ladies. 

Trinh, me, Lisa, & Martha.

Can you find any empty spot on that table? No? :) Ha, of course not. Between all the stamps, papers, ribbons, inkpads, we even have stuff on the window sill, on the floor, and the kitchen counter. It's like a stamper's little paradise.

Shopping time!!!

We all have different style and it's fun to watch how everyone's work. Brenda made me laugh with her staring moments. Sometime when  you're surrounded by so many stamps, you can just get overwhelmed. :) Trinh was determine to actually get cards done (on our last  get together, she and I just stamped a bunch of stuff without actually completing anything) and she got 8 cards completed.  Lisa and I stamped a bunch of stuff to be used for later creations. Then Martha taught Brenda and Lisa how to make a super fancy card, while Trinh and I playing with Brenda's collection of dies.

And, this time, I actually remember to use those stamped images. Starting tomorrow, I will share cards that are the result from this weekend get together.

Time to get to work. Have a fabulous day everyone.

Lawnscaping Embossing Challenge

Hi everyone. Today marks the start of a new Lawnscaping challenge. This time it's all about embossing and we are sponsored by Lawn Fawn itself.                 

And, here's my card using dry embossing. The chevron border is from Spellbinders M-bossabilities So Trendy. I only embossed the bottom part of the card and also scored a couple lines right above the chevron borders.

You have 2 weeks to play along and please check out Lawnscaping post for more inspiration from the DT gals and for prize detail. Can't wait to check out what you created for this fun challenge!!