Masculine 21st card

Back again with a quick post for Moxie Fab World's Speech Bubble Challenge for the release of Card Creations Vol 11. I've used the current Retro sketch #53 and the photo from Runway Inspired challenge #31 (Kate Spade NY Fall 2013) for this challenge. 

If you have not realised yet (see the sidebar), one of my cards can be seen on page 32 of the latest Papercrafts Magazine! This is my first paid publication! I have not seen the magazine yet, can't wait to get it! There was a mention on the Papercrafts Connection blog today about the new designers in this magazine - link here. Thank you to Kelly for the mention! Thanks for dropping by.

Ingredients:
Cardstock - Neenah Solar white, Neenah Columns Black, Tim Holtz CoreDinations paper

Paper - Amy Tangerine American Crafts, My Minds Eyes Lost and Found 2 Blush

Stamp - Hero Arts Big Ticket CL544

Ink - Ranger Archival Jet Black

Die - MFT DieNamics Fishtail STAX

Others - MME Enamel Brads, Amy Tangerine stickers

Happy 21st card

 I've been overseas for a short trip to attend a friend's wedding in Indonesia. Been back a few days and needed to get the house in order. I'm having withdrawal symptoms from card making! Needed to do a quick one for my niece's 21st next month. She went to Paris last year and I wanted to use the Eiffel Tower paper from MME Lost and Found. I decided to use the current Retro sketch challenge and combined it with the Moxie Fab World Gingham Card Challenge. Needless to say, the colours of the card was based on the pink/brown gingham I had in my stash, there was just enough for this card! Since I used Hero Arts stamps and mid-tone inks in this card, I'm also entering this into HA May challenge. Scroll down below for all the details of the card and I have some photos to share from the wedding in Jakarta. 

Challenges:

Moxie Fab World - Gingham Card Challenge

Retro Sketches - RS#13

Hero Arts - May Birthday challenge

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Via Vellum Kraft

Paper - My Minds Eyes Lost and Found Blush (my favourite!)

Stamps - HA Antique Flowers and Butterflies, HA Big Ticket

Inks - HA Bubble Gum, HA Cup O'Joe

Others - MFT Numbers Die, Kaisercraft rhinestones, MS ribbon loop punch, gingham ribbon, washi tape

Our trip to Jakarta

A very good friend of mine, whom I first met in 2008 in Malaysia, got married in Jakarta last weekend. He came to Melbourne last year and met my partner for the first time and they both hit it off so well that he asked us to come for his wedding. We have never met his wife, now that we have, she is so lovely and was very pretty on the day of the wedding and even prettier without makeup! My partner, Robin, was asked to make a speech at the wedding as he was the only foreigner amongst the 850 guests! We spent two nights in Jakarta and two nights in Bandung (3 hours drive away). We had a lovely weekend surrounded by great company! Thanks for dropping by! Here are some more photos from our trip:

The wedding cakes in Indonesia are huge (not real though)

Photo taken at a jungle restaurant in Bandung, taken with no flash. We used our iPhones to light up our faces!

With friends from Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia at a volcanic crater in Bandung