Card for Ruby

Finally, I'm trying to get back into the swing of blogging again! All my Chinese New Year activities are nearly all over now and I'm way behind in card making. I have a baby card to share which I have been dying to make since the baby was born two weeks ago! I wanted to use the lovely papers from Basic Grey's True Love Collection with the current Retro Sketch challenge. I'm also entering this card into Basic Grey's Challenge 88 - Anything Goes and Simon Says Stamp - Use An Arrow challenge (background paper).Thanks for dropping by!

Ingredients:
Cardstock - Neenah Solar White and Dessert Storm
Paper - Basic Grey True Love 12x12
Stamp - Kaisercraft
Ink - Hero Arts Red Royal
Others - Enamel brads from My Minds Eyes, Twine from The Twinery, ribbon, True Love chipboard letters, buttons and tag

Happy Valentine's Day!

I've been MIA lately due to my heavy commitment with Chinese New Year activities. I would just like to share a quick card I made for Valentine's Day using Basic Grey's True Love collection and MFT alphabet die cuts. I also have some good news to share, I got another publication acceptance from Cards magazine (July2013 issue) for a wedding card I made. Getting that off to the Post Office tomorrow!

I would like to share a photo of our Chinese lion taken at a shopping centre during Chinese New Year celebrations and Valentine's Day. We still have a lot of performances over the next few days before I settle back to a normal routine!

Splash of green!

I've been itching to play with this challenge ever since it was posted. Why? And I don't even like the colour green? Well what intrigued me was that Pantone announced the colour 'Green' as the colour of the year for 2013 and so Play Date Cafe decided to add it to their challenge. Why I don't like green? It was my school uniform colour! Anyway, I'm going to embrace and celebrate the Pantone Green this year to overcome my fear! Here is my card with my favourite flower from PTI coupled with Basic Grey Serenade paper! Oh, I also used my new Fiskars stamping tool for the first time (sentiment only) - took me three goes before I got it right! You have to press very hard and walk around the whole stamp. Personally, I prefer to stamp on a telephone directory and tear out the soiled pages after each use! Anyway, practice makes better!

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Neenah

Paper - Basic Grey Serenade 6x6

Stamps - Papertrey Ink Lovely Layers, Hero Arts Big Ticket

Ink - Ranger Archival Jet Black, Hero Arts Field Greens

CASE Sketch

Back with a quick CAS(E) Sketch. Very simple card using extra wide Washi tape and a bit of stamping! I've used the beautiful paper from Basic Grey True Love for this card. Thanks for dropping by!

Ingredients:

Cardstock-Neenah

Paper - Basic Grey True Love

Stamps - Hero Arts Big Ticket and Ancient Flowers and Butterflies

Ink - Hero Arts Pool, Ranger Archival Jet Black

Others - MT Tape, Franchville rhinestones, white gel pen, Ranger stickles

Happy 18th

We've been invited to an 18th birthday party next weekend and I wanted to use my newest acquisition from Basic Grey's True Love collection. I received a prize from BG when I ordered a warehouse clearance parcel last year. I received the 12x12 papers, some chipboard alphabets, embellishments and a chipboard album last week. It took me ages to get this card together - such a simple sketch and so hard to pick the elements to go with the sketch. Here is my card along with the Retro Sketch #48. Thanks for dropping by!

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Neenah

Paper - Basic Grey True Love

Stamps - Darkroom Door Numbers, Hero Arts Find Joy

Ink - Hero Arts Wet Cement and Royal Red

Others - BG True love stickers and embellishments, MT Washi tape, Fiskars Notebook punch

Carolina Herrera Card

I'm back again with a one layer card which came together very easily. The inspiration is from Runway Inspired Challenge #28 - Carolina Herrera. I picked colours from the dress for the card and used the Eclipse masking sheet for the first time.  I also used an extra long card for the CAS-ual Friday Long and Short challenge and used Retro Sketch #47. As I'm using an old Hero Arts stamp set (Many Dots), I'm also entering this card to the A Blog Named Hero's Golden Oldie challenge and Moxie Fab World Make a Background challenge. Thanks for dropping by!

Ingredients:
Cardstock - Neenah Solar White
Stamps - Hero Arts CL519 Many Dots, CL497 Find Joy
Ink - Hero Arts Wet Cement, Green Fields, Butter Bar, Pool, Stone Wash and Tim Holtz Broken China
Others - Tim Holtz Distress Marker Broken China, Kaisercraft rhinestone

Washi Happy

Alright, have I told you about my Washi tape addiction... Here's another card which was a publication submission reject. The card was dry embossed and also die cut. A word of advice, do the dry embossing last! This card is for the Simon Says Stamp Use Washi Tape challenge and the Moxie Fab World Make a Window challenge. Thanks for dropping by and also a big welcome to couple of new followers!

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Neenah Solar White, Tim Holtz Distress Kraft Core

Dies - MFT DieNamics high rise alphabets

Embossing - Hero Arts Flourish

Others - MT Tape, Kaisercraft rhinestones, MME enamel dots