Jul
03 LotV's Wedding Couple

I don't know how many times I stamped & made this lovely card.... but truly this is one of my favourite stamp. The Lili of the Valley's "wedding Couple" stamp. I think I posted this stamp 3,4 times in the past on my blog but I actually made this card more than 30/40 times... lol. Everytime I am making this card, so much in rush & always forget to take a photo. This one is my family relative that lives abroad. I sent this wedding card to all different continents on earth by now. Wow. I hope they are going to LOVE this card together with a Tiffany wedding gift :)

Happy Wedding everyone!

Categories: 3D , Border punch , Cards , Die Cutting , Men , Punch , Ribbon , Sentiment , Stamping , Wedding , Women

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May
04 Stampin' Up - All in the Family - UK

Another Stampin' Up from the "All in the Family" stamp sets. WoW, I really like it :)

Categories: Animal , Best Wishes , Border punch , Boy , Cards , Die Cutting , Girl , Men , Peel Off & Sticker , Punch , Stamping , Women

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May
03 Stampin' Up - All in the Family - Japan

I borrowed this amazing Stampin' Up stamp set called "All in the Family" (see below). I had to sketch before I start stampin on it. I only coloured in the faces, skin & hair; all clothing are stamped on the coloured / patterned paper, cut & stick on it. I requested all individuals what type/ colours of shirts, pants etc they wanted, so this was one of the tough piece of work. Oh my; I am grad finally I finish this. This is now air mailed to Japan for special someone ... I hope they like it.

Categories: Best Wishes , Boy , Cards , Flower , Girl , Men , Stamping , Thank you , Women

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Apr
22 LotV's Wedding Couple

Here again, another wedding card from LotV's "Wedding Copuple" stamp. I used this stamp at least 6 times by now & I think I can continue to use this stamp forever (except someone decided to have 2nd wedding ... lol). This is my favourite wedding stamp and only stamp that I have in my collection. Truly a lovely card indeed.

Still maintaining on using the expensive Martha Stewart Lever Deep Edge Punch - Double Loop Weave (£18) instead of ribbon across the card. I think it went well on the loop punch.

Total regret on the sentinment - congrats. I personally wanted in "italic" style & should of done in slight light colour (not bright black!). Hopefully I do better next time; always learn from my mistake :)

Categories: Cards , Die Cutting , Girl , Glitter , Punch , Ribbon , Sentiment , Stamping , Wedding , Women

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Apr
14 Stamping Bella - Addy tude is a Cupcake DIVA

Having a little break from Stampin' Up; this is my another favourite stamps from 'Stamping Bella' collection called "ADDY tude is a CUPCAKE DIVA" (£8).

I love Stamping Bella... Why are they so expensive!? Why don't they sell thier entire stamp collections in the UK?! Why can't we buy their latest stamps?! Why are they based in the US?! So not fair!! I want their entire stamp collections! (Sorry for my stressed out speach... hard day @ work; I needed it...).

For this stamp image, I used Woodware Micro Beads (£4 for 12 colours) on the cupcake icing (see below). One regret; I should of coloured in before I sprinckle the micro beads... As you can imagine, it was a hard work to glue them on.

A little touch of happy b-day sentiment to stamp inside the card to finish. It's Paula P's Personal Impression stamp collection. Very nice :)

Categories: 3D , Best Wishes , Bithday , Border punch , Cards , Die Cutting , Girl , Glitter , Punch , Ribbon , Sentiment , Stamping , Women

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Apr
08 LotV's Teddy with Bouquet

This is probaly one of my favourite stamp of all; LOTV's "Teddy with Bouquet" card. I made this stamp cards so many time by now (at least 5 times!!!). You would not believe how much details I went in & many hours spent on this one card for my special sister-in-law.

I say nothing more; just enjoy the lovely card above :)

Categories: 3D , Animal , Best Wishes , Bithday , Cards , Die Cutting , Flower , Punch , Ribbon , Sentiment , Stamping , Women

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Apr
06 Patch an Owl cards

New 2011 Woodware stamp set called "Patch An Owl" (£10). Yes, I bought this stamp set after I attended a class @ The Glitter Pot in Surrey.

I heard from few people that Francoise Read is one of the very professional card crafter before I attended the class but truly, seriously, she was really good in every way. Prepared well in advance so that we had everything we need to make a card, all cut into the right sizes, good paper selection (latest!), using ribon, punches, stamping, could choose paper colours etc. I was truly satisfied! She was previously a teacher (?) so as you can imagine, noob like me could follow her easily all the way.

We made two card above in the morning; Oh my; so nice!

Categories: 3D , Animal , Best Wishes , Boy , Cards , Die Cutting , Flower , Girl , Men , Punch , Ribbon , Sentiment , Stamping , Women

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Apr
04 Filmstrip Frames card

Using Sizzix Decorative Strips by Tim Holtz, called 'Filmstrip Frames' (just over £10). This is not my original idea; I saw the similar card in Paula P's blog few weeks ago & I just loved it. A very quick card (made in an hour). I wasn't sure what colours the b-day girl likes so I went into multiple colours.. I still not sure on the paper choice that I used (big regret!); I could of done it better...

Cutting a base card into a half was not something that I have never done! I knew it would be difficult to put them back together but it wasn't that bad. I did it ok. Very unsual to make such 'trendy' & 'simple' card. I enjoyed it.

Categories: Bithday , Cards , Die Cutting , Punch , Sentiment , Stamping , Women

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Aug
01 Wedding Day

Oh my - I just fall in LOVE with stamp/ card!!! Stamp image is from Lilly of the Valley collection. I saw it on various magazine few months ago & I finally bought some :) Just Love them all!!!

First of all, the stamp image was quite big than I thought it would be! All of their stamp images are big. The stamps are unmounted so it was cheap (£3.85). Good. I think they only sell online so I don't think we can buy them in stores (well I have not seen it yet). I waited over 2 weeks until delivered to my door. I have to say their services are not good / very slow.... I bet they are having too much "tea breaks" in their business! I don't think I never waited this long for anything else before in my life! There was no comm. either so I never knew when I was going to get that stamps... I just waited....

Love their stamp images tho; I spent over an hour looking through all stamps. I DID added all stamps into the shopping basket so I had to delete so many when I got to the checkout! On the end, I did buy few.... (evil site - I better not go & surf there again too soon!!!).

I gave this card away already (it was very hard to let it go!!)... I hope they liked it...

Ah, I might make one for myself to keep it in my card collection :)

Ah, so nice!!!

Categories: Cards , Die Cutting , Girl , Men , Ribbon , Sentiment , Stamping , Wedding , Women

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Jul
29 Shopping Girl Go Wild & Thank YOU!!

Oh my - I really like this card! The stamp was one of the free goodies from the magazine which was a surprise present from my best friend who bought it for me (Thank you""!!). To say "TY" urgently, I made this card middle of the night (until 3am!"). I don't' think I never mentioned this in my blog; I am a night card-crafter! I somehow get more into it passed midnight! I know, I am a strange girl...

I spent enough time to choose the backing paper on that night. Really a long long time! Here again, I also used the "TY" and "with LOVE" stamps from Personal Impression stamps collection. Just a right size as always! Putting that pink ribbon was my last decision - I think it worked well. And the dotted brown paper was accidentally found it in my stash & I think it worked well too.

I have few more stamp images from that stamp collection. I am looking forward to colouring that images in few days time :)

THANK YOU once again!!

Categories: Cards , Die Cutting , Girl , Ribbon , Sentiment , Stamping , Thank you , Women

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