I was featured on Hero Arts Summer Flower on Social Club Thursday

I used Hero Arts Spring new stamp CL426 Real Flowers to make this card.
I used watercolor skill to stamp the flowers, I tried several way, but the best way is to use an ink applicator to apply Walnut Stain and Wild Honey Distress Inks to the daisy stamp, mist stamp lightly with water then stamp repeatly.

I am very happy I was feathered by Hero Arts Summer Fun, they choosed summer flower cards for the winner on Jun 24, 2010.

http://heroarts.com/blogs/club/2010/06/24/summer-flowers-on-social-club-thursday/


There was another card I made by using the same technique.

Just want to share the happy news with all of my stamper friends.

Acetate Cards

I used Ranger Glossy Accents and Dusty Concord Distressed re-inker to create the background.
When dried, I used Stazon Jet Back ink to stamp the focal image on the other side of the acetate.
There are three cards I made from the big background I created.

I used 8 heart shape brad to secure the acetate on the cardstock.



I used Martha Steward punch to create a flourish background to match the butterful.



The 3rd one was actually a failure, since there was a big spot of glossy accents I didn't notice on the left top corner, sigh, blame my prespyobia ........ :(

Hope that you like the technique I shared here.
Have a great weekend.

Hero Arts H5426 Artists Butterfly

I just bought H5426 Artists Butterfly from "Created with Love",
I was thinking, what color will suit the butterfly the best.
So I decided to make several cards to find out.

This is the first card, my blue butterfly.
I used Hero Arts background stamp CG119 and a designer paper,
Fiskars punch. The sentiment "Enjoy your Day" is from Impression Obsession.

The second one is a yellow butterfly.
I used Hero Arts CG171 flower stamp and gold embossed it.
I also gold embossed the sentiment.

This is the 3rd card, my green butterfly.
I used Hero Arts CL428 Earth Flowers, stamped in two differnt green ink pads.

This the 4th (also the last) card, my red butterfly.
I just used a red designer paper and dry embossed a light yellow cardstock to match the butterfly yellow winds. Then tighted some twine around the card.

I like them all, :) since I made them, but I like the blue butterfly the most.
Dear bloggers, which butterfly do you like ?

Card Patterns Sketch #68

I am glad that Card Patterns Sketch 68 is exactly what I am going to do this week.

I am trying to tell the junior generation that time flies fast,
do you want to be the brown fading leaves or the green flourish leaves.
Live Life Wisely.

So here is the card I made.

CPS 170 Card Challenge

I saw CPS 170 challenge by accident, I was about to use the stamp I just bought from Impression Obsession E6590, this is a good opportunity for me to try.

Here is the CPS 170 challenge pattern.



This is the card I made.


I want to create a warm and peaceful atmosphere, so I decided to make another one in pink.



Here is the group photo for both cards.



Thanks to CPS, I had a lot of fun during the weekend to make these two cards.

Too big to handle

Here are the stamps from Hero Arts Summer 2010 catalog.

This is a very big flower from CL443.
I really don't have any good ideas for using this BIG flower. But since I bought it, I must use it, this is my principle of buying a new stamp. But this time, I don't think I can use it to make 3-4 different views, so here is the first test.

This is the stamp with the card.

This is another clear stamp set from Hero Arts summer catalog, CL450.

This is also a BIG flower, I believe it is cute enough to make a "A happy hello" card.

I used a dry embossed background to support the big flower.

If any of you have good ideas for using BIG flowers to make cards, please share with me.

Have a good weekend.

One of my favorite Impression Obsession Stamp

This is one of my favorite Impression Obsession stamp, F6637,
I ordered it for 5 months long, only able to get it yesterday.

Immediately I made the first card in pink, because I want to create a very soft and peaceful atmosphere on this card. The sentiment "Enjoy your day" is also from Impression Obsession.

It didn't turn out very good, all pink colors are mixed together.

I want to give it another try, so I made a blue color card today, I am still trying to create a peaceful atmosphere on this blue card. Sentiment is from Hero Arts CL307.

Here is a closer look on the main image.

Here is a more closer look on the image.

I made two more differnt colors by using the same stamp.

Card exchange with Shirley Ross

When I won the card challenge gift stamps from Impression Obsession, I told myself, by using these stamps, the first card I will make for Shirley, who handled the card challenge and manages IO blog so hard.

So, I used the smallest stamp, a strawberry, and with MASKING technique, I made this card.

Before I sent this card to Shirley, I decided to add Ranger's Glossy Accents to make the strawberry more juicy.

Shirley was very happy knowing that I am going to send her a card I made (Of course she knew, since I need to ask her for address.), in return, she sent me one of the card she made.

It was an owesome card, with very creative punch skills and so many layers to pop the card. It was a wonderful FUN SUMMER card, perfect for the season now.

Thanks to Shirley.

Happy Graduation

My niece will be graduated this Saturday from Taiwan University,
I made four cards, will choose one for her as our congratulations.

To make it more fun, I put a red envelope in one of the cards, the card I believe that my niece will choose, then write my greetings into the card.

If my niece choose any other card, then sorry, she won't get the greetings and the red envelope.

This is the first card I made, and this is the card I believe my niece will pick up.
I checked with both my son and my daughter, they all agreed with me.
So the red envelope was wrapped in.

The second card is a red and pink card. I like red, so I made a card according to my preference.

This is the 3rd card, a cute card for graduation. I fully believe that my niece will never pick this one, because she is a very quiet and graceful young lady.

This is the 4th card, I gold embossed the flowers to demonstrate a bright future after graduation. This one is a little risky, my niece may pick this .....

I tested with several people -
1. My bother-in-law, my niece's father, he picked up the 4th card.
2. My youngest sister, she picked up the 3rd cute card.
3. My sister-in-law, she picked up the first card, the same as my niece.

Finally, my niece did pick up the first card, lucky her !! Congratulations to her for the graduation and the red envelope.

So, in our family, only me and my sister-in-law know my niece better.
The card picking was a fun game on the Saturday afternoon.

Where did you buy this card ?

My son is a freshman in university, today he asked me if he can take one of the cards I made to send to his teacher.
I said: Of course ! Pick up anyone you like.
He picked this one. (This card was made by Tim Holtz's stamps.)

When he was in school, he showed this card to his classmates, and he claimed that he himself made this card. His classmate said "come on, where did you buy it ?"

After school, my son called me, he said that all his classmates said the card is bought from somewhere, then he asked me if I feel happy about it ?!

Oh, yes, I am thrilled. That means the quality of the cards I made is already to a certain degree. But, but, but, after 2nd thought, I still prefer people feel that the card is handmade, not printed.

Sigh ! Don't know I should feel happy or unhappy about it.

2 Sketch 4 you_Laura's Sketch #53

I bought Hero Arts clear stamp CL066 "Happy Everything" for a long while, don't really know what kind of card I should use this stamp set.
Today, I decided to try it with Laura's sketch 53 from "2 Sketch 4 You".


These are the three actors of my card.

To add some more interest, I used Matha Steward's punch to make the fence.
This is the final card.


Cute ? Isn't it ?!