Card Patterns Sketch #66

I want to make a "Live Life Wisely" card for my friend, I beleive Card Patterns sketch 66 is the right one for me to do it.

Here is the card I made.
Unfortunately, now it's 4:30pm in the afternoon, the sun light just not right for photos.
I always want to use natural light to take photos, so that is what I can get today.

Designer Paper

There was a survey in Belgium for people aged at 70.

The survey was asking the most important happy factors for them, the result was very surprising. GRATEFUL was ranked first, FORGIVING was second, Hobby was third, FRIENDS was 4th, FAMILY was 5th. While people are discussing why FAMILY only ranked as 5th impotance, but I was paying attention to the HOBBY, which ranked at 3rd, but actually you can said HOBBY is the most important happy factor, since GRATEFUL and FORGIVING are both intangible things.

I am glad that I have "CARD MAKING" as my hobby now, and I always feel happy after I completed a card with all my heart.


Today, I want to use one of the designer paper I have for a card, I do have a lot of designer papers, but not really thinking of them when I am making a card.



I used two designer papers from Memory Box, the series of FROND. Here is a closer look for it.

Stamp with us sketch challenge

This is a challenge from Stamp with us on May 23, 2010.
Happen that I need to make a birthday card, so I decided to follow the sketch pattern, then give it a try.

This is the card I made.
The stamp I used is from Stampin' Up, the card size is 5x5.


A closer look of the card.
I addes some glossy accents from Ranger to the cake, to make it more juicy.

PDCC#31 & TESC115 Challenge

I was preparing to make a card for Taylored Expression Sketch Challenge #115, then I found The Play Date Cafe Color Challenge. I thought it's a good idea to make one card for both challenges.




This is the card I made.

This is the card with the stamp.

Here is a closer look for the cute little girl with a bunch of flowers.

Thanks to both TE and PDC for providing such a wonderful challenge. I had a lot of fun making this card for both challenges.

Silhouette Bells Cards

I love this Silhouette Bells stamp, I bought it for a while, but only until recently, I got the feeling of how to use it. Here I want to share the three cards I made.


1st is embossed with silver embossing powder for background, the I use Copic markers to color the flowers. Unfortunately, I only have limited Copic markers, so I can't really make the flowers look more pop.

The second is the same, I used silver embossing powder to emboss the background, then I used blending tool to apply distressed inks. It's difficult to control the details between flower and leaf, so maybe this is not the best way for this card.

The 3rd, I decided just use versa magic jumbo java color to stamp the background, then I simply used the color pencils to color it. I used four differnt yellow color pencils to paint the flowers, and it looks better than the 2nd one.

Dear bloggers, which one you like better ?

Taylored Expression Sketch Challenge #114

It was last minute when I saw the challenge from Taylored Expression.
This is the pattern of their challenge #114.

This was the card I made and submitted 10 minutes before the collection was closed.

Here is the stamp and the card.

It doesn't matter I win or not, because I had a lot of fun making this card.
And, I am thinking of attending TE's next challenge by using the same stamp.

(Closer look of the little girl with a bunch of flowers.)

I taught people how to make Mother's Day cards

It's a program arranged by "Created with Love",
I taught customers to make Mother's Day Cards in 10 minutes one week before Mother's Day.

Following are the 4 sample cards I made for customers to choose to make.
I was very glad that now I can teach people how to make cards, more important is that
I am spreading happy seeds to people, I hope that they will find the happiness by handmade cards themselves.