Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Though we don't celebrate that here in Australia, I believe that everyday should be a Thanksgiving Day as our Father in heaven blesses us everyday as well. Let's learn to live with a grateful heart while acknowledging that everything that we have comes from God. Praise God from Whom all blessings flow!!

Here's my take for this week's sketch challenge (SC360) over SCS. The images that I used are actually not from a Christmas stamp set --- I just dressed it up to make it look Christmasy. (talking about improvising).

I didn't cut the circles but did the other option of layering on top of 2. What else? My McGill branch punch didn't work so I used this Fern punch from Carl Craft instead. The hats are actually birthday hats from the same stamp set (Changito Dos) so I just adorned it with stickles and pom poms on top to make it look like Santa's hat. :)

Here's the sketch:

And here's my card:

A closer shot of the monkey couple :)

Thanks for the visit and have a blessed day!

Jhet

Stamps: Changito Monkey Dos (Stampendous)

Paper: green cs, red cs, DCWV Christmas Stack, X-press blending card (white)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Memento Bamboo Leaves, Memento New Sprout

Accessories: Nestabilities Standard Circle Large, Scalloped Circle, MS border punch, Carl Craft Fern punch, pom poms (from $2 shop), Stickles

Ginghams and Checks

Happy Monday! Hope everything's well with you and that you had a lovely weekend. This card that I'm about to share with you is my challenge card for CAS90 challenge over SCS: Ginghams and Checks. This is also my entry for Joan's month-long blog candy in celebration of World Cardmaking Day! This is the fourth and final week and I do hope I'll win again. =)

I was trying to make this one a Christmas card while using stuffs that aren't traditionally "christmassy" but I think the gingham and the flower gave the card a Christmas feel. :) The image is from Stampendous stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black and I just lightly coloured the outside part with a Copic marker. The sentiment is from Sweet and Sassy (part of a Christmas stamp set) and the rest is self-explanatory. :)


Thanks for looking and have a blessed day!

Jhet

Ginghams and Checks

IC230 JAZZ IT UP in TEAL BLUE

Hello once again!  I'm back with my 2nd post for today. Kindly scroll down if you want to see my earlier post just in case you don't wanna miss it. ;D  This card is for today's Inspiration Challenge (IC230)over  SCS.I took my inspiration from this PAGE and I know when you see it, you can pinpoint the inspiration piece that I chose. :)

Since I've known and got familiar with TEAL, I became a huge fan of it.  Teal is the new brown. LOL!! It's a gorgeous colour especially if paired with my favourite colour - brown!  And that's what I did with this card. This one's a Teal Blue, but just the same - it has the teal. LOL!!!

My dp is from DCWV Garden Party and I used my Bow Easy to create this lovely bow.  The sentiment are individual stamps from the same set (Encouraging Words) by Stampendous.  I just lined them all up to create an encouragement card.  I cut it with my Oval Nesties and matted onto Scalloped Oval die-cut cs.  Flowers are combination of Kaiser and Prima with K&Company adhesive pearl at the center.

I'm so happy as I have been playing the daily SCS challenges since Monday!! I just hope I can also participate on Sunday's Featured Stamper once it's out. I guess I can, God-willing, but the card will be uploaded by Monday (Australia time) as I'm not an SCS Fan Club member.

Thanks so much for the visit and I hope you enjoyed browsing on my cards and I also hope you somehow find inspiration from it.

May the good Lord bless and keep you.

Jhet

IC230 JAZZ IT UP in TEAL BLUE

MY FIRST CARD FOR 2010!

And it's a card for the CC257 (colour combo challenge) over SCS! The colours for this week are: Choc Chip-Dusty Durango-Sage Shadow.

Hello everyone! Wow! It's been almost 2mos since I stamped and made a card. And I was making this card yesterday, I felt like a first-timer stamper!! I stamped my image thrice before I got it right! LOL!! I don't have the Dusty Durango yet so I had to replace it with Real Rust. Image from Darkroom Door was stamped using Versacolor Topaz (which is close to that of Real Rust) and the sentiment from Stampendous was stamped using Choc Chip. I did some sponging around the image using Versacolor Vanilla. I finished off the card with four tiny Kaiser pearl chocolate at the four corners.

Don't want to do any complicated cards for now as I'm still getting the hang of it. LOL!!

Have a blessed Thursday!

Jhet

MY FIRST CARD FOR 2010!

Featured Stamper {FS111)

What a fabulous gallery Beate has! Gorgeous cards and full of inspiration. Beate is the Featured Stamper of the week and she deserves it!! Congrats Beate!

The card that I chose to CASE was taken from her Stampendous Album which you can view here.

I changed the dp, the colours, omit the brads and stamped the sentiment directly to the dp. I also used Changito but with different image and maintained the lay-out as I normally do.

I really like this Deja Views dsp. This is the only piece left of that dsp so I was really very careful when I was cutting it as I don't have any spare. lol! The bluish panel which was matted onto Choc Chip was also a dsp but by EK Success. I coloured Changito with my Prisma pencils and sponged around it creating a bit of clouds above and a bit of dirt at the bottom. I then finished it off by adding a big brown button with a hemp I found somewhere my stash. I also sponged a bit of Choc Chip ink onto my hemp because it's too white.

I will be sending this card to my father who will be celebrating his birthday on April 11. I will post it tomorrow as mailing overseas tend to take awhile before it arrives.

I wanted to participate on the current TLC over SCS which is a mini basket but my OS (which is Vista) just doesn't print PDF files and I dunno why!? Hmmm.....

Anywho, thanks for visiting and may God's blessings be with us all.

Hugs,

Featured Stamper {FS111)

CC205 Just a Quick Post

Hi everyone! This is just a quick and short post as it's way past bed time. I already feel sooo sleepy especially that the weather here in Sydney atm is a bit cold with some showers.

Ok, let's move on to my latest card. This is for CC205 over SCS and that is to use Perfect Plum, Pink Piroutte (or Pretty in Pink) & Kiwi Kiss (or Old Olive). My SU! cs stock is really running low and upon seeing the Color Combo challenge for today, I was worried that I couldn't play as I know I ran out of Old Olive already. Well, I took out all my scraps and digged dipper onto my stash until I see this piece of Old Olive good enough to be used on a card. I was really careful while I'm using it as I don't have any spare just in case. So, I just embossed it in Swiss Dots, made some scores using my Scor Pal, stamped my sentiment on it and heat-embossed afterwards and adhered it to my Perfect Plum base. To finish it off, I die cut Daisy Heads flowers alternating Perfect Plum and Pretty in Pink for an effect.

Here it is:

Hope you like this card and thanks so much for visiting my blog.

Night everyone!! :)

CC205 Just a Quick Post

Got 2 Cards for LSC205!

Good Morning from Sydney, Australia! Hope everything's doing very well wherever you are in the globe. It's Saturday and I know I have lots of things to do but before doing so, let me share with you first the cards that I made for Limited Supply Challenge (LSC205) over SCS.

The challenge is to make "clean and simple" card. Meaning, minimising the use of embellishments, layering, matting, hand-cutting, glittering, etc. And this is what I came up with..


Isn't this little monkey gorgeous to look at? :) This is from the set of Changito Dos by Stampendous. One of the first few sets that I bought when I started stamping and if I'm not mistaken, I bought this from ebay along with 4 other sets all from Stampendous. As you can see I made a little sky scene here...my first with the "sun" lol! At least I was able to use my SU! Summer Sun ink pad for the first time. Does it look okay or what?

And since simple cards are easier to make, I decided to make another one...

This time I used die cuts from my Cuttlebug Vintage corner dies and my Daisy Heads Shapeabilities. This card is DL-sized so I have to make an envelope for it. My image is from Autumn Leaves (clear single stamp) designed by Rhonna Farrer. I coloured it with my Prismas (and so was the first card I've shown) and my sentiment is from Stampendous - Encouraging Words.

Okay, this is it for now. All I can say is it's really nice to make such simple cards as this, so nice to remind us & take us back where we've started as stampers. ;) Clean and Simple.

God bless everyone!

Got 2 Cards for LSC205!

Changito Birthday Card

Hi everyone! We have a very lovely day here in Australia. Spring is really in the air, the wind is blowing hard and the sun is up and it feels like.....yeah, Spring. ;-)

I whipped up a card a few minutes ago for my nephew who will be celebrating his birthday on the 18th and will post it tom AM (and this card will surely get there late). This is the 2nd time I used my Changito the monkey stamps by Stampendous.

I only used my watercolour pencils, no blender pen whatsoever. Just pure watercolour. And I used the pencil directly onto the paper as I just want to keep it fairly simple. :-)

The next card (which I already handed to my friend yesterday) is also a mini-card, like the one with the apple at the center. I coloured it with my Copic Markers and used my Copic Spica on the edges of the hearts to make it look a bit sparkly.

These are the stuffs that I used:

-For the Changito birthday card-

Stamps: Changito the Monkey by Stampendous, Happy Birthday sentiment by Fiskars, SU! Brilliant Blue, Whisper White, Creamy Caramel, DP by Chatterbox, Versafine Ink, Watercolour pencils, decorative brown ribbon

-For the 2nd card-

Stamps: Clearly Christian tags by CD stamps, Copic Marker, Copic Spica (clear), SU! Whisper White, Old Olive, Lovely Lilac, grosgrain ribbon, Nestabilities classic square, Cuttlebug Textile embossing folder, ticket corner/concave punch by EK Success, Versafine Ink

And what else is new with me??? Oh, my profile photo! LOL! Took that myself last night and did some cropping. How do you like it? ;-) Hmm...anyone of you guys who knows how to put smileys on blog posts???

Blessings to all!

Changito Birthday Card