MY CRAFTS and STUFF

05 October 2008

Blog Candy Alert

Hello everyone! Check-out Korin's blog (Sweet N' Sassy Stamps owner). She's offering a yummy blog candy atm. Hurry as the winner will be chosen tomorrow, 06 October. Don't miss your chance!

World Card Making Day and My Exhortation

HAPPY WORLD CARDMAKING DAY!

Yeah, it was actually yesterday (because it's now Sunday here where I am), so in celebration of World Card Making Day, I made a card yesterday, though only one card (at least). Just a simple card as my creativity isn't functioning that well, I still am a bit unwell, I feel so lightheaded and I don't know :(. I guess my MVP symptoms are up again (MVP- mitral valve prolapse. It's a condition of the heart but not a heart disease). My Cardio said I might have gotten this since birth or something triggered it along the way (like pregnancy, giving birth). And there are sensitivity issues that comes along with this MVP so I have my UPs and DOWNs with it. I was diagnosed with MVP way back January 2005. Anyway, here's my card for you to see:

Another thing that's keeping me from making card is I'm organising my very, very small craft space (I have to even if I'm not feeling well). I don't have a craft room and I only have a small table inside our master's bedroom. I also have small cabinets to store my supplies. I asked hubby to modify my table to accomodate other stuffs so that I can have enough space and can work well on my projects. I'll show you what he did once I have everything organised. :)

It's First Sunday service in our church today (Joy of Life Christian Church) and I'll be the one to exhort on Tithes and Offerings. My exhortation was taken from Proverbs 3:9-10 which says "Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops, then your barns will be filled with overflowing and your vats will brim over with new wine." Generally speaking, it means we must honour God first in everything, especially with our wealth. And I guess we shouldn't ask how much we will give but how much we will keep for ourselves.

Have a blessed day fellow bloggers and readers!

04 October 2008

Peggies Pretties - New Embellies!

Hi everyone! There's a new embellishment for us to try...and they are made by one of my SBS 22 Sisters -- PEGGY! You can check Peggy's blog to see these gorgeous "dew drop" like embellies plus you'll have a chance to win a blog candy from her as well. Hmm... I, like the Smoky Plum Peggy! lol!

01 October 2008

"CHICKS RULE!"

Yeah, that's the title of my card. I made this one last night but I was too sleepy already to post it.I've used my Studio G rubber-mounted stamp (for the first time) and my $1 "chicks" from Clear Dollar stamps (first time as well). Aren't these chicks gorgeous??? I coloured them in with my Bic Mark-It and shadowed them with my Copic.

Off to have some lunch now. Will try to make cards later if my time permits me. Hubby wants the whole family to go out after his work. That sounds fun!

See y'all later! Have a blessed day! (CHICK RULES!!) lol! Oh, and Happy October, too! (yay! my birthday's coming soon!)

30 September 2008

Jeanette's BLOG CANDY

There is one fab blog candy up for grabs at Jeanette's blog. Come visit her blog and leave a comment for a chance to win her yummy blog candy!

29 September 2008

More THANK YOU Cards and RILEY!

What a nice day!! Jared (my DS1) is on his school holiday starting today for 2weeks (Spring Break) so that would mean there will be no rushing in the mornings (at least for 2 weeks) and more time for me to organise our small home and more time to make cards. =) Yay!

I was able to make 3 cards for today (and still be making more after dinner lol!). I've just started to make Thank You cards and these are primarily for our church. These cards will be given everytime there is an invited preacher or speaker. I haven't told anyone in the church about this (just my darling hubby), I just felt that I need to make cards and hand them off to our Pastor's wife once I finish them all. We normally have guest preachers/speakers once a month so I guess, 10 cards will do atm. Here are my first two finished Thank You cards:

These are actually easy cards. They are simple yet they somehow look elegant. I just noticed that I haven't been using my Cuttlebug embossing folders (and I have about 14 of them!) so, I decided to use them this time.

There was no stamping done in any of these two cards. The sentiments were all computer-generated and I guess, I'll be making more sentiments using my computer. Much easier and more personalised. On this card I used my Bloom Dots folder and my Standard Circle and Petite Scallop Circle nestabilities.

While on this one, I used my Paisley embossing folder (one of my favs) and just cut out a sentiment to go along with it. The base cardstock colour somehow looked like blue but IRL it's actually dark eggplant-coloured. (and the grosgrain ribbon as well) I used the same materials on both cards which are mostly from my stash.

And this one is RILEY which is another RAK image I received from Peggy. (thanks again Peggy, hope you're doing well, you haven't been posting lately). I just found out that I have this lilac-coloured cardstock already ran through the Cuttlebug, so I decided to use it for this image. This is the first time I coloured a Riley for a simple reason that I don't even have a single Riley on my collection lol! Funny! I hope I entertained you with my new creations. Will be posting more later.

See yah!

NEWS, New Stuffs and a Card

Hello everybody!!! How are y'all doing? I've been off the blogging world for a day and it's really been a quite busy weekend for me. Anyways, I have a good news for you, I recently joined a card competition on one of the online shops where I buy my stuffs. Actually, it just so happened that I bought something from there during the competition period and that's why I was able to get an entry (entries actually). The winners were drawn and one of my entries were picked and landed 2nd place! (yay for me!). My card entry that won was previously posted here before and you can see it on Bizzy Becs as all the winners entries are posted there for 4 weeks. (ETA: I'll post the prizes once I receive them...anytime this week! So excited!)

And for the new stuffs once again...I got these last Thursday and I still haven't got the chance to play with them. I got SU! cardstocks and their mat pack (paper piercing). I also got Imaginisce stamps, cupcake buttons and theImaginisce gorgeous papers that you see on your screen.

And finally, after 2 long days, I was able to come up with a card (which I just finished a few minutes ago). This lovely image (Elzybells) was a RAK from Peggy, my SBS 22 sister (thanks so much Peggy!). I used my leftover Chatterbox patterned paper and my DCWV matchmaker cardstocks. I coloured the image with watercolour pencils using my blender pen and printed a sentiment to complement the image.

That's all for today folks! I'm not really feeling well since yesterday so I guess I really need to go to sleep now. Please include me in your prayers. :-)

Thanks for looking and have a blessed day!

hugs,
jhet