Sympathy Card

Good morning world!! What a lovely Thursday morning we have here in Sydney at the moment. Thank God for mornings as this reminds us that there is always a new beginning waiting for us.

I have finished this card last night but I was trying to put this altogether for the past few days. Originally, it was just the card base then the dp (not to mention the image and sentiment) but as I was looking at it, it seemed to lack something. And this black cs did fill-up the missing factor. :)

This is for a friend who just recently lost his FIL. She told me she and her kids are very close to him. Just want to let her know that I can feel what her going through and that me & my family are thinking of her.

Card base is SU! Purely Pomegranate (retired), topped with black cs and then with Wild Roses (by K&Company Madeline). I stamped my sentiment onto a white cs, cut it using my Nesties and sponged around it while it's still inside the die. I also then stamped the background image while it's still inside and I like how it turned out.

This will go postal tomorrow (note to self) and I hope that through this card, she will somehow be comforted. Thanks everyone for visiting and be sure to hug your loved ones today and tell them how much you love them.

God bless us all!

JHET

Stamps: Stampendous-Encouraging Words, Darkroom Door- Friendship Flowers
Paper: SU! Purely Pomegranate (retired), white cs, black cs, K&Company Madeline dp (Wild Roses)
Ink: SU! Purely Pomegranate (retired), Versacolor (Mauve), Hero Arts shadow stamp ink (Wheat)
Accessories: Circle Nestabilities, Kaiser pearls (black), ribbon, sponge dauber, pop dots

Sympathy Card

Masculine Card and a Birthday Card

Happy Tuesday everyone! I'm sorry for not being too active on the blogland lately. I've been organising my unmounted stamps and attempting to make my own stamp index so I guess you know it entails loads of work!! I'm still trying to figure out which among the hundreds of ideas that will suit my taste...and I will let you know soon as I decide which is which. :D

I will be sharing with you two cards which I recently made. The first one was for last week's CAS28 and that is to create a masculine card which is Clean and Simple.

Here's my take:


I used my Clearly Inspired Paper Inspirations -Nature set for this. This is just a very quick and easy card. I did a reverse masking to spotlight the image using a scrap of acetate. After sponging, I then stamped the image with my Memento Tuxedo Black. The sentiment which is also from the same set was stampedon the outer panel for a different treatment. :) Btw, the main image was matted onto a Ballet Blue cs.

The next one is a birthday card for one of my closest friends back in the Philippines. I used Tilda Holding Cupcake here which was coloured with Copic markers.



For the first time, I used my DCWV The Sweet Stack for the background. This paper, rather the whole stack, is really yummy-looking! This one's very glittery but the camera just didn't capture it. Tilda's background is a Close to Cocoa cs embossed using Fiskars texture plates (Confetti). I really like the colour combo on this one...so vibrant and lively!! I just hope my friend likes it. :)

Okay, this is it for now. I still have more chores to do ahead of me. I'll be back with another card soon as I finished what I've started yesterday.

God bless us all!!

JHET

Masculine Card and a Birthday Card

Anni-VERVE-sary Sketch Challenge Cards

Hello everyone! As promised, here are the cards that I made (and wasn't able to post) during the time that I couldn't sign in and update my blog.

These cards were made for Verve's Anni-VERVE-sary Sketch Challenge. The following cards were posted according to sketch #.

Have a looksee:

Sketch #1Sketch #2

Sketch #3

Sketch #4

Sketch #5

I will try to add the details on each card so that you'll have some ideas re: the materials or techniques that I used. The first card was the one chosen for ODBD Customer Card of the Day!

Have to hit the bed now, it's almost 1am here in Sydney and I already feel soooo sleepy. :)

Thanks for the visit and please leave a message so I'll know that you've been here.

May our good Lord bless us all!

Hugs,

Anni-VERVE-sary Sketch Challenge Cards

I'm BACK!!!

Yay! My blog is now once again up and running!!! Thanks to my husband who did all what he could to fix this problem. Even if it meant deleting some of our files from April onwards! LOL! But then of course, before he did it he transferred most of our files to an external drive just to make sure we wouldn't lose anything important :D

I missed each and every one of you! I will be posting the cards I made the past week in one GO so you can be updated with everything in just one sitting. LOL!

I would also like to thank my very lovely and kind friend Kathy for posting for me. Thanks sooo much Kathy! I really appreciate it. I shared to her the good news re: ODBD Customer Card of the Day and my eagerness to share it with you but I was having blogger problems then. And I was sooo glad when she said yes if she could do the "shoutout" for me. :) Thanks once again, Kathy!! :)

Happy Saturday and have a blessed day everyone!

Be back later! :)

I'm BACK!!!

Card of the Day!!!!

Hello Everyone!!! This is Jhet's friend Kathy logging in and uploading today. Poor Jhet is having trouble getting into Blogger at the moment and although she has made heaps of cards, she's been unable to upload them to her blog!!! :( We're working on it and hopefully things will be back to normal soon.

The HUGE news today is that this card is the Card Of The Day on the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog!!!!! She is soooooooo excited about it and was bursting to share it with everyone!!!! :) I love what she's done here!!! She's used the first of the Verve Anni-verve-sary sketches as inspiration and used such beautiful colours and papers to highlight the beautiful verse from ODBD's Scripture Collection 1.

Stamps: ODBD Scripture Collection 1

Paper: Bazzill Posie Pink, SU! Garden Green,Basic Grey dp (Sultry), white cs

Ink: Versacolor Olive, Versacolor Petal Pink

Accessories: Nestabilities, heat gun, clear embossing powder, dauber, pop dots

Thanks for your patience and hopefully things will be back to normal soon and Jhet will have lots of beautiful new creations to show you!!!!

~KathyJ~

Card of the Day!!!!

Tilda with Bell Christmas Card

Hello!!! It's already 1am here and before I go to sleep, I would just like to share with you the card that I made a few hours ago. I've been having mini-migraine attacks and it's an on and off thing since yesterday afternoon. Anyways, I won't make this post long so I can have a good sleep.

This is a Christmas card and I'm so excited because I used Tilda with Bell which is a RAK stamped image from this very kind lady named Norma. This lady really makes fab cards and has addiction with Tilda! (it's a self-confession LOL!) So if you have the chance, visit Norma's blog so you'll know what I'm talking about. Thanks so much again Norma, I really appreciate it. Norma stamped and sent me heaps of Tilda images and I can't wait to colour them in and use them on my cards. :D

Here's the first one that I've finished:



Isn't Tilda so gorgeous holding that bell?? To those of you who always follow my blog, you don't normally see me using two dp's in a card. I'm not so comfy using 2 dp's because my card may appear too loud to look at (iykwim). But then, I've been seeing lots of stampers using 2 dps (and even 3) so I might as well try it with this one. Anyways, this pretty Kaisercraft paper is a double-sided paper so they really complement with each other. Tilda's background was stamped with Inque Boutique snowflakes using Versamark and embossed with white embossing powder. Btw, Tilda was coloured with Copics and I went over in some parts of her clothes with Copic glitter spica pen (the camera wasn't able to capture the sparkle, though)

Here's a more closer shot of the card:

Okay, have to hit the bed now. I need to sleep. Thanks for visiting and let me know you've been here by leaving a comment or two. :D

God bless you! Happy Sunday!!!!


HUGS,

Tilda with Bell Christmas Card

Wedding Card

Hello once again! This is my second post for the day so scroll down if you wanna see my first post.

This card is another requested card by one of the youth members of our church, the lovely Louise. She asked me 2 weeks ago to make a wedding card for her friend and my mind was so blank to put together a wedding card (for the past few days) that's why I just finished this one few hours ago. My Mojo seems to be somewhere else lately..good thing it came back right on time. LOL!

She didn't give me any particular colours so I called the shot for this one. Here it is:


My card base is a white cs, then I matted this shimmery dp from Grant Archival with a black cs and adhered it to the card base. I used my ticket corner punch on the four sides of the dp so I can put on some tiny pearls on it.

Originally, the image and the sentiment (which is a rub on) were stamped and rubbed on together and was die cut using Labels One. But when I did my sponging, I didn't like the way it turned out. So I cut half of the Labels 1 and just took the part where I rubbed on the sentiment. I then stamp the hearts image again and embossd it using clear ep, cut it with my circle Nesties and adhered it to my scalloped Nesties.

To hide the edge of the cut Labels 1, I then adhered black grosgrain ribbon then put another organdy ribbon on top of it. The rest is self explanatory. I hope she likes this one when I hand this to her tomorrow.

How about you? What do you think of this card?

Thanks for looking.


HUGS,

Wedding Card