UPDATE (with a card)

Hello everyone! Happy Thursday to all of you! Wow! Time flies so fast that I've just noticed I haven't been posting for almost a week now. I'm so sorry for that, guys. It has been a busy week for all of us here at home and WILL still be very busy as we approach our long-awaited holiday overseas!

My kids (and I) are actually doing the countdown! LOL! And I never thought packing will be that hard. I have to make a checklist so as not to forget something not to mention the things that my siblings want me to bring back home. :) And that's the reason why I don't have the time to sit and stamp so I hope you understand. I will probably won't be sharing much of my craft work for a few weeks as I will be busy exchanging updates, chatting, strolling here and there with my family and friends during our holiday! Well I have to make the most out of it as I haven't seen them for 4 straight years! So, just imagine. ;)

Anyways, I was able to whip a card the other day and I just went simple as possible as I did this in-between the packing and house chores. :)

Look how simple it is! But I really like it. :) I just went all white with a touch of Purely Pomegranate. I embossed the horizontal panel with Cuttlebug Holly embossing folder and sprayed Glimmer Mist Pearl generously on it. Though you can't see it on this shot, IRL it's really glimmery. I stamped my sentiment directly to the card base with my ODBD Stamp Joy to the World set using Purely Pomegranate Ink. And YAY for me 'coz I already have the "new" Martha Stewart Floral Vine deep edge punch! Wohoo!! Would you believe I was able to purchase it here in Australia??? Yeah, I got it from LimeTart with the kind assistance of its owner, Philippa. Thanks so much Philippa!! I finished off the card with some Plum pearls (Kaisercraft) and Prima flowers that complement the card. I gave this card yesterday to my son's Speech Therapist as they will have a session break for the holiday and she so liked it!

So, what do you think??

This is all for now and thank you so much for visiting eventhough I don't post that much lately. Rest-assured that I will be popping in once in awhile to update you.

God bless everyone! Keep smiling! =)

Jhet

Stamps: ODBD
Paper: white, Purely Pomegranate(retired)
Ink: SU! Purely Pomegranate (retired)
Accessories: Cuttlebug Holly embossing folder, Martha Stewart Floral Vine deep edge punch, Prima flowers, Kaiser pearls (Plum and Pearl), Glimmer Mist (pearl)

UPDATE (with a card)

{WT248} HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Happy Friday everyone! This week's SCS Ways to Use It theme is "Let's Go Caroling". Make a card, altered project, tag etc., and incorporate it with the "carol song" that you chose or that inspired you. I chose Happy Holidays (by Bing Crosby) and used my Carolers stamp from Clearly Wordsworth.

I stamped and paper-pieced my image with the same Kaisercraft dsp that I used as background. I did some sponging and used Stickles here and there for some bling.

Thanks for looking and hope you will all have a Happy Holidays!

Have a blessed day!

Jhet

Stamps: Carolers by Clearly Wordsworth
Paper: white cs, Ballet Blue, Bazzill, Kaisercraft dsp
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versacolor Narcissus, SU! Ballet Blue
Accessories: Copic markers, sponge dauber, Spellbinders Labels 8, Create a Flake 1, Tag Trio, MS Crystal Fine Glitter, Stickles, rhinestones, corner punch, pop dots

{WT248} HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Vintage Christmas

Happy Tuesday everyone!!! Been MIA from the blogland for the past few days! I know, we've been kind of busy at home doing a lot of things as preparation for our holiday overseas come Dec 23! Wohoo! Can't wait to see my family back in the Philippines!! I'll give you more updates once in a while.

For the meantime, let me share with you this simple Vintage Christmas card that I've created 2days ago. No colouring done here. Just stamping, a bit of sponging and cutting with Spellbinders and Cuttlebug. :)

This is just a very quick post, sorry, I'll make it up to y'all next time.

God bless us all!

Jhet

Stamps: AmyR Christmas sentiments by CC Designs
Paper: white cs, Bazzill, Kaisercraft dsp
Ink: Versafine Crimson Red, Vintage Sepia
Accessories: Spellbinders Rectangle Nestabilities, Prima flowers, Kaiser pearl, Glimmer Mist Pearl

Vintage Christmas

Another Christmas Card

Hello everyone! How are you all doing? Sorry if I haven't posted for the past few days now. I just feel a bit unwell as I'm having migraine once again and we're also a bit busy packing for our holiday in the Philippines this Dec. YAY!!

On to the card, this is just actually very simple as you can see. The dp is from Basic Grey Wassail and the sentiment is from AmyR Christmas sentiments stamps by CC Designs. I stamped it using Versafine Crimson Red, cut it with Labels 1 die, sponged around it with Versamagic Dew Drop Sage then Cuttlebugged it with Holly embossing folder. The flower is actually felt. Yeah, I tried cutting the felt using my Spellbinders Daisy Heads. And I liked how it turned out! I finished off the card by spraying Glimmer Mist Pearl onto the main panel, tying a satin ribbon around and putting 4 red pearls on the corners.

Thanks for visiting and let's altogether do the countdown 'til Christmas!! Just 23 more days to go!!

God bless us all. Until next post. :-)

Jhet

Stamp/s: AmyR Christmas sentiments by CC Designs
Ink: Versafine Crimson Red, Versamagic Dew Drop Sage
Paper: white cs, Bazzill, Basic Grey Wassail dp
Accessories: Spellbinders Labels 1, Daisy Heads, Cuttlebug Holly embossing folder, sponge dauber, felt, Prima festive flowers (for the leaves), Kaiser pearls, Glimmer Mist Pearl

Another Christmas Card

TWO CARDS

Happy Saturday everyone!! Wohoo! I just can't believe how quick the time flies! Just a couple of sleeps more and it's already December!!! And I'm so looking forward for our holiday in the Philippines as we can get to see our family and relatives (and friends. of course!) back home!! We'll celebrate Christmas and New Year there! YAY!! How's that?!!!

Anyways, let me share you some cards that I made lately. I have received my Whiff of Joy stamps from Bec few days ago and Charlotte is so gorgeous that I couldn't help but ink her straight away and use her on these cards!

The first card is a Christmas card but I used the colours from the recent CC246 challenge.


The next one is very Christmasy and I used the Out of the Box technique here. (Charlotte's hair passing outside the frame). This challenge is from TLC247 challenge last week. (talking about being late here, lol!)

That's it for now and I'll try to post more later after doing my Saturday chores! Hubby's home early today so that means "badminton" for the family later! Wohoo!!

God bless us all!

Jhet

Card # 1

Stamps: Charlotte-Whiff of Joy Stamps, sentiment - Darkroom Door Yuletide Reindeer set
Paper: white cs, SU! Pretty in Pink, Choc Chip, Bermuda Core'dinations cs
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versacolor Petal Pink
Accessories: Prismacolor pencils, odourless solvent, blending stumps, Spellbinders Labels 8, Inverted Scalloped Circle, Cuttlebug Snowflakes embossing folder, Fiskars All A-Fleur embunch, satin ribbon, sponge dauber, pop dots, rhinestones

Card #2

Stamps: Singing Charlotte by WOJ, Darkroom Door Yuletide Reindeer
Paper: white cs, Bazzill, Cosmo Cricket Jolly by Golly dsp
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black,SU! Bashful Blue
Accessories: Copic Markers, Bic Mark-It, Prismacolor pencils, odourless solvent, blending stumps, Spellbinders Labels 4, Mega Curved Rectangles, Circle and Inverted Scalloped circle, Fiskars Lace punch, Kaiser pearls, sponge dauber, Copic Spica glitter pen

TWO CARDS

CC246 Be My Friend

Hi everyone! I was able to play tonight for this week's Colour Combo challenge over SCS. This is CC246 wherein you are to combine SU! Old Olive, Pretty in Pink and Bermuda Bay. I don't have the latter colour but I was able to use an alternative with Core'dinations Bermuda which I think is close enough with the Bermuda Bay.

My card is 5.5"x5.5" in size. I started with the white base, then the Bermuda (Core'dinations) and then with thise lovely plaid dp from K&Company Classic K Charlotte paper pad which I purchased from Windsor Cottage Botanicals.

The horizontal panels of Bermuda and Pretty in Pink were punched using Fiskars All A-Fleur embunch but the Pretty in Pink was Cuttlebug-embossed first with Divine Swirl then embunched afterwards. I don't have anything on my mind for the lay out so I went for a simple one. Image is from Darkroom Door and sentiment is from Jemac stamps. Both were stamped with Old Olive and sponged around it with Versacolor Pink Petals. The lovely pearl slider/buckle is from BizzyBecs which was made by the owner herself, Bec! Thanks Bec, they're really lovely. Btw, I sprayed Glimmer Mist pearl to the image panel but the camera just really couldn't capture the glimmer on the paper.

Good morning and happy Wednesday! (it's 1250am, Sydney time)

God bless us all!

Jhet

Stamps: Darkroom Door, Jemac Stamps
Paper: white cs, SU! Pretty in Pink, Core'dinations Bermuda, K&Company Classic K Charlotte pad
Ink: SU! Old Olive, Versacolor Petal Pink
Accessories: Spellbinders Labels One, Fiskars all a fleur embunch, Cuttlebug Divine Swirl embossing folder, black grosgrain ribbon, pearl buckle, sponge dauber, paper piercing mat, Glimmer Mist pearl

CC246 Be My Friend

CAS42 Sponging with Butterflies

Yay!! This week's set CAS challenge over SCS is a simple technique called "sponging" which happens to be one of my favs! That's why as soon as I saw the post, I didn't waste anytime and made my contribution to it straight away. :)

This sponging technique is actually a reverse masking. I'm so into the challenge but I was lost at first and didn't know where to start. I bet you also have days like this. So, I flipped onto my stamped images and stamps (which I organised on a 3-ring binder) and saw these cute butterflies from Darkroom Door Wildflower set. Okay problem solved. I did the sponging first (using the negative side of the Labels 1 die cut as the mask), stamped the butterflies, coloured the biggest of them all, stamped the sentiment then finished off with 3 layers of assorted flowers with a Basic Grey pearl on the centre. Quick, clean and simple.

What do you think?

Thanks for visiting and have a blessed day!

Jhet

Stamp: Darkroom Door Wildflower set
Paper: white cs
Ink: Versacolor Petal Pink & Misty Mauve, SU! Purely Pomegranate (retired)
Accessories: Labels 1 negative side, sponge dauber, Glimmer Mist Pearl (sprayed on flowers), Basic Grey Black pearl, Copic markers, assorted flowers

CAS42 Sponging with Butterflies