July Swap

Yay, got another set of my swap cards done. This is the July set with the theme "Sympathy". I think I am on this butterfly thing (see previous post), but butterflies and sympathy cards just go. I like this set. They're very pretty and elegant.

Paper: Paper Reflections, The Paper Company, Me and My Big Ideas
Stamps: Inkadinkado (inside, see below)
Techniques/Tools: Cricut Wild Card, Indie Art, Martha Stewart border punch
Embellishments: eyelets

This is the inside. On the left hand side, I made a little pocket for two reasons:
1. To hide the eyelet backing. Never a big fan to see the back of those eyelets, brads, etc.
2. A convenient pocket to put condolences.

Happy Birthday, Eunice

Although I have TONS of scrapbooking to do, I still take some 'timeout' and make a card for a friend's birthday. Eunice is a pretty cheery girl. Therefore, I want her birthday card to be bright. When I saw the mushrooms, they made me smile. So I hope this card will make her smile as well. To make it girly, I had to add a butterfly with a trail of pearls. WHEN DID I BECOME SO GIRLY? 

Paper: The Paper Company, K & Company, scraps

Stamps: Penny Black Critter Party

Techniques/Tools: Cricut Indie Art

Embellishments: Self adhesive pearls

A side view so you can see the dimensions. 

I like decorating the inside. Sometimes I'm just too lazy to do it, but I wanted to do it for this one. The inside:

Jing's Scrapbook - Winter Fun 2nd Edition

I really don't like the first 'Winter Fun'. It looks so messy and bad in real life. So I decided to make the extra effort to change it. Seriously, this page is cursed. Even the 2nd round, I still made a lot of mistakes. I'll just keep a hush hush on it. I like this second edition so much more. It's clean and simple.



Paper: Memory Keepers, Cosmo Cricket, scrap pad
Techniques/Tools: Design Studio, Cricut Doodlecharms, Stretch Your Imagination, Don Juan
Embellishments: Snowflake brads, Stickle

Jing's Scrapbook - Footprints

Another simple layout for my friend's wedding gift. I really love the paper in this one. It does look like sand. The most interesting part was making the footprints in Design Studio. By welding the mouse shape (foot) from Doodlecharms and ovals (toes) from Opposite Attract, footprints form! Oh yeah.



Paper: EK Success, Sandylion, Core'dination, vellum
Stamps: Stampin' Up Delight in Life
Techniques/Tools: Design Studio, Cricut Doodlecharms, Opposite Attract, Zooballoo, letter rub-ons, heat embossing

A Blog for my Creations

So I decided to make a new blog, one for just my creations. I noticed that from my other blog I am mixing too many of my life drama and creations. I would like to keep them separate. However, all are welcome to see both. As you can see, this blog for creativity is much more colorful than my other Crazie blog. I figured creativity should be happy and fun and not dark and gloomy.

I moved my previous creations over here. Therefore, all the creations that have an 'Original Post' on them were from the old blog. Thank goodness I didn't have that many. Haha. Just copying and pasting took me half the night!

Enjoy!

Happy Birthday, Teresa

Original Post: June 13, 2009

Despite of all the drama going on lately, I still have the mood to make a card for my dear friend's birthday. Tomorrow... more like in 8 hours, we're going hiking to go celebrate it. It's a pretty simple one, since I made it so last minute. I hope she likes green. This card is REALLY green. Haha. Too bad you can't see the green foil on the paper.

Paper: SEI, Me and My Big Ideas

Stamps: Studio G, Gel-a-Tins - Happy Birthday

Embellishments: ribbons, gem stickers

June Swap

Original Post: May 29, 2009

I still haven't sent out my May swap yet. I wanted to be a keener like last time and send out the next month's swap as well. However, I procrastinated until now. Nonetheless, they are done and ready to be sent out along with the May swap.

The theme for June's swap is 'Birthday'. For this theme, I wanted it to be fun. Therefore, I wanted the colors to clash as much as possible. As shown below, each card is different (only the swap host and whoever checks this blog out will know). One reason is because I was running low on a single color cardstock. The other is because I wanted to use up some leftover scraps - they were nice scraps too: Core'dination paper! All the mats were from my scrap paper box!

This one caught my eye the most. Hence, I chose it for the close up picture!

Paper: The Paper Company, DCWV, Core'dination (scraps)

Stamps: Studio G, Gel-a-tins Happy Birthday (inside of the card, no picture; just says Enjoy with a cupcake beside it)

Techniques/Tools: Cricut Doodlecharms, Cuttlebug Happy Birthday, Divine Swirls

Embellishments: ribbon