you are my inspiration

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Layers and layers and layers of flower petals. It takes forever to cut all those pieces, but I like it. Snip, snip!

Created for the Copic Creations challenge #8: Botanicals.

Stamps: Garden Inspirations by Lizzie Anne Designs;
Digi papers: Garden Inspirations by LAD;
Cardstock: Bazzil (my printer does not print 12×12, so I was “forced” to use a matching cardstock instead of using the digi =)

I like taking photos of my projects at night. My main crafting desk.

Hehehe… Lookie, lookie what I got yesterday! Heehee. I received the entire summer release from Lizzie Anne Designs! I wasn’t expecting two single stamps, so very happy to have all these goodies for free~~. Woohoo!

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Baby It’s Cold Outside – A Giftcard Housebox

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Not really. It’s almost 90 degree Fahrenheit where I live. Besides, The Camp Fire is definitely keeping Willard Sipping Cocoa and Hugo Toasting Marshmellows very warm. =)

Hehehe… Aren’t they adorable! All stamps are from Purple Onion Designs Artic Wonderland collection by Michelle Clement. I already have other projects in mind using these cute stamps. Hehehe, had so much fun creating this scene.

Toolbox template: Daddy’s Toolbox Template Set by Kelleigh Ratzlaff Designs TheDigiChick.com;
Coloring: Mostly Koh-I-Noor colored pencils with Gamsol;
Patterned paper: K&C Company

Hugo Toasting Marshmellows as Santa, heehee.

Uh oh~Willard!

Bottles and Fish props from my son’s Playmobile toy.

Willard in the pink scarf working very hard decorating the house while Willard in the blue scarf drinking who knows what outside. Heehee.

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Liquitex Blended Fibers medium for fur.

Poor Hugo with his burnt marshmellow.

Button/Brad: Cute as a Button by Imaginisce

Purple Onion Designs is having an anniversary sale till tomorrow. 25% of all stamps! Woohoo!

Thank you!!!

Shadow Book Cards

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Until I made this card, I didn’t understand why stamp companies release Christmas stamp in summer. I mean why would I want Christmas stamps in July! I have tons of other pretty stamps that I’m dying to get my hands dirty. Winter stamps can wait till end of the year! But, now that I’ve made few winter cards, I’m liking the idea.

Last Tuesday, I went to my somewhat local stamp company, Angela’s Happy Stamper in Reston, VA. It’s about 20 minutes ride via toll road, but it’s kinda close to an outdoor swimming pool my son loves, so I stoped by the AHS. I had to get few EZ mount foams cuz I was expecting lots of unmounted red rubber stamps from Purple Onion Designs (I won $50 gift certificate from Caardvarks challenge, WOOHOO! BTW, POD is having an ANNIVERSARY SALE right now!).

Well, AHS had a special, spend $30 on new A Muse Palooza products (or was it just any A Muse? Hmmm…) and you will be entered into a drawing to win a goodie bag. Well, I can’t say no to goodie bags, so I bought four new A Muse winter themed stamps even though I had no intention of making any christmas cards till December. I didn’t win the goodie bag (boohoo!), but aren’t these cute!

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Juggling Snowman, Snow Fort, Winter Houses, Girl with Sled.

Just yesterday I found out Cupcake Craft Challenges has a Christmas card challenge, so I decided to use my new A Muse stamps.

Size: 3×3

Patterned papers: A Muse

Gorilla glue to bind the spine and Tombow Mono and Sakura Quickie Glue for everything else.

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Inspired by my kids’ book.

Coloring: Copics;
Snow: Layer and layers of Smooch, Sakura puff, and glitter pen.

Urmmm… It was my first time using the Gorilla glue to bind a book. And look what it did to the inside the pages! Hehe. Arghhh~. Heehee. I had to cover it up with another layer of paper. But I didn’t want to cover the last page, so I added snow accent paint all around the houses. Also, the houses were stamped too high, so I added another row of houses.

Book pages were created by binding several 120 lbs. cardstock (4 or 5 sheets) and the patterned papers cuz I was using a paper punch (Stampin’ Up! Curly Label) to cut the windows out.

Maybe I’ll coat the cover with Modge Podge glue later.

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Well, today we all went to the swimming pool again. And I had to stop by the Angela’s Happy Stamper since it was kinda in the same area. Got another A Muse Palooza stamp, hehe. This was my third visit to the store to buy new AP products, heehee.

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“Snowy Peaks”

And here is another shadow book card. This time, I made a thinner one.

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*Whew* I think this has been my longest blog post. =)

THANK YOU~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LAD Sketch #88

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I didn’t think I would need any Hawaiian themed stamps cuz I don’t plan on going near that island anytime soon (boo hoo!). But, I couldn’t resist buying this “Garden Isle” stamp set from Lizzie Anne Designs. This is very adorably cute stamp set! And I had so much fun using it.

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For Lizzie Anne Sketch Challenge #88 (add some gem gems).

Handmade hula skirt using DMC thread.

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Patterned papers: s.e.i “Mimosa”

SpiderAnt

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I wanted to add the ant right on the bottom of the chandelier to illustrate the ant’s desperation to hang on, trying to save his life from unknown world down below (heehee), but I stamped the ant a bit far. So I drew a line to connect him to the lamp, and now it looks more like an ant caught up in the spider web. Hehe.