my dog sparky

This is my dog, Sparky.
Well, actually, he wanted me to call him, “Sparkle”. But, no boy should have a name like that! It took me a long time to convince him that pink should not be his favorite color. Now he wants to be a dog named Sparkle! Ugh! And his teacher thinks he should take ballet lessons! Ackkkkkk~!!!! I already have a cute daughter who looks like a boy (Thank goodness for her long hair though!) I don’t need my boy to be girly.

Digi frame: Cream & Sugar Page Kit by danielle

I made him make his own dog tag. He wanted to sparkle up his collar with A Muse Twinkle Stickers. I usually cut up the gems one by one with an exacto knife, but he just ripped it up from the sticker backing.
He IS a BOY!

Stamps: Animal Wishes, Tractor from A Muse
Clear Tag: Tim Holtz Idea-ology Fragments: Clear Charms
Stamped with Staz-on ink and colored with Copic.

And here is my tag. Created for A Muse Lounge Challenge #10: Tag, You’re It!!

Tag card was inspired by Jennie’s card.

See the tag on the gift box?

Stamps: Girl with Sled, Happy Holidays MA from A Muse
Coloring: Colored pencils
Papers & ribbon: A Muse
Others: Blue felt flower (American Crafts); Red Scrapper’s Floss (Karen Foster); snow (Liquid Pearls: White Opal)

Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving. Mine was crazy. 27 people in my small house! I was so tired, I didn’t even go out for shopping on Black Friday (GASP!!!!!!!!!!!!). Instead, I baked some cookies.

I wanted chocolate cookies, but didn’t have any chocolate morsels, so baked snickerdoodle instead. Found the recipe from Martha Stwart cookie magazine/book that I bought 3 years ago, but never baked anything from it till now.

Here’s my very first attempt at baking cookies from scratch (with my son’s help). Heeheehee. I thought I smelled something burning in the oven. Well, at least some came out okie, and it was yum. Maybe I’ll get btter at baking if I practice more.

THANKS~~~

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When I saw Purple Onion Designs‘ newest stamp, Cornucopia, I wanted to make a tag with it and decorate it on a basket.

So I made the perfect basket with Kelleigh’s Perfect Pumpkin Template. Yup, I still haven’t made a single pumpkin with the Pumpkin Template yet. But, I couldn’t help it. This template is so versatile and I get easily distracted while putting pieces together, I end up with something different than the original. Heehee.

Stamp: Cornucopia from Purple Onion Designs.
Coloring: Tombow markers on watercolor paper.
Digital papers and flowers: Heart of Thankfulness by Sugarplum Paperie.
Inside basket: Perfect Pumpkin Template (Small bottom);
Outer layer: Small lid (fan the taps out, poke the lid in).
Kelleigh put a nice Perfect Pumpkin Template tutorial. And she made an apple box!

While I was brainstorming for the basket ideas, I thought why not make them for my family, too!

WARNING: This is a very long blog post with lots of photos. And some may contain disturbing images, heeheehee.

So, first I made one for my son…

 
The Candy Stealer! Heehee.

Digital kit: Autumn Silence by JM Designs JM Designs.
Basket: Small bottom.

The Gold Digger! Heehee.

Digital kit: Cazbah ViVa Artistry.
Inside basket: Small bottom (fan the tap out);
Outer layer: Small lid (fan it out, poke it in).

The Shopaholic!

Stamp: Willard Hanging Lights by Purple Onion Designs.
Coloring: Copic markers.
Sunglasses: Off the internet.
Digital papers: i do. Paper Pack by danielle young
Inner basket: Small bottom (Fan out);
Outer layer: Small lid.

Heeheehee. I couldn’t help it.

Template: Favor Bag Template Set (Reduced it to teeny weeny size) by Kelleigh Ratzlaff Designs
Font face: Engravers MT.

Added gems to brads and attached them to the bottom basket to create legs.

A perfect receipt holder!

And a basket for my dear hubby…

The Alcoholic! Heehee.

Even the sticky tape would not hold the clear cup/basket together. It kept falling apart. So I ended up melting the taps (just the top) using a hot tool.

Stamp: Willard Sipping Cocoa by Purple Onion Designs.
Coloring: Copic.
Digital paper: Toot Toot Woo Woo by Simply Scraps.
The perfect head: Marvy Uchida Liquid Applique.

Heeheehee, Can you see I LOVE my family!

Here’s another cute family.

Native American couple by their hut.

Stamps: Aime and Squanto by Purple Onion Designs.
Coloring: colored pencils (Prisma and Koh-i-noor).
Digital kit: september days {elements} by Michelle Batton (Used the bark to create the paper. Altered color).
Door: Coffee filter.
Template: Perfect Pumpkin (Large) by Kelleigh.

And how about…

A Pilgrim family! Heeheehee, the poor turkey doesn’t know that he is needed for Thanksgiving meals.

Stamps: Tom Turkey, Myles, Priscilla, and Thanksgiving Table by Purple Onion Designs.
Coloring: Tombow markers on watercolor paper.
Digital kits: Midnight In The Garden by Gypsy Couture (for wood textured paper); Autumn Silence by JM Designs (Dried reed for the perfect thatched roof). 

Normally, paper peeling is very annoying when you use markers or watercolors on papers. But, I used this “paper peeling” technique (heehee) for the fur.

Heeheehee. Did you like all my perfect baksets and houses? Okie, okie, okie… I WILL make a pumpkin with the Perfect Pumpkin Template.

How about…

A pumpkin pie! Heehee.

I wanted a photo of a little girl’s tiny hands holding this cutie pie, but my 22 month old didn’t cooperate.

Pie filling: Small bottom, reduced to 50% (Cut away the outer/bottom flaps);
crust: Small lid (Fan out);
pan: Small lid (roll the outer flaps).

And a turkey pot pie.

Templates: 3 small lids.

The perfect turkey eggs!

I plan on posting tutorials for these projects on the HybridChick.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Hello~~~!

I’m super happy to participate Kelleigh’s Creative Team Blog Hop today. Being in her CT led me to be a Hybrid Chick CT and just the other day, Danielle Young asked me to be her creative team! So, THANK YOU KELLEIGH!!!

Here I created a baby mobile using latest releases from Kelleigh’s Drop Ornament Template (Large) and Danielle Young’s Baby Bunches Collaborative Kit (and designs by anita).

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UPDATE
To create the top, I nested the same template (Large), reduced to 99 percent. 98% would’ve fit better for the papers I used. I ended up cutting up the each sides to attach it individually inside.

Two outer layers were printed on Epson Double-Sided Matte Inkjet Paper, and the inside on Epson Premium Presentation Matte Paper. To curl, I just rolled the paper around a round pen (like making sushi maki roll). I plan to use a paper quilling tool next time to create a tight curl.
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Heeheehee… I edited the baby tag in Photoshop to add the string.

Pearls: Stampin’ Up;
Twine: Martha Stewart;
Crochetted flowers: Fancy Pants

When I was expecting my first child, I used to love hanging out by his crib. I think this would be perfect to hang above the crib while waiting for the babies to pop out. =)

Duh~! I hung it high on the wall to photograph, and it wasn’t easy balancing myself on a bar stool. And I’m too short to see the top view. Heehee.

Kelleigh’s Drop Ornament Template

Danielle Young and Anita’s Baby Bunches Collaborative Kit

Please, check out all CTs lovely creations, and leave a comment on Kelligh’s blog for a chance to win the Drop Ornament Template.

http://kelleighratzlaff.com/ – Kelleigh
http://poeticartistry.blogspot.com/ – Julee
http://julifreshfish.blogspot.com/ – Juli
http://www.creativityinprogress.com/blog/ – Sunghee < —- ME!
http://www.digitalcreations.typepad.com/ – Sharon
http://www.lauras-little-corner.blogspot.com/ – Laura

THANK YOU~~~

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This is a Christmas Countdown Gingerbread House Treat Holder Matchbox Ornament. =)

I used Kelleigh’s Matchbox Template (large) to create the house. The roof is a wrapper from the Matchbox Template.

Box slides out from the side.
Stamps: Gingerbread Man, Bubble-ma-jig, and Date Me from Purple Onion Designs. 
Fonts (days till…): TKPekingChickenFingers Font by TKWhimsy.
Digital Papers: always and forever by Michelle Batton (kraft); Flutterbies Dots Paper Packs by Mari Koegelenberg.

Green mint and pointsettia (on the roof) is from K&Company (paper punch out piece). Oopsie, I forgot to add snow on the side, heehee.
Snow Polar White Flower Soft.

Only one day left till Christmas!
Any last words, Gingerbread boy?
Yikes~! Heeheehee. Apparently he doesn’t know his impending fate. He is one happy CUTE Gingerbread boy!
Don’t hate me because I colored you beautifully with Copic markers. I’m sure you will be tasty, too. Heehee.

Oh! Who is in the back of the house?
It’s Willard waiting paitiently with a glass of milk.

Stamps: Willard Sipping Cocoa, Artic Wonderland Sentiment, and Bubble-ma-jig, from Purple Onion Designs.

Willard was colored with Copics then covered with Sparkly Fluff (sugar).
Milk was colored with Signo Gel white pen.
Microbeads on the scarf is from Martha Stewart Craft.

The box is filled with treats.
This project was also created for Paper Crafts Connection November Gallery Challenge: Create Treat Containers.

Kelleigh’s Matchbox Template is on sale for $2 Tuesday (11-10-2009) on TheDigiChick shop. Her templates are so easy to use especially if you want to use digital papers.

And, check out Kelleigh’s blog for more Christmas Ornament inspirations!

THANK YOU!!!!!!

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Heeheehee. Almost a month after Kyle’s birthday party, I finally sent out thank-you cards today. My husband was saying why even bother sending it out, and I said, “Better late than never!”

Once again, I used Kelleigh’s Matchbox Template (small) for this “Do-It-Yourself Photo Frame Matchbox Calendar Train Pop-up Thank You” cards. =)

I don’t know if Kyle’s party guests will remember or not, but this Matchbox trains match with the Matchbox travel luggage invitations I’ve made them. I didn’t want to spend $$ on shipping, so I had to stalk them at the school parking lot to give out the invitations, and that wasn’t fun. So I made these thank you trains foldable to put in the envelopes. It still costed me about $1.22 each (siblings got one envelpe) to mail out, but at least I didn’t have to box them up.

1″ square photo of each kid on the front. Put clear epoxy sticker on top to create a window look.

23 thank you cards.
2010 Calendar was a free download from Mushy’s blog. I included a photo of finished train. Hope the recipients will know how to assemble it.
Train track Stamin’ Up! Stampin’ Wheel image on the back of the train.

Urmmm… I started out making the chimney with the ribbons like the one on the left. But, as I was stapling it, I thought, putting the ribbon all the way across from left to right would look better. So, I detached some of the eyelets and added longer ribbon strips for some of the trains.

Put it in the clear bags.

Here’s a mock up I created using Simply Scraps’ Toot Too, Woo Woo digital kit.

I’ll be back with more matchbox project tomorrow. I’m participating Kelleigh’s 30 Ornaments in 30 Days.

Thank you as always!

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Happy Fall Everyone!

I don’t know about your area, but it’s so gorgeous here. With the rain this weekend, lots of leaves fell down, but still the autumn colors are just exquisite. Breathtaking!

Here I created a board book album cover using Purple Onion Designs Willard Sipping Cocoa, Bare Tree, and a leaf from Doodle Foliage Set stamps. Willard is from Artic Wonderland collection, but doesn’t he fit so well in the autumn scene here? Heehee. I colored him with Copic Markers.

Digital papers are from Mulberry Paper Pack by Danielle Young.
Digi frame and stitch elements are from Cream & Sugar Page Kit by Danielle Young. Printed on Epson Matte Premium Presentation Paper.
Photos were taken last year at a pumpkin outing.

Bare Tree was inked with Ranger Emboss It Pad and put many, many, many layers of Zing! Opaque Embossing Powder (Chestnut). I just love the texture. Heehee. Leaves on the ground are Flower Soft (Autumn mix).

Hope you all had a wonderful Halloween. Check out Michele’s house! Spooky, but amazing!

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