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~~~
number of view: 255They Love Each Other
That’s what Kyle said when he touched this card with his paint covered hands.
Another card created for A Muse challenge: The No Coloring Zone.
Stamps: A Muse Animal Wishes;
Patterned paper: A Muse; Basic Grey (elephants);
Gem & ribbon: A Muse.
wild about me =)
YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! I won, I won, I won!!! I won A Muse challenge (Ink It Up!) prize! It was a random draw, and I won! How lucky could I be! And one of my cards was showcased on A Muse blog! I received the goodies last Saturday, and I was finally able to ink it up today.
It’s a gift card holder and made for another A Muse challenge: The No Coloring Zone.
My goodies! yipee!
Stamps: A Muse “Grass” and “Alligator”
Patterned papers: A Muse.
THANK YOU!!!
number of view: 49TEBB Challenge #3
One of my favorite stamping techniques is paper-piecing. It’s time consuming, but I just get carried away when I snip away.
Most of the patterned papers from August 2009 Taylored Expressions Key Ingredients; Luxe Designs (Green bg paper);
Ribbon: Basic Grey;
Stamps: A Muse (School Girl); Unity (house, tree);
Created for Taylored Expressions Birthday Bash Challenge #3: Paper-piecing.
number of view: 58Confessions of a Shopaholic
Patterned papers (A Muse) are scraps from my Christmas shadow bookcards project. Good thing I didn’t throw them away, hehe.
Some ribbons (A Muse) are scraps from my RibbonRide card project. Good thing I kept them, hehe.
Rhinestone: A Muse;
OMG! OMG! I hate glitters, but I was very inspired by Elena’s creation, I wanted to try it, too. I don’t like glitters cuz it sticks to everywhere! But, OMG~! I love how it turned out. I LOVE how glittery it looks! I LOVE GLITTERS except that it glitters everywhere else, ugh! Hehe. A love-hate relationship, hehe.
Glitters: Martha Stewart;
Buttons are Basic Grey. They are from my stash. As you can see on my blog header graphic, I do have lots of buttons. And those are not all. I LOVE buttons! I don’t use it much, but I love to buy them, heehee.
Coloring: Tombow markers on Canson watercolor paper.
These eyelets are from my stash, too. It’s from Making Memories, Stampin’ Up! (silver), and Eyeletoutlet.com.
I think it was in December that I received an e-newsletter from EyeletOutlet.com. They had a 20% off discount. And FREE SHIPPING for $50 purchase. I was thinking, who in the right minded person would buy $50 worth of eyelets?!!!!!!!!
Well… Guess who that crazy person was! And I don’t even like eyelets! Heh, heh, heh… *sigh* And guess what is my favorite book? “Confessions of a Shopaholic”, of course. I have the entire series. Yup.
Created for the A Muse Lounge Challenge #7: Ink it Up!! with my latest A Muse acquisition, hehe.
Cyclist & Dress Form.
All four cards are 3×3.
THANK YOU!!!
number of view: 115Mandy by the Treehouse
At first, I wanted to cut the wood grain patterned paper and make it look like a tree with branches and all, but I couldn’t. I can’t cut paper if there is no guide line. So I settled with just plain tree trunk. Well, Mandy doesn’t mine. She is very bubbly happy.
Created for the A Muse Lounge Challenge #7: Ink it Up!!
Stamps: A Muse Simple Wishes and Mandy’s World Bubble Girl;
Patterned paper, ribbon, gems: A Muse;
Coloring: Copic markers
It’s a treehouse with a window, okay! =) Oops, no door?
Hmmm… bubbles not so shiny. Must work on the coloring.
Shadow Book Cards
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!
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.
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.
“Snowy Peaks”
And here is another shadow book card. This time, I made a thinner one.
*Whew* I think this has been my longest blog post. =)
THANK YOU~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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