PS Challenge 13-19 May

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FEATURED PLAYER AT PAPER SMOOCHES SPARKS

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It's already Thursday and we are going to have another long weekend!

It's designer draft challenge over at Paper Smooches Sparks.  I am using the Alpha Whimsy Dies today for my card.  Simple card.

See you next week!

PB Family Challenge

My laptop is driving me mad!  It has been crashing for the last couple of weeks or even months already and I am able to bare with it until last week!  It crashed several times a day!!! For example, I was working on this post since 4pm and I could not complete it until 4 hours later!!!  How frustrating!  Hope it will not crash on me at this moment again.  Better stop complaining and continue with my posting....

A quick card today for a family challenge over at Penny Black and using the colour challenge from Dynamic Duos.  I am choosing Regal Rose and Grey for this card and used PB Laced Edge which is heat embossed in silver.  Somehow, I associate silver to grey - I don't know why. 

Yesterday, I read from my blog friend, Greta - GG Creations that she embossed felt which I never knew that you could. So curious how it will look like I had to give this a try and I did it today.  Love the softness of it, thanks Greta for sharing with us!

The grey felt was ran thru 4 times over the CB so as to achieve the texture.  The sentiment is from Verve Stamp and also heat embossed in silver.  I am also entering this card into Stamping Sensations with the theme for this month "Embossing and Texture".

Lawnscaping Challenge #57

Hi everyone,

Hope you had a lovely mother's day for those who celebrated it or a lovely long weekend!

Just heard from a blog friend that she is expecting a baby in November (same birthday month as me and I was teasing her that it might be on the same date as mine).  I wanted to congratulate her with a pregnancy card but I do not have such stamp but realised that I do have a kangaroo with a little one from Lawn Fawn set.

The challenges over at Lawnscaping Challenge and A Blog Named Hero is Bling it!  So I took this opportunity to make this card with this theme.  I have not used acetate for a while now and decided to make an acetate card today.  Some glittered sentiments and sequins are added on the card.  I also sent her a little surprise and made a tag and swiped a layer of stickles on it!

CASE Study #39

UPDATED : 8 MAY

MR. RANDOM PICKED ME AND I WON PB STAMPS!

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One more day and we will have another long weekend this week.  Woohoo!

Today, I am trying something new with a coffee filter to make a flower.  Have you tried it before?  Here is my inspiration card from CASE Study.

I used 2 strips of the border punch for the left hand side of the card.  On the another panel, a vellum is embossed and adhered to the base card.  

As for the flower, first I swiped wornlipstick and peeled paint ink pads on a plastic binder holder as I do not have one of those TH mat.  Then spray with lots of water and dipped the filter onto the surface until you have achieved the colour.  Once the filter is dry, die cut into 8 scallops, put a hole in the middle and add a pin to keep it secure.  Then crunch all the scallops pieces by pieces until you are happy with your flower.  The sentiment is embossed in gold.

As there are a number of texture and embossing involved, I am also entering this card into Stamping Sensations.

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PDC - Colour Splash Time

Hi folks,

It's the time of the year again to share with you the beauty when Holland is bloomed with flowers.  Every year we drove to hunt for the fields of flowers but this year we decided to cycle to make this tour which was more relax but more tiring. In total, we did a 36km returned trip but we have no complain as the weather was just absolutely beautiful.

Somehow, this year I don't see many tulips or is it simply because of the long winter that the tulips are not bloomed yet?  However, if you would like to see more tulips, please see here which were taken during the last years.

Last year, I remembered my dear niece visited us during this time of the year and we had so much fun hunting for the flowers.  Miss you, dear Vivien!

First, before I show you the flowers, I would like to share with you the card for today which is a colour challenge over at The Play Date Cafe.  There is no stamping required with this card at all but involved lots of cutting, embossing and machine-stitched. Very simple to make but repetitive design which I do like occasionally.

Inner card

Ready for the flowers.....

tulips

tulips

tulips

 Peonie? 

Double Tulips

Crocus

Crocus

Sorry that I am unable to provide you with the names of the flowers which marked?  If you do know their names, please do let me know.

Just a note that the colours of the flowers were much more intense in real and I wishthat I could capture them to share them with you.  Hope you have enjoy the mini tour!

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Happy Friday to all!  

Glorious weather over here today and I hope that you are having the same too!  The kids and I did some gardening as they had this week off from school because of the royalty celebration cum school break!

Today is sketch challenge over at MFT.  I am using the set from Party Time which is stamped, heat embossed and paperpieced.  The dress is stamped on a patterned paper and paperpieced again.  The panels are machine-stitched and a rig-rag is added onto the panels.  The flowers are die-cut from felt.

I always admire when someone make an effort to decorate the inner part of the card and with so much inspirations from the MFT team and Cat's Scrap, I will TRY to make an effort to do it from now on.  It gives me so much satisfaction to see a completed card.

Wishing you a lovely weekend!

New King and Queen

UPDATED : 3 MAY 

THE CARD IS THIS WEEK'S MFT'S FAVOURITE FINDS

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Hello Everyone! You might probably have heard about the big news that The Netherlands has a King now.  For 132 years long, the Netherlands was in the monarchy of 3 generations of queens and yesterday, the queen passed her throne to her son.

Every year, the dutch celebrates the queen's day on the 30 April but from next year onward it will be King's Day on the 27th April. Yes, all of us had to get use to the word "King".  My dear husband has been waiting for more than 40 years for this day as his birthday falls on the same day as the King!

Here is mother queen (middle), King Willem Alexander (left) and Queen Maxima (right) at the balcony!

I love her dress!

Enough of the dutch royalty and back to card business.

My first stamp from MFT and can't wait to play with this month's challenge over at MFT with the theme "Scene Building".  My card was inspired by Cindy.  

Have a great day!