Hello there!  Spring is just around the corner, the cold snowing winter is about to pass. I know Spring fairy is working hard to bring color to the garden. This is how I picture my garden will be again... full of the vivid color..... all thanks to the Spring fairy, not me. lol

So happy to be chosen as a guest designer on Crafting by design for the March 1st anything goes  challenge. Today I am sharing one of my favorite stamp and die: Hello Lovely clear stamp set and heartstrings dies. Enjoy~

I choose happy birthday sentiment not only to celebrate the start of the Spring season but also to give a shout-out to all the friends and "me" who were born in the month of March. ^^ Happy Birthday~~

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I choose to use Faber Castell Gelatos for it's texture and easy to blend with water. I draw some line on the leaf and use water brush to blend the color, also purposely to leave some texture and bleed outside of line.

While waiting for the watercolor paper to dry, I die cut few of the heartstrings die from Concord & 9th, these blank die cut will be add it to the card later.

The same heartstrings die again places on the main flower to cut the shape out. Then flip the card over to take out just the outer heart. You can see I put the washi tape on the die to make sure the distance between outer and inner die stay the same through out entire card making process....

Because of that when I add the blank heart die cut, it will fit exactly into the same space. Once the first blank heart die cut is in place, I seal entire heart with double adhesive sheet to secure every pieces. So when I flip over if any piece fell out(hoping not all of them) I can easily put it back. Luckily when I flip it over , just two pieces are needed to place it back. ^^ With all the pieces in place, the rest of the blank heart die cut is applied with glue and stacked on one by one. The last die cut shape will be placed on the top is the die cut from the original drawing. Lastly adding some embellishment and Happy Birthday sentiment, the card is completed.

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Supplies:
Concord & 9th Hello Lovely clear stamp set
Concord & 9th Heartstrings dies
Faber Castell Gelatos
Lawn Fawn Happy Birthday die

I find myself wanted to do a simple card to help me relax after a long week of work, work and work.... and it works. Ah..... feeling good.

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I used Riley Flower from IOstamps and distress oxide for coloring. After inking the stamp then spritz some water on the stamp before stamped it on the black card.

Distress oxide creates this chalky effect on the black card. I also use the same color choice to come up this colorful sheet. Then using ElizabethCraftDesign die to cut out the design to decorate the card. Add the sentiment "Find joy in the ordinary" to complete the card. Enjoy~

Supplies:

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I have joined a group of talented crafter in Taiwan to come up more than 160 sets of Chinese new year card. All these handmade cards will be distributed to elderly during the new year eve dinner time. It is an honer to be able to contribute something like this. Here are the five cards that I have created for them. Since it is mainly for older generation so I decided to stick to the traditional red color scene for my cards. I wish them and everyone good health, great luck and prosperity .

1. Having all the good blessing in your house card~

2. Every year have more than you need card~

3. The joy of New Year be with you throughout the year card~

4. May the coming New Year bring you joy, love and peace card~

5. Lots of luck for this Rooster year card~

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I decided to blend distress ink mermaid lagoon, blueprint sketch and seedless preserves combo for the night sky effect. Choosing only the sky and stars and switch them to another white cardstock that has the same diecut. The other part(house and trees) can be used for a different card, I will save it for later.

I love this die that I can create many combination. For this ornament, I will only use the outer part and save the smaller rings later. I hand cut a circle and cut out the detail just like the die then use it as a base. I start to place the center pieces on top and then glue the outer ring one at a time.

Supplies:
Stampendous clear stamp- Christmas vision
Simon Says Stamp- Believe in the season
Tim Holtz Distress ink- mermaid lagoon, blueprint sketch and seedless preserves
Magnolia DooHickey box collection Christmas village scene die
Elizabeth Craft Designs Fitted Frames Die Lace Circles
Neenah white card stock

Enter my card into the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Christmas Gift
Crafting by Design Anything Goes December Challenge
Love to Scrap Challenge blog-Winter Wonderland!
Love to Craft Challenge blog-December anything goes

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After daylight saving ended on Nov. 6, we are officially in the Winter and I miss the Fall already. Since I miss the color of the Fall, this thinking of you card is full of brown, red, orange and yellow tone.  

Supplies:
Concord & 9th Happy Card Frame die
Concord & 9th Lace Leaf Stamp
Tim Holtz Distress ink-Candied Apple, Fired Brick, Carved Pumpkin, Fossilized Amber
Hero Arts April Monthly Hero Kits Thinking of You Stamp

Enter my card into the following challenges:
Where Creativity Meets C9 Challenge #3:Sparkle and Shine
Crafting by Design Fall Colour Challenge
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #303
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Shine Bright like a Diamond
Crafting with Friends Challenge #31
Craft Stamper Take It Make It Challenge November!
Addicted to Stamps Challenge #219 CAS 

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I find myself constantly making birthday card, don't get me wrong, I love creating birthday card. I guess it is the most popular card that we give away to friends and family. So I always try to make few birthday cards in advance,  and add a gift or flowers then it is ready~

I used a happy card frame die from Concord & 9th for Bday card, and was going to add a color splatter page right behind the frame. It turned out to be too busy that I can't even see the word "happy". So I had to come up a plan B which is adding a velum in between to tune down the color and it works great!

The splatter paper was salvaged from previous project for a journal page. It is perfect to use for this card. The happy card frame die cuts very well and can be used for many occasion such as "happy" holiday; "happy" for you; "happy" to see you or "happy" birthday. I love the outcome of this birthday card. Yeah!

Supplies:
Concord & 9th Happy card frame die
Concord & 9th Happy words stamp
Lindy's stamp gang starburst sprays- lucky shamrock green, sweet violet purple teal, hydrangea blue

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This year I decided to make a more traditional card. It is classic using witch stamp as main character. You can see some of the steps below on how I finish this Halloween card.

Supplies:
Stampendous Halloween cling stamp- CRR176 Mirror Mirror
Tim Holtz Cling Stamp- CMS100 Odds and Ends
Tim Holtz distress ink- Squeezed Lemonade , Fossilized Amber , Spiced Marmalade, Ripe Persimmon, vintage photo

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This is going to be a short post. Just want to show you the comparison of Ranger white embossing powder and superfine detail embossing powder as well as the lifting technique in different color. I have used the technique in the previous post. You can see the lifting technique in detail here.

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Ranger white embossing powder is used on the blue card and the Ranger superfine detail embossing powder is used on the green card. The detail on the green card is more defined while the line on the blue card is thicker. In this case, superfine detail embossing powder seems work better than white embossing powder because of stamp choice. Not saying I favor superfine detail embossing powder over white embossing. If I need to add other type of media such as glitters or fragment with embossing powder, superfine detail powder might not be able to hold the fragments as much as white embossing powder.

Some of the details on flowers and leaves~ It is the same color choice from the green card. And the post can be seen here, if you are interested.

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I have been thinking about a spring like card for awhile. I guess I can't wait for Spring to come. Think of this as a universal card that whoever receive this will also get a feel of Spring~
這次選擇綠色當背景，可以感受到春天一整片綠油油的草地，不時可以看到一叢一叢的小花努力的綻放著。現在想想最後一次躺在草地上是N年前了，下次有機會一定去享受一下大地之愛~

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I used Tim Holtz Botanical Sketch stamp, VersaMark watermark stamp pad and white embossing powder to create the background. I use Ranger white super fine detail embossing powder which is needed for such detailed fine line stamps. I will explain more in a different post. You will be able to see the comparison.
簡單又效果極佳的方法~草皮章，浮水印台加燙凸粉。燙凸粉用的是Ranger極細凸粉，它的細度較適合用在細節多的印章上，在下一篇我會做個燙凸粉普通和極細的比較~

Then using distress ink mowed lawn and blending tool to blend hack out of it. At some point I use the ink pad to simply smear the entire cardstock. :)
用復古印台mowed lawn非常漂亮的綠色，塗満整張紙，真的是死命的塗，顏色越深越好。這樣才可以進入下一個步驟 lifting technique。

When it is done, I use, lifting technique, just few drops of water to take out some of the color out. I forgot to take a close shot but you can see the fern at the left bottom corner that the color is lighter after few drops of water and before I add different color on it.
用水彩筆沾水滴在花瓣上，綠色就漸漸的變淺，水越多顏色越淺，左邊綠色的葉子是變淺之後未上其他色之前。

Here I use distress ink picked raspberry ( it turns to lavender color. Nice!)and blueprint sketch for the look.
紫色是用復古印台 pickled raspberry , 藍色是blueprint sketch。上越多顔色越深~

Here again using distress ink blueprint sketch but decided to use lifting technique again to lighten up the blue.

Well green leaves are going to blend into the background so I decide to use some bling bling sunflower sparkle perfect pearls with couple drops of water. 葉子的部分最後決定用Sunflower sparkle 金質粉。讓卡片也有亮亮的感覺~

I only want to have few color showing on the card since it is quite busy already. It turns out looking great!

Time to work on the sentiment~ I choose Unity Stamp Loads of love for this card. In addition, I gently brush around the edge using distress ink tea dye then spritz some perfect pearls water to get that shimmer look.

I got this twine from a second hand store was going to use for book binding but color is perfect for it. I had learned a trick from YouTube to coat it with mod podge or multi medium first, it is actually must earlier to form the circle that I wanted.
有時候線或麻繩很不受控制，可以先整條塗上一些mod podge或其他種類的膠，再塑形比較容易。

The sentiment is a bit small when I lay it on the card and I don't want to add a second layer because it will block out more background so a few loops of wire or twine will help with the illusion.

Here is the finishing piece! Hope you enjoy and thank you for visiting my blog~

Supplies:
Tim Holtz Cling Stamp Botanical Sketch CMS216
Distress ink pad mowed lawn, picked raspberry and blueprint sketch
VersaMark watermark stamp pad
Versafine onyx black
Ranger super fine detail embossing powder in clear and white
Ranger perfect pearls- sunflower sparkle
Unity stamp- Loads of love

Enter this card into the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Anything goes
Crafting from the heart challenge #100
Penny's paper crafty challenge #266 Anything goes
Craft your passion challenges #300 Anything goes
Crafting With Friends Challenge #15 Anything goes

We all have a moment of needing something quick, a quick get away, a quick coffee break, a quick nap, a quick meal. This time I need a quick card. A quick card doesn't mean not putting too much thought into it. A quick card simply means a quick made card. Lol~ I had this design in my head for weeks already, just didn't find the time to execute it. Why did I say I need a quick card? It actually has a purpose. Just like a quick get away, a quick coffee break, a quick nap or a quick meal, a quick card can make me rejuvenate again or shall I say it is a boost in a way. I am sure everyone has its own way of getting a boost. What is yours? 

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Supplies:
Distress paint- fossilized amber, fired brick, festive berries, evergreen bough
Merry Christmas deer die
Hero Arts Ombre pool to navy
Stampabilities- IR1038 Bright with promise-Merry Christmas Saying
Imagine Crafts Pssst Sheer Shimmer Spritz
White cardstock
shimmer navy glitter card stock

Enter this tag into the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Winter Wonderland
More Habdmade Challenge MHC 魔力手作挑戰 #12 -- 耶誕節
Crafting By Design: Here Come The Holidays 
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Make it Sparkle
CAS(E) this Sketch! #153

Hello Crafter~ I am sure many folks out there are just like me. I save all the scrap papers because you will never know when you need that piece of paper. With tones of scrap paper on my desk, I decide to make a quick and easy card. A perfect holiday card was born~ Hope you like it!

Supply:
Cuttlebug embossing folder-Anna Griffin Nordic Tree
Cuttlebug embossing folder-Anna Griffin Victorian Tree
Tim Holtz Distress Ink-Peeled Paint
Hampton Art-Jillibean Soup Handwritten Sentiment Stamps jb0198
Little B-Box & Bows Cutting Dies
Cardstock in white, green and red

Enter this card into the following challenge:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge! Christmas
Scrapping4funChallenge #54 Traditional Christmas Colors
Craft Your Passion Challenge 288: Always Anything Goes
Christmas Cards All Year 'Round November Challenge
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge #254 Anything Goes



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Finally I have chance to post my recent ATC creation. It is a very simple design, basically one brick embossing folder, one stamp and some dies and the outcome is what I am looking. No designer paper, just white on white design with color wording, instant pop on the phrase! Yeah~
好久沒寫blog 嘞, 有點生疏~ 剛好要試試新買的刀模, 做了張ATC. 果然不同牌子的刀模, 效果特色都不太一樣~

{The Details}

Supplies:
DCWV Tattered Time cardstock matstack in texture white and texture charcoal
Rubberneckerstamps freehand border phrase set 900
The PaperStudio A2 Bricks
Spellbinders shapeabilities die D-lites S2-007 Flower Burst
Magnolia DooHickey Club Harvest dies
Butterfly and grass die
Imaginecrafts pssst! Sheer shimmer spritz-sparkle

Entering this tag into the following challenges:

SimonSaysStamp Wednesday Challenge No Designer Paper #283

Scrapping4funChallenges #50 Spring or Autumn #33

MHC 魔力手作挑戰 #9  彩色文字