Congrats Wedding Card with Quilled White Flowers

All the wedding festivities have come and gone...a month has passed by, yesterday! Time really doesn't wait for you to catch your breath!

I'll have to put up some wedding pictures in another post because I haven't gotten them myself from the photographer!

Many more weddings are coming up next month! It's a busy year for those who are my age. Here's a card that I made with simple quilled white blooms:

The cut out of the couple is actually the portion that I didn't use for the luminary table numbers I had made for my wedding. I will be sure to put pictures up when I get my hands on them!

Have a sweet day!

Entered in:
-The Pink Elephant Challenge - Anything Goes

Clear Pink Quilled Flowers Congrats Card

I can't believe the summer is over again. Many colleges began class today.

This pink congrats card is not made on your traditional card stock paper. It's created on acetate to make it a clear card! It was so difficult to keep it clean as the static really likes to attract anything and everything!!

I started gluing it with tape runner, but this was really unattractive due to the streaks that it created. Instead, I had to use a spray adhesive. I find it much harder to adhere same size sheets this way.

Hope you have a wonderful day!

This card was entered in:

-Make It Monday #155 Anything Goes

-CWLC 55 Anything Goes
-Allsorts #122 Use Acetate

Quilled Mr & Mrs Wedding Shaped Card, Butterfly Flourishes

It has come to my attention that I am only 3 posts away from 100 for the year while typing this entry! Therefore, I will strive to make it to the 100 mark by 2013. Though crafting is rewarding in and of itself, it is also a good feeling to see documentation of the progress. For those of us who blog regularly, it may seem so routine at this point. I was thinking about how initially foreign the idea was to write posts about what I make. Familiarizing myself with Blogspot and blogging communities, in general, was sometimes intimidating. Please give yourself a pat on the back for me for coming this far in your own craft journeys and especially to those of you who journal about your crafts--I am so proud of us all! :)

A few months ago, I made this card for another crafty friend's wedding. We met in our teens during one of my first jobs at a tutoring center in Brooklyn. For a while, we lost contact due to our 2 year age difference and attending different schools and colleges altogether. Facebook. Ah, what my generation would do without...I can't even imagine. Anyway, we reconnected through there as many others did during our freshmen year in college when it was first introduced to the college world. Who would've thought that we would find this unlikely connection through crafting so many years later? You see, it is very uncommon for those growing up in a place like NYC to be taking on any hobbies. Unless you're born to a hippie or into a privileged family, it is more likely that we would have a part-time job in school than pursue our interests. It wasn't until college that I was able to pursue papercrafting.

I notice that I put in a bit more effort into designing things when I know I am gifting a handmade item to another artsy person. Why is this? Well, this person will be better able to appreciate and connect with what is presented to them, for one. Another thing that may or may not be true is my impression that I am suppose to WOW this person because they have been exposed to so many more amazing works by the array of talent out there. I cannot accurately make this comparison, but it is still an illogical reasoning I have. Do any of you ever find that you are in this situation as well?








Lastly, I should comment about the actual card. :D "Mr & Mrs" are paper pierced and then the paper I used to fill in the letters was taken from gift wrapping scraps. It actually shimmers through and does not take away from the overall look, in my opinion. Silhouette butterfly is embellished with tiny rhinestones. Flourishes are quilled.

Here is a shot of the interior. It's also lined with the same gift wrap as the lettering that peeks through the front of the card. I am still holding onto the cut-outs from "Mr & Mrs"...perhaps for another wedding project I will integrate them.

We are expecting a snowstorm in the Northeast today, so we'll be staying in. Hopefully everyone is doing the same to stay safe and warm.






All the best,


Entered in:

-DYSU 104 Turquoise

-Charisma Cardz #51 Anything Goes

-Delightful Challenges Anything Goes

-Make It Monday #120 Anything Goes 

Baby Boy Blue Blocks Card With Teddy

I thought I'd change up the genre a bit and take a short break from the holidays. :) This is a card that I made during the summer for my best friend who then brought it to Hong Kong for a mommy-to-be!










You can probably guess that this is to be for a newborn baby boy. I added a bib to the teddy bear and balloon hearts for added cuteness. :) I also went a little glitter crazy on this one. The glitter spray is by CC Interational. I coated EVERYTHING! lol








Have a great Thursday afternoon!

Entered in:

-Tuesday Alchemy #46 Anything Goes

-Make it Monday #120 Anything Goes

-Through the Craftdoor #50 Anything Goes

Blue and Silver Quilled Bunting Card for Men

How was your thanksgiving? We cooked on Saturday. Had a turkey, but some of the accompanying dishes were chinese-style. We had a Chinese-American thanksgiving you can say. It was a much smaller and easier to manage party versus the one last year where we had what must've been 20 people. I was in the kitchen the whole day and night last year--ready to crash when it was all done, so I paid little to no attention to the rest of the gathering unfortunately. This year we were able to breathe with about half the people! :)

For this card, I gathered inspiration from Paper Daisy Card Design. This one was made for my manager's last day right before Thanksgiving. It's tough making cards for men and this one was no different. At first I thought to myself, do I want to quill a bunch of flags? In the end, my comfort zone kicked in and the next thing you know I have the bunting banner ready. lol

It's snowing at the moment. I can't believe how cold it got and so fast!

Entered in:

-Bearly Mine Challenges #63 Blue and Silver

-Paper Pretties PPMC67 Anything Goes

-Party Time Tuesdays #96 Anything Goes

-MIM #117 Anything Goes

Baby Blocks Card For Boy + Free Address Labels

This week I was working on getting out birth announcements for Chelsea, my cousin's newborn. They're ready to ship out! Yay! 

Design Finch has some free labels for you to use and download as I have used for these 50 birth announcements for my cousin! They're gorgeous and easy to use. Just type into them the info that you need and print it out! The only issue I had was I couldn't save it with my version of Adobe Acrobat Reader. 

You may have noticed that these labels have a "from" area. I didn't use them because my cousin already had preprinted labels that she wanted me to use (I put those on the envelope flap in the back), so I just cut them off. They still look very fun though. :)

I also want to show you a card that I made using ribbon that I won from Laine's blog giveaway. :)

The pattern on the bottom is actually the envelope. I couldn't figure out how to photograph it properly. :D The baby blocks were cut out of blue textured cardstock. It's centers are little footsies (pattern paper). 

This weekend is gorgeous in NYC. We will be going to the World Maker Faire at the Hall of Science (which is a fabulous science museum in Queens, NY--so many fun opportunities to learn in a fun environment)!

Entering this card in:

-Cute Card Thursday Challenge 236 - Letters & Numbers

-Through the Craftroom Door Challenge #37 Sept 25th -Oct 1st

-MIM #108

-Love to Create Challenge #34 Anything Goes

Personalize Graduation Cap 2012 Card

The school year is coming to an end (or already has for some college students) in the US, so that means there will be a lot of new graduates to congratulate! I made a card to celebrate these milestones in life. It is simple, but sweet. I have listed it on Etsy as a personalized graduation card. 

The entire graduation cap is cut out and then painted with acrylic paint. Outside flap has a tassel and the inside of the cap says 2012. This one is painted in black and silver, but I can paint it in other colors if needed.

The words can also be customized and they are laser printed in black.

I thought it would be a cute idea to allow the graduation cap to open up and say the year "2012." 

The rain ended last night, so today was a nice day to go out and take pictures. 

And now I will leave you with a picture of a rose from the front yard. People always stop to look and comment about the roses.

Have a fantastic evening!

Cute Orange Giraffe Baby Card Handmade

Ahh I can't believe I am cutting it so close! I want to get this card in before the link closes at Sweet Sketch Wednesday #150! This card is also listed at Shopping Our Stash #49: Starts with a "b." I am trying to meet my best friend before she leaves for vacation to Hong Kong tonight too! I will be back on later to update the rest of this post...apologies in advance!

Quick Chinese Themed Housewarming Card

Yesterday I went to my friends' first home after getting married. It was my first time there and it was a great time!  My bf, friend, and I put together a gift basket and I, of course, made the couple a card.

The message was printed on my laser printer and the lanterns were wet embossed with black embossing powder. This card is quick and simple to make. For those of you who don't understand where I was going with this, I will have to touch on Chinese culture. Lanterns are often used for display during grand celebrations. Artists designed on lanterns in ancient China, so they were used as a way to display art as well. Nowadays, lanterns are not as significant among Chinese Americans, but you can still see them being used during Chinese New Year and for store front grand openings. For something as worthy to celebrate as your first home together, I thought of this card as a kind of playful way to say congrats with the incorporation of our Chinese backgrounds.

We got them a random mix of household items they they may or MAY NOT use. lol This was the basket we came up with (our dear friend loves these toned down shades of green):

Also, I want to congratulate my boyfriend, Dimma, who finished grad school!!! I am very proud of you and your achievements! <3

"Together Forever" Wedding Card

A beautifully blue wedding cake card to give to the happy couple on their special day. 

There are a lot of fine details to this card. What I wrote on Etsy:

The base of this card is silver. Patterned paper sits on the right side with a strip of pearlescent baby blue paper serving as a divider. The center circle is cut from blue vellum and is adorned by 6 pearl-like embellishments. Cake is cut from Bazzill white cardstock, then dry embossed. It sits propped up on foam dots. White, fine glitter sits on the raised part of the design. On top of the cake is another layer with 3 various sized turquoise quilled flowers. Cake sits on hand-painted flower. "Together Forever" is a rub-on sticker on heavy white cardstock with 2 edges rounded. 


Have a great weekend!

Etsy

First Time With Someone Else

I hope everyone's long weekend was as great as the weather here! It was a comfortable 75 all weekend long with no rain and a lot of sunshine.

On Sunday, I made a card for the first time with someone else. Ellen needed a wedding card and it was her first time. I wasn't very good at giving instructions, but she picked up on things quickly anyway. :P This is what we came up with: