Blue Letterpress Butterflies Birthday Card

March is a busy birthday month for my family as both my brother and I's birthdays are coming up! I hope this year is better than the last (totally not complaining about last year either)! How does time pass by so quickly?!?

I'm working on simple things at the moment. I can't tell you why I'm in a slumber, but that's the status of my craft life right now. :T Slowly, but surely I will get there. :)

These butterflies were stamped in various mixtures of blues, purples, and off-white ink, then wet embossed with a pearlescent gloss. Sentiment was letterpressed. It's simple, but elegant. The mesh ribbon is actually a bit shimmery too, but it's hard to capture such details on camera.









Daylight savings this weekend--enjoy it... -1 hour!

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Teal and Brown Quilled Flowers Birthday Card

Oct 15th was one of my co-worker's birthday and I decided to make a card for her. Our group also chipped in for Edible Arrangements. If you have never had it, it is a bouquet of fruits shaped into flowers. They're usually what I give to new moms when I visit them at the hospital because it's a sweet and healthy treat. I just decided to look it up and it turns out you can buy your own fruit cutter and put together your own! It would save a lot of money versus the $50+ baskets we have to pay for if you have the time. 

This card with stamped with individual letter stamps to create this embossed name.

Double quilled flowers set on top of Prima flowers.

Interior: Stamped and handwritten name.

I was inspired by this wonderful card from Savory Stamping:

Here on the east coast, we're all preparing for the devastation that Hurricane Sandy is suppose to bring to the area starting tomorrow. It's looking pretty bad because it covers a lot of area and is slow moving, so it will be a long lasting storm. On top of that, it is expected to cross paths with a cold front and during high tide too. Snow, rain, wind may cause a lot of damages including flooding and loss of electricity. Overall, a very dangerous week it will be! We are awaiting word of whether the city trains and buses will stop running tomorrow. Either way, I do not plan on going to work in 70+ mph winds and pelting rain though I doubt most of the city will either. Dmitriy will be working from home instead of doing his weekly drive to PA; we will be forced to stay inside for days unless we have to be evacuated. I wish everyone that is affected a safe and quick return to normal life! 

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Letterpress Happy Birthday Quilled Hearts Card

2nd week in Sept. and we're celebrating Peace, Love, & Happiness at Tuesday Alchemy. Want to know why? Have you ever heard of International Peace Day which is on Sept. 21st? Today is also the anniversary of 9/11 and so it's important to keep peace and love not too far from our minds. I live in NYC and was in high school at the time. Due to the massive panic we were sent home, but phones weren't working and no mass transportation was running. My bus ride was on average 40 minutes one way, so having to walk home was not on the top of my list of things I want to do when everything was crazy. It was already raining ash and pieces of debris, so air quality was terrible. The next day the city was closed down, so we got to stay home from school. It was scary walking down the streets for a very long time after that day. We had to be evacuated in school a few times after it as well while the SWAT team came in due to a few bomb scares. In my high school? Really? I do understand the precaution of better to be safe than sorry though, but that's an example of the high tension environment we experienced daily. I felt especially bad for those of my friends who covered their heads due to their religion (we're very diverse here) because they were continuously harassed on the streets and in school due to ignorance. Some either took off their hijab or persisted but had a miserable day to day life. Here's to hoping for a world without violence and peace, so people don't have to go through such ordeals in a civilized society. 

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Quilled Bee and Flowers Card

Good morning and happy Tuesday! I am delighted to welcome you to another week and another challenge at Tuesday Alchemy! This week, you can choose to be inspired by a word themed challenge! The words are: bee, guitar, and lunch--feel free to use one, two, or all three words! I bet you can already see which word I used. ;) 

Materials used were mostly paper and glue, but let's not forget the glitter and a laser printer. :D

It was a bit of a challenge sandwiching a color. I don't particular feel comfortable looking at a photograph of a real bee (yes i'm a scared-y cat!), so I made the wings from memory. I hope they're true to form.

Here's the interior. 

I hope you will join us for a chance to win from our fabulous sponsors this week: Robyn's Fetish and Birdie Brown!!!

P.S. Head over to She Stamps to enter Cheryl's blog candy giveaway! Here is what the prize consists of:

Quilled Candle Happy Birthday Letterpress Blue Card

Before I get to my card, I want to give a shout out to sweet, sweet Laine from Hugs4theHeart Designs! I was lucky enough to win a giveaway on her blog and I want to show you how generous of a prize giver she is:

Can you believe it?! I got 4 different sets of stamps, a sampler of ribbon, mixed beads, and a super vintage and gorgeous thank you tag! I will be putting them all to good use in the near future! I would highly recommend that you visit her to see her versatile crafting--by versatile I mean that she makes everything from cards to beautifully altered boxes and creating different wall art. Who knows, you may get your next spark of creativity from her! Thank you, Laine, and you ROCK! :)))))

Here is my card--I bought the Lifestyles Letterpress Starter Kit a while back to use with my Cuttlebug. It took some adjusting, but came out pretty good in the end. It's hard to see the depth of the debossing in pictures, sorry!

It's a blue candle for a guy--4 rolled coils with glittered centers. Heavyweight card stock (140 lbs) sits on top of blue card stock (80 lbs). You really do need the super heavy and thick card stock when working with letterpress. 

This was given to one of my housemates to give to his dad's birthday, so it was typed in Chinese and printed out--says, Wishing you a happy birthday, daddy! You read it from right to left, top to bottom.

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Quilled Cupcake Swinging Card

This was the first time I made this type of card--swinging card. It is actually pretty fun. The only thing is that I couldn't make it a double sided circle because I used quilling and that is much too raised. If I added quilling to the other side, then the card wouldn't close flat if you know what I mean. 

I am not as satisfied with the way the cupcake came out--it doesn't look the way I originally imagined it in my head. :P I covered the brown frosting with glitter to make it look like sprinkles. The wrapper is alternating blue-greens. It is shy one color to complete this week's Tuesday Alchemy color theme: sea green, brown, and pink. The circle background is dry embossed, but it is hard to see. I had a hard time taking a head-on shot of the card as you can tell. :D

As always, a huge thanks to our sponsors! This week's sponsors are:

-Di's Digi Downloads ($10 Store Voucher)
-LEJ Designs (3 Digital Images)
-Hugs4theHeart Designs ($10 Gift Certificate)

*Thank you to Laine for pointing out my earlier error in listing the sponsors--I sincerely apologize! 

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Fish You a Happy Birthday Quilled Goldfish and Underwater Floral Decor

If you're here to see if you're a winner for the Tuesday Alchemy blog hop please see the post before this one.

It's a new week at Tuesday Alchemy and we'd love for you to join in on our color challenge! Create anything using this color palette! 

This is what I have quilled:

Goldfish=orange; floral decorations=lime + plum. Seashells once again--sorry, I have a lot! lol The sand was cut out of the July/Aug issue of Everyday with Rachael Ray mag. I hope that's legal. :X

Wave is stamped with white ink.

This week's sponsor is MayzyArt! Enter for your chance to win digital stamps!

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Pink Happy Birthday Flower Metal Charm Card

I haven't played with pink for a while, so I was itching to take all of these pink papers out! 

The second picture shows how the Perfect Pearls shimmers at an angle. Sentiment is a rub-on.

You can find this card listed at:

• Crazy 4 Challenges C4C137
• Friday Sketch Challenge Sketch #17
• Charisma Cardz Challenges Challenge #19 - Metal Charms
• Make It Monday #90

It has been pouring rain here and will be for the next few days. :( Hope it clears up soon!!!

Sweet dreams!

Birthday Greetings Purple and Yellow Quilled Balloons

This card continues with the balloons theme from 365 Cards Day 27, uses a sparkle element for Tuesday Alchemy's Challenge #7, but also integrates the card sketch from The Sweet Stop. I knew I wanted to make a birthday card with those balloons!

I used a purple and yellow theme throughout this card. The words and balloon background were stamped and then brushed with Perfect Pearls.

Laser Print Happy Birthday Card

How are you all doing this evening? While my bf is watching a hockey game, I get to do my "girly" thing. lol

This is a happy birthday card that I designed and laser printed on high quality cardstock. It's a great card to give to any birthday girl who has an eye for simple and clean layouts.  It's also easy to duplicate with different types of flowers:

I'm sure that when I don't have time to make a birthday card in the future, this will be my go-to card. 


Have a good evening!