Quilling Tulips and Vines Die Cut Thanks Card

There are a few things I need to address because I'm going to keep forgetting if I don't do it now!

-Happy to say that I got 3rd place at the Polkadoodles challenge back in June! Thank you and I apologize for taking so long to acknowledge that!

-More recently I was in the top 5 at Allsorts Challenge Blog for the Acetate Challenge! Many thanks! :)

-Lastly, a great big thanks to Ann Martin for selecting me as a winner for the Party Origami book giveaway! I made her a card as a thank you:

Fun stuff! Thanks to everyone in the crafting community! :)

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Noah's First Birthday Shaped Card

Last weekend was my friend's son's first birthday!

I will admit that this card was an after thought. I remembered to order the gift and then completely forgot to make a card until the morning of the party! 

I have come to realize that I am absolutely the worst at crafting baby cards! I have no creativity at all and I'm lacking that cutesy mind. How unfortunate! 

Have a wonderful labor day weekend!

Best Friends Quilled Flowers and Roses Frame Card

I am thrilled to be a winner of Ann's recent book giveaway--Party Origami!

Does that look exciting or what?! I can't wait to try some of the things--thank you!!!

So how about this NYC weather? 90s leading up to June. Unreal!

Anyway, this is a picture frame card that I made. It's a bit different than usual--it's super girly looking to me and playful. I'm usually more toned down with this stuff, but maybe it's the vibrant flowers outside that are inspiring to me.

This is a picture from about 4 years ago. I'm in the middle, Jen to the right, and Jenny to my left. Jenny already has an (almost) 1 yr old--boy does time fly!

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Star of David Shaped Bat Mitzvah Card

April is here! Hope you had a few good laughs from April Fools Day. :)

I was playing around with this online software for digi stamps and it turns out they have some free ones to let you play around with and print out...so I did--it works! If any of you are interested, you can find it at Cuddly Buddly ARPY. The free ones are on the right bar and you can drag them onto the white space for editing. There's a printer button on the top bar for whenever you're ready to get working on them! Very simple to do. There's also an option to import from your computer or purchase them directly from the site. This process bypasses having to load it into an image editing software on your computer.

Last week, I made some egg tarts for work and they came out pretty well! There are different types, but I just went with the original Cantonese "don tot."

I made a simple shaped card for a friend to give to a girl who was having a bat mitzvah:

The paper used for the overlay of the star actually shimmers pearlescent in the right light.

Happy day to you all!

Quilled Glitter Birthday Balloons Card

First day of spring is here!!! Everything in small portions--winter felt way too long this year!

Today I present to you a card that I made for a co-worker's birthday yesterday. I remember her sporting argyle socks and expressing her love for the pattern, so I found this embossing folder (Darice brand) with the impression for the white background. It works well in my old Cuttlebug!

I don't know if you can see from this side view, but the center is popped up and this enabled me to slip the balloon and conceal the stems of the flowers behind the square.

The writing I put together in my Word processor and printed it out. Simple as that!

These quilled balloons I left as a symbol (without the string on the bottom) and I applied glitter to one of them to jazz it up a bit. :) The glitter stayed put pretty well from what I could tell--didn't create a huge mess and detach too much--yay!









Btw, head over to Spanish Crafter and leave her a comment on this post to enter in her giveaway!

Enjoy your day!

P.S. This card was inspired by My Paper Obsession's card and The Sweetest Thing's Sunday Sketch!

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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Quilled Flowers Vase I Love You Card

Valentine's day is coming up--I remember when my girlfriends and I were single, we would still try to send each other things to make ourselves feel not so lonely. :)

If he were alive today, I would've said happy birthday to a dear friend who'd have turned 27 in 2 days. This bouquet goes out to all of you who are in need of a hug during this long stretch of holidays that may remind you of loved ones who are no longer with us.

About a month 'til Chinese New Year--cheers to all you snake babies!

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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!

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Large Teal Flower All Occasion Card

Good morning all! Another Tuesday and another week at Tuesday Alchemy! This week you can choose any color OR colors to use from magenta, olive, and teal--I chose teal! This card wasn't directed toward anything in particular, so I will leave it as an all occasion card. Large flower center is comprised of 2 smaller flowers and a rhinestone. It may be a little hard to see, but the larger diameter consists of 2 layers of varying shades of blue. 

This week's fabulous sponsors are Di's Digi Downloads and Broken Box Designs. Play along for a chance at winning prizes!

It's a rainy week here in NYC. Hope it's beautiful wherever you are to make up for this weather!

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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

Thank You Laine--Quilled Flowers Card

Now that Laine received the thank you card I sent to her for sending all of those awesome prizes over to me, I can post it! Though I've been able to do it for a few days now I just haven't had the time to sit down and get it out there! 

The larger petals were made by husking quilling paper. Centers are dabbed with Versamark ink. Sentiment looks a bit off because I wanted to create a shadow as well as use Perfect Pearls to make it shimmer, but it didn't turn out quite as clean as I wanted it to look. Circles in the background were die cut and spread out. The two on the right were dabbed in gray ink. 

Can you believe it is September already? Does time seriously fly faster and faster as you get older? 

This card is entered in:

-Spark Your Creativity Now! #1 Anything Goes

-Inky Impressions Anything Goes

-Tuesday Alchemy -Anything Goes

-Make it Monday - Anything Goes
-Challenges4Everybody #2 Anything Goes

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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