You are my Valentine

Hi everybody!

It's already the 2nd month of the year and I wonder, where did January go? I feel like I slept the whole month what with my strange work hours and my lack of socialization (except in FB).. lol .. But I hope yours was a good one.

After almost a month I was finally able to get my club kit. So full of cuteness! I colored one of them and I had so much fun coloring that I colored several more and made the same cards with it. I thought they looked cute enough to give away for valentines day.

Sorry I can only share 1 photo since my camera is currently not available and my camera phone is not the most advanced one.. lol..

You are My Valentine Tilda

Materials: Cardstock - Simon Says Stamp Card Base; Daler Rowney Cold Pressed Watercolor Paper; Distress Ink; Patterned Paper - Pebbles Ink; Stickles, Sequins, Uniball Signo White Pen

Stamping: You are my Valentine from the Lovely Duos Collection; Archival Ink in Jet Black; Distress Reinkers

Some techniques I've done for this card..

1) For the background, I used a good wet on wet watercolor paper and painted it with different shades of blue Distress Inks. When it was completely dried I applied droplets of water and moved the paper around to take out some of the Distress ink and then blotted it with a paper towel. It makes for a cool bokeh effect. I picked up this technique from Kristina Werner who makes fantastic cards :)

2) Shaker cards are really trendy nowadays. To make the shaker cards instead of using foam tape to create a well for the beads and sequins, I die cut some fun foam.

3) To add to the bokeh effect of the card's background, I added sequins of 2 sizes.

4) I am not a fan of my handwriting but I wanted to try if I can improve my script. The sentiment is handwritten.

Thank you so much for dropping by :)

Tilda With Summer Flags

Hi everybody!

I know, I know.. It's been a loooong time :(  How could I?

Well I'm here and sharing with you a card I made using the newest Magnolia collection Pink Lemonade.. Say yeah! if you think this collection is awesome! It took some time for me to color up these cuties what with work and weather and all that stuff.. haha..

I tried my hand again in coloring with Distress Inks.. But I couldn't find my stash of brushes so I was stuck using a really old used brush and so the blending wasn't so good. But I was happy by the way it turned out so I wanted to use this image despite of that.

So here is my first card using one of the cutie stamps from this collection..

Tilda With Summer Flags

Materials: Cardstock: American Crafts and Basic Grey; Patterned Paper: Magnolia; Flowers: iamroses; lace, ribbon, pistils, misc flowers, pearl strings, gesso, Uniball Signo white pen; Stickles; hemp string; firefly charms

Stamping: Tilda With Summer Flags and Hello Sunshine from Pink Lemonade; Staz-on Saddle Brown; Distress Inks; Aquarelebloc hot pressed watercolor paper

Tools: dooHickey dies

And here are some close-ups of the card..

Thanks so much for stopping by :)

Poppy Tilda

hi guys!
i've been out of circulation for this past 2 weeks trying to recover from the flu which has been on and off since the last week of march :( .. i always get sick especially in the change of seasons.. like right now here in manila summer has arrived and it's hot as an oven on most days.. our pools in the condo looks like public pools with all the kids converging in the late afternoon to swim and frolic in the water. i am not much of a pool person because 1) i cannot swim and 2) i get the shivers very easily.. lol.. my nephews have tried to persuade me and failed everytime they ask me to put on my bathing suit.. lol..

a belated happy easter to all of you :)

Poppy Tilda

Materials: Cardstock: American Crafts; Patterned Papers: Lilybee Designs, Coredinations; Flowers: iamroses; pistils, bells, charm, twine, felt ribbon

Stamping: Poppy Tilda from Sir Stampalot; Langton Cold Pressed Watercolor Paper; Archival Ink; Distress Inks

Tools: Spellbinder, Cheery Lyn, Sizzix, Memory Box Dies

I woke up early today and I thought I would try to do a different take on my photo taking.. The sun was  up and I thought why not try to use natural light for taking photos :)

I only lightened the photo, no need to sharpen or highlight :)

I love how the photos came out.. and so now this means i have to wake up early to take photos of my cards :) lol...


thanks everybody for dropping by :)

Make More Memories Summer Scrap

Hi everybody!

To my Filipino crafters attending the Make More Memories Summer Scrap on April 6, 2013, I will be having a Distress Ink Coloring Workshop. I will be teaching participants in this workshop how I color my Magnolia Stamps to make them more dimensional and life like. It is a technique based workshop so be prepared to learn a bucket load of tips and tricks!

For this workshop we will be coloring this masked image:

Drip Drop Tilda

Materials: Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned Paper: Magnolia & Basic Grey; Flowers: iamroses; Rhinestone: Kaiser Crafts; stockinged butterfly, doily, pistils and stamens, ceramic mushroom, bells, twine, charms, flower spray

Stamping: Drip Drop Tilda from Creashop Duymelot, Mushroom with Snail from Sweet Rainbow Collection; Langton Watercolor pad; Distress Inks; Archival Ink

Tools: dooHickey dies

I hope to see you there :)