I love Sundays

Don't you just love Sundays? Kick your shoes off, relax on the couch, watch a movie, make a card...a few cards... :) I saw this scrapbook page with this gorgeous yellow and gray coloring. I thought I'd make a card with the same colors. Here it is! Enjoy!

ps. Isn't that floral background beautiful?

Ok, so I had a LOT of free time on my hands...I made another one. This one I just really loved the patterned cardstock. So I used it again. (I used the same cardstock for my Finaly Friday Video and had lots to spare...) Enjoy!

Nice Running Into You

I just remembered that I had bought some stamps during my vacation. I was going through them and thought that this sheep stamp was just adorable. I didn't know what sentiment to go with it, and I only own a handful of sentiment stamps. So, I tried what many card makers do...write my own sentiment! I never wished I had much better handwriting until this moment! Hahaha! Anyway, enjoy!

~ Jean

Finally Friday Card

Hi! This is my submission for Kristina Werner's Finally Friday Video card. I had a lot of fun making it. And I decided to go with a 5 x 5 card instead of the regular size this time. I love the colors of the cardstock, with the rich brown and orange tones. Enjoy!

CPS #158 Entry

Hi! This is my entry for the CPS #158 Card Sketches. I saw this really really cute slipper patterned paper and thought I would love to use it as an embelishment rather than as a background patterned paper. And so I cut them separately and put them in a row. I love them!!!

 I love challenges like these. They give you a purpose or "theme" when making a card. Which is sometimes hard to come up with. And I love looking at people's work. They're all very inspiring! Enjoy!

~ Jean

For the Trees

Hi! This is my entry to Paper Crafts' make-a-card challenge. Ok, ok...so there are no trees in this card...but I chose the green patterned paper because it reminded me of trees. :)  And of course, how could I miss the chance to use my monkey stamp once more :)  Wish me luck!Enjoy!

St. Patrick's Day Challenge

Hi! Stormy day today! My poor husband had to go back to work twice today to take care of some things. I've been cleaning and doing laundry all day. Even gave the dogs a bath :) After everything was done, I suddenly wanted to relax and make a card. I just watched Kristina Werner's Finally Friday Video last night and I wanted to make a card myself. She's such an inspiration. I find myself waiting for Mondays and Fridays gladly because of her videos. I'm not very familiar with St. Patrick's Day, I just notice green all around hehe.
And so this is my version of a St. Patrick's Day card! Hope you like it!

I chose different shades of green and blue-greens. I hope it's visible in the picture. I don't have a very good light source and so sometimes my pictures don't exactly look the same as the real thing. But I hope this looks good enough! I had fun making this card! And just because I have a little more time on my hands...here's another one! Enjoy!

I"m Back Home!

Hi! I'm back home from vacation. That was a wonderful wonderful vacation that I wish wouldn't end. There was only one little thing though...I didn't have my scrap/card making table!!! Although there were so many things to do and see, I would always miss making cards and scrapbook pages. And so I would find myself running into booksales to look for back issues of my favorite craft magazines. (Card making and scrapbooking are still new to the Philippines and so they didn't have much for me.) I did find to my delight that there's a Scrapbooking Society of the Philippines! Looking at samples from what the members had made gave me a little smile each time. Although they have no idea what they're missing!!! Scrapbooking and card making supplies were so scarce I wondered how they managed to make those pages let alone start a Scrapbooking Society! I hope more of our supplies find their way there so that more people can enjoy what we are all enjoying right now. So on my first few days at home I made a scrapbook page and card. Here's my card, I feel a little rusty so bear with me. :)

I'm still not very good at taking pictures of my cards. It looks so different when I look at it on my desk and when I see it on my blog. The colors aren't as vibrant. I only have a point and shoot little Canon camera for now...perhaps later on?.....  :)

Oh and you will not believe what I found in one of my trips!!! A little market that sells paper/fabric flowers, ribbons, buttons, rhinestones...and soooo much more!!!! The ribbons were $3-$5 dollars each for 50 yards!!! Yes! You read that right! 50 yards!!!! I was in ribbon heaven!!! I couldn't buy all the ribbons I wanted for fear of not being able to bring them all back due to weight constraints. And so I ended up with 40 spools! :) 

 

I was sooo excited while choosing that the sales clerks couldn't understand why! Hahaha! But they were all smiling. I guess it was because I looked like a kid who found ice cream heaven! :) Anyway, it's good to be back updating my blog. 

Thanks and take care!

~ Jean