CC Designs Review of Watering Can Heidi.

Good morning, everyone!

Long time, no see! I've been on vacay mode, then have been feeling under the weather, so the mojo just haven't been there. I do, however, have a couple of projects to show you during the next 24 hours!

It's review time over at C.C. Designs, and my card is all about the May release of Swiss Pixie Watering Can Heidi. I picked to showcase her because I'm super envious! You see, I do not have a green thumb at all! While my mom's house is full of blooming orchids, I could barely keep a succulent alive. It's true! I've even killed a cactus! I mean who does that, right??!! :)



Anyway, Watering Can Heidi reminds me to also conserve water as here in California, we are going through a drought! I'm so sad about that... where are the Spring showers? For my card, I picked soft colors and flowery papers. Hope you get to visit the CCD blog and store!!

See you soon!

Easter Party at TGF!

Hello all!!

It's time for another TGF project showcase from the Print & Cut team! It's our last chance to work and post about the Hoppy Easterkit (for now), and our theme is to make an Easter-themed 3D card and a scrapbook lay-out!

I hosted Easter this year for my family so I decided to make an all-out party-on scenic card! I even dove into my stamp stash and grabbed Easter Anya and Lucky Bunnies -- they were all very fun to color! The color scheme isn't your typical pastel-like Spring, but I really wanted a bright creation! They sure are having a great time, especially Easter Bean, who is an exclusive digi stamp from the kit!



My 3D effect comes from this special fold. I under-shot the folding part so the angle isn't quite right, tee hee! But you get the gist, right? :) The fence with the confetti was created by lining up these fun little tags I got (sorry, I don't remember where). They kinda reminded me of lots and lots and lots.... and lots and lots of Easter eggs, don't you think?

My other project is a Project Life lay-out featuring more pics from last year. Here's my son during his preschool's Easter Egg Hunt. The younger tater tot joined in, but he was cranky (it was naptime, if I remember correctly).





I let the pictures do the talking again. And included these cute stickers from a scrapbooking kit I got featuring Peeps. They are adorable!



I'll be seeing you soon! I am on vacay this week so I may be crafting sporadically.

P.S. Make sure you visit the other TGF File Design team members - Claudette, Cynthia, and Sui Lan.

Toot-a-loo!!

Some Bunny Loves You.

Hi all!!

Easter weekend is underway for me...are you almost ready?

We usually do a BIG celebration, being Catholic and all. But also because now there are quite a number of little ones in our family. That's what good about having kiddies, right? You see every thing through their eyes! The Easter Bunny, the egg-hunting, the beautifully-decorated church, the people all dressed in their Sunday best!

Here on my crafty blog-o-sphere, I've still got a couple of Easter-themed projects to show you!

Today, I am so excited to showcase Jo Davies' newest creations for her line, Time for Tea Designs!

Not only does she have an adorable digi stamp (Some Bunny Loves You) that's perfect for Spring, she's got five different sets of digital Spring papers!!! They are so easy to use. And they have wonderful designs to boot!



Once purchase, you could easily print and cut them as I did here. Or if you have one of those fancy machines like a Silhoutte, you can so many 3D projects with these! Jo has an amazing example on her blog!

And ya know what else? She's having an Easter sale on all the items in her shop. Just read the details here for 30% off until Monday, the 21st.

Also, please don't forget that we want to see your T4TD creations ... there's a challenge going on right now until the end of the month (Anything Goes). There's a stellar prize for the 1st and 2nd winners!!

Well, gotta go back to my Spring Cleaning... which by the way, goes together with my Easter weekend. You see, my hubs and I are hosting :).

Laterz,

Easter at Milk Coffee.

Hello, hello, hello!

Peeps, it is time for another Challenge over at Milk Coffee!! This time, it's all about Easter!

Now you may not agree that this image, although cute, is an Easter stamp. But Lisbeth and Big Mushroom in the Rain is quite perfect for new beginnings, right? Get it... rain and growth, sadness then happiness?

Plus, with the added chicks and jelly beans and pastel colors, the only things missing are eggs and bunnies!! BTW, I'm saving those stickers for another project! :)




Remember that you've got two weeks to play! I hope you all join us! The Milk Coffee shop is full of amazing and adorable images! But you could still create something with any stamped image! Using MC would be a HUGE plus though!

Please head on over to the blog to see the other DT's cards!! Trust me, you will be inspired!

Talk to ya later,



P.S. The "Peep" sentiment is from The Greeting Farm's Hoppy Easter Kit. :)

April Showers.

Hello, everyone! I'm playing along with Some Odd Girl's April Showers Challenge on their Facebook group. The challenge is all about rain showers, umbrellas, and Spring flowers.

I've colored up the lovely Rainbow Fairy a while back, and thought she'd be perfect for this challenge. We've been having lots of showers here on our neck of the woods, and I've also been seeing a rainbow here and there. The kiddies get giddy when they spot them too, and I've got to admit, they are so beautiful to look at. I always try to take a picture but photographs don't do them justice.



Anyway, back to the challenge... I am a big fan of "mixing things up." I picked some cloud overlays from Hambly (again) as they are my current cloud patterned paper (and believe me, I've got tons of those). And thought these 3-D flowers from Sassafras were the perfect colors and embellishments for the Spring theme. They are a bit more shabby chic while Hambly is all about graphic lines. Am loving how they came together though to bring this pretty unique-looking card. Quite right for a Some Odd Girl challenge, am I right?? :)

Hope you all have an awesome day and I'll see you next week!

Spring and Easter at TGF.

**If you are looking for the C.C. Designs' Day One Preview of April Stamps, please click HERE or scroll down. *****


Hello, hello, hello!!

It's time for new projects featuring The Greeting Farm's new and current print and cuts file - Hoppy Easter.

The DT made a Spring-themed creation as well as an Easter Project Life one. The kit definitely works for both! Here's my Spring one... I made a card using Easter Bean, which is exclusive in this digital kit:



Isn't she adorable? She is so much fun to color! And her dress is too cute! Do you all dress up for Easter? I try to find an outfit that is fresh and a l'il flower-y, if not pastel-colored. I do the same for my boys! I hope to do it for my hubby this time around, but he does not like to dress up (boo!). I used to not care for pastels, but I must say that I've been loving these soft colors lately. Tried to incorporate all of my current fave Spring colors here.



And for my PL, here are pics from Easter 2013 decorated with the Daily Life components. I really like how this kit is so versatile and so there are tons of ways to combine these designs!



I have yet to include any journaling, but as you can see, the pics pretty much tell the story. Below are my parents with their grandkids. It's next to impossible to get a great group pic of toddlers and babies, right? :)



Please make sure you visit the TGF blog and the rest of the Print & Cuts DT: Claudette, Cynthia, and Sui Lan!

Toodles,

Welcome Spring!

Good evening, peeps! It's Wednesday night here, which means it's Thursday morning in Indonesia where the lovely Milk Coffee digital stamps originated!

The challenge for the next two weeks is Welcome Spring!

Isn't this image so darling? She will be a new release at the MC shop soon! I don't know about you but I am totally relaxed and could feel the breeze and the tickle of grass on my feet just by looking at this. :)

It's actually Summer-themed but I added lots of flowers for that Spring-like feel. It works, don't ya think? The felt flowers are from my crafty friend, Cathy. They're fab!



And I'm quite proud for doing purplish tones... it's the hardest color for me to work with / match. But I really do like how her lilac 'do came through. Reminds me of this fashionable chica.

Hope you all get to play along! Please view the Milk Coffee blog to see the other Design Team members' creations!

Have a wonderful and crafty day!

Hoppy Easter Kit from TGF!

Good morning, all!

We've got a brand new Daily Life/ Print & Cut kit at The Greeting Farm! It's very adorable as you can see, and oh so perfect for Easter and Spring!

And, whaddya know? There's something good about being a procrastinator! You see, I scrapbooked my phone pics from Easter 2013 into my last year's Project Life. But I also have these pics from my DSLR cam that I never got to scrap. So, I was so very happy to finally work with them and at the same time, showcase this awesome digital kit!





I've left the journaling for later to really show the cards and graphics here. And did you notice? There's a stamp included in this kit! The Hoppy Easter kit contains: 4 -3×4 journal and filler cards, 2 -6×4 filler and journal card, 20 – elements and one EXCLUSIVE digital stamp! She's cute, isn't she?

I'll be showing you a project with her colored, but doesn't she look adorbs just in plain b&w too? :)

And I'm so very happy with two great news!

One, my good Instagram friends: Cynthia and SuiLan will be joining Claudette and I!! Btw, I'm rinnesbliss on there (my craft account) and rinnester (personal). Add me! :)

And two, I am no longer a guest designer... I'm official!! Woo hooo!!!!!

Hope you tune in for more TGF Print and Cut designs!!

Bunny Olivia.

Hello all! It's time for theMarch release reviews of C.C. Designs!

Here's Miss Swiss Pixie Bunny Olivia featured on my card, front and center.

I've been hoarding this first Dear Lizzy line, and it's about time to let some of it go. Got lots of precious patterns going on here, so the lay-out is pretty simple. I just love the bright but subtle and colorful tones of Spring, don't you??



See you all very soon!!

Last Preview Day for C.C.Designs' March releases.

Top of the mornin' to ya!!

Today's the last day of March previews over at C.C. Designs, and it's Sweet November time!

Amy Young's Sweet November Bunny Tails are truly perfect for Spring and Easter. So much so that I wanted to include them in my Project Life*. This project is a 4x6 journal card.



I was mostly inspired by these colorful bunny Peeps I spotted online. I was drooling over them as I am trying a low carb lifestyle right now, and also admiring how pretty they were! Enter Copics and these images and voila! My very own Easter low carb option :).

Since I already had Shanna Noel's Print Shop papers out for another CCD project, I used up the scallop designed paper. The colors pretty much matched up although I truly didn't plan it that way. I thought it was quite pleasing to the eye and was a nice surprise!



Added some cute stickers and of course, the flowers had to show up somewhere -- it is a Spring card afterall! Used a date stamp to document when Easter would be in my Project Life album.

*(If you haven't heard of PL, it's basically a different way of scrapbooking. Created by Becky Higgins, it's mostly putting in cards in a pocket protector system. You can view more info here).


Hope y'all have a stellar day!!

C.C. Designs' Day 3 of March Previews.

Hiya Peeps!! And welcome to Day 3 of previews over at C.C. Designs' March Releases. This little cutie is from Pollycraft, and her name is Queenie! She is just super cute, don't ya think?

When we were able to pick the stamps we're showcasing, I chose her because of that darling, curly hair! Oh, oh, oh! I can't stand how adorbs she is! Curly hair isn't very easy for me to color. I also wanted to try red/ orange, because she is just so sassy to me! I am quite pleased with how it turned out. :)



Again, as it is a Spring-themed stamp, I wanted to choose feminine, colorful papers. Allison Kreft's Composition and Color line was the way to go. To match Miss Queenie's sassiness, I mixed up lots of patterns and colors. Am still using up those resin flowers, which go along with her dress, don't ya think?

Thanks so much for visiting! See ya back here tomorrow for the last day of previews!!

Toot-a-loo!!

Preview Day 2 at C.C. Designs.

Hi all!!

Today is Day 2 for the previews over at C.C. Designs' March releases. It's all about the new Roberto's Rascals. I've combined two of them -- Henry with Chick and Henry's Bunny -- into one card. Since I have two sons, I thought this would be their card for Easter :).



They're such fun images to color, and I love how sweet their demeanors are. My tater tots love animals so I know they'll just adore this!

When I was coloring, I found that there was a lot of negative space in between them. Thought this would be a great opportunity for a scenic card (which I enjoy making!). I applied some metallic rub-ons against the edges of a cut-up cloud to create the sky. To continue with the sky/ cloud theme, I layered two Hambly overlays against kraft cardstock. I'm really swooning over the effect of this, and besides the two stamps, it's my favorite part of the card!

I continued to extend the grass as well by using fringe scissors by Martha Stewart on green patterned paper.

Hope you all enjoyed my card! Looking forward to Easter now!!

Toodles,

March Previews Day 1 for CC Designs.

Good morning, everyone!

It's my first post on new previews there at C.C. Designs, and I'm so very excited!!

Today, I'm showing you cards previewing the new C.C. Designs releases for March. They will available on March 6th, 12 noon EST, and I hope you visit the blog for more DT previews!

Here's a project featuring Snail:



Snails hold a special place in my heart right now because of the movie, Turbo, that my youngest absolutely loves! I wanted to use up a color combination that was new to me though, and I was lucky enough to find these papers from Shanna Noel's Print Shop line. I think they are perfect for the subdued, simple, but interesting look I was trying to achieve with this garden snail.




Thanks so much for visiting, everyone!! I hope you all have a great rest of the weekend!! And don't forget... the BIG day is March 6th for the reveal!!