Lunar New Year Card

Growing up, I loved celebrating Chinese New year with my family. I had such fond memories that I tried to create the same festive atmosphere at home for my kids with special food and decorations. 

However, this is my first year making a Lunar New Year card. The reason I decided to make one this year is because of Anna Griffin's Carte Canton Bleu Finishing Box. The blue vases in the kit reminded me of the beautiful antique vases that my parents had in their home. So I dressed the embellishments up with a little bit of red, pulled out my Chinese Greetings die cut set, together with a cherry blossom die from Hero Arts and Anna Griffin's 3D fantastic fan die and created the card. It is featured in Anna's blog in her Craftspiration - Jan 12, 2023 post.

The sentiment is in Chinese, meaning "blossoming flowers bringing good luck."

A few more cards made in 2022 with Anna Griffin products

In 2022, I made some thank you cards for friends who supported my Go2 foundation for lung cancer 5K walk. I used Anna's Wildflower Garden Collection, 3D Butterfly dies and Cartouche Cut and Emboss folders. It was a lot of fun making them. 

I'm honored to see these being features on Anna's blog in her Craftspiration - August 18, 2022.

 

For my anniversary, I made my hubby a card from Anna's Fantastic Flip Die 2. It was featured on Anna's blog in her Craftspiration - September 29, 2022. 

I also made some cards for my church's caring ministry. I used Anna's Inspirational Collage Card Topper. I made the embellishments with her Pleated Ribbon Die. These cards were featured in her Craftspiration - October, 2022 post. 

New cards made with Anna Griffin products

Lately, I've been using a lot of Anna Griffin's products, for feminine cards and also for those milestone scrapbook pages. 

I am honored to see a few of my cards have been featured in Anna's blog. The first set was featured in her Craftspiration - May 5th, 2022 blog. The two cards were sympathy cards that I needed to send quickly. I was sad to hear of the losses but the "inspiration card toppers" made it easier to put the card together. It was also a pleasure to work with the die and embossing folders from her "wildflower craft box". 

The next set of birthday cards were fun to make. I used Anna's oval easel die, her flourish die and treasury die and stamp sets to create the sentiments. These cards are featured in Anna's Craftspiration - May 25th, 2022 blog. 

March PPC Paper Pad Challenge

 I haven't done any challenges for a long time, and the PPC challenge is just the right one to start out again.  It is a 'use your paperpad' challenge and I used Basic Grey Serendipity & Shine On pad for these two birthday layouts.  I was able to dig up some old Thickers, leftover chipboard from an old BG calendar kit and a K&Co rub-on.   This is the perfect 'use your stash' projects.

Simple yet beautiful card kits in bulk

With the use of Queen & Co foundation and sentiment dies, I find that it's very easy to make simple yet beautiful card kits in bulk for a fun card-making gathering.   I recently made 30 of these (1 card kit, 2 styles)  for our church's women fellowship, and the feedback from my gracious friends was very positive!   Similarly these can be used for teenage outreach program or nursing homes.   It is a fun way to get everyone together and craft.  

It is particularly useful during this time of pandemic since it's hard to have large group congregate (we don't want any super spreader events though we do want to spread the love) and many gatherings have to be on Zoom.  As we can't share tools in person, having these card kits ready makes crafting a breeze.  It is easy to include a simple instruction or video along with the kits.  I think I will do more of these in the future.  

Sizzix $2500 Ultimate Giveaway

Haven't been able to blog for a long time, but I could use some Sizzix die for card-making and jump-starting my smashbook again!  :)

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Project 52 - Week 3

This is Week 3 of Project 52.  It has been an extraordinarily cold week, with 28F weather, even colder than the East Coast.  It's a nice week for fire in the backyard, and some marshmellow roasting.

With hubby away for a personal trip, the kids insisted upon 'camping out' in the living room.  Why not?  It's the weekend.. and it's warmer when we all sleep in one big room!  :)

Supplies:
K&Co Smash Book Retro Style
Basic Grey Dasher paper
Basic Grey Origins journaling set

Project 52 - Week 2

This week, I've written about some warm weather food I've cooked for the family.  There are some really good childhood memories attached to these recipes since mom made quite a few of them in the winter when I was young.

I've also written about my journey to take care of my leg/back pain since my pain doctor has decided to stop treating me with the trigger point injections.  I am going to think about what my plans are in order to get rid of the pain... so here it is:

Supplies:
K&Co Smash Book Retro Style
Basic Grey Kioshi paper and embellishments