THANK YOU!

Hello! Happy Tuesday! I need to go back to work tonight, but I still have a holiday fever. [Sigh.] I just hope it wouldn't be a tough night.

Anyhow, I am here to share to you several cards and whatnots that I made over the past few weeks as a way of thanking the owner and Design Team Leader of Bee Happy Crafts who was so generous to us for providing such lovely tools and supplies and for appreciating what we do.

I haven't been able to show my gratitude sooner (last October when my third month as a Design Team member ended), but I really wanted to give her a gift (or should I say several gifts) as a token of my gratitude. I just was not able to send them to her sooner. As the saying goes, 'It is better late than never.' Heh. I hope she likes them. Here they are.

1. Thank You Card
This is not what I had in mind when I was picturing out how the card would look like, but as I was making it, things started to happen. Hah. It was supposed to be orange and blue, but it turned out to be green instead of blue. I can't figure out how that came to be. I still had fun making it though. It is a little bit weird, but I think it is okay.

CARD# HPJ-2016-01: Thank You So Much 

I distressed the papers from the Tim Holtz paper stash. I stamped on the surface and embossed the image using weathered white embossing powder. After which, I adhered the embellishments. I added glass bead medium for texture glazed the embellishments. I sprayed glimmer mist as an afterthought. Voila! There goes my thank you card.

MATERIALS AND TOOLS USED: Bevania Splendorgel White, Eno Greeting 8"x8" paper pad Comfortable Afternoon, Papemelroti Tag, chipboard sticker, Eno Greeting 3D sticker, Eno Greeting resin embellishment, buttons, paper flowers, beads, self-adhesive crystal, Kaisercraft Clear Stamps Diamonds, Ranger Archival Ink Jet Black, Ranger Embossing Powder Weathered White, Ranger Heat It Tool, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Bahama Blue, FolkArt Acrylic Paint Emerald Green, Stanley Glue Gun 

2. Blank Cards
I made a set of blank mixed media cards which she can give to her friends on their birthday or to just say hi. I actually did a little experimenting on these cards. I changed the process which I usually follow when I make mixed media cards. I tried to mimic Elena Morgun's way of making her cards. Her process is great, but I think I will just stick to mine. It felt a little awkward and weird. I am more comfortable with how I do things, but I will definitely use some of her techniques like using chipboard for added dimension and completing the front of the card before adhering it onto the card base. I love her works. I wish I could be half as good as her.

Basically, I made the cards using similar materials. I just changed the layouts and the sentiments.


For each card, I layered several bits of patterned paper and topped it with various embellishments. I splattered some paint over it to make it more interesting and of course I added a couple of crystals because they are one of my staple supplies in making cards. Heh.

CARD# HPJ-2016-02: Hello

CARD# HPJ-2016-03: Celebrate

CARD# HPJ-2016-04: Enjoy

CARD# HPJ-2016-05: Birthday Wishes

MATERIALS AND TOOLS USED: Rives Board Paper Tradition Black, Moods Board Paper Stormy Grey, Tim Holtz Paper Stash 8"x8" Miscellaneous and French Industrial Revolution, printed texts, Eno Greeting Wooden Flourishes, paper flowers, metal charms, beads, self-adhesive crystals, buttons, brads, shrink plastic embellishments, Eno Greeting 3D stickers, Prima Marketing Clear Stamps Vintage Vanity Musica, Bo Bunny Clear Stamps Sentiments, Ranger Archival Ink Jet Black, The Crafter's Worshop Mini Stencil Chicken Wire Reversed, Golden Light Molding Paste, Golden Glass Bead Medium, Golden Soft Gel Medium, Pebeo Gesso, Reeves Acrylic Paint Mars Black, Ranger Embossing Ink Pad, Ranger Embossing Powder Super Fine Black, Ranger Heat It Tool, Stanley Glue Gun

3. Tags

I love how the Christmas tags I made for the Design Team last year turned out and I wanted to use the same principle in making another set. Here is what I came up with. (Sorry for the stenciled part. I must have overheated the molding paste. TT.TT.)

TAG# HPJ-2016-01: Cherish

TAG# HPJ-2016-02: Remember

TAG# HPJ-2016-03: Moments

TAG# HPJ-2016-04: Memories

MATERIALS AND TOOLS USED: DCWV 12"x12" Chalkboard Stack, All About Scrapbooking 12"x12" paper, printed text, Eno Greeting Wooden Flourishes, paper flowers, metal charms, buttons, beads, The Crafter's Workshop Mini Stencils Art Is, Brocade and Chicken Wire Reversed, Prima Marketing Stencil Harlequin, Golden Light Molding Paste, FolkArt Metallic Acrylic Paint Blue Topaz and Pearl White, Ranger Embossing Ink Pad, Prima Marketing Clear Stamps Vintage Vanity Musica, Ranger Embossing Powder Weathered White, Ranger Crackle Paint Rock Candy, Golden Glass Bead Medium, micro pearls, Golden Soft Gel Medium Gloss, Stanley Glue Gun

P.S. For some reason the color of the text would not change to black no matter how many times I try so please bear with it. I'll figure something out later. Also, I have yet to add the paper clips, bookmarks and altered box. I will post them as soon as I finish editing the photos. Thanks for looking today! Have a great week!

CARD# PR-2015-3: Vintage Birthday

Hi there! I’m back! I had wanted to write about the latest trishutter card that I made last week, but unfortunately our internet connection was down. It was not until yesterday that it finally got to work. How have you all been?

If you’ll ask me, I’m doing fine. I met some of my high school friends last Saturday and I got to chat with them for a couple of hours. The one who commissioned the card above is also a high school classmate who happened to be in the metro during the time we had the small get together. I had no idea she was here at all. I thought she was in the province so I had planned on shipping the card to her there. Ooh. She should have said so and had come with us so I could have handed it to her just like what I did with Karisse’s cards. But then again she had some other plans with her brother so she did not catch up with us.

Anyway, this is a birthday card (obviously! Hehe.) She couldn’t decide at first what it shall be, but later on she said she wanted a trishutter with a matching box. She wanted it to be vintage and instead of the more popular color palette from my previous commissions, black and white, she wanted it brown. Thank God for that. I am running out of black patterned paper and the online stores do not have much paper pads nor kits with this color palette.

The card measures 4 ¼” x 6” when closed.

I made a slight variation on the layout of the panels. Instead of putting the message space at the center panel, I placed it over two panels on the right.

Like my other trishutter cards, I used molding paste, die cuts, stamps and what not in decorating the background. I didn’t use that much embellishments since the papers already give out so much flare.

Oh. And before I forget, you must have noticed the cardstock that I used for the base. It is the same as the one I used on the previous card—the stormy gray board paper from Moods. I really love this paper!

As for the box (excuse the number of pictures. I used different designer papers for the panels and I wanted to show how each side looked like.), I covered the lid with bits of designer paper and adhered a tag with a sentiment on it. She will tie it with a length of brown cotton tape that I will be including in the set.

I hope Kim likes it and the recipient would appreciate it. Thanks for stopping by today! Have a great week!

MATERIALS AND TOOLS USED: Moods Board Paper Stormy Gray, Tim Holtz Idea-Ology Paper Stash 12x12 paper pad French Industrial Revolution, Elit Specialty Board Paper Buffalo Brown, Rives Board Paper Tradition Black, self-adhesive crystals, puff sticker, Golden Molding Paste, The Crafter’s Workshop Stencil Mini Window Screen, Kaisercraft Clear Stamps, Bo Bunny Clear Stamps Flourishes & Such, Inkadinkado Clear Stamps Inspirational Lift, rubber stamps, Ranger Archival Ink Jet Black, Beauty Pigment Ink Black, Spellbinders  Shapeabilities Fancy Framed Tags One, Cuttlebug Machine V2