For Mom @ DS4J

Hello there! Wishing you great times on this beautiful day!

Over at Digistamps4Joy is an on going Anything Goes challenge with a twist For Mom in conjunction to Mother's Day celebration this entire month.

My team-B-mates have designed stunning cards for this special to inspire you and invite you to play along with us. Click here and link up your creation(s) before June set in.

Here's my card and tell me what you think. 

This has been one of my favorite Misteri series by the artist Jen Lee. Click here to purchase this pretty Misteri Graduate.

The sentiment is from Ginger's House which I printed long ago but never use. I was looking through my files and came across this printed word of wisdom and figured it's just perfect for this project. Why not!

I hope you find this card appealing and let me know if you feel the sentiment is true {smile}.

Until I see you again soon.

~Happy Mother's Day~

Hugs and smiles,

For The Guys {Mid-Challenge Reminder} @ DS4J

{My DT work for DS4J}

Greetings from a cold atmosphere! The rain season will continue until year ends that will give my garden much happiness without me when we are away for vacation for some five weeks. I'm so looking forward to returning to my hometown and spend time with my beloved mom. I'm bringing home a pot of rose for her and hopefully it will flower while I'm at mom's place. I'm also looking forward to visit my dear father's graveyard. Lots of plans during our vacation. Meanwhile I have started spring cleaning and getting rid a lot of boxes yesterday. I still have one spot to de-clutter this weekend. Here's hoping for more energy, lol.

It's just unbelievable that 2017 will soon bid us farewell seeing that today is already middle November. Time flies eh. Without further ado, let me take you to this day happening at Digistamps4Joy. We bring you new inspirations for this month's challenge hosted by Desire Fourie. The theme is Anything Goes as always and Desire has chosen an optional twist "For The Guys" if you wish to create a masculine card.

I simply played with watercolors to create this clean and simple card:

 I used Cape Canary digital stamp that is available at DS4J shop.

The sentiment is from Ginger's House.

 That's it for today. I hope you will play along with us in this month's challenge. You could be the winner and win digi stamps from Margy the owner.

Thank you for dropping by and always remember that God is always with you.

Hugs and smiles,

 

November Challenge @ MHKDesigns

{My DT work for MHKDesigns}

Hello friends! I'm so excited to share with you a dt project I did for MHKDesigns November challenge and this is the final challenge this year.

The designers have created beautiful projects to feast your eyes and hopefully you are inspired to play along with us before the month end.

I made two tags with combination of digital stamps and some mixed media elements:

 Some up-close pictures:

The flower image and sentiments are from funky foliage and growing goodness digistamp sets.

 I printed a frame image from heaven heals and cut it into two pieces and glue them down.

 Are you inspired to play along with us?

You don't have to use the holiday theme this month as in the graphic below if you use any digi stamp set from MHKDesigns though. 

 That's it for today. See you at Mr. Linky soon

Thank you for dropping by and I truly appreciate your visit this time.

Fill up you November with lots of fun and happiness.

Hugs and smiles,

Life is Beautiful @ MHKDesigns

{My DT work for MHKDesigns}

Hello again everyone! I am so excited to share with you my project for MHKDesigns.

In my previous post regarding the new release , I was asked to create some plain cards for kindergarten pupil. This is my second attempt in the plain card series and I find the images in this month's release are just perfect to fulfill one's intention. 

This set is named Funky Fall Foliage:

That's it for today. Looking forward to see your creations at MHKDesigns October challenge.

Happy creating my friends.

Hugs and smiles,

You Got This @ DS4J

{My DT work for DS4J}

Happy Sunday to you! I realized how each and every day pass by quickly from week to week I can hardly remember what I have done at times {sign of hectic schedule perhaps} but nevertheless I am very pleased with myself with what I completed and achieved day by day. This week I plan to finish off some sewing projects. I shall see {smile}.

What I am showing you today is a card made for Digistamps4Joy and today we bring you new releases at the shop. I used Mechanobug image on my card:

I wanted to highlight the digital stamp therefore I created a less is more background using gesso, texture paste, papers strips and watercolors. 

 The image is drawn by Delyth who doodles awesome mandalas and other fabulous images. I printed the image and fuzzy cut neatly then only I started giving it colors.

I had so much fun making this card although at first I did have tough time deciding what to create with this mechanical bug. I love the end result and so does my youngest child who find this image looks like stegosaurus :)

~~ooOOoo~~
That's all I have for today. I thank you for stopping by and do play along in our challenge this month with optional twist happy birthday.

Hugs and smiles,

Loving Life @ DS4J

{My DT work for DS4J}

Hello and welcome to my blog on this beautiful Sunday. It's the last day of school break and my children return to school tomorrow and this third semester will be a hectic for each of them having lot of revision to do for final exams some time in October. They keep me wrapped up on that matter for sure besides being their 'cab driver' all day round. I am always on the run five days a week juggling mostly between routine schedules and my desire in artwork. Nevertheless I always look forward to weekend when I can at least rest my feet against the wall while my eyes read magazines as I lay down for a short rest.

Enough mom's blab {smile}. Let me now take you to Digistamps4Joy new releases at the shop today. Meanwhile take a peek at DS4J blog to view some wonderful creations my team-B-mates have created using the new releases.

I made two projects and here's a set of ATCs using Mandala 5 drawn by Delyth. I hardly use vibrant colors in my creation so I must say this is happy bold colors I chose to brighten up the grey weather we are having the past month up to now due to constant rain without warning and not fast enough to save my laundry under the patio at times {lol} and also hopefully my bright ATCs will cheer your life this September.

 And here a few close up pictures:

I printed some mandalas on a piece of 130gsm acid free drawing paper and fussy cut to stick on the finished background.

The quotes are from internet.

You may spot lines of fiber in the background. It's actually a piece of fine lace I bought from haberdashery a while back.

Next up is an art journal using a colored digistamp named Springbok drawn by the artist, Lyndall herself, This is my first time using colored digistamp from DS4J ever since I joined the team four years ago. It's a record, lol. I have always preferred black and white digistamps that allow me more choices and flexibility in creating but however when Margy gave us the colored version, I knew it saved me time from coloring this beauty and just focus on the background.  

 Some close up pictures:

 I have two more pages left in the art journal book to finish up and created this one using combination of gesso and white watercolor paint to cover up the text in the pages. The pattern is made by using modeling paste through a stencil and let dry. Then I used two different blues and yellow watercolor paints to highlight the patterns by spritzing waters and let them run here and there until I feel satisfied. 

 The deer was carefully cut out with scissor so I won't cut off the legs, yes it's very delicate.

I wish to play along in these challenges:

1. Art Journal Journey : Color In My World

2. Crafty Girls Creations : Ch#39 Anything Goes

3. Crafty Animals : Ch#6 Anything Goes (Must Have Animals)

4. Love To Scrap : Ch#101 Anything Goes

And that's a wrap from me. I sincerely hope you find my creations interesting and may inspire you to make a project or two this week. While you are it, we hope you will join us in the monthly challenge this month. The theme is always Anything Goes and there's a twist if you wish to play along that is warm colors. Sounds great eh? See you at Mr. Linky before September 30.

Thank you for dropping by and have a great week.
Hugs and smiles,

Mixed Media Tag @ MHKDesigns

{My DT work for MHKDesigns}

Happy September! Welcome to another monthly challenge at MHKDesigns.

We bring you fabulous digistamp vintages images in our creations to give you some inspirations. Take a peek here to see what my fellow design teammates have made using MHKDesigns digistamps that are obtainable at the store.

I made a tag using combination of some mixed media elements in the background and highlighting the flowers with contrasting colors from the shades of brown.

 For this project, I used two digistamp sets, Birdcage Silhouettes and Get Well Flowers.

 I printed some flowers and fussy cut to adhere on my the background with pva glue. I like using this glue a lot in all my projects.

 I glued down a piece of gauze when I started the process to create pattern and texture as well. Then I applied modeling paste through a stencil as always.

 I used Faber Castell black watercolor pencil to outline the edges of the flowers and sentiment before I blend with water using aqua brush. This way I try my best to cover the fussy cut edges so they don't look so obvious to the eyes.

 I should have taken a picture of the actual completed tag without the drip and splash of white paint. So just imagine that the background was in shades of brown and a bit of black here and there. I was not satisfied after reaching its completion and need to whiten it so it doesn't look dark. The twist of additional white watercolor paint pleased me very much. 

 The challenge ends at the end of this month with a photo inspiration but if you use products from the MHKDesigns store, you can link up ANYTHING!  

What do you think of this photo inspiration?

I wish to play along in these challenges:

1. Mix It Up : Ch#5 Anything Goes w/ optional twist In-Laid Die Cut

2. 613 Avenue : Ch#201 Atg w/ optional twist Distress It

That's a wrap. I look forward to see your participation in this month's challenge

at Mr. Linky. Until then, wish you a happy September and

thank you for dropping by.

Hugs and smiles,

Good Cheers @ Digistamps4Joy

{My DT work for DS4J}

Happy Sunday everyone! I am so excited to share two projects with you today and our new releases at DS4J Shop.

For my first project, I played with watercolor paints in my art journal book using black and white mandala images drawn by our very new talented artist who joined the team at DS4J commencing today.

Let's welcome Delyth Angharad.

You can view more of Delyth's fabulous mandalas at her website.

For my project today, I used Flower 1 mandala.

Here are some close-up shots:

 I made textured background using texture paste through stencil.

 On both pages, I covered the side edges with serviette I recently bought. Firstly I glue down a ply of it then I brush off with light gesso.

 I printed the mandala into two different sizes on A4 paper and cut it out. Then I adhered them at the corners and used aqua brush to paint with watercolors. I also highlight the edges by making dots with black sharpie for interest.

 The background was painted with Deco Art paints and Buncho watercolors. I love to mix and match different brand of paints just for fun {smile}.

Next up is my second project that used a beautiful drawing by Jen named Thando.

I am a big fan of layers and have used three different pattern papers on my card.  

I truly hope you have enjoyed my lengthy post today.

Do visit DS4J shop for more awesome images.

Also the monthly challenge is still running until the end of this month.

Come join us and stand a chance to win digi prize of your own choice from DS4J.

Thank you for dropping by and wish you a nice week ahead.

Hugs and smiles,