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A Kimchi Soul from Seoul,South Korea, Meets Her Creativity
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15554706275088853957noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604159339921216441.post-74924005239604400622014-09-01T06:37:00.005-07:002014-09-01T06:39:15.640-07:00CAS 110: Letter<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is my second entry to <a href="http://casology.blogspot.kr/2014/08/week-110-letter.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Casology for their week 110 challenge: Letter</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am not sure how this card could fit for the suggested cue word</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15554706275088853957noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604159339921216441.post-12191557464798278322014-09-01T06:20:00.002-07:002014-09-01T06:22:07.321-07:00Casology Week 110: Letter<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello! My craft friends. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It's been a while since I uploaded my cards last summer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Today, I have a simple card for <a href="http://casology.blogspot.kr/2014/08/week-110-letter.html" target="_blank">the challenge over at Casology</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This week's cue word is LETTER. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I interpreted the cue literally and played with letters, that is the alphabet. :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For this card, grap a couple of Copic Sketch markers, color 3/4 area of the white cover from the up and stamp the alphabet randomly. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">For the person who receive this letter(card), I hide a message in alphabet stamping.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Can you find the hidden message? hehe :) </span></div>
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copic sketches (YG95/ T1/ YR02/ YR04/ YR31/ Y17)<br />
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That's it for today. Thanks for your visit.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15554706275088853957noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604159339921216441.post-69403804731053160462013-06-19T20:16:00.001-07:002013-06-19T20:29:32.925-07:00Vintage Santa <div align="center">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I am here to share a card I made for FF's challenge. <a href="http://festivefriday.blogspot.ca/2013/06/welcome-back-to-new-challenge-here-at.html" target="_blank">The challenge(FFC10)</a> is about creating any vintage holiday projects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Oh! ladies, "vintage" is not so close to my craft style. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So it is...tough for me for this time but I came up with this card anyway. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I tried to keep the look as simple as possible sticking around my CAS style but not to lose some points of vintage mood. What are those points? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To give vintage effect, I chose a vintage Santa stamp from Paper Artsy and stamped it on a aged look pattern paper. Then I colored the image with some brown copic markers. I trimmed the patterned paper into a panel and glued it to a textured brown cardbase. As a finishing touch, I used the technique "inking the edge" with <a href="http://www.thewritingpenstore.com/p-1461-decocolor-opaque-paint-marker-broad-line-gold.aspx" target="_blank">a gold DecoColor Paint Maker</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I brushed the tip randomly around the brown cardbase and the panel. It looked amazing and seemed to add more interest to my card. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Can I say that I would add one more style in my cardmaking, which is SAV: simple and vintage? What do you think? </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15554706275088853957noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604159339921216441.post-74640812333123758592013-06-05T22:50:00.002-07:002013-06-11T19:15:09.862-07:00Peace, Hope, Love<div align="center">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I certainly had a good time making another Christmas card for <a href="http://festivefriday.blogspot.ca/2013/05/ffc09-colour-challenge.html" target="_blank">this week's color challenge over at Festive Friday.</a></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Another Christmas card? Yes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I can't stop my love for Christmas cards and it seems that my enthusiasm for making Christmas card has revived. Thanks to FF design teams for such an inspiration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Since the stamp set had every images I needed for Christmas card in one big frame, it made my next step much easier. After stamped the frame with memento black ink, I just filled the white space with copic markers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I colored the frame, flowers, pine cones, and leaves with red, brown, and green. Then, I would like to give highlight on the pine cones with gold glitters. The other point of highlight I made was gold pearl stickers in the center of each poinsettia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">" May the spirit of </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15554706275088853957noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604159339921216441.post-65862053020844174822013-06-03T20:55:00.001-07:002013-06-03T21:18:58.362-07:00FFC09: Sending Holiday Joy<div align="center">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">It is unusual that I am free from the work on Monday evening. My Monday evenings were usually occupied with consulting clients or joining a class that taught psychology. But I have no schedule this evening and that means I am able to ink up my hands and make a super simple card. Yay!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">This time again I played along with <a href="http://festivefriday.blogspot.ca/2013/05/ffc09-colour-challenge.html" target="_blank">the color challenge FFC09: red, green, and gold over at Festive Friday.</a> </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15554706275088853957noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604159339921216441.post-51541648030533899422013-06-01T20:17:00.004-07:002013-06-02T04:43:59.815-07:00Happy Birthday to EWE<div align="center">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">This card is for a baby boy who just turned one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> When the birthday boy receives the card I can imagine that he would like to touch the sheep's body and it makes him feel soft and fluffy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">*stamp: papertrey ink my punny valentine, year round puns mini stamp set.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It is a very nice Saturday here in New Jersey, well actually it's </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">very hot but good enough to enjoy being outside. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I have two cards that I made for </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"></span><a href="http://casology.blogspot.com/2013/05/week-46-furry.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">the challenge over at CASology</span></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The cue word "FURRY" is very challenging to me because I am not a big fan of animal images (even cute dogs and cats) and I think I don't have any of them in my stamp collections. So I almost give up for this time bu</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">t fortunately enough I rememebered that I made several Christmas cards with this one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Anyone miss <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=stampendous+fluffles&sa=X&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=K4-qUYr5DYbp0gG2h4HADA&ved=0CC8QsAQ&biw=1366&bih=622#tbm=isch&sa=1&q=stampendous+fluffles+deck+the+hall&oq=stampendous+fluffles+deck+the+hall&gs_l=img.3...4978.9068.0.9314.18.15.3.0.0.0.70.802.15.15.0...0.0...1c.1.15.img.jEyDN80bltU&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47244034,d.dmQ&fp=2c1b9c1bbaa5ba6b&biw=1366&bih=622" target="_blank">fluffle, a wiked cute fluffy cat from Stampendous</a>? (link google images)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I played with a fluffle hanging on the Chritmas tree instead "deck the hall." She is so ready to be tangled up with the decorated branch in next few seconds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Look at her curious eyes toward red ornament ball. :D</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I would like to share one more card that I made using the same stamp but I did not enter this card to the challenge since It wasn't fit for CAS style. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">But this is OK for <a href="http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/simon-saysanything-goes_29.html" target="_blank">anything goes challenge over at Simon Says Stamp</a> so I'd give it a go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This card is my second attempt to <a href="http://casology.blogspot.com/2013/05/week-43-hexagon.html" target="_blank">the Hexagon challenge over at CASology</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">"Thinking out of the box" is one of my goals as a crafter for this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Whenever I made a card I reminded myself of that phrase and tried to apply it to the process of cardmaking. It is unable to be creative all the time but I know it is important to implant a seed of creative mind in each step of making a card. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> So a creative seed in me is telling me not to use hexagon die or stamp but to use other shapes that could possibly make hexagon. Do I have to use a triangle stamp? I tried several times with some stamps of triangle shapes but didn't get any satifactory results.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I ended up with this card.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> It didn't give me satisfaction either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">When I saw a photo frame stamp with grid lines in it, my thought immediately went to draw a line to shape a hexagon. I was also thinking that the hexagon I created with hand drawing would be good for presenting a simple word like "U and I." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I am happy that I am able to make two cards for <a href="http://casology.blogspot.com/2013/05/week-43-hexagon.html" target="_blank">the HEXAGON challenge over at CASology for this week.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The first one is a simple Christmas card.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">In contrast to the neat and clean result of the hexagon die, the Santa paper was designed to be seen as worn-out and aged. So I added some aged effect on the Santa image by rolling some pieces up. Can you see that fun roll up? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">* Do the happy dance with me. I've got my second time honorable mention badge from CASology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Yesterday night, I made a super(x100) simple card for <a href="http://casology.blogspot.com/2013/04/week-41-giggle.html" target="_blank">the week #41 challenge over at CASology</a>. They have a cue word for GIGGLE. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For the eyes, I thought of "emoticon" like this (> .<) that seemed to possibly express</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> wrinkled eyes when we giggled. My original idea went with using "arrow" images if I had but I couldn't find any of them in my stacks. So I had to change the direction and found the alternate which was the <span style="color: red;">letter "V" and "I"</span> from K&Company Amy Butler's clear Alphabet stamp. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">To finish off the card, I put some sequins on the lips. I felt the card would be too simple without having some sequins on the lips. (Or am I obssesed with an idea that I have to use sequins to all the cards I will make?) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This card I created for <a href="http://casology.blogspot.nl/2013/04/week-40-word.html" target="_blank">the challenge "word" over at CASology</a> more focused on the word itself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">For the card, I began to cut out the letter "holiday" from a Kraft cardstock using <a href="https://www.papertreyink.com/pti-dies/papertrey-ink-wonderful-words-holiday-die-collection-set-of-3/" target="_blank">PTI's wonderful words: holiday collection.</a> My original idea went with using the cut-out image but I changed my mind to create something with the negative side in order to highlight the word "holiday" itself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I trimmed the negative side into a panel, punched each corner, and looked at it whether it's OK enough to emphasize the word. I felt I should add something. It was not bad but looked too simple and boring. So the kraft panel should go through my Big Shot with <a href="https://www.papertreyink.com/pti-dies/papertrey-ink-linen-canvas-impression-plate/" target="_blank">PTI's impression plate</a> (This is a double-sided /canvas-linen/ embossing steel plate and I think I used linen side). Then I rubbed the entire kraft panel with Vintage Cream and Fresh Snow ink pads from PTI. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I finally satisfied with the result after having done all the steps above. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">What do you think? This might be our (crafter's) on going dilemma, to add something more or to stop somewhere in the process of creating works? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">It's Wednesday night and I came up with two cards I made for <a href="http://casology.blogspot.nl/2013/04/week-40-word.html" target="_blank">this week's challenge over at CASology.</a> The cue card they suggest for this week is... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The cue "word" directly linked me to the word from Bible. And this Bible passage 1 Peter 5:7 is one of my all time favorites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">You probably know what I mean by it. For me "glitters" are equal word to "messy" in my craft dictionary. I cannot spend extra time for cleaning up all those scattered glitters after my project done. Also it's not easy to get rid of all tiny little things. It would stay and stick to the craft mat for a while and it is affecting my next CAS project. = .=</span></div>
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I picked Gold Lame to cover almost entire space of the textured white base. I chose a textured white cardstock as a base because I expected it would look like a canvas after I colored it with the Smooch Gold Lame. What's it like for you? Just a gold color? :D</div>
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While let the base card dry up, I stamped <a href="https://www.papertreyink.com/stamps/friendship-jar-fillers-stamp-set/" target="_blank">PTI's brush image</a> on the plain white paper and colored it with some copic markers. I used the Smooch's Gold Lame ink again on the tips of each brush and cut the image out and place it on the base with foam tapes. You could see the brush image was a little up from the base and had some dimensions. Then I stamped the sentiment twice and it's a <a href="http://www.techniquetuesday.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=SYou&Category_Code=" target="_blank">simply you stamp from Technique Tuesday.</a> </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15554706275088853957noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604159339921216441.post-75185736045272818662013-04-06T23:12:00.001-07:002013-04-06T23:12:16.732-07:00Rising Up<div align="center">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Hope anyone who visits my blog and happens to go through difficulties and despairs in their lives</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">get encouraged with the messege. I believe that you will rise up again.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15554706275088853957noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604159339921216441.post-74517171027535189832013-04-06T22:32:00.002-07:002013-04-06T22:35:45.922-07:00CAS 38: lift me up!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This is my second entry to <a href="http://casology.blogspot.com/2013/04/week-38-up.html" target="_blank">the week 38 challenge over at CASology</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">If you follow me through my<a href="http://sjsophia.blogspot.com/2013/04/cheers-me-up.html" target="_blank"> first challenge entry</a>, </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15554706275088853957noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604159339921216441.post-33032235941214953972013-04-06T21:50:00.004-07:002013-04-10T18:19:47.609-07:00Cheers me up *This card I made for the CASology week 38 challenge: up was honorably mentioned by Maureen. Thanks for choosing my card. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">*Before I go into my cards, </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I would like to say thank you all for your wonderful and warm comments on my winning over at <a href="http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2013/04/the-card-creations-week-challenge.html" target="_blank">Moxie Fab world's negative challenge</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">(If you haven't seen my winning card yet, please click Moxie Fab or want to see more pictures visit here; <a href="http://sjsophia.blogspot.com/2013/03/cfc-92-when-butterfly-flaps-its-wings.html" target="_blank">when betterfly flaps its wings</a>.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Using a cue word <span style="color: red;">UP </span><span style="color: black;">to make a card </span><span style="color: black;">has been at the back of my mind for this week.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Yet this week was crazy, terribly busy, my schedule did not allow me to save time to craft. So I tried to make some idea sketches to be ready for creating a card whenever I would get a craft time in. These sketches I am going to show you were made while I was on the train to NY. You could see the sketch was on a random paper/envelope I pulled out from my bag and it did mean that I had a very strong craving for the cardmaking during this week hehe! :D</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15554706275088853957noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604159339921216441.post-17855267228357178992013-03-25T19:53:00.004-07:002013-03-25T19:58:40.261-07:00PTI March Blog Hop: Sequin<div align="center">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">This card is for <a href="http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/2013/03/march-2013-blog-hop.html" target="_blank">Papertrey Ink's March 2013 Blog Hop</a> challenge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I am the generation who grew up listening to radio with a boombox or home audio component. Back then in the late 80' and the early 90' in South Korea, those two were common music devices and other advanced ones such as MP3 players or portable cd players had not yet been introduced. So you could imagine that I, a junior/ high school student,(woops, I'm revealing my age here, hehe!) spent most of the nights listening to some good radio stations that continued to play most popluar Korean songs of the time. When I think back on those days, songs I listened to soothed me while I went through puberty with emontional storms. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">20 years later, now we live in the world of revolution in terms of music devices. Who would even think that there comes a time when most people listen to the music with much much more advanced and revolutionary tools of Ipod, Ipod nano, Iphone, and so on...(maybe Steve Jobs, not me :D)? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In my card I wanted to express the moment of reflection: I am looking back to those days when I listened to music with my boombox while I am listening to my Ipot. Hope you could also take some time of those days of your life looking at my card. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I have one more card to share with you which I submitted to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.com/2013/03/cfc93.html" target="_blank">#93 challenge at Cas-ual Fridays</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">I pulled out my old SU stamp from the stash because I was looking for an image that was able to cover the entire card. If the stamp image is large enough I could divide it into 4 to 5 parts and apply color blocks along the division. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It is a table calendar with a matching business size case. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">After printing 2013 calendar on the paper I cut the paper into 12 pieces by each month. Then, to create a background for each month, I stamped two images: one is <strong>Just Chillin Girl</strong> clear stamp from Making Memories and the other is <strong>a paint splatter</strong> cling rubber stamp from Gormet Rubber stamp. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The end result is beyond my expectation and I am glad that my first project besides cards turned out very good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It's been a while since I've uploaded my last posting on this blog.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I was simply too busy to find crafting times. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The time I save for cardmaking is so precious to me. When I make cards </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I am able to be rejuvenated from any stresses at work, to meet my creative spirits, </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">and to be </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">connected to other souls who seek for aspiration and inspiration. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I believe crafting time provides me an optimal soothing (and at the same time an optimal challenging) space for my soul. :) </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I was a bit driven by a spirutal mood today so the card I made seemed to be drawn to the mood. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">This card is for Valentine's Day. For the background, I used </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">a paint splatter image stamp from <a href="http://www.gourmetrubberstamps.com/store/proddetail.asp?prod=LAD%2D342&cat=35" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Gourmet rubber stamps</span></a>. And the message stamp is from <a href="http://www.cleardollarstamps.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">clear dollar stamp</span></a> which I think a genius idea. What a creative person who designs this kind of stamp! Don't you agree with me on this? This stamp is amazing that you could find an encoding message, Valentine from the Bible verse, John 3:16.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I entered this card into the </span><a href="http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.com/2013/03/cfc92.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">challenge #92: wallpaper</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> at Cas-ual Fridays. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">They asked us to create my own CAS background with stamping. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">So the dots in my card are not a perfect circle but I could say </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Each line of Bible </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">words looked like a stripe to me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">After seeing all design teams' samples, the irregular pattern I created for the background is concerning me a little bit. Hope the irregularity on the card is acceptable. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">* I also entered this card in <a href="http://www.wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2013/02/challenge-69-anything-goes.html" target="_blank">Word Art Wednesday Challenge #69: Anything Goes</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I made a last minute card for the new challenge site, <a href="http://festivefriday.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Festive Friday</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I fell in love with the blog's concept because it was all about Christmas! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Yay, my favorite holiday is Christmas and making Christmas cards all year long without rushing would be one of the best thing I can do for my craft life. :) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">No need to rush for Christmas cards, isn't it great? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The first challenge is about creating a Holiday project with red, white and silver color scheme. </span><br />
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