City Crafter Challenge Blog Week 160 ~ Color Challenge by Ros

Thanks for the concern my dear blog friend, my bad back situation has improved a little, I am able to move around a little bit easier : )

The new challenge at City Crafter Challenge Blog is a Color Challenge

Ros has a beautiful picture for us to work on

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Here's my take....

Come play along with us

My blog friend Elma is our special guest this week, and of course you will see the fabulous work of our team over at City Crafter Challenge Blog

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Movie Night

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We went to The Great Gatsby last night, my just turned 18 year old daughter won't go with us, she is like an "old lady" in the family, she listens to songs of the 40s, watch movies of the 20s, she watched and read so much that she scored an A+ on her essay on film history from the 20s-50s, her reason for not going to 'this' Gatsby movie was everything in the movie is too modern, well, true enough, I love the movie but agree with her that I can't stand the "almost like rap" music in the movie.

A dear friend bought me the book years ago, and he sent the book overnight via FedEx express with the golden Aspen leaves fresh from the tree, unfortunately, he passed away in 2007, *sigh...... now I am so going to read the book once again

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Gift Tag

The Challenge:

Moxie Fab World: The Gift Tag Challenge

so happy I finally get to play with my foxy stamp and die

a gift tag is an easy dress up for gift bag

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Home with a bad back.... sigh...

I am back from NYC... with a bad back : (
My daughter has so many heavy luggages to bring home with her, I hurt my back helping her dragging those bags, and boy... guess how much I paid for over weight bags, 300 bucks, yikes....

Do you have kids that go to college with 2 bags and come home with 3? What do you do when kids do not listen to you? My older girl goes to school in CA, I drove her up to school with my mini car, and we had to rent an SUV to bring all her stuff back last summer, I thought my younger would learn from the experience, when I moved her to NYC beginning of the school year, I restricted her to just 2 bags, I said if you cannot fit your stuff into two bags, you are just not bringing because we are flying and not driving, it is just not worth to pay extra for bags, so we did without problem. Who knows the problem came when I have to move her home after the school year ended, not only I have to buy another 29" luggage for her, we came home paying 300 extra for flying the bags home, plus a bad back from dragging those bags out of the dorm room to the car park. What should I do with kids like that? Any advice? Anyway, thanks for letting me vent, LOL! I am glad she is home though!

Ok, here's a card for 

Sketch and Scrap (May card sketch)

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 A lovely sketch that I enjoyed playing, hop over to check it out

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Mother's Day Gifts

We hosted the Mother's Day celebration over the past weekend for SAN (Singapore Association of Nevada), it was a lovely evening at our backyard, and here's the homemade gift I made for all the mothers in the club.

Lemon Olive Oil Foot Scrub

the project I am sharing is actually the gift with its packaging

I started with the box that holds my cup noodles, LOL! Cover it with old book pages

aged it with inks....

and then a bit of stamping...

tie tulle and handmade tissue paper flower on the outside of the box

and then fill up the box up with jars of handmade foot scrub.....

moss, roses and cut out butterfly....

oh and the medallion 

I am linking this project to the challenge over at

Moxie Fab World: The Gift Challenge

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more photos of my Mother's Day party if you want to see, LOL!

the dessert table

Ok, I'll visit you when I get home from NYC

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kirsty

City Crafter Challenge Blog week 159 ~ One Stamp Two Ways

Hello friends, I am here in NYC when you are reading this post

My daughter is done with the school year and I am here to spend her birthday with her and then bring her home for the summer break.

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I am hosting the challenge this week at 

City Crafter Challenge Blog 

the theme is

One Stamp Two Ways

to use ONE stamp (clear or rubber stamp, no digital) and make 2 projects with two different look

I used one of my favorite stamp from Kaiser

the first project is a card I made for my brother-in-law's wedding anniversary

I stamped the roses with red ink and do lots of fussy cutting

for the second project, I stamp the same rose image onto old book paper and color the image with water colors





this one is a birthday card

so what do you think, which one you like better, project 1 or 2?

Hop over to City Crafter Challenge Blog and check out the fabulous or the team as well as our special guest star Colleen Dietrich

City Crafter Challenge Blog 

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Happy Mother's Day and La Seine Layout

Happy Mother's Day!!!!!

To all  my crafty friends



Wishing you a wonderful Mother's Day


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La Seine

My layout for

Scrap Our Stash

Stash challenge #3 - patterned paper party



the challenge is to use 3 or more patterned paper from your stash

and rubons, I am glad to have these left-overs in my stash

I love the "see-through" of the rubons

lots of gesso, lots of mist on old book pages

a bit of stamping too

sharing more Paris picture from my last trip

La Seine



strolling by the Seine, falling in love with Paris... all over again





I just love these fun bouquinistes along the Seine

Spring time in Paris

It was late March, early April, but still..... brrrrrrrrrr.......

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kirsty