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Elzybells Shopaholic - Happy Birthday

Little Cupcake

Elzybells Rubbadubdub - Indulge Yourself Birthday Card

Wedding Card

Leaving Card - for my boss

Happy 50th to my old boss!

Happy 30th to my brother-in-law

We were going to go home this weekend to celebrate my brother-in-law's 30th birthday but for some reasons it was only clarified on Saturday morning that he wasn't going home this weekend!! I was a bit annoyed because of whoever was disorganised. Arghhhh......

We tend to get a jokey card for my brother-in-law so I rarely make cards for him. However, when hubby and I went into Paperchase the other day, we saw this card and it made him chuckle. Although it's one of my favourite shop, I still refuse to pay £3.xx for a card so I decided to recreate this card.

I downloaded the funky fonts off dafont for the wordings on the card. I had the design photocopied on the textured card. It could be a bit disastrous with a photocopier as the toner powder never stays on very well on textured card. However, on this occasion it has worked well because I could create the distressed event by slightly rubbing the powder off. I was going to fix the powder with some hair spray but I had run out so I heated it with a heat gun instead, which I didn't know it would work! "29" has been heat embossed with silver powder though it's not showing very well in the photo.

It won't be "29 yesterday" when we give him the card but hopefully he will still like it and it will make him chuckle.

2009 Christmas Cards

I actually wasn't planning on making any Christmas cards. It had been so busy and I didn't want to make any for the sake of it. However, because of the heavy snow, I had to stay home which gave me some extra time to create some cards. Well, I said some, I only made two and half. Why half? I only quickly put a very very simple one together for my hubby which even he thought I only put it together in a haste. Oops!

The robins on the card above were made from felt. The brown circles came from a ready-to-assemble card pack for making teddy bear cards. The small circles were the heads and the big ones were the bodies but I used them to create big robin and little robin. I drew the branches and leaves on with gel pen and stamped "Merry Christmas" on free-hand.

The cute robin card went to my in-laws.

The next one went to my hubby's aunt. I bought some Laura Ashley clear stamps ages ago but never used them so I was determined to utilize them to make at least one card. I stamped the individual patterns on to resemble a bauble. The green ribbon was recycled from some packaging I collected some years ago. (Yep, I do collect "rubbish").

With a bit of embossing powder, a bit of heat and some bling. Wa~la~

My friend's new arrival

The couple who got married last year just had a new arrival to their family! It's a girl!!

I didn't see her for a long time after the wedding because we moved again and I changed job. When I saw a picture of her at a party on Facebook, I was puzzled as she was normally very trimmed but looked really round in the photo. It would be rude to ask if she was pregnant when she might have just put on a few pounds because of a happy marriage!

It turned out she was pregnant and when I met her she only had 4 weeks to go. On 21st May, I was texted - baby was born!

Here's a card I have made for their new arrival - Jasmine.

Not yet arrived: Mother's Day Card

This is the mother's day card I have made for my hubby's mother. I have to confess that I (we?) have left it a little bit late so it still hasn't arrived yet...... I hope it will arrive safely coz the mother's day card we sent a couple of years ago never arrived.

I bought the felt flower from Early Learning Centre after reading Sillybirds Stamping Diary. The felt flowers were an absolute bargain! 80p for a box of 8. Thanks Alex for sharing the info.

I will have to make another one for my mum and granny in May coz Mother's Day in Hong Kong is in May. I believe the May one is the American one. Why does HK celebrate Mother's Day in May even it used to be a British colony? Not a clue. I will have to put a lot of effort in to remember it coz there won't be any merchadise around to remind me!

Made with Frustration

This card was made when I was getting frustrated making the burgundy Valentine's day card. Yep, it's pink but there is green on it as well!! I used my bargain See D's stamp and my newly purchased pattered paper and ribbon.

As my hubby's birthday is very close to Valentine's Day, I have decided to give the burgundy one to him for Valentine's Day and this one for his birthday, hehe. All sorted!

Getting organised: Valentine's Day Card

I haven't really done any stamping but recently I have discovered a lot of blogs and websites by people who have done brilliant work on stamping and card making. It has really got me going!! I made my hubby to take me to the localish Craft Central back in Jan to get some stamps. As it was still in the sale season, I managed to get some bargain!! I got this See D's stamp set for £2 and the tree one for £1. We went to HobbyCraft afterwards and I bought some more goodies.

After purchasing all these new stuff, I couldn't wait to try them out. I wanted to make a valentine's day without using my favourite colour pink. As I have got a lot of burgundy cardstock left from making the wedding invitation, I was determined to make a card with the burgundy card. I used the See D's stamps. The end result is alright but I am not too happy with it....

I guess I am kind of restricted as I have only got a few ink pads: gold, silver and burgundy. I think I need to buy more...... more retail therapy for me......

Happy Chinese New Year

This is the Chinese New Year card I sent home. I used to get my Chinese New Year card from Clinton but this year I decided to make my own one.

This is the peel-off I bought for this card. It's black but I painted it gold with a marker pen coz red and gold are the Chinese New Year colours.

I filled it in with bright colour metallic glaze pens and heat embossed the vase with gold embossing powder, as well as the edge of the card.

I posted it a bit late so it probably won't get in my family's hands in time..... but nevermind it's the thought that counts!

Steamed Bun Birthday Card

This is a birthday card for my granny in Hong Kong. It's kind of a Chinese tradition to have peach shaped steamed bun so I made some out of Fimo clay to make a card topper. She was really pleased when she received it and rang me 7:30 (UK Time) to thank me!

I coloured the "steamed bun" with chalk.

The "steamer" is even smaller than a 10p.

Retirement Card

This is a retirement card for my colleague. It's actually a loooooong card. When it's opened, it's basically like a concertina. The card was made this way to increase to area for people to sign because she worked for the organisation for over 20 years. The patterned card on it is Making Memories Embellishment Paper Cosmopolitan Collection which I couldn't resist to buy. There were different retirement quotes inside the card printed off the computer.

Christmas Card Collection 2007

It was all an accident that this felt brooch was made. I was just messing around and cut a flower shape off the red felt. All of sudden I thought it would be a good idea to make a poinsettias brooch as a card topper.

I had the brooch pinned into a piece of fun foam and stuck it onto the card so the brooch could be taken off after. This card went to my parents-in-law.

Don't think I did very well with this card. The idea was a cat sitting on the window sill looking out. I didn't quite demonstrate it but I was proud of how the cat turned out. This went to my hubby's aunt.

Stamping on Fimo clay and dusted with pearlescent powder. This went to my brother-in-law.

One day all of sudden I remeber that I used shrink plastic when I was a small kid so I was then very keen on getting my hands on it again. Here I made a use of it to create some "pendants" by stamping the motifs on. This went to my hubby.

It's a GIRL!

I think this is the first card I created with the patterned card I couldn't resist to buy even though at that point I didn't know what I was going to do with it, LOL.

Our Wedding Invitations

This is a design I created for our wedding invitation. When we started planning, we had a look around to see what styles of invitation are on offer. We were amazed how poor the quality was for some cards. Only a few peel-off stickers stuck on a card and it could cost at least £1.50 each!!

We decided to design our own unique motif.

The top part of the motif is a Welsh Dragon and a Chinese Phoneix as my hubby is Welsh and I am Chinese. I also incorporated the Chinese character "double happiness" with our initials. I sent the desgin onto The English Stamp Company to make my unique motif into a rubber stamp. Here I went, started stamping and heat embossing!

The invitation for the reception in Hong Kong was red and gold as red is the wedding colour in Chinese tradition.


The smaller one is the invitation and the bigger one is the menu. You may notice there are like 10 courses on the menu. YES! This is what a chinese wedding reception like. 10 - 12 courses for a wedding banquet.

About a year after the wedding reception in Hong Kong, we had another one here in Britain. The venue was a lovely home-run hotel. Lovely ground, very british building. When I saw the main reception hall, the only colour came to my head was burgundy. I almost decided the design for the wedding reception at that instant.

More stamping and heat embossing again!

Very simple design so I could make it quickly. I managed to make just over 100 invitation in total in a fairly short period of time. Then I could go on and plan about something else!


Invitation for the wedding reception

Invitation for the evening reception

Father's day Card

I also struggle making cards for men. I had to hide all the pink paper when I was making this card but the result still looked quite girlie......