created by ika: birthday greeting card

Hello friends,

I'm sure many of you know what is the name of the leaf on my greeting cards :D That's right! They are Ginkgo Biloba! :)

These leaves are a gift from my sister who went to Portugal a few years ago. When she asked if I wanted something from Portugal, I replied I didn't want anything as I did not want to burden her baggage :) But she wanted to bring something then I told her she can bring leaves ('coz I think every country has different trees and shape of leaf...).

Even if I thought she'd be confused but she did bring me different kinds of leaves. She's the best! I was so happy that I kept them all flatten inside my thick book for years!!

I like creating things from the trash as long as they can be useful. Before I used this leaf, I only cleaned them up with wet tissue to remove dirt and air-dried. I added recycled paper and used one of my favorite techniques "embossing" to give floral texture to the paper. Then for the final touch, I only put the leaves on the center as the focal point.

These leaves have traveled the oceans from Portugal to Netherland then flew to Jakarta, Indonesia after that made their way to Bali, Indonesia, and ended up in my drawer. Now some of them have moved from the "book camp" out to the world. I just hope they enjoyed the long trip! :D

I enter this card to below challenges:

Less is More - Challenge #444 - Lucky Dip - Favourite Technique

Path of Positivity Challenge - Anything Goes with a twist Change your Environment

Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Anything Goes

The Creative Crafters - Anything Goes #40

Thank you for reading this post. See you soon! :)

Love, Ika

Hello friends,

I hope you are doing well and in good health. As we are all aware that this pandemic situation has changed most of our lives completely. Some of us have lost their loved ones due to the virus, others lost their income and jobs (this happens to me too :) and sadly none of us know when this bad condition will be over.

However, although this is a very tough situation for all of us, it is very important to keep our spirit and fill our minds with positive thoughts. I'm making this black card using recycled paper with florals patterns and put a sentiment sticker with a word "Smile". Simply I just want to say that even in the dark moments, we must not lose hopes. Thus, hopefully will give us the strength to carry on with our lives no matter how bad the situation is right now.

I submit my cards to below challenge blogs:

The Paper Funday Challenge - Challenge #29 Anything Goes with Twist Flower / Floral

The Creative Crafter - Challenge #40 Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - Challenge #208 Anything Goes

May God will protect us and hopefully things will get better soon. Amen.

Thank you for reading my post and Sending you virtual warm hugs :)

Love,
Ika

Hello friends!

What a sunny day today, perfect to upload my bright card :D

I think this is the very first time that I ever made a greeting card with bright colour especially using combination of orange and yellow :) Turns out I like the result hehehe.. I used a simple star embellishment in metallic purple colour, sentiment stamps and recycle paper scrap.

This is my entry for below challenges:

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Anything with Happy Bright and Sunny Colours

Love to Craft Challenge - LTCCB #58 May Anything Goes

Polkadoodles Craft Challenge - Week #21 Anything Goes

Through The Crafts Room Door - Anything Goes 18 May 2021

I hope this card can brighten up the days of whoever will have received it!

See you all soon! :)

Love, Ika

Hello friends,

I'm sure many of you crafters out there are must have piles of leftover papers :) That includes myself too ahaha.. As we know, most of the time they are very useful, correct? :D Just like the cards that I'm posting today, I used leftover pattern papers. I don't like to throw them away because the colours and patterns are so lovely.

I don't put any embellishment 'coz I think the pattern already stand out so you can focus on admiring the beauty of each one of them :) You can use this card for any occasions.

This card is my entry on below challenges:

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - May 2021 Challenge

Gem of a Craft Challenge - Challenge #11 Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you will have a great day today! See you soon!

Love,
Ika

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Hello friends,

Happy belated Eid Mubarak for those who celebrated it! :) I'm sorry I have been away for weeks and did not get the chance to upload this tags on Eid ul Fitr Day! So these are hang tags that I made and actually they were for sale :) They are used mostly for hampers and parcels to be given to family and friends.

These hang tags are just my hand drawing doodles and not stamped. I don't have Eid Mubarak stamp collections so I used pen marker and gold pen to draw it. The theme is "Moroccan Style" :) I hope I am eligible to join the stamp challenge without using any..

This is my entry for below challenge:

Sweet Stamping Challenge - Tag You're It

Thank you for stopping by and See you soon!

Love, Ika

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Hello friends,

Today I want to post a card that I made using left over card stock (again) :D I'm sorry I just don't wanna waste the paper coz it's so lovely! I think this is is fit for wedding card or for couple anniversary etc.

This is very clean and simple (always) hehe.. I do not put any embellishment as I only did hand written sentiment using pen marker and a copic marker. So this is very very easy to make :)

I would like to use this card for my entry on below challenge:

Fab 'n' Funky Challenges - Wedding Card #524

Thank you so much and enjoy the rest of your day :)

Love,
Ika

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Hellooo,

Hope everyone is in good health!

Today I want to upload one of my card with "cold" theme.

I know this is not winter time.. But the reason I made this card simply because I found these dry pine leaf just laying on my drawer for years :D Then I put them all on a blank white card stock. I thought it would looked good with white background. So I decided to colour the leaves using Posca marker and put some dots on the card which made it looked like snow :D

I put a lyric from a song (which I googled :D) which I thought would fit in with the card theme. Well, it's so simple design but I think I like the result though hahahah..

Anyway, this is my entry for below challenges:

CASology Week #309 - Outside

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge #87 Anything Goes

A Perfect Time to Craft Challenge #5-2021

Thank you for reading my post. See you soon everyone! :)

Love,

Ika

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Hellooo peeps :)

Today I want to upload my new handmade greeting card. Another simple style, of course, hehe...

I made an envelope inspired by the CAS Challenge this week, and I used a pink color inspired by the Card Concept Challenge (below is the photo and link to the challenge).

Just so you know, I made the envelope out of my remaining tea bag, which had been dyed with food coloring. Instead of throwing it away, I just use it for my craft projects. As for the sentiment and the insert message, I only use my handwriting and draw simple doodles. That's all :)

Color inspiration from the Card Concept Challenge

So the above card I made is for my entry at the below challenges:

#383 Envelope - CASology

#148 Sweetheart Sweets—The Card Concept

#489 Anything Goes—Penny's Challenge

#2-2021 - A Perfect Time to Craft

#84 Anything Goes - Crafts Galore Encore

#55 Anything Goes - Love to Craft Challenge

Watch how I created this card in the below video:

Thank you for stopping by! Take care and stay healthy :)

Hugs, Ika

Helloo everyone,

In this rainy day I'm going to upload another simple greeting card :) I'm using black buttons as embellishment and hand written sentiment.

These black buttons are actually mean as silhouette and honestly I totally forgot to create a background layer so hopefully this does not look so plain :)

This is my entry for the following challenges:

#182 One Layer and Optional Twist Silhouette - AAA Cards

#509 Anything Goes - Fab and Funky

Week beginning 2nd Feb 2021 - Through the Craft Room Door

Thank you for stopping by here! Take care and Stay Healthy :)

Hey peeps :)

I'm uploading another greeting card and this is more inspired by the photo from Inkspirational challenge.

I'm using black paper card and buttons for embellishment. I arranged the buttons into a Cassiopeia constellation which symbolised the beauty of they sky (for me it means the beauty of the person who receives this card) :)

Then I added a simple hand written words "You are a Star" using a white gel pen. Lastly I created a simple background with only small dots to represents the stars and so the card will not look plain as well.

It's very simple and quick card that you can make at home too.

This is my entry for below challenges:

#231 Photo Inspiration Challenge - Inkspirational challenge

Create your own background - The Sisterhood of Crafters

#36 Anything Goes - The Creative Crafters

Thank you. Take Care and Stay Healthy! :)

Hello.. I'm here again. Today I'm going to upload my handmade greeting card using simple style and 3 pcs of pistachio shells :)

Yes I do keep some trashes :D I just feel like there's something I can do with them and then they will be seating in my cupboard for years waiting to be used :P hahahah..

a closer look

First, I sprayed the shells with white color sprayer then I just make simple doodles on it using permanent marker. I put a simple stamp "hello" in the middle and glued the shells using wood glue. That's it!

This is my entry for below challenges:

#435 In a Row - Less is More

#200 Anything Goes - Creative Fingers

#259 Anything Goes - The Crafters Cafe

#3 Anything Goes - Pink Gem Challenge

Thank you. Take care and Stay healthy! :)

Hello there,

Have you got any plan for the weekend? Or just staying at home and relaxing? I hope you enjoy whatever you decided to do to spend your weekend. As for myself, I will just stay at home spending quality time with my children and my husband :) and maybe will also try to make some creation but only if I can hehe..

Well, today I'm posting another simple greeting card.

I'm using fancy paper for the card stock and manually cut some leftover paper to used as layers.

I stamped the birthday sentiment on a cork sheet which I already cut using cutter knife. It's very easy and simple, right?

I enter this card to below challenges:

Challenge #351 Anything Goes - Crafty Creations Challenges
Challenge #51 - Simply Paper Crafts

Anyway, thank you for stopping by here and enjoy your weekend!

See you! :)

Hello,

I am back again hehehe.. after I have been neglecting my blog for almost 2 years :D Being busy with my kids and have not created many things. I miss my blog and think its best for me to refresh it and start sharing my creations again before 2017 is end.

Well, I will start with the above greeting card which I made for my hubby to celebrate his birthday. It's very easy and simple to make. I just stamped the image on a fancy paper (no brand) using Versa Magic Jumbo Java and colored it with Prisma Color Pencil. I use kraft paper for the card, clear stamp from Inkadinkado, Polkadot rubber stamp (no brand) and text clear stamp set So Happy from Avery Elle :)

I enter this card to below challenges:

Challenge #204 ~ A Gem of A Challenge

Favourite Stamp Challenge #121 ~ Addicted to CAS

Week 435 Sentiment in Focus ~ Allsorts Challenge Blog

Challenge 186 ~ Artistic Inspirations

#351 Anything Goes ~ Crafty Creations Challenges

Challenge 51 ~ Simply Papercraft

Challenge 348 Anything Goes ~ Penny's Challenges

That's it for now, I will upload more creations later :)

Thank you for stopping by here!

Hello friends!

Sun is shinning and birds are singing, It's June!

Well, I hope your weekend is as fresh as summer breeze! :)

Today, I'm going to upload a birthday greeting card with vintage theme. But since I don't have any kind of stamping tools for this style, so it's very challenging for me. Instead of using regular stamp, I decided to go digital and make my own line art (from my own photo). I created it using Adobe Photoshop and I put vintage fonts and sentiments from the internet.
So it's a vintage card with a digital touch :P

Below is the result:

The result of my photo that I converted to line art

I took the vintage font from Font Space and got the sentiment from Wishes Quotes. I created the line art, vintage frame and sentiments in Adobe Photoshop. I printed them all and reprint the birthday sentiment on the back side of the craft paper then cut it manually and put it using foam tape.

This is my original photo that I converted to line art

I enter this card to the following challenges:

CASology - Week #149 Vintage

Crafts 4 Eternity - R#229 Birthday

Simply Paper Crafts - Challenge #6 Anything Goes

Sister Act Card Challenge - Challenge #109 Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting my blog and have a lovely day! :)

Materials I use:

Card - Craft linear paper

Sentiment - wishesquotes.com

Fonts - fontspace.com

Frame - Adobe Photoshop

Hello friends,

It seems that everywhere I take trip to the blog land, the theme is about flowers. So I created greeting card using flower image as below.

Firstly, I color the background strip using Distress Ink Tattered Rose and a strip stencil that I created myself from plastic cotton pack. Since I don't have flower stamps yet so I'm using flower image from a wrapping paper. I glued the image on a paper and cut it with scissor. I manually cut the flowers into two, one I use double tape to attach it on the card and another, I use foam tape. Thus, would give a paper tole effect. I also add coloring to the image with Prisma Pencil to make it more alive and less stiff.

For the finishing touch I add some sequins and a happy birthday die cut sentiment which I got from -mbak Nova- two years ago from her die cut pack of challenge gift back in 2013 :)

I enter the card on the following challenges:

A Gem of A Challenge - Challenge #145 Flowers

Artistic Inspirations - Challenge #132 Anything Goes with a twist of die cuts

Melon Headz Friends - Flower Everywhere Challenge

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Challenge #229 Anything Goes

Sister Act Card Challenge - Challenge #108

Thank you for visiting my blog and hope you'll have a lovely Sunday with your loved ones!

See you soon!

Materials I used:

Cardstock - local paper white color and cream pattern

Strip background coloring - Distress Ink Tattered Rose

Strip stencil - DIY from plastic cotton pack

Image - Flower from wrapping paper

Word - from a friend

Sequins - non branded collection

Hello friends,

I'd like to upload my newest greeting card today and to join in some challenges. This time I made a very simple birthday greeting card with a slider. The idea is like giving a present to someone and let her/him open it :) well, something like that I guess hehe.. anyway, here's the card:

This is how I made it:

First decide the size of your gift box and how you want the slider look. Myself, I made the frame and hide the gift box by making small frame that fits for the ribbon to slide.

I measure and cut it manually with cutter.

Then make the gift box in square, colored it with water color and wrap it with ribbon embellishment which I made from fabric tape. Make sure that the size of the box is a bit bigger than the frame so it gives a tiny space to move.

Then, make the card primary base. Cut paper in rectangle form for the slider. The rectangle must have a space fit the gift box to move left and right. On the rectangle paper, I hand draw a simple high heel stamp as the gift (this one is special for my friend Mbak Monika who loves shoes stamp and whom having a Birthday Linky Party on her blog HERE :) I created the image using a black Snowman drawing pen 0.2 and colored it with Staedler pen and Copic for the shadows.

Fold the edges of the rectangle paper. Make sure to fold and leave a space about 0,5 mm on each side so that the gift box can move to slide. When you're done, put double sided tape on each side then insert the gift box inside and test the slider by moving it left and right.

Once you have insert the gift box, attached it to the card by turning it upside down and adjust it with the frame you made previously. Make sure that the double tape stick properly.

I hand drawn dots and small arrows with pen so the receiver can slide and open the gift box :) Oh, I forgot, before attaching the gift box, make sure to stamp the sentiment first to avoid messy result.