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Hello friends,

So this is what happens whenever I buy fruits, most of the time some parts of them ended up in my crafts room :D They are actually Melon fruits skin which I peeled, cleaned up, and sun-dried. When they seemed to be ready to use, I dyed them with liquid food color and soaked them for a few days. After that, I removed them and put them under the sun for a few more days. The skin is quite stiff to be used but they would look crinkle and crisp :D

Anyway, I tightened them together so they would look like a flower bouquet and added some floral hand drawing doodle and sentiment stamp "Precious One". Well, even trash can be precious sometimes :)

This card is my entry for the following challenges:

The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge - Flowers as the focus

Lemon Short Bread Challenge - Anything Goes #147

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Take care! :)

Hello friends,

I'm here again with my cards :D This is the card that I made using a simple hand drawing doodle. I used kraft paper for the card, a gel rolls white pen from Sakura, a white Posca marker, and an acrylic stamp for the sentiment. I gave a bit of color to the doodle using a pink Copic marker.

As for the heart shapes, I cut them from leftover cardstock and glued them to a small piece of paper which is folded before I attached it to the card thus giving a "pop-up" look. And That's it :)

This is my entry for the following challenges:

Creative Fingers Challenge - Anything Goes #209

We Love to Create - Anything Goes at WL2C #6 Mixed Media Challenge

Polkadoodles - Week #22 Crafts and Card Making Challenge

Through the Craft Rooms Door - Anything Goes

Thank you so much for stopping by. See you soon :)

Love, Ika

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,

Hope you are all in good health! Today I want to share another creation.

This is a simple card that I made using leftover wrapping paper and silver faux pendants on the center. The frame itself is made by cutting it out of an old card.

I always love the butterfly, especially it's this cute and small. The card itself is for all occasions as I don't give any specific sentiment. Although perhaps most of you would choose it for a wedding card really, you can give this to any of your family members, spouse or best friends. It's really a simple and an easy peasy card :)

This is my entry for the below challenges:

A Place to Start - Challenge #5 Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Week #626 Any Celebration (Not Birthday)

Creative Moments - Challenge #215 Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge - Always Anything Goes

Thank you so much for stopping by! Take care :)

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

"Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it"

~ Buddha ~

We wish you a fruitful and spiritually refreshing Vesak Day to those of you who celebrate it. We hope you had a great time with your family and friends.

It was fun to draw this little monk sketch. I used Copic Marker, Pen Marker and Gel roll pens. For the little monk's outline I used 0.4 Black Pen Marker. I used Gell Roll pens for the sentiments and Lotus flowers. As for the rest of it I used Copic Marker. It's quite simple and does not take a long time to make. I'm sure you can draw this at home too on your spare time :)

See you soon and Take Care!

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

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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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