Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone

~G.B. Stern

Ok, now I have a thing for blue roses. The one I made here is quite a spontaneous idea. I feel it will be too pale a card if all were in pink colours. Then I remembered my wedding hand bouquet of blue and purple hydrangea. Blue is not in my list of favourite colour but now I do find certain hue of blue as striking and interesting. While I'm fiddling with these blue roses, my head is brimming with ideas of blue rose's cards. I can't wait to start on one but I have tons of laundry and cleaning up to do after my wedding leave. Patience honey.

A peek on the inside

This card is a request from a colleague for another colleague. I hope Puan Mimi likes this card :)

Gratitude

The feeling of gratitude can be express in so many words. Best of all we are able to recognize it from some other language. Thank you, shukran, arigato, shukriya, gracias, terima kasih, merci, kamsahamnida, xie xie, em koi, khawp khun khrap (I hope I had the spelling right=p), maraming salamat and so on. At least I do from watching all the films and drama. Hehe. But I'm sure many people can too.

Doilies are a wonderful embelishment. Previously they are crocheted or knitted out of cotton thread. Nowadays they are available as papers to decorate plates as ornamentation underneath the foods. The various patterns are really beautiful that many scrappers and card makers have been using it in their artwork too. I've always been awed at the many ways doilies can be used in greeting cards but I haven't buy any for myself yet. To be truthful, the one I used here was snagged from the table I sat for a contact lens workshop last year. It was used on the sweets plates. Haha. Hey, no point of wasting right. I'm sure it's gonna be disposed afterwards. Might as well make a good use of it ;)

I don't have a recipient yet for this card. Just an idea out of the blue. Plus I wanted to try out my new 'Thank you' clear stamp. Well, I'm sure I'll need to use this card one day.

Till then. Thank you!

Thank you En. Ali!=)

Finally found the time to post this! Been traveling during the weekend. Hehe. This is a thank you card I made recently for our clinic's PPK who got transferred. I got the idea of drawing glittery eye on the front card from a long long ago dinner programme/address book that I'm entrusted to make for my senior's final year dinner. Last time it was in purple. But to make this card more presentable for a male receiver, I chose blue (still prefer purple though=p)

The card I used is actually embossed with rose flowers. Sweet huh?=) I have it in a few other colors which I hope to explore with other design.

Here I used my new stamping equipment to stamp the letters on white shimmery stock card before pasting it on cut-out silver paper. They were then pasted one by one on the soft beige paper I inserted inside. Notice you can see the glittery eye from inside? That's because they were hand drawn on transparent paper and I cut out the centre of the card. Hehe.

So this is how the card looks like in it's transparent hand-made envelope. Hope En. Ali won't find it too girly=p