RTB59 - Boarding Pass and SCRS Helps Japan!

Konnichiha friends!! (Hello in Japanese)

No, we all know that I'm not Japanese descent, but this week at Raise the Bar - we are calling for Worldly inspiration: create a project based on a country.

One of my new design team members, Jan, posted a Japanese inspired card and it got me thinking that I should show my support as well.

Think that Rin is just the most adorable Japanese image?! You can get her too for only $5 for the rest of the month. To help with the disaster relief, Sparkle is putting all the Rins on sale for $5 and she will also donate $5 for each Rin sold! (Click on the image below to take you right to the website)

Did you recognize the sketch for the layout of the card? I used this week's Mojo Monday Sketch #183 as seen below:


I'd like to take the time to welcome two new members to our Raise the Bar Team, Jan and Wanda - please take the time to give them some love. :D

Hope to seeing you play along with us! If you upload to any online galleries, please label RTB59 for your keywords.

To see what the other DT members created, click on all the links below:

Anita
Jan
Joni
Julie
Wanda

For further information and to check out our Guest Bartenders, go to the RTB Blog

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Supplies:
Stamps - Lantern Rin (Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps), sentiment (Hero Arts)
Paper & Ink - Bazzill, Stampin' Up!
Accessories - Copic markers, flowers (Prima), rhinestone gems (Kaiser), ribbon (Stampin' Up!), border punch (Martha Stewart), circle punches (EK Success), paper piercer (Making Memories)

RTB58 - Spring Image Inspiration (Oops... uber late!)

Oh me, oh my!!!

I went south of the (Canadian) border this past weekend and it looks like this post never went up as it should have last Friday. :(

But alas here it is, my spring image inspiration creation (thats a mouthful!) for the Raise the Bar challenge this week:

Hope to seeing you play along with us! If you upload to any online galleries, please label RTB58 for your keywords.

To see what the other DT members created, click on all the links below:

Anita
Joni
Julie

For further information and to check out our Guest Bartenders, go to the RTB Blog

Hope you've had a great week and an even better weekend!

Supplies:
Stamps - Inkadinkadoo, Stampin' Up!

Paper & Ink - Daffodil Delight (Stampin' Up!), Imaginisce

Accessories - Copic markers, flowers (Prima), buttons (Basic Grey), rectangle and circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders), ribbon (Stampin' Up!), Stickles glitter glue (Ranger)

RTB57 - G.R.E.E.N (Acrostic)

Hola dear readers!!

TGIF! It's been a fairly busy week so I'm just popping in only to show my Raise the Bar Challenge of the week. Joni's made up another acrostic for us that goes a lil something like G.R.E.E.N. My combination is as follows:

G - guy image

R - ribbon

E - embellishment (linen thread)

E - embellishment (brads)

N - navy cardstock

Can you take a guess where I took this photo of the card?

Hope to seeing you play along with us! If you upload to any online galleries, please label RTB57 for your keywords.

To see what the other DT members created, click on all the links below:

Anita
Joni
Julie

For further information and to check out our Guest Bartenders, go to the RTB Blog

Hope you've had a great week and an even better weekend!

Supplies:
All supplies from Stampin Up! unless otherwise noted.
Stamps - Motorcycle, sentiment from On Your Birthday
Paper & Ink - Night of Navy, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Early Expresso
Accessories - linen thread, embossing folder, vintage brad, gold brads (Making Memories), ribbon (Creative Packaging)

Yummy Food Creations

Happy (merh) Monday! LOL

I think I'm going to start featuring more yummy food creations on my blog. I know that some people just eat for the sake of eating, but there are so many creative things you can do with your food. From the textures, colours and combinations; so many ways of how food can be presented and it's so important that restaurants make the food look appetizing. I am no food critic by all means but I can definitely appreciate the art of food and feature it on my blog!

These rolls are from Japolo Sushi/Pho - one of our local sushi places that the Beau and I go to. (Juli P, you need to come visit me and we can go here!)

Yummy, yummy caterpillar roll... he's sticking his tongue out at you? lol

A petite white bunny!

Have a great day and we'll see you later this week :D

RTB56 - I'm Just Sayin...

Woot woot!!! It's Friday, I'm sure each and everyone of you know that already though!!! LOL

I've been looking forward to this particular Friday because I am going to go see

with one of my girlfriends tonight. :) This was a post-dated birthday present from 2010.

Getting on to the Raise the Bar Challenge of the week; the theme this week is "I'm Just Sayin." That's right, we want to see all of your sentiments as the main focus of your projects.


Hope to seeing you play along with us! If you upload to any online galleries, please label RTB56 for your keywords.

To see what the other DT members created, click on all the links below:

Anita
Joni
Julie

For further information and to check out our Guest Bartenders, go to the RTB Blog

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:
Stamps - Word Play (Stampin' Up)
Paper - Lil' Robots (My Mind's Eye), Temping Turquoise, Cherry Cobbler (Stampin' Up)
Ink - Temping Turquoise, Cherry Cobbler (Stampin' Up)
Accessories - Stars embossing folder & arrow (Quickutz), oval Nestabilities (Spellbinders), buttons (Basic Gray), linen thread & ribbon (Stampin' Up)

With Sympathy - It's Always Hard to Make These

Hello friends!

I always have a heavy heart each and every time I need to make a sympathy card, but unfortunately, it is something that we crafters have to make as is all other occasions.

A colleague of mine recently lost one of her peers and remembered that his wife was a paper crafter. She figured that his wife would appreciate the thought of a handmade card and called me up to make a special card with a poem included on the inside. I felt so privileged that she remembered.

I didn't have too much time and I think that you always want to keep these cards simple with neutral colours. The completed card size was 8.5 x 5.5 as my colleague had requested that she wanted a larger sized card and enough writing room!

Thanks for stopping by and sharing in a moment to remember the people whom have passed.

Supplies:
Stamps - (Cornish Heritage Farms)
Paper - Basic Grey, Stampin' Up
Ink - Certainly Celery, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede (Stampin Up)
Accessories - Labels 14, Ovals (Spellbinders), doily lace punch (Martha Stewart), embossing folder (Tim Holtz/Sizzix), ribbon (Stampin' Up)