Lucky me! 再びの受賞でビックリ！

OMgosh! My 'Happy Fall' card was recognized as Hornable Mention at 'Fall Color Challenge' on September 17th, held by Hero Arts.
That entry was for the first time in about a month, because I was sick again... My brain wasn't clear at that time, but I began to make it since the fall color combos on HA blog inspired me a lot. So this result made me very happy.
  And thank you so much everyone for your kind words concerning about my health!

9/17に、ヒーロー・アーツの秋色カラーチャレンジにて、HM(努力賞のようなもの)を頂きました。（9/13の掲載分のカードです）
1ヶ月ほど再び体調を崩し、まだ頭もすっきりしていないにも関わらず・・でしたが、秋色のカラーコンビネーションに刺激されて作ったカードだったので、とても嬉しい出来事となりました。*^^*

Thanks for reading!

A card for the 1st 'Card Chain Challenge'

Hi, everyone!,
 I knew the Card Chain Challenge (CCC) of 'Society of Stamp & Scrap-aholics'
3 days ago. I entried it a few hours before the deadline, and finished a card yesterday night.
 This brandnew challenge is hosted by dearest Deborah. You can see the details and rules of it from here.
The participants make a card and send it to the other participant. So everybody gets a card from someone! Wonderful planning! She is so clever!

こんばんは♪　今回のカードは、'Society of Stamp & Scrap-aholics'のDeborahさんが始めた新規企画のチャレンジ用に作ったものです。
このチャレンジ、通常のチャレンジとはかなり違い、『参加者はそれぞれ１枚のカードを作り、別の参加者に郵便で送る - 参加者全員が、必ず１枚のカードを受け取る！』というものです。　とても良い企画だと思いませんか？
＊今後も企画は続くと思いますので、参加ご希望の方は、私に連絡をくださーい！　（メーカーさん等のチャレンジとは違い、使用する材料に関する制限は今回はありませんでした。チャレンジのテーマにもよるとは思いますが、おそらく今後も・・だと思います。）
読んでくださっているあなた方に投げかけていま～す！（笑）　

Here is the card, 'Fall is in the air'.

I made this one to get an imagination from both my 'happy fall' card which I made it on Sep. 12th and the color scheme that Deborah was made. I love this color combo so much.

I changed to make this to bright colors taking on the color scheme.

To send this to abroad, I used 1/16" thick foam adhesives and die-cutted idea-ology grungesheet alphabets (I used 1/8" thick foam and the grungeboard letters for my 'happy fall' card.)

To tell you the truth, the previous card was too thick and it's too hard to put into the HA envelope.

This is a closeup.

and one more closeup taken from another angle.

Can you see the Perfect Pearls on the veins of a leaf?
The results using Perfect Pearls (Mica Powder) is really beautiful! I love it! But it's TOO difficult to take picture...

stamp used:

HA Design Blocks Woodgrain / S5208
HA Design Blocks Antique Flower Background  /  S5264
HA  PP: Real Leaves / LL684
HA PP: More Real Leaves / LL685
Making Memories stamp

other supplies:
Bazzill Basics CS, HA notecard
Tsukineko Versa Magic / Sage
Ranger Distress Inks / several, Distress Stickles / Spiced Marmalade
Ranger Perfect Pearls / Blue Patina, Green Patina, Gold, Bronze
HA Metallic Decor, Idea-ology Grungesheet, ribbons, DMC cotton embroidery thread, Signo bronze gel pen
Quickutz Alphabet Biology, Nesting die

Thanks for looking! :)

'Thanks a bunch' card (Tuesday color)

Hello, everyone! I finished one more card today for Hero Arts 'fall color challenge'. The Tuesday color scheme was most difficult to me, I thought. So I tried to make it.

本日、もう１点カードを作ってみました♪　HA秋色カラー・スキームの火曜日のカラーです。
今回の４つのカラーコンボのblogページは、今季ファッション・トレンドカラーでもあるので、面白いかな？と、リンクを入れておきますネ。
HA blog の9/7 ～　9/12 (September 7th, 2009 - September 12th, 2009) です。 9/9 のblog 内に、Pantone issue “Fashion Color Reports”　と、The Fall 2009 report と外部リンクが２箇所ありますが、双方のページを要約したような日本語ページを見つけましたので、そちらにもリンクを貼っておきますね。 ご参考まで♪
http://coliss.com/articles/build-websites/operation/design/most-popular-color-for-autumn-2009.html

(* for foreigners:
  The link just above is a summary page written in Japanese just like combined the 2 sites introduced on HA blog on Sep. 9th. I just linked it for the Japanese.)

Here is the result.

It looks like this card says, "Pick these flowers, and make a flower bunch yourself, please!".

This strange English and my thought can tell you what I mean??? ;)

This is a closeup.

I used Perfect Pearls 'Pearl' on Broken China Distress ink, and 'Heirlooom Gold' on Antique Linen ink.
Sorry I couldn't  show you the actual results well by my poor photo technique.

stamp used:

HA Cling Silhouette Flower / CG105

HA Clear Design Thank You Sayings / CL341

other supplies:
Bazzill Basics CS, HA notecard
Tsukineko StazOn / Timber Brown
Ranger Distress Inks / Broken China, Antique Linen
Ranger Distress Stickles / Spiced Marmalade, Acrylic Dabber / Copper
HA gemstones, ribbons, brad, paper flower

Thanks for looking! :)
Have a beautiful weekend and the next week! It's already Monday evening here.

'Happy Fall' card (Wednesday color)

Hi, there!
  I made a card for the first time in about a month, 'cos I've been sick. I've been having a slight fever yet, but felt quite good yesterday, so I tried to make it for Hero Arts 'fallcolors' challenge.
  Thank you so very much everyone for your concern! All your gentle words cheered me up a lot. I so APPRECIATE YOU! <3

少々回復傾向でしたので、ほぼ１ヶ月ぶりになりますが、ヒーローアーツのウィークリーチャレンジ用に１点作ってみました。
テーマは'Fall Colors - 秋色' ♪♪♪　ファッションなど、秋冬コレクションの方が春夏より好きな私は、このテーマに妙に刺激されてしまい、結局仕上げてしまいました（笑）
  お見舞いのお言葉をたくさん頂きまして、本当にありがとうございました。　気温が下がって来ましたので、皆様、どうぞご自愛くださいね。

Here is the card, 'Happy Fall'.

Made this card to use my favorite real leaves stamps. I used to use these maple and oak in autumn season since I got these sets.
Put a bit of distress stickles on the grungeboad 4 letters.
(I just knew the digital Real leaves named 'DigiKit - HA Foliage' were released at the 2 Peas.)

And, we had our typical autumn rain all day long yesterday. And the temperature came down to 19 in centigrade in midnight! We had over 31C in the afternoon the day before yesterday!!! Amazing! Fall is in the air? The leaves will be fallin' and the colors will be changing soon? The natural phenomenon gave me a hint that I should to express some raindrops to use Glossy Accents.

stamp used:

HA Blocks Design Woodgrain / S5208
HA Cling Antique Brocade /  CG102
HA PP: Real Leaves / LL684
HA PP: More Real Leaves / LL685
Making Memories stamp

other supplies:
Bazzill Basics & American Crafts CS, HA notecard
Tsukineko StazOn / Timber Brown, Versa Magic / Sahara Sand
Color Box Chalk Que / Dark Peony
Ranger Distress Inks / several, Distress Stickles / Worn Lipstick, Fired Brick, Glossy Accents, Opaque white pen
Kaiser Craft Pearl, Idea-ology Grungeboard, ribbons, DMC linen thread
Quickutz nesting die

Thanks for looking! :)
Have a beautiful weekend!