Love Teddy bear making! Trio bears :)

 In this Feburary, there were two days the temperature was like June in anual. Unbelievable phenomenon... Oh yeah, it's an abnormal weather... I want to change the interior, 'cos spring seems to be coming closer to us than usual..  I also love needleworks just not only paper crafts. I introduce you my original teddy bears. These bears were finished about 3 years ago.

The bear right has been living with one of my friends in Germany.
*My original teddy bear making was started after I mastered the basics by making the kits of German teddy bear artist Ele's Bläubaerchen for about 4-5 months. I wish to make bears again, but I cannot make enough time to create them.
Thanks for peeking! :)

Small Angels' Decoration (Salzburger Strauβchen)

I sometimes enjoy making the nuts craft.

 This is the arangement of various nuts, gold plated bourillon and pearl or beads named Salzburger craft from Salzburg, Austria. This craft is one of the European arts, I hear. I made a small bouquet and put it into the angels' pot. (diameter is about 3".)

The crochet lace doiry was made by myself.
*I introduce some this kinds of crafts through my web site. If you are interest in it, please visit my gallery at graphideart.com. I'm afraid that the explanations on my web site are almost written in Japanese.
Thank you for peeking! :)

Friendship card (Kindred Spirits)

I made this friendship card for the Hero Arts challenge.
Telling you the truth, I was going to entry this card for the last week's. But I couldn't continue to make this by the sad incident on my beloved cat.
This week, I finished this, put only 3 flower motifs.

 I sometimes do collaborative works with foreign creators. From last December to this January, I sent the same design cards to American and German architects whom worked with in the past, and now they are my friends.
I got an opportunity to make this for myself (my cards collection) at the friendship challenge.

Here's a partly closeup.

Technique I used etc.
After stamped DesignBlocks with dye inks, I slightly colored with watercolors for the background. 3 flowers motifs are just only stamped with dye inks, and put the glittered glues around the edges.

stamp used:
HA DesignBlocks Old Writing Flower Collage / S5105
HA DesignBlocks Raindrop Background / S5101
HA clear design Fancy Friendship / CL295

paper:
Cardstock / Bazzill Basics, American Craft
DCWV pattern paper, Graphix / plastic sheet

Inks etc.for coloring:
HA Shadow Ink / Soft Pool, Blossom, Lilac, Sand, Cube Soft Pink, Gold
Tsukineko StazOn / Jet Black
Ranger Distress Ink / Vintage Photo
Ranger Stickles / Frosted Lace, Distress Worn Lipsticks, Broken China, Scattered Straw
Watercolor (solid, pencil)

Accessories:
HA Citron Gemstone / CH130, Light Green Accent Pearl / CH174, ribbon

Thanks for stopping by!

Very sad day...

I lost my precious cat, Cleopatra (we called her 'Leo'.) by a car accident yesterday evening. I cannot stop to shed my tears now.
But I needed something for her, so I wrote my words on my favorites among her photographs by using Photoshop.

She was very pretty 11 months girl and a big fan of my dishes. She always sat down quietly behind me while I was cooking. And so sensitive girl. But she loved to play outside with her brother. I was to blame to let them play outside, I think.

She loved the place near the fence to bask in the sun. We miss you, Leo. So thankful you were in my life...