Day 5–Simple Love

Done with the cards I made this year, so I will show you some other love cards I made over the years beginning at day 5.

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Day 4–Resisit Love

This is the first card I made using resist technique. (I want to try resist technique for so long, but never came to the point to experience it.) The result is quiet stunning, even my teenage son commented how pretty it is.

Filed under: Card Gallery, Love Cards , card making, distress ink, Happy valentine's Day, love, resisit technique

Day 3–Feminine Love Card

Although I am not a tomboy, nobody will ever think of me as feminine. That definately reflects to my works–graphic design, illustration, card-making, etc. Hence this handmade card is first ever that’s really feminine (I think).

Filed under: Card Gallery, Love Cards , card making, Happy valentine's Day, love, rubber stamping, seesaw graphics

有J一說：蔡關打電話給你

剛從浴室出來，Ｊ立即跟我報告：「蔡關打電話給你。」

「蔡關？誰是蔡關？」我問。

「不知道。他說要找ＸＸ。」Ｊ回。

ＸＸ是我的中文真名，在矽谷這兒，一般都用英文名字，除非是濫熟的朋友，抑或老友，除此以外鮮少有人知曉我的中文名字。但是，具有那種交情的朋友裡，無一人名為蔡關，或者音和蔡關類似的。而且，蔡關，這可是個奇特的名字啊。我接著與Ｊ確認：「他說，他叫蔡關？」

「不是，是ｃａｌｌｅｒ　ＩＤ上的名字我翻成蔡關，應該沒錯。」Ｊ回答。

我恍然大悟，在心裡頭偷笑；在此地的華人，多半有個將中文音譯成英文的名字，所以在ｃａｌｌｅｒ　ＩＤ上顯現出來時再翻回成中文，可不容易。難怪，Ｊ會搞不清楚。後來答案揭曉，是我的好友打來的電話，Ｊ竟然沒認出他的聲音，那個號碼是好友的朋友幫他註冊的電話；而那位先生的大名是＂章傳＂，而非＂蔡關＂，Ｊ也差太多了點吧。

仔細想想，其實這也非頭一回了，以往，Ｊ也常常怪聲怪調的看著ｃａｌｌｅｒ　ＩＤ亂編名字，只是，這次＂蔡關打電話給你＂，一定是經典。

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Day 2–Dark Love

A love card using black color. I know I know, some people don’t like to use black as greeting color, but you can’t deny that it really stands out! I believe this card represents another aspect of love–the love that is too profound to bear. >_<

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The 10 Days of Valentine’s Kick off–Day 1

編織品,總是帶著細緻的心情在裡頭.所以,今年的情人節卡片,就來點編織的感覺與花樣吧~

所以,回歸最初,運用我偏愛的paper doilies 來做為今年的主題.

一系列的情人節卡片,在這裡,放上第一張,你可感受到,我那如編織般,細緻的愛意呢?

(This is my first card featuring in “The 10 Days of Valentine’s”.)

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My Heart Pattern #1

One important category of my own patterns is heart, which looks simple to draw but it actually requires some time to draw a perfect result. I often repeat my “doodling”  until I got a satisfied result.

This heart pattern is from my “An Easy Valentine’s Card”. I like it’s shape a lot! If you like it as much as me, you can print out the picture shown above, enlarge the heart and trace around it to get this pattern. I though of making it a “real pattern” for you by scanning it first and refine it using Adobe Illustrator. But that’s time-consuming and very likely I won’t finish it until next year’s Valentine’s day. xD

◎Further Reading: Heart to Heart.

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Home Sweet Home

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Africa Mask

My son made this Africa mask for school’s history project and earned lots of praise.

He used half of the milk carton as his paper-mache base, cut three holes as a mouth and eyes.  The nose part is actually the handle of the milk carton. The he decorated it with acrylic paints,  some feathers and black-and-white paper-mosaics.

Hope you get some ideas if your kids need to make a mask too.

Filed under: Craft Ideas, Just "Kid"ding, Others, Paper Products , mask, paper mache

小花卡

記得我的第一張Very First Doily Card嗎? 這次這張,做法簡單,沒想太多,就是兩朵相親相愛的小花兒,在很夢幻的氛圍裡,相親相愛著,呵~

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