So this has been a fun-filled month with another Chinese holiday, my first Chinese birthday (I'm 38!!), report cards and the list goes on... I'm really looking forward to this next week because the weather is so nice right now in Shanghai and we have a whole week off for Chinese Labour Day! We really get spoiled with the holidays around here. 

Today I'm sharing a Tiddly Inks card because I'm throwing my hat in the ring for their next DT call! I love their images and they really challenge my colouring skills, so I thought "Why not?!?!" 

I used a Wryn and Friends stamp called Thanks a Latte printed on Copic X-press paper to colour with Copic markers. I got the colour palette from My Mind's Eye "On Trend" paper collection and used the following markers: 

Then once again I got friendly with the gold elements with some groovy shiny gold cardstock (that's very difficult to photograph, BTW!) 

I've been waiting to get these "derpy" birds for a while now and when my craft supplier here in China got them in her store I snatched them right up.. Now, what was I supposed to do with them?

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge this week was to make birthday cards, so that's what I did! 

(And this one is not birthday, but I thought I'd share it too!) 

Supplies

Stamps: Tim Holtz Birds, Technique Tuesday sentiment "Awesome", Taylored Expressions "Paw-some"

Paper: Bazzill Cardshoppe card base, Watercolor paper

Other: Sakura watercolours, Archival black ink, Wink Of Stella clear, 

I was so excited that the Technique Tuesday team was asked to guest design for Becky at PageMaps for the quarterly sketches starting in April. 

Check out all of the sketches here: 

April 2015 CardMaps

And here are my samples: 

Head to the CardMaps Blog for a Technique Tuesday giveaway and a discount! 

Ps... Here's a little video showing my new die storage.
I've gotten so many TT dies lately that it was totally out of hand. 

Now they're organized and accessible and I love it! 

Hi there!

 So I won the challenge at the Color Throwdown blog the other week and this week I get to be a guest designer!!