Welcome Baby Boy!

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I was desperately in need of a handmade new baby card, "pronto"! And I had no cards available in my card collection for a baby boy. Arrghhhh! So I immediately thought of those fancy new baby stickers I bought recently that was bought for this type of situations when I can use them for making quick handmade cards! Thank God for these stickers! Seriously! :D

This card was made especially for a dear friend of mine who just gave birth to a cute little baby boy. I haven't had the chance to meet the cutie pie yet but soon I will, real soon! ;)

Because the front design of the card was a little too simple, I thought of complicating it by making a pop up for it, LOL! :D Nothing too fancy though....just a simple one.....so, I just made a simple square pop up and pasted more fancy stickers inside it. I especially love the part where I made the cute litte blue baby pajamas stand up like that. LOVE IT!

Do check out the video of the new baby pop up card below :)

1 million page views

I didn't realised it yesterday because I wasn't able to get online that much due to work....but when I got online this morning, I was surprised to see the numbers changed so fast at my blog. Finally after 813 posts over 5 years, 2 months and 9 days, this blog has hit it's 1 millionth page view. ^.^ Yay!!!

This is just a small teeny weeny achievement compared to other blogs I know that actually can hit 1 million page views in a month or in a day even....hehehe....so for some this is not a big deal but for me it sure is BIG. I'm celebrating it anyways no matter what because it wasn't easy for me to reach this level. 

Big thank you for all my readers, regulars or not, and for all who has helped make this happen by promoting my humble blog to all your friends and family around the world. Thank you so much for your loyalty....and for taking your time to browse my blog,  I truly appreciate it so much. :) Love you all!!!!! Big hugsssss!!!!

Purple theme tri shutter card

Been thinking about what to giveaway for my readers in July since June's blog giveaway has come to an end...gosh....I can't believe how fast June flew huhuhu.....it's just has been such a crazy hectic month for me....so as I was thinking about it....I thought of this tri shutter card I made some time ago. It was not fully completed...it was just 50% done. It was abandoned because I didn't have the time to finish it back then. So decided to complete it once and for all and give it away for one lucky winner. 

Since I've never given away a tri shutter card before, this card was perfect for such an occasion. Even though the decoration is simple but it was made from the heart :). All the pattern paper you see on the card was sponsored by Miss Sandi Staley.....a dear friend of mine who has helped encourage me and supported my work from the very beginning. I love all the purple and lilac pattern paper I used here. Thank you Sandi! ;) 

The plain lilac colored paper here is for writing on some personal wishes :). Not much space to write even though the card has a lot of space hehe....I practically used up all the other space for decoration. ;) I'm glad I get to use the MS doily craft punch for this card. Somehow it seems to suit the pattern paper I used.

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July 2012 Blog Giveaway

Hello everyone!

It is now time for giveaway number 7! Oh me oh my....can you believe it? It's already July!! Yikes! I get surprised every time! LOL! :D

I had the opportunity to make something for my loyal readers and yes as you can see at the photo above  it's a half A4 size tri-shutter card that I made using pattern paper that was sponsored  by Miss Sandi Staley ;) who is a good friend of mine. She gave me a lot of purple and lilac pattern paper that I adore so much. So I knew it would be perfect for decorating on this tri shutter card. I hope you all like it as much as I do ;). I will blog more about the tri shutter card soon in another post so that you can have a closer view of the card.

It's pretty easy to enter this giveaway. Everyone is eligible to enter it. Please read the instructions carefully:

1. "LIKE" my Facebook Fan Page at the link HERE OR "Follow" my blog at the followers box at the side bar of my blog (if you have a blog).

2. Share this giveaway at your blog by putting the photo and link at the side bar of your blog OR you can share the link of this giveaway at your Facebook.

2. Write your name and your URL link (your blog link or FB link) at Mr. Linky's widget below.

This giveaway runs from today till 11.59pm on 31th of July 2012. I shall announce the name of the lucky winner during the first week of August 2012. Thank you so much for participating!!! ;) XOXO

THE JULY 2012 BLOG GIVEAWAY IS OFFICIALLY CLOSED!!!

Winner of June 2012 Blog Giveaway

And the winner for the June 2012 Blog Giveaway is................. lucky number 44! ;) Congratulations to Miss Henrietta Jose for winning the giveaway :) Do email me your complete mailing details and contact number as soon as you can! ;)

Participants for Lin Handmade Greetings Card June 2012 Blog Giveaway were 97 altogether at Mr Linky....Thank you so much to all who took the time to enter my blog giveaway and helped promote it at your blogs and Facebook. I really appreciate it very much. 

I already have in mind what to giveaway for Juy 2012 Blog Giveaway but it's not completely done yet....still in process.....surprise, surprise..... hehehe. It's a little different from what I've given away before... Do check out the next giveaway that's coming soon!! :)

LOVE

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Finally the card is done! I can't believe I did two things that I've never done before in one card ;). Yup! One is the quilled alphabets and the other is the pop up heart. I have often wondered and was pretty intimidated to try out these two things before but I somehow got the courage to try them out in the end and I must say, I'm pretty happy about how they turned out even though the design is pretty simple :).

The pop up heart template was given to me by my dear friend CC Peyton......she found the free template online.......I kept it for months in my computer.....never printed it, never dared to give it a try.....until now. Thanks CC....I love it!! Although it was a bit difficult to make.....but I made it, with you in mind....I knew you would love to see me make it. So, dear friend, this one is for you ;).

Hopefully this is just a starting point for me to create more quilled alphabets in future......IF time permits me to do so that is! haha! Never seem to have enough time to make handmade cards these days.....too busy with other work and commitments. So indeed it was really nice to be able to make this card even though I didn't have a lot of time to make it.....

I made a video of the card so that you can see it at a closer view...... do check it out ;)

Quilling LOVE

I've never done anything like this before. This is my first time trying to quill shapes of alphabets that I drew myself. Just a simple drawing......and I drew the alphabets pretty big so that it will be easy for me to quill it ;). I'm not that ambitious yet to try quilling complicated type of alphabets/fonts that might sprain or twist my fingers ahahaha. So I opted for something less complicated and will give me the freedom to create the alphabets anyhow I like them to be since I'm pretty new at this technique.

Since I don't have anybody to teach me how to do it, I searched in YouTube for any kind of video tutorials on how to do a simple quilled alphabet and I found one that I think is easy enough for me to try. There was only one video that I found and it showed how to do it using a polystyrene foam and pins. But since I am pretty lazy to do it exactly the way the video showed it, I decided to change it a bit and do it the way I'm comfortable with. 

I didn't use a thick quilling strip......just a 80gsm shredded quilling paper. Since this is my first try, I thought of using something that is not that thick and easy to shape....just testing and experimenting first. Once I get the hang of it then perhaps I can try some other types of paper.

The whole thing is not yet completed.......I still need to decorate it with some quilled shapes to make it look pretty....otherwise it looks so empty. Hopefully I will be able to get it done by tomorrow so that I can blog about it......till then!!! ;)