Wedding Cards Galore!

Today Brian and I are going to a wedding in Cupertino. I believe it is for his mom's cousin. She asked me to make a very simple wedding card, so here it is. I decided to double up on the pop dots so the image would stand out a bit more.

Boy oh boy is it wedding season. Here is another take on a wedding card I made for a wedding last month. This one is special because it's the 1st wedding card that I made ever.

I'm so excited because we are going to LA Memorial Day weekend! Yay, my 1st trip back to my old home town since I moved in January. The weekend will go by so fast, but I hope to get a chance to visit all of my friends. One of Brian's friends is getting married so here is a wedding card I made for the happy couple. These are the colors that Brian and I are wearing. I think he's going to wear his grey dress shirt, and I bought a yellow dress last week! Cute huh?!?

A few weeks ago I went to a wedding in San Francisco for a co-worker. It's such a sweet story. The couple recently moved to the bay area from Japan. They weren't able to get married before he started his new assignment in the Silicon Valley, so they planned here in SF. It was very intimate with everyone from the office. They even had a live broadcast to their parents in Japan! They had to wake up around 4-5am in the morning to watch. From what I heard the symbol for love is the same in Chinese and Japanese which is why I wanted to incorporate that somewhere in the card.

I forgot to take a picture at home before we left, so I took this picture pre-ceremony from my seat in the chapel! Haha!

Baby Shower Card

Tonight Brian and I are going to a baby shower. His cousin Shirley is expecting a girl! Here's a card I made for her. I originally was going to go w/ the ever so popular pink and brown, but I found this pink and green patterned paper in my scrap pile. Cute huh?

Paper Source & The Container Store

Last night I took my friend Rujjira out for dinner at Santana Row. It was her birthday last week. Attached is the card I made her. Her and her husband recently got a puppy named Milo, so I tried my best to replicate an image of Milo. I thought the birthday hat was a nice touch. I also made her a card set with various types of cards to use throughout the year. I also made a bookmark. It was my 1st time making a bookmark. Her favorite colors are blue and silver. I'll see if I can find the photos of her goodies. (I may have forgotten to take pictures.)

Dinner was so yummy! We ate at Maggiano's Little Italy. Rujjira had never been there before. I'm so bummed because I totally forgot to stop by the cupcake joint to buy her a birthday cupcake! ARGH! Oh well, we were so full anyway. The portions there are HUGE. Not like C & O's back in LA, but close.

Then we went to the Paper Source and the Container Store. It was my first time at both of these stores. OMG, I think I spent almost 3 hours just walking around and touching everything. The paper store was soooo cute! Lots of printed paper and everything is organized by color and size! I was in paper heaven :) I don't know what happened but I walked out w/ a huge bag of random stuff.....

Same with the Container Store. I walked out with a huge bag of goodies. I've been wanting to organize my closet for a while now. I have too many shoes and clothes. Since I share a closet w/ Brian, I have to give up half of the space. Well actually only a 1/3 of the space :) haha So I've been trying to figure out how to maximize all of the space I have available. I found some great drawers and an over the door shoe organizer. The Container Store is pretty expensive, but the stuff I bought was on sale :) Although I was bummed at checkout to find out that my "Welcome to the Bay Area" 20% coupon didn't apply to sale items! ARGH x's 2. Oh well, at least now I can say "I bought that from the Container Store" :)

NSD Challenge #4

Challenge #4: Least favorite or least used cartridge.

Surprisingly so, this is the 1st time I've used the My Community cartridge. Perfect for this challenge!

NSD Challenge #11

Challenge #11: Use colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue) Immediately I thought of this patterned paper which has all of the colors needed.

NSD Challenge #9

Challenge #9: Make a shaped card. I used a sparkly color pink paper for her bow instead of your traditional red. I LOVE Hello Kitty!!! Actually anything Sanrio is cute. Too bad Cricut doesn't make Sanrio cartridges....

Home Sweet Home

I think we are finally done with the home improvements on our house! Well the major ones for now. There's still a few items left on our To-Do list and I don't think we'll ever be complete. There will always be something around the house that we want to fix or change.
- 33 gallons of paint later, the entire interior including the garage is painted. I don't ever want to see another can of paint again. We painted our house 3 times because of a paint color mistake at OSH....not a very fun experience AT ALL!
- Stained all of the kitchen cupboards and bathroom cabinets. Cut liner for each drawer/shelf.
- A couple of new light fixtures
- 9 new doorknobs and door stoppers. All very shiny and matching.
- So many new outlet covers and switch covers that I can't count how any we replaced.
- And many more lil' miscellaneous knick knacks that we bought from Home Depot/Lowe's

Now I can finally start unpacking boxes that we have stacked up in the living room. Once that's complete, I'll take pictures of the house to share w/ everyone. Then it's time to start planning for a Housewarming Party! Yay!