The Far East Blog Hop

Welcome to the 
Far East Blog Hop

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM), celebrating the achievements and contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.

This is a blog hop featuring projects inspired by the Asian culture. Join us as we celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage!

You should have arrived from Kim-www.pinkzebrapapercreations.blogspot.com,   but if not,
Connie Can Crop is the beginning of this fun filled hop! 

This is a one day blog hop, but you have until Sunday at 10pm to finish hopping and leaving your love for all of these talented crafters.

We have an awesome sponsor for this hop!!

One lucky winner is going to win 4 dies from Cheapo Dies!!

What do you need to do to win? Easy... become  a follower of each of the fabulous blogs in this hop and leave each of them a comment letting them know what you like best about their projects.

You will have until 10 pm Sunday to finish the hop and leave your comments on every blog to be eligible to win. 

Winners will be announced on Wednesday 5/16/18 at Connie Can Crop.

Be sure to follow everyone and leave a comment along the way!

For this blog hop, I decided to finally scrapbook those pictures I took the first day of 2017, when the whole family went to a stroll through the Chinese Garden here in San Antonio:

I got inspired by two sketches from on-going challenges that i follow:

I used sketch n scrap blog's sketch for May:

 But decided to make it a flap to add more pictures from this fun day:

I attached the flap using this Asian themed border stickers:

And added another flap using 2 pictures to hide one more bellow:

I just realized that I added a picture backwards... LOL...

For the other page:

I used this sketch from: even more scrapping blog:

I didn't  modified this sketch as much and love how these border stickers of bamboo sticks and leaves work so well with this sketch.

For the title, I used more old old alpha stickers:

For the embellishments I used more stickers and some die cuts left over from an old project, using the tattered lace dies and specialty papers:

The Chinese (at least I think they are) characters are also stickers bought more than 9 years ago either through eBay or at a CKC...

Some of the materials I used:

I ended up not using all dies and neither the CE and Fern Studio die cuts. But I was very happy to have finally used those more than 9 year old stickers I had... the glue was still very good...

Next head on over to 
Sue- https://foleysfriend.blogspot.com

Here's our line up in case you get lost along the way.

Connie- http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com

Shannon- https://shannonhdesigns.blogspot.com/

Sue- https://suek86401.blogspot.com/

Alicia- http://goldengoddessdesigns.blogspot.com/

Kim-www.pinkzebrapapercreations.blogspot.com   

  Veronica- https://vickyscrappingpassion.blogspot.com/

Sue- https://foleysfriend.blogspot.com

Miranda- http://www.nanasscrapspot.com

Beside the two sketch challenges, I am joining the following ones:

http://creativecraftcottage.blogspot.co.nz/2018/05/challenge-107-dies-andor-punches.html

http://cardmaniachallenges.blogspot.com/2018/05/cmc104-anything-but-card.html

Paper Wings Productions DT:

Hi everyone! 

Today is my day to share with you a DT inspiration project for Paper Wings Productions (The Aviary), today:

A Lady of Guadalupe Shrine, made using Virgen de Guadalupe stamp set and build-a-shrine-cling-stamp-set, some wooden die cut pieces, some lace ribbon (last three included in the natural-mixed-media-kit), and some other goodies from my stash:

Here you can see more details:

The top:

Open:

I made my first video tutorial to show the steps of this project and the materials, I used. Please bear with my strong accent and hesitations, I'm still learning this method:

I hope you enjoyed this mixed media project and leave some love.

Many blessings,

Vicky

I'm entering the following challenges:

scrapping 4 fun challenges: challenge-98-Techniques

altered eclectics: September-challenge

mixed media place: august-challenge

More Mixed Media Challenge - Anything Goes with optional Brown

stamplorations: stamplorations-anything-goes-challenge
vintage journey: altered-art

Guest Designer @ Scrapping4funChallenges

Dear scrappers,

I was honored to be asked to guest design for Scrapping4funChallenges  blogspot.
The challenge is:
Challenge #86 - Recycling / Old Stash

Thus, I decided to get my accumulated old stash for St. Patrick's day and make some home decor:

I recycled some packaging to make the tag, and my stash from a few years of accumulation from Graphic 45, some Paper Source hand made paper I bought in Boston last year, some old burlap cardstock from previous projects, leftover metal slider for the hat, glitter ribbon so old... ,  glitter paste from BoBunny and stencils, some liquid metallic turquoise ink, 3 D gluedots, Dollar tree stickers, and glitter flowers with the 4 leaves clover. The wooden plate is from Target.

Here are some close-up pictures:

I will post an SnapGuide soon with details about how I made this mixed media homedecor piece. Please check back this post again to find the link here.
I hope you decide to join this challenge and enjoy the other very talented designers projects too.
I hope enjoy this project, 

Many blessings

Vicky Tovar


I will be participate in the following challenges too:

http://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2017/03/sos-294-luck-o-irish.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ShoppingOurStashWeeklyChallengeBlog+%28Shopping+Our+Stash+Weekly+Challenge+Blog%29

http://useyourstuff.blogspot.com/2017/03/255-dry-embossing-machine-or-hand.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UseYourStuff+%28Use+Your+Stuff%29

http://stamplorations.blogspot.com/2017/03/stencil-sunday-march-5.html

https://pixelsandpaperchallengeblog.blogspot.com.au/2017/03/hello-sweet-march.html