Postcards Received thru RRs - March 6, 2015

Hi!

Sharing more photos of postcards received:

March 6, 2015

official postcrossing postcards:

- Rostock card from Deutschland

- Museum card from Finland

- Chioggia multiview card from Italy

 - St. Patrick's card from Ireland

- Manitoba - Whitehsell Provincial Park card from Canada

 postcard received thru any new years card RR

- Keep Calm card from Nederland

 Kennedy - Dallas, Texas card from the USA

thru a private swap

 postcards received thru RR swap

- Old Map of Leiden card from Nederlands

- Church card from Romania (Roman Catholic, Reformed & Reformed New Church)

- God card from China

 postcard received thru thematic stamps RR

- Qingdao Railway Station card with Lion painting on a stamp from China

postcard received thru a Cat RR

- Cat illustration art card from Belarus

Maxicards Received - March 6, 2015

Hi, everyone!

I'm sharing the Maxicards I've received from Germany

from a private swap - March 6, 2015:

 Berlin West Cards:

- Weihnachtsmarke: Yoruba-Krippe

(10.11.1983 - Berlin 12)

- Weihnachten 1984

(08.11.1984 - Bonni)

- Bundesrepublik Deutschland Card - Weihnachtsmarke: Sankt Martin

(08.11.1984 - Bonni)

 Berlin West Cards:

- Weihnachtsmarke: Anbetung der Heiligen Drei Konige

(10.11.1982 - Berlin 12)

 150 Jahre Mainzer Carneval

(January 14, 1988 - Bonni)

Berlin West Cards:

- Jugendmarken: Historische Motorrader Wanderer 1908

(12.04.1983 - Berlin)

- Jugendmarke: Historische Motorrader Hildebrand & Wolfmuller 1894

(12.04.1983 - Berlin)

- Jugendmarke: Historische Motorrader Mars 1925

(12.04.1983 - Berlin)

 Spring Traditions Maxicard, Vaduz:

(June 9, 1986)

- Palm Sunday; Wedding and Rogation Day Procession

- Stamp Designer: Regina Marxer, Vaduz

- Engraver: Wolfgag Seidel, Vienna

Hereditary Prince Hans Adam of Liechtenstein and

Hereditary Princess Marie of Liechtenstein

Postcards Received - March 5, 2015

Hi!

Sharing photos of my postcards received:

March 5, 2015

I'm glad to receive these panoramic cards.

I just wished that the stamps were affixed on the back of the postcards instead of the envelope.  Nevertheless, I'm glad the postcards wasn't damaged.  Just a few portions of the stamps torn which I regret to see.

 postcrossing panoramic postcard received from Belarus.

postcrossing panoramic folded postcard received from Deutschland

Postcards Received - March 2, 2015

Hi!

Sharing photos of postcards sent and received:

March 2, 2015

postcards received thru Mini Sheet on postcard swap:

- postcard of Door Gods from Taiwan with Year of the Goat Mini Sheet stamp

- a Perak (Hutan Royal Belum) Visit Malaysia 2014 postcard with 

Forests and Society (Hutan Dan Masyarakat: Peranan Penyelidikan) Mini Sheet stamp

 postcard received from South East Asia x World RR:

- a Bawang Merah Bawang Putih folklore postcard

 postcards received thru thematic stamps Art RR:

- postcard from USA with folk art stamps

postcard received thru South East Asia x World RR:

- postcard from Indonesia of Blenduk Church in Semarang

 postcard received thru Art stamps RR

- postcard ad Art stamps Russia

postcards received thru Cat RR

- Cat postcard from Russia

- Cat postcard from Russia

My Christmas Cards with Singapore Philatelic Museum

Hi, everyone!

I would like to share photos of my cards that made it to Singapore Philatelic.  Last Christmas 2014, Singapore Philatelic shared an invite thru Johnny Lowis for cardmakers who have Holiday cards that they'd like to try to convert into Maxicards with Singapore Philatelic.

I showed him my Holiday card designs early on.  And saw a Taiwanese who had already sent ahead and had her card into a Maxicard with Singapore Philatelic.

I asked all of my questions as Singapore Philatelic has a number of Christmas postage stamps released.  And Johnny mentioned they will be the ones to choose which Singapore stamps from their vault will fit with my cards.  I had my preferences but the choice rested with Singapore Philatelic with their Christmas December 25th cancellation.

I cleared if it's possible for a card be converted into Maxicards so many times.  Not only with one stamp design but with other Philatelic stamps may it be from my own country too.

I was able to send in my cards in the month of December 2014 already. . . . unlike the Taiwanese who sent in earlier . . . i think the Taiwanese sent hers November 2014.

Here are the photos of my cards with Singapore Philatelic:

I still have my New Year Cards with them and Singapore Philatelic mentioned my New Year's Cards are in transit / sent back home to me in Las Piñas City, Metro Manila.  I'm already excited as to the result and which postage stamp they choose for my cards to turn into Maxicards with Singapore Philatelic.

Johnny sent in some Chinese New Year Maxicards from Singapore Philatelic Museum and a pair of sample Christmas Maxicards from him too.

 the Chinese New Year (Year of the Goat) Maxicards

from Singapore Philatelic Museum

the back of the Chinese New Year Maxicards

from Singapore Philatelic Museum

sample Christmas cards from Johnny Lowis

"Swing Into Spring" LO published at Scrapbooking.com

Hi!

It's the start of another month - the month of March 2015.

I have another digital LO article tutorial published at Scrapbooking.com

under the theme category of Spring:

Swing into Spring (Ribbon Dept):

Scrapbooking.com article:  http://scrapbooking.com/article/83017

Printable step-by-step tutorial:  http://scrapbooking.com/cgi-bin/Phase_2/layout.pl?serial=83018

SMASH BOOK FINALISTS for the Creo by Lady Katutz Milestone Contest

Hi!

This is the 5th and 2nd to the LAST installment of showing off the Finalists to Creo by Lady Katutz Milestone 2014 Contest.  This post is for the Smash Book or Travelling Notebook Category may they be DIY or non-DIY Smash Book pages.

Contest participants are a total of 9 participants for the Smash Book Category.

I'm so glad to have received a number of page entries and I would like to thank them all for writing and decorating pages from my Travelling Notebook as their submitted entries.  They're page entries of friendship and for the love of our shared hobby in papercrafting and of journals.

I'd like to thank all those who joined my Travelling Notebook Activity specially with the Filipino Scrapbookers Club and the Philippine Crafters Association.  And to the lone British participant Fran for joining my Travelling Mixed Media Art Dedication Album with Kaboodle Doodles.

I have deemed your pages worthy to be entries in my Smash Book Contest Category.  Thank you so much!!

For all of you beloved smash bookers, lovers of journals and dedication notebooks and who collects Smash Books in whatever form, a gracious THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU!!

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I have been going thru prelimaries with all the entries since the month of December 2014 for the Smash Book Entries and I believe this category has been the 2nd toughest for me to pass judgement to choose a winner.

Here are my chosen 3 FINALISTS out of 9 ENTRIES:

{from top to bottom}


Melanie Anne B. Cheng
(from Manila, Philippines)
a smash page with banners or pennants outlined, with a play of various papercrafting tools of border punchers for her border strip and embossing folders for paper strips done into a birthday cake.  I love her corner paper embellishments done either fussy cutting put the precision in the cut makes me deduce that these were done with a die-cutting machine with beautiful dies for the corner bottom right clock and the corner bottom left cluster of bird, frames and a banner strip.

I really love that lower left corner cluster of hers.  Such a sweet corner layout!


Mitch B. Hildawa
-- corrected - previously: entry posted as Vanessa S. Torres' entry --
(from Manila, Philippines)
a smash art page done in a collage where various embellishments and a few die cuts were put together in a smash collage style backed with a pattern paper as matt.

Stickers of friendship quotes and other more tapes decorate her 2 pages, button embellishment and flower gems embellishes her pages some more.  I love the way she made use of a quote stencil done in mixed media.

Her quotes says:

truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
friendship isn't a big thing, it's a million little things

You say I dream too big.  I say you think too small.
Fly by attitude
Forever Friends


Mitch B. Hildawa
(from Manila, Philippines)
a smash art page done in DIY smash book style.  Mitch displayed herself as more of a smash booker in her 2-page entry.  A little of mixed media with a play with tags, die cuts from keys to word quotes to eiffel tower and doily dies with fussy cut camera and dress forms abound her pages.

Snippets of paper notes about herself and a dedication decorate her pages.

Her quotes says:

Today was Magical
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction,
Ends up being the biggest step of your life
Tip Toe if you must but take the step.

THE SMASH BOOK (Regular or DIY or non-DIY) WINNER

GETS TO WIN

(with submission of best Smash Book Folio Project based on categories mentioned above, whether in a DIY Smash Notebook, a K&Co. Smash Folio or any Smash Album and Travelling Notebook Project)

- K&Co. mini Smash Folio
- Korben Corporation's Papelmelroti's Mini ring album
- K&Co. Mini Smash Pad 
{ to view sample of my DIY Smash Notebook, click, HERE. }

Good Luck!