Oops one last 2014 Calendar!

Hey!!

Thanks everyone for all the wonderful comments you've been leaving.  I read them as soon as I get to work because I need a little happy reading before starting the day.  Big hugs to you all!!

I have one last calendar for 2014 to share.  I made this for one of the temps who's last day was Friday. When I hear someone is leaving the company, especially in our department, I try to give them a good luck/best wishes card.  Lately I've been trying to incorporate something useful.  So adding a calendar to the front was perfect.  I found an extra 2014 calendar so I parred it down to August and added the 2015 calendar below it.  I made it into a tent card so that if he wanted to put it on his desk at his new job he could.

In case you didn't recognize the image I used Shin-Shin from Sister Stamps and had a bit of fun coloring with a few Copics I had at work.  Definitely not your traditional coloring right?  hahaha!  I had a blast coloring him up including his glowing bamboo stick.  I have about 5 Copics markers that I leave at work and they are not the traditional bunch.  But I had fun anyways and I think it turned out pretty cool, especially with the cool washi paper in the background.  As you can see I used the same Tim Holtz postage stamp die again and I mounted it on to chipboard and then on to the white card.  After fussy cutting Shin-Shin I popped him above the calendar and added the Best Wishes laser die cut sentiment right next to him.  You can't really tell but I added Stickles to the glowing bamboo stick, and all of Shin-Shin's patches.  It looks pretty cool IRL.

Here's a close-up, pretty fun yea?  I might need to leave a couple more colors at work, just in case.  Well I hope you liked today's share, it was a lot of fun to make.  This weekend I have a future commission for some fun birthday decorations, wish me luck!  Hopefully I'll have time to stop in at Alyce's Kit & Clowder 3000 members weekend party.  So many fun things happening there.  Like a crayon coloring contest!  Wuuutt?!!

Have a great Saturday and as always...  Mahalo for stopping by!

Supplies:

• Shin-Shin - Sister Stamps
• White cardstock - Neenah
• Chipboard - Kelly Paper Co
• Washi paper - Hanko Designs
• Tim Holtz postage stamp die - Sizzix
• Laser cut sentiment - Island Scrapbooking
• Pop dots - Fiskars
• Stickles
• Copics used:
• Panda: B04, B05, YR02, YR04, white gel pen
• Bamboo: B04, Y15

LFF #73 - I love bamboo

Hello!
Hope you're all having a great Aloha Friday the 13th! (dun dun dunnnnnn! hahaha)

Usually I don't need a reason to make a card, but this time I was sending a payment for some cookies I bought from my cousin's fundraiser and I didn't want to just send a check in an envelope.  That would go against the cardmakers oath!  hahaha!!  So for today's Lilo's Fun Friday #73 share I would like to showcase this card I sent to my cousin using Shin-Shin from Sister Stamps.

All of the paper materials, except the Neenah cardstock, can be purchased at Hanko Designs. I thought the bamboo washi paper added a great background to my layout.  The green card is Tsugumi cardstock and I also used the same paper for the matte circle in turquoise.  That is some really great paper with a nice pattern too it.  The sentiment is computer generated and says, "I love bamboo" and on the inside I handwrote, "But I love cookies more!" It's true, cookies taste much better than bamboo. (hahaha)  Here's a close up of Shin-Shin and see the cool texture on the Tsugumi papers?

Pretty stoked with how it turned out and I hope my cousin will like it.  In this next shot you'll see I added some sparkle with my Wink of Stella glitter pen.  Can't use this enough! hahaha! 

Okie dokes, it's time to say Aloha! Hope you all enjoy the rest of your day and that you're all having a great summer.  Mahalo for stopping by and as always I appreciate all your wonderful comments.

xx
Lilo

LFF #72

Happy Aloha Friday.
Before I get in to today's post I'd like you to help say a prayer for all the people suffering from the fires in California and another prayer for the safety of our firefighters and first responders.  It's devastating to see so many fires in so short a time.  Safety to our firefighters and others helping to contain and eventually put them out. Mahalo!

For today's Lilo's Fun Friday I have a pretty CAS Thank you card I made for one of our temps.  He was truly a temp with us, only with us for less than a few months.  We still see him around the office because he's now with another department.

This is Shin-Shin from Sister Stamps.  I paired him up with some Evening Poetry washi paper from Hanko Designs.  After coloring him up with Copics, I matted the image on to a small piece of navy cardstock and popped the image up with dimensional foam adhesive.  The sentiment is computer generated and I added it right next to the image.

Isn't that face too cute?!

Don't forget that Kitty Bee Designs is currently in the middle of our newest Aloha Friday challenge (Scraps), hope you're playing for a chance to win a cool prize from the Doodle Garden.  Click HERE for details. Have a great weekend!  Mahalo for stopping by!

^.^
~Lilo

Some Fall projects

Hello!

I was in the mood to make some small cards and a tag using this really pretty Fall bamboo washi paper from Hanko Designs. I added it to some kraft and mustard colored cardstock with a few additional accents: twine, buttons, ribbon and some canvas paper.  I didn't want to color all of the images I chose so I stamped two of them on to kraft cardstock and used a versamark pen to shade in the images.  First up is the tag I made using Kiki from Sister Stamps, a hello sentiment from Paper Smooches, a heart punch, a Fall colored canvas paper leaf, button, ribbon and twine...

Hello Fall tag with Kiki (Sister Stamps)

This next one is a small card featuring Shin-Shin from Sister Stamps.  Also stamped him on kraft cardstock and colored in with the same versamark pen.  Stamped the hello sentiment inside a punched heart.  Added some twine, a button, distressed the edges and lastly rounded the corners.

Hello Fall card with Shin-Shin (Sister Stamps)

This last card I shared on the Y&FH blog the other day.  I colored Summer Chuckles with a few Copics and decided to put him in a polaroid frame.  Stamped "many thanks" from Paper Smooches and attached it to the front of this small card.  Rounded the corners, distressed the edges and added some twine and I was done. (Playing in C4C213 challenge & 2 Sisters challenge #171)

Many Thanks from Summer Chuckles

That's all I have for today.  Wishing you all a really awesome Sunday!

Hugs,
Leanne

Visiting with Crafty Friends Part I

Morning!

Yep I'm back with another post!  So what do I have for you today?  Well I wanted to share some pictures from my recent trip to Hawaii and also share one of the altered frames I made while I was there.  I have one more frame to share but I think I'll wait til' tomorrow to do that.  While I was there I wanted to make sure that I could visit a couple of crafty friends.  Boy had I known there were more crafty friends living on the Big Island I would have made sure to hook up with them, but alas time ran out.  :(  I will make sure to visit with them next time I'm there.  I did have a chance to meet up with two wonderfully creative ladies, Jenny Sakamoto, owner and creative designer for Sister Stamps and Karen Inouye who is one creative crafty wahine.  It took us a while to figure out where we were going to meet up and when.  Both were super busy and worked full-time.  We finally decided on a time and place.  Here is a picture of the 3 of us at Hawaiian Style Cafe with our ginormous dinners!!  (BTW, stop by Karen's blog to see her post about our meet up, she really knows how to tell a story!)

Dinner with Jenny & Karen

We had a really nice time.  We laughed and talked until the waitress literally kicked us out!  Said they needed the table, and there was people waiting or something like that.  That has NEVER happened to me before!  Next time we're going somewhere where that won't happen!  (hahaha)  I guess it was good she stopped us cause it was getting late and both Karen & Jenny had to get up early for work the next day.  Let me see, if I remember correctly I had the Korean chicken with rice and mac salad; Karen had the small beef stew with rice and mac salad and Jenny ordered the fish and chips (no rice or mac salad - hahaha).  The portions were huge!! Yes we each took some leftovers home and I think one of my cousins ate mine.  (lol)


I brought them some goodies (omiyage) from California, but I wanted to make them each something fun.  That's where the frames came in to play.  So happy I found them at Ben Franklin!  Today I'm going to share the frame I made for Karen but before I do that I'm going to share the adorable projects she made for me and some of the lovely laser cut images she got me from Island Scrapbooking.

Altered paper bag with Yumi w/ Birdie & a cute treat holder with Shin-Shin from Sister Stamps

 She altered a green paper bag with a Yumi & Fumi Handmade image, Yumi with Birdie!!  I've never seen anything so pretty!  She had a lot of cute elements on the bag including some pretty flowers and butterflies.  Down below is a flower border which I believe is the die from TGF.  Inside the bag were some gorgeous paper dies that I had not seen when I went to IS!  So I was super excited to get them.  Next she created this really cute treat holder, which she mentioned is from a Sizzix die and she added the adorable Shin-Shin from Sister Stamps.  Isn't it adorable?  Especially with the bamboo and cute little yellow star button!  Squee!!  Not only did she give me goodies for crafting she gave me goodies to snack on.  Inside the treat holder was some Kashi bars...  They came in handy during the many trips we took around the island.  And below is a picture of all the goodies together...

Crafty gifts from Karen I ~ Happy Day!

Mahalo Karen for your thoughtfulness, I love all my gifts and plan to use these sparingly.  Yep only the special ones will get any of these on their cards. :)  Here is the frame I made for her.  I wanted to do an Asian themed frame and I had just picked up some washi paper, and cardstock along with some other items.  I chose to use Yumi with Fan and here's what I came up with...

Altered frame with Yumi w/ Fan

The frame, washi paper, gems, clear beads (on the flowers) and doily were all purchased at Ben Franklin.  The rest are all from Island Scrapbooking and of course Yumi w/ Fan is mine.  I used mod podge, glue dots and 3-D adhesive to adhere some parts down.  Once everything was to my satisfaction I used an irredescent spray that had a nice pretty and subtle shimmer to it from the same brand as Mod Podge.  I need to go buy me a can since I left the one I bought in Hawaii.  I love how it not only sealed the project but gave it a real pretty shimmer without taking away from any of the colors.  Too bad you can't see it, but it's there.  I'm so happy that Karen liked it and feel honored that she has it up in her craft room.  hehe...  As Phil Robertson, from Duck Dynasty, would say, "Happy, Happy, Happy!"

Yumi w/ Fan

I'll be back tomorrow with the other frame that I made for Jenny and a couple more pictures.  Thanks for stopping by!  Have a nice day!

Hugs,
Leanne

Challenges:
Designed to Color: CH #20 Anything Goes
Craft My Life: Anything Goes Aug/Sept

LFF #61 ~ Hugs, Shin-Shin

Hey everyone!

Happy Aloha Friday!!  Hope you are all excited for the weekend.  I know I am!  :)

This is going to be a short one today.  (yay)  For Lilo's Fun Friday #61, my card is a simple one featuring one of the new images from Sister Stamps again, Shin-Shin.  I had a small piece of kraft cardstock, left over from yesterday's project annd since the embossing project was still fresh in my mind I used the same bamboo folder & bamboo leaves ink to make a similar looking background.  I tried to case the adorable shaker card that Jenny, owner of Sister Stamps created for this release.

I purchased a bunch of washi tape last week and now have quite a stash.  (woo hoo!)  One of the purchases was that woodgrain looking one.  Love it!!  I used two cuttlebug embossing folders, the woodgrain one and the bamboo one.  The technique for the embossing was fun to do.  To see the technique scroll down to my previous post.  This actually looks really cool IRL.  I thought it would be fun to keep in with the green theme so I inked up Shin-Shin in the same ink and colored using different shades of green. He's glowing!  (hahaha)  Fussy cut him out and then glued him down.  Stamped "hugs" on the top corner with a Paper Smooches sentiment.  Then I created the pocket for the shaker card.  After pouring in some beads and two punched green 5 petal flowers I closed it up, mounted it on to the woodgrain embossed cardstock with foam squares and then glued to the dark brown cardstock.

Okie dokie that's all I have for today.  Mahalo for stopping by!  I always appreciate your visits, makes my day even brighter. :)  Have a fabulous Friday!!

Hugs,
Lilo

Challenge: Oozak.com Earth Tones (2nd submission)

Y&FH CH #16 Reminder

Hey everyone!

We are slowly coming up on the last day to submit your entry over at Yumi & Fumi Handmade.  Challenge #16 is Anything But a Card and we've gotten some really terrific entries.  You still have time to join our challenge which closes at noon, pst on Friday, May 24th.  Stop by Sandie's blog to see her project.  You won't be dissappointed.  And if you missed out on any of the other DT projects stop by the Y&FH blog. 

Wow, it's been some time since I last posted.  I can honestly say my mojo was missing for a few days.  Could not get anything going. :(  Finally found a little bit of it the other day and channeled it in to this project.  If you've got some time to stay and read through, this plans to be a long one. (eek!)

I created another easel 2-drawer box with a "green" theme. :)  I have been having some fun making these.  Hope you like...

I used one of my go-to images, Fumi with Bear Backpack because I wanted to do a little collab with one of the newest images from the last Sister Stamps release, Shin-Shin the Panda.  (Both images can be purchased in the Yumi & Fumi Handmade store.) 

I love how cute and cuddly that little panda is and I had fun mimicking the colors on Fumi's bear backpack to match the colors I used on Shin-Shin. 

Some of you have requested a tutorial on how to make this box and I am working on one.  It's hard going if you've never done one before, but I will try my best to make it as simple as possible.  I like simple so it should not be too hard.  If you're anxious though, Kathy posted a tutorial on her blog.  Her version is slightly different from mine, but the end result is the same.  :)

I did not use any designer or patterned paper on this project!  Pretty proud of myself.  I used kraft and dark brown cardstock to create the box.  I wish I could remember where I saw the tutorial for the embossing parts.  It was actually really easy and very cool to do.  Taking the bamboo embossing folder from the Oriental weave set, I inked the top portion of the panel with Memento Bamboo Leaves ink, not the raised side, but the "negative" side.  Carefully slide the cardstock paper in, closed it and ran it through my Cuttlebug machine.  I did it twice since the panel was longer.  The end result is a negative impression with the raised parts the color of the original cardstock.  To emphasize the raised parts on the cardstock I used the same ink and went over the whole panel with it.  It created this awesome softness that emphasizes the details on the embossed parts.  I did the same for the bottom portion of the box using the  Distressed stripes embossing folder.  It totally looks like bamboo to me so I went with it.  Used the same technique as I did with the bamboo background.  (The pictures below are the steps I just described using the 2nd embossing folder)

The kanji sign for Harmony was stamped using the same ink and die cut with a circle punch from SU.  Used a sponge to add a bit of distress to the circle and pop dotted it in the center between Fumi and Shin-Shin.  The bottom sentiment says "capture the moment in your heart." and is a $1 stamp I bought at Michael's a few years ago.

 The last touch was the brads I used for the "knobs" on the drawers.  They are leaves and thought they tied everything together well.  Glad I could pull those out of the "vault" to use. (lol). 

And there you have it.  If you've read all the way through thank you and I hope it was well worth the read.  :)  I am really excited about this one especially because I was able to use a Sister Stamp and a Y&FH stamp all on the same project and learned a new technique along the way.  Yay me! hehe :) 

Make sure to link up HERE before noon, pst tomorrow and please, before you link make sure that you followed our challenge rules else your project will be removed from our Inlinks link.  Mahalo for stopping by!  Have an awesome day!

Hugs,

Leanne

Challenges: Oozak.com #14 Earth Tones