Birthday Wishes for Melissa!

Brrrrr.......Happy Saturday!

The  DT has banned together to wish our very own Team Fumi DT member

~~~~~~MELISSA~~~~~~

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

What can we say about Melissa besides she is a 

sweet, talented, creative, reliable, friendly, and always ready to jump in to lend a hand....kind of girl.

Don't be surprised if you notice a color theme today, as we tried to use her favorite colors...

pink, purple, and black

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Corrine:
"Happy birthday, Melissa!  May all of your wishes come true on your special day!"

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Rosemary:
"Happy Birthday Melissa! Wishing you many blessings this year! 
Sending you love and hugs on your special day!!"

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Sheena:
"Happy Birthday Melissa, lots of wishes for a fabulous year ahead!"

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Cebelica:
"Dear Melissa! I wish you lots of happiness and beautiful moments.
 Happy Birthday!"

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Denice 

"Wishing you a year of happiness and good health, Happy Birthday!"

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Sheena's card using Fumi makes us think 
of the movie "Pretty in Pink"  :-)
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Blankina took time during her holiday to make a card using
 Yumi with Book to send happy thoughts and wishes,
 with the hopes it brings a sweet smile to 
Melissa on her special day!

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Cebelica has adorned Fumi with Gift with gorgeous flowers 

and a sparkling present!

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Denice used Fumi w/ Gift, thinking pink hair 
and butterflies would be a fun way 

 to help Melissa celebrate!
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If Melissa isn't smiling enough by now,
Kathy's card using Fumi is sure to add more happiness to the celebration!
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 It's late but certainly filled with lots of birthday wishes.  
A card with a hidden message from Leanne featuring Yumi with Birdie
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HAPPY HAPPY DAY

We hope we have surprised Melissa with our happy and cheerful wishes.

Feel free to click HERE to go to her blog to leave her some birthday love, of course you can leave a comment below too.

Embrace the White Space!

I'll admit it, I'm afraid of white space on a card most of the time. I always feel like it needs to be filled...needs something on it! Well today I decided to embrace the white space and just let it be. 

I must admit, I really like how this turned out. I think I need to learn to embrace the white space more often! 

For this card I used Fumi. She is colored with copics and then fussy cut out. I added a few hexagons from SU, a sentiment and some candy dots and voila', the card was done!

What about you? Do you like white space? use it often? or do you shy away from it??

Have a wonderful day and Merry Christmas Eve! 

A Thursday Throwback and Tutorial with Yumi and Fumi

Happy Thursday Everybody! It's Sheena of Team Fumi here today sharing a little project featuring our namesake Yumi & Fumi stamps from the first release.

Now, most of the time, I make cards. But every now and then I branch out and do a little altering. One of my favourite (and practical) objects to alter are notebooks. Despite being a techie, I DO like having written reminders of my to-do lists or, when travelling, a little journal to record those memorable moments.

Since I AM heading out on a little trip next week, I was inspired to create and share with you these altered miniature composition notebooks. They are perfect for writing down your packing list, important contact numbers and for quickly journalling all the fun anecdotes to go with your vacation photos for scrap-booking once you return home.

Supply List:

• miniature composition notebook (from your local dollar store or office supply store). These measure approximately 3.25 x 4.5 inches
• coordinating patterned papers, cut to fit the covers of the notebooks. You will need four pieces per notebook. Note that the pieces you will use for the inside covers should be cut just a fraction narrower than the cover (or you can trim after adhering with a craft knife). 
• extra paper from which to punch page tabs
• coordinating ribbon: two pieces. One for the cover (measure 1.25 inches longer than the cover to give room to adhere) and one for a placeholder (measure 2.5 inches longer than the cover to adhere and protrude from the notebook)
• double-sided tape, small glue dots
• coloured, stamped image of your choice
• any other embellishments you might wish to add
• corner rounder punch (or craft knife) if your notebook has rounded edges
• tab punch (or any other die cut/punch to make the tabs to divide your  notebook into sections)
• stamp and/or die cut to create a bookplate for the inner cover

Step 1: Gather your notebooks and rubber stamps.

Step 2: Cut your patterned papers down to size, rounding the edges if necessary. If the pattern on your paper clearly has a directional orientation (like my text paper), be sure you round the edges correctly!

Step 3: Be generous with the two-sided tape on the back of your papers to keep the edges from curling up.

Step 4: Line up the edges of the papers with the edges of your notebook and apply, pressing firmly to adhere.

Step 5: Cover the edges of the paper nearest the spine binding with the smaller pieces of ribbon. I like using just a couple of tiny glue dots to adhere the ribbon.

Step 6: Cut your coordinating papers for the inside covers. Again, remember to round the correct edges of the papers if they are directional. For these, I did not have to worry so much about that.

Step 7: I like the added touch of a little book-plate on the inside cover so you can write your name and contact info in case you lose your notebook OR so you can write the location and date of your trip!

Step 8: Before you adhere the papers to the inner cover, you will want to affix the ends of the ribbons from the cover AND one end of your place-holder ribbon (to the top edge of the back cover).

Step 9: Line your inner covers with the patterned papers.

Step 10: Punch out the tabs for dividing your notebook into sections from your left-over papers or additional coordinating papers. Score at the half-way point and apply double-sided tape to the insides of the tabs.

Step 11: Add your tabs to the pages of your notebook.

Step 12: Decorate the front of your notebook! I kept these notebooks nice and simple, with images coloured to match the papers and a little tab, but you could add assorted embellishments or ephemera to suit your taste.

So, there you have it! I'm glad you made it to the end of my detail heavy tutorial. If you are inspired to make your own altered notebook OR to create a project using my choice of throwback images (our very own Yumi & Fumi) be sure to share them on the Yumi & Fumi Handmade Facebook Fan page or to leave a comment on this post with a link to your own blog post or online gallery!

As always, thanks for taking the time to visit us here at Yumi & Fumi Handmade!

Friday Where's Yumi & Fumi Featured

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Happy Aloha Friday Everyone!!

Today I'm back to share some cuteness found around blogland.  I'm sharing some non-card projects I found today.  This first one is one of the projects I case'd for my ABC challenge and she totally deserves to be featured... Kathy Dinh from Pixie Boutique:

Calendar 2-Drawer box with Fumi:

Here is another calendar 2-drawer box she made using Winter Yumi:

And last I found these adorable tags featuring Fumi with Turtle.  These were part of a omiyage (thank you gift) given to neighbors that were nice enough to turtle sit their pets.  So cute Lynn!!

These are all totally adorable and were my picks for this week's Where's Yumi & Fumi Featured.  Congratulations ladies please grab the badge below and I hope you share it on your blogs.

Want to be featured on our blog and receive this adorable badge?  Join our challenges, post your cards and projects on your blogs, share on our Facebook page, and upload to Pinterest.  You can also leave a link in our comments section.  If you weren't featured today, no worries, there is plenty of time to be.  We'll be searching the web and maybe you'll be the next one on Friday's Where's Yumi & Fumi Featured.

Have a fabulous Friday and stop by tomorrow for more wonderful shares from our Design team and we hope you link up for our Anything But a Card challenge...

Have a happy crafting weekend!
Hugs,
Leanne

Tent card with Fumi & AJ with Dragonfly

Hello!

 

Yesterday and the day before I shared these two fun and easy to make cards on my blog.  This particular card is called a "tent card" and if you want to learn how to make it click on this LINK and the fabulous Beate Johns on Split Coast Stampers will show you.  Love going to SCS to look up new ideas and there are a ton of awesome multiple fold cards there with tutorials. (Pretty awesome idea for our current challenge if you're stuck on what to make).

 

This first tent card features AJ with Dragonfly from the Peek-a-Boo series.  This card measures 4 x 3.5.  I used Spellbinders to cut a circular window and then created this outdoor scene using some fun Doodlebug papers and punches.

 



 And here is a side view...

 

I know there isn't really any space to write anything... but wait!  There is!  The back side of the card...

  

 

 I did the same thing with another tent card featuring Fumi but for this card I made it bigger and created a rectangular window.  Used punches to decorate the inside and outside... 

 

 

Here is a side view...

 

And now the backside which already has a sentiment courtesy of AmyR...

 

The cool thing about these cards is that they fold flat to stick and mail in an envelope and when they are opened they stand up like a "tent".  :D

 

A few reminders...

1. There is still time to join the current multiple folds challenge.  All entries will link up HERE.  This challenge ends on Friday, 4/26/13, at noon pst.
2. Facebook Giveaway week #3 (featuring Chuckles with Gecko as the featured stamp) also ends on Friday.  To enter click HERE.
3. Spread the Love blog challenge ends next Friday, 5/3/13.  To enter click HERE.  **Make sure to read the rules when you enter, we'd totally dislike to delete your entry for not following the rules. :(

I hope I inspired you with these fun and easy cards.  Stop back on Thursday to see what Sandie and I have up our sleeves when we share our Multiple fold cards for Challenge #14.  Have a terrific day!

 

xoxo,

Leanne

Hangin' with Friends & Sketch Reminder

Hey there, friends!

It's your March Guest Designer, Thanh, here. Thanks for the warm welcome! I'm so excited to be creating alongside the team this month. 

Since this is my first official post, I figured I better start it off by using the first concept image by Yumi & Fumi:

I really wanted to embrace the friendship theme of hanging out with friends, so I let this set of heart papers guide the way for my colour scheme:

Do you recognize the layout? Still plenty of time to play along with the bi-weekly challenge here at the Yumi and Fumi blog:

 For you Copic fans, here are the markers that I used to colour up the girls:

Before I go, I wanted to say thanks again to Leanne and Renate for the oppurtunity to design for them this month! Such lovely ladies and a bit silly, too! LOL For more of our photo booth photos, visit my blog here.

Have a wonderful Tuesday! xo Thanh

Sale Alert!!

Good morning everyone!!

OMG, what an exciting weekend for us at Y&FH!!

I am happy to announce that we now have a Facebook page!  Yes, I know you're probably saying, FINALLY!  LOL!!  I know!  I know!

 If you haven't already visited or liked us, we'd love for you to head on over and do so!  We're having a fun "200 Likes" contest right now.  If you share our page with your friends and have them come like us you will be in a drawing to win a free stamp!  Ask your friends who like us to mention your name when they comment.

We've already received more than 100 "Likes" and as a Thank you we're having a sale on our Signature Yumi & Fumi, Yumi Single and Fumi Single stamps at 30% off now through Jan 31st.

Head on over to our online store: http://yumifumihandmade.com/

**Free shipping on orders $50 and over, including International**

Reminders:

You still have time to join our January Month-long challenge, ends on Saturday, Feb 1st. 
Don't miss out on the prize or becoming one of our top 3!

Mahalo for stopping by and to our newest followers, we're so glad you found us!!

 Have a lovely crafty day!!

Hugs,
Leanne