Throwback Thursday image day

Hello!

Going to try to give some neglected/discontinued older stamps some love by posting on what everyone calls Throwback Thursday.  Today I'm going to share another postcard with a Throwback TGF & Y&FH image(s).

Do you all remember this fun in the sun Anya?  She's from the Sunshine set that seems to be discontinued.  The sentiment is also part of the set.  I colored her with Copics giving her a tan, or sunburn depending on what you see, hahaha!  Do you see the surfboard peeking out from behind her?  Well that is also a discontinued throwback image from the Tiki Surf set from Y&FH.  Using Copic markers I doodled some flowers on to the surfboard.  The sentiment was heat embossed.  I loved the colors I used for the background and was glad I was able to use similar colors in Copics.  I think I have more than enough images to keep me occupied for Thursdays.  hahaha!  Thanks for stopping by!!

LFF #86 - Thanks

Hello and Happy Aloha TGIFriday!

It's been a long work week so I'm super happy that I get to take today off! Yay!  Going to hang out with ohana today so I'm excited about that.  (yay!)  Before I leave I wanted to share this fun cool card for today's Lilo's Fun Friday #86 share...

I've been playing with some new supplies thanks to some awesome inspiration from a very talented crafter, Eva from Crafting This and That (Hi Eva!).  She used gelatos on some of her projects and I've been wanting to know what they were all about.  I was at Joann's a few weekends ago and they were having a 50% off sale on practically everything in the crafting section!  It was really hard not to buy a lot of things, but when I saw that the gelatos were on sale I decided to purchase some colors.  A few weeks later I decided to try them and went online to find a tutorial.  I saw a few but I think I liked Donna Downey's the best.  Not only was she fun to watch but her tutorials are under 4 mins!  She really gets to the point which is what I liked best.  (haha)  You can find it here.

Now I didn't do any drippage, just a plain design using the oranges, yellow and reds.  I did use gesso and could definitely see the difference as opposed to not using gesso.   I wish I had taken more pictures of the process!  Oh well next time.  I heat embossed all the images in black.  The giant flower came in one of the gelato sets, the smaller flower is from a Fiskars set and so is that sentiment.  I did some doodles with my new white gel pen called Reminiscence from Marvy.  It's a really nice white pen.  Last but certainly not least is tiki (retired) from Yumi & Fumi Handmade.  Thought he added a fun element to the card.

What I liked most about using the gelatos is how easy they were to use.  Adding the gesso takes some time but in the end the result is pretty awesome.  I can't wait to try this again.  Thanks for the inspiration Eva!  If you're not a fan, you must definitely hop on over and check out her blog.  Talk about inspiration overload!  Woo Hoo!!

Alrighty, time for me to get going.  Hoping you all have a great weekend.  Happy Aloha Friday and Mahalo for stopping by! 

KBD - Challenge #8 "Water"

Happy Aloha Friday everyone!!

Hope you are all doing well.  It's taken me some time, but I'm slowly getting back to blogging and crafting. Who knew it would take that long to recover from vacation?!  Not me, that's for sure. hahaha!  It's good to be back.  Today there is a new challenge up at Kitty Bee Designs!!  Woo Hoo, that means if I'm posting today the rest of Team Bees are as well.

CHALLENGE #8 - WATER

Create a project with water as your theme

Stop by the Kitty Bee Designs blog to see some cute water themed projects created by the talented Team Bees.  Here's my card featuring an adorable Kitty Bee crab hangin' ten out in the ocean.

Dude... Sweet ride

Duuuude!!  Sweet ride!!  I love this little crab!!  I think this was inspired from my trip to Hawaii.  I thought it would be fun to have that adorable crab surfing the big waves.  After coloring the crab and the long-board, I fussy cut them both out, glued down the long-board first and then using 3-D foam squares popped the crab on top of the board.  For some more cuteness I glued on two fun googly eyes.  The sentiments are from the Tiki-Surf stamp set from Yumi & Fumi Handmade.

Kitty Bee Crab 

Hope you'll join us for this really easy and fun challenge.  Can't wait to see what "water" theme you feature in your project.  Mahalo for stopping by!!  Have a great day and a fabulous weekend!

Hugs,
Leanne

A Happy Father's Day card

Hello!

Hoping all the father's and father figures had a great day yesterday.  We took my dad to dinner, he doesn't like any kind of fuss over him, if anything he would have rather stayed at home, but we convinced him to go to his favorite Japanese restaurant and he agreed.  Still grumbled but we still got to go. (haha)

Here's is the card I made for him featuring Tiki from the Tiki Surf set (Hang Loose series) from Y&FH.

That paper was purchased by my mom on her last trip to Hawaii.  I asked her to bring some home for me and she picked up a few different kinds.  Now I normally would never buy something like this, but I'm glad I had it, it really did come in handy.  Especially for this card.  After gluing down the patterned paper to the dark brown cardstock I used a Spellbinder square to cut the window.  Colored up Tiki and added that coconut leaf hat for fun.  (To create the hat I drew it and then drew in the lines. Colored used a dark green and a medium colored green and a gray.  After cutting the top part I made sure to randomly cut the brim raggedly.  I'll try to make a tutorial for next time.  This one was left over from the first time I tried it here.)  The background is kraft cardstock and embossed with a retro diamond folder (Lifestyle Crafts), Distress ink scattered straw and walnut stain)  I used an AmyR sentiment stamp (Happy Father's Day) inking it with white pigment ink and embossing it with clear embossing powder.

Hope you have a terrific Monday and if you haven't already picked up any of the new stamps here's the link to the website.  Mahalo for stopping by!

Hugs,
Leanne

Y&FH Hang Loose Release ~ Tiki Surf Stamp Set

Aloha everyone!

Welcome to day 4 of previews for our Hang Loose stamps release.

In a few days you will be able to purchase all of the stamps and get started on some cool summer fun cards and projects. 

All the stamps will be available on Saturday, June 15th in our online store. 

Today I will be showcasing something brand new to Yumi & Fumi Handmade.  We've added sets of stamps that can be used as accessories or on their own to our collection.  Each set is made of deeply etched red rubber on to cling mount for nice even stamping and ALL made in the USA.  The only difference with these stamps are that they will not be scroll cut or indexed as our other stamps are, but the quality of the stamp is still the same. 

For this release we have two sets with multiple images, I'll share the second one tomorrow, but for today I will be sharing samples from our TIKI SURF set.  In keeping with our Hang Loose theme we decided to go with some all time favorite "icons" that tie in to the whole Hang Loose theme.  Illustrated by our amazing artist, included in this set are 2 surfboards (a long and short board), a tiki, a honu ohana that can be used as a border or on its own,  two Hang Loose symbols and 3 sentiments.

 This set is perfect for the consummate surfer or water sport fan, but can also be used for any fun occasion and of course go really well with any of the other stamps.  Here are just a few of the different projects created with this set:

You definitely must stop by Eva's blog to see the awemazing tag she created with Tiki. It's soo cool, her tiki looks awesome!  Here's a look at my Tiki card that was not shared on the Y&FH blog today.  Having one tiki spotlighted was enough. haha...  Are ya all getting tired of my using the embossing folders?  Well sorry, it seems to be my go to, especially because I have tons of them.  I'm just so happy that I get to use them a lot more.  hmmm... might be time to be getting rid of some paper.. Eek!

Ta-da!  I really love how this one turned out.  The embossing folder is one of my favorites especially when it comes to doing CAS.

I've got quite a few cards to share today hope you can stay and go through them all.  Next up are the Long & Short boards, and the Sweet Ride sentiment:

Here's one with the Petroglyph honu, where I used another embossing folder:

Last up is this 4x4 card featuring the larger sized Hang Loose icon with a cool surprise:

Click on the video to see the surprise:

Hehehe pretty cool yea?  After coloring up the image and using Distress Inks to give it that cool yellow border I popped it on to the black cs that was die cut with a Spellbinder stamp die and then I popped that onto a wobbly wobble thingy.  I gave this card to my brother for his birthday and he had a nice laugh about it.

Stop by the Yumi & Fumi Handmade blog to see how you can win the Tiki Surf set.  And if you didn't link up for the past 3 days for a chance to win Summer Yumi, Summer Fumi or Summer Chuckles do so now.  You have until Sunday, June 16th at 10am but better to do it now than later, you might forget!  (haha)  Ok, thanks so much for stopping by today!  Tomorrow is the last day of previews and we'll be showcasing the second stamp set which I'm bet you'll all love. 

Until then have an awesome Thursday!!

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Leanne