Happy Belated Birthday Melissa!

Hello everyone,
Yesterday was Melissa's birthday and she's one of our fabulous designers from Team Fumi.  The team celebrated her day with a wonderful birthday post hosted by Denice.  Stop by the post and then head on over to Melissa's blog to wish her a happy birthday.  Although I am super late with this post & project I hope the birthday gal isn't too upset that I wanted to extend her birthday a day longer...  Her favorite colors are purple, pink and black so I thought this tag/envelope would be a fun way to share a special hidden message.  Featuring Yumi with Birdie from the Peek-a-Boo series here's my project made especially for Melissa...

Happy Birthday

It's similar to the one I recently made (scroll down to my last post to see it).  I chose some fun papers from GCD, black cardstock, pink and white flowers and a IS laser cut word die.  Here is what the tag looks like when removed from the envelope

Bummer, too bad you can't see the clouds in the background.  I made them really light and subtle, hoping to create a "warm" scene to celebrate Melissa's special day.  Here's another picture of the envelope including the hidden message for her...

hehehe...  I really dig that stamp!  It's from Paper Smooches (Slang Gang clear sentiment stamps).  There are several other fun sentiments in the pack and I might be using them all. :)  Here's the back with a simple birthday wish...

I really like this stamp, although it's an old school wooden block stamp, the font and message is lovely. 

Sending happy, warm and wonderful birthday wishes to you Melissa.. I hope you've had a wonderful start to your special day and continue to enjoy it for the rest of the month. xoxo

Until next time, stay warm if you're in cold weather and enjoy the rest of your day!  Mahalo for stopping by!

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

Y&FH Challenge #14 Reminder

Good morning!

Today Sandie & I are sharing our multiple folds cards on the Yumi & Fumi Handmade blog as a reminder and inspiration that Challenge #14 ends tomorrow.  You still have some time; the challenge ends at noon on Friday.   Link up HERE.  The prize up for grabs is different then our normal prize.  We're offering up a $15 gift certificate to our store, so you can now shop for the stamp you want.  We hope that entices you to play.  :)  Stop by Sandie's blog and see all the details on her card.  If you didn't get a chance to see Eva's or Kim's beautiful cards on Sunday or Rosie's card click on their names and you'll jump straight to their blogs.  Talk about wonderful multiple card folds!  This team really knows how to bring it! And it's just a coincidence that most of us used the same image to play with.  :)

Here's my card featuring Yumi with Birdie...

Can you tell I'm stuck in the outdoors?  (LOL)  Well who knows how much longer this will be, but for now I'm having fun with it.  I used Distress Ink (pads) to create the clouds and the ground below the grass.  The rest is colored with Copic markers.  Created the window with Spellbinders and attached them to a doily.  For the cardbase I chose a 5x5 card and was supposed to score the front exactly in the middle, but as you can see I was slightly off!  Eh, no matter, I worked with it and it turned out pretty cool.  The dp is Doodlebug and see that gorgeous ribbon?  It's from May Arts!  I loves it!  Went perfectly with the paper.  The sentiment is from Paper Smooches.  Okay now time for the reveal...  This is what it looks like when you open the card...

Ta-da!!!  I mimicked the front of the card inside using the smaller SB stencils.  The blue birdie on the inside is a stamp from Stamps by Judith.  The sentiment is also from Paper Smooches. 

Alrighty don't forget there are a couple other events going on, stop by the Y&FH blog to see them all.   Again, thank you so much for stopping by.  I'm slowly making my way around, knowing that when I do I'll find tons of beautiful cards and inspiration.  I really need that for my mojo.  Have a wonderful day!
xxx
Leanne

Y&FH Challenge #14 - Multiple Folds

Hello my friends,
As I write this post my heart feels a little heavy for the tragedy that happened at the Boston Marathon today.  Keep those families and their loved ones in your thoughts and prayers.

Sunday we started a new challenge at Yumi & Fumi Handmade.  For the next two weeks we'd like to see Multiple folds in your card.  There are a lot of different variations to choose from.  Stop by the blog to see Rosie's cute spring-like gatefold card featuring Yumi with Birdie.  It reminds me that Spring is trying it's best to push through.

I had so many issues with this one.  Of course I couldn't try to do something simple, had to try something different!  I did pick my image and they were pretty fast to color.  Then I had to figure out what folds I wanted to do.  Well here's what I ended up with.  Not one I'd try again, but for this one time...  Here it is featuring Fumi with Turtle...

 

Now I know looking at it straight on you can't see any folds.  Just a triangle on the bottom right?  Well here's the side view of the card...

The folds are the triangles!  {LOL}  It's all part of the dark brown cardstock.  (Yea, told ya! LOL!)  I added the sunflower paper to add something over it.  Unfortunately what I tried to do just didn't work out on paper as it did in my head! LOL!  I'm going to give this another try and see if maybe I can come up with something different.  I think the only thing going for it is the image.  =D

Hope you can play along with us.  We're still holding out on the prize, but once we decide we'll let you know.   Speaking of prizes, have you seen our Spread the Love event?  We're in our 2nd week of events and some fun stuff up for grabs.  Stop by the Y&FH blog to see the details.  I have a cute badge at the top of my blog on the right side bar.  Feel free to click on it to go directly to the post.  And then please feel free to help us Spread the Love by sharing the badge on your blog.  We're happy to announce that the GIVEAWAY for Week #2 is up on our Facebook page.  There is a link HERE, where you can enter.

Have a great evening!  Will hopefully be back to blogging and posting now that my big project is done.  Will get to share pictures of that soon.  Mahalo for sticking around with me if you're still here. I'm truly grateful!

Hugs,
Leanne