A little bit green...

Happy Aloha Friday everyone!

Today starts a brand new Aloha Friday challenge at Kitty Bee Designs.  This week the Bees are sharing our inspirations using this theme:

CHALLENGE #18 

MONOCHROMATIC

  having or made up of one color or shades of one color
The prize: 3 digital stamps of your choice

Don't forget to stop by each of the Bee's blogs to leave them some love, head HERE to see the line-up.  As you know this year we've got some cool sponsors donating some amazing prizes.  Lacey Sunshine is our sponsor for the next two weeks and if you haven't heard about this fun stamp line you're in for a treat!

 

Lacy Sunshine  Stamps offers  beautiful original and imaginative  digital stamps  for all your paper crafting needs. 

All images from Lacy Sunshine are  hand  drawn and designed by  myself, Heather Valentin, a professional artist, muralist and  illustrator  and my dad, professional artist, G.P.

From the art desk of Lacy Sunshine's creator....

"I am one  who loves creating timeless pieces from my heart and  soul, creating an extraordinary world filled with magic and whimsical friends.... one drawing at a time.  Come  journey with me now into my Lacy Sunshine World". 

Thank you for taking the time to visit. Enjoy your stay!
Happy Crafting....
~Heather

This is one of those sites where you just don't know which stamp to choose, they are all so cute!  It was hard, but I decided to go with this cute little girl cause I love her shy demeanor, and all that hair!!  Her name is Bashful Buttons & Bows Boo:

I chose to go with a green theme.  I love me some green.  I know a lot of people would grab the pinks, purples, reds or grays, well for me it's green.  I think it's a color that doesn't get a lot of love and there are so many cool shades of it.  Here are the layers: Tsumugi Hiwa cardstock (Although it looks like white or ivory that color is actually a little more celery green when you get to the center of the celery stalk (hahaha, sorry that's all I could think of to compare the color to)), green patterned paper from DCWV Emerald Garden stack, sheer green polka dot ribbon, green button, green/silver floss, Sizzix Thinlit doily die with Tsumugi Hiwa cs, dark green felt rosette (CC Cutters) & green burlap leaves. Little Miss BBB Boo is colored with Copics and her buttons have diamond glaze on them.

Alrighty, hope you'll make some time to play, you've got the next two weeks.  For all the challenge rules click HERE.  Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Have a terrific Aloha Friday!

Hugs,
Leanne

Packed with Love

Good morning!

I hope all the mom's out there had a great Mother's Day.  My brother and I took my mom to the movies and then came home to a fabulous bbq dinner made by my dad.  We had ice-cream for dessert and then watched some movies.  All-in-all a pretty terrific day.

Today I wanted to share the tag I made using a long forgotten stamp.  I just recently found it and thought it would be perfect for a tag.  This turned out to be a pretty fun project for me and in June when my mom goes to Reno I think I'll give this to her with some goodies in a bag for her to take with her.

This cutie is Travel Marci from La-La Land Crafts.  I turned it in to a pretty blue monochromatic with touches of brown here and there.  I really adore how this turned out.  For the background I masked Marci and then stamped an Inkadinkado background stamp over her.  Gave the sides a subtle blue distress to soften up the white card.  The houndstooth dp is from Pink Paislee.  So glad I was able to match the blue here with that paper.  :)  It's always hard trying to find the right combination to match sometimes.  Glad this time it didn't take that long to find something that worked.  The sentiment was also PERFECT!!  It's an AmyR sentiment stamp, love the font too.  Punched some photo corners using and EK punch and for the scalloped edge I used a Spellbinder. On the top of the tag I rounded it using a circle Spellbinder, embossed using a Swiss dot folder, added a sparkly brown ribbon, and some navy blue & white twine.  Oh and to cover the hole at the top I used a hole punch and a small circle punch; on top of the twine I punched out a small 5-petal flower and used the little houndstooth circle for the center.  Here is the back side of the tag...

Ta-da, did a similar but easier, no color pattern on the back using the same background stamp, Travel Marci and that houndstooth dp.  Another little circle hole cover at the top for this side and a little bit of blue distress around the edges to soften it up and I was done.  :)

Well thanks so very much for stopping by over the past couple of weeks leaving me lovely comments.  I ALWAYS smile after I do.  Thanks again!!  Have a fantastic Monday!

Hugs,
Leanne

Glisten Bean Washi Tape Shaker Card

Hola!
This is my second post today.  Please scroll down to see my Y&FH "Shape for Mother's Day" post.

This morning I was in a rush to finish this card for the current FFF - Monochromatic over at The Greeting Farm.  I had my image stamped but needed to figure out what I wanted to do with it.  I thought creating another washi tape shaker card would go wonderfully with this image.  I think the washi tape might have tipped me over in to choosing the colors I wanted to use, then I checked the samples from the design team and I really got inspired by Rosie's card.  I hadn't done a black and white card in a long time so thought I would give it a go.

Here's my version of a black and white washi tape shaker card.  [HAHAHA!!  I just noticed that you can see some of my reflection in her hair!]  Anyhoos here is the card and the washi tape is the black and bigger white polka dots (K&Co).  For a fun and easy tutorial check out this post.  I think I might have put in a bit too much extras which include the fun little accents on the stamp.  I stamped, colored, and fussy cut them out. Added some clear beads and punched some small clouds.  After closing the top part I mounted it on to a white piece of cardstock, then on to the polka dot dp and then on to the black cardstock.  Added the black and white bakers twine to tie it all together.

Whew, I was able to upload this to the FFF over at The Greeting Farm early this morning before it closed.  Thirty minutes to spare!  Yay!  Well had I not gotten in, I still would have posted this here.  It's pretty darn cute.  Would also like to submit this to a new challenge I was recently introduced to, Card Makin' Mamas.  Their challenge is to use Washi tape, which was perfect for my card.   Definitely looking forward to makin' more of these easy/fun cards and getting my washi tape stash up!  Thanks for stopping by!!  Enjoy the rest of your day!!

xx
Leanne

Lollipop Crafts #83

Hello everyone!

Thank you for hopping along with Lollipop Crafts for the past 4 days.  Hope you were able to get to each blog and comment.  I know I didn't really give you too much of challenge with mine, but most everyone got it correct.  Be sure to check out if you were a winner at the Lollipop Crafts blog.  Today we are back to challenges and for this one we want you to go monochromatic.  Make sure to head on over to the blog and check out what colors the rest of the A-Team chose.  You'll also find out who our sponsor is and all the challenge details.

I'm using a color that I very rarely see used.  It's yellow and I was in the mood for something bright and fun.  What could be more fun and bright then yellow, right?  I also think I have the perfect image to go with my color theme.  She's another adorable little girl from Mo's Digital Pencil and her name is Pineapple Girl.  Well I'm sure she has another name but the digital image is called Pineapple Girl.

Isn't she a cutie?  I could see her running up to me asking, "You like buy one pineapple?"  hahaha...  I'd buy a dozen.  hahaha...  Kept the layout of the card really simple.  Layered it up and see that yellow daisy looking doily?  Found that at the Dollar Tree.  Actually that might have been the deciding factor for me when I chose the color.  Loved the brightness of it, very summery.

Colored her up with several different shades of yellows.  After cutting out the image with a scalloped oval die and while the die was still in I used yellow ink (Colorbox - Canary) to add some pretty color around PG to give her a fun frame.  

Make sure you also get a chance to stop by the blogs of the A-team:
Alanna
Dena
Joanna

Hope you can play a long with us.  Mahalo for stopping by today.  Have a great day!
Hugs,
Leanne