Aloha Friday Challenge #54 - School

Hello!

Today starts a brand new challenge at The Aloha Friday challenge blog with Kitty Bee Designs.  We have a super easy theme and if you're not playing why not?!  Here are the details:

CHALLENGE #54

School

Create a project with a school theme

Sponsor: Bugaboo Stamps

8/14/15 - 8/28/15

Hop on over to the blog and check out the details of the challenge and then stop over at each of the DT's blogs and leave them some love.

My card took some time to come up with.  I knew I wanted to use Spelling Bee and that's about it.  hahaha!  I decided to go with a bee theme with black and yellow.  Also thought it would be fun to make my own background paper to look like a chalkboard.  (Secret: it's just black cardstock with a white pen.)  I hand wrote all the words and had fun trying to come up with any related to school.  The alpha letters are from an MFT die and the nerdy glasses are from CC Designs cutters.  The banner is from Lawn Fawn and the stars were also from an MFT blueprints set.  I colored Spelling Bee with Copics as well as the word, "Spelling."

Looking forward to seeing your school related project(s) and if you're looking for an image stop by the Kitty Bee Designs shop where you can find some adorable images to choose from.  Thanks so much for stopping by!!  Have a fabulous weekend!!

LFF #65 - Warm wishes...a birthday card

Happy Aloha Friday!

Today I'm jumping back in with a Lilo's Fun Friday share, it's been quite some time.  In the midst of all the Christmas crafting I took some time to make a birthday card with one of my pre-made BG cards. This one was a lot of fun to make.  I combined two stamp lines to make this card for my friend & co-worker, Doreen.

Anya Strolls & Kiki

I did a slight alteration to Big Anya Strolls from TGF.   First I gave her a haircut and then I replaced her cute little dog with a bigger cute dog named Kiki from Sister Stamps.  I also gave Anya some glasses.  Now Doreen doesn't have bangs like her, but she at one time did so I thought hey why not again? :)  After I colored both Kiki and Anya I fussy cut them both out and used pop dots to add to my card base.  Kiki is colored to look like Doreen's dog Princess who is her pride and joy, I hop I did her justice.  ^.^  Here's a close-up of both of them...

Anya & Kiki

Normally when we celebrate a birthday at work, Doreen is the one who bakes for us.  When it comes to her birthday, we've just ordered or picked up something in the past trying to give her something she would like.  This year I thought it would be fun to ask another co-worker to help me make her birthday dessert.  So I happened to ask her if she wanted to still have a fruit tart or chocolate cake from Porto's to which she actually changed her mind.  She asked for cupcakes instead.  White or yellow cake, any type of frosting with a fresh strawberry on top.  I asked if she was sure and she said yes.   So for her birthday she got what she wanted and she was really surprised with the results...

Yellow cupcake with pink frosting topped with a 1/2 strawberry

Luckily we have several bakers that work in our office so I asked one of them for help and boy did she come through!!  The cupcakes were delicious, but the best part was seeing Doreen's face when she first saw the dessert.  Priceless!!

Cupcake display with cupcake signs

Jean, the ones that made the cupcakes, did a wonderful job, exactly what I/Doreen asked for.  I took a picture of all the piping she did too... 

Piping rock star!!

Can you believe she did the same to 23 more cupcakes?!! Yep, she's a rock star.   Here's a little collage I made including a picture of the b-day girl. :)

Happy Day for Doreen!!

Well thanks so much for stopping by.  I know I've been such a bad blogging friend and I appreciate everyone that comes and leaves a comment.  I hope to be better at stopping by old friend's blogs and seeing what you've been up to.  Mahalo!!  Have a super awesome Aloha Friday!!

Hugs,
Lilo

Y&FH CH #17 ~ All About Dad

Good morning!

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend so far. :)

Today starts a brand new bi-weekly challenge at Yumi & Fumi Handmade.  With Father's Day just around the corner we thought it would be nice to get ahead and create some cards for our wonderful dads.  Challenge #17 is All About Dad.  Stop by the Y&FH blog to see all the details and then stop over to Rosemary's blog to see her adorable card.

Do you recognize him?  If you look a little closer you'll see it's Bob the Yeti with a geeky twist!  I thought it would be super fun to use him for my ode to dad card, but I didn't want him to be his normal cool self, I wanted him to look more like a father figure.  Yetis can be fathers to ya know.  (hehe)  I had this idea in my head to geek him up a bit.  So I pulled out my Guys Dies from ATS and used all three of the fun dies to transform Bob into this handsome geeky Yeti.

After inking up the stamp I tried to wipe away all the strings of light bulbs that come with him.  There were a few that I missed, but it was still manageable.  I know Yeti's aren't brown, but for this time around he is.  :)  The tricky part of his alteration was adding the geeky glasses.  I really wanted them to pop up but the lines are so skinny it was impossible to pop them up, so what did I do?  I used the mustache to do that.

Die-cut the mustache 3 times and colored them up to blend with Bob's color.  I then layered one on top of the other using pop dots and decided 2 would work instead of all 3.

After adjusting where I wanted the mustache and geeky glasses to lay on Bob's face I glued down the mustache first with glue and then adding a little bit of glue to the bottom of the geeky glasses glued them to the top of the mustache.  Once I was happy where they would end up I trimmed the handles on the glasses to fit his face. Hehe, kinda reminds me a little of Groucho Marx with the handlebar mustache and geeky glasses. ^.^

I chose patterned papers from MME, Six by Six My Favorite Things because there is a particular patterned paper in the pad that I wanted to use.  Here are some close-ups, you'll probably guess which paper I was talking about...

  

If you guesed the mustache paper you are correct!  hahaha!  I really love all the patterns in this paper pad and wish I had more of it.  Will have to be very selective on when I use them for future projects.  For the finishing touches I added a Recollections wood veneer speech bubble that say's "Thank you so much" and at the bottom I used a sentiment from All About Dad sentiments from AmyR.

Oopsie, a little bit of a smudge, but turned out pretty cool with the white on navy.  Isn't that an awesome sentiment?  Si!  Okie dokes, it's now your turn.  Get to creating for Father's Day but before you link up with us please make sure that you follow our guidelines/rules.  If your project does not qualify your link will be deleted automatically.  Sorry but we have to be firm about our rules.  Good luck!

As Bob and I sign off we'd like to say, Thank you so much for stopping by!!  Enjoy the rest of your weekend!! 

Hugs,
Leanne
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