25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 24

Hello!

I'm back to share day 24 of the 25 days of Christmas challenge with Linda & Kathy.  I hope you're having a nice time with your family and friends celebrating.  It's still super early (as I write up this post) so everyone is slowly beginning to wake up.

For day 24 I shared the card my mom picked to send to Grandma.  She had her pick of either the one I just shared (scroll down) or this one.  

She picked this one.  This is another combo of some of my favorite companies: Hanko Designs, La-La Land Crafts and Island Scrapbooking.  If you've been following this challenge with me you'll recognize the layout from another card I made using Haruyo from Sister Stamps.  I was planning on making the same card but decided not to.  Instead I used Paper Doll Marci Kimono from La-La Land Crafts.  I colored her up again with Copics and this time I left the dangling baubles.  They're under the gems.  (hahaha)  I loved the way Irina colored Marci's kimono on the packaging so I tried to do the same, yeah turned out better than I had hoped.  (hahaha)  Last but not least is the beautiful Island Scrapbooking laser cut sentiment.  It used to be a pretty light pink, but I colored it black with a Copic marker.  It made more sense to me.  (hahaha)

Thanks again for dropping in today.  I'll be back to share the final day of this challenge.  I just need to choose what I'll share.  Until then have a beautiful day!!

xoxo,
Leanne

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 23

Hello!

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

I've been so darned busy these last 3 days that I forgot to post day 23 - 24!  So I will post each one today along with day 25.  So sorry you'll see 3 posts from me, I'll try to keep them short.

For day 23 of the 25 Days of Christmas challenge with Linda & Kathy.  I shared this Asian themed card featuring some beautiful La- La Land dies and image, an Island Scrapbooking laser cut sentiment and a Hanko Designs Tsumugi cardstock & washi paper...

I had some fun with washi paper and the La-La Land lanterns banner.   I used the adorably sweet Paper Doll Marci Kimono.  Colored her with Copics, including her kimono with the pretty details.  I trimmed off her hair baubles because I wanted to keep it CAS. About the card base, I had already punched out the bottom part of this card with an EK success border punch so just dressing up the rest of the card was what it needed.   The lanterns were paper pieced with washi paper from Hanko Designs and I used gold foil for the tassels.  Here is a close-up of the lanterns.

Adding the red gems to the snowflake centers also ties in to the flowers on Marci's kimono,  I love the layout and of course the Asian theme.  This is another one of my favorite cards for this holiday season.

Thank you for stopping by and I do apologize for all the posts today.  Merry Christmas!!  Hope you are spending it with family and friends and enjoying the time together reflecting on this wonderful day.

xoxo,
Leanne

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 20, Sasayaki Glitter Challenge Team

Hello!!

Today, on day 20 of the 25 Days of Christmas Challenge (with Linda & Kathy), I'm excited to announce that I am a new team member of a new digital stamp company, Sasayaki Glitter.  Drop by the Etsy store to see all the cute and fun images that owner and designer Naz has to share with you.  There is bound to be some images that you can play with and some that you just have to get cause they are so unique and cute!  Here's a badge you can put on your side bar too:

Once you purchase you can use these images to play in the Sasayaki Glitter challenges starting in February!  I'll be joining owner, Naz, DT Coordinator, Kel, Maria, Tracey, Lena, Deanne, Anet, Terry, Shell & Yulia on the challenge team sharing our inspirations with you.  Starting in February, there will be 2 monthly challenges running...

• The first challenge will be on the challenge blog the first Thursday of the month!!  Each month we'll have a different super fun theme for you to play along with!  
• The second challenge is over in the Facebook Fan Group and starts on the 3rd Thursday of the month and is always Anything Goes!!  

So definitely mark your calendars and join us for one, or both challenges, for a chance to win amazing prizes.

As an introduction, the team and I will be sharing some fun Sasayaki Glitter images with you HERE.  Stop by the DT post to see all the fun images used and the amazing way each of my teammies used each image to inspire you...  Here's my card...

This funny guy is Santa Chillin' and I have him taking a little chill by the Christmas tree right before he has to head out to work.  He has to get his rest in order to make it all around the world on Christmas Eve.  Decided to do something simple on the inside...

Here is a close-up of Santa chillin'.  He's psyching himself out to get ready for a busy busy night of deliveries.

Can't wait to share more sweet images with you soon.  Thank you for stopping by today, have a wonderful Sunday!

Hugs,

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 18, Lilo's Fun Friday #98

Happy Aloha Friday everyone!

Wow just one more week and Christmas will finally be here!!  I bet you're all already done with the shopping and sending out Christmas cards right?!  Not me, I'm always late.  (hahaha)

For Lilo's Fun Friday (#98)  I wanted to share another baby's 1st Christmas card for the 25 days of Christmas challenge with Linda & Kathy.  I hope it makes you smile...

This cutie shaking his bootie is Po from Sister Stamps.  I colored a onesie around him and gave him a cute little Santa hat.  The layout is just as CAS as yesterday's card.  Love those hanging snowflakes from my newest La-La Land Crafts club kit.  Also used the MFT bib die and a Crafter's companion snowflake embossing folder.  The papers are all from my stash and might look familiar as I'm trying to use them up!

Hope you all enjoy the last weekend before Christmas!!  Have a happy Aloha Friday and thanks so much for stopping by!!

Hugs,
Lilo

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 17

Good morning!

Today I have a super sweet card to share for day 17 of the 25 days of Christmas challenge.  I have a friend who has a little one celebrating her very first Christmas!  So I wanted to create something special just for her.  I hope when she grows up she likes it.

Squee!!   (hahaha)  The layout is pretty CAS.  No unnecessary frills, but still girly.  I used a few of my favorite companies on this card.  The adorable baby panda Ling Ling from Sister Stamps, snowflake banner from La-La Land Crafts, baby bib die (discontinued) from MFT, Merry Christmas embossing folder from Crafter's Companion.  The papers are all from my stash as well as the sequins and the Christmas hat sticker.  I colored Ling Ling as if she was wearing a onesie.  She is super sweet!!  The sentiment was handwritten.

I made a few more of these and will share it later.  For now I hope you enjoyed today's share.  Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a great day!

xoxo,

Leanne

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 15

Hello!

It's day 15 of the 25 days of Christmas Challenge with Linda & Kathy.  For today I'm going to share this awesome Christmas tree card featuring Elf Luka.  It was designed by Debbie Pamment from La-La Land Crafts (DT) for the La-La Land Palooza craft retreat as one of the make & takes!  It is one of the coolest cards I've seen or made.

Here's one side of the card featuring a few dies and Elf Luka.  I have't decided who's name to put on the list, who you?  hahaha!   I had fun coloring him up.  Here's another panel...

This side shows off more of the LLLC dies and another detail of the card.  I really love the deer, it
very majestic.  Here is the 3rd panel of the tree card...

Ta-da!  Here is the last part of this amazing card.    I hope you enjoyed this share today.  I think this is one of my favorite projects from the retreat.   Thank you for stopping by today!  Have a great day!

xoxo,
Leanne

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 14

Hello!

It's day 14 of this 25 days of Christmas challenge I've joined with Linda & Kathy.  For today I thought I'd start the week off with a fun shaker card I made with my current favorite color combo of green/red/black with some white.  Today's featured images are some sweet winter friends from 2 Cute Ink...

Hehehe,  I love this card!  It was so much fun to put together.  Inside the paper made snow globe are Playtime Winter Penguin & Little Reindeer in a snowy scene.  There are also some cute pinkish-white snowflakes from a RAK from my crafty friend Eva, (Hi Eva!)  Visit her Etsy store to find these and some other cute stuff.   I used a lot of my old paper stash for this one.  It seems I'm having a hard time cutting in to the new paper pads!  (hahaha! oh dear)  To create the globe was a little bit tricky, but in the end I got it to work. I might do a video on it if I attempt to do it again.  Below is a side view of it.

I used a few MFT dies to make the snow globe which I will list below.  Because the snowflakes were delicate I doubled them up to make them sturdier; adding some WOS and a sequin for some sparkle finished them off.  The AmyR sentiment was heat embossed with white and seemed like the perfect one to use here.  Below is a different view of the snow globe.

I think I will attempt to make this globe again so that you can actually see what it looks like.  It does look really cool IRL!  (hahaha!)  Anyhoos, you can see the fun layers of paper I used.  Love the combo!  I had some time to decorate the inside so I did something fun and simple with some extra bits and bobs...

Definitely loving the inside too.  The sentiment is from MFT and I loved using the bright colored inks from MFT to transfer this to the paper.  All-in-all one of my favorite cards, inside and out.

Snow globe: Stitched circle, radial stitched circle, Tabs (I guess the dies are discontinued, but I used the larger version of this one.)

Thank you for stopping by today!  Have a great Scorpion Monday!

xoxo,
Leanne

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 12

Hello!

It's day 12 of my 25 days of Christmas challenge with Linda & Kathy and I've got another project to share from the La-La Land Palooza craft retreat.  This one showcases some of the cool dies available from La-La Land Crafts.

This card is very pretty IRL.  I love the colors that were chosen, the only issue I had with this was the ribbon.  It should not have been that difficult.  (hahaha!)  I think if I did this one again I'd do something different with the ribbon.  Here's a close-up of the card and yes I found some scrap plastic to insert as "glass" for the window.  I wish I had snow to make a shaker.  Again, maybe next time.

La-La Land Craft products used:  Pretty Poinsettia, Christmas Hill border, Photo elements, winter branches, sentiment is from the club kit.

Well this one is going to be short and sweet today.  Got lots to do and need to get to it.  Thanks so much for stopping by and for the thoughtful messages.  I'm going to start going around to visit some blogs soon and will be blowing up your emails when I do!  hahaha!  I do really appreciate the comments and apologize that I haven't reciprocated yet.  Have a wonderful Saturday!!

xoxo,
Leanne

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 11 Lilo's Fun Friday #97

Alooohaaa everybody!

Happy TGIF!!  So happy it's Aloha Friday today!  It's also day 11 of my 25 days of Christmas Challenge with Linda & Kathy.  They are so cute, they are holding their own with this challenge and I am loving each reveal!  They make me laugh when they say it's so hard, but yet the projects they post are awesome!!  No sympathy from me, besides this was Linda's idea!  I just took up the challenge, but so very grateful I have.  (hahaha!)

It's been a while since I posted a Lilo's Fun Friday, so that's what today's share will be.  Here is LFF #97 and it's perfect for an Aloha Friday share...

This is a 5x5 card with some products from some of my favorite companies.  Front and center are the kiddos from Sister Stamps, Pua and Kaleo.  Colored them up with my current favorite Christmas colors, green, red and black.  Coloring Pua's muumuu was so tricky, hopefully you can see that there is a subtle red & green floral pattern on her dress.  I was going for the twinsies look, but couldn't move the colors after putting down the dark gray.  I still like how it turned out and will practice doing this again.  Kaleo was definitely easier to color.  The patterned washi paper is from Hanko Designs as are the black & green Tsumugi cardstock.  For the snowflakes I used a La-La Land die from the December club kit.  The sentiment is a laser die cut word from Island Scrapbooking.  I love the script writing and it was perfect for this card.  The final touches include two ruby gems and some white dots made with my white gel pen.   Oh you can see more details of Pua's dress in the picture below...

Pua & Kaleo - Sister Stamps, LLC.

I had a lot of fun putting this one together, especially combining these colors and patterns.  So much fun!  I'll be back for day 12 of the #25DOCC tomorrow.  Mahalo for stopping by today.  Have a terrific Aloha Friday and an awesome weekend!!

xoxo,
Lilo

PS -  This is the last week to submit your Christmas projects to the Aloha Friday challenge HERE.  Remember this is the LAST challenge of 2015, you don't want to miss out. 

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 9

Hello!

Happy Wednesday!

For day 8 oops, I meant 9, of my 25 days of Christmas challenge I wanted to share this sweet Christmas card from the La-La Land Palooza retreat designed by DT gal Debbie Pamment.  (Hi Debbie!!)  This was one of the many make & take projects from the retreat.

This card features the sweet Chickadee Marci and several dies from La-La Land Crafts.  Most of the card was put together at the retreat and the rest I finished when I got home.  Above is the card folded, and here it is unfolded...

I believe this is what you would call a Z-fold card and if you look to the other side you'll see more beautiful dies from La-La Land Crafts.  Here's a list of all the La-La Land Crafts products used on this card: Chickadee Marci, lattice bracket, lattice corner, small snowflakes, snowflake border, stitched elements (oval), winter branches, Celebrate sentiment is a Club die.

Thank you so much for stopping by!  I'll be back again tomorrow for another Christmas share.  Have a terrific Tuesday!

xoxo,
Leanne

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 8

Good morning!

Hope you're all doing well today.  It's day 8 of this 25 days of Christmas challenge that Linda & Kathy enrolled me in to doing.  It's actually been quite fun.  Makes me get to the craft table to make stuff and I'm proud to say I'm using a lot of my old stash to create these projects.  (Yay me!!)

Over the weekend I tried to finish more projects from the La-La Land Palooza retreat as well as more Christmas cards.  I'll share more of the retreat projects once I finish the bigger projects.  Still have a few more images to color and last details to finish.  The Christmas projects will be shared but for today I thought I'd share this card...

Here's my Asian version of Christmas.  Featuring Haruyo from Sister Stamps.  I used some pretty pretty washi paper and matted each red & black Tsumugi paper from Hanko Designs.  I had some left over red snowflakes so I added one to the right corner with a green gem.  The sentiment is a laser cut saying from Island Scrapbooking.  I separated them from each other, which made it much easier to center.  I'm so happy with how this one turned out.

In case you were wondering about the supplies used, most are from Hanko Designs:
Holiday Plum Blossom, Green Sakura, bright red Tsumugi card, black Tsumugi cardstock, Island Scrapbooking laser cut sentiment, CC Cutters snowflake, Haruyo from Sister Stamps.

I'll be back for another Christmas share tomorrow.  Until then, thank you for stopping by!
xoxo,
Leanne

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 7 KBD Spotlight

Season's Greetings friends!

Today is day 7 in my 25 Days of Christmas challenge.  I'm spotlighting this card over on the Kitty Bee Designs blog today.  That must mean it's the first Monday of DECEMBER!!!  Can you believe there's only 18 days until Christmas!!  Woo Hoo!!  Hopefully you've already gotten your shopping started or making those lists for who's been naughty or nice this year.  If you're like me you start early and buy things throughout the year.  The problem is finding the hiding places I put them in!  hahaha!  

I'm spotlighting 2 of our cute Christmas Penguins: Reindeer Christmas Penguin & Hollie Christmas Penguin.  I printed them out lighter than usual and colored them with some light colors.  Hopefully you can see them, it was a bit hard to photograph and edit without washing either of them out.  I took a close up so you can see them below.  You can't tell but I added WOS to the star, nose, holly leaves and bell.  It truly looks pretty IRL.  I promise!  (hahaha)

(We have a nice selection of Winter & Christmas images in the Etsy store to use on all of your Christmas cards and projects.  Hop on over to starting buying!)  

I used non-traditional Christmas colors for this card, but I'm finding that doesn't really fit anymore.  With the Frozen movie it seems these are considered Christmas colors too.  Or at least Winter colors. The igloo is from the November  La-La Land Club kit.  Yep after die cutting it I glued on each of the tiles back!  In case you were wondering I added a piece of cardstock to the back to making gluing easier.  The stitched borders are from MFT, the snowflakes are from C. C. Designs and the rolling hills were created with Mama Elephant stitched dies.  I added WOS on the snowflakes and added a touch of lavender rhinestones for a nice little bling.  I handwrote, "Happy Holidays From our Igloo to yours."  I thought it was a cute sentiment for this card. 

Thank you all so much for joining our challenges for 2015 and we hope you'll anticipate the challenges coming in 2016, you'll have even more fun!  Wishing you Happy Holidays and hope you and your families enjoy this wonderful season of giving and joy.  Today is my last spotlight for 2015!  The kitties & bees are taking the rest of the year off to spend time with our ohana and of course to finish finding (and making) the perfect gifts for everyone.  But of course I'll be back tomorrow with day 8 of my 25DOCC.  

Mahalo for stopping by!

Hugs,

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 6

Hello!!

Hope you are all doing well this fine Sunday morning.  

You know as I'm posting these projects I feel like I am really enjoying the days.  Normally they go so fast I can't remember what I did, but for some reason I'm actually enjoying it.  Go figure...

For day 6 I thought I'd share another card from the La-La Land Palooza craft retreat.  This project was designed by DT member, Suzanne Kohler, (Hi Suzanne!).  It was one of the first cards I finished when I got home.

At the retreat we all found out that Suzanne is the queen of dies!  Her projects usually tend to have more than 4.  As you can see here that is definitely true.  Isn't it fabulous?!  Especially with the adorable Christmas Elf Luka holding center court?  I'll share all the links to the dies and image at the bottom.  I believe this is called a pocket card.  The inside panel is next...

And look even more dies on the inside!  They do make a marvelous scene don't they?  

List of the products used in this project include: 

Fancy Doily border, Postage Stamp, Scalloped Trim Banner, Santa Sleigh, Snowflake Flag Banner, Stitched Elements (oval), Pretty Poinsettia & of course Christmas Elf Luka

Now I need to figure out who to put on the naughty and nice sides. hahaha!  Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you have a blessed Sunday!

xoxo,

Leanne

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 4 AFC #62 Christmas

Happy Aloha Friday!!

Are you all ready for the last Aloha Friday challenge with Kitty Bee Designs of the year?!!  This bi-weekly challenge is a super easy one and coincidentally is perfect for this time of the year...

CHALLENGE #62

*CHRISTMAS*

Create a project with a colored image for the happiest time of the year!

12/4/15 - 12/18/15 (5am Hawaii Time)
Winner will be announced on 12/20/15
See the rules tab for more details. 

Our incredible sponsor is: ODDBALL ART CO. 

Please be sure to pop on over to the challenge blog to see all the Christmas inspirations and don't forget to leave them some love on their blogs.  Ms. Lizzy Love was generous enough to provide some of the DT with some of her really cool images.  I am playing with Big Eyed Christmas Elf Ellie. Here's my card...

This is perfect for day 4 of my 25 days of Christmas Challenge with Kathy & Linda.  As soon as I saw the sample for Ellie the Elf I wanted to do similar colors for the card.  So picking some non-traditional Christmas colors was what I did here.  Had some fun with a few Christmas dies to create the ornaments.  The patterned paper was a nice find during Black Friday at Michael's.  Love all the chalkboard patterns in black, chalk white, red and green.

Now don't forget you have until the 18th to get your entries in.  It's the last challenge of the year before we go on break, let's see how many entries we can get in!  Mahalo for stopping by, have a fabulous Aloha Friday and a wonderful weekend!!

xoxo,

Midnight fun!

Hello!

Today's card features some new stamps and dies I recently received.  I wasn't so sure what I wanted to do with this design, but in the end it made me smile.  Can you guess why??

If you guessed the adorable Mama Elephant reindeer you're only half right.  ((lol))  I love the snow-capped mountains, and the Christmas trees as well.  I've always wanted to do a black background with white Christmas trees.  Adding the mountains, stars, and reindeer really adds a funness to this card that I am happy with.  I think next time I'll only add dots to the sky and maybe try this with watercolors or Distress inks.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Hope you're having a great Gibbs Tuesday!

Coolest Holiday Greetings

Hello!!

I recently received the #29 release of Sister Stamps, and had a little play session with a couple of the new images.  If you haven't seen them yet pop on over to the Sister Stamps blog.  I couldn't wait so I placed my order with Hanko Designs.  I really enjoyed all the projects from the design team, they were all very unique and cute!  I was inspired by all of Jenny's Christmas projects which is why I give her credit for my very first holiday card of 2015...  (Thanks Jenny!)

It's very CAS, went with some cream colored cardstock from Recollections and chose the Birch Tree cutting plate to make this winter woodland card.  Since the new Sister Stamps are peeking images I thought Bobo (left) and Pixie (right) were the perfect little critters for this card.  I used scraps of the same cardstock to make some snow drifts in the background.  The final touch was adding the stitched banner with the cute sentiment.  As soon as I took the picture I felt it was missing something.  Wasn't sure what, but then an idea came to me.  It needed something near the sentiment, so I stamped and colored one of the birds from the Misaki stamp set and added it to the banner...

Ahhh!!  It worked!  It's going to be good fun trying to figure out how to use all the other adorable peeking animals, but I'm sure going to have a blast trying.  Here are the supplies I used because there weren't too many.  (hahaha)

Supplies:

Sister Stamps: Bobo, Pixie, bird from Misaki

Sentiment: AmyR for CC Designs

MFT: Blueprints #20

Taylored Expressions: Birch Tree cutting plate

Thanks for stopping by again!  Hope you're having a great Tuesday! 

Happy Holidays

Hello!!

Guess what?!  I have another Christmas card to share.  hahaha!  I hope I haven't bored you with all of my Christmas cards, I'm just happy that I'm making stuff and actually sharing it.  ^.^  Today's card features Snow Bun from Kitty Bee Designs and is the third card I made using this layout, color scheme and patterned paper.  This color scheme is really growing on me. :)

As I mentioned in my previous posts, I had so much fun with these cards.  The colors, the pretty patterned paper, the gorgeous embossing folder and that adorable image all came together effortlessly.

I was thinking about using these tags for a couple bags, and if I need to I can always pop it off from the card base.  I only used 1 piece of foam tape at the top to adhere it.  I don't have the heart to do it now because I love how the snowflakes from the patterned paper and the embossing folder look together.  I just realized that there are snowflakes on the ribbon too, see no way I should separate them now. (hahaha)

If you'd like to pick up this cutie for your holiday projects head on over to the Kitty Bee Designs Etsy store.  Feel free to browse around and add more to your cart, there are a ton of new Christmas images to choose from.  Before I sign off, I wanted to remind you that tomorrow is your last chance to join in our current/last challenge of 2014.  Go HERE to link up.  Alrighty, now it's time to sign off, have a great day!  Thanks for stopping by!!

Kitty Bee Designs Aloha Friday Challenge #38 Reminder

Hello and Happy Aloha Friday!

I'm popping in today to not only share my latest Christmas card but to remind you that you have another week left to link up your creation(s) for our current challenge over at the Aloha Friday Challenges at Kitty Bee Designs:

CHALLENGE #38

UNUSUAL COLORED CHRISTMAS

**Create a Christmas card or project using non-traditional Christmas colors (Red & Green)

Challenge closes Friday, Dec. 19th and winners will be posted on Sunday, Dec 21st.

Our amazing sponsor for this challenge is:

Make sure to stop by the blog to see the details and leave some love for my teammies, they really have outdone themselves again.  Here is the card I am sharing today...

If you saw my spotlight last Monday you'll recognize this layout and these colors.  Here's a little secret, I turned out three cards using the same layout, paper pad and dies all in the same evening.  It was actually a lot of fun and so easy to complete 3 cards all at the same time.  I picked which Kitty Bee image to use, in this case, Pup with bone (retired), used minimal coloring and in no time at all I had 3 cards to add to my completed list.  I love this layout so much I might use it for all my Christmas cards, just gonna change up the image, patterned papers and colors.

I guess the trick is to pick your layout, papers, image (optional), colors and then make an assembly line and you too can have some quick cards done up in a few hours.  The cool thing about this card is that I can take off the tag and add it to a gift bag if I wanted to and still be able to add something to the card base.  I think I'll keep it as is.  No need to ruin a good thing.  :)

Alrighty then, if you haven't had a chance to link up, go HERE so that we can come over to ohhh and ahhh.  Remember you have until next week Friday to participate in our last challenge for 2014.  I want to thank those of you who have been our loyal challengers for 2014.  You are all so awesome and we appreciate you!!   We'll see you back in 2015.

Mahalo for stopping by today.  Have a terrific Aloha Friday!

Hugs,
Leanne for Kitty Bee Designs
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