25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 25 Lilo's Fun Friday #99

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

It's been a fun filled day of food, friends, and family.  I hope you and your family and the company you are with are having a wonderful day celebrating or just hanging out too.  

It's the final day of the 25 days of Christmas challenge with Linda & Kathy and I'm so happy to say we made it!!  Yay!!  For today's Lilo's Fun Friday #99, my last post of this challenge, I decided to share my beginner's Christmas wreath that my sister was teaching me how to make over the Thanksgiving weekend.

Ta-da!!!  I know it's sooo busy!!!  I didn't know what I was getting in to when I picked those colors, but I really wanted to add the black.  I'm going to ask my sister to help me fix it.  It needs her touch.

I can honestly say that this was really tough to make.  It really takes patience, which I thought I had, and an eye for detail, which I don't have.  (LOL)  This took a bit too much of my patience!  (hahaha!)  I think I'll stick to card making.  :D  But I'm happy I got to give this a try.  I might give it a go again, but this time not so many colors.  We'll see.  Here are a couple group pictures from today with our extended families the Ontiveros & Tanjuctos.

Before I sign off I wanted to take this moment to say Thanks to Linda & Kathy for joining me in this fun challenge.  Could not have done it without their support.  Thank you all for stopping by!

From our house to yours, may you all enjoy the time with your families and count your blessings each day.  Merry Christmas!

xoxo,

Lilo

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 19

Hello!

Today I'm starting off a little bit slower to post.  (hahaha)  I have something different (to me) to share for day 19 of the 25 days of Christmas challenge with Linda & Kathy.

 

This beautiful scrapbook layout features some beautiful dies from La-La Land Crafts and the oh-so pretty, Christmas Molli.  It was designed by the very super talented DTL, Suzanne Kohler  (Hi Sue!).  As is Sue's style, tons of dies were used to create this winter wonderland.  (I will list them below.) Everything is well thought out and so pretty IRL.  The part that took the longest were the hills.  It might look easy, but we actually had to put a puzzle together to get them to look so "natural".

This is the first project I did at the La-La Land Palooza craft retreat.  Luckily I did because I don't think I would have finished it at all.  (Scrapbook pages are not my thing, hahaha)  But I'm glad I finished, I do love how it turned out.  I didn't have a picture to put in the box, I haven't printed pictures in ages!  So I'll have to find a good one to fill the space.  Here's a close-up of Christmas Molli colored with Copics.

Dies used: Double stitched border, fancy doily border, postage stamp, reindeer 1, reindeer 2, Santa sleigh, snowflake banner, snowglobe (the stars), stitched zigzags, heart snowflakes, & Christmas tree.

Well I have to get back to the Christmas craziness happening at my desk.  I hope you're having a great day.  Thank you so much for stopping by!  I'll be back tomorrow with another special share for day 20 of this super fun challenge.  Until then have a wonderful rest of your day!!

xoxo,

Leanne

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 3

Hello!!

At the beginning of November I had the opportunity to go the La-La Land Craft Retreat in Pacifica, CA.  It was a beautiful weekend of crafts and more crafts, food and more crafts, and making a lot of new friends.  Oh and did I mention the crafts?  hahaha!  Yes it was truly a marathon weekend of crafts, and we came away with so many goodies and projects, techniques and laughs.  It was a wonderful weekend.  During the retreat we had several projects related to winter and Christmas so those will be incorporated in to my 25 Days  of Christmas Challenge.  

Today I wanted to share this cute card with a box that was designed by the very talented and sweet Tamara from the La-La Land DT.  (Hi Tamara!)  I tweaked it a little bit and made it my own, but the main concept was all Tamara. 

She created this wonderful winter wonderful land with some of the beautiful dies from La-La Land Crafts.  I added the reindeer because my mountains were a little bare.  Adding the reindeer makes the snowman look no so lonely.  (hehehe)  Below is the inside of the card using another amazing die from LLLC. 

Below is a snapshot of the card and box on it's side.  This was a really fun and easy project to make.  Thank you Tamara for creating this fun project!  I'll probably stick some candy inside the box and gift it to someone at work.  I could possibly fit a gift card in there somewhere. 

Here are the dies that were used for this project: 

Build-a-snowman, Christmas Hill Border, Double Stitched Border, Snowflake banner, Snowglobe and Postage Stamps

I'll be back tomorrow with another Christmas share.  Thanks for stopping by!

xoxo,

Leanne

Christmas projects recap

Morning!

I didn't get too much done for Christmas it just came way too fast but I did have some time to make a few things.  Here is a recap of what I made using stamps & dies from C.C. Designs...

This was a case of a card that Kathy made for one of our stamp camp meet ups that I missed out on.  She was sweet to give me the parts and since I had the stamps I was able to make it yay!  Featuring the Sweet November Fairwees digi stamp Jilly & Emmaline's Secret with sentiment from AmyR Christmas Sentiments II..

This next card features another set of Fairwees Piper & Mia (Banner Day), the C.C. Cutter It's snowing dies and of course an AmyR sentiment.  (I hand wrote the JOY in the banner)

Here are some quick bags I made using the sweet penguins and the Joy music sheet background stamp.

My co-worker asked me to make some gift card holders for her.  I came up with a super simple design and used the discontinued (from CC Designs site) Kraftin' Kimmie holiday trinkets stamps.

This next card features one of my new favorites from CC Designs, Roberto's Rascals Henry Claus.  I used some leftover cutouts (tree & wreath) for this CAS card. 

This next one was also fun to make.  Featuring Swiss Pixie Fuzzy Boots Birgitta...

I saw a lot of crafters making wreaths with ribbon and I thought to myself, "Hey self, why don't you do that on a card?" So I did. :)   The sentiment is partly from the dp and handwritten by me.  And last in my 2013 stash is another card featuring the Fairwees Jilly & Emmaline... (One of my favorites of the season.  Love how it turned out).

I used the following supplies from CC Designs:  AmyR Big Christmas wishes, Whiff of Joy Essential backgrounds text style & CC Cutter Bubble Alphabet die.  Here is collage of the rest of the card including the inside.

Thanks so much for stopping by...  If you stop by tomorrow I think I'll have something for the Yumi & Fumi Handmade CH #29 reminder.  hahaha..  Have a wonderful day!!

Hugs,
Lilo

Gift card holders

Morning everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.  I certainly did.  Every Christmas our close friends come over and we have breakfast, open presents, and just hang out.  This year was no different.  We had breakfast watched some movies, opened presents and ending the evening with Sukiyaki and desserts.  We also got some facetime with our ohana on the Big Island. That was pretty cool.  Love technology!  All-in-all a wonderful Christmas day to remember, so thankful for family and friends.  Hoping you all enjoyed your Christmases as well.

For the next couples posts I'll share the last of my Christmas projects.  Hoping you all don't get sick of them. lol..  So up today are the gift card holders.  All were pretty CAS.  Used papers to dictate the scenes and some with an image.  The first set uses papers from Wild Rose Studios and I went with a red, white and soft green theme.  Added either ribbon or twine to make sure the cards stayed closed.  The sentiments are all AmyR.

With Kiyomi from Sister Stamps

I shared this one yesterday, featuring Yeti Fumi

 This one is Fumi with Gift

The next ones are all paper from DCWV's 4x6 paper pad and the sentiment is from Paper Smooches.  Loved all the cute animals in this one...

 For this one I added that cute penguin sticker from my stash

Well friends, that's all for today.  Have a terrific day and to my European friends, Happy Boxing Day!  Mahalo for stopping by!

Hugs,

Leanne

My MIC-Sandie Holiday Banner

Hey!!!  Happy Christmas Eve!!

Today we have our annual company luncheon, so lots of fun stuff going on with associates bringing in their kids.  Mayhem is not the word for it..  Just a lot of fun and who the heck wants to work when there is so much fun stuff to do?  lol!!

I'm a bit slow today, call it sleep deprived but it's all good cause I'm ready for today.  Got the rest of the presents wrapped and finished the cards and tags.  Will share those later this week.  Today I wanted to share my MIC/Sandie inspired Holiday banner.  I call it my MIC (Make It Crafty)/Sandie Holiday banner because I used MIC images and the banner was inspired by my friend and AWEmazing crafty friend Sandie.  Please you must stop by her blog and check out all the gorgeous creations she makes.  I just saw another awesome banner she did and am totally floored!!  She has that affect on me.  (lol)

So last year Zoe, owner of Make It Crafty, had these awesome elves in her shop and of course I had to get them all.  I colored some up last year for Christmas but didn't get a chance to put them on any cards.  So this time around I printed out more of them and started to color them here and there over a month ago.  When I saw Sandie's banner I wanted to do something similar.  So here is my version of my MIC/Sandie inspired holiday banner... (Sorry the MIC store is closed so I can't link any of the images, but once she reopens the store I will add them)

(Click on the picture to see the full view)

Here are the panels from left to right:

Floppy

Duffy

Zippy

Tinkles

Socks

Rocky

Each panel is matted onto dark brown cardstock, then layered with a woodgrain stamped and distressed piece of kraft cardstock, next a doily, another dark brown cardstock mat and then the image.  Each image was distressed to give a nice subtle frame around the image and then I added MIC chippies holly and corners.  On the ends of the banner I tied off some jingle bells with some twine and in between each panel in the middle I attached a wooden star button with twine to connect them together.

It currently is hanging in the dining room which is where I do most of my crafting.  Love seeing it hanging there and can't wait to make another one.  Okie dokes, have a wonderful Christmas Eve, one more day to get things done!  

Mahalo for stopping by!!

Hugs,

Leanne

LFS - Winter BFFs mobile

Hey everyone!!

Yep, this is a little late, so for today I'm renaming this to Lilo's Fun Sunday!!  Been super busy at work and had a b-day project I had to think up and finish for a b-day party yesterday.  I'll share what I finally picked another time.  Now here's something a little different from me.  I decided to try my hand at making one of those mobiles I've see here and there.  It was pretty easy putting together because I kept it CAS.

Pulled out the BFFs from Sister Stamps and a few sentiments from AmyR's Handy Christmas Greetings & Snowman Sayings.  I also pulled out the Nesting Sprays 5-petal dies, white sheer ribbons and some twill lace.   The dp is Blue Linked Circles from Recollections.  I semi distressed the inside of each flower with vintage photo to give that nice border around each spray.  Next up I have the panels...

Here are the BFFs colored with very soft blues and blacks.  They could actually pass for sisters yea?  I added some bells to the big white bow to add a bit of sparkle and chime.  Right behind the girls is the white twill lace.  Next up are the sentiments, this first one is one of my favorites...

Isn't this an awesome sentiment?  I haven't used this one since last year so I thought it was appropriate for this project.  I added a bow at the top of each flower it seemed to soften up the flowers.  Next up is one of the smaller flowers with another favorite sentiment that fit perfectly inside...



This last one is the tiniest of the set and since I couldn't find a sentiment to fit I handwrote one in.  Now I could have written just about anything, but I thought Joy was the perfect word to end with...

This was a lot of fun to make and I could possibly see myself make more of these using different shapes,  images and sentiments.  This would be a perfect project for the latest Yumi & Fumi Handmade challenge (Use lace or ribbon).  Did you know that you could enter using Sister Stamps or a few other stamps we love?  Yep!!  Come check out the details {here} and if you would like to play you still have 2 weeks left to link up {here}. We'd love to see your projects. 

Now just cause it's Sunday doesn't mean I won't continue with the LFFs share a treat fun.  So let's see, leave me a comment answering this question:  Ribbon or Lace?  I will choose a random comment to win and announce it on Wednesday's post.  Can't wait to hear what everyone likes.   Mahalo for stopping by, hope you all have a lovely Sunday!!

Challenges: ATS - ABC

Hugs,

Lilo