Y&FH Challenge #30 Team Fumi Reminder

Good afternoon everyone!

Sorry I'm late with this post. Today over at the Yumi & Fumi Handmade blog, Team Fumi is sharing their inspirations for our current challenge:

Challenge #30

Sketch #5

So far we only have 1 entry to the challenge, hopefully some of you just need some inspiration to get the juices flowing.  There is tons of it on the blog.  Team Yumi's inspirations were adorable last week and this week Team Fumi has done another awesome job of using this sketch to create.  Make sure to head on over to each of their blogs and leave them some love... Click here to get started...  And don't forget you have until Friday to link up.

Here's my take on my own somewhat crude sketch (lol)... Another pocket-tag featuring Fumi Panda:

The pretty dp is from MME The Station 6x6 paper pad.  Kraft cardstock is Recollections and the white is Neenah.  Flowers are from Petaloo and the bling is from Recollections.  The hearts are punched out with two different sized heart punches and I hand wrote the sentiment.  Oh and that little piece of pretty ribbon on the bottom is from Daiso.  Here's the tag which I kept CAS, will write my message on the back of the tag when I decide to send it out...

Colored Fumi Panda with a minimal amount of Copics (E000, E00, E21, E20, N10, E44, E49, E42) and paper pieced part of her suit.  Here's the hidden message in the pocket...

Nope it's not too fancy at all.  hahaha...  Hand wrote that one too.  I couldn't find the right sayin' to add in the window so this is what I ended up with.  hahaha!  I know, I know...  Alrighty, don't forget you have until Friday, Jan 31st to link up.  Your absolutely last chance to link up.

 

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!  Mahalo for stopping by!
Hugs,
Leanne

Y&FH CH #27 - Color Challenge (Reminder)

Hello!!

Today I am happy to be participating again with Team Fumi as we share our inspirations for our current challenge at Yumi & Fumi Handmade.  Here's a reminder:

CHALLENGE #27 - COLOR COMBO

Purple, green, orange & black

Create a project using the above colors. 

So a few days ago I shared a card I made using those colors but did not make a Halloween themed project.  Instead I made a holiday themed card.  (For more details click HERE.)  For today I do have something Halloween themed, a big tag featuring Fumi Panda.

Trick or Treat with Fumi Panda

Ta-da! (hahaha)  I had so much fun with this one.  I used some old K&Company Halloween themed paper as well as some new DCWV papers.  The antique doily is a QuicKutz die from Lifestyle Crafts.  OMG I had to shim that puppy a few times in order for all the pieces to pop out!!  But it was worth it, it's a really pretty die.  The flowers are Sizzix by Tim Holtz and I've been wanting to use it for the longest time!  Kept it simple by using some scrap Halloween papers.  You can't tell but that green flower has embossed skulls on them.  (hahaha)  Kept the sentiment simple by using a CC Designs AmyR stamp.  Stamped it with Distress embossing ink and used white embossing powder to make it pop.  I added a black velvet ribbon on top and lastly my colored Fumi Panda image.  Oh and I distress inked all the way around the tag and some of the flowers with Vintage Photo Distress ink. 

Fumi Panda

Well I hope I was able to share some fun inspiration for our current challenge.  Now remember you don't have to go all Halloween on us, you can totally use the same colors for a different theme.  I'm serious it's super easy.  Don't believe me?  Well head on over to the Yumi & Fumi blog to see the rest of today's shares by the always amazingly talented Team Fumi.  As always, Mahalo for stopping by!!  Wishing you all a fabulous Sunday!

Hugs,
Leanne

Yumi & Fumi Handmade and Perfect Paper Crafting Blog Hop!!

Aloha Everyone, 

Today Rosemary, Denice, Renate' & I, representing Yumi & Fumi Handmade, are blessed to be teaming up with the amazing Design Team from Perfect Paper Crafting, the makers of the Perfect Layers rulers, for a fun-filled and creative blog hop.  If you just hopped over from Patti's blog then you are on the right track.  If you stopped here just to say hi but want to get in on the fun, all you have to do is start at Laura's/Perfect Paper Crafting blog which is the first stop on our hop. 

In case you get lost here's the line up:

Laura & Perfect Paper Crafting - http://blog.perfectpapercrafting.com/

Yumi & Fumi Handmade- http://yumifumihandmadecrafts.blogspot.com/

Eva - http://craftingthisandthat.blogspot.com/

Rosemary - http://rosemaryscreations.blogspot.com/

Pam - http://expressionswithheart.wordpress.com/

Denice - http://being-craft-de.blogspot.com/

Patti - http://www.cherisheachpreciousday.blogspot.com/

Leanne - http://liloshaggymoto.blogspot.com

Kim - http://www.kimoconnell.com/

Renate' -   http://hapagirlren.blogspot.com/

Roxie - http://paperscaper.blogspot.com/

Did I mention there will be prizes?  You bet!  Perfect Paper Crafting is giving away a very generous $50 gift certificate to one lucky hopper and we're giving away a single stamp from our Kigurumi series (a value of $40) to 4 lucky hoppers:

Prize 1 - Yumicorn (It could be you)

Prize 2 - Fumi Panda (It could be you)

Prize 3 - AJ Lion (It could be you)

Prize 4 - Chasezilla (It could be you)

All you have to do to be in the contest is to leave a comment on everyone's blog.   That easy!  ^.^  You have until Oct 28th, 12am PST.

This just in:
**You can use the code, YFH5%, for a discount on your order at PerfectPaperCrafting.com**

As you know the team from Yumi & Fumi Handmade is spotlighting each of the Kigurumi images on their blogs.  I get to spotlight one of my favorites, Fumi Panda and I used Perfect Layers ruler #1 to mat all of my papers. 

Fumi Panda - Kigurumi Series Y&FH

Here's what I came up with, hope you like...

Boo with Fumi Panda

Since Halloween is just around the corner I decided to make this Halloween themed card with Fumi dressing up as a Panda Munster.  hahaha!  Do any of you remember the tv show The Munsters?  It was mostly a black & white program, but they did have a couple colored movies and I took my inspiration of color from that.  It was a lot of fun to color her up in shades of what I like to call Munster green, with red-orange eyes and purple hair.  The only thing normal here is the color of her outfit.  

After coloring and distressing my image I grabbed my Perfect Layers ruler #1 and an Exacto knife to do the following cuts all with the intention of layering up my papers. The cool thing is all of these measurements are on 1 ruler!  Pretty convenient and easy!:

1. Matted my colored image on to some lime green cardstock and using the 1/8" mark as my guide to cut all four sides.   
2. Matted that to some fun orange spider paper and used the lime green cardstock as my guide to cut using the 5/8" mark.  
3. The next layer is a dark gray with black glitter designs which is cut at the 3/8" mark.   
4. The last mat is the lime green polka dot paper which is cut using the 1/4" mark and I used the dark gray patterned paper as my guide.  

To finish off my card I used a few products from my plethora of craft supplies, and some go to companies (C.C. Designs and Stampin' Up).

BOO

Now it's time to hop on over to the amazingly talented Kim O'Connell's blog, but before you get hoppin' don't forget to leave a comment.  Mahalo for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the hop!

Hugs,

Leanne

Supplies:

Fumi Panda - Yumi & Fumi Handmade

Perfect Layers Ruler #1 - Perfect Paper Crafting

BOO stamp - CC Designs (AmyR Ghostly Greetings rubber stamp set)

Black Tuxedo ink - Memento Tsukineko

Black Soot & Embossing Distress Inks - Ranger (Tim Holtz)

Black Embossing Power - Recollections

Black & white cardstock - Neenah

Green cardstock - Core'dinations

Halloween cardstock - DCWV (The Spooky Time stack) & K&Co (Kelly Panacci Halloween)

Spider chain die - CC Designs

Scallop circle, 1 3/8" circle, 1 1/4" circle - Punches Stampin' Up

Lacy ribbon - N/A (My stash)

Flowers - Recollections & Prima Marketing

Diamond Stickles - Ranger

Copics:

Panda suit - 110, N9, N7, N5, N4, N1

Skin - G82, YG00, YG01, YG21, BV20

Hair - V17, V15, V12,110

Eyes - R46, YR68, YR02, white gel pen (Gelly roll - Sakura)

LFF #60 ~ DCS #100

Hello!

Happy Aloha Friday!!  It's Friday and I'm excited for the weekend to start.  With Mother's Day on Sunday I need to finish my project and card for my mama.  Are any of you still working on yours?

Today the card I'm sharing for Lilo's Fun Friday is the one I made for the Deconstructed Sketch 100th sketch celebration.  Pop on over to Jen's blog to see how you can win some awesome prizes and also leave her a message congratulating her on her accomplishment.   Congratulations Jen and cheers to many more! Here's the sketch it's pretty cool...

Here's my take on the sketch.  I kept it as close to the sketch as possible. 

Chose a black & white theme for the card and I thought little Miss Fumi Panda (Kigurumi series) from Yumi & Fumi Handmade was perfect for it.  Instead of using the full image of Fumi Panda I used a square Spellbinder die to put her in a "window".  I did stick to traditional panda colors for her outfit, love how fast she is to color.

Thank you so very much for stopping by, ya'll have a great Aloha Friday and a fabulous weekend!!

xx,
Lilo 

Y&FH Challenge # 9 - Hangin' with my Gnomies

Happy Super Bowl Sunday everyone!!

What most excites you about the Super Bowl?  Is it the two teams playing?  The creative commercials or the spectacular half-time show?  What about the special food that's prepared just for Super Bowl?  So many things to take in to consideration yea?  Well I don't really have a favorite when it comes to the Super Bowl.  I mostly look forward to the food, the commercials and the half-time show.  It should be a pretty exciting game though.  Good luck to both sides!!

I'd like to take this opportunity to say MAHALO to all 11 participants for the January month long challenge.  We really enjoyed each one of the designs and look forward to even more participants for future challenges.  Speaking of which...  

Today starts a new challenge over at Yumi & Fumi Handmade.  Challenge #9 ~ Use a Die or Punch.  Head on over to the blog to check out the inspirations from a few ladies from our design team.  Here is my card featuring Fumi Panda and looks like she's got some little friends playing HIde-n-seek.    

I'm calling this one, "Hangin' with my Gnomies!" {hehehe} I used various Spellbinder circles, Stampin' Up circle punches and C.C. Design Cutters Bubble Alpha letter dies.  The pattern paper is from MME, Gnome Sweet Gnome.  The white cardstock is embossed with white daisies.  I fussy cut Fumi Panda and all the gnomes. Yes the gnomes are super small and it was quite a chore cutting out the details. lol.. But it was worth it in the end.  The layout is from the Deconstructed Sketch #86.

Alrighty, now it's your turn to play.  You have until Friday, 2/15/13 at Noon (PST) to link up your project.  ONE entry per participant and you must link directly to your post and not your blog.  All challenge details can be found in the Challenge info tab at the top of our Home page.

 

Before I sign off, a reminder to come and LIKE us on our FB page.  We're trying to reach 200 likes and once we do, we're giving a way a stamp or two.  So lots of places to look for a chance to win some cuteness.

 

Mahalo for stopping by today!!  Have a terrific day!  Go 49ers!  Go Ravens!

Hugs,

Leanne

CAS fun Kigurumi style

Good morning everyone...

Sending out prayers to our East Coast friends and families.  I've been watching the news for the past couple hours and it's so heartbreaking to see the devastation.  My heart and thoughts go out to those affected.  Keep safe everyone.

Wanted to share a couple CAS cards using the wonky rectangles and reverse wonky rectangles Spellbinders and two characters from the Y&FH Kigurumi Kids series.  I guess you could say these could be mistaken for Halloween cards because of the colors but I didn't add any sentiments so they could possibly be used for other events.  First up is Chasezilla, and no I'm not teasing him with treats this time.  Although he might be thinking of treats. (hehe)

He's probably my favorite as I've already made 3 cards with him.  But how can you resist, he's so cute!  I distressed the edges to give him a green glow and colored him with Copics.  Love how he turned out.  Used colors (G99, G94, YG93) I just bought the other day and love how it came together.  The black cs was dry embossed to give it a little texture.  Next up is cutie pie Fumi Panda.

Doesn't she look awesome?!  Love how the orange glow gives her that wow factor!!  Colored her with Copics and I already see a couple flaws! Eep, but it's ok, the rest of it turned out pretty cool right?  lol!  The area around her was distressed as well to give her that awesome glow.  Dry embossed the black cs for some texture.

You can purchase both Fumi Panda & Chasezilla at the Yumi & Fumi Handmade store.  The current challenge at the Y&FH blog is Bring the Bling.  Pop on over to check out the details and get some inspiration.  Who knows you might be asked to be a future Guest Designer.

Tomorrow is Halloween and I'm still not sure if I'll dress up or not.  If I had that panda suit or godzilla suit I would have.  Hmm... there's always next year.  Well that's all I have for today.  Have a great Tuesday and let's all say a prayer for family and friends on the East Coast.

Mahalo for stopping by!

Hugs,

Leanne