Aloha Friday Challenge #64 Mid-Inspiration

Read me a Story - Sami Stamps

Hey everyone!!

Happy Aloha Friday!!

Are you ready for some mid-inspiration for our current challenge?
Here's a reminder of the details...

Challenge #64 - Favorite Color Combo
(make sure you tell us what it is!)

See the rules tab for more details. Entries close at 5AM (Hawaii Time) on Friday, February 12th. Winners will be announced the Sunday after the challenge closes.

We are so lucky to have found some amazing co-sponsors for most of our challenges this year, in order to bring you DOUBLE the fun and prizes!!  Each week we'll feature one of the two... but we're just doing it alphabetically so there's no real special order to it! 

Wanted to say super big thanks to our sponsors for this challenge,

THANKS!!

A Random Fan

and a new to me stamp company, 

Sami Stamps

So my favorite color combo is ANYTHING with black!

Hope you'll join us by linking up here.  

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Have a fabulous weekend!

Hugs,

Leanne for Kitty Bee Designs 

Aloha Friday Challenge team

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,

CH #59 - Halloween

Happy Aloha Friday everyone!

Today I'm jumping in with the Kitty's for a fun new challenge at the Aloha Friday Challenge blog.  Here are the details:

CHALLENGE #59

HALLOWEEN

Create a project with a Halloween theme

See the rules tab for more details. Entries close at 5AM (Hawaii Time) on Friday, November, 6th. 

Winners will be announced the Sunday after the challenge closes.

SPONSOR: The Paper Shelter

Please stop by the blog to see all the cute makes from the DT featuring sweet sponsored images from The Paper Shelter.  I'm working with one adorably cute witch.  I tried to go with simple and girly.  I think I accomplished that...

This is Bewitched Night and I thought to myself, she is one adorable witch.  =D  I added several different flowers from Recollections & Leeza Gibbons in varying colors and designs.  I've got no green thumb but I do like the contrasts.  It's been a while since I incorporated clouds into my projects, so I thought this image needed some.  I used some Distress ink (Pumice Stone) to create the clouds and went over it with E40 & E41 to give it a vintage feel.  I love how the doily goes off the page just a little bit.  I didn't have a handy Halloween sentiment so I hand wrote one myself.  

This is surely one of the easiest challenges to date, and I hope you'll join us because the prize is something very sweet from our sponsor, The Paper Shelter.  Mahalo for stopping by on this beautiful Aloha Friday.  Have a fabulous weekend!!

Challenges:
Halloween at the Paper Shelter

Aloha Friday Challenge #58

Hello!

Happy Aloha Friday everyone!  Today starts a brand new challenge over at the Aloha Friday Challenge blog with Kitty Bee Designs.  Thank you all for joining us in our last button challenge!

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CHALLENGE #58 - ANIMALS

SPONSOR: BUGABOO

See the rules tab for more details.  

Entries close at 5AM (Hawaii Time) on Friday, October 23rd. 

Winners will be announced the Sunday after the challenge closes 

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Don't forget to stop by the challenge blog to see all the animal inspirations from the Design Team using our sponsor's images or Kitty Bee Designs images.  I've got a few fun projects I came up with using the cute Lion Topper courtesy of our wonderful sponsor.

I went on the internet to see how others used this fun image and got some great ideas.  I decided to go super CAS by printing off Lion and adding a fun sentiment using Word doc.  I accidentally cut off the bottom part of the sentiment so when printed it left off the word "birthday".  No biggie, I die cut "birthday" using a Mama Elephant word font and it fit perfectly!  Cut the white panel out with an MFT stitched die and another panel with another MFT stitched die in the mustard yellow cardstock.  This card is ready to be sent to someone special.  All were adhered to the black card.  Here are a few more CAS projects I made with the same image and funny sentiments (generated in Word doc)...

Changed up the sentiment and now this card is ready to use or add to my card stash.  I had some time to do something simple with the inside of the card.

Next one up is a funny one.  I used some older patterned paper here and layered up.

And here is a peek of the inside, funny yeah?  ((hahaha))

I hope I shared some inspiration that you approve of.  Don't forget, all you need is an animal to qualify for the challenge.  If you need an image or two head over to the Kitty Bee Designs Etsy store or hop on over to our sponsor's site.  Hope you'll be able to join us.  Thank you for stopping by, have a great Aloha Friday and a terrific weekend!

Aloha Friday Challenge #52 - Summer Fun

Hello!

It's been a long week and definitely a TGIF kinda day.  Today is also the first day of a brand new challenge over at the Aloha Friday Challenge blog!!  Woo Hoo!!  You've got two weeks to link up with us for this super easy theme:

CHALLENGE #52 - SUMMER FUN!

Create a project with a summer theme

Sponsor:  Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet

Prize: Click HERE to find out

7/17/15 - 7/31/15

Stop by the blog to see all the details and make sure to stop by the DT blogs showcasing their summer fun themed projects and leave them some love.  Here's my project:

When I think of summer fun I think of the beach.  Riding bikes down the pathway, having some shave ice, flying a kite or swimming in the ocean.  If I had a little more room I would have loved to have put in a volleyball court.  hahaha!  In this scene I captured all of those activities using a few of the Kitty Bee Design images.  Most of this was colored with Copic markers and a small part with Distress inks.  Going clockwise from the left, first up taking a nice leisurly ride is Bike Panda, next way out in the ocean surfing is Narwhal Love, coming in a little closer on the sand enjoying the nice breeze and flying his kite is Kite Panda, and last, enjoying a snow cone is Shave Ice Bun.  Also used a LLLC stitched sun & cloud die and two AmyR sentiments which I wet embossed with clear powder.

Hope we see your project in the linky.  This one should be a lot of fun.   Thanks again for stopping by!  Have a fabulous Aloha Friday and weekend!!

Aloha Friday Challenge #48 - Sew cute

Happy Aloha Friday everyone!

Today starts a brand new challenge over at the Aloha Friday Challenge blog.  Thank you all so much for joining in our last challenge.  Hope you'll link up again as this one is a pretty easy one too.  Here are a few details for the next two weeks:

CHALLENGE #48

SEW CUTE

Create a project/card using real or faux stitching

Sponsor: Dillybeans 

There are lots of ways to play.  You can use the many dies out there that have different stitch patterns, you can also use markers, to create a nice faux stitch.  There are just too many options, just make sure that you're following the theme.  For even more details on our sponsor, Dillybeans, and their generous prize head on over to the AFC blog and while you're there check out the rest of the Bees' inspiration.

For this challenge I thought Kitty Sewing by KBD was the purrfect image to use.  I decided to go with some dies that have stitched patterns in them, including the border die from MFT, the other stitched bracket die, By DIEzyne, to cut out my image has a nice stitched border, and the buttons border die from LLLC tied it all together.  The sentiment, swatch die and scissors are also from LLLC.  I used scraps of DCWV patterned paper to make the swatches. love the different patterns on each of the swatches.  The sentiment makes me smile.

Now it's your turn to come and play.  Link up your "sew cute" project HERE and don't forget to stop by to leave some love for my teammates.  Speaking of teammates, if you haven't heard we increased our team to include a few new crafters.  Click HERE to see who our new teammates are for the rest of the year.  We're all very excited to have them join our teams!  With that happy news shared I'll sign off.  Thanks so much for stopping by!

Happy Aloha Friday and Happy Memorial Day weekend, enjoy!!

Aloha Friday Challenge #44 - EASTER

Hello!!

Today starts a new challenge over at the Kitty Bee Designs Aloha Friday challenge and we have a super fun and easy one.  For the next two weeks it's all about EASTER!!

CHALLENGE #44

EASTER

Create a project with an Easter theme

Sponsor: Dillybeans

For all the details on our amazing sponsor, Dillybeans, and the prize up for grabs head on over to the challenge blog HERE.  While you are there make sure to leave some love for each of my teammates.  We were lucky enough to receive a couple Dillybean images to play with thanks to our wonderful sponsor.  Thank you Megan!!  Here's my project featuring Aidynn's bunny frame:

A very CAS design for this sweet image.  Colored with Copics I used minimal colors.  For the background behind her I colored it in then using a multi-liner pen I hand wrote Easter.  Gives it sort of a graffiti backdrop.  Matted the images to a black piece of cardstock and I was done.  I had fun with my EK border punch to make the panels in white. They lined up perfectly vertically and horizontally.  Last to go on was the handwritten sentiment and it was done.

Looking forward to seeing all the cute Easter projects for this challenge.  Thanks for stopping by and have a Happy Aloha Friday and a great crafty weekend!!

Hugs,

KBD - Aloha Friday Challenge #36

Happy Aloha Friday everyone!!

Hope you're all ready for a fun new challenge.  Here's the challenge for the next two weeks:

CHALLENGE #36

SPORTS/ENCOURAGEMENT

Our amazing sponsor is:  Digital Stamps by KennyK.

For all the details of the challenge please hop on over to the Kitty Bee Designs Aloha Friday challenge page.  While you are there check out the awesome projects from my Team Bees #1 teammates.  They rocked their own projects, as always.

Swing Batter!

Today my card is pretty CAS.  I printed out this image I've had for quite some time.  You might remember, or not, the softball book I made a couple years ago using this image, Girl Batter.  I thought it would be fun to make a simple card using pinks and blacks.  As this can be a dual challenge I combined the encouraging sentiment with this sports image to make for a homerun, or maybe a double.  hahaha!  I found the quote from the great LA Dodger manager, Tommy Lasorda, on the internet.  In case you can't read my handwriting it says,

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in the person's determination." - Tommy Lasorda

I thought what a great encouraging quote and added it to the front of the card.  I have someone in mind for this card, but she'll have to wait to get it when her softball season starts up.

Hope to see some of you join this challenge for the next two weeks.  Have a great Aloha Friday and a wonderful weekend!!

Leanne (DT)
for Kitty Bee Designs

KBD - Challenge #32 Up in the Sky

Happy Aloha Friday everyone!

Today starts a brand new challenge at Kitty Bee Designs Aloha Friday challenges.  This is going to be another fun challenge!

CHALLENGE #32

UP IN THE SKY

Sponsor: Bugaboo Stamps

For the next two weeks we want to see anything that is up in the sky!  For all the details, head on over to the Kitty Bee Designs Aloha Friday Challenge blog and while you're there check out what my Bees teammies have created.  They are sure to inspire you as much as they inspire me.   We were lucky enough to get some adorable sponsor images to play with and today I'm sharing a card featuring Critters Balloon - Cat.  

I feel so sorry for this kitty!  Looks like he didn't know what he was getting in to when he hopped on that balloon!  Hopefully he doesn't let his claws out or he's a goner! hahaha!!   This card is all about the image and the clouds which were created with my new favorite Distress Ink pad color called Salty Ocean.  Using my cloud stencil I created these fast and easy clouds on to the white panel as well as the blue card.  Love the drama it creates.   The other thing I love about this card is that I added some shimmer to the finished card to seal in everything.

I know you can't really see it, but it's a pretty iridescent color that really brightens up the colors.  Been using it on a few other projects, and I love it.  Okie dokes, hope you'll have some time to come and play in the challenge, we'd love to see it.  Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Have a fabulous Aloha Friday and a terrific weekend!!

Leanne - DT

Kitty Bee Designs

Aloha Friday Challenge #30 - In the Garden

Happy Aloha Friday!!

Today starts a brand new Aloha Friday challenge at Kitty Bee Designs!

CHALLENGE #30

In the Garden

Your project must follow the theme.  This one is definitely easy-peasy.  For more details, head on over to the blog.  This week we're excited to have our challenge sponsored by:

The Bees & I were lucky enough to receive a few images to showcase, please make sure to stop by the challenge blog to see what my teammates came up with.  They are sure to bring a smile to your face and give you tons of inspiration!!  Today I get to show off Sunbell - Precious Wings.  Oh but please be very quiet we don't want to wake her up...

Oh my talk about adorable!!  This image was the perfect one for my card and this challenge theme. This is another baby card and it's exploding with some bright colors!!  I chose yellow, orange, and green as my color palette to go with a summer theme.  The blooms look like she's nestled right in the middle of a garden.  Oh man I stressed about this one for a while.  After much deliberation I ended up taking a bunch more leaves and flowers away.  Now it definitely looks like she's "in the garden".  Here are some pictures...

   

Using a white pen I added polka dots to the orange flowers and buttons.  It was really nice to use up some older Prima flowers for this card. After everything was glued down I added some water dew drops using my transparent pearlen pen.

The banner is part of the TE Party banner cutting plate.  I ran it through my Cuttlebug with some scrap white paper and trimmed off one of the banners.  I handwrote "Sweet" inside and stamped two daisies with MFT lemon drop ink, I also distressed it a little with some orange ink.  Here's a shot of the inside of the card featuring a couple of baby sentiments from AmyR.

Another close up of the adorable Sunbell and you'll see some of the dew drops created using that awesome pearlen pen.

Well folks it's time for you to share your "In the garden" projects with us.  Make sure to follow the directions posted on the blog, we wouldn't want you to be disqualified. Thanks a lot for dropping by to see my latest project.  Hope to see you playing in our challenge.  Have a great Aloha Friday!!

Supplies:

Sunbell - Precious Wings: Lacy Sunshine Digi stamps
Welcome Little One sentiments: AmyR for CC Designs
Flower stamp: Stamps by Judith
White cardstock: Neenah
Yellow & green cardstock: Core'dinations Darice
Limeade cardstock: MFT
Orange floral pattern paper: Basic Grey
Party banner cutting plate: Taylored Expressions
Leafy branch: Taylored Expressions
Open leaf flourish die: LLLC
Floral Frenzy & Grande dots embossing folders: Crafter's Companion
Nesting scallops die (L-CC-005): Lifestyle Crafts
Buttons: Recollections
Flowers: Prima
Pearlen pen transparent: Viva Decor
Lemon Drop ink: MFT
Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink: Tim Holtz for Ranger
Copics:

• Skin: E000, E21, R30, E000, R20
• Hair: E79, E25
• Sleeper: YR65, YR16, white Le Plume pen: Marvy Uchida
• Wings: YR000, YG23, YR16
• Daisy: Y18, Y38, YR65, Y26, YR16, YG21, YG23

Aloha Friday Challenge #26 Fairytale/Fantasy Creatures

Hello!

Today starts a brand new Aloha Friday challenge at Kitty Bee Designs, we hope you'll join us for a very fun one:

CHALLENGE #26

Fairytale/Fantasy Creatures

Our sponsor for this challenge is the amazing:

Please stop by the blog to see the wonderfully whimsical projects the DT created.  You'll love how sweet and cute they are.  For my showcase I created 3 baby cards featuring Sleepy Moon Bear:

I kept the design fairly simple & tried to keep them all the same.  By doing this it made it easier to finish all three.  After coloring each image I used an MFT stitched circle die to cut out the image. Used a larger sized stitched circle die to cut out the striped paper.  Both matted to the base which was cut using a SB die that I embossed using a Swiss dot folder.  Added some twine and a baby button brad to the top.  The yellow paper had some nice subtle watermarks to it, but I wanted to add some nice subtle stars to tie in so I used a stubby star stamp from Stamps by Judith in Desert Sand ink.  The sentiment is from C.C. Designs.

This card has some of the same details as the one above except instead of using patterned paper I decided that the nice detail on the card was pattern enough.  I added the stars and the sentiments and changed the color of the twine.  Here is the last card in this group:

Loved that lined paper but could not resist adding a fun detail to match the sentiment so that's where the stars came in.  The dark brown really gives it a nice almost vintage look.  I'm pretty stoked because I now have three ready to use baby cards that could possibly be used for a baby shower, birth, birthday or any occasion related to babies.

Hope you'll join us for the next two weeks.  If you need an image you can choose from any of the ones in the Kitty Bee Designs Etsy store or hop on over to our sponsor's site to pick. Can't wait to see your projects!!

Reminder: Don't forget we're still taking applications for our DT.  Click HERE to see more details. You have until Friday, June 20th to apply.

Mahalo for stopping by, have a fantastic Aloha Friday!!

KBD Challenge #14 Mid-Inspiration - Ready for a Snow Fight?

Happy Aloha Friday everyone!

Hope you are all doing well.  Can you believe in just a few short weeks we'll be celebrating Christmas?!!  Yikes!  I better get hopping on my shopping and card-making...  So late in the game I think I'm going to have to come up with something easy.  Hope you're not like me the consummate procrastinator.

Today on the Kitty Bee Design blog, the Bees and I are sharing our mid-inspirations for our current challenge:

CHALLENGE #14

CHRISTMAS

If you haven't had a chance to link up you have until Dec 20th.  Stop by the Kitty Bee Designs blog to see their mid-inspirations from my teammates.  They are so darn cute!!  >.<

For my project today I made a Card in a Box using the adorable Snow Penguin from Kitty Bee Designs, some gorgeous Christmas papers from DCWV and some beautiful snowflake stamps/dies from Stampin' Up.

Card in a Box with Snow Penguin

Isn't Snow Penguin adorable?!!  I think so and I loved coloring her up in to a blue penguin!! hehehe..  Snow Penguin is hiding out behind the snowflakes cause she's ready to pounce on anyone who'll play with her.  She's got her snowball ready just in case.  hehehe.. I also gave her some non-traditional Christmas colors and had fun with her beanie, trying to create a plaid/gingham feel but failing horribly.  I need to go and check out my buddy, Rosie's tutorial to see how the professionals do it.  All-in-all it turned out cute and for my first time I'm gonna give it a B-. (hahaha)

What do you think of the box?  Isn't it fun?!  My crafty buddy, Kathy, held a little workshop at our friend Angie's last weekend and this is what we made.  Well not exactly the one above I created a new one for today's share, I'll share the one we made at the end of my post.  I couldn't wait to get home to try to make another one.  I chose some beautiful Christmas paper from DCWV.  The vintage papers were perfect for my card.  I stamped and die cut the snowflakes with Colorbox, Encore, and Archival Brilliance inks for a nice shimmery look.  The stamps and matching framelit dies are all from Stampin' Up. They are gorgeous aren't they?  I used an EK punch for the sentiment  which happens to be from AmyR. I added some pretty glittery snowballs from Recollections and a nice ivory sheer ribbon for my bow. 

The cool thing about this card in a box is that it folds flat so you can mail it!!

Card in a box - folds flat!

Isn't that paper beautiful!! You can even see some of the gold stars!  Anyhoos, yes this folds flat so it's easy to mail out!  I used Tea Dye Distress ink to give it a more vintage-y feel.  Another cuter version of the flat fold...

Cuter verision - It folds flat for easy mailing :)

Below is a picture of the back side where I will write a Christmas note to the recipient, the cool thing is this is how the back part of the card in a box stays up instead of folding down like the other panels.  Cool yea?!

Here is a nicer clear visual of Snow Penguin behind her wall of snowflakes.  :)

Snow Penguin is ready for a snow fight

This is the box that we made.  My friend Kathy did all the prep work for us.  All we had to do was try to put it together.  She was even game for us to use her stamps and dies.  Aren't the colors gorgeous?!!

Card in a box

I went super colorful to try and match the dp.  I thought this was so cute that I had to try to do another one.  It did not take too long and I love how you can change up the theme for a new one.  Definitely keeping this in my memory box! :) 

Snow Penguin - Wanna Play?

Alrighty, I hope you'll be able to join us before the 20th.  For now have a wonderful Aloha Friday!!
Mahalo for stopping by!!
Hugs,
Leanne

Challenge(s):
Totally Papercrafts Challenge