Lilo's Fun Friday #82 - Black Friday Santa

Hello! Hello!

Happy Black Friday everyone!  Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving yesterday.  Ours could be described with two words: food coma!  hahaha!  My parents did another wonderful job of making too much good food, but my brother's and I didn't mind as that means we have leftovers for a couple of days.  I'm not a big turkey fan, and the only time I'll eat it is during Thanksgiving or when I'm at Downtown Disney, eating at the Earl of Sandwich.  They have this amazing turkey sandwich that is like Thanksgiving all in one.  It's amazing!!  hmmmm....  I think I need to take a Disney trip soon.

Today for Lilo's Fun Friday share how about a fun card in honor of Black Friday and the official start of Christmas for me?  It's a black & white card featuring this Cheeky Santa from Make It Crafty...

Yeah, I have prezzie but I'm keepin 'em

This is one of the coolest Santas I've used on a card and I'm glad I bought him.  He reminds me of Willie Robertson from Duck Dynasty.  Oh that would be a cool idea to put on to a card.  (hahaha)  Sorry I got sidetracked, Squirrel!  (bahaha)  Anyhoos, I decided to go with a simple layout using a fun patterned paper and a few MIC chippies.  Inside the word bubble I stamped the sentiment that comes with the Santa stamp.  Makes me LOL!  I think on the inside I'll write something just as fun(ny).  Here's a close-up of the sentiment, makes you laugh right?!  lol!  I embossed it in silver to keep the theme going...

As most of you will probably be out and about enjoying the crowded parking, malls and stores getting those awesome deals, I'll be at work, (BOO!)  Can't wait for the day to be over to start the weekend and possibly get in some shopping.  Too many cool deals to pass up.  Have a happy Black Friday everyone and as always thanks for your wonderful comments and for stopping by!!

Hugs,
Lilo

Faux Stitching

Hi ya!

Today's card is all about faux stitching.  I'm so not the kind of gal who'll pull out the sewing machine, for a card, but I envy those talented ladies that do.  I can't sew straight (much to my grandmother's dismay) but boy my faux stitching is pretty awesome! It's also much straighter than my regular sewing and it's so much faster!  (hahaha)  I'm glad I finally finished this card.  It was just waiting for the right layout and it came in the form of the current Deconstructed Sketch.  It made me smile when I was done.

Today's card features Winter Yumi.  I've been on this blue and green kick for some time now.  (They are two of my favorite colors) and once I figure out what to do with the other colored images I'll share.  As you can see I've done faux stitching on almost every part of the card as well as Yumi's hat.  The patterned papers are scraps from K&Company (Jubilee) & Confetti by Colorbok and I like how the colors seems to pull together even with the hot pinks.  The sentiment stamped on to the white banner is from Make It Crafty and yes I faux stitched it with blue ink. hehehe...

Anyone playing in any of the March Madness pools?  I stopped doing that several years ago since I don't watch college basketball like I used to.  I have no clue who's good or bad nowadays and you can't always rely on the #1 team making it to the finals as they always seem to get knocked out early. (Knock on wood)  Well good luck to you if you are.  Hopefully I'll get to watch a few minutes of some of the games in between enjoying the weekend, but for now, I'll settle for getting this post up.  :) Okie dokes, thanks for stopping by today, have a terrific day!

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Cheeky Santa

Morning!

I finished off another Christmas card and this one is another CAS one.  Featuring Cheeky Santa from Make It Crafty, this dude is soo cool!

Using some non-tradtional colors (BG09, BG07, BG05) for Santa's suit but I love how it looks.  Used a doily, another new embossing folder and a few pieces of cardstock (EP & Bazzil) and it was done.  I distressed the embossed piece with white pigment ink it makes the embossed parts shine, I really like the effect.  I think this Santa is pretty terrific!

Have a great Saturday and happy crafting, shopping or relaxing today!!
Hugs,
Leanne

LFF #49 - Mariko, Wishing you...

"a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year"

Happy Aloha Friday everyone!

Does anyone else feel that this month is going by too quickly?  I need to get going if I want to do what I need to do!  Yikes!!  hahaha!  Who else is scrambling to finish off their projects?  For those who are done or almost done I envy you!!  {hehe}

Here is another completed Christmas card, yay!  Featuring Mariko from Sister Stamps and some beautiful MIC chipboard.  She is the perfect image for any celebration. 

I colored her up with lots of red and left parts white.  Her hair was fun to color as well, I used Copics E55, E57 and a little bit of E59.  That's another thing I love about Sister Stamps, their hair is so fun to color!  The first being that they are so darn cute!  The chipboard is part of the Holly Oval frames and Ornate corners sets and boy are they awesome!!  I colored them both first with a white pencil and then with Copic markers, I read about that on Alyce's blog and wanted to try it.  Check out her awesome page, she's one amazing crafter!!!  The holly leaves are colored with a white gel pen, and the berries were colored with R46, Stickles & then diamond glazed.  The frame & corners are colored with E59 and I love how it looks like wood grain.  Don't know if that's the effect from coloring on to the white pencil or because my marker was acting up, but for whatever reason it made some cool woodgrain!  The swirls are colored with E57 and they also look like wood, but a slightly lighter shade.

For the rest of the card I matted two white pieces of cardstock to a kraft card which I distressed using white ink, on top of that is a red embossed piece of cardstock that is also distressed with white ink to soften up the edges.  On top of that is a small piece of cheesecloth which I also discovered on Alyce's blog.  The sentiment is from the Holiday Trinkets by Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps and it was stamped with white ink and then wet embossed on to kraft cardstock.

This card qualifies for the Yumi & Fumi Handmade December challenge because I used the theme colors, red, camel and white and I used a qualifying stamp.  Too bad I can't link it up, would love to try to get one of those awesome banners!  {hehehe}  But you don't have to worry cause YOU can link up, just follow the rules on the blog and enter.  The prize is awesome!!  For all the details click HERE. 

Okie dokes, there are a couple of you who have not messaged me their snail mail so please Heidi Brawley and Jazzmom please email me at quikhonu34{at}yahoo{dot}com so I can send out your prizes for past LFF posts.  As for the others I will be shipping them out next week.  Ok, for this week's LFF #49 giveaway I have a stamp and some other goodies to share, just leave me a comment and I will pick a winner and share on Monday.  Here's your question:  What are your "go to" Christmas colors this year?  I'm all over the place, but I've been loving the non-traditional colors like blues, lighter greens with dark reds and touches of white, and anything with kraft & white.  So many fun colors you can incorporate as long as you have the right image, papers or embellishments. 

All the MIC chipboards were purchased via SCACD.  Love this store and the customer service is da' bomb!

That's all for me folks.  Enjoy your Aloha Friday and have a great weekend!!!
Mahalo for stopping by!
Hugs,
Lilo

Yumi and Fumi 2012 Winter Release

Good morning everyone!!

Today is release day at Yumi and Fumi Handmade!

Please stop by the blog and see all the pics as well as some wonderful samples by our Design Team and some very special guests. You might see some familiar samples from the preview, I just had to share some of them again, they are well worth the second glance.  When you're done oohhhing and awwing be sure to stop by the following blogs as well as the DT to leave them some love, you'll see why at the end of my post. 

Danni Bindel

Cyndi Kim

Carisa Zglobicki

Eva

Kim

Rosemary

Sandie

Yumi and Fumi Handmade

You'll also be happy to know that we're having a Cyber Monday sale:

  

Monday, November 26, 2012 ONLY 

20% OFF

your online purchase!!!

Use our coupon code at checkout:  YFCYBERMON20For our international friends, the shipping has been updated so you shouldn't have any heart palpitations at checkout.  The only heart palpitations should be for our stamps. ;)

Starts at 12:01am (PST)
Ends at 11:59pm (PST)

Just in time for our Winter Release.

I have two samples to share, first up is Winter Fumi:

I love how her hair looks.  I know you are probably wondering where are Fumi's signature hair pom poms yea?  Well she was pretty set on having her hair down for the winter, something about the cold wind and needing her hair to keep her warm. {lol}  I had fun putting this one together.  The snowflakes are chipboard pieces from Maya Road and I used white Colorbox pigment ink and white embossing powder to make them that bright winter white color. The dp is from Wild Rose Studio and MME with the sentiment from AmyR.

Next up is Winter Chuckles.  Now if you remember when I first previewed him he had just found the perfect Christmas tree. 

Now here he is with the tree all decorated and boy is he excited!!  This definitely starts the countdown to Dec. 25th!

The Christmas tree with gifts is a digital image and the chipboard corners are all from Make It Crafty. I used a Copic marker to color the corners brown.  The sentiment is from AmyR and the dp is from Basic Grey.  Yes there is a bit of distress going on here, but for the most part it's pretty CAS.

Well I don't want to keep you from hopping over to the store to take advantage of our sale.  

As a Thank you for your support I will randomly choose a commenter from my blog to win a special treat.  All you have to do is make sure you comment on everyone's blog that is listed at the beginning of my post and leave a comment at the Yumi & Fumi Handmade blog.  I will announce the winner on Wednesday.
**Now I realize that some of the posts might not be live when you get there, but you have until Wednesday, please give them some time. :)

Don't forget you have one more week to join our November challenge. Click HERE for details.

Have a terrific week and Mahalo for stopping by!!

Hugs,

Leanne

Y&FH Special Winter Preview

Good morning!!

Welcome to a special day at Yumi & Fumi Handmade. Today you are in for a treat!! It’s WINTER RELEASE PREVIEW DAY!!! We just couldn't wait for RELEASE DAY to share, we had to do it today! We are thrilled to introduce our new Winter images, and two new characters.

To help us inspire you all we asked a few special guests to work their magic. Now if you thought our DT was awesome, you were right, and we've got more awesome ladies to help us out.  If you want to know who they are you'll have to head on over to our blog.  If you want a hint, all I can say is they are awesome! Yea, not so much of a hint huh?  hehehe, well it's because I want you to jump over to our blog and "see".

I am so excited to see everyone's creations and all the pretty bright colors!! I hope you will join me in saying a well deserved Mahalo to those really amazing crafty ladies who I am very honored to call friends.

Now do I have anything to share?  hmmm... Yup!  hahaha!

First up is one of our new characters who some of you might recognize, or not.  His name is Chuckles and well he's named after a very special person in my life.  My cousin Chuck.  He's ALWAYS got a smile on his face even when he's in a bad mood.  He's super friendly and an all-around fantastic guy.  We grew up together and now that he lives on this side of the mountain we get to see more of each other which is always wonderful.  I hope he likes what we created in his name.

I love how this scene turned out.  That is a MIC winter background and I merged Chuckles behind the fence.  He is actually Christmas tree shopping and is excited that he found the perfect tree.  Yes there is a tree under all that snow. lol!  The bottom sentiment is from AmyR, the other one was computer generated.  See those black snowflakes?  Those are MIC chippies I got from SCACD, I colored them to match the dp (EP) behind.

Next up is our other new character, he's simply Yeti.  I cut him down to fit a 4x4 card because he is going to the Make a Keiki Smile card drive which requires all cards to be 4x4.  Isn't he cute?

I need to work on coloring fur because I see myself using this fella a lot for the holidays and his fur is just not cutting right now.  Yes he's wrapped in Christmas lights so I colored them all bright to match the fun dp in the background.  The sentiment is another one from AmyR.  Now the Yeti has two companions that you can use with him or separately.  Ready to meet one of his little friends?  Well I'm ready to share her with you..  Meet Yeti Fumi...

She's ready to get started on the decorating and her and her friend Yeti Yumi are in charge of the lights.  Look she's already worked her magic on that Christmas tree.  Isn't she a cutie?  :)  Well that's all I have except to say these and all rest of the images will be in the store on Monday, November 26th so mark your calendars because I have a feeling these will go pretty fast.

Lastly, I wanted to say a big MAHALO to our wonderful guests who helped us not only bring life to our characters, but inspired us with their talent.  I for one am so lucky to have not only a team to be inspired by but wonderful friends and ones too.  Thank you Jessica, Mary J, Amy, Taylor, Danni and Lou Mac for your beautiful work.  MAHALO to the DT for always making it easy for us when it comes time to work their magic.  A virtual hug to everyone!!

Have a terrific day and please make sure you stop by everyone's blog to leave them some love!!  And don't forget about our 3-week challenge, details are here.

Hugs,
Leanne