Tiny Tia Baker

Hey everyone!

Did you know that Some Odd Girl is having their 3rd Annual Hol-ODD-day hop December 3-6?!  Its one big Linky Party and everyone is invited! All you have to do to hop with SOG is to create a post using a new or old holiday themed project using a Some Odd Girl digi or stamp.  For all the details head on over to the SOG blog.

I thought how fun, I want to play!!  I have a limited amount of SOG images, but my favorite is little Tiny Tia Baker, she is adorable!  Here she is rockin' the traditional red & green Christmas colors in her hair.

I paired her up with some cute Carta Bella Merry & Bright paper.  I also used one of my newest Cuttlebug embossing folders.  The other new thing I did was stamping her using two different colored ink pads.  Keeping to a red and green theme I randomly inked her up with both and then stamped her.  I thought about leaving her just like that, but then I wanted to get some color on her skin, then her hair and a few other parts and then had to finally say STOP! {lol!}  I stamped the AmyR sentiment on a piece of white scrap paper and used a corner punch to make it in to a tag, next I added a piece of ribbon and a red pearl to finish it off.  The Happy Holidays is actually ribbon that I strategically cut from Offray.  I love how this turned out!! 

Here's a close up of Tia showing you how scrumptious her cupcake looks.  Yummmm!!!  Alrighty friends, I hope you have a wonderful day!!  Mahalo for stopping by!!

Hugs,
Leanne

LFF #36 - A little bee for Lauren

Happy Friday!!

Today is my friend's daughter's 1st birthday and we're taking her to the happiest place on Earth!  Yay for Disneyland!! I hope she stays awake to see all the fun things there are.. Do you ever wonder if they know what's going on? hahaha! Well I am super excited because I love Disneyland! I think it will be fun for her too.

So for today's Lilo's Fun Friday I wanted to share this card that I thought was fun for today.  Using the adorable Bee Tia from SOG I made this really CAS card.  I made a similar card some time ago, just changed up the colors on this one to black & yellow.  This is one of the cutest bees I've ever seen.  I'm going to give it to Lauren (actually to her mom) for today. It might stand out in her pink & green room. lol!

Whoa that yellow ribbon sure is bright! hahaha!! Neon yellow I think! lol... It's actually much softer looking IRL.  Well friends, hope you all have a terrific Friday and weekend.  I've got a busy weekend too and hoping to squeeze in some crafting somewhere.

Don't forget that Yumi & Fumi Handmade is having an Anything Goes challenge.  You have another week to play along for a chance to win a Yumi & Fumi stamp.  What are you waiting for?!! 

Until next time, Mahalo for stopping by!

Hugs,
Lilo
*:)

Hey Kaylee

Hello!

Well it's another busy week for me at work.  I'm trying to get around to visit everyone and I really appreciate the fact that you stop by and leave me lovely messages.  Mahalo!!

Today I'd like to share another Mother's Day card I made for my bestie, Liz.  I used Hey Kaylee from Some Odd Girl.

I paired her up with bright, fun, Spring-like papers from Simple Stories (Fab{U}lous).  The layout is similar to my previous Mother's Day card except I used 2 panels instead of 3.  She is an awesome image too.  Fun to color and I love the flower in her hair!  While I was over at the SOG shop linking up the image to the store I happened to see what the latest challenge is and found out they are having a Facebook fun day challenge and the theme is BRIGHT colors!  Woo hoo!

Hope you are all having a lovely week!  Take care and Mahalo for stopping by!

Hugs,

Leanne

Supplies:

Hello Kaylee (Some Odd Girl), sentiment (Hero Arts)

Kraft & yellow cs (Recollections), white cs (Neenah & Xpress-It), patterned paper 6x6 Fab{U}lous (Secret Stories)

Border punch (EK Success), circle and scallop circle punches (Stampin' Up), doily (Joann's)

Copics:

Skin: E000, E00, E01, R20

Hair: E74, E77, E79, 100

Eyes: E71, 100

Dress, shoes & flower: Y21, Y32, YR01

Shadow: N2

Candle Fun!

Hello!
Hoping you're having a good week.  So far it's been a pretty cool week for me.  Work is not so stressful this week and I had a really fun craft session with my work buddy, Kathy, Tuesday night.  The result of our efforts is what I wanted to share today.  I'm going to TRY not to make this too long, but there are no guarantees.  I understand if you just scroll through without reading, I have plenty of pictures .  No worries, just so happy you stopped by to visit me.  :)  Please make sure to stop by Kathy's blog and leave her some love too.  :)

During Christmas I saw a few of these wonderful images on candles popping up here and there and I REALLY wanted to make some of these for Christmas, but time ran out.  :(  I asked Kathy if she wanted to experiment with me and she said of course!  hehe, she likes to experiment as much as I do.  I found an easy tutorial on the Digi Bell DT blog by Lydia Bancroft and made sure I bookmarked it for later when I would have time to work on one. 

The supplies: Good sized candle, white tissue paper, stamp of image you want to use, coloring medium (markers, colored pencils), wax paper, embossing heat gun.

Lydia's tutorial incorporates how to print digis on tissue paper (pretty informative) and then add them to the candle.  She has pictures with detailed instructions.  Kathy and I decided to use rubber & clear stamps for our first attempts.  We didn't want to try to use our Copics so instead we used colored pencils.  Believe me it was a good choice, I'll tell ya why later on.  We both chose our images, she chose Sweet Thinkin' Mae from Some Odd Girl and I chose Birthday Monkey from C.C. Designs.  We inked our stamps with Memento ink (Black Tuxedo) and stamped it onto the tissue paper.  We then started to color.  (Tip: Make sure if you have some extra sheets of scratch paper underneath the image you are stamping & coloring. It helps create a good stamped image as well as smoothe strokes when using colored pencils)  When we were done coloring we followed the rest of the steps: cutting out our image, placing our image on to the candle, put the wax paper over it and gently heat set it.  Kathy went first and we were both so excited at how fast it took to heat it.  The cool part was seeing the image melt into the candle!!  SO COOL!!!  I noticed that you can put your image on colored side up or down.  Either way it picks up all the colors.  It just gives you another option to flip your image which is what I did.  Here's our first images, me up first:

Hehehe, he turned out so cute!  Here is Kathy's:

Doesn't she look awesome?  We both were super excited to get our first ones done and friends, let me tell you, it took us a total of 15 minutes to do this!  From picking the image to heat setting it onto the candle!!  So easy and fun.  Kathy did another one using the same image, but colored her differently. 

Here they are side by side:

I went a different route.  I decided to add the same cute monkey to the other side of the candle and I colored him a bit different.  This time I flipped him with the colored side up then heat set him.  Much more vibrant yea? 

Here we are side by side:

When I got home I had already decided that I was going to gift my candle to my cousin's son who is turning 1.  My parents are going to LV to attend the party and I'm sending this little guy with them.  I wanted to add his name and maybe write Happy 1st Birthday to commemorate the occasion.  So I used a Copic marker (and this is where I was so glad I had scratch paper underneath the tissue paper) to write his name, it looked really cool.  When I picked it up to cut it out I noticed that the ink had gone through to the scratch paper as if I wrote on that paper!  Whew, luckily I had that extra piece of paper to catch the ink, else I would've had to explain why Aaden's name was "tagged" on the dining room table!  LOL!   Anyhoos, I know when you transfer words you would usually write it backwards, but this time I heat set it with the ink side up.  Worked out perfectly!  And just below I wrote Happy 1st BIRTHDAY!

Now I didn't want to just send the candle without a card, so I made a small card to go with it.  I used the same cute Birthday Monkey, my newest Spellbinder, star circles, regular circles, C.C. Cutter balloons, distress inks and some twine to create this card.

I am so happy with this card.  So bright and cheerful.  The frosting on the cupcake turned out better than I expected.  It's actually two different colors, B21 on top and BG11 underneath.  I don't think Aaden will know what it is, but hoping his mom and my cousin will like it.  Here are a couple more pictures (stay with me! I'm almost done! ~ hehehe) of the candle & card, can you see the cupcakes peeking out from the sides in the first picture?  :) 

I'm probably going to dress up the bottom part of the candle with ribbon so it doesn't look too plain.  As expected, I dressed up the bottom of the candle not with ribbon but found some corrugated paper and a blue piece of rafia. 

Whew, and there you have it!  A 30 minute candle project, an hour card project and this post - all pau!  If you're still reading this you are so sweet, Mahalo! 

Alrighty, I'm tired now, so I'm going to get something to drink and maybe veg in front of the tv for a bit before heading to bed.  Have a fantastic Thursday!!

Hugs,
Leanne

Supplies & Copics:
Distress Inks: Vintage Photo, Wild Honey & Crushed Olive

Happy Birthday Makenzie!

Hi!!
Popping in for a quick post.  Wow, can't believe I've actually posted something without missing a day in 2012!  Gonna try to keep up with that since I have several projects to share.  I admire and am in awe of those that do it every day.  I will try to do that if I'm not too tired.  :)  Today I have a very CAS card to share.  It's CAS because I made it at work and although I have some craft stuff here I still try to do the minimal amount to the card.  I guess it's because it's usually last minute and I need to get it done quick!  LOL!

I made this for my co-worker's daughter.  She's my crafting buddy when she visits.  She likes the color blue so I wanted to incorporate that color into my card.  I also wanted to pick something that I could color pretty quickly.  I don't have any of my cool stamps here at work, so that meant pick a digi.  I looked through my digis and found Bee Tia from SOG.  I have been wanting to color her up since I bought her.  I thought she would be fun and definitely easy to color. 

I added a pretty corny sentiment on top of the image.  I did add stickles to her head piece, wings, shoes and the white part of her dress.  Unfortunately you can't tell too well here.  I don't have very many Copics here, so for the blues I used  B04 & B05, skin is E00, E21.  For her hair, I used a combination of black colored pencil and a black sharpie.  Hey when you're desperate you gotta use what you have right?!  hahaha.  The ribbon is from my stash.  Happy to say this is truly a one level card, a first for me. 

Alrighty, bee seeing you!  hahaha!  Hope you stop back tomorrow for my FBW post.  Mahalo for popping in!  Have a great day!!

Hugs,
Leanne