LFF #75 - For a sweet friend... Hi :)

Hello!!

Hope everyone is enjoying their Aloha Friday.  It's been crazy in my little part of the world and it doesn't seem to be slowing down.  Boy I wish I could win the lottery! hahaha!  Anyways, today I have a fun card to share for today's Lilo's Fun Friday #75.  I recently discovered a new (to me) digital stamp company called Little Blue Button.  I apologize, but I don't remember where I saw it to begin with.  It might have been Shirl's blog, she's always ahead of the game when it comes to finding new stamp companies, especially the digital kind. I purchased a few of their images but also downloaded this cutie, Sally with Heart, that was in their freebie section and made this card...

Had fun with this one.  Chose some items from my stash including the flowers, pearls and papers.  Colored her with warm Copics and E000, E00.  The dies used were from La-La Land Crafts (Heart Banner & Filigree corner)  I had some fun and wrote, "Hi :)" inside the hearts on the banner and popped them up with dimensional adhesive.  The sentiment is computer generated and I cut it in to a flag sort of banner and distressed it with Ranger TH Distress ink (Brushed corduroy).  Actually used that ink all over this card including the banner to give it a nice vintage look.  I loved the paper from MME with it's newpaper printing and the pretty blue design with the bird.  Everything was matted on to a silver piece of cardstock and then on to kraft cardstock for the card.   The flowers are from Prima. Here's a close up of Sally and the banner:

I've already printed her out a couple more times and colored her up differently.  Hoping to find some inspiration to add her to a card, or maybe a tag.. We shall see.  For now, it's back to the grind. I hope you all have a terrific summer Friday afternoon/evening and that you have a wonderful weekend!! Mahalo for stopping by, until next time!!
Lilo

Happy Birthday Makinley!

Morning,

Hope you all had a great weekend.  I got a chance to color some images for fun.  One of them was the first from the Super Secret Stamp Club from The Greeting Farm and her name is Fairest. One of my good friend's youngest daughter just celebrated her 3rd birthday and via FB I saw they went to Disneyland to celebrate.  Aww the happiest place on earth is the place to go to celebrate any birthday. I thought it would be fun to color Fairest as Snow White, but when I put together the card itself the colors did not match.  So I stamped another image of Fairest and colored her to match the card.

I'll just have to figure something else out with the original Snow White version.  I did a couple slight alterations with Fairest, do you see them?  If you guessed the cupcake then you are correct!  The cupcake is from Sister Stamps Miyoko.  I love how the stem & leaf from the apple that Fairest is originally holding works perfectly with the positioning of the cupcake.  It looks like it was made for this image.  I also added some bows to her shoes using a Memento marker.  As I was trying to figure out a layout I remembered a card that my KBD teammie Shirl created and thought it would be fun to make for the first time.  Thanks for the inspiration Shirl! :)

It's called a building block card.  I found the tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers.  The only issue I had with this was after cutting the building block part, it did not want to close flat so I had to make a couple of adjustments.  All in all it turned out really cute.

I'll need to do a few more of these to get the cuts right.  The Happy and Makinley letters were cut with CC Designs Cutter Bubble Alphabet dies and the birthday letters are cut from MFT Dienamics Little Lowercase letters.  The card is white cs from Neenah, the hot pink cs is from Recollecitons, the patterned paper is from my current go to girly paper, Colorbok (Confetti).  The yarn is from Daiso, the pink button is from Recollections and the twine is from Taylored Expressions. I used a Swiss dot embossing folder for the pink squares.

Gonna pop her in to the mailbox today and hopefully Makinley will like it.  I have another project I used Fairest on as well as the second SSSC release, Tress, that I will share later, later.  For now, I hope this card made you smile.  I'm hoping to send out more birthday cards, even if they are late cards, to my family and friends.  I have quite a few that are coming up, so better get back to coloring and creating.
Thank you all so much for stopping by and leaving your wonderful comments, you're all so sweet!  Have a fabulous Monday!!

A lovely blog award from Shirl

I was thrilled to receive news that my blog got a Liebster Blog Award and from a really sweet and awe-mazing friend on Valentine's Day as a gift... Woo Hoo!!!

Here's the to-do list of any Liebster award recipient:

A short introduction about Liebster Blog Award: 'Liebster' is German for 'dearest'. The award is a 'share-the-love' arrangement, given to inspirational bloggers with less than 200 followers

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  Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog

  Link back to the blogger who presented the award to you.

  Copy and paste the blog award on your blog.

  Present the Liebster Blog Award to 5 blogs of 200 followers or less who you feel deserves to be noticed.

  Let them know they have been chosen by leaving a comment at their blog

Mahalo to Shirl from Creations by Shirl.  Shirl is so creative and so sweet.  She is usually the first to post on my blog and leaves me some really lovely comments.  I only know her through blogland, but feel she is a sista @ heart.  She is an amazing crafter and is ALWAYS posting new images and sharing new sites.  I go to her blog every day just to see what she creates because I know it's something I will probably end up getting.  She's a wondeful inspiration and to receive this award from her is a wonderful honor. 

Big hugs to you Shirl, and Mahalo for this lovely award.

Here are some of my five favorite blogs (in no particular order) with less than 200 followers:

Bonnie

Karen

Kathy

Nadine

Mimi

Mahalo ladies for your inspiration and being really amazing blog buddies.  Please be sure to check out their blogs and leave them some love.  Maybe you will also become a follower/friend as well.

Enjoy your day and come back tomorrow for my FBW post.

Hugs,

Leanne