TBT - Happy Birthday Henry!

Hello!!

This should be a short post.  Last week we celebrated my co-worker's birthday.  Here's the birthday card I made for him:

Had fun creating this very happy celebratory card for him.  I love the background and the balloons.  I colored over this Oliver using Copics from what it was to what it is now.  Love how Copics can do that for any image.  I replaced the present with a cupcake.  The dp in the back panel is from a Colorbok paper pad and I thought I'd jazz up the other panel using some stamps and happy fun colors to make it look seamless.  Can you tell?  The balloons are from a Tiddly Inks clear stamp set and the sentiment is from my stash, sorry can't think of the stamp company right now.

Ok, hope you're having a great Throwback Thursday!!  One more day till the weekend...  Thanks for stopping by!

TBT - A Cheeky Rockabilly Frame

Hello!

I've missed a few TBTs so today I'm jumping back in to it with this project I never shared, an altered frame with an oldie TGF image.

Sorry, I don't have many details to share since this was made a few years ago; all I can say is that I loved that paper so I used it to alter this $1 frame.  hahaha!  Can't recall the paper company because I got this from one of my crafty buddies, Kathy Dinh.  But I can say that the stamped image is from The Greeting Farm, Cheeky Rockabilly.  Remember those Cheekys?  They were one of my favorites. I added the flower in her hair to mimic the beautiful flower in the frame.  This is hanging up in my cubicle at work and I have been meaning to share it for the past few years.  Better late than never right?  :)

Thanks for stopping by!   

TBT - Hugs from Amelia

Morning!

Hope you are all doing well.  Thank you all so much for the inspiring comments.  I greatly appreciate them.  For today's throwback Thursday post I made a card using another Amelia image that I colored up a week ago.

If you're not familiar with this Amelia you must be a newbie to the Greeting Farm.  (hahaha)  She was one of the very first Amelia's from the OA sets, OA Buddies to be exact.  Now I know why I haven't colored her up in so long, there are too many details!!  hahaha!  Anyways, it was fun to color and fun cut her out.  Going with the colors of brown, light blue & yellow and a pop of red was the only way to go here.  The papers are all older, the only parts that aren't are the die cuts.  The "hugs" sentiment is from Lawn Fawn, the swooshes are from the MFT Ride the Wave die, so happy I finally have this one!  The stars are also from MFT Blueprints #13.

OA Buddies Amelia

Thanks for stopping in today.  I'll be back tomorrow with a new Aloha Friday challenge card.  Have a terrific TBT!! 

TBT - Travel Anya calendar

Hi!

Today I have a fun and quick post for this Throw Back Thursday.  I have a ton of 2015 calendars that I inherited from my cousin, (thanks Shar!) and I decided I should try to make use of them.  So last night I was putting away some of my TGF stamps and came across this retired stamp called Travel Anya.  An idea came to mind and I decided to it would be perfect with a calendar attached.

I have to say I love this one!  Turning this in to a CAS Hawaiian themed traveling card/calendar was fun.  The Aloha print paper was sitting on my table from another project and the Mahalo sentiment is a laser cut from Island Scrapbooking (from my stash) that I colored to match one of the flowers on the paper.  I think anytime you use a busy paper like that one you need to do as little as possible around it.  I tilted the sentiment on it's side because it was going off the paper.  After fun-cutting her out I glued her down, no pop dots so that this could be mailed flat.

I have a friend who has a SIL that works for Hawaiian Airlines.  Maybe I'll give this one to her to give to her SIL. ^.^

One calendar down 27 more to go...  If any of you would like some, I don't mind sharing just let me know in the comments section.  I don't mind mailing them as long as it's within the US.

Travel Anya (Retired - TGF)

I'm going to enter this in the monthly TGF FFF challenge of Red, White & Blue for my second submission.

Thanks for stopping by! 

Throwback Thursday - Y&FH postcards

Hello!!

Today's Throwback Thursday post features two discontinued images from Y&FH.  Both were added to two more postcards.

First up is Summer Fumi.  I paper pieced her top with a small piece of washi paper, love the pattern.  The sentiment is a combination of an Island Scrapbooking sentiment that I colored with Copics and an MFT stamp that I clear embossed.  Because I wanted to use these as postcards I did this to the back:

Looks legit right?  When I mail it I'm hoping to keep it in a plastic sealed bag, wonder if I need to put the stamp on the outside?  I'd really hate to have it ruined before it arrives at it's destination. =/  I'll ask my friend to ask her mom who works for the post office for advice.  Next up is one of my favorites featuring Summer Chuckles...

I love the colors on this one.  The sentiment is another combination of a laser cut word from Island Scrapbooking and an AmyR sentiment.

If I look at him sideways he looks a little like Kelly Slater!!  hahaha!

GIVEAWAY TIME!!!

Before I sign off I wanted to announce that according to Blogger this is my 1000th post!  Woo Hoo!

I still remember way back when I first started this blog trying to figure out how it works and then to come up with my first post; remembering how long it took to write it, yikes!  Now 1000 posts later I'm still here.  It might not be a milestone for most of you, but it is for me.  As a thank you to those who visit here for inspiration or to leave me a friendly comment I'd like to offer up a give-a-way to 3 of you.  The prizes will consist of items I have but have not used.  Believe me I have a lot of stuff that have not left the packages so the winners will enjoy some nice (IMO) crafty goodies.

Unfortunately I have to add some rules to the give-a-way, but hopefully they aren't too bad. (Revised)

LILO'S 1000th post Giveaway:

1. Open to United States participants only
2. Pick a number between 1-3
3. Feel free to use one of the pictures above to post announcing the give-a-way. (Revised) 

This will be open until next Friday, July 24th and the winners announced on Sunday, July 26th. Good luck!!

I'll be back tomorrow with a new Aloha Friday challenge post.  Until then take care and thanks for stopping by!

Throwback Thursday image day

Hello!

Going to try to give some neglected/discontinued older stamps some love by posting on what everyone calls Throwback Thursday.  Today I'm going to share another postcard with a Throwback TGF & Y&FH image(s).

Do you all remember this fun in the sun Anya?  She's from the Sunshine set that seems to be discontinued.  The sentiment is also part of the set.  I colored her with Copics giving her a tan, or sunburn depending on what you see, hahaha!  Do you see the surfboard peeking out from behind her?  Well that is also a discontinued throwback image from the Tiki Surf set from Y&FH.  Using Copic markers I doodled some flowers on to the surfboard.  The sentiment was heat embossed.  I loved the colors I used for the background and was glad I was able to use similar colors in Copics.  I think I have more than enough images to keep me occupied for Thursdays.  hahaha!  Thanks for stopping by!!