25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 22

Hey!!

Yikes only 3 more days left!  Are we ready?!  I really feel like a re-do for the whole month of December.  Here's a fun winter card I made for day 22 of the 25 days of Christmas challenge with Linda & Kathy.

From top to bottom this is one fun CAS card.  I used Krystal from The Greeting Farm SSS.  The reindeer are dies from La-La Land Crafts.  The beautiful border is also from LLLC.  The hills were created with a Mama Elephant die.  I thought the sentiment from AmyR was sweet for this scene.  And the pretty blue snowflake paper was from my many years stash.  I love the color combo here, definitely a winter wonderland scene.

I think this one will be another short post tonight.  Tomorrow is another work day for me and I still need to figure out what I'll share for day 23.  I hope you're all having a nice relaxing evening.  Hopefully I'm not up too late writing that post.  lol..  Thanks for popping in!

xoxo,
Leanne

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 16

Hey everyone!!

I'm still rolling with the 25 days of Christmas challenge with Linda & Kathy and having fun with it.  Today I thought I'd share the card that Linda designed for our get-together with Kathy, Belia & Donna.  Here is it...

A sweet 4x4 card combining some La-La Land dies and a sweet Secret Santa Anya.  The igloo, sentiment and sea lion are from one of the La-La Land Club kits.  The clouds were made with a stencil and some Distress inks.  Adding the sequins in the sky for touches of sparkle.  The igloo is spectacular with it's glittery shield.  I chose some bold colors for SS Anya and subtle tones for the sea lion.  One of the cutest cards I've done so far.  Thanks Linda for the sweet design!

Hope you're all having a nice week.  Thanks so much for dropping by!

xoxo,
Leanne

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 13

Hello!

It's a bright day 13 of 25 days of Christmas challenge I've joined with Linda & Kathy.  We're half way done which means we're halfway to Christmas!!  Woo Hoo!  Today I have a fun card designed by Kathy.  (Hi Kathy!)  This is the 3rd card from the Christmas card swap get-together with Kathy, Linda, Donna & Belia.  

The little dude is from the Secret Santa kit, the tree is a Tim Holtz Sizzix die and the ivy background is from Taylored Expressions.  I added red half pearls and the green dots are from a pearl pen.  This is definitely a CAS card.  Here are a few more pictures featuring my first handmade Christmas card & new calendar from the queen of scenes, Karen Inouye.  Hi Karen!!

Isn't this a cute scene?  I love everything about it!  Not only did I receive this sweet card I also got a new mini calendar!

Isn't this pretty?!  She did an amazing job with both projects.  Love the colors and all the dies she used to make each scene.  Thank you Karen!!  Pop on over to her blog and check out all her cute projects that she's made of the last few months.

Well thanks again for stopping by!  I'm looking forward to the rest of the countdown.  Have a great day!

xoxo,
Leanne

25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 1

Hello!!

Happy December everyone!  Can you believe in just 24 days we'll be celebrating the best day ever?!  lol!  I thought it would be fun to share some projects I've been working on for the next 25 days.  This was something Linda (Hi Linda!) did last year and she's planning to do this again this year, but I think she's only sharing on IG & FB.  I thought it this was a fun idea and I have some finished projects which includes cards and non-card projects that I can spread throughout the next 25 days.  Today I'm starting off with this calendar page I made last year...

The original was designed by my friend Angie (Hi Angie!) and I put this one together.  Used the adorable Holiday Anya 4 from The Greeting Farm, calendar page from Taylored Expressions,and snowflakes from a MS punch.  Colored HA4 with Copics and popped her on to the red panel.

Something sweet and simple for the first day.  I'll be back for the next 25 days with other Christmas crafts and if you'd like to share too just leave a comment and I'll be sure to come visit.  Thank you so much for popping in!!

Happy Holidays!
Leanne

A Fat Free Boba-licious Bday Card

Hello!

Wow it's been so long since I've visited blogland.  I hope you've all been doing well. Apologies for not being able to stop by.  Since coming back from the La-La Land Craft Retreat my days have been super busy with work stuff and my nights with craft projects so posting and visiting have been put on the back burner until today.  I do have a fun card to share with you today.

This is the birthday card I made for my friend/co-worker, Delaram.  A little background on the card...  Delaram LOVES boba milk tea.  There is a local donut shop by our office that sells the one she really likes and at one point she was going every day and sometimes twice in one day!  Now a days she's limiting herself to 2 a week, unless it's been a stressful day.  So in honor of her love of boba milk tea I created the card above using MFT dies, and the cutest boba milk tea image (TGF Frappi Anya with a few alterations of the cup & removal of the bow) plus a TGF cutting die.  I also was able to use the cool embossing folder on the green cardstock, which made the perfect background for the card.

To create the boba milk tea I used the Die-namices LLD Cool cup dies. First cutting them out of white cardstock, coloring them, then cutting the same out of transparency paper to make it look like the actual cups.  I added the handwritten tags to represent the days of the week and the dark brown circles on the bottom of the cup represent the boba.  On the inside of the card I handwrote, "Hope you have a fat-free BOBA-licious birthday!"  Needless to say she loved it after she figured out what was in the cups.  (Yay! hahaha!)

Well that's all for now, hoping to stop by to visit some of my favorite blogs soon, I know you've been creating up a storm and I can't wait to see what you've been up to.  Have a wonderful Saturday friends!!  Thank you for stopping by! 

September SSS - FALL aka...

Hello!

This post is all about Fall which was our theme for the September Secret Sister Swap.

My swap partner was Kathy and the first thing that popped in to my head was how much she loves Starbucks.  It was a no brainer to choose Frappi Anya for my card, but what else could I use?  I found that awesome embossing folder on a trip to Hobby Lobby and I already had the other elements like the awesome MFT coffee cup, MCT doily, MFT banner and letters.  When coming up with the sentiment I wanted it to be different than usual, so choosing the letters "fall aka" I arranged them on the banner which means I needed to have something on the inside...

How about "...pumpkin-spice latte season! Enjoy!"  I stamped Frappi Anya off the bottom of the right side and cut off a scrap of that pretty fall paper.  Then I handwrote the rest of the sentiment.  I added a SBux giftcard to go with the card because it was appropriate.  I also made a tag, that I will be sharing on Monday, and paired it up with a set of fall ribbons I had received from another swap a year ago, but haven't had the opportunity to use, so I thought I would share it with Kathy instead in the hopes that she will be able to use them.

Now that I've share what I sent here's what I received from my buddy Karen...

The absolutely cutest shaker Fall card!!  She is the queen of scenes and this card blew me away.  The colors are so pretty and the details... Beautiful!  She also sent me some fun dies from Memory Box that I'll be able to use to create some fun elements on my cards.  Thank you so much Karen, I love the card and the dies!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a great hump day!!

Happy Birthday Erica!

Hello!!

Happy last day of September!  :(  Kinda sad that's it's already over, but looking forward to October.  Before welcoming in October I wanted to share this birthday card I made for my co-worker who is celebrating her bday today!  Here's the card I made for her...

I can't believe I made this card!!  I have to say it's something I would never have come up with if I hadn't just finished making a similar card with a similar layout over the weekend.  I'll share that card tomorrow.  This is one of those cards you just look at and smile.  I smiled a lot when I was done.  

The papers are from Prima Marketing and the solid colored papers are from Neenah & Recollections.  I used dies from La-La Land Crafts & MFT.  Love the dies from these two companies!  The flowers are from Petaloo and were pretty with the colors on the card.  The image is So Hip Anya and she is one  of the SSSC from TGF.  I gave her a little bit of an alteration, but just a tiny one because my friend has short hair not long, so the ponytail has disappeared. 

 I don't normally add an inside but this time I did.  

Pretty and simple.  Well I hope you're all doing well and getting in some crafty time.  I'm so behind on a couple swaps that I'll be burning the midnight oil for a few days.  The hard part is trying to come up with something for my swap partners!!  Wish me luck!  Take care and thanks for stopping by!!

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!

Have a sweet day Kathy!

Hello!

Hope you're all having a great Sunday.  It's another hot day in LA so I think I'll stay in and play with some stamps and paper.  Hope you're doing something fun as well.

Here's a card I made for Kathy who celebrated her birthday last week.  (Yay to September babies!)

The main image I used is Dollie with Cupcake and the cupcake from The Greeting Farm which is part of the Dollie with Cupcake set.  I had thought to just do a simple plain white background, but as I started to stamp the cupcakes I just kept going.  I used small hearts & some blueprint dies from MFT, ribbon/twine from my stash and that sweet sentiment from AmyR.  The colors are some of Kathy's favorites, mine too, so I was really please with how it turned out.

In this shot you can see that I sprayed on some shimmer mist, makes the image and paper shimmer in light.  I also used my Wink of Stella pen on a few of the cupcakes for even more glittery fun which you can see better IRL.

I stamped something on the inside, it's always fun to add something fun to the inside too.

Dollie with Cupcake

Can't say too much more about this card so I'll sign off for now.  Enjoy the rest of your Sunday and thank you so much for stopping by!  

LFF #94 - Just a Note...

Hello!

Happy Friday!

School has started in full force in our neck of the woods, so I picked this back-to-school card featuring the adorably cute Poppy from the SSSC #17 for today's Lilo's Fun Friday. 

I had fun putting this one together.  Mainly because I've been wanting to use that MFT lunchbox since I bought it.  Of course the second reason was Poppy (SSSC #17).  She is too cute!  Reminds me of Abby from NCIS.  The dp is really old and I was happy to cut in to it.  I kept the layout pretty simple, going with layers of the different patterned papers.  I colored Poppy with Copics fun cut her and popped her on to the card.  The sentiments are MFT letters and an older AmyR sentiment stamp.  And that's pretty much it.  I don't always decorate the inside, but I did for this card...

Stamping Poppy and adding a handwritten sentiment seemed to complete the card.  Now to find someone to give it to...

Hoping you have a great day and weekend!!  Mahalo for stopping by!!
Lilo

TGF FFF Monthly Challenge: Back-to-School

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!   

A Lovey Dovey Amelia calendar

Good morning!

Happy 2nd day of August!

I've decided to do 6 more calendars using the rest of the Amelia's from the Greeting Farms OA stamps sets!  Yep, might as well. (gulp! hahaha!)  I think this one is my favorite so far.  The sweet Amelia from the OA Lovey Dovey set fit right in with this origami paper that I've had in my stash for ages...

I know, I know it's August, but I took this picture on July 30th.  Isn't she sweet?  And I love that origami paper.  The colors are beautiful and the shapes are fun.  She fits right in.  Colored her with Copics and her hair was colored with the V90 series.  Love that shade.  The sentiment is from Paper Smooches and was stamped and clear embossed.

Amelia - OA - Lovey Dovey

Thanks again for stopping by, enjoy the rest of your Sunday!!  I will be back tomorrow for a fun Spotlight post with Kitty Bee Designs.  Until then take care!!

Lilo's Fun Friday #92

Hello!!

Happy Late Aloha Friday!  Hope you're all having a great day!

For Lilo's Fun Friday #92 I'm continuing with my calendar shares of Amelia from the Greeting Farm.  I honestly have not been working on anything else. lol.  I've got some other projects in the works and if I finish them I'll be sharing, but for now I hope you're not getting tired of seeing Amelia.  I sure am NOT.  hahaha!

I previously used Amelia OA - Summer Fun in this calendar.  I originally had her colored up way different than what she is now.  Fuchsia hair, green and purple swimsuit, it was pretty bad, (hahaha).  I had to put her aside, but went back to her to give her a makeover.  After choosing this origami paper I decided to go for a different colored hair and outfit and I have to say the transformation is so much better than the original.  Love how Copic markers can do that!!  So after coloring her hair that pretty shade of orange I decided to paper piece her outfit and hair barrettes.  They were the perfect combo.  Instead of a laser cut sentiment I chose one from a well-loved AmyR stamp set.  The rest was put together very quickly.

Amelia (OA Summer Fun)

Okie dokes, hoping you all have a fantastik Friday and weekend!  I'm looking forward to some more crafting time.  Mahalo for stopping by!

Lilo

TBT - Happy Day Calendar

Hello!

For today's Throwback Thursday post I picked another way back when Amelia from The Greeting Farm OA Happy Day stamp set.  And guess what?!  I made another calendar with her.  hahaha!  I know, I know.  hahaha!  I'm slowly whittling away the big stack...

Each time I see her I always picture pink hair!!  Not just any shade of pink, but a light pink.  I think I pulled it off.  I colored the rest of her with greens, blues and yellows.  She is a doll and totally reminds me of a Harujuku girl.  hehe.  I used another of the washi papers my dear cousin SharGD sent to me and happy with another CAS result.  The sentiment is another Island Scrapbooking laser cut phrase which I colored to match her boots.

Hope you all have a terrific Thursday!  Thank you for stopping by!

My Favorite Thing Amelia calendar

Hello!

I've been having fun making up some mini calendars with my considerable amount of washi papers, 2015 calendars and the different Amelia stamps from The Greeting Farm.  Here's the newest one I've completed...

This is Amelia from the OA - My Favorite Thing stamp set.  I colored her with Copics, fun cut her out with a white border and glued her down flat for easy mailing.  That pretty washi paper is from the stash my cousin SharGD sent to me.  Let me say that she sent me a bunch of washi paper, so it will take some time to get through all of them.  I don't mind, it'll be fun to see what I can do with each of them.

Amelia - OA-MFT

Well nothing like a very short post to get the day started right.  Hope you all have a wonderful Tuesday!  Appreciate you stopping by! 

Happy Amelia calendar & some winners!

Hello and Happy Sunday!

Today I have a happy calendar to share.  Hopefully it will make you smile...

Featuring another Amelia stamped image from the Greeting Farm (OA -Summer Fun), a Heidi Swapp die-cut word, and some fun washi paper this calendar was a whole lot of fun to put together.  The koi washi paper was gifted to me from my cousin SharGD (thanks Maine!) and I thought it would make the cutest back drop for this sweet summer fun Amelia.  After coloring her with Copics and fun cutting her with a white border I glued her down flat to make it seem like she's wading in the water and the fish are nibbling at her toes.  I cut out a few extra fish and positioned them around her feet.  She's giggling because they are tickling her toes.  (hahaha)

CANDY TIME!!!!

Here are the winners of my 1000th post candy giveaway: Linda, Kathi, & Karen I.
Congrats ladies and thanks for participating in my candy giveaway.  Send me an email with your snail mail so I can get your goodies in the mail next week.  I would love it if Truddabells and Colleen K also emailed me, I have a little something for both of you for participating.  Thanks again to all of you who left me a comment, it's not every day that you reach such a milestone.  Here's to 1000 more! :)

Amelia (OA - Summer Fun)

Now I'm off to UCLA to be a spectator and cheerleader at the Special Olympics World Games volleyball venue.  Woo Hoo!  Hoping to have some pictures to share with you all as well as some stories.  Thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful happy Sunday!!

LFF #91 - Amelia Ahoy Calendar

Hello!

My 1000th post candy giveaway ends today.  Be sure to leave a comment HERE. The winners will be announced on Sunday.

For today's Lilo's Fun Friday I thought I'd share another CAS calendar.  This one features an older TGF stamp from the OA - Ahoy set.

I've always thought of Amelia as a little anime girl, especially with all her cute outfits.  Too bad we haven't seen a new one in quite some time.  Hoping to see more soon.  The Copics colors on Amelia were pulled from the pretty washi paper in the background.  I'm not sure you can tell but there is a very soft blue on it, that is where I pulled the blue on her outfit from.  The sentiment is a Lawn Fawn word die, I cut up with two different colors so that there was a little shadow.  All papers are from Hanko Designs except for the very dark/magenta pieces, those are scraps from my stash and of course the Taylored Expressions 2015 calendar.

Amelia OA - Ahoy

I've stamped and colored up a few more Amelia's in hopes of putting them on a few more calendar cards and sending them out.  I honestly do not need any more calendars.  hahaha!  Before I sign off I wanted to say a big MAHALO to Lynn from Lynn's Craft Blog.  I was the lucky winner in her surprise candy.  She sent me this awesome RAK.

If you need some crafty inspirations or need some ideas on gifts for others stop by Lynn's blog, she's got a ton and sometimes you'll see her post recipes and the beautiful photos of her trips around the world.  Thank you Lynn, it's always nice to stop by your blog because you share not only the project but you give details about the products that you use.  I hope when I visit the Big Island I get a chance to meet you in person.  Mahalo!!  And Mahalo to you for stopping by!!  Happy Aloha Friday!

PS - Don't forget you have one more week to link up your Summer Fun projects for our current Aloha Friday Challenge at Kitty Bee Designs.  Today the second half of the Bees are sharing their mid-inspirations.

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! 

Red, White & Blue Day Out

Hello!

It's been a while since I participated in a challenge, so I hopped on over to the TGF blog to see what the current monthly challenge is, red, white and blue.  Oh that is an easy peasy one.  I was flipping through some stamps to see which one I wanted to use when I realized that I had not inked up this Anya from TGF.  This sweet Anya is called Day Out.  I saved on time and paper pieced her beret and skirt.  The other parts were colored with Copics.  I chose a simple design with a few pieces of cardstock liking how much white was left.  The half circle is a die cut from Little Darlings and the sentiments are laser cut words from Island Scrapbooking.  The cool thing about the words is being able to cut the words or letters and as long as you trim them you can make a fun sentiment like I did.  Now I have another birthday card to add to my ever growing stash, woo hoo!

Challenge: Red, white & blue - FFF monthly challenge

TGF Mermaids

Hello!

Hope you all enjoyed a nice and safe 4th of July.  It was quite loud and colorful in our area.  With the drought & mandatory water restrictions I'm very surprised the Governor/Mayor has not banned fireworks throughout California except for the ones that are displayed by professionals.  Just sayin'...

Continuing on with my water-color postcards I picked the mermaids from TGF.  This first one I colored the image back in May.  The second one I just completed today.  Both of these were fun to put together.  Keeping both CAS was the key.

I added the Island Scrapbooking laser cut sentiment with the MFT sentiment right below it.  Colored the Aloha with an ombre effect using two different Copic colors. I really like the background on this one, and that pop of pink gives it that fun element.

Here the colors are bolder, but still fun.  I'm so happy I remembered this mermaid, she's still one of my favorites.  The sentiment is also another Island Scrapbooking laser cut word that I colored with Copics.  Two more under my belt and I'm happy with them both.  I worked on more today so will be sharing them over the next few days.  Until then, enjoy your Sunday and thanks for stopping by!!