Many Thanks Allen!

Hello!

Today's share is another Thank you card for another co-worker who is going on a new adventure.  I'm really going to miss Allen, but I wish him the best.  He worked in our Information Systems department and we talked almost everyday, whether via phone, in person or email.  He was always helpful and always happy.  Here's the card I made...

The computer components are from Mama Elephant   Love how an altered (panda) Bobo is peeking over.  The dp is from an old DCWV stack. It was perfect for my card!  Turned this into an easel calendar card too...

Kept the inside super simple, using an extra thanks and handwriting many...

We celebrated at a Taiwanese restaurant with the whole IS department.  It was a lot of fun.. I wish him well at his new job and best wishes for the new adventure he is going on.

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you're having a great day!  I'll be MIA for a few days so will stop by when I can.  Take care!!

Many Thanks Gary!!

Hello!  

Hope you all had a nice and safe Halloween.  In my area we had no trick-or-treaters, so now we have tons of candy.  Luckily we got the good kind, bad thing is now we have to eat it.  Well if anything I can make more treat bags and use up that candy.  hahaha!  Welcome to November!!  It's officially Christmas season!!  Well at least that's what one of those funny pictures on IG stated.  Um, no we still have one more special holiday to celebrate before we should think about Christmas and that's Thanksgiving.  So glad I'm sharing this card today. 

Let's get to it.  I made this Thank you card for one of my co-worker's who left the company for a new adventure.  Here's the front the of card featuring a slightly altered Bobo bear from Sister Stamps.

I wanted to use this image but needed it to be a panda.  I used some black ink to color the eyes, ears and body to create the panda.  Then using a white gel pen added some highlights.  Love how it turned out.  The background paper is from a really old DCWV paper pad and the thanks was cut from a Paper Smooches die.  Here's the inside of the card which I turned into a easel/calendar card.

Thought it would be nice to send him off with something he could put on his desk at his new office, or leave at home.  I couldn't leave it at that, I added another card to the bottom so I could write a message inside.  Here is what I came up with...

Keeping it totally CAS was my goal here.  I used a Mama Elephant cloud border die on the same paper and cut one more thanks sentiment.  I hand-wrote "many" above the thanks sentiment and it was done. 

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you enjoy the rest of your Sunday, I've got some cards I need to finish so I'll be busy for the rest of the day.  I'm not complaining.  :D

LFF #96 - Thanks Vivyenne!

Happy Aloha Friday!!

For today's Lilo's Fun Friday #96, I have a thank you card I made for one of my colleagues who unfortunately is leaving us today. =/  It's always hard to make these types of cards, especially if you really don't want that person to leave.  I made it girly like her and with some bright peachy colors.  Oh yeah and there's that layout again.  Yep can't get enough of it.  (lol)

Ok, so I really love this one!  I guess cause the colors are pretty.  Most of the same elements from the other cards are used here.  The La-La Land dies, MFT dies, Lawn Fawn word die, some pretty flowers from Petaloo and some fun accents from Recollections.  The patterned paper is from another Prima pad, the cardstock is MFT & Recollections and lastly is Anya Strolls from The Greeting Farm.

Instead of coloring her blouse I added some dots to create a fun pattern.  Once I finished coloring her up I fun cut her then glued her down flat instead of popping her up.  The reason for that is because I wanted the "thanks" to look like it was floating.  What I did was add glue to the bottom of the word and attached it to some of the petals, so it looks like it's floating.  I like the effect!

Here's a shot of the inside of the card.  I did a double panel so we could all have enough space to write something other than the normal few words, but my other colleagues crammed what they wanted to say on to one page.  Aiya!  Sometimes they need guidance.  ((lol))  It's funny because normally if I didn't want them to sign on something I'd usually put a post-it, sheesh, you'd think they would know me by now!  ((hahaha, obviously not!))  ((Sigh!!))

We took Vivyenne to lunch today and here are a couple pictures, can you tell which one is Vivyenne?  (She's the one in the middle in the first picture.)  Sure going to miss her, I usually miss all the ones that leave us...  =/

Wishing Vivyenne all the best in her next adventure.  Hopefully when she makes it big she'll remember us.  hahaha!  Well thanks again for stopping by.  This post turned out to be longer than my others, hopefully you weren't too bored. =D  Have a fabulous Friday and a great weekend!  Hope you get to do something fun!!

xoxo,
Lilo

Arigato Linda!

Hello!

This is the last of three cards I made to give to some crafty friends for their kindness in remembering my birthday.

For this card I chose to stamp, color & fun-cut Kimono Marci with Fan from La-La Land Crafts, Hmmm, is there a pattern here?  (hahaha)  Yes, there is, and it all stems from me wanting to use my neglected LLLC stamps, that's all.  I colored her with Copics and only paper pieced her kimono (not the yellow parts) and her fan.  The patterned paper is from the same Colorbok paper pad and I chose those two pieces because they seemed to match with this Marci.  It all came together fairly quick, and adding the Island Scrapbooking laser cut sentiment and sakura flowers really finishes the card off.

I'm pretty happy with the way all three turned out and so happy the ladies liked them.  Thanks again Donna, Belia & Linda.  You gals are sweet!!

Thank you for stopping by!

Thanks Belia!

Hello!

I'm back to share the second of three cards I made to give to some crafty friends, Donna, Belia and Linda for remembering me on my birthday.  Read all about it in my last post.

This gorgeous little faerie is Daisy Faerie Marci from La-La Land Crafts.  When I saw her I knew I wanted to color her up with blues/greens/yellows and her hair had to be brown!  hahaha!  I had so much fun coloring her.  Must use her again.  The layout is similar to the last card I made and again the patterned papers in the background are from the Colorbok  paper pad.  I also used the same daisy die, and using a white gel pen highlighted the flowers so they could stand out a bit more.  These are some of my favorite colors all in one card.  I have one more card to share so looks like I'll be back tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by!

Thanks Donna!

Hello!

I made a few cards late Friday Night to give to a few crafty friends I was meeting up with on Saturday who were kind enough to remember me on my birthday.  They gave me sweet handmade cards and presents so I wanted to let them know how much I appreciated their thoughtfulness.   I met up with Linda, Belia & Donna in Covina for brunch at Fonda Don Chon, which is a Mexican restaurant and where I gave them their cards.  They were so cute they each passed their cards around to see the different designs.  Too funny!  After brunch we did some shopping at Hobby Lobby and Heart's N Crafts, not too much damage to anyone's wallet as I think we were all trying to be good.  All in all a fun day, we were just missing Kathy!  Here is one of three that I'll be sharing for the next few days...

This sweet summer themed card features some products from La-La Land Crafts, MFT, Lawn Fawn, and My Creative Time.  First off the image is Popsicle Marci from LLLC.  I colored her with Copics and paper pieced her outfit with paper from Colorbok (Light Bright from Wal-Mart). The background patterned paper is also from that same paper pad.  The daisies are from the August LLLC Club kit and I chose Pink Lemonade cardstock to cut them out, the sequins were made with scraps of Banana Split cardstock & MFT Blueprints #24.  The stitched doily is from My Creative Time and last the thanks sentiment die is from Lawn Fawn.

For all the cards I used the same paper pad above.  On the inside of each I stamped a sentiment from MFT LJD gift card greetings (retired) and added a pack of Pretty Pink Posh sequins.   I'll share the other cards over the next two days.

Thanks for stopping by!

Doraemon Thank you card

Hello!

I'm taking a break from sharing calendars to share a card which has a bit of Copic coloring, but it's mostly a bunch of dies to re-create this picture.

Here is my card version which I made for one of my co-workers who is leaving us at the end of the week...  It's a sad Doraemon (the blue cat)!

1. Doraemon (ドラえもん) is a Japanese manga and anime series. It was written by Fujiko F. Fujio. It was started in a children's magazine in 1969. Doraemon is the name of a robot cat that came from the future to help a boy named Nobita Nobi.

I used my Martha Stewart circle tool to create the head and the white part of his face.  The rest were a few MFT dies and I also used my straight edge trimmer for the whiskers  In the picture it shows Doraemon crying so using BG70 and some glossy accents I made him cry!  hahaha!  The rest came together pretty quickly.  I used the thank you sentiment die from Heidi Swapp, but I wish I had something else like will miss you.  Well the thank you seemed to work.  For the inside I went with some cute Pandas.

These are the pandas from Kitty Bee Designs.  I did printed a bunch of them in different sizes and flipped the top ones so they would be waving with their left hands.  For this panel I used BG32 to write Many thanks inside all the pandas tummies.  It was matted with red cardstock.

Here is a coloring page I found on the internet.  I colored him up, fun-cut him out and glued him to the back of the card.  I'm planning to give this to her today from the team.  I'm thinking she's going to be very surprised, she has no clue this is coming.  Yay!!  Well I think I'll stop here and wish you all a very happy day.  Take care and thanks for stopping by! 

From the Heart, Thanks!

Hello!

Hope you all had a very nice and relaxing weekend.  I had wanted to put up this card in honor of Memorial day, but didn't finish until late in the day.  Now it's almost the end of another day. (hahaha)  Better late than not at all right?  =]

Using the cool Sun Ray background & Many Thanks dienamics from MFT, plus a punched heart, I created this pretty cool Thank you card.  I love how quick and easy this was to put together.  Another pretty card to add to my stash and I'm thinking I could possibly put together a few more of these with different colors.  Hmmm... something to think about especially since my mojo is slowly coming back.  Yay!!  Thank you for the vote of confidence it's really heartwarming especially since ya'll are cranking out some major amazing cards.  You are all my motivation!!  Thanks! ^.^

Distress Water coloring

Hello!!

I'm pre-posting today because I'm still hanging out with the ohana.  I have a couple of water color Distress ink cards to share.  Seeing these cute backgrounds on Eva's blog (Hi Eva!) really inspired me to give it a try for a quick and easy background.  Thanks again for the inspiration Eva!!

This first one uses some fun Spring like colors.

I added the kawaii stars from The Greeting Farm a grouping of stars from La-La Land Crafts, and a Walter & Winnie sentiment.  All were inked with black Versafine ink and embossed with clear powder.  Here's the inside, just a simple detail, but totally cute and fun!

I'll write a message in white with my new white gel pen.  The next one is a simple Congrats card I made for one of my co-workers who just celebrated her 25th anniversary!!  Dang!!  I hope I'm there that long.  (lol)  She likes pastel colors and Hello Kitty so thought this was a fun card for her.

Sorry about the picture, I took it at work prior to giving her the card.  I added some of my enamel flowers and found that cute HK with a paint brush in my stash.  Thought it looked like HK just finished painting that.  haha!  I used another Walter and Winnie sentiment with Versamark and wet embossed it.  Loved the pretty brush strokes.  Sorry no picture of the inside, I just printed a nice sentiment on some paper and adhered to the inside.

Definitely going to do this kind of cardmaking again.  They make great quick cards for any occasion. Thanks again Eva for all the inspiration!!

Okie dokes, have a great Saturday doing something fun and relaxing!  Thanks for stopping by!

Challenges: TGF FFF - Spring colors

Many thanks!

Hello!

Popping in for a quick post.  Hope you're all doing well.  Thought I'd share a CAS card I made.  I needed a thank you card and here's how it turned out.  

Almost kept it myself.  I absolutely love this patterned paper!!  I wish I had bought a few more sheets of it.  Also wish I had remembered where it's from.  I want to say BG, but it could be some other company.  The sentiment is part Walter & Winnie stamp and Taylored Expressions die.  The pink washi strip was cut using an MFT die and the flowers are all Prima.  Last touch was to add some pearls, just because.  So happy that the person I gave this to loved it.  Yay!

Well better hit the hay, the morning is going to come pretty quick.  Have a great TBT!  Thanks for stopping by!! 

Sending...

Mitsuyo & Crane

Happy Thanksgiving my friends!  

May it be blessed with good food, lots of laughs and happy memories to last a liftime!  

Big Hugs,

Leanne

Thank you Thursday

Hello!!

Hope you're all doing well.  It's been a while so thought I'd share some pics of my latest cards. Today should be a very short post. ^.^  My mom needed some "masculine" thank you cards, apparently all the Thank you cards I have are not manly enough!  hahaha!  Now not sure if these would be considered "manly" but she was happy with them.  Whew!  hahaha!

Quick and simple.  1 sheet of cardstock for the card bases, 1/2 sheet of cardstock for the mattes, two sheets of patterned paper (Kaiser Craft Seaside collection) and two laser cut sentiments make the perfect thank you cards for anyone even if the pattern is floral or in this case, Aloha print.  Thinking I definitely need to add more of these to my stash for future requests.  Best thing is they mail flat, so saves on postage.  :)

See done!  (hehe)  Mahalo for stopping by today!  Have a terrific Thursday!!  

Just a note ~ Wild Child Fox

Hey everybody!!

**I was blessed to see this project on the Wow'd Me Wednesday post at TGF!

I want to give a quick shout out and send a huge prayer to my ohana and friends on the BIG ISLAND & the other Hawaiian Islands as they await the hurricane/tropical storms.  Stay safe and stay strong!!

Today I have another calendar/card combo for another co-worker who's last day was Wednesday.  It's so sad to say good-bye but when the job isn't working for you then it's time to say adios!  When I first met Matt I thought to myself a real life anime character works here!  hehehe! BTW, in my book I think that's awesome!  So when I thought about what I would make I thought it would be fun to go with a fun image that wasn't necessarily an anime character but you would probably see at an anime convention.  While I was wracking my brain over this I just happened to be looking for a punch when I came across my untouched Wild Child stamp set from The Greeting Farm and a light bulb went off in my head!

I have always loved the Wild Sprouts and was sooo happy when this set hit the store!  I guess you could say I saved this one for a good reason.  Getting to this card, I picked fox colors and had fun coloring him up!  I pulled the colors for the rest of the card from the colored image.  The papers are from last years Recollections Haunted Manor Halloween stack, but I thought some of the papers could work for a non-Halloween project.  The card is a bit bigger than the normal A2 card because the image itself plus the calendar totally dominated the base.  Used the TH postage stamp die again.  Here's a couple close-ups...

Made this banner free-hand, and used the TH postage stamp die for the top part.  After distressing it a bit and gluing it down I punched two holes and looped in the mandarin & white twine.  The sentiment is from Paper Smooches...  Here's the inside, thought a simple thanks was in order for all the help Matt gave...

Yep, thanks to this card by Sister Stamps owner Kiki Sakamoto which enabled me to buy that Winnie & Walter sentiment stamp set.  It's actually pretty awesome!  I anticipate many uses with it.  Thanks Kiki!!

This was so much fun to make, can't wait to ink up the girly Wild Child next, hopefully not as a going away gift but for a happy occasion.   Until then, have a great day and to my Hawai'i peeps stay safe, will be praying for a safe passage for you folks!  Mahalo for stopping by!

Supplies:
WS Wild Child - The Greeting Farm
"Just a Note" sentiment - Paper Smooches
"Of Thanks" sentiment - Winnie & Walter
Kraft cardstock - Recollections
Polka dot and chevron patterned paper - Recollections Haunted Manor 4x6 stack
Striped patterned paper - Basic Grey
Tim Holtz postage stamp die - Sizzix
Calendar (2014-2015) - Taylored Expressions
Mandarin & White twine - The Twinery
Walnut Stain Distress ink - Tim Holtz for Ranger
Copics:

• Hoodie: YR14, E35, YR15, YR24, E000, N7
• Hair: N10, B45, B05
• Skin: E000, E21, E51
• Shirt: N7, N5, N1
• Pants: N7, B05
• Shoes: N5

A little Thanks

Hey!

Today I'm popping in for a fun and quick card I made after seeing this awesome card by card creator and owner of the Deconstructed Sketch, Jen Shults.  She made it as a just for fun card and that inspired me too.

This is a no coloring on this card which made putting it together pretty quick.  All the pieces on this card are mainly scraps that were on the table from other projects, all except the felt and the green & white polka dot paper.  Here are the supplies used:

• Kraft, black & white Neenah paper
• Yellow striped paper from WRMK Hip Hip Hooray 6x6 paper pad
• Lime green & white polka dot paper from AC Dots & Stripes
• Felt pack of 5 sheets yellow style from Daiso Japan
• Natural burlap twine from Taylored Expressions
• Buttons from stash
• Flower flourishes dies by Noor Design
• Leafy Branch die from TE
• Die-namics Pierced traditional tag Stax (4th from the middle) from MFT
• Polka dot embossing folder from Sizzix

I hope you're all having a great Saturday!!  Take care and Mahalo for stopping by!

Many Thanks Jason!

Hello!

Hope everyone is doing well.  Today I wanted to share a card I finished for one of my co-workers.  She asked me to make a card for one of our other associates, Jason, who has been instrumental in helping a good number of other associates stay fit.  He does it for the love of the sport, not to get paid.  He has been a big motivation and mentor for those individuals who want to get fit but also strong.  I was truly honored that she asked me to make this card for him, especially because someone else suggested they go and buy one from Wal-Mart.  (lol)  He's a really good guy and super nice.  He's always got a smile for you even though his job is very stressful.  I think he works out just to release that stress.  Hmmm... I should take a page out of his book and join them one day... (hahaha)

The group asked for something related to weight-lifting or fitness.  I went to the internet for inspiration and found some pretty funny images, but I wanted to keep it as clean and simple as possible.  I found a couple of really cool pictures on the internet and also a cool quote which to me tied all that he's done for them in one sentence.  So the front of my card was inspiration from the internet...

Fitness motivation tip:
"You can get in shape best and quickest by helping others achieve their fitness goals"
-Felicity Luckey

The card itself is a long one with a pocket in the back.  I'll get to that later.  I found this cool picture of some weights on a rack, it looks similar to what we have in our company gym.  I printed it out and loved that it was a black & white photo.  I found a cool quote online as well.  (Read caption below the above picture) I think its sorta cool that this looks like an old Polaroid picture.  I distressed up the sides with some black soot distress ink and a sponge.  Here's the inside of the card:

In appreciation for all you do to help us stay fit...
We acknowledge you

So I could have stopped here and asked them to sign inside, but I decided to add a pocket to the back and include some tags so if any of them wanted to write a special personal note of thanks or inspiration to Jason they could... So this is where I did a little bit of "crafty" work... (hahaha)

The striped and star paper are from Colorbok.  I used dies from MFT, Tim Holtz & Paper Smooches.  The tags were a bit too white for me so I distressed them up same as above.  Added a red ribbon with a staple and they all fit nicely in to the pocket.  I had a lot of fun putting this one together and my co-worker was blown away when she got it.  She was not expecting that.  Neither was I (hahaha) but I wanted to do something extra special for her and for Jason.

I really hope Jason likes it.  I guess I'll find out next week when they present it to him.  Well that's all from me today.  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you're all having a really great summer!

Many Thanks

Hello!

Popping in for a quick and fun card I made using a die, some scraps and a card base.

Used a retired Lawn Fawn sentiment die to create this fun and easy card.  As you can see I cut out several of the sentiment using white and red cardstock.  Glued them done somewhat strategically.  Here's the inside:

Alrighty, hope you're all having a great week!

Many thanks for stopping by today!

LFF #72

Happy Aloha Friday.
Before I get in to today's post I'd like you to help say a prayer for all the people suffering from the fires in California and another prayer for the safety of our firefighters and first responders.  It's devastating to see so many fires in so short a time.  Safety to our firefighters and others helping to contain and eventually put them out. Mahalo!

For today's Lilo's Fun Friday I have a pretty CAS Thank you card I made for one of our temps.  He was truly a temp with us, only with us for less than a few months.  We still see him around the office because he's now with another department.

This is Shin-Shin from Sister Stamps.  I paired him up with some Evening Poetry washi paper from Hanko Designs.  After coloring him up with Copics, I matted the image on to a small piece of navy cardstock and popped the image up with dimensional foam adhesive.  The sentiment is computer generated and I added it right next to the image.

Isn't that face too cute?!

Don't forget that Kitty Bee Designs is currently in the middle of our newest Aloha Friday challenge (Scraps), hope you're playing for a chance to win a cool prize from the Doodle Garden.  Click HERE for details. Have a great weekend!  Mahalo for stopping by!

^.^
~Lilo

Thank U! - LFF's #71

Hello and happy Aloha Friday!

Are you all ready for the weekend?  I'm always excited for the weekend. A time to sleep in and wear pjs all day. hahaha!  What you don't?

I've got a really bright and fun card to share for today's Lilo's Fun Friday #71 featuring the really adorable Frappi Anya from The Greeting Farm.

I know this is such a girly card yea?  I love how it turned out.  The banner is a new-to-me from La-La Land Crafts and I paired it with patterned paper from Colorbok. The rest of the card includes a Bo Bunny doily, an MFT tag with MME, Lime Twist, patterned paper, a bright pink ribbon, die cut Alphabet "U" and Frappi Anya. Here's a close-up of the banner and the "U", as you can see I used a white gel pen to write in Thank inside the banner. I'm actually diggin' the colors here.  (yes that is a shocker!)

This card already has a home and I hope the recipient enjoys it.  It was made just for her.

Time to sign off, hope you have a great Friday and a nice weekend.  Thanks a lot for stopping by!

^.^

Thanks a bunch! - KBD Spotlight post

Hello everyone!

It's the first Monday of May so that means it's DT spotlight time for me and today I have a Thank you card I made using the adorable Well Hello There Bunny from Kitty Bee Designs.  

If you've been by my blog you'll recognize that Easter egg paper in the background.  I had a small amount of it left so I decided to make a thank you card.  Pretty simple layout, layered a couple of doilies under the image and colored her up pretty quickly.  A simple computer generated sentiment and the card was done.  Easy peasy.  Hope I've inspired you to use up those scraps of left over paper to make a quick card and to make it cute you should definitely use a Kitty Bee Designs image.  Start shopping here.

Mahalo for stopping in! 

A heartfelt thank you

Hello!

Popping in to share a 4x4 card featuring another of the newest Girls day stamps from Sister Stamps, her name is Minako and you can read all about her here.

Consider this a heartfelt thank you card.  The washi paper was in a set of papers I bought years ago.  (Focusing on using what I have is what I had in mind, plus the papers just worked)  I used one of them for her obi and colored the rest of her with Copics. The sentiment is a die cut word from Island Scrapbooking and the sakura flowers were made with punches.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you all have a great day!

Leanne