Y&FH CH #27 - Color Challenge (Reminder)

Hello!!

Today I am happy to be participating again with Team Fumi as we share our inspirations for our current challenge at Yumi & Fumi Handmade.  Here's a reminder:

CHALLENGE #27 - COLOR COMBO

Purple, green, orange & black

Create a project using the above colors. 

So a few days ago I shared a card I made using those colors but did not make a Halloween themed project.  Instead I made a holiday themed card.  (For more details click HERE.)  For today I do have something Halloween themed, a big tag featuring Fumi Panda.

Trick or Treat with Fumi Panda

Ta-da! (hahaha)  I had so much fun with this one.  I used some old K&Company Halloween themed paper as well as some new DCWV papers.  The antique doily is a QuicKutz die from Lifestyle Crafts.  OMG I had to shim that puppy a few times in order for all the pieces to pop out!!  But it was worth it, it's a really pretty die.  The flowers are Sizzix by Tim Holtz and I've been wanting to use it for the longest time!  Kept it simple by using some scrap Halloween papers.  You can't tell but that green flower has embossed skulls on them.  (hahaha)  Kept the sentiment simple by using a CC Designs AmyR stamp.  Stamped it with Distress embossing ink and used white embossing powder to make it pop.  I added a black velvet ribbon on top and lastly my colored Fumi Panda image.  Oh and I distress inked all the way around the tag and some of the flowers with Vintage Photo Distress ink. 

Fumi Panda

Well I hope I was able to share some fun inspiration for our current challenge.  Now remember you don't have to go all Halloween on us, you can totally use the same colors for a different theme.  I'm serious it's super easy.  Don't believe me?  Well head on over to the Yumi & Fumi blog to see the rest of today's shares by the always amazingly talented Team Fumi.  As always, Mahalo for stopping by!!  Wishing you all a fabulous Sunday!

Hugs,
Leanne

Holiday Cheer

Morning!

Today's card could be considered an alternate version to the current challenge over at Yumi & Fumi Handmade.  We want you to use the following colors in your project:

CH #27 - Color combo: 

Orange, Purple, Green & Black

Now many of you might interpret that to mean Halloween colors and you could be correct, but how about something non-Halloween?  Stop by the Y&FH blog post and see some of the Halloween and non-Halloween projects created by our very talented Team Yumi.  I was inspired to try out the non-Halloween version and came up with this card featuring Yeti Fumi without her Christmas lights...

Holiday Cheer with Yeti Fumi

I used two old Bo Bunny sheets of Christmas patterned paper for my project and matted them all to black Neenah cardstock.  I know there is a lot of blue visible, but that was the only paper I had that also included purple, green and black on it.  The touches of orange are Fumi's hair, the rose, the four marble half circles and the tulle ribbon.  Had fun adding a different non-traditional Christmas color to my card to fit the challenge theme.  The sentiment are dies from Paper Smooches which I love!  Used a Noor set of flower dies to create the giant one on the right side of the card and then layered some other flowers from Petaloo.  Here's a close up...

Floral arrangement includes Noor dies, Recollection rose and Petaloo flowers

Trying my hand at some floral arrangements, and I think I did ok... Needs more practice, but I'm satisfied with the end result. :)  I hope I was able to give you another idea on how to use those colors for our current challenge in case you wanted to do something other than Halloween.  Again for more inspiration head on over to the Y&FH blog post HERE and once you've finished creating your project link up with us.  Did you hear our news yet?  You can now add your Yumi & Fumi Handmade projects to our company gallery over at Split Coast Stampers!  Yes, we've finally gotten our act together and now have a company gallery there.  Our DT have been busy uploading their projects and we hope you will too.  Use keyword: yumifumi (no spaces) when uploading.

Freckle-faced Yeti Fumi

Thanks for stopping by today.  It was fun sharing this card featuring non-traditional Christmas colors and the adorable Yeti Fumi.  Have a wonderful day!!

Hugs,
Leanne

Yumi & Fumi Handmade - CH #24 Reminder

Good morning everyone!!

It's been a while, but today I am jumping in with Team Fumi as we send out a reminder to you about our current challenge...

CHALLENGE #24

CHRISTMAS IN SEPTEMBER?

MAKE A CHRISTMAS TAG

Stop by the Y&FH blog today to see the beautiful projects from Team Fumi and last week's beautiful projects created by Team Yumi.  You have until Friday at noon to link up your Christmas tag and we're excited to see it.  This also gives you a chance to start on some Christmas projects.  Our challenge is just a tag, and we all know that tags can make the bag or gift extra special.  I for one was happy to start on my Christmas tags, especially because I am the worst procrastinator!!  Who else is a procrastinator?  Come on I know I'm not the only one!  hahaha!  Well you think about and let me know I'd really dislike being the only one up at 2am making tags or Christmas cards days before the big event.  (haha)

Here's my tag featuring an image that I have not seen anyone use yet... Hope you like... Say "hello" to Winter Fumi.  ^.^ 

Winter Fumi Christmas tag

I tried a new photo program and the white splotches are part of the border.  Doesn't it look like someone threw snow?  (lol)  Next time I won't blur out the picture so much, you can't see any of the details at the bottom.  Now in my opinion this little gal doesn't get a lot of ink time so I thought she deserved some love and here she is.  After coloring her up with Copics, I decided to go super CAS with the tag and also a bit non-traditional.  I used a Merry Christmas embossing folder on the craft cardstock and adhered it to a plain white cardstock.  Next I used a corner punch to make it look more like a tag.  Added some silver braided ribbon to the top of the craft cardstock to hide the border.  Next up I added some silver holly and instead of adding berries I chose that pretty Prima flower.  I added the same silver braided ribbon to the bottom of the tag and another holly leaf under her left foot.  To round it out I added three blue gems on the bottom left corner.

Well that's all I have for today.  It's good to be back at the coloring and creating even if it's for something as small as a tag.  I can't wait to make something else.  For now I hope you'll join us for this challenge.  We've got a lot of new rules that make it a lot easier for you to join.  To see the new updates head to the Yumi & Fumi Handmade page and view the CHALLENGE INFO tab.

And if you're wondering if you can make a card, well the answer is yes, but to qualify you have to have a tag somewhere on your card.  Hope that make it a lot easier to play.  Several of our team incorporated tags in to their Christmas themed cards and boy are they adorable!  Stop by the blog and check them out.   Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I appreciate it!

Have a wonderful and crafty fun Sunday!
Hugs,
Leanne

Challenges I'm entering:
Crafty Ribbons: CH #62 Anything goes with ribbon
OneCrazyStamper.com: September Christmas challenge
Melonheadz Friends: Tag It 
Designed to Color: Anything Goes

Y&FH Challenge #19 - Color Challenge

Today we're starting a new bi-weekly challenge and it should be another fun and easy one.

CHALLENGE #19 - COLOR CHALLENGE:

RED, WHITE, BLUE & KRAFT
Create a CARD using a the colors red, white blue & kraft.
June 23 - July 5
Ends: Noon (pst)

It's a color challenge and the colors are ones that shouldn't give you any trouble.  Create a card using red, white, blue & kraft in your color scheme.  With the American holiday of July 4th aka Fourth of July coming up real soon I'm sure it will be super easy for you to come up with something.  It can be any shade of the colors listed as long as they are all accounted for and on your project.  Make sure that you stop by the Y&FH blog for all the details as well as Rosie's blog to see her awesome project. 

Before I share my card I'd like to remind everyone about our rules.  They are super simple and easy to follow.  Before you decide to link up I highly suggest you click on the challenge info tab located at the top of the Y&FH blog page.  After you read the rules you'll know whether your card qualifies or not.  Unfortuantely if it DOES NOT it will be removed from Inlinkz. 

The winner will receive a $15 gift certificate and our Top 3 will receive a 10% discount code to be used in the Yumi & Fumi online store.

I've got a card that is not necessarily for the July 4th holiday, but more of a general card that can be used for anything.  I actually made this for my cousin who hasn't been feeling well, I hope with the image on the front of the card (the real life Chuckles is her nephew) will put a smile on her face and make her feel tons better... 

Created by Leanne featuring Chuckles with Gecko:

CAS is my name now-a-days and it seems like so is red! hahaha...  Actually I am really loving that I've been using colors other than, white, black or dark brown as a card base.  The blues on the card aren't so dark but they do give off a really nice hue.  I used another embossing folder and yes the ink on the inside of the folder technique.  Made a window at the top with several layers and on top the image of Chuckles w his little gecko friend.   Towards the bottom I stamped the sentiment and then used red embossing powder to heat set it.  Nice and shiney!  The little bit of white doodling on the bottom sorta breaks up the panel.  I really didn't want to do too much more to it.

Hope you get a chance to play with us this week.  Remember the winner will receive a gift certificate for $15 and the top 3 will get a 10% discount on their shopping cart to the Y&FH online store.



Mahalo for stopping by today.  I really appreciate all the wonderful comments and suggestions/requests for some tutorials.  I will try my best to get something up for the ones I have received and hope to get them up real soon.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday and hope you get some time in to craft.  Bye!

Hugs,

Leanne

Supplies:

Cardstock: Neenah

Stamps: Chuckles with Gecko (Y&FH), sentiment (Hampton Art)

Rectangle and distress rectangle dies (Spellbinders)

Primrose embossing folder (MPress)

Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko), Distress ink Broken China (Ranger), Scarlet pigment ink(Color Box)

Red embossing powder (Michaels)

White Jelly roll gel pen (Sakura)

Copics: E50, E51, E21, E31, E30, E49, E37, R08, B97, B91, BG000

:)

Y&FH CH 18 ~ A time to celebrate!

Hello!

Hope everyone is doing well.  So who's an NBA basketball fan?  Are you enjoying the battle between two great basketball teams?  I am!  Tonight is game 7 and it should be as awesome as the whole series has been.  Talk about stepping up and falling short!  I'm not a fan of either team, but I'm rooting for one and hopefully they'll pull it out.  Either way it's been fun to watch the drama unfold.

I'm back today to share a reminder that tomorrow is the last day to link up to the Yumi & Fumi Handmade challenge happening right now.  Here's a reminder of the details:

Challenge #18 - Time to Celebrate

Create a celebratory card for any occasion. 

Today I'm sharing my card featuring Fumi with Turtle from the Peek-a-Book Spring series.  You can purchase her in our online store along with any of our stamp series.  (We also carry the Sister Stamps line and we have all the new stamps in the store.)

I had a little bit of fun with some cute bright papers, the color red and a CAS layout. 

 

When making this card I was going for something that could be used for almost any celebration.  I used red as my base color and chose papers that had a touch of red and a little bit of other colors.  The paper was key to this one.  Fun colorful banners and hearts paired up with the colorful polka dots really helped here.  By using the bright fun cardstock, sentiment banner and the word "celebrate" helped to achieve my goal.  It doesn't hurt to have an adorable image either. :)

Don't forget the challenge ends tomorrow at noon, pst.  The winner will receive a $15 gift certificate and the Top 3 will receive a 10% discount on their shopping cart to our online store.  Either would come in handy since we've got some new stamps in.

If you're unsure if your card qualifies just click on the tab at the top labeled Challenge Info on the Y&FH page and you can verify it.  We would rather you be sure before linking up instead of sad that your card had to be deleted because it doesn't follow our rules.

 

Mahalo for stopping by today.

 

I hope I was able to inspire you with something fun. 

 

Have a great day!!

~ Leanne

 

Supplies list:

Stamps: Fumi with Turtle (Y&FH), sentiments (Paper Smooches)

Ink: Tuxedo black Memento (Tsukineko), Frost white (Colorbox); Detail white embossing powder

Gem: Recollections

Cardstock: Neenah, Copic Xpress-It

Patterned paper: American Crafts

Dies: Scalloped circle & regular circle (Spellbinders); banner tag dies (C.C. Designs)

Circle punch: Marvy Uchida

Copics: E50, E51, E21, R20, E49, E44, E77, E71, G21, YR24, E31, YR68, Y18, R46, B91, BG000

White & Red gel pen

:)

Y&FH CH #17 ~ All About Dad

Good morning!

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend so far. :)

Today starts a brand new bi-weekly challenge at Yumi & Fumi Handmade.  With Father's Day just around the corner we thought it would be nice to get ahead and create some cards for our wonderful dads.  Challenge #17 is All About Dad.  Stop by the Y&FH blog to see all the details and then stop over to Rosemary's blog to see her adorable card.

Do you recognize him?  If you look a little closer you'll see it's Bob the Yeti with a geeky twist!  I thought it would be super fun to use him for my ode to dad card, but I didn't want him to be his normal cool self, I wanted him to look more like a father figure.  Yetis can be fathers to ya know.  (hehe)  I had this idea in my head to geek him up a bit.  So I pulled out my Guys Dies from ATS and used all three of the fun dies to transform Bob into this handsome geeky Yeti.

After inking up the stamp I tried to wipe away all the strings of light bulbs that come with him.  There were a few that I missed, but it was still manageable.  I know Yeti's aren't brown, but for this time around he is.  :)  The tricky part of his alteration was adding the geeky glasses.  I really wanted them to pop up but the lines are so skinny it was impossible to pop them up, so what did I do?  I used the mustache to do that.

Die-cut the mustache 3 times and colored them up to blend with Bob's color.  I then layered one on top of the other using pop dots and decided 2 would work instead of all 3.

After adjusting where I wanted the mustache and geeky glasses to lay on Bob's face I glued down the mustache first with glue and then adding a little bit of glue to the bottom of the geeky glasses glued them to the top of the mustache.  Once I was happy where they would end up I trimmed the handles on the glasses to fit his face. Hehe, kinda reminds me a little of Groucho Marx with the handlebar mustache and geeky glasses. ^.^

I chose patterned papers from MME, Six by Six My Favorite Things because there is a particular patterned paper in the pad that I wanted to use.  Here are some close-ups, you'll probably guess which paper I was talking about...

  

If you guesed the mustache paper you are correct!  hahaha!  I really love all the patterns in this paper pad and wish I had more of it.  Will have to be very selective on when I use them for future projects.  For the finishing touches I added a Recollections wood veneer speech bubble that say's "Thank you so much" and at the bottom I used a sentiment from All About Dad sentiments from AmyR.

Oopsie, a little bit of a smudge, but turned out pretty cool with the white on navy.  Isn't that an awesome sentiment?  Si!  Okie dokes, it's now your turn.  Get to creating for Father's Day but before you link up with us please make sure that you follow our guidelines/rules.  If your project does not qualify your link will be deleted automatically.  Sorry but we have to be firm about our rules.  Good luck!

As Bob and I sign off we'd like to say, Thank you so much for stopping by!!  Enjoy the rest of your weekend!! 

Hugs,
Leanne
Challenge: All That Scraps - Anything Goes

Y&FH Ch #16 ABC

Hello and Happy Mother's Day!

Wishing all the mom's out their a fabulous day!

Today starts a new challenge at Yumi and Fumi Handmade.  For the next two weeks we'd like you to create Anything But a Card.  Rosie created the cutest 4x4 pizza box and shared it on our blog.  Stop by to see the details or you can hop on over to her blog and don't forget to leave her some love! :)

For my project I decided to case this awesome 2-drawer box that my friend Kathy created for me.  It was the perfect idea for this challenge.  Here it is...

I used Fumi with Gift.  The paper is from MME Blush (Love this paper pad!) and the box is made with kraft cardstock. The butterflies are punched courstesy of Martha Stewart punches.  The heart banner is from La-La Land Crafts and the bottom banner is a Spellbinder die.   I used a white gel pen to write all the sentiments.  This one is going to my mom.

Hope you'll join us for this awesome challenge.  The winner will receive a $15 gift certificate to our online store and our top 3 will receive a 10% coupon code to shop in our online store as well.  This challenge ends on Friday, 5/24, noon, pst.

Mahalo for stopping by today.  Have a wonderful day and to all the Mother's and mother figures, thank you for all you do!!

Hugs,
Leanne

Challenges:
Flutter By Wednesday #239 - Open Challenge Use a fairy or butterfly
Card Makin' Mamas - Punches
Scribbles Design Challenge - Shaped or Easel cards (Thanks Cely!!)

Y&FH Challenge #15 reminder

Hello!

Today I have a card to share that coincides with the current challenge at Yumi & Fumi Handmade, Shaped card for Mother's Day. Stop by Sandie's blog to see her gorgeous card and if you haven't already done so link your shaped cards for Mother's day HERE.  You have until tomorrow at noon, pst to enter.  The prize is a $15 gift certificate to the Y&FH online store!   For this challenge we'd like you to create something other than the normal A2 card.  There are so many fun shaped die cuts out there.  Shoots you could use your Cricut, or other die cutting machine or go total old school and trace something and freehand cut it out!  The possibilities are endless.  Try something new and fun who knows you might become addicted.  lol!  

My scalloped circle card features the cute Fumi with Messenger bag from Yumi & Fumi Handmade. 

The bright colors were chosen by that patterned paper by BG.  I believe I only have a small amount of it left.  Really love that pattern, doesn't need anything more. lol.. Broke it up with that black circular frame and adhered the rest to a mustard yellow, polka dot embossed cardstock from Bazzil.  The sentiment is my current favorite from AmyR.  I colored Fumi with Copics and have never tried that color combo, but I actually like it.  Here's what the inside of the card looks like...

Yep, it's a scalloped circle easel card!  It's funny, when I tried to remember how to make one of these my memory drew a blank!  Ai-ya!  So I jumped over to SCS and there was a tutorial by the always resourceful Beate.  As soon as I saw the first couple of steps everything started coming back to me. lol.  I decided to go super simple with the bottom part as well.  Trimmed a strip of black cardstock and embossed it with a Swiss dot folder.  The Hero Arts sentiment was stamped on the same patterned paper and die cut with a SU punch.  I also punched out a black circle with another SU punch and glued the sentiment to it.  It's popped up on the black strip to serve as a stopper.
 

Alrighty hope you'll come and join us, you have until tomorrow @ NOON (PST) to link up.  If you don't have a Yumi & Fumi Handmade stamp yet feel free to use any image from our friends at Sister Stamps, La-La Land Crafts, The Greeting Farm and newly added Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps.  Mahalo for stopping by today.  Have a terrific day!

xx
Leanne

Y&FH Challenge #15 ~ Shaped card for Mother's Day

Morning!!

Happy Sunday friends!

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend.  Today starts a new challenge at Yumi & Fumi Handmade. The challenge is to create a shaped card other than one that you would normally make and to give it a theme we want you to create something that you would give for Mother's Day.   Today Rosie & I are starting off the show and we both hope you get inspired.  Stop by the blog to see all the challenge rules, details and then head on over to Rosie's blog to leave her some love.  Her card is adorable!!

Normally I love to make shaped cards but sometimes it's just easier to make that normal shaped card right?  That's why I'm so glad we're doing this challenge because now I have to make a different shaped card which means breaking out my Spellbinders.  Woo Hoo!!  I have a couple new ones that I have been wanting to use.  Sweet!  Here's my card using the largest of the Floral Ovals as the card base with the rest of the card layered with regular ovals and one of the banner dies from Spellbinders.   The image I used is one of my favorites, Fumi with Bear Backpack...


This card reminds me of one of those fancy frames or a cameo brooch.  Love the ornateness (is that a word?) of the card base and the layered ovals on top bring the card together nicely.  The dp is from MME, Miss Caroline.  I used Copics and Distress inks (Dusty Concord & Stormy Sky) for the main image as well as to stamp the sentiment.  Decided to do something simple on the inside for fun...

Stamped Fumi with Bear Backpack with the Distress inks, then I stamped over her with the two sentiments from AmyR (All About Mom sentiments).  I can't wait to make more shaped cards and hope you can join us too.  Stop by next week to see the rest of the DT's inspirations and hope you'll all play along. 

**The winner will receive a $15 gift certificate to our online store.

Before I forget, we will be wrapping up our last two Spread the Love events this week.  The first is our Week #4 Giveaway on Facebook, stop by the blog tomorrow to check out the link and the prize. The second is our Anything Goes with Yumi & Fumi blog challenge.  Both end on Friday, May 3rd.

Thank you for stopping by and commenting.  It truly makes me smile.  Have a fantastic Sunday everyone!  Take care!!

xx

Leanne

Y&FH Challenge #14 Reminder

Good morning!

Today Sandie & I are sharing our multiple folds cards on the Yumi & Fumi Handmade blog as a reminder and inspiration that Challenge #14 ends tomorrow.  You still have some time; the challenge ends at noon on Friday.   Link up HERE.  The prize up for grabs is different then our normal prize.  We're offering up a $15 gift certificate to our store, so you can now shop for the stamp you want.  We hope that entices you to play.  :)  Stop by Sandie's blog and see all the details on her card.  If you didn't get a chance to see Eva's or Kim's beautiful cards on Sunday or Rosie's card click on their names and you'll jump straight to their blogs.  Talk about wonderful multiple card folds!  This team really knows how to bring it! And it's just a coincidence that most of us used the same image to play with.  :)

Here's my card featuring Yumi with Birdie...

Can you tell I'm stuck in the outdoors?  (LOL)  Well who knows how much longer this will be, but for now I'm having fun with it.  I used Distress Ink (pads) to create the clouds and the ground below the grass.  The rest is colored with Copic markers.  Created the window with Spellbinders and attached them to a doily.  For the cardbase I chose a 5x5 card and was supposed to score the front exactly in the middle, but as you can see I was slightly off!  Eh, no matter, I worked with it and it turned out pretty cool.  The dp is Doodlebug and see that gorgeous ribbon?  It's from May Arts!  I loves it!  Went perfectly with the paper.  The sentiment is from Paper Smooches.  Okay now time for the reveal...  This is what it looks like when you open the card...

Ta-da!!!  I mimicked the front of the card inside using the smaller SB stencils.  The blue birdie on the inside is a stamp from Stamps by Judith.  The sentiment is also from Paper Smooches. 

Alrighty don't forget there are a couple other events going on, stop by the Y&FH blog to see them all.   Again, thank you so much for stopping by.  I'm slowly making my way around, knowing that when I do I'll find tons of beautiful cards and inspiration.  I really need that for my mojo.  Have a wonderful day!
xxx
Leanne

Y&FH Challenge #14 - Multiple Folds

Hello my friends,
As I write this post my heart feels a little heavy for the tragedy that happened at the Boston Marathon today.  Keep those families and their loved ones in your thoughts and prayers.

Sunday we started a new challenge at Yumi & Fumi Handmade.  For the next two weeks we'd like to see Multiple folds in your card.  There are a lot of different variations to choose from.  Stop by the blog to see Rosie's cute spring-like gatefold card featuring Yumi with Birdie.  It reminds me that Spring is trying it's best to push through.

I had so many issues with this one.  Of course I couldn't try to do something simple, had to try something different!  I did pick my image and they were pretty fast to color.  Then I had to figure out what folds I wanted to do.  Well here's what I ended up with.  Not one I'd try again, but for this one time...  Here it is featuring Fumi with Turtle...

 

Now I know looking at it straight on you can't see any folds.  Just a triangle on the bottom right?  Well here's the side view of the card...

The folds are the triangles!  {LOL}  It's all part of the dark brown cardstock.  (Yea, told ya! LOL!)  I added the sunflower paper to add something over it.  Unfortunately what I tried to do just didn't work out on paper as it did in my head! LOL!  I'm going to give this another try and see if maybe I can come up with something different.  I think the only thing going for it is the image.  =D

Hope you can play along with us.  We're still holding out on the prize, but once we decide we'll let you know.   Speaking of prizes, have you seen our Spread the Love event?  We're in our 2nd week of events and some fun stuff up for grabs.  Stop by the Y&FH blog to see the details.  I have a cute badge at the top of my blog on the right side bar.  Feel free to click on it to go directly to the post.  And then please feel free to help us Spread the Love by sharing the badge on your blog.  We're happy to announce that the GIVEAWAY for Week #2 is up on our Facebook page.  There is a link HERE, where you can enter.

Have a great evening!  Will hopefully be back to blogging and posting now that my big project is done.  Will get to share pictures of that soon.  Mahalo for sticking around with me if you're still here. I'm truly grateful!

Hugs,
Leanne
 

Y&FH Challenge #13

Happy Easter Sunday my friends! 
Hoping you all have a wonderful day with your family and if that also includes spending time with friends too that sounds wonderful.  I'm planning to head to Hollywood & Highland today to go watch Oz with a bunch of friends.  Should be fun, hope the movie is good.  So far I've heard good things, so I'm very optimistic. 

Today also starts a new challenge over at Yumi & Fumi Handmade.  Rosemary and I are sharing our projects on the blog so make sure you hop on over there after you finish here.  For the next two weeks we would like you to case this beautiful project created by our friend and DT mate, Eva.

 

 

Isn't it gorgeous?  She used Fumi with Gift from the Kimono series.  This easel card/memo holder is totally awesome.  Now to play all you have to do is case Eva's project.  Create just the card or go all out and make an easel/memo holder, be creative and have fun.  I hadn't made an easel card/memo holder in ages so I thought I'd give it a go.  I had a lot of trouble at first, but it all came together in the end.  As long as you don't see the back it's all good.  {lol}

 

 

I inked up the adorable Yumi with Bookbag for this project.  She's been quite neglected so I wanted to make sure she got some attention.  The paper I used is from Basic Grey and it's matted on to two different colored cardstock by Bazzil.  I found those cool Scrabble looking pieces at Joann's in the clearance section. The flowers under Yumi's feet is actually a long sticker from Martha Stewart Crafts.  Actually fit in nicely on the bottom.  Added some black butterflies punched out with my Martha Stewart punch and last is the Hello Kitty post it.  How about a peek at the prize package?

 

 

All this could be yours, all you have to do is link up your project and you're in the drawing.  Don't forget, if you use a Yumi & Fumi Handmade image on your project you get two chances to win.  Challenge ends on Friday, April 12, noon pst.  Looking forward to seeing what you create. 

 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by.  If you have some time in the next two weeks to join the challenge that would be super!  Happy Easter Sunday everyone!!

 

Hugs,

Leanne

Y&FH Challenge #12 Reminder

Hello!!!

Wow it's been so long since I've been here!!  How's everyone doing?  As you can tell my mojo has been hibernating and it's been hard to get crafty lately.  Hoping with the forecast which calls for sunny and bright, that things will pick up.  I have been working on something for my cousin which has my attention and we're planning some fun/cool things at Yumi and Fumi Handmade.  More details soon. (wink, wink)

But today I have a card!  Yay!!  It corresponds with the current challenge at Yumi and Fumi Handmade.  The theme is Springtime and for the past week the rest of the team has shared their beautiful spring creations.  I just love this team!  Today Sandie & I are sharing our springtime cards.  Stop by the Yumi & Fumi Handmade blog for details and then hop on over to Sandie's blog to see the details of her beautiful card.  She's got the greenest thumb I've ever seen!  Wish I had me one of those.  LOL!! 

Fumi with Bear Backpack

Here's Fumi with Bear Backpack on my CAS, with no patterned paper themed card!  Yep I said no patterned paper.  {LOL}  I know there are sooo many pretty papers that I could have used, but I wanted to show off three of my newest purchases.  The first is the floral embossing folder from Crafter's Companion which I got at CHA, the second is the Circle Picot Spellbinder (that I have been wanting for like EVER) and the last is the new Evergreen Distress ink I used to create the soft affect inside the circle.  (I bought it after watching Tim Holtz demo it at the last Carson Rubber Stamp Show).  Did you know that there are not going to be anymore limited edition Distress Inks?  I heard it straight from him.  That means they will all be available all year long!  Yep if Tim says it, it's the TRUTH!  (LOL) 

Anyhoos, getting back to my card...

I used two shimmery blue and green pieces of cardstock from Bazzil and matted them together first, then ran them through the embossing folder with my trusty Cuttlebug.  The embossing folder is 6x6 and it fits perfectly through the Cuttlebug.  The impression is gorgeous and unfortunately I hid a lot of the details, but I think you can still see it and appreciate it.  I used a lighter orange Bazzil cardstock called Spoiled Brat (I kid you NOT!) to cut out the biggest Picot circle and then added my slightly distressed image on top.  It looked a bit too plain for a springtime card so I grabbed my sorely neglected flower and sun punches and made some daisies or plumerias (depending on how you look at them) and scattered them around.  One of them happened to land in Fumi's hair and I thought wow looks perfect!

Ok, time to share the prize up for grabs:

You've got until Friday, March 29th, (noon pst) to link up your card/project using Inlinks.  We'll announce the winner on Saturday.  Click HERE to see all the details and to link up your card.  **Remember to follow the challenge rules or else you will not be considered for the prize.  Looking forward to seeing more creations flood our site. 

Well friends, thanks so much for stopping by today.  I'm slowly getting around to visiting your blogs, but boy do I have a lot of catching up to do.  Please don't be too upset if I can't get to all of them. 

Take care!!

Hugs,

Leanne

AJ the Lion

Hello!

I've got a card to share and it coincides with the current Yumi and Fumi Handmade challenge.  Click HERE and you will be directly linked to the challenge and all the details.  Hope you can come and play.  The challenge ends on Friday, March 15th at noon, pst.   The prize is amazing and I'll share it later in my post.

For today I have a CAS card featuring AJ the Lion from the Kigurumi series.

I need more boy cards with a birthday theme and he definitely qualifies.  Instead of using the sketch the way it was intended I decided to turn it on it's side.  All the elements are still there and that's how I interpreted the sketch this time.  The colors are nice and fresh in my opinion.  The patterned paper is from MME, and the rest is from Neenah and Recollections.  The sentiment is from Paper Smooches.  I had fun adding googly eyes to the lion suit, and lastly I added that paper star.  How about a reminder on what the prize up for grabs is:

I have to say this prize package is jam-packed with lots of fun goodies including Fumi with Bear Backpack.

Hope to see more of you playing in this fun sketch challenge.  Until next time, thanks for stopping in!!  Have a terrific day!!

Hugs,
Leanne

Yippie!!

Hello!

Poppin' in a little bit late to remind everyone that you only have a day left to play in the current challenge at Yumi & Fumi Handmade.  So far we have some really lovely entries and everyone has done such a wonderful job caseing Sandie's original card.   If you stop by the Y&FH blog you'll see that Sandie is sharing her own case'd card today.  She did a fabulous job too.  I'm sharing my CAS card today as well.  I'm actually liking this card.  Reminds me that Spring is almost here.


Fumi with Messenger Bag

The bright paper is from American Crafts which I found at Target!!  Score!!  The rest of the card came together pretty quickly. 

The challenge ends at noon on Friday, March 1st.  Hope you get a chance to play!  Ok time for me to go to bed, have a terrific Thursday everyone and Mahalo for stopping by today!!
Hugs,
Leanne

Y&FH Challenge #10

Good morning!!

Today starts a new challenge over at Yumi & Fumi Handmade.  Throughout the year we are going to case a card created by our DT.  Today we are case'ing one of Sandie's beautiful cards! 

Created by Sandie Dunne using Yumi with Fan

For all the details please pop on over to the blog.  While you are there be sure to check out Rosie's and Denice's takes on Sandie's card they both did a wonderful job.  Now Sandie is known for her beautiful layouts and floral arrangements.  I've tried in the past and I've come to realize that I do not have a green thumb!  Either in the outdoors or on paper.  hahaha!!  But I'm going to give it a go for my card.  Please be gentle...

Tada!  Not too bad right?  I used Fumi with Umbrella and kept the case as close to Sandie's card as much as possible.  I tried and think it turned out pretty good.  As you can see I just bunched the flowers together, no rhyme or reason.    I don't have the gorgeous Prima flowers that she used, but I do have flowers that worked out really well. 

The papers, except for the white cardstock, are all from Hanko Designs including the rusty red colored cardstock base.  The sentiment is from AmyR So Wordy Sentiments and it's stamped on one of the banner tags from C.C. Designs.  The Twinery twine is from ATS and the crochet ribbon was from The Ribbon Carousel.  The butterfly was punched using one of my favorite Martha Stewart punches.

Hope you can come and play with us this time around.  The challenge ends on Friday March 1st so you'll have plenty of time to choose an image and get crafty.  Have a fantastic Sunday and Mahalo for taking time out of your day to stop by.

Hugs,
Leanne