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!

What's Up? Dog day afternoon...

Hello!

Wow, it's been a few days since I last posted!  Life has gotten a bit more busy and I've been less active in the creative realm.  I don't know if it's the weather or the long hours at work, but there seems to be no interest in creating when I get home, it's as if my mojo has gone on vacation.  Sigh!

I realized that I never posted about this project I made for one of my friends.  It's actually a watercolor/die cut scene/portrait...

Obviously some of my mojo was working here.  hahaha!  I started out with the blue backdrop using gelatos and water on some Canson water color paper.  I believe the cute dog flying over the city is Silver from Tiddly Inks Flying High clear stamp set.  My friend has a dog, who resembles Silver a bit so I tried to color him the same.  I used multiple dies from LLLC and MFT to create this scene.  I also used a word backgroud stamp from MFT for the buildings and the tree.  Love the effect, it kinda looks like I used a newspaper.

I need to put this in some kind of frame so for now it's with me until I finish it.  I did show it to my friend and she loved it.  Yay!!  Here's a look at the annual birthday card I made, another adorable image of Silver and I actually decorated the envelope!

The sentiments on the card are from Paper Smooches.  Oh and in the background some wispy clouds made with Distress Inks.  Maybe this will jump start my mojo?!  We shall see!  I might need to go-around to everyone's blogs too, so I'll be sure to hop on the ole' computer when I get home to do some hopping!  Well breaks over, I better get back to "work".  Take care and thanks for stopping by!

May Spotlight at Kitty Bee Designs

Hi everyone!

Happy Monday and happy 1st Monday of the month.  Today I'm sharing this birthday card, over at the Kitty Bee Designs blog.

May begins a month of birthdays for me, so trying to come up with something simple yet cute was my goal here.  I think I nailed it.  This cutie is Cupcake Surprise Pup and boy was I happily surprised to find him in the Etsy store.  He's available for purchase and while you're there why not pick up a few more cute images to go along with him?   Just sayin'... hahaha!

Make sure you stop on by to see and join our current challenge.  Have a great Monday & thanks so much for stopping by to see what project I have to share!!  Bye for now!

Have a delicious day!

Hello!

May is a busy birthday month for yours truly, I know at least 3 loved ones who celebrated theirs on the 1st alone, including my mama.  Here's another birthday card to add to my "done, but need to mail" list, featuring Bake me some Love Wryn from Tiddly Inks.

It's been so very long since I inked up a Wrynn, and seeing a sale at the TI store was too hard to resist.  hahaha!  I might have printed her out a bit too large for what I had in mind, but I think it worked out well.  I used some new dies: MFT dienamics blueprints 24 & MFT background grid stamp and rounding out the rest of the card are an embossed background, a doily, and the fun speech bubble with sentiment.  The colors are bright and fun and I think the person I have in mind for this card will enjoy it.  Alrighty, a few done but so more to go, better get to it!

Hope you're all having a nice Sunday!  Take care and thanks so much for stopping by today!

Challenge(s):
Tiddly Inks Challenge: So Sweet - woo hoo! Top 3 results

Happy Birthday Mom!

Good morning!

This is the birthday card I made for my mom who celebrated her "22nd" birthday yesterday!  hahaha!  I used the exclusive newsletter, Gift Mermaid Anya, from The Greeting Farm and some beautiful new dies I just received in my April La-La Land Crafts club kit!!   Also included are one of my favorite Sizzix embossed backgrounds and a laser cut sentiment from Island Scrapbooking.  I have to admit I had no idea what this would look like in the end, but I'm so happy with the outcome.  Lucky for me I already had the mermaid colored up and using a few Copic markers the flowers were done in no time.  Used Tumbled Glass DI for the backdrop.  Here are a few more pictures from last night...

Dinner at Ai's a Japanese restaurant my parents like to go to

The birthday cake with only 1 candle

yum tasty!

Tulips and a Mermaid

We also got her a mini iPad so now she can face-time with her sisters and friends.  All-in-all a wonderful day to celebrate a wonderful lady.  Okie dokes, sorry to cut this short but I have a lot to do today so I'll stop right here.  Thanks for stopping by, have a fabulous Saturday!!

Challenges:
TGF FFF: Flowers
Loves Rubberstamps: Use 2 dies

Tress

Morning!

Catching up on some projects I don't think I posted.  This is a card I made for a swap.  The theme was birthday...  I used Tress from the Greeting Farm.

Boy oh boy does she have a lot of hair!  I went with my usual dark brown with a lighter brown hair color and went a little bit girly here.  It's bright and summery, so not what it's like outside right now. (hahaha)

The pretty flowers on the card are from an older RAK from my crafty friend Karen, thanks Karen! You should definitely stop by her blog and check out the cutest scenes using dies, stamps and flowers that she creates with such ease.  The pearls are from my stash.

Next time I think I'll go a little lighter on the hair so you can see all the details.  That's all for today.  Have a good one and as always, thanks for stopping by!!

Hello Friend - Frappi Anya

Hello!

It's been one of those crazy weeks at work, so glad the week is almost over!  Lucky for me I got some really cute happy mail on Monday and couldn't wait to get home and start a new project.  The happy mail was from The Greeting Farm and inside was the newest and cutest stamp, little Miss Frappi Anya!  It's been so very long since I've seen anything so cute!! Love the whole design and although I don't drink coffee I do like frappacinos aka frappes and I know a lot of ladies who love frappes too.

What a wonderful collaboration come to life.  I can see myself using this little cutie for some other projects. I've already stamped and colored her two more times!  hahaha..  She's awesome.  So I made a card, and I have to say this is a layout I would never think to do before.  It doesn't really look too bad.  (I think... hahaha)

I had a bit of fun playing with some MFT dies and some pinking scissors.  No patterned paper here, just a red card, a background stamp and a happy go-lucky way of putting it all together.  (lol)  The sentiment is computer generated, yep I have a lot of those.  I've seen lots of ladies doodling around their images so I decided to give it a try.  As you can see I need lots more practice, but it's very cool to be able to do it and say, it was supposed to look like that.  (hahaha)  On the inside is another banner that says Happy Birthday.

Well that was fun!  Hope this made you smile if only because Frappi Anya is so darn cute!! I'm off to bed now, the work week is definitely NOT over!!  Have a lovely Thursday and I'll be back tomorrow with my newest Kitty Bee Design share for Aloha Friday challenge #22.  It's gonna be a fun one with a fabulous sponsor!  G'nite! 

Happy Birthday Eva!

Morning everyone!

Today Y&FH is celebrating a special lady's birthday. 

Happy Birthday Eva!! 

I used Yumi with Fan and well made her a fan!  Definitely something different.

Eva, thank you for all you do for Y&FH.  You inspire me everytime and I love how you make our stamps come to life with your projects.  You're also so very sweet and kind.  Wishing you a wonderful birthday and a fabulous day!!

Stop by Eva's blog and leave her a birthday message, then head on over to the Y&FH blog to see the pretty cards the DT and some friends created for her.

Don't forget you only have until Monday, 5pm to take advantage of our bundle pack for our newest stamp series, Peek-a-Boo.  Click here to shop.

Mahalo for stopping by!

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday.

Hugs,

Leanne

Happy Birthday Sandie!!

Hello!!

It's just a little after 8am in Ireland and today the Y&FH team and some special friends are sending birthday wishes to our friend and teammate, Sandie Dunne!  Head on over to the Y&FH blog to see which friends are sending birthday wishes to her.  I looked online for a special Irish birthday wish and found quite a few, but the one I liked most was this one:
  
There are good ships,
and there are wood ships,
The ships that sail the sea.
But the best ships, are friendships,
And may they always be.

Lá Breithe Shona dhuit!

My card features 4 Y&FH images from the Kimono series. Yumi Peace Sign, Fumi with Gift, Yumi with Fan, and Fumi with Umbrella.  I made them in to portraits for something fun.  I wish I could do flowers like Sandie is known for, or even stitching, but then it wouldn't be my card ya know?  So I hope she likes my simple card with a few flowers and some of her favorite colors (pink & teal).  The origami paper is from Hanko Designs and the letters were created using the C.C. Cutters Bubble Alphabet die.  I colored the letters using Copic B39 and added white dotted flowers with a white gel pen.  The pretty pink & white flowers are from Recollections.

Happy Birthday Sandie!!  Wishing you all the wonderful things you deserve and more.  Have a terrific day and Sláinte to many, many more!!!  Love ya!!!

If it's your birthday today, Happy Birthday to you and many many more!! 

Make sure to stop by the Y&FH blog to see the other ladies birthday wishes and projects just for Sandie (don't forget to leave them all some love) and then make sure to stop by Sandie's blog and give her some birthday love too.

Mahalo for stopping by!!
Hugs,
Leanne