LFF #37 - A Hello Kitty card

Happy Friday everyone!!

Can you believe today is the last day of August?  Whew, time is flying by too fast!!  Hope you all have been well and have you all seen all the cool new releases from Sister Stamps & The Greeting Farm?  Whoa, so many cute new stamps! hehehe..

Today I wanted to share a card I made for my co-worker's niece.  Her birthday is tomorrow.  He told me she likes Hello Kitty so I made this cute little card with a HK stamp I've never inked up before.  So glad I bought these from Pineapple Cove when I did.  Although its my first time inking one up I'm glad I have them to go to in times like these.  Cause let's face it, HK is very popular and these stamps are so small it takes about three swipes of a marker to color! hahaha! Love it!

I just now realize that the colors here don't really mesh, but IRL they look perfect! hahaha!!  I'm using the same die I used in my previous card but instead of going really big I went with the smaller layers.  The banner sentiment is an AmyR one that is one of my go-tos, have I mentioned I love her stamps? hehee..

Now that I look at the sentiments, maybe I should have used this one on the outside! hahaha!!  Oy vay, sister needs some sleep! hehehe..

Okie dokie, have a great long weekend and don't forget tomorrow is the last day to take part in the 1st Yumi & Fumi Handmade Challenge.

Mahalo for stopping by!
Hugs,
Lilo

Happy Birthday Lauren!

Hello!!

As you know it was my friend's daughter's birthday on Friday.  We celebrated by going to Disneyland where she had a terrific time.  Sunday was her actual party and that morning she was baptized.  It was truly a full weekend of celebrations for her and she was as energetic and happy as if it was second nature for her to be on the go.  I made another birthday card for her to go along with the present and also tried to make it a lot more special.  I picked one of the adorable Beans from The Greeting Farm, Glimmer Bean and made a floral shaped card.  I think this little girl looks a lot like Lauren so I was happy to use her.

Please excuse the quality of the picture.  I forgot to take one before giving it to the birthday girl, luckily I was able to take one afterwards when I visited them yesterday.  Lauren's colors are green & pink so I had to find the perfect shades to work with.  I had some long forgotten paper pads that helped and used some embossing folders and a nesting flower die to create this fun card.  The sentiment is from AmyR and the "1" was cut using a Cuttlebug die.  Lots of dots and polka dots.  The dp in the center is from a Heidi Grace paper pad and I love that it matched my theme.  Isn't Glimmer Bean adorable?!  I trimmed her out this time, but she normally has a lot of cute curly cues and fun stuff around her.  Marie did a terrific job on this line.  I know there is another Bean being introduced today on the TGF blog so head on over there to get the deets.

Here is another shot that kinda looks like an instagram... hahaha!

Okie dokes folks... hehehe...  I've been trying to get to your blogs to leave some love so if you get a few from me don't be alarmed just trying to catch up.  You are all so wonderful for leaving me super awesome messages, I'll try to keep up with mine.  Take care!!

Mahalo for stopping by!
Hugs,
Leanne

Lollipop Crafts Challenge #88

Hey everyone!!

We're having another fun challenge over at the Lollipop Crafts blog this week and guess who's late in posting?  Yep, that would be me!  Well I hope you won't hold it against me!  (hehe) It was a pretty jam-packed weekend and it was non-stop so I didn't get a chance to upload my challenge share until now.  I hope you will join us for our Back to School challenge this week.  Hop on over to the blog and check out what the A-Team has to inspire you.  They did a wonderful job (as always)!  And also you'll want to know who our sponsor is this week.  Stop by the LC blog on Wednesday to check out the T-Team sponsor spotlight on Eye Candie Creations.

I made another bookmark, because you can't have too many.  I found this really cool anime girl in a school outfit that was perfect. 

I colored her up with greens, dark grays, blues and pink!  Yep, I've been itching to color up some pink hair and this was a perfect image to do that.   Her name is Tohru Honda and the lineart is by Sureya.  I just love all of Sureya's sketches and lineart.  They have that awesome anime/manga feel.  Too bad I can't color as well, but I'm still practicing.  I think I'll purchase Zoe's series of coloring tutorials.  I seriously need some help! lol..

Anyhoos,  I thought it would be fun to trim the image narrow so that her flowing hair goes off the edge.  Matted the image to a piece of black cardstock and see the ribbon on top?  Well I didn't have any black or green handy so I used my Copics to color one black and one green to match her outfit.  Pretty cool how you can use Copics to add some color to match your accessories and colored image. :)

Well friends, I hope you are inspired to create some Back to School items and then share with us on the LC blog.  We'd love to come and ooh and ahh! :)  Mahalo for stopping by!!

Take care,
Leanne

LFF #36 - A little bee for Lauren

Happy Friday!!

Today is my friend's daughter's 1st birthday and we're taking her to the happiest place on Earth!  Yay for Disneyland!! I hope she stays awake to see all the fun things there are.. Do you ever wonder if they know what's going on? hahaha! Well I am super excited because I love Disneyland! I think it will be fun for her too.

So for today's Lilo's Fun Friday I wanted to share this card that I thought was fun for today.  Using the adorable Bee Tia from SOG I made this really CAS card.  I made a similar card some time ago, just changed up the colors on this one to black & yellow.  This is one of the cutest bees I've ever seen.  I'm going to give it to Lauren (actually to her mom) for today. It might stand out in her pink & green room. lol!

Whoa that yellow ribbon sure is bright! hahaha!! Neon yellow I think! lol... It's actually much softer looking IRL.  Well friends, hope you all have a terrific Friday and weekend.  I've got a busy weekend too and hoping to squeeze in some crafting somewhere.

Don't forget that Yumi & Fumi Handmade is having an Anything Goes challenge.  You have another week to play along for a chance to win a Yumi & Fumi stamp.  What are you waiting for?!! 

Until next time, Mahalo for stopping by!

Hugs,
Lilo
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Dark & Light

Hey!
Can anyone remember what you used to use before Copics? (haha)  I know for some of us we like to think there was nothing BC (Before Copics) haha!  Well usually I bring my Copic bag with me for occasions where I have time to color.  Yesterday I had some time at work to color. This time I didn't bring them and I only had a few Copics (E00 & E21) in my drawer.  I was looking in another drawer and found some Joann's Essentials markers!  Hey why not..  I know I can't blend or anything, but what the heck right?

So I printed off two images of Jules from Saturated Canary.  I started to color one and ended up going a bit dark on her.  Used some fun Halloween-ish colors and just had fun...

Doesn't her hair look like grapes?!!  hahaha!! Don't look too closely, cause there are tons of mistakes.  But I think they still look pretty decent.  Here are the markers I used to color these two with.

Now I wanted to go light on the other image so I pulled the softer colors out and here's how she turned out..

She looks a bit better yea?  Well not all that much. hahaha..  Still had fun coloring her up.  Here are the markers I used on this image...

It was fun going back in time to use some much unloved markers.  I usually keep these at work for the kids that come and visit during Christmas.  Can't believe they still work! 

Here they are side by side.  Dark & Light...

Pretty different huh? As much fun as these were to use I still would not trade in my Copics! hahaha! 

Don't forget to stop by the Yumi & Fumi Handmade Crafts blog we're having our very first challenge so pop on over and check it out and we hope you play, the theme is ANYTHING GOES!! Mahalo for stopping by today! Have a lovely day!

Hugs,
Leanne