Mindy Terasawa and Nancy Kubo's stuff...

Aloha!  I have some great previews for you today!  My friend Mindy Terasawa has  a couple new kits available at DD.  Below is a preview of them check them out:

Aren't they all cute?  Especially the SpaceMan Stickers?  OMG, I just love these!!  I believe Mindy will be creating a kit to go w/the stickers and for all you TGF fans, this will go perfectly with Space Ian!  Woohoo!  All of these are available now at DD!

Nancy's coming out with a Cricut Cartridge and I have to say I AM SO EXCITED FOR IT!!!!  You can't go wrong with the two SILs cause they have such awesome and cute work!!!  Check out Nancy's Cricut cartridge which is scheduled to be release mid April!!!

Aren't they so adorable?  OMG, I so can't wait.  I will post the exact dates of it's release as soon as I hear!

BTW, you can also purchase Nancy's digital kits from LDD...check them out!

Easter Chick...

...now don't go thinking this is mine.  Well it is but I totally copied it from Mindy...I'm really tryin' to get use to my tablet and pen tool and all the other tools within the program.  So again, I just want to say, I copied Mindy's chick...here' s my version:

Glad to know that everyone is interested in my news...haven't gotten the green light yet, but as soon as I do, I will announce it here on my blog!  Come back again later today, I hope to have one more post!

Oh and one more thing...I bought a movie today called Hachi.  It stars Richard Gere .  This is a very touching story.  I have yet to see the movie, my mom called to tell me I had to buy it and when she told me the synopsis I knew I had to get it. So today while running errands I drove from Costco - Target - Walmart to look for it.  Found it at Walmart for $15!  Not bad.  Anyhow, the movie is based on a true story from Japan.  I heard about it all my life and when dh and I visited Japan I begged him to see the Statue of the dog.   I'm so happy we did and excited to watch the movie.  Watched the trailer earlier today and bawled!  Anyhow...thought I'd share this with you...here's the trailer:

Aloha!

An Apology and an Easter Egg

OK I'm back apologizing for not coming through yet again with my promises...eek!  I'm not normally this bad...OK,  maybe I am.  But this time I really have a good reason.  For the last couple of days I've been out taking friends around the island as they are visiting from the mainland.  While it's so tiring playing tour guide, I have to say it was really nice to have friends from back home to catch up with and just enjoy each others company.  So needless to say I have not worked on anything crafty...well at least the crafty stuff you guys normally expect.  I've been forcing myself to learn my programs so I can start on making some digital kits.  Tonight I drew some Easter stuff none of which were my own creations...just copied a few drawings and made them my own.  Just so I could familiarize myself w/the software that I haven't used in nine months and even back then I wasn't as comfortable with it as I am now...so I'd like to post one of the drawings and hope to make a kit out of it for fun...we'll see how far I can get before Easter...

Meet Miss Egg-cellent (hahaha...don't know what to call her but that just came to mind...corny I know!). We'll see what I can do to make something out of this and the other stuff...

Oooh and I got some Egg-citing (haha!  Yeah, yeah, CORNY!) news that I received today but cannot share it until I've gotten the green light. Stay tune!

Thanks for stopping by! Aloha!

In a funk!

So the weekend came and went.  Had to take care of a few things before dh went on travel.  Needless to say, I haven't created much this weekend.  So I'm posting a Birthday Invite and Thank You card I made for two of my friends.

Oh yeah as you can see, I didn't get a chance to take pic of the blogcandy...sigh, if I am still up to it later I will.  I'm really, really sorry, I've just been in a funk.  Altho, it's not hard to take a picture of a bunch of stuff...uploading and compressing the pic takes a bit of time.  Ugh...I will, soon, I promise!

OK, onto my cards.  First card is the Thank You card that goes with this invite.

Second card is an invitation for my gf Margarita's youngest, isn't he a cutie?

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Hodge Podge of favorites...

...I made this card using a few of my favorite supplies!  I love the stamped clouds from Hero Arts, the oval and oval scallop punch from SU!, the icicle punch that I used for grass from Martha Stewart, CC Design stamp and of course my copics to colored the image.  Really these are a few of my favorite things and I actually used them all on one card LO.  Another simple card but that's how I roll!

That's it...come back Monday I SHOULD have the blogcandy up for preview.  Don't quote me (I feelin' another staycation in the works) hahaha!

Is it Thursday already?!?!

Wow, this week is going by super duper fast!  I'm tryin' to catch up on  my card making as I have several friends and family who's birthdays are this month.  So I'm tryin' to crank out some cards...not easy when your mojo isn't all there.  This first card I used CC Design's Sugarplums Lil' Bug Emma along with some Making Memories paper (I think it's from Making Memories, please correct me if I'm wrong) that I got from Pineapple Cove

This next project was using my CD Calendar that I created for Mindy, which you can purchase here.  Originally this was intended to be housed in a CD case. But when I got the calendar from the printers, I got lazy and then decided that I would use my BIA and then of course got too lazy to pull the BIA out and saw this vertical stand (I'm thinking of painting it to match all my other fixtures on my desk, but it'll have to wait until I move back to the mainland) that I had bought last year just sitting in the corner of my desk.  Perfect!  All I had to do was punch two holes on top and hang it!  Donzo!

Thanks again for stopping by!  I need to take pics of my RAKs still so if you gave me one, I truly am grateful, I've just been so darn lazy and soo not motivated for some reason!!!  Sorry!!!  

I'm also tryin' to gather some blogcandy together to post and pick a winner.  I apologize for the delay in this but if you read the above para, then you'll see why.  

One more thing, I had a question about my Amazing Duo cards...where did I get the paper...I actually just made it from comic books...  Of course I didn't draw or create it but I just put it together, PS it on the computer and voila`!

Sugarplums Lil' Bug Emma was bought at Cute Stuff.

Ahhhhh....I'm back!

Hello friends! Sorry for the week long absent!  Dh went on travel last week and I decided I needed a "stay-cation" of doing absolutely nothing!  OK, maybe not all true but for the most part I didn't fix my bed, didn't do laundry, didn't cook, slept in and took plenty of naps (^o^)  Yes, you can say I have a pretty nice life.  LOL!  I may have another stay-cation next week too!  hahaha!  We'll see just how lazy I can be...  I will say last week's stay-cation worked wonders.  i was just so tried from my Japan trip (yes, the one I took in Dec), my family visiting from Dec - Jan, the trip to LA, the in-laws visiting for 3 weeks, catching up on all the stuff after all the visitors left...so this break was much needed!  I did craft here and there but nothing serious.  After this break I'm really not motivated to do much...LOL!  Sigh, it'll slowly come back, I hope.

Any who, I made this card for my gf ManLe (She owns Pineapple Cove at Kahala Mall).  Her bday is today!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY MANLE!!!  Wishing you all the best and hope you enjoy your special day after work of course!  LOL! 

Made this card  using CC Design's Sugarplums Balloon Emma.  I think this stamp along with Balloon Trevor and Party Emma are so adorable.  Been meaning to ink these stamp since I bought them end of Jan.  I also got this outrageously huge Sugarplum set that I will hopefully ink up this week...so be on the lookout for more CC Design cards/projects.  The card is real simple card but hey, all my cards are simple.  What's  new...hahaha!

These cupcakes are from Roxy to her Aunty ManLe.   Yeah, yeah, I'm using the same pic of Roxy again...it's my fave and her hair is so uneven right now.

Thanks again for stopping by!  I hope to post the blogcandy, CHA pics and some cool RAKs I got.

CC Design stamps were purchased from Cute Stuff.  Sorry, Lianne doesn't have a website, but if you're visiting the islands you can visit her store here: 

Cute Stuff at Puck's Alley

2600 S. King St., Ste 204
Honolulu, Hawaii 96826

Oh, Happy Days!

Check out the new Oh, Happy Day from TGF. TGF definitely did awesome job!  Love, love, love this set!

This is a bday RAK from my girl Margarita.  I just love all of it...behind is a goodie bag  of antibacterial Hand Gel from Bath and Body (two of them!) and look at all those buttons!  Wowzer!!  And my girl even got my a Magnolia stamp...a HULA ONE!!  Woohoo she so knows me!!!  I love everything!  Thanks Peks!!!

BTW, all the TGF stamps I have been using were purchased from Tamiko's.

Amazing Duo...

I adore this set!  It's so cute!!!  Don't you think?  LOL! Anyhow this is one of the newest sets from TGF! 

You can purchase this stamp set from Tamiko's.

Aloha Friday!

Hello everyone!  I can't believe it's already Friday!! Wow! This week went by so fast!  I was hoping to have this week to relax and rest after the in-laws left, but nope that didn't happen!  I pretty much ran errands all week!  Hopefully today I can stay home and just relax and maybe make more cards!  We shall see!

Anyhow, I've gotten emails about my Copic storage.  I got the from Munchkins located in the Mililani Town Center.  They perfect for the Copic pens and I absolutely love them.  I went back yesterday and got my third case and I'm thinking I may need one more...hahaha!  I'm hoping Copic does not come out w/any new colors for a while!  LOL!  These cases cost $22.95.  Not bad, especially since you don't have to pay for shipping and handling! Here's how it looks with the third case:

No stampin' project today, spent most of my day cleaning, organizing, cooking and baking for the little girl.  Oh I did a hybrid project...check it out!

Here's the birthday girl in her birthday outfit.  This was actually her Valentine's outfit, forgot to put it on on Valentine's.  But she did wear this at Pineapple Cove.  So I decided to have her wear it again today. 

Here's the Pupcake I made for her and these are packaged for the doggies at M's work.

Email me if you'd like the recipe it's dog safe, really easy and not that much ingredients needed. 

Happy Birthday my little Roxy Girl!!!

Today is my little baby's 2nd bday!!!  I'm gonna bake her a dog friendly cake and maybe make her a plain steak...hmm, we'll have to see.  LOL! I know I'm a bit crazy!  But hey, she's my only child!  Here's the bday girl with her crazy uneven haircut...hahaha!

Next is another card for Pineapple Cove...don't know what's up w/the color of the pic but that is not how it looks IRL.  I love this image...heck, I love all of the Bunnies!!

Lastly I got these cool Copic storages yesterday and headin' back to get one more...don't you think they look all neat?  I love them!!!  I prefer to have my Copics laying down oppose to upright when storing them.  I like to do them the way Japan has them stored.  I believe you can store them either way but I like them better laying. 

 

OK, that's it for now...and as I'm typing this my eyes are drooping!

Happy Hump Day!

Hello everyone!  Today's card is a card I made for ManLe of Pineapple Cove.  She's selling these cute stamps from CC Designs.  She has all the Easter ones...if you're interested head on over to Pineapple Cove!!

This next card is from the wonderful and talented Kyoko!!  She gave me this card and a GC from Starbucks for my bday!  She's such a sweet and funny lady!  I love her to pieces!  She's my fellow "Ghetto Sister"! haha!  Anyhow, check out the details on her card!  Love it!!!

Thanks for stopping by!! Remember keep on commenting to be entered in the blog giveaway!! Preview coming soon...

BRAK from Michelle

I was pleasantly surprised to get this wonderful gift from Michelle before I left for LA.  She's such a sweet person and I am so blessed to have met her!!  I love the gift she gave...not just the contents but for the hand made holder and card!  She such a talented lady!  I love visiting her blog which is full of gorgeous creations!  If you haven't visited her blog, you definitely should!!!  Thanks Michelle for my awesome BRAK!!!

I will be posting a few more BRAKs that I received for my wonderful friends.  I would have posted what I created tonight but I forgot I cannot until the release date :(  Shucks!  

Anyhow don't forget if you're a frequent visitor to my blog to leave a comment to enter to win one of my blog candies.  Will post pics as soon as time allows.  Now that all my visitors (for now) have left and I have a little time to myself (hopefully) I will be able to do more on the blog and crafting!  Aloha!

Another Thank You

Keeping this short since I gotta get up super early!  Here's the second half of the TY I did from yesterday's card.   Got this box tutorial from once again the talented Miss Joni!  I just love her work and thank goodness she adjusted the measurements from that of Teri's box!  THANK YOU JONI!!!   Inside are a couple of goodies...hopefully the recipient does not have any of the stuff I got her!  Anyhow thanks for stopping by!

BTW, I'm gonna be giving another Blog giveaway soon! Mindy sent me a whole box full of goodies!! Rules of the game is to comment on my post and not just on the post pertaining to the blog give-away. Check back daily as I'm not sure exactly when I'll post it!

You can purchase this stamp from Tamiko's.

Thank You Card 2 and CD Calendar Winners!

Here's my second Thank You card...two down and who knows how many to go!  LOL!  

 

The winner to my CD calendars are:

First winner that posted on the original CD Calendar post is:

  

  

Second winner from my Feb 10 post is:

 

  

Congrats to the two winners! Please email me!

This cutie was purchased from Tamiko's.

Thank You Card 1!

Made this card using the new TGF Cheeky Rockabilly stamp (don't know what's on the top of her head, I think my glue stick might have hit the top).  I absolutely love these girls!!  So cute!! 

I just love this stamp and if you do too, you can purchase it from Tamiko's.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Wanted to stop by and wish everyone a HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!  Now go get some lovin'!

HAAPPY BIRTHDAY LINDA!!

It's my girl Linda's birthday today!!!  I am so glad I met this woman!  She's such a hoot and she's a sweet, sweet lady!!!  I really am going to miss her and the others when I leave...boo-hoo!  OK, enough crying!  Made this card for Linda...if you guys don't know Linda you'd know what she loves by visiting her blog.  LOL!  I'll let you guess by the card!  So here's to Linda!  May she have a blessed day! 

I FORGOT

Mindy and I forgot that Vday is this Sunday!  LOL!  So it would be too late to submit the Tic Tac Holders!  So for all of you who want it please leave a comment AND send me an email. 

Two days in a row...

....hopefully I can keep this up!  Thanks all for the concern about Roxy!! She's doing much better.  We didn't get to go to the vets yesterday because they wrote her appointment incorrectly so instead of yesterday it's today.  And no, I didn't get the days wrong, I specifically told them Wednesday and M heard me say that.  Any how, thank goodness I am free today to take her so it all worked out.

Today's craft project is a hybrid project.  I made these tic tac holders using Mindy's latest kit Rock Angel.  Not sure if there's time to submit to the store. If not, I'll be giving these away Friday for those procrastinator!  LOL!  BUT if these make it in the store than I'll only give to one commenter! 

As always thanks for stopping by!  Aloha!

I'm here...

Sorry friends!  I'm here, well barely but I'm here!  Last week was a horrible week for me.  Roxy was spayed on Monday, they say that it should take her about a day or so to get back to her regular self.  But she didn't!  She wasn't feeling well the whole week.  Maybe one day she was all right but for the most part she was really down, depressed and in pain.  I rushed her to the vets Thursday night and it's a good thing I did!  She had a temp of 105.5.  Regular temp for dogs are about 101.  They gave her antibiotics and it seemed to bring her temp down but it wasn't always consistent.  Once her pain meds ended she was really miserable.  Thankfully yesterday she' was about 85% back to normal.  Hopefully today she'll be 95 to 100%.  I take her to the vets today for suture check up.  That was actually my main concern.  I thought she would lick the area but she didn't.  Besides that my in-laws are here and have been staying in my room .  They actually left last night for the Hale Koa to be with other family members and won't be back here until next week so I have a bit of a break.  Whew!  I so need a break!

Anyhow, I was able to make a card for a friend for her bday.  I'm a bit sad this was all I was able to make but at least I got it out to her the other day  I wish I made it in her favorite color but really I didn't have much time to even make the card so I'm glad I got something out to her.  It's simple and the LO and idea was lifted from Amy.  

 

I will try and post some pictures of CHA soon!!!   And also some RAKs that I received from some of my wonderful friends.

Oh yeah one more thing, remember this CD Calendars I made for my friend Mindy?  Well if you left a comment on my blog previously and leave a comment on this post, I will give two lucky winners a copy of the calendars.  I will change Jan and Feb to 2011 since Jan passed and we're in the mid of Feb.  You will have until Friday to comment!  Winners will be announced Tuesday!  Good luck!

Howdy!

Feels like I haven't blogged in so long!  Ay yai yai!  I haven't had much of a break since my craft fair!  How the heck am I this busy?  I don't even have a 9 to 5 job!  LOL!  Anyhow, got back from CHA last Friday, dh had me take care of his stuff this past weekend since he's going on travel (which come to find out it may be canceled and I'm bummed that I couldn't go to a get together...boo!).  OK, enough of my crying!  LOL!  I haven't been feelin' all too well lately and my poor Roxy isn't either.  She just got spayed and she's a bit sensitive and needy.  So with that said, no creating for me!  And to top it all off, the in-laws are arriving...do I ever get a break?  LOL!  OK, ok...enough!  LOL!  I am previewing Mindy's latest kit called "Rock Angel"  which will be avail at DD on Sunday!!!  

The good thing about this kit is it's not just for Valentine's day! You can use it on anything! Lovin' it!!! And I know you will to!!