Blog Wear

Happy Aloha Friday! I've decided to give away my previous blog wear that I created using Mindy's kit every month. So if you're interested, leave a comment, with your blog link (so I can visit) and tell me what your favorite stamps are. I will do random drawing and the winner gets one of my previous blog wear. What do you think about that? LOL! I know it's not much, but I get asked to do other people's background, I just don't have the time. So I figured why not the ones I've already used. And not to worry, only one person gets it so there won't be the same one out there in blogland.

So here's the first blog wear giveaway:

I will also create a blog banner to match.

Plumeria by Mindy Terasawa

Sorry I haven't been blogging much! So much to take care of around the house, with the get together's, orders to fill and the class I will be teaching at Pineapple Cove. To top it all off, my poor little Roxy has been sick and I've had to take her to the vets. She seems to be doing all right, she's on meds. The issue wasn't as bad as I thought but the doctor found several other issues. Oye! Anyhow, enough about that!

Here's Mindy's latest kit called Plumeria. Will be available this coming Sunday at DD.

Back in Paradise (^o^)

Aloha fellow crafters! I'm back and slowly getting over my jet lag! Japan was awesome as usual! Before we left the forecast was predicting thunderstorm and rain however we got lucky it was sunny pretty much the whole time! The heat and humidity was awful but hey, we were in Japan! I didn't buy much (to my dh's surprise) but I definitely bought a whole bunch of COPICS! Ahhh, the land of Copics (OK, more so the creators of Copics) was happy I was visiting (^o^)

Anyhow, I have only visited a few bloggers but you can count on my visit once I get back to my regular routine! For now, I am posting an altered Anya/Ian stamp (excuse the horrible pic, I retouched the card and it looks a little better!). Thanks for stopping by!!

Blog Vacation

Aloha! I won't be updating my blog until I get back from my vacay! Have a great week everyone!

Sayonara!

It's Friday!

Hi all! Sorry I've been MIA! Been soooo busy this week! Tryin' to get everything ready for my trip and takin' care of stuff that needs to be taken care of before I leave. You all know how it goes!

Anyhow, real quick post as I need some shut eye cause tomorrow is another day of running around taking care of last minute things. The card that I made which believe it or not took me all night (this was the second card, ripped the first one apart it was that ugly!). I know, it's not the greatest card but really if I posted the first one, I'd loose all my visitors...LOL! OK, ok, I gotta get to the card! As usual I wanted to rid all my scraps so I am using the same DP I used for the last purse I made for my parent's 41st anniversary coming up while I'm in Japan. I tried to use a different stamp but kept coming back to TGF's stamp...LOL! Anyhow, here it is and thanks for stopping by! Hope everyone has a great Friday and weekend! Aloha!

I promise I'll try to post one of the tutorials I promised earlier. I've taken pics of the project, just need to write it up. Hopefully I can have that up before I leave.

Before I forget, there's a sidewalk sale at Kahala Mall and Pineapple Cove will be participating! Check out their flyer and head on over there this weekend! ManLe and Victor are the coolest owners (^o^)

Moss Scape Quickpages

Happy Monday! Hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend! Us? Well we pretty much stayed home and organized our home and did laundry since dh will be on travel this week and as soon as he gets back we're off to Japan! So excited but I know I'll miss my little Roxy! With that being said, I wasn't able to make any cards but made some Quickpages for Mindy that should be available Sunday Jul 12 at DD. She wanted something pretty simple (which is usually how I like creating my pages) so it wasn't really that hard...just very time consuming. So here are the quickpages and I've include a page or two for my own LOs (they are in progress, but thought I'd show you some samples). Enjoy and as always thanks for stopping by! Aloha!

Ooooh, I'm so sorry I haven't posted the tutorials yet, I needed to finish these quickpages for Mindy before I leave for Japan. Hopefully I will be able to do it sometime this week. I've got to do a few more cards before I leave so they can reach their recipients on time! Aloha!

Stomp by Mindy Terasawa

Check this kit out! For all of you that have boys or want to create boy cards this kit is for you! I'm always finding it hard to create anything masculine and when I saw Mindy creating this kit I knew I had to have it! Its just too cute and I love the colors! Stomp will be available for purchase on Sunday, July 5 at DD.

Note Purse

OK I have no one to give this to but wanted to make it. I'm glad I made this cause I had the hardest time putting it together. Yeah it's a simple purse but sometimes when it's my first time creating it, I always make tons of mistakes! I'm thinking I should do it one way but I really should have followed the directions step by step! Ugh...oh well live and learn! Anyhow, as I uploaded the picture I can see some minor mistakes here and there so good thing this was just a test run.

I'll post the tutorial for the GC holder and a link to a tutorial for this one tomorrow (hopefully). It's late and I'm feeling blah! Its a wonder I decided to create tonight! As usual, thanks for stopping by! Aloha!

Gift Card Holder Folder

Quick post! Made this gift card holder folder cause I'm always in search to make my gift cards a bit more personal since buying someone a gift card isn't the most personal gift one can give. I can never have too many gift card holders and when I saw this, I thought it was oh so adorable. I will post a tutorial which you can find anywhere on the web but if you're too lazy to search as I am at times I will post a tutorial. LMK otherwise I will not post the tutorial...LOL! It's late and I've been running around town today and had an unexpected appointment which threw my schedule off completely! Here it is as usual thanks for stopping by! Aloha!

Bad News

For those who wanted to buy a Sweetie and haven't, I'm sorry to inform you that I will no longer sell the Sweeties via digital format. I was informed today by Mindy that since she's a designer for DD that she has signed a contract to sell her digital creations only through them. And because Mindy's not selling them on their website she feels it's best that we discontinue selling them digitally. However, the rubber stamps are still a go and as soon as I find a manufacturer to produce them I will let you know! I'm sorry for those that have missed the opportunity to buy them (had plans to discontinue the digital format once they became rubberized anyways) but fear not, they will be out in rubbah soon! (^o^)

Digital Scrapbook Class and a card

Aloha! Man did this weekend fly by or what? I didn't get to craft much like I had planned but what can I do? I did manage to change my blog background and banner and ugh, it can be a pain sometimes!!! Don't you hate it when you know how to do something and you've done it a million times and yet when it's time to do it again, it doesn't always goes as planned? Anyhow I used Mindy's newest kit for my blogwear. What do you think? OK? LOL! Speaking of Mindy's kit and digital...I met ManLe of Pineapple Cove (new scrapbook store at Kahala Mall) and she and I got to talking and we're thinking of having some beginners digital scrapbooking class. How many of my blog sisters are interested? Leave a comment or email me. Let me know what you want to learn and what experiences you have as far as digital scrapbooking. Sounds good? I'm excited for this new venture. Oh and for those that loves Mindy's kits, I have gotten permission from her to use her kits for the classes. Classes won't start until August. ManLe and I are still discussing it and I want to get a feel for what people want to learn.

OK, onto my card. Really, really simple card! I got a beautiful card from Teri of Big Ideas from a Little Girl (I got to remember to post it!) and I lifted it! I love how my card is so simple and love how the card is folded. OK, thanks for stopping by and please let me know about the digital scapbooking class.

Little Tea House Kit by Mindy Terasawa

As promised here are Mindy's latest kit called Little Tea House (avail this coming Sunday at DD). This kit is perfect for Tea Party invitations (we have many of them in California!) and I believe there may be a few places here in HI that holds them. Or for girlie birthday parties!!! I already know what I'll be making with these, can't wait! I'm also including the kit that came out a couple of weeks ago called School Daze. I know school is out for most of your kids and it's too late but for those that are year round maybe this kit will come to good use. If not, you can start on your child's school goodies for the upcoming school year. Enjoy and thanks for stopping by!

RAK from Michelle of Mushi's Creative Inspirations

I got these goodies from Michelle of Mushi's Creative Inspiration. She's such a sweet person and so happy to have met her through this wonderful world of Blogland! Her card is gorgeous especially in IRL!!! The butterfiles and flowers all have glitter on it! So, so pretty!!!! Love it!! I also got the Magnolia stamp which is my first one!!! Yeay!! I have some stamp images from friends but this is my first one...woohoo! Thank you Michelle!!! Head on over to her blog, she has gorgeous creations and she's gonna be giving away some blog candy and the creation she made is absolutely gorgeous! I hope I win...LOL!

Come back later as I will post a preview of Mindy's new kit coming out this Sunday!!

Happy Hump Day!

Sorry for the short entries these last few days! I've been so busy with work and appointments. And to top it off my dh signed us up for golf lessons...ugh! LOL! I've always wanted to take them but this week has been busy and been going to the hospital (no worries just wanted to get something checked) for the last two days and I was just so not in the mood. Another reason why I was a bit hesitant cause I have no hand-eye coordination so I thought it would be a waste of time...but needless to say I thoroughly enjoyed it! I missed hitting the ball here and there but I got quite a few ones out there...woo hoo! LOL! OK, thanks for letting me get that out! haha!

On to today's creation. The tote is from PTI and I had bought it when it first came out and am just now using it. Been dying to make it but didn't have anyone to give it to until now...LOL! I love it and want to make more. But I'm the type of person who only makes 3D type stuff only if I have someone to give it to. I would hate to make one and just have it sit around my craft area collecting dust waiting for a good home. So I usually make them when needed and thankfully I had someone to give it to. This is to one of my blog sisters who's super sweet. I hope she likes it.

I actually made the tote first and after I put it all together I realized that HK was white...I should have made her tan. Lets just say Miss Hello Kitty was visiting from Japan and she was super white and now that she's been here for a few days she's gotten her tan on (^o^) LOL! Corny I know!

OK now onto my tip on printing digi papers. Now I'm pretty sure that most of you print 8.5 x 11 right? You open the the DP and crop at 8.5 x11. Then you open the next DP and do the same and so on and so fourth. You probably don't use the whole sheet and left w/scraps that you probably save for later (but most of us know you don't always go back to use them). So here's how I do it and I've been able to save my ink. What I do it open up four of the DP I want to print. Then I crop each to 4.25x5.5. Once I got all four DP cropped, I then transfer them onto an 8.5x11 sheet. So basically I have four DP on one 8.5x11 paper. I don't have to print out all four DP individually. So finally when I print, I go to my settings and choose "borderless paper" which prints on the entire sheet. Check your printer settings and look around for these settings, they may be worded differently but do the same thing. So there you have it! Please feel free to leave me a comment or email me should you have any questions!

Treats box

Aloha! Super quick post...made this treat box for my neighbors. They're really sweet and I wanted to give them some goodies. TFS!

BTW, the paper I used in yesterday's post is from Nancy Kubo. Come back later or tomorrow as I will give you some tips on printing your digital papers to help save on ink. I see a lot of post saying how printing the digi papers eats up your ink.

Dahlia for Cadence

Happy Monday everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend and spent it with the father's/husbands/brothers/male figures in your life! (^o^) I made this card very quickly for my bff's other daughter since I made her sister a card I thought I'd make her one also. I used the Dahlia image because she reminds me of a "Wild" one...LOL! Also used the same LO as this.

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Father's Day!

OK, I know not too many men come on my blog...heck, I'm not even sure my dh visits it...but I thought I'd post the card I made for him from our doggie since we have no kids yet. Here's what it says on the inside:

For Father's day, the Top Ten Ways
You and I are Alike:

10. We both like to stick our heads out the car window and bark at
other drivers.
9. There's nothing more comforting to us than napping in front of
the T.V.
8. Others get impatient waiting for us to finish going potty.
7. We've both been in the doghouse at one time or another.
6. We make warm, furry bed partners.
5. Sometimes we beg for extra scraps of food.
4. You fix things - I'm a fixed thing.
3. We both like to sit around and scratch ourselves.
2. We whine if we're not let out of the house to play once in a while.

And the Number One Way You and I Are Alike...

1. Given a choice, we'd rather just lie around and do nothing
but eat and sleep all day. (I'm up for that if you are!)

Happy Father's Day
From Roxy and Avery (in spirit)

Twilight

Aloha everyone! It's Friday! That means I take Sat and Sun off of work stuff! Woo hoo! LOL! OK, I don't know why I'm all happy...I'm exhausted right now (it;s 3:00 AM!), been working on a few things and still need to fill orders for Sweeties. Sorry ladies, I promise I'll have them to you ASAP! Just got tons on my plate and haven't been feelin' well still... (@_@)

Anyhow, I made this card for my GOD daughter. I have to get her package out so she can get it before her trip! Like me, she's a big Twilight fan and I figured since I'm sending her a bunch of Twilight stuff that I'd make a card...hmmm, I thinkin' if I have time to make her a bookmark! She'll love that! LOL! OK, I'm adding more to my plate... OK, sorry for going on and on...here's my card, TFS!

Mahalo!

A card I made for my friend (I will not name her until after she gets this...LOL). Just a thank you card for all she's given me and for being a great friend. Another simple card. And yeah, I know the hair coloring isn't as great as the one I did previous to this one (which I'll make a card outta later)...actually did several cause I kept changing the DP papers. Forgive me as I have not been feelin' too well (@_@) (it has caused me to me very unmotivated right now). Anyhow, TFS!!

I just love this HG image!!! So cute!

Father's Day Card 2

Here's my second Father's Day Card for my dad. I decided to make this way more simpler than the other (yeah, I know the other was pretty simple). I figure men aren't too hung up on cards and crafty stuff and always find that sometimes simple is the best. I am racing with time to get these cards and gifts out to our father's who are both on the mainland so I need to mail them off today! Yeah, I'm laggin'!

Oh yeah, I was lucky enough to meet Emeril Lagasse, on Sunday. Thanks to our NEX (Navy Exchange). Unfortunately the NEX wouldn't let us take personal pictures with him so I got one of me talking to him and the other while standing right in front of where he was signing. I'll spare you and just post a pic of him. Enjoy and as always thanks for stopping by!

(My husband actually took the pic, I didn't have a brush with his logo so for now I'm keeping mine on)