Framed Birthday Anya II

I made this 4x4 card for my cousin who recently celebrated her birthday.  I decided to make another folded paper frame card just for fun.  I kept this one clean and simple so that the focus remained on Anya! :-) 

I did hesitate using the folded paper frame for this because it covered up the image a bit much but once I cut Anya's legs off there was no going back!  LOL!

I had fun putting this card together.  I was actually working on four different cards at the same time.  I started one, got stuck, started another one, got stuck again, etc. etc.  I finished my Cupcake Birthday Card first and then this one.  I still have the other two sitting on my table.  Those are the two that I started like last month and they have been almost in the same spot ever since!  YIKES!  Oh well, hopefully I'll figure out what to do with them soon!!

Hope you're having a good week!  Thank you for stopping by! :-)

Birthday Card for a Princess

Here's the birthday card I made for a party my family and I will be attending on Saturday. The birthday girl wanted a Princess themed party so I decided to ink up my Princess Anya stamp. I had so much fun making this card since I was able to make use of my Ink Potion supplies again and I also got to use my new SU! border punch.

I actually sprayed Princess Anya all over with my clear shimmer Ink Potion mixture...although you can't really see it in the picture and the border was punched out of white CS and sprayed with my light pink Ink Potion mixture. I used SU! Dazzling Diamonds for her crown and princess wand.

This is the inside of the card...just added some 3D stickers to dress it up a bit. Oh and inked up a few stamps from my new SU! Happiest Birthday Wishes set! :-)

Well thank you again for stopping by. I'm hoping to be able to sneak in a little more crafting time before school starts again but this month has been crazy busy! (fingers crossed!) Have a great day and a wonderful weekend!

Gatefold Birthday Card

One of my bestest friends will be celebrating her birthday tomorrow.  This is the birthday card I made for her from me and a few of my other friends.  I decided on a gatefold card since it left plenty of room on the inside for each of us to write a little something to our friend since she is in Spain now and we NEVER get to talk to her anymore.  I chose to finally ink up my Fleur Anya stamp since the flowers in her hair reminded me of a haku lei.  I dusted off my Copics to color her with since I've been using my color pencils a lot lately....and I've been admiring the shading effects on so many awesome blogs. I just gotta keep practicing! :-)

Anyways, thanks for stopping by and I hope you are having a great week!

Money Holder Graduation Cards

Quick post...I had two graduations to attend last month.  One of my cousins graduated from UH and the other cousin graduated from high school.  Here are the money holder cards I made for them...super simple and fast!

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you're enjoying you week!

End of the School Year Teacher's Gift

My DS's last day of school was yesterday.  He will be moving on to first grade next school year and his little sister will be joining him at school as a kindergartener! :-)  Life will sure be different with both of them at school and mommy at home able to sit in front of the t.v. with some bon bons all day...LOL - YEAH RIGHT!  A mother's job is NEVER done and I know I will easily fill my days with things that need to get done!

ANYWAYS, here is what I made for his teachers.  He had two very awesome teacher's this year.  My DH and I loved them both and hope that our DD will be in their class next school year.  Unfortunately I didn't have too much time to dedicate to their gifts since we've been busy with graduations and other family events but I think these thank you cards will come in handy for them.

Now let summer vacation begin!  Both my babies will be home with me for the summer so I have been trying to line up some fun stuff for us to do.  Snooze at the Zoo, camping, beach days, and park days have all been added to the list.  I can't wait to start getting my house back in order too!  :-)

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great day!

Mother's Day Cards

 Here are some Mother's Day cards that I made for my MIL and DM.  I used the sliding pop-up card tutorial on SCS for these cards....so super quick and easy to put together...which is just my speed especially since I didn't start putting these together until I woke up on Mother's Day. (YIKES!)

This is the card I made for my MIL.  My DH and my SIL decided to give her a joint gift.  She loved both her gift and card!









This is the card I made for my DM.  I used the same stamp set for both cards because both my MIL and my DM have similar hair styles to this image. :-)

I hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day!  Thank you so much for stopping by!

Yet Another Three Tiered Card

Okay, this is the last three tiered card I'll be posting...for now! :-) Actually, I started working on this one before the other two I posted...but the recipient of this one had not received it yet so I wanted to hold off on posting it.

My initial thought for this card was to make it look like one of those lopsided three tiered cakes that were so popular. But since it was my first try at this card let's just say, I missed some opportunities to add the little details that I had envisioned in my mind. So it is crooked on purpose! LOL!! I'm just super bad with altering measurements!!

Anyways, I hope you had a great weekend! I can't believe that it's the last day of February already! YIKES!

Snuggle Birthday Card

Here's a quick card I put together for a birthday party my family and I went to this weekend. I sat and sat trying to figure out what to do. Since my creative juices were just not flowing, I ended up using the birthday invitation as my inspiration for the color choices and layout. Once I decided to follow the invite everything came together quickly! I wish I was just naturally creative so I wouldn't waste hours sitting around trying to figure out what to do. :-)

I hope your week is off to a good a start!

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A Quick Card for my Niece

On Sunday, my family & I headed to Hawaii Kai for a pool party at my MIL's house. Our niece turned 4 that day (exactly 3 weeks before my DD) and luckily it was a long weekend so we didn't have to rush home to get ready for work and school the next day. We actually got to my MIL's house around 10:30 a.m. and ended up staying there until around 7:30 p.m.!! It was so nice just hanging out and talking with my SIL & her DH that we completely lost track of time!! They're expecting baby #2 in about a month and so we had to take advantage of their"leisurely" time now!! hehehe :-)

Anyways, this is the quick card that I put together for our niece. It was a nice, relaxing day and the kids had a blast!! Our, by then, very grouchy DD knocked out within the first 5 minutes of our drive home...ah, wishes really do come true sometimes!! :-)

Simple Birthday Card

My family and I had a pretty fun Labor Day weekend. Our daughter started her first Tiny Tots class on Saturday and then we had a birthday party to go to right afterwards. This is the card I made for that party. The party was actually for one of the girls that was in my son's preschool class last school year. A handful of us moms had been getting together for dinners during the school year and we were so sad when the kids graduated from preschool this year. This was the first time we all got together since the kids all went their separate ways to start kindergarten. It was so fun seeing how excited all of the kids got when they were all together...and it was nice catching up with the other moms and finding out how kindergarten has been for them at their new schools. It's amazing how fast time flies by...especially when you have kids!!!

Hoping you had a fun weekend too!! :-)

Skater Ian Easel Card

I needed a card for another birthday party we're supposed to go to this weekend. With another little boy birthday, it gave me a chance to ink up this Skater Ian stamp that I've had for a while but never used! I love making easel cards because they come together so quickly and yet have some "wow" power.

Thanks for stopping by. I truly appreciate all of your kind comments! Have a great day!!

Another Birthday Card

Just a quick post...here's a birthday card I made for my cousin who recently turned 17!! Ah, to be 17 again!!!

Hope you're all having a great week!

End of the School Year Gifts

I got my "Create a Critter" Cricuit cartridge around the same time that I was trying to figure out what to make for end of the school year gifts for my son's preschool teachers. I just fell in love with that cartridge from the time I started seeing sneak previews of this cartridge on other blogs. So of course when I finally got it, I just had to start using it!! I decided to make a set of cards for my son's teachers. And then I was trying to figure out how to wrap them up when I stumbled across Joy's Mother's Day gift post and my problem was instantly solved...thanks Joy!! :-)

I decided to add a laminated tag to the totes to add a personalized touch to their gifts

Each of the totes contained 6 (simple) thank you cards and envelopes

The inside of the totes were plain, since I used one sided DP, so I decided to use DP for the the pockets

I can't believe my son is graduating from preschool already...he's going to be starting kindergarten soon!!! (sniff, sniff) Man, they really do grow up SO fast!!

Thank you for stopping by! I hope your week is off to a good start!!

Tsunami Day Project

Since we had a tsunami warning here on Saturday, my husband was called into work at like 3:30 a.m. That left me at home alone with the kids. The kids were keeping busy by watching cartoons and playing together while I tried to stay informed to the status of the tsunami by watching the news. It's never a good feeling when you don't have your entire family together during times like these. Anyways, since the kids were being "good", it gave me the opportunity to do a little crafting. I found the tutorial for this luminary here and just added a cover to it. I was actually going to add a handle to it but then decided to put a cover on it instead. And I just so happened to have some flameless tealights at home so I was able to light this up right away. This was such a fun project to work on and it came together really fast!

Birthday Cards

A few of my GF's just had birthdays. Their birthdays are actually like a week and a half apart. Since I've been trying to get back into my crafting, I decided to make them cards. I had to come up with these quick as we were getting together for breakfast to celebrate their birthdays and I was making these at like midnight the night before! They are very simple....I would have added more "bling" to them but honestly, I was just too tired! *YAWN*

Thanks for stopping by. I hope your weekend is off to a good start!

Halloween RAK from Brenda

Happy Halloween everyone!!! I received a great surprise in the mail this week...a RAK from my GF Brenda. Brenda is a crafting talent and I always love the things she makes for me. I was admiring the recipe book she posted on her blog a few weeks ago so I was definitely excited when I found that she had sent one to me. And the recipes that were included all sound YUMMY!!! I can't wait to start making them! :-)

I made this Waterfall card to thank her for her RAK. After seeing it posted on a few blogs I wanted to give it a try. I was able to put this together withing 45 minutes...hope it doesn't fall apart! hehehe!!
I hope she likes my card. Thank you so much Brenda for always thinking of me!

Halloween Treat Boxes

I have been visiting my dad in the hospital for a little over a week now. I have had little time to craft (or even post to my blog) since my days are spent at the hospital and/or trying to juggle other daily errands and chores with my daughter. So I do apologize for being MIA...not that I post to my blog on a regular basis anyways. :-)

It takes a special person to be an oncology nurse and you truly see this in the nurses that are caring for my dad now. He is expected to be in the hospital for a few more weeks so I wanted to make sure that the nurses there know how much we appreciate them by giving them a little something for Halloween. I decided on these treat boxes after seeing them on the Chic n Scratch blog. I needed something quick and these were perfect!

My First Shaker Card

I've been admiring all those shaker cards out there for a while. Since my SIL's birthday was this past week (and it's her Yakudoshi year), I thought it would be the perfect time to give it a try. However, even though I started her card a few weeks ago, I kept putting off finishing it up. Before you know it, it was a few hours before we had to leave for her party and I was rushing to try and finish it up...OOPS! Anyways, that's why it turned out so plain looking...I just ran out of time! :-(

Thank You Gift for Enjoli

I recently won Enjoli's Superstar Anya blog candy. When I opened up the package, I was so happy to get my hands on one of Enjoli's great notebooks and a coordinating PTI Perfect Match Box which contained 2 spools of ribbon!! Enjoli also gave me a Superstar Anya stamp, some rhinestones, and a Hello Kitty pen! How very sweet and generous!!!So my thank you to her is a bit late...sorry Enjoli. I made her a Peek-a-Boo card using the Superstar Anya stamp she gave me. I was HEAVILY inspired by Jenn Muraoka's video tutorial. While I was on Jenn's blog, I also ran across a video tutorial for a box with a belly band. I thought I'd give it a try since I wanted to send Enjoli a few goodies and needed something to put them in. The size of the box was perfect to fit everything in.
Thank you again Enjoli for all the SWEET candy!!!!

50's Sweethearts Card

I got this 50's Sweethearts digital stamp through The Greeting Farm a little while back but only got a chance to play with it this weekend. I had also bought some Cuttlebug Embossing Borders a while back and thought it would pair nicely with this image.

I was lucky enough to be able to stop by Manle's sale at The Pineapple Cove this weekend and picked me up a bunch of Stickles!!! So I used my NEW bottle of Xmas Red Stickles on the heart and added a little rhinestone, which I also bought at TPC, to the bow in Anya's hair. I embossed the red cardstock with my Swiss Dots folder and I used my Copics to color the cute couple. I finished the card off by adding a few dew drops for some added dimension.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great Monday!