TGF 's Hoppin into the Holidays

Hi everyone! It's that time to start up with the holidays! Here I am participating into TGF 's Holiday hop. Please check out TGF blog for more details. Here is my first creation for the "Let it snow" theme. I use images from TGF called Keep Cozy. I got this idea from Stamp Camp from Stampin Up but we made it into cards but here I made it into tags. Love these treat cups from Stampin Up, you can pretty much put anything small inside to make it fun . The Stampin Camp I went to they added glitter and water inside the treat cups, thought this would be great idea to make into some Christmas ornaments too.

Next here is my creation for the "Santa Baby" theme. I made these into Christmas gift cards holder. The image is from TGF called XMas Sweeties and Cheeky Rockabilly and use the Santa hat from Xmas Sweeties. On the left is a chimney GC holder and on the right is stocking. Both were made using my Cricut and DS.

Lastly here is my creation for the "Holiday Treats" theme. This is a cupcake holder. Image I use is Flirty Anya and added the Santa hat from Xmas Sweeties. Inside is a red velvet cupcake and I added kisses candy cane. Yummy!

Hope you guys like it. Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your hop. Next stop is Becca Fabozzi .

Another Tinkerbell Invitation

Hi everyone and Happy Monday! Gosh I can't believe the weekend is over, where did the time go? Well anyway I hope you enjoy your Thanksgiving weekend and did a little shopping. For me didn't do any shopping this week, I wasn't in the mood to shop. Probably later on this week. I got a chance to go to the Christmas parade on Friday night. I got busy this weekend finishing up some invitation. So here is another Tinkerbell theme invitation. I needed to create 120 of these. It's another pocket invitation this style is a pocket tag invitation. She wanted to be a Tinkerbell theme with butterflies in it. I use my Cricut and DS to create this invitation template. Then I use my Big Shot and SU emboss folder for the floral background. The Tinkerbell emboss and cut is from Cuttlebug. The butterflies both small and large is from Martha Stewart punches. I also added a ribbon and a bling on the big butterfly. I have my son helping me put the ribbons on the butterfly and bling on it. So glad he likes to help me with these and it keeps him busy. Well that's it for today be sure to come back tomorrow as I will be participating on TGF HOLIDAY BLOG HOP until then enjoy the rest of your day.

Mama's Holiday Wishlist Contest

Hope you all had a very Happy Thanksgiving spend with family and friends. I'm sure I had a wonderful Thanksgiving, I'm stuff. LOL. There were lots of food. Well I'm not in the Black Friday mode. I'm stuck home doing some house chores and getting ready to start doing some Christmas decoration. Can you believe it we have 28more day till Christmas.

Todays Mama and Gamestop are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I'm sharing this meme with you.


1. What is your holiday wish for your family?
Spend some quality time together throughout the holiday season.

2. What is your morning tradition?
Our Christmas morning once we wake up, we all have a family breakfast and take lots of
pictures around the Christmas tree, then pass out gifts, start open our gifts usually
open the gifts from my son first the one he makes from school.

3. If you could ask Santa,completely decadent wish for yourself,what would it be?
Probably I would love a whole day just my alone time, no chores just relax in a
spa resort.

4.How do you make the holidays special without spending any money?
Just staying home together, watch old home videos, and looking through pictures.

5.What games did you play with your family growing up?
We would always play BINGO and Connect 4.

6.What holiday traditions have you carried on from your own childhood?
We make our own Christmas ornaments and put our names on it. Decorate it and put it on the Christmas tree together.

7.Where would you go for a Christmas-away-from-home trip?
I would love to go to a place with snow of course I haven't seen snow before and where there's lots of Christmas lights and decorations.

8. Check out Gamestop and tell us,what are the three top items on your gamestop wish list
this year?
Nintendo Wii - for me
Xbox Kinetic - for my hubby
DS games - for my son

Well that's Christmas at mines. Thanks for visiting and enjoy the rest of your day.

Ugly sweater card

Hi everyone. Gosh, can you believe that tomorrow will be Thanksgiving. Where did the time go. Hope you guys are ready preparing your Thanksgiving meals. We haven't gone to the store and buy grocery we will be doing that tonight. But at least I'm not cooking the turkey. Well TGF has a contest going on called "Ugly Sweater Inspired" and this was a fun challenge to have fun and be silly. So here is my ugly Christmas sweater card. I altered Hello Ian body and Flirty Anya face and Vivi Sprouts hat. I added a bell on the hat. For her sweater I added white fibers,blings, and gold MS mirobead. Well I have to get ready to start my day. Thanks for stopping by. Hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Thank you Joy and some Halloween memories!

Happy Saturday everyone! My friend Joy who recently celebrated The Joy of Crafting's anniversary. Check out her project, she always have fun and exciting creations to share. I received a lot of cool items, along with the party favors she gave everyone who participated on her blog anniversary. Isn't that owl so cute? Now, I need to get me one of that fries box die or wait let me see if I can try creating one this using my Cricut and DS. You just have to wait and see. Thank you so much Joy! I truly appreciated. In return of her kindness and generosity I made her this container fill with furikake chex mix. The image I use is from TGF - Hallo Witch it's a digi. But I hope they make it in rubber next year. Colored her with copics. Added some fun Halloween stickers on the design and lid cover and put some googly eyes. I'm so glad she likes it!Next one is a treat bag I made for some couple friends in the mainland. I also use another Greeting Farm image. This was last year stamp line and no longer carry it in rubber only digits. Inside is my favorite Hawaii best popcorn it's called Hawaiian Typhoon Microwave Popcorn bag. Yummy!

And here are some pictures of my son on Halloween. I know he wanted to be the ghost from Scream. Scary, he doesn't like to be anything cute anymore. It's amazing how grown up he's becoming. Gosh, time flies by so fast. Oh well that's life and just enjoy every moment spend and treasured them. Thanks again for stoping by and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

October Tags Swap

Hi everyone ! So here is my October tags swap that I made. I was lucky enough to be partners with Kyoko who happen to be the host of the a monthly 3-Tag Swap. I'm having so much fun making them and I'm glad my partners enjoy getting them. Here I use images from TGF called Keep Cozy. I got this idea from Stamp Camp from Stampin Up but we made it into cards but here I made it into tags. Love these treat cups from Stampin Up, you can pretty much put anything small inside to make it fun . The Stampin Camp I went to they added glitter and water inside the treat cups, thought this would be great idea to have my son make some Christmas ornaments and added his picture inside to give it out as gifts to his grandparents and relatives. I have to set a time for this with my son and niece, I'm sure it will be fun! Well I made the template using my Cricut and DS! I don't have the right size circle punch to match the treat cup so I just use an estimate on the DS to make my own. I need to get me that circle punch. Well it work out as the way I wanted it to be. And had fun putting it together.

Here's what I received from Kyoko. Aren't these tag adorable. I so love the angels and how she made them look so pretty with the colors and bling she added. Thanks again Kyoko!

Well, I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend so far! Thanks again for stopping by!

Christmas stocking Tag GC holder

Hello and Happy Wednesday to you all. I hope you guys had a wonderful Halloween. Gosh where did the time go. It's already November. Well I try to make the most of my time. I bring some of my crafting things to work and I intend to do them during my lunch break. We don't usually go out to eat, most of the time we bring home lunch or grab a quick meal from the cafeteria. So I was done with some sample of invitation for another upcoming birthday event. Well I took a break this weekend and made some Halloween treats but I left my another camera in my hubby car and will grab it later. I will show you in another post. I'm trying to get ready for some Christmas projects that I really want to make. I just like making tags with a gift card holder. Here I created a Christmas stocking using my Cricut and DS program. The image is from TGF called Cheeky Rockabilly and got the Santa hat from Xmas Sweeties. I added flowersoft on the hat and some stickles too. Well thanks again for stopping by and enjoy your day!


The challenges I'm entering:
The Greeting Farm Farm Fresh Friday - color challenge
Color Me Copic - use Kelly's face/makeup coloring technique
Mark's Finest Papers #27 - Holiday Card
Top Tip Tuesday - Christmas Inspiration
Wee Memories, #29 - Anything Goes
Fussy and Fancy, #22- Winter Wonderland
All That Scraps - Be Grateful or Christmas project using any color except green & red

Tinkerbell and friends Invitation

Hi everyone. I'm still here! Good afternoon, I hope you are all enjoying the rest of your weekend. Here's what I 'm up to I had to create a Tinkerbell and friends invitations for a customer. Here's what I created she wanted it similar to the Disney Princess I had made a while back. This is a two fold and a pocket on the back to insert the RSVP card and Godparents list. The cover is an embossing folder of Tinkerbell from Cuttlebug Magic Happens I added Stickles on her wings in Lime Green and dress Icicle and on the wand and also on the magic fairy dust I also outline the wings with copic Y17 and for the dress YG06. I even added a bling on the center of her wand. I know it's a lot of work and detail but this is what my customer wanted more sparkles. Her and her husband was happy with the outcome. Of course I had to make 100 of these with just the help of my son who put the stickles on it, he tried to help me cut, but he wasn't cutting very straight lucky thing I can make extra copies. I'm glad I'm done making these invitation, now for the favors of 250+ of a mini bag in a box. Sorry got to run now spending the day with my son, getting ready for Halloween. Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

August Tag Swap

Hi everyone and happy Monday. Today is Columbus Day and I'm so glad that I'm off. I been trying to play catch up, I been creating but mostly for invitations and party planning. I know I been bad posting my projects. Well here is my August Tag Swap I created. Kyoko is hosting a monthly tag swap, we only have like 2 more month till Christmas. I just love Christmas. I was partner up with Leanne for my August tag swap. I created these gift card tag holder. I made the template using my Cricut and DS. I just love creating new templates using my Cricut and DS and possibilities are endless. The image I use is from Pink Cat Studio digi. I added glitter on her wings and white fun flock on the trims of her hat and dress. The striped DP is from KI Memories. And here is what Leanne made for me. She also made a set for me to make and a tutorial on the colors she use to color the cute lil elf. Aren't these tags so cute. Thanks Leanne! Well I must get some things done. Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your day!

I'm back!!!!

Hello blogger! Happy World Card Making Day! It's been so long. Sorry I been so busy that I wish that there were more hours in a day. Well here's what I been up. I been so busy doing party invitation and favors, I have 4 events to do. Well here's one that I completely last month it's a first birthday party and the theme was a beach theme. I made it into a pocket invitation using my Cricut and Design Studio to create this Pail and Shovel. The DP is from Imaginisce called Splash Dance. I also actually sprinkle some real sand on the shovel. I had to make 75 of these. Well glad that's done and over now 3 more to go. LOL. In the mean time I wanted to take some part on doing a challenge. So I wanted to participate in the TGF Altered Notebook Contest. I'm almost done creating what I made, after some ideas I had from last time where I made that birthday/ anniversary calendar card book. I will show you guys what I created. I haven't use my bind it all for a while. And now this is a great time to use it. Well I really got to go now and will have dinner with my son and watch the movie Legend of the Guardians. Thanks for stopping by and Have a wonderful evening.

Summer Hello Kitty

Hello and Happy Tuesday! Hope you're all having a wonderful week so far. Well here is the cards I made a while back for MunchKin's July Card Swap. The theme was Summer. I still can't believe Summer has ended. But anyway I made a Hello Kitty easel card, the Hello Kitty was created by using Make the cut software and along with my Cricut also including the wave it's from Life is a Beach Cricut cartridge. I even use EK Success Sandcastle border punch. Well sorry to keep it short, but I have to get ready to go to work. Enjoy the rest of your day and Thanks again for stopping by.

Club Anya Monday Mania with me!

Happy Monday everyone! Hope you guys enjoy your weekend. As for me, I went to the Island Girls Summer Social #2, organized by Teri of Big Ideas From A Little Girl. She work so hard organizing and putting this together. Thank you so much Teri. I had a great time and so did my BF Ana that I invited. She does a little of crafting time to time. She also won the grand prize which was some of the new stamps from dandelion designs and a sizzix cupcake holder diecut. Yay! Congratulations to Ana, I'm sure you will have fun with those goodies.

Well anyway, moving on I was so excited when Amy e-mail me asking me to host Club Anya Monday Mania for this week challenge. So this challenge I want you to "Make a Scene" project or card. I chose this challenge because I just love adding bits of details to the card and really make the images look more real. There are a lot of themes to make a scene. So I want you to join in the fun and make a Scenery card. Here I use Flirty Anya, she's smiling to get Surfer Ian attention and I'm sure Surfer Ian notice her looking at him. So he try to show off his skills on the surf board. I made it into a step ladder card so it would be easier to make Ian look more real and fun on the waves. The die cut of the sun is my my Cricut using the cartridge from Life's A Beach. I even use EK Success Sandcastle border punch and added some little friends to join along they are from some cut out papers from Imaginisce Bathing Beauties. I had so much fun making this card and I hope you have some time to "Make A Scene" LOL. I hope you enjoy the beginning of your week.

Sending Smiles Your Way!

Hi everyone! Oh gosh can believe it finally Friday. I just had such a long week, last week we had visitor from the mainland and my son started 2ND grade. Then this week my hubby sister will be leaving tomorrow to go back to Oregon for college and I was sick for 2 days. Gosh time sure fly by so quickly and can't believe summer has ended. I been quite busy with invitations that I had to finish and been going out with the visitor we had. Also sign up my son for Karate class so I been taking him to his class and just watching him for an hour, then afterwards we would probably go eat lunch or dinner. Anyway I decided to take a break and do some coloring. I miss using my copics and I got some new colors that came in. So I'm up for a challenge. I made this card for the challenge at Club Anya Monday Mania. This week challenge is hosted by Sheng and it is all about the buttons. Since I have tons of these flower buttons I thought about using them and that it would be perfect for the C.C Designs Swiss Wheelbarrow stamp I just got. Here I use Spotlight Anya. I always wanted to learn different technique in using my copics and try to color my best using them. I came across Lysa's Shiny black hair video and it was easy to follow but however when she say light stroke it so hard because my hands feels heavy. But practice makes perfect. LOL. You should stop by because it such a great tutorial to follow if you want to learn how to make shiny black hair. Well time for bed and here are a few pictures I wanted to share with you folks on my son's karate class. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Organizing my TGF stamps

Hi everyone! I'm such a big fan of TGF and most of my stamps are TGF. Just wanted to share with you folks on how I store TGF stamps. I have a 12X12 photo album and it happen to be a 3 ring album. It has a 5 pockets of 4x6 photo sleeves insert in one sheet front and back but I decided to only put the stamps on the front because it will be to bulky. The 4x6 image card I trim them down a little so that it will fit inside the3 3/4 x 5 3/4 laminated sheets. Made it to this size so that it will be easy to take it out and insert it to the photo sleeves. Then I laminated TGF image card and put the stamps on the back of them. For the 3x3 TGF images, I cut a 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 cardstock and paste 2 of the3x3 TGF image cards. Then laminated. For those that didn't come with the image card, I had to stamp them and colored the image. The 8x12 TGF stamps kits I put it into a 12x12 insert page. Have a wonderful weekend!

A thousand sheets of Paper !!!!!

Amy Young of A thousand Sheets of Paper has been keeping track of the number of different sheets of pattern paper that she had cut into for making her cards and see how long it would take to get to 1000. That's the reason why she called her blog "A thousand sheets of Paper". It took her a little over a year. Wow that's a brilliant idea and finally completed her task. In celebrating her blog anniversary and her completing the use of 1000 sheet of paper. She has 1000 sheets of 6x6" papers to give away to five lucky people. So that is 200 sheets each and some goodies. Please stop by her blog and see what else she as in store for us, while you are there check out her amazing creations and her adorable stamp images she design.

Life is A Beach!

Hi everyone! Happy Monday! My weekend was quite busy as I been doing house course and errands. My son just started Karate class on Saturday and he really likes it and so excited about it. He's telling everyone about it. Well today I have a quick post to share with you. Here is a card I made for La La Land Weekly challenge hosted by Kristine is to create a STEP IT UP card . This is my first time making one so I decided to give it a try. For my card I use Beach Lala & Mermaid Lala. I just love beach and summer theme. I also just got this EK border punch called beach scene. I sprinkle some real sand on it. Wave and palm tree was cut using my Cricut. Thank you so much for visiting and hope your starting your week good!

It's Jodi's Birthday!

Hi everyone! Just wanted to let you folks know that today is Jodi of Inked Inspirations birthday and she is celebrating her Birthday with some HUGE blog candy, there is 5 awesome candy so there's more chance to win. Stop by and wish her a happy birthday. Thanks for stopping by and Good Luck!

Bring you Sunshine!

Hi everyone! Hope everyone enjoyed their 4th of July weekend. I just watch the firework from my house, I could see part of it. My hubby had to work during 4th of July and my son wanted to go to his cousin house for a BBQ so he went with my mom. I didn't go because I'm trying to get somethings done. I have to create a beach theme birthday party invitation for a customer. I did a few sample and will show you folks later when I'm completely done with it. I decided to take a break and have some coffee and a blueberry scone that my hubby bought this afternoon at Diamond head Grill. Their blueberry scone is the best! Another then taking a break I already had some images that I have colored and wanted to play along on some challenges. Well as you all know Sparkle has created her own line of stamps and she is sponsoring Sketch Saturday for this week challenge. Her stamps are adorable. My favorite image is Lantern Rin, can't wait to get her. Well here I use TGF Amelia from the set Happy Day. Colored her with copics. Added a few buttons and some stickles. Also entering this card for Anyone for Anya -Anything Goes. Thanks for stopping by and now need to get back doing some invitations.

Summer Lovin'

Good Morning! I made this card using the following recipe for Monday Mania over at Club Anya & Friends. Last week MM was hosted by Margie using the following recipe was to use kraft cs, use green, one dp, and 1 embellishment +/- ribbon. Here is my take on Margie's recipe. I used kraft paper for the border, sand, and tree also on the coconut but color it brown with my copic. For the sand part I actually sprinkle some real sand on it, to make that effect. Got the coconut tree using my cricut. My embellishment is the beach mat it's actually a piece of cloth and added a ribbon on it. I use Cheeky Rockabilly and altered Dylan and Paul but added flip flops from HG-Sing. This card is for my hubby we are celebrating our anniversary today. Sentiment state You & Me and inside of the card I put "paradise". Since we dated during summer time we spend our summer mostly on the beach as he loves the beach. Also entering this card for Diedrich Dare -photo inspiration (summer theme). Well that's all for now. Have a great day!

TGF.... Dads & Dudes Contest

Hello all and Happy Sunday! Hope you guys are enjoy the rest of your weekend. Well last week TGF was hosting a contest for Dad's and Dudes in honoring Father's Day. Anyway my son always like to help and join in the fun just as long as he is spending time with me. He likes when I'm doing crafting with him. It was hard to convince my hubby to give it a try. Finally he wanted to participate in it. So he spend the day coloring with my son on Wednesday since we had a BBQ party at his parents house. The rule is that they need to case one of the cards that Jessica 's boys had created. My hubby likes to practice using the pens and what was so special about these copics pens. I told him that this was great for blending. He practice on a few images and finally got the one he wanted was this image Skater Ian. He did a great job blending and he really see why I love using my copics and how fun it is to color. BTW he case #1.

Here is my son card and he case #2. He is 7 years old. He made this card for my hubby's mom birthday coming this week. He chosen the color paper and DP. He knows Mama loves pink and shiny stuff to make it pretty.

Well I'm so glad they had fun and hope they do some crafting time again. Thanks for stopping by.