TGF 3rd annual customer blog hop

Hi everyone! Welcome to my blog you are here for The Greeting Farm's 3rd Annual Blog Hop. Hope you are having fun hopping to everyone beautiful projects. For more details about this hop please visit TGF Blog to see the list of customers you had participated. There are a lot that participated this year so go to TGF blog so you won't get lost. And there will be a random grand prize winner of the entire new release for January!

Well here's my projects. I made some goodie bags to give out to some of my friends and co-workers. I figure out the dimension on the box I wanted. For the goodie bag holder I use Holiday Anya and colored her with copic. Finally got her the other day at my local store here. Goodie bag 1 is with the fabulous Hawaii Popcorn, Hershey bar, Hot Cocoa Mix packet, some Harry & Dave Chocolate truffles, and a candy cane. Sentiment says "Have a Jolly Christmas" and it's from Taj clubhouse. Added a Christmas holly die cut and add some dew drops. DP is from Making Memories the packet is called Tinsel and it has double sided sheets in them got it at Target last year.

The second goodie bag is the same but instead of the popcorn I added some chex mix I made. I made a total of 10 all together and hope that my friend and co-worker enjoy them.


The last project I created are post it/calendar desktop. These are so perfect for gifts to give as well especially when it comes in handy next year. Here I use Cupcake Anya and colored her with copic and added stickles.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog! Hope your enjoy the hop so far. Now head on over to the TGF Blog and see the next beautiful projects from the rest of the participants. Have a wonderful and safe holidays. We only have 6 more days till Christmas.

TGF He-Art Journal - Week 1 Spead Your Wings

Hi everyone! I was crazy to challenge myself in signing up for TGF's He-ART Journal class, seeing how I already have so much going on in my life. But I was determine to try new things in using different mixed media related to crafting, which I still have so much to learn and explore of. It's a 23 week course,doing 2 page journal art work per week each week there will assign theme to be complete. I just hope i can keep up.



Here is my journal cover. I made this notebook using my Bind It All machine. Letters are from magazines that I cut up. The image is from TGF - Cheeky Nurse colored her using prismacolor pencils. I haven't use that a long time, didn't even know I had them. LOL. I also added some stickers. The sentiment on the heart says " Listen to my Heart" and also a stickers that says "Live out Loud."

Here is my 1st week's assignment the subject is "SPREAD YOUR WINGS!" I wanted to do a butterfly theme which is related to wings. First I started with the background using pastel chalks from The Stencil Collection in blue and aqua green color. Then sprayed some SU Gold Glow Smooch Spritz. Made my own rainbow using copic pens and added some Icicle stickles. The cloud is a stamp from Mindy Terasawa Clear Stamps called Animals. The big butterfly die cut is from my cricut using Potpourri Basket cartridge. Also use Martha Stewart Butterfly punch out added some butterfly stamps too and a butterfly sticker. Added TGF image - Flutter Anya and colored her with copic pens. Since the theme is Spread your Wings it remind me of the song from Mariah Carey called "Butterfly". I had so much doing this.

Well that's it for now. I have some good news since school started on Monday for my son he is now in 3rd grade and wow first day of school we got a letter he was nervous thinking he did something bad but no he did not it was a surprise that he got nominated to be part of the gifted & talented student's program. I'm so proud of him doing so good at school and behaving him self. I know this year for him will be tough with tons of homework and reading but I know he can do it. And for that I will have a small blog candy to give out. I will gathered and get some things and will post it sometime next week. So be sure to come back and visit my blog. Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your day :)

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 .

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

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.

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!

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.

FFF sketch - Cuddle Anya

Hi everyone! Happy Monday! Can't believe how fast the weekend is over and time to start another new week. I was off on Friday due to Kamehameha Day but I had to babysit my 22 month old nephew and my son was over at his grandparent's house. Can't do much when I'm babysitting, just when he takes his nap which he didn't. I had him from 5:00am - 3:00pm. Oh well here's a card I did during the weekend. I finally got a chance to do a challenge for Farm Fresh Friday's sketch. I just got a bunch of new Greeting Farm stamps and wanted to color this adorable image called Cuddle Anya. I use acetate overlay design sheet made from Anna Griffin under it is a caramel brown card stock. Use MS double loop punch but cut off the bottom layer. Added a prima, ribbon, and a teddy bear charm.


Here's some pictures I wanted to share with you folks my son just got a sulcata tortoises turtle as his new pet. This turtle will be like the ones we see at the Honolulu Zoo. The turtle will grow about 3 feet and will weight about 70-100lbs maybe in another 8-10 years. My son named the turtle Mika.

And here's some pictures of my nephew. He loves to play in my brother's room and play with his hats. Look at the picture below, that's right his daddy had piece his ears and he has a earring. Isn't he adorable. Hope you all had a fun weekend. Have a great week!