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.

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!

Hello Kitty & Transformer Note Books

Hi everyone! Sorry I been MIA, there's just so many things that was going on. Well here is what I made for my son's last day of school. I made note books for the kids. Hello Kitty for the girls and Transformers for the boys. The HK is a die cut using my Cricut and so is the Transformer but there's no Transformer cartridge for Cricut so I use my new software Make A Cut. I seen it on Eunice blog on how this program is easy to use and create anything with the Cricut. I made a total of 22 notebooks, 11 notebook for girls and 11 notebook for boys. I didn't take a picture of all the boy's note book it was already late that night and my camera ran out of battery and was to lazy to look for the charger. So this was the note book I made for my son. He had to get also a notebook for himself. But he was so funny he doesn't want to use it since I work hard on them and all night I made them. He wants to just save it. I told him he can do anything with it since it's summer I wanted him to do a journal and draw some picture in it then he said mom what if I make a mistake on drawing and I told him that simple the page are easy to tear up, then he said I think I might tear up all of it because my drawing is not too good. He makes me laugh I told him just try your best and draw what you can. Well that's it for now. Hope I can try to post a regular base, I do have lots to share. Thanks for taking the time to visit. Enjoy your day!